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recovered clothing of some victims |
Trucks would arrive 2 or 3 times a month or every three weeks from S-21 Prison. Each truck held 20 to 30 frightened, blindfolded and silent prisoners. When trucks arrived, the victims were led directly to be executed at the ditches and pits or were sent to be detained in the dark and gloomy prison.
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chemical storage shed |
To save ammunition, the executions were often carried out using hatchets, digging hoes, shoves, shackles, hammers, axe handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks. The victims were then buried in mass graves. Some victims were required to dig their own graves. After the killing, the executioners scattered DDT and other chemical substances over the dead bodies of the victim. This was to eliminate suspicion from people working nearby and to ensure the death of the victims who were buried alive.
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A commemorative stupa filled with the skulls of the victims.
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