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Human Remains from the Khmer Rouge Regime, Cambodia

    C. Bennett

    History

    Ethical Approaches to Human Remains

  • 2019

On the 17th April 1975, the Communist Party of Kampuchea, colloquially known as the Khmer Rouge, marched into Phnom Penh and took control of Cambodia. During their rule of three years, eight months,

Forensic Legacy of the Khmer Rouge: The Cambodian Genocide

The few forensic investigations which have been undertaken on the remains of the deceased from this period in Cambodia's history are outlined and a wealth of objective forensic information can be gathered from analyzing the remains that have been disturbed and placed in monuments, and also in the undisturbed graves across the country.

The long-term legacy of the Khmer Rouge period in Cambodia

Using mortality data for siblings from the Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey in 2000, the author shows that excess mortality was extremely high and heavily concentrated during 1974-80, indicating that violent death played a major role.

East Timor

    Law, Political Science

    The World Court Reference Guide

  • 2000

The media environment in East Timor remained stable in 2013 and the absence of a press law has led to the use of the penal code to settle disputes in media reporting, which can endanger press freedom.