Well, it’s finally happening. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia have issued their first indictment (on July 31) related to the genocidal actions of the Khmer Rouge government led by Pol Pot. The first to be indicted is Kang Kek Ieu (known also as Duch), the man who ran the Tuol Sleng prison…
Tag: Cambodia
Justice of a Sort (cont’d)
Yesterday I wrote a post about the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Today’s papers carried the hopeful news that the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)–the Cambodian equivalent of the ICTY–may finally get underway, now that international and Cambodian judges have agreed on their procedures for the tribunal. Getting…
History After Communism
In the spring of 1995 I participated in a conference in Levoča, Slovakia on teaching about nationalism in post-Communist Europe. One of the participants, a member of the historical section of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, told us a story that day that summed up one of the most difficult issues faced by historians in…
Images of Genocide
I have now posted into my Flickr site the majority of my images from the Cambodian genocide sites in and around Phnom Penh. As I wrote in an earlier post, I think it’s important to document what these sites look like now, because the concession to run them has been sold to a foreign tourism…