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The justice facade : trials of transition in Cambodia / Alexander Laban Hinton.

by Hinton, Alexander Laban author.

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Parti communiste du Kampuchea -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

Transitional justice -- Cambodia.

Genocide -- Sociological aspects

Trials (Crimes against humanity) -- Cambodia.

Trials (Genocide) -- Cambodia.

War crime trials -- Cambodia.

Justice, Administration of -- Cambodia.

Genocide -- Cambodia.

Humanitarian intervention -- Cambodia.

xii, 282 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Preface: Uncle San and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal -- Introduction: The transitional justice imaginary -- Progression (Cambodia's three transitions) -- Time (the Khmer Institute of Democracy) -- Space (Center for Social Development and the Public Sphere) -- Aesthetics (Theary Sang, Vann Nath, and victim participation) -- Performance (Reach Sambath, public affairs, and "Justice Trouble") -- Discipline (Uncle Meng and the trials of the foreign) -- Subjectivity (DC-Cam and the ECCC outreach tour) -- Normativity (civil party testimony) -- Disposition (Youk Chhang, documenter and survivor) -- Conclusion: Justice in translation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274) and index.

For survivors of the brutal Khmer Rouge Regime, western instruments of justice are small plasters on deep wounds. In Hinton's account of the subsequent international tribunal, only traditional ceremony, ritual, and unmediated dialogue can provide true healing.

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