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Subject(s)

• Trials (Crimes against humanity)—Cambodia [Browse]
• Tuol Sleng (Prison : Phnom Penh, Cambodia) [Browse]
• Kang, Kech Ieu 1942-—Trials, litigation, etc [Browse]

Summary note

Alexander Laban Hinton offers a detailed analysis of a former Khmer Rouge security center commandant who was convicted for overseeing the interrogation, torture, and execution of nearly 20,000 Cambodians. Interested in how someone becomes an executioner, Hinton provides numerous ways to consider justice, genocide, memory, truth, and humanity.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-344) and index.

Contents

• The accused, fact sheet, public version-redacted
• Monster
• Comrade Duch's Abecedarian
• Man (opening arguments)
• Revolutionary (M-13 Prison)
• Subordinate (establishment of S-21)
• Cog (policy and implementation)
• Commandant (functioning of S-21)
• Master (torture and execution)
• Erasure: Duch's apology
• Torture, a collage
• Villain (the civil parties)
• Zealot (prosecution)
• Scapegoat (defense)
• The accused (trial chamber judgment).

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ISBN

• 9780822362586 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 0822362589 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 9780822362739 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 0822362732 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016028000

OCLC

953174406

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