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Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia

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Is there a point to international justice?Many contend that tribunals deliver not only justice but truth, reconciliation, peace, democratization, and the rule of law.

These are the transitional justice ideals frequently invoked in relation to the international hybrid tribunal in Cambodia that is trying senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the mid-to-late 1970s. In this ground-breaking book, Alexander Hinton argues these claims are a facade masking what is most critical: the ways in which transitional justice is translated, experienced, and understood in everyday life.

Rather than reading the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in the language of global justice and human rights, survivors understand the proceedings in their own terms, including Buddhist beliefs and on-going relationships with the spirits of the dead.

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Product Details
Oxford University Press
0192552902 / 9780192552907
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
16/03/2018
English
320 pages
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