002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 allowed,1407 but monitors and spies1408 at the site would note and report every “lazy” worker, thus people did not dare to ask for breaks.1409 Leave days were conceded only when children’s parents were sick.1410 340. Workers had to live close to the site in communal halls, some sleeping up to 600 people.1411 They were not provided with sleeping mats, blankets, pillows or hammocks, which they had to make by themselves from rice sacks and were often required to sleep on the ground.1412 Men and women who were not married had to live separately.1413 341. Although a small number of witnesses state that there was enough to eat,1414 food was generally insufficient.1415 Some witnesses state they “drank water to fill ourselves” or “walked around looking for leaves to eat in place of food”.1416 Occasionally dried fish or meat were provided;1417 nonetheless, even when this food was provided it was insufficient for the workers.1418 Water for the workers came from nearby muddy ponds.1419 No one dared complain about the food rations for fear of being killed.1420 Workers at the dam died of starvation1421 and of exhaustion directly at the work place while carrying the earth.1422 342. Hygiene was totally lacking.1423 The muddy water that was taken from the ponds was not boiled.1424 These appalling unhygienic conditions caused many of the workers to become ill with dysentery,1425 cholera, malaria, etc. Food rations for sick people were reduced.1426 There were untrained medics who had no knowledge and who had been chosen at random.1427 They walked around the site providing sick persons with the same herbal medicine, which resembled rabbit droppings.1428 Children would be recruited to be sent to the social affairs department for two weeks to return to Trapeang Thma as medics for their respective units.1429 Given these conditions, many people died due to illness1430 with some family lines almost dying out entirely.1431 343. “New people” were subjected to harsher working conditions, such as larger working quotas or unjustified punishments.1432 CPK soldiers and cadres would collect biographies of workers at the site in order to identify those to be later arrested or killed.1433 344. Some witnesses give evidence of witnessing or participating in marriage ceremonies at Trapeang Thma, often with scores of couples being married in mass ceremonies.1434 One witness states that the couples were forced to marry,1435 and others that marriages would have to be approved by unit chairmen, and workers would be killed for failing to seek permission.1436 Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, National Road 4, Choam Chao, Dangkao Phnom Penh Mailing address: P.O. Box 71, Phnom Penh; Tel: +855(0)23 218914 Fax: +855(0) 23 218941. 89