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On 16 November 2018, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia (ECCC), also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, delivered its
much anticipated second judgment against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan,
two former senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime. This judgment
features the Court’s first convictions for genocide perpetrated
during the regime, finding both defendants guilty of genocide against
the ethnic Vietnamese population, and Nuon Chea guilty of genocide
against the Cham Islamic population. In this seminar, we discuss the
implications of this judgment for genocide recognition and social
repair in Cambodia, drawing on our research with the Cham and ethnic
Vietnamese minority communities.
DR RACHEL KILLEAN is a Lecturer in Law at Queen’s University
Belfast. She is author of _Victims, Atrocity and International
Criminal Justice: Lessons from Cambodia_ (Routledge), which examines
the role of victims within transitional justice processes, with a
particular emphasis on the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia. She is also a Co-Investigator on the ‘Restoring Cultural
Property and Communities after Conflict’ project, which looks at the
destruction of the Cham Islamic group’s cultural property during the
Khmer Rouge regime, and the ‘Whose Voices are Heard?’ project,
which explores representations of victimhood at sites of ‘dark
tourism’ in Cambodia.
DR CHRISTOPH SPERFELDT is Senior Research Fellow at the Peter McMullin
Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School, and a Fellow at the
Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford
University. Prior to this, Christoph was Deputy Director at the Asian
International Justice Initiative, a joint program of the East-West
Center and the Center for Human Rights and International Justice,
where he has supported human rights and rule of law capacity-building
efforts in Southeast Asia. From 2007 to 2011, he was Senior Advisor
with the German development cooperation (GIZ) in Cambodia.
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