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.
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.
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.
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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
