Blog entries tagged DC-Cam

New Rutgers magazine feature on ECCC

Elena Lesley — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:51:27 +0100

In the first issue of a new Rutgers University magazine (disclaimer: with which I am involved), an undergraduate student describes his experience working with DC-Cam's Victim Participation Team. You can read it here.

Cambodia and the tribunal will certainly be featured in upcoming issues as well, as Rutgers has an active relationship with DC-Cam and a number of students who are interested in the country. The magazine is published by the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolu...

Chain of command under Ta Mok

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:34:46 +0100

Via DC-Cam, this paper analyzes Ta Mok's Southwestern Zone under the Democratic Kampuchea regime and the success of the Khmer Rouge "butcher" in crafting a pliant patronage network. It was written by Socheat Nhean for the MA program in Anthropology at Northern Illinois University.

From the abstract:

Patron-client relations created strong socio-political bonds in Democratic Kampuchea (DK). These relations were even stronger and more stable when members of the networks were&...

Updates at Cambodia Tribunal Monitor

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:20:27 +0100

One of the best online sources for those following the proceedings at the ECCC, cambodiatribunalmonitor.org, has announced new features that it plans to have in place in time for the July 26 verdict in Case 001. The site, which has recently added RSS and Twitter feeds, will have correspondents on hand to live-blog on the day of the verdict and to post video interviews. You can also log onto the site to find video archives of proceedings at the court thus far and read expert analysis. The site...

Rutgers Law event to probe ECCC

Elena Lesley — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:30:09 +0100

The Rutgers, Newark Law School will host a symposium this Friday, April 2, featuring an extensive panel discussion about the Khmer Rouge tribunal. Speakers will include Khmer Rouge survivor and activist Theary Seng, Fulbright Fellow Randle DeFalco, DC-Cam Legal Associates Jared Watkins and Andrew Diamond, and others.

The panel ("The ECCC: The Issues and Challenges of Prosecuting the Senior Leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime") is part of the larger event "Human and Economic Dimensions of...

The Khmer Rouge in classrooms

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:51:35 +0100

A feature story on the Genocide Education Project, an effort to train teachers in the use of the first government-sanctioned textbook covering the Khmer Rouge years:

Find it online here.

On a recent Thursday, a classroom full of high school teachers in Takeo province sat in groups of five sharing survivors’ recollections of 20th-century mass atrocities.

In one group, the first teacher to speak delivered a five-minute summary of the Holocaust structured a...