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The Khmer Rouge Tribunal - Power, Politics, and Resistance in Transitional Justice
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The Khmer Rouge Tribunal - Power, Politics, and Resistance in Transitional Justice
Series: Critical Human Rights
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Understanding the ECCC and transnational justice in a local
context. From 1975 to 1979, while Cambodia was ruled by the brutal
Communist Party of Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge) regime, torture,
starvation, rape, and forced labor contributed to the death of at
least a fifth of the country's population. Despite the severity of
these abuses, civil war and international interference prevented
investigation until 2004, when protracted negotiations between the
Cambodian government and the United Nations resulted in the
establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia (ECCC), or Khmer Rouge tribunal. The resulting trials have
been well scrutinized, with many scholars seeking to weigh the
results of the tribunal against the extent of the offenses. Here,
Julie Bernath takes a different tack, deliberately decentering the
trials in an effort to understand the ECCC in its particular
context—and, by extension, the degree to which notions of
transitional justice generally must be understood in particular
social, cultural, and political contexts. She focuses on "sites of
resistance" to the ECCC, including not only members of the elite
political class but also citizens who do not, for a variety of
tangled reasons, participate in the tribunal—and even resistance
from victims of the regime and participants in the trials. Bernath
demonstrates that the ECCC both shapes and is shaped by long-term
contestation over Cambodia's social, economic, and political
transformations, and thereby argues that transitional justice must
be understood locally rather than as a homogenous good that can be
implanted by international actors.
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