Reconstituting the 'Un-Person': The Khmer Krom & The Khmer Rouge Tribunal
12 Singapore Year Book of International Law, pp. 43-55, (2010)
Singapore Management University School of Law Research Paper No. 22/2013
15 Pages Posted: 31 Jul 2013 Last revised: 26 Aug 2013
Date Written: 2010
Abstract
Despite the grand promise of victim participation at the ongoing trials of Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (“ECCC”), this article notes the plight of an undeserved ethnic community, the members of which have become forgotten victims of genocide. The Article argues that if the ECCC’s trials are to have any resonance for the Khmer Krom, its affiliates and victims’ lawyers should avoid “othering” Khmer Krom victims of genocide, and instead adopt ethnographic approaches to lawyering that seek to ascertain communal desires for vindication.
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