The CPK: Secret vanguard of Pol Pot's revolution: A comment on Nuon Chea's statement

Summers, Laura

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“…83 According to Laura Summers' commentary, Nuon Chea 'regards the words of the party with reverence as if they contained a spirit and meaning independent of the will of those who uttered … them'. 84 He fervently believed in what he had to do to save the nation from itself. At the trial of Nuon Chea, Defence Counsel Victor Kloppe insisted on a legal framework that would allow for a broader exploration of the facts than merely 'focusing on the body of the crocodile while refusing to consider its head and tail'.…”

Section: Nuon Chea and The Crocodilementioning

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The cloak of impunity in Cambodia II: justice

Eisenbruch

2018

The International Journal of Human Rights

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This article discusses the underpinnings of impunity and justice in Cambodia as the former Khmer Rouge leaders face trial in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The extent to which the ECCC achieves its goal can only be assessed by understanding the concept of impunity from a Cambodian cultural perspective. In this ethnographic study, the cultural construction of justice is thus examined. The ECCC defendants and those who commit violence today seem to use a similar cultural framework to explain their crimes and expiate them from accountability. Any discussion of accountability, which is the Janus-face of impunitywhether at the ECCC trials or in the public arena todaywill show how perpetrators conform to certain embedded Cambodian beliefs while failing to conform to others. The findings add to our understanding of the cultural footprint of evil and impunity and have implications for attempts to respond to the call for a 'bespoke' form of transitional justice and for a culturally responsive approach to health and human rights.

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Section: Nuon Chea and The Crocodilementioning

confidence: 99%

The cloak of impunity in Cambodia II: justice

Eisenbruch

2018

The International Journal of Human Rights

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The CPK: Secret vanguard of Pol Pot's revolution: A comment on Nuon Chea's statement

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The cloak of impunity in Cambodia II: justice

The cloak of impunity in Cambodia II: justice

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