TY  - GEN
AU  - Hinton,Alexander Laban
TI  - Man or Monster? : The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
SN  - 9780822373551
PY  - 2016///1104
CY  - Durham NC
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cambodia
KW  - Chum Mey
KW  - Khmer people
KW  - Khmer Rouge
KW  - Son Sen
KW  - Sophea Duch
KW  - Torture
KW  - Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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 "banality of evil" to consider how the potential for violence is embedded in the everyday ways people articulate meaning and comprehend the world
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31755/1/625279.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31755/1/625279.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31755/1/625279.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28705
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