Peter Manning

Former Khmer Rouge Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, Nuon Chea, in the courtroom during a 2011 public hearing at the (ECCC), in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. EPA Images

August 13, 2019

Khmer Rouge genocide: Nuon Chea’s death has major implications for justice in Cambodia

Rachel Killean, Queen's University Belfast and Peter Manning, University of Bath

Does there need to be a conviction for a genocide to be recognised by the law?

Emotional moment as two survivors of Khmer Rouge death camps react to verdict. EPA/Mark Remissa

August 7, 2014

Guilty verdicts for Khmer Rouge killers – now let Cambodia’s wounds heal

Peter Manning, London School of Economics and Political Science

More than 40 years after the Year Zero horror of Cambodia’s Killing Fields, two of the most senior Khmer Rouge leaders have been found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment…

Running out of time: Khmer Rouge defendant Nuon Chea. Wikimedia Commons

February 11, 2014

Cambodia hurries to prosecute ageing Khmer Rouge leaders

Peter Manning, London School of Economics and Political Science

More than 30 years after they were deposed, the leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge are on trial in the country they once ruled. The body set up to prosecute them, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts…

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