Interrogating the perpetrator: violation, culpability and human rights

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Notes

1. See Poppy McPherson, ‘Memorial Plan Prompts Debate about Victims and Perpetrators of Genocide’, Phnom Penh Post, 9 May 2014. http://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/memorial-plan-prompts-debate-about-victims-and-perpetrators-genocide (accessed 2 July 2014).

2. On 17 April 1975, the Khmer Rouge rolled into Cambodia's capital (Phnom Penh), signalling the start of the regime; it would eventually be deposed on 7 January 1979 by the Vietnamese Army, signalling the end of both the regime and the Cambodian-Vietnamese War (1977–1979).

3. See Alexander Laban Hinton, ‘A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide’, in Genocide: An Anthropological Reader, ed. Alexander Laban Hinton (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002), 273.

4. McPherson, ‘Memorial Plan Prompts Debate about Victims and Perpetrators of Genocide'.

5. Ibid.

6. It should be noted that another critique of the proposed memorial involves its connection to Western modes of memorialisation.

7. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin Books, 1963).

8. Alexander Laban Hinton, Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004).

9. Terry Eagleton, On Evil (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 2.

10. Ariella Azoulay, Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography (New York: Verso, 2012), 243.