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Man or Monster? - The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (Paperback)
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Man or Monster? - The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (Paperback)
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During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the
mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the
commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000
victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch
stood trial for these crimes against humanity. While the
prosecution painted Duch as evil, his defense lawyers claimed he
simply followed orders. In Man or Monster? Alexander Hinton uses
creative ethnographic writing, extensive fieldwork, hundreds of
interviews, and his experience attending Duch's trial to create a
nuanced analysis of Duch, the tribunal, the Khmer Rouge, and the
after-effects of Cambodia's genocide. Interested in how a person
becomes a torturer and executioner as well as the law's ability to
grapple with crimes against humanity, Hinton adapts Hannah Arendt's
notion of the "banality of evil" to consider how the potential for
violence is embedded in the everyday ways people articulate meaning
and comprehend the world. Man or Monster? provides novel ways to
consider justice, terror, genocide, memory, truth, and humanity.
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