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Reparations Database

Christoph Sperfeldt; Reparations for Victims of the Khmer Rouge, Oxford Transitional Justice Research Working Paper Series

YEAR

2023

Country Focus

DOCUMENTS

Reparations have emerged globally as a core element in a more victim-oriented process of justice to redress mass crimes. Yet, thirty years after the end of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, reparations remain an illusion for victims and their families. Nevertheless, the establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) has given this process new momentum. This essay explores some of the options that exist for reparations through and beyond the ECCC.