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100 1 _aHinton, Alexander Laban
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245 1 0 _aMan or Monster? : The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
260 _aDurham NC
_bDuke University Press
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506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aDuring 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.
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650 7 _aSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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653 _aAnthropology
653 _aCambodia
653 _aChum Mey
653 _aKhmer people
653 _aKhmer Rouge
653 _aSon Sen
653 _aSophea Duch
653 _aTorture
653 _aTuol Sleng Genocide Museum
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