The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Power, Politics, and Resistance in Transitional Justice - Couverture rigide

Bernath, Julie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 029934360X ISBN 13 : 9780299343606

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julie Bernath, a senior researcher at swisspeace and the University of Basel, is the coeditor of Resistance and Transitional Justice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 029934360X
• ISBN 13: 9780299343606
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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