Man or monster? : : the trial of a Khmer Rouge torturer / / Alexander Laban Hinton.

During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against hum...

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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (359 pages) :; illustrations, photographs
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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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
  • Villain (the civil parties)
  • Zealot (prosecution)
  • Scapegoat (defense)
  • The accused (trial chamber judgment).