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Dr. Leakhena Nou, Executive Director of ASRIC, recently published a scholarly paper about the experiences of the Khmer Rouge survivors' participation in the ECCC, also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Full citation below:
Nou, L. (2013). Beyond silent suffering and trauma half a world away: Participation of Cambodian diaspora genocide survivors in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Journal of Asia Pacific World, 4(1), 56–79.
Abstract:
Recent media coverage of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (formally known as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia [the ECCC]) is a reminder that the impact of Cambodia’s genocide—nearly forty years ago—on Cambodians’ individual and social health is far from over. This paper focuses on activities of victim-survivors in the Cambodian American diaspora as they pursue justice and reconciliation. In particular, it focuses on the Cambodian Diaspora Victims’ Participation Project (CDVPP), launched in 2009. The CDVPP takes a medical-sociological approach to engaging victim-survivors in judicial processes as one important example of a civil-society structure augmenting the outreach efforts of the ECCC. The paper includes analyses of allegations against the Khmer Rouge in testimonies accepted as evidence by the ECCC, and a discussion of the critical role of the Cambodian American diaspora as social agents in the judicial process of the ECCC.
Keywords: diaspora, human rights, Khmer Rouge, psychosocial, reconciliation, refugees, trauma, witnesses
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Nou, L. (2013). Beyond silent suffering and trauma half a world away: Participation of Cambodian diaspora genocide survivors in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Journal of Asia Pacific World, 4(1), 56–79.
Abstract:
Recent media coverage of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (formally known as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia [the ECCC]) is a reminder that the impact of Cambodia’s genocide—nearly forty years ago—on Cambodians’ individual and social health is far from over. This paper focuses on activities of victim-survivors in the Cambodian American diaspora as they pursue justice and reconciliation. In particular, it focuses on the Cambodian Diaspora Victims’ Participation Project (CDVPP), launched in 2009. The CDVPP takes a medical-sociological approach to engaging victim-survivors in judicial processes as one important example of a civil-society structure augmenting the outreach efforts of the ECCC. The paper includes analyses of allegations against the Khmer Rouge in testimonies accepted as evidence by the ECCC, and a discussion of the critical role of the Cambodian American diaspora as social agents in the judicial process of the ECCC.
Keywords: diaspora, human rights, Khmer Rouge, psychosocial, reconciliation, refugees, trauma, witnesses
To purchase this article, go to this link.