Man or monster? : the trial of a Khmer Rouge torturer /

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 jus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hinton, Alexander Laban (Author)
Other Authors:	Kang, Kech Ieu, 1942- (Defendant)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:	World trials library. History of international law.
Subjects:	Kang, Kech Ieu, > 1942- > Trials, litigation, etc. Tuol Sleng (Prison : Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Kang, Kech Ieu, > 1942- Trials (Crimes against humanity) > Cambodia. Procès (Crimes contre l'humanité) > Cambodge. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. Trials (Crimes against humanity) Cambodia Electronic books. Trials, litigation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Man (opening arguments)
Revolutionary (M-13 prison)
Subordinate (establishment of S-21)
Cog (policy and implementation)
Commandant (functioning of S-21)
Master (torture and execution)
Erasure: Duch's apology
Torture, A Collage: The testimony of Prak Khan, S-21 Interrogator
Villain (The civil parties)
Zealot (prosecution)
Scapegoat (defense)
The accused (trial chamber judgment)
Background Redactic: (Final decision)
Epilogue: Man of Monster? (Conviction).