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MAPPING PROJECT
1995-Present
This ten-year project involved seeking out and mapping mass graves,
former Democratic Kampuchea prisons, and genocide memorials throughout
the country. The initial information on the locations of these sites
was generally obtained through interviews with villagers; sometimes
readers of DC-Cam’s monthly magazine would also write to inform us of
a prison or other site.
The sites uncovered during the project included:
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mass grave sites: 19,733 in 388
clusters
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former DK security offices (prisons):
196
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genocide memorials constructed by
survivors of the DK regime: 81
In December 2004, for example, our Mapping Team discovered seven mass
grave pits in Kampong Cham province, leading them to believe that the
area could contain some of the largest killing fields found in the
country.
Our Mapping Team also mapped the newly discovered sites with Global
Positioning System devices and displayed the data on digital maps
using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology.
We wrote a 297-page field report (in the Khmer language) on this
project with 180 photographs. Although the project formally closed in
2004, we are continuing to enter its master data set into our
GIS database, which will be
posted on our website in the future. (Click here for additional
reports.)
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