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  • 6 - Justice in Translation

  • Edited by Sarah Federman, University of San Diego, Ronald Niezen, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book:
    Narratives of Mass Atrocity
    Published online:
    01 September 2022
    Print publication:
    08 September 2022, pp 170-200
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    International tribunals are often assumed to deliver not only judgments against those guilty of mass crimes, but along the way to bring access to truth, reconciliation, peace, democratization, and the rule of law. This chapter challenges these claims with reference to the international hybrid tribunal in Cambodia, which has as its goals the trying of the leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the mid-to-late 1970s. The ways that survivors of the regime understood the proceedings in their own terms, with reference to Buddhist beliefs and their relationships with the spirits of the dead, were readily overlooked or misunderstood by a tribunal that was based on secular conceptions of law and judgment. The tribunal hearings in Cambodia offer insights into the ways that law grapples with crimes against humanity and how the potential for violence is embedded in the everyday ways that people articulate meaning and comprehend the world.