Cambodia

7 November 2016 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University

Is “ecocide” the new crime against humanity? On December 7, 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 was 45,000 km from Earth. The three astronauts had the sun behind them and were heading for the Moon, where they were going to land. It was then they took the first photo of our planet. E [...]

4 October 2016 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo

Could Cambodia be test for new ICC move on land grabs? On September 15, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a policy document on case selection which included for the first time a focus on land-grabbing and environmental crimes in "peace" time. This comes a [...]

2 May 2016 by AFP

Confronting darkness in Cambodia's Khmer Rouge stronghold Standing next to cages that once housed political prisoners, former Khmer Rouge foot soldier Tho Lon gets a surprisingly sympathetic hearing from a clutch of students, despite his work for a regime that wiped out a quarter of Camb [...]

15 September 2015 by Robert Carmichael

Did the Khmer Rouge commit genocide? PHNOM PENH, 14 September 2015 (IRIN) - During its short stay in power in the late 1970s, the Khmer Rouge killed about a quarter of Cambodia’s population, but did they commit genocide? After four years of trying surviving senior le [...]

8 September 2015 by AFP

Cambodia : The Forgotten Genocide of The Muslim Minority A member of Cambodia's minority Cham Muslim community Monday recounted the horrors of living under the Khmer Rouge, describing how regime cadres burned Qurans, forced them to eat pork and murdered them en masse. The testimony came [...]

5 June 2015 by Dr Peter Manning

Confronting Khmer Rouge crimes in Cambodia The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia face significant challenges as they reckon with the crimes of the Khmer Rouge The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) were established in 2006 as a “mixed” [...]

4 June 2015 by Julia Crawford

CAMBODIA TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE – IN BRIEF Context - Khmer Rouge terror: Cambodia has been scarred by decades of violence and war, beginning even before its independence from France in 1953. During the Cold War era and the Vietnam War (1955-75), the regime of Norodom Sihan [...]