Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge Marriages

2020 ◽  
pp. 160-172
Author(s):  
Maria Elander
Keyword(s):  
Khmer Rouge

Cambodian Attitudes and Mental Health on the Eve of the Khmer Rouge Trials

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Sonis ◽  
James Gibson ◽  
Sokhom Hean ◽  
J. T. V. M. de Jong ◽  
Nigel Field
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Khmer Rouge

Genocide, Revolution, and Starvation under the Khmer Rouge

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-86
Author(s):  
Maureen S. Hiebert
Keyword(s):  
Khmer Rouge

Cambodian Civil Society and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Sperfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Khmer Rouge

Mass fainting in garment factories in Cambodia

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Eisenbruch
Keyword(s):  
Health Workers ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Industrial Accidents ◽  
Factory Workers ◽  
Phnom Penh ◽  
Garment Factory ◽  
Garment Factories ◽  
Garment Factory Workers

This paper reports an ethnographic study of mass fainting among garment factory workers in Cambodia. Research was undertaken in 2010–2015 in 48 factories in Phnom Penh and 8 provinces. Data were collected in Khmer using nonprobability sampling. In participant observation with monks, factory managers, health workers, and affected women, cultural understandings were explored. One or more episodes of mass fainting occurred at 34 factories, of which 9 were triggered by spirit possession. Informants viewed the causes in the domains of ill-health/toxins and supernatural activities. These included “haunting” ghosts at factory sites in the wake of Khmer Rouge atrocities or recent fatal accidents and retaliating guardian spirits at sites violated by foreign owners. Prefigurative dreams, industrial accidents, or possession of a coworker heralded the episodes. Workers witnessing a coworker fainting felt afraid and fainted. When taken to clinics, some showed signs of continued spirit influence. Afterwards, monks performed ritual ceremonies to appease spirits, extinguish bonds with ghosts, and prevent recurrence. Decoded through its cultural motifs of fear and protest, contagion, forebodings, the bloody Khmer Rouge legacy, and trespass, mass fainting in Cambodia becomes less enigmatic.

Radical Geography and the Legacy of the Khmer Rouge

Geopolitics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Tyner
Keyword(s):  
Khmer Rouge

Time and the Visibility of Slow Atrocity Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Randle C. DeFalco
Keyword(s):  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Cumulative Effects ◽  
Selective Recognition ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Atrocity Crimes

Abstract This article explores the role of time in obfuscating the criminality of international crimes committed through the cumulative effects of various actions that, on their own, appear banal and seemingly non-criminal in nature. It demonstrates how assessments of individual culpability continue to predominantly focus on the identification of discrete transactions that are intuitively recognizable as criminal in nature. This approach helps perpetuate the obfuscation of the criminality of slow, unfamiliar atrocity processes lacking easily identifiable moments of criminality. The selective recognition of atrocity crimes in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge period and post-independence Myanmar are analyzed as examples of this failure to recognize the criminality of international crimes committed through slow, attritive means.

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