Hinton Alexander Laban Hinton

Man or Monster? (eBook, PDF)

The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer

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Produktbeschreibung

During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against humanity. While the prosecution painted Duch as evil, his defense lawyers claimed he simply followed orders. In Man or Monster? Alexander Hinton uses creative ethnographic writing, extensive fieldwork, hundreds of interviews, and his experience attending Duch's trial to create a nuanced analysis of Duch, the tribunal, the Khmer Rouge, and the after-effects of Cambodia's genocide. Interested in how a person becomes a torturer and executioner as well as the law's ability to grapple with crimes against humanity, Hinton adapts Hannah Arendt's notion of the "e;banality of evil"e; to consider how the potential for violence is embedded in the everyday ways people articulate meaning and comprehend the world. Man or Monster? provides novel ways to consider justice, terror, genocide, memory, truth, and humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373551
• Artikelnr.: 54670642

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