text: Paqe 7 around most of the hamlets in the regions where the querrlllas had been active. The door is closed from 5-tipm to 5-barn. Consequently, the population ,..*annot go out durinq these hours and visitors should get an tintry permit in order to go into the village in daytime. Houses located outside the perimetre ti,f the town were burned down and their owners had to move behind the fences. Japanese cameraman NAOKI MAE&HI was the first to have report cd the building of such strategic fences. In April 1983, he filmed the burning of one of these fences by the inhabitants of a village in the province of Siemreap, following the rout of the Vietnamese by the Khmer Rouges. The fence is usually formed by two to three ranges of poles OF bamboo canes, separe ted by bamboo-pikes , thorn-bushes and sometimes by mines. In the border provinces of Takeo, Prey Venq, Svay Kienq near Vietnam, where the villages are well. guarded by the “bodoi” (Vietnamese soldierslp such forti- fications are not necessary. However, they are widely built not drily in the northern provinces feattambanq, Siemreap), but also in Komponq tiam, Komponq Thorn, Kompong Chhnanq, Pursat, Kompong Speu. They can be found even near population centres, as is the case c,f Phum Kumro, a model village, Utm from Komponq Speu city, recently created diter t.cle model of strategic hamlets once built by the Americans in Stiuth-Vietnam. The conscription was indeed spreading to the very urban centres. In late 1984, the Khmers living in Battambanq city and its suburbs (about 20,ddU people) had been rounded up for two months to build a l-metre high dyke, “haret”, around their city. All professional sections of the population took part In the labour, 
analysis: The text appears to be describing the social and political situation in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime. The mention of "strategic fences" and "querrlllas" suggests a context of conflict and control. The text also touches on the conscription of people, including those living in urban centers, to build infrastructure. This suggests that the text is related to the human impact of the conflict and the control mechanisms employed by the Khmer Rouge.