Qualla: Khmer Rouge Tribunal https://qualla.com/khmer-rouge-tribunal en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/4/9/khmer-rouge-tribunal-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Khmer Rouge Tribunal https://qualla.com/khmer-rouge-tribunal Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Introduction https://qualla.com/khmer-rouge-tribunal/ Photo credit Henning Blatt, CC BY-SA 3.0. Three convictions. That was the final tally when the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia closed its doors in December 2022, after sixteen years of hearings, over $330 million in expenditures, and the deaths of several defendants before verdicts could be reached. Whether those three convictions represented justice or its failure depends on whom you ask -- but for the more than 353,000 Cambodians who attended or participated in the proceedings, the tribunal offered something the Khmer Rouge had tried to destroy: an official record of what happened between April 1975 and January 1979.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/4/9/khmer-rouge-tribunal-wp/w649-khmer-rouge-tribunal-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Twenty Years to Build a Courtroom https://qualla.com/khmer-rouge-tribunal/ Photo credit Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, CC BY-SA 2.0. The path to prosecution began in 1997, when Cambodia's co-prime ministers Norodom Ranariddh and Hun Sen wrote to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan requesting help establishing trial proceedings against senior Khmer Rouge leaders. Negotiations dragged on for six years before an agre...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/4/9/khmer-rouge-tribunal-wp/w649-khmer-rouge-tribunal-twenty-years-to-build-a-courtroom.mp3 0:06 2 full Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Comrade Duch and the Prison Commander https://qualla.com/khmer-rouge-tribunal/ Photo credit Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, CC BY-SA 2.0. Kang Kek Iew, known as Comrade Duch, was the first defendant to face the tribunal. He had run the Santebal, the Khmer Rouge's internal security apparatus, and commanded the notorious Tuol Sleng prison -- S-21 -- where an estimated 12,000 to 20,000 people were tortured and killed....

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/4/9/khmer-rouge-tribunal-wp/w649-khmer-rouge-tribunal-comrade-duch-and-the-prison-commander.mp3 0:06 3 full Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Aging Architects https://qualla.com/khmer-rouge-tribunal/ Photo credit Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, CC BY-SA 2.0. Case 002 targeted the regime's most senior surviving figures. Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's right-hand man and the party's chief ideologist, was found guilty of crimes against humanity in 2014 and genocide against the Vietnamese and Cham peoples in 2018. He died in August 2019 while his a...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/4/9/khmer-rouge-tribunal-wp/w649-khmer-rouge-tribunal-the-aging-architects.mp3 0:06 4 full Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Justice Under Political Pressure https://qualla.com/khmer-rouge-tribunal/ Photo credit Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, CC BY-SA 2.0. Beyond the initial cases, the tribunal ran into a wall of political resistance. Cases 003 and 004 targeted mid-level commanders including former navy chief Meas Muth, who allegedly oversaw the deaths of eleven Westerners whose boats strayed into Cambodian waters. But the Cambodia...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/4/9/khmer-rouge-tribunal-wp/w649-khmer-rouge-tribunal-justice-under-political-pressure.mp3 0:06 5 full Khmer Rouge Tribunal: What the Record Holds https://qualla.com/khmer-rouge-tribunal/ Photo credit Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, CC BY-SA 2.0. For all its imperfections, the tribunal created something that had not existed before: a formal, legal accounting of the Khmer Rouge's crimes. More than 98,000 people attended the 212-day hearings in Case 002. Nearly 67,000 rural Cambodians watched community video screenings of t...

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