scholarly journals The evolution of Cambodian civil society’s involvement with victim participation at the Khmer Rouge trials

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-105
Author(s):  
Christoph Sperfeldt ◽  
Jeudy Oeung
Keyword(s):  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Victim Participation

scholarly journals Accessing Justice Through Victim Participation at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Yesberg
Keyword(s):  
Healing Process ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Victim Participation ◽  
Khmer Rouge Regime ◽  
National Reconciliation

This article explores the role of victims in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) – the forum tasked with bringing leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime to justice. Victims have been afforded broad participatory rights at the ECCC, including the opportunity to be joined as third parties to the trial. These innovations must be applauded. However, the role victims can play in the wider process of national reconciliation remains under-utilised. This article suggests that victim participation can be used to increase public accessibility to the trial to ensure proceedings occupy a more positive, and prominent space in Cambodia's healing process.

scholarly journals The Paradox of Victim-Centrism: Victim Participation at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 733-775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdev Mohan
Keyword(s):  
International Criminal ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
International Criminal Tribunals ◽  
Mass Atrocity ◽  
Victim Participation

AbstractIt has been claimed – though not proved – that victims will be benefited by participation in international criminal tribunals. This article interrogates this claim in the context of victim participation at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), commonly referred to as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Based on interviews with Cambodian victims and Tribunal affiliates, it examines why and how the Tribunal permits victims to intervene as les parties civile, pulling together the normative and legal basis for this mode of victim participation. This article does not purport to generalize with confidence about Cambodian victims in general, let alone all victims of mass atrocity. Instead, it simply seeks to move beyond vague speculations that victim participation in international trials is always therapeutic, and suggest a new indigenized victimology that the Tribunal should explore as the long-awaited trials of the Khmer Rouge unfold.

scholarly journals Victim Participation at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Challenges to the Civil Party Framework and Lessons for the Future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Laura Neale
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
East Timor ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Victim Participation ◽  
Khmer Rouge Regime

<p>This paper examines the victim participation framework at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC or Court), established to deal with crimes during the Khmer Rouge regime. The background which has led to the creation of the ECCC will be explained, before the paper will look at the way the Court is structured to include civil parties. The Court has consistently limited the civil parties’ role since its establishment and these limitations and the justifications are outlined in the paper. Solutions in the context of the ECCC are then considered, although due to the political environment, no changes in favour of victim rights are likely. Future models are considered, with the benefits of a Truth and Conciliation Commission’s analysed by looking at Sierra Leone and East Timor, as examples of successful frameworks where both a Court and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission proceeded simultaneously. This paper concludes that although every situation requiring a judicial response will be different, the option of having both a Court and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission can fulfil multiple victim needs.</p>

scholarly journals Victim Participation at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Challenges to the Civil Party Framework and Lessons for the Future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Laura Neale
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
East Timor ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Victim Participation ◽  
Khmer Rouge Regime

<p>This paper examines the victim participation framework at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC or Court), established to deal with crimes during the Khmer Rouge regime. The background which has led to the creation of the ECCC will be explained, before the paper will look at the way the Court is structured to include civil parties. The Court has consistently limited the civil parties’ role since its establishment and these limitations and the justifications are outlined in the paper. Solutions in the context of the ECCC are then considered, although due to the political environment, no changes in favour of victim rights are likely. Future models are considered, with the benefits of a Truth and Conciliation Commission’s analysed by looking at Sierra Leone and East Timor, as examples of successful frameworks where both a Court and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission proceeded simultaneously. This paper concludes that although every situation requiring a judicial response will be different, the option of having both a Court and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission can fulfil multiple victim needs.</p>

Cambodian Attitudes and Mental Health on the Eve of the Khmer Rouge Trials

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Sonis ◽  
James Gibson ◽  
Sokhom Hean ◽  
J. T. V. M. de Jong ◽  
Nigel Field
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Khmer Rouge

Genocide, Revolution, and Starvation under the Khmer Rouge

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-86
Author(s):  
Maureen S. Hiebert
Keyword(s):  
Khmer Rouge
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