Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge TorturerAlexander Laban Hinton
Alexander Laban Hinton’s Man or Monster? offers an interesting and novel treatment of the trial of a Khmer Rouge revolutionary accused of participating in Democratic Kampuchea’s (DK) genocide of 1.7 million Cambodians (1975–79). Duch (his nom de guerre) was charged with crimes against humanity, spec...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 137-138 |
| Review of: | Man or monster? - the trial of a Khmer Rouge torturer (Durham : Duke University Press, 2016) (Midlarsky, Manus I.)
Man or monster? - the trial of a Khmer Rouge torturer (Durham : Duke University Press, 2016) (Midlarsky, Manus I.) |
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| Summary: | Alexander Laban Hinton’s Man or Monster? offers an interesting and novel treatment of the trial of a Khmer Rouge revolutionary accused of participating in Democratic Kampuchea’s (DK) genocide of 1.7 million Cambodians (1975–79). Duch (his nom de guerre) was charged with crimes against humanity, specifically the torture and execution of 12,000 victims. Hinton conducted numerous interviews with Cambodian witnesses, observed the trial, and utilized material from the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum., Avowedly literary, Hinton’s work is also extraordinarily detailed in its descriptions of the prosecution, the defense, and the defendant himself. In many respects the book assails the categorical concept of “evil” as a descriptor for perpetrators of genocide. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy015 |