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:

• mass grave sites: 19,733 in 388 clusters

• former DK security offices (prisons): 196

• 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.)