04523nam 2200769 a 450 991078188170332120230422050650.01-283-21238-297866132123820-8122-0546-410.9783/9780812205466(CKB)2550000000051249(OCoLC)759158275(CaPaEBR)ebrary10492032(SSID)ssj0000543791(PQKBManifestationID)11353723(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543791(PQKBWorkID)10532082(PQKB)11420983(MiAaPQ)EBC3441575(MdBmJHUP)muse8324(DE-B1597)449297(OCoLC)979748675(DE-B1597)9780812205466(Au-PeEL)EBL3441575(CaPaEBR)ebr10492032(CaONFJC)MIL321238(EXLCZ)99255000000005124919991021d2000 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGenocide in Cambodia[electronic resource] documents from the trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary /edited by Howard J. De Nike, John Quigley, and Kenneth J. Robinson, with the assistance of Helen Jarvis and Nereida CrossPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20001 online resource (578 p.)Pennsylvania studies in human rightsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-3539-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [553]-554) and index.pt. 1. Procedural documents -- pt. 2. Documents of the investigation -- pt. 3. Indictment and judgment.The Khmer Rouge held power in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and aggressively pursued a policy of radical social reform that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians through mass executions and physical privation. In January 1979, the government was overthrown by former Khmer Rouge functionaries, with substantial backing from the army of Vietnam. In August of that year a special court, the People's Revolutionary Tribunal, was constituted to try two of the Khmer Rouge government's most powerful leaders, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary. The charge against them was genocide as it was defined in the United Nation's genocide convention of 1948. At the time, both men were in the Cambodian jungle leading the Khmer Rouge in a struggle to regain power; they were, therefore, tried in absentia.Genocide in Cambodia assembles documents from this historic trial and contains extensive reports from the People's Revolutionary Tribunal. The book opens with essays that discuss the nature of the primary documents, and places the trial in its historical, legal, and political context. The documents are divided into three parts: those relating to the establishment of the tribunal; those used as evidence, including statements of witnesses, investigative reports of mass grave sites, expert opinions on the social and cultural impact of the actions of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary, and accounts from the foreign press; and finally the record of the trial, beginning with the prosecutor's indictment and ending with the concluding speeches by the attorneys for the defense and prosecution.The trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary was the world's first genocide trial based on United Nations's policy as well as the first trial of a head of government on a human rights-related charge. This documentary record is significant for the history of Cambodia, and it will be of the highest importance as well to the international legal and human rights communities.Pennsylvania studies in human rights.Trials (Genocide)CambodiaEuropean History.Human Rights.Law.Political Science.World History.Trials (Genocide)345.596/0251Pol Pot1575520De Nike Howard J1575521Quigley John B141146Robinson Kenneth J(Kenneth Jay)146152Jarvis Helen598687Cross Nereida1575522Ieng Sary1575523Cambodia.Tribunal populaire révolutionnaire.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781881703321Genocide in Cambodia3852554UNINA