Friday, 03 February 2012
The tribunal was originally set to end its work in 2009 and its original budget was about $50 million. The total expenditure from 2006-2011 has been estimated at $150 million
The Khmer Rouge communist regime rosed to power in 1975 and fell 1979 to Vietnam. Tuol Sleng means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill".
Note: This is just one of the hundreds of concentration camps throughout the nation. Their primary goals are, rid people against the revolution and those who are mixed ancestry.
Comrade Duch ran the S21 prison camp aka Tuol Sleng.
-Victims were Cambodian, some foreigners, including Vietnamese, Thai, Laotians, Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, Britons, French, Americans, New Zealanders and Australians, were also imprisoned.
-Out of an estimated 17,000 people imprisoned at Tuol Sleng, there were only seven known survivors,as of September 2011.
-The prison had a staff of 1,720 people
-300 were office staff, internal workforce and interrogators
-Prison Chief Khang Khek Ieu (Duch) a former mathematics teacher
-The documentation unit was responsible for transcribing tape-recorded
confessions, typing the handwritten notes from prisoners’ confessions
-The interrogation unit was split into three separate groups: Krom Noyobai or political unit, Krom Kdao or 'hot' unit and Krom Angkiem or 'chewing' unit. The hot unit (sometimes called the cruel unit) was allowed to use torture
-The defense unit was the largest unit in S-21.
Security regulations
Concentration camp rules When prisoners were first brought to Tuol Sleng, they were made aware of ten rules that they were to follow during their incarceration. What follows is what is posted today at the Tuol Sleng Museum; the imperfect grammar is a result of faulty translation from the original Khmer:
1. You must answer accordingly to my question. Don’t turn them away.
2. Don’t try to hide the facts by making pretexts this and that, you are strictly prohibited to contest me.
3. Don’t be a fool for you are a chap who dare to thwart the revolution.
4. You must immediately answer my questions without wasting time to reflect.
5. Don’t tell me either about your immoralities or the essence of the revolution.
6. While getting lashes or electrification you must not cry at all.
7. Do nothing, sit still and wait for my orders. If there is no order, keep quiet. When I ask you to do something, you must do it right away without protesting.
8. Don’t make pretext about Kampuchea Krom in order to hide your secret or traitor.
9. If you don’t follow all the above rules, you shall get many lashes of electric wire.
10. If you disobey any point of my regulations you shall get either ten lashes or five shocks of electric discharge.
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