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SUMMARY:The Khmer Rouge Tribunal\, ‘civil parties’ and the Cambodian d
 iaspora - Dr Rachel Hughes\, University of Melbourne
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CONTACT:Dr Alex Jeffrey
DESCRIPTION:The Khmer Rouge Tribunal\, also known as the Extraordinary Cha
 mbers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)\, is a current international crimin
 al tribunal seeking justice for the victims of crimes committed in Cambodi
 a between 1975 and 1979. One of the novel legal provisions of the ECCC is 
 that of ‘civil parties’. Civil parties are victims who are recognised 
 as formal parties to the legal proceedings: they may testify and\, through
  co-lawyers\, may submit evidence\, question defendants and seek moral and
  collective reparations. Civil parties are taken to reflect ‘the commitm
 ent of the ECCC to its mandate of helping the Cambodian people in the purs
 uit of justice and national reconciliation’ (ECCC 2013). More than 100 a
 pplicants from the Cambodian diaspora (mainly from the USA and France) wer
 e successful in gaining civil party status in ECCC Case 002. Individuals h
 ave travelled from the US to Cambodia to testify\, while others have given
  evidence from their homes via weblink. This paper draws on preliminary re
 search into this legal recognition of victims in the diaspora and the natu
 re and effects of this recognition at the tribunal. In doing so\, it refle
 cts on the new geographies of Cambodian genocide memory that are provoked 
 by the participation of these civil parties.
LOCATION:Georaphy Department Seminar Room
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