Alexander Laban Hinton

Man or Monster?

The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer

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Produktbeschreibung

Alexander Laban Hinton offers a detailed analysis of a former Khmer Rouge security center commandant who was convicted for overseeing the interrogation, torture, and execution of nearly 20,000 Cambodians. Interested in how someone becomes an executioner, Hinton provides numerous ways to consider justice, genocide, memory, truth, and humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362586
• ISBN-10: 0822362589
• Artikelnr.: 44638206

Autorenporträt

Alexander Laban Hinton is Founding Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is coeditor of Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America , also published by Duke University Press, and author of the award-winning Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide.

Inhaltsangabe

The Accused, Fact Sheet, Public Version—Radacted  1
Foreground. Monster  3
Part I. Confession
Interrogation. Comrade Duch's Abecedarian  41
1. Man (Opening Arguments)  44
2. Revolutionary (M-13 Prison)  68
3. Subordinate (Establishment of S-21)  90
4. Cog (Policy and Implementation)  103
5. Commandant (Functioning of S-21)  130
6. Master (Torture and Execution)  142
Erasure. Durch's Apology  168
Part II. Reconstruction
Torture, A Collage. The Testimony of Prak Khan, S-21 Interrogator  171
7. Villain (The Civil Parties)  176
8. Zealot (Prosecution)  197
9. Scapegoat (Defense)  213
10. The Accused (Trial Chamber Judgment)  229
Background. Redactic (Final Decision)  243
Epilogue. Man or Monster? (Conviction)  288
Acknowledgments  297
Timeline  301
Abbreviations  303
Notes  305
Bibliography  335
Index  345