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Genocide in Cambodia - Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary (Hardcover)
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Genocide in Cambodia - Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary (Hardcover)
Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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The Khmer Rouge held power in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and
aggressively pursued a policy of radical social reform that
resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians
through mass executions and physical privation. In January 1979,
the government was overthrown by former Khmer Rouge functionaries,
with substantial backing from the army of Vietnam. In August of
that year a special court, the People's Revolutionary Tribunal, was
constituted to try two of the Khmer Rouge government's most
powerful leaders, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary. The charge against them
was genocide as it was defined in the United Nation's genocide
convention of 1948. At the time, both men were in the Cambodian
jungle leading the Khmer Rouge in a struggle to regain power; they
were, therefore, tried in absentia. "Genocide in Cambodia"
assembles documents from this historic trial and contains extensive
reports from the People's Revolutionary Tribunal. The book opens
with essays that discuss the nature of the primary documents, and
places the trial in its historical, legal, and political context.
The documents are divided into three parts: those relating to the
establishment of the tribunal; those used as evidence, including
statements of witnesses, investigative reports of mass grave sites,
expert opinions on the social and cultural impact of the actions of
Pol Pot and Ieng Sary, and accounts from the foreign press; and
finally the record of the trial, beginning with the prosecutor's
indictment and ending with the concluding speeches by the attorneys
for the defense and prosecution. The trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary
was the world's first genocide trial based on United Nations's
policy as well as the first trial of a head of government on a
human rights-related charge. This documentary record is significant
for the history of Cambodia, and it will be of the highest
importance as well to the international legal and human rights
communities. Howard J. De Nike teaches in the Department of
Anthropology, San Francisco State University, and was the Director
of the Cambodia Law Project at the University of San Francisco
School of Law. John Quigley is Professor in the Ohio State
University College of Law and Adjunct Professor in the Department
of Political Science. Kenneth J. Robinson is an associate at the
law firm of Bloomfield and Kempf. Pennsylvania Studies in Human
Rights World Rights Law, Political Science
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