BY DORINE VAN DER KEUR Download PDF: English | Khmer 1.     INTRODUCTION In Cambodia, marriage is a highly valued institution, and the norm in society. Statistics from 2004 show that 81% of women between 25-29 were married and only about 5% of the population remained unmarried throughout their lives.[2] Divorce is socially unaccepted and

BY BEINI YE Download PDF: English | Khmer 1.     INTRODUCTION From 17 April 1975 to 6 January 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), commonly known as the Khmer Rouge, ruled Cambodia and renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea. Under the leadership of the CPK, the entire country was transformed into a vast labor

BY THERESA DE LANGIS Download PDF: English | Khmer  In the past two decades, a growing body of international obligations has been created to intensify attention to the specific ways that women experience armed conflict and atrocity, and to fortify accountability for gender-based violations. Among these, a cluster of resolutions of the United

BY RANDLE C. DEFALCO Download PDF: English The topic of severe famine has received scant attention at international and hybrid tribunals despite the fact that an interdisciplinary discourse has emerged concerning the suitability of international criminal law as a legal response. This is the first of two articles[2] scrutinizing this prosecutorial gap

BY RITHY PANH Download PDF: English | Khmer In Cambodia’s first Oscar-nominated film, Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage and voice-over narration to tell a deeply personal story: “For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled

BY MARCEL LEMONDE, WITH THE COLLABORATION OF JEAN REYNAUD Download PDF: English | Khmer After a year-long judicial investigation, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Co-Investigating Judges Marcel Lemonde and You Bunleng sent Kaing Guek Eav alias “Duch” to trial on charges related to the deaths of at least 12,272 men, women, and children

BY THIERRY CRUVELLIER Download PDF: English | Khmer In 2009, journalist Thierry Cruvellier attended all evidentiary hearings and closing arguments in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia trial of Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, the former director of the Khmer Rouge’s S-21 security center. On July 26, 2010, The Trial Chamber

BY SIMON M. MEISENBERG Download PDF: English | Khmer  Executive Summary[1] Cambodia was one of the first Asian countries to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). By ratifying the Statute in 2002, the Cambodian Government sent a powerful message to its population that lessons had been learned from the