The students have given the map to local nongovernmental organizations and the medical director of Cheeta Camp's health center, "who seemed pleased to have a better map of the camp and thought the toilet information would be helpful," said Rosemary Wyber, one of the Harvard team.
He includes a picture of them in front of a map of the camp that attempts to evoke what had once stood on these empty fields.
He led me to a table in his trailer where a plastic map of the camp was laid out like a game board.
Mr. Potter and his colleagues decided to create a map of Cheeta Camp's toilets (the interactive map can be found here).
"These sights viewed by an 8-year-old boy are etched so clearly on my memory that 50 years later, on a visit to the memorial site, I pointed to a relief map of the camp and informed the director that the fence was indicated in the wrong place.
He had kept some material from his boyhood, including a detailed map of the camp, and as an adult, he amassed minutes from the meetings that took place there, a register of those who had been interned there, which included the names of his parents, and a graph which illustrated the paltry intake of calories that prisoners were given each day.
A file found at the UK National Archives supports this allegation, and shows that a Belizean major visited the Kaibiles' notorious training academy, even drawing a crude map of the camp.
Using a high-resolution satellite map of the camp, they pinpoint exactly which tents and families they will visit, as well as note any sanitation problems at water points or toilets.
Draw a map of the camp and territory.
"The UN is up to version 23 of its planning map of the camps".
