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Justice 30 Years Later? The Cambodian Special Tribunal for the Punishment of Crimes against Humanity by the Khmer Rouge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Wolfgang Form
Wolfgang Form*
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Internationales Forschungs- und Dokumentationszentrum Kriegsverbrechecherprozesse, Phillips-Universitat Marburg, Universitatsstrasse 7, D-35032 Marburg, Germany. Email: form@staff.uni-marburg.de
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After a two-year tug-of-war between the US, the UN, and Phnom Penh, the Cambodian government, supported by massive international intervention, brought some of those accused of committing Khmer Rouge atrocities to trial before an independent court. The atrocities, which verged on genocide, were perpetrated between 1975 and 1979. The plan was to create a special tribunal consisting of both indigenous and foreign judges to try the perpetrators. Newspapers from 2002 reported that the first indictment would be issued some time during that year. As we know today, this proved to be a rosily optimistic prediction.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , November 2009 , pp. 889 - 923
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Copyright © 2009 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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