Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum: A Multifaceted History of Khmer Rouge Crimes (Brill's Southeast Asian Library, 13)

Contents Preface Bibliography Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: New Sources, Practices, and Challenges for a Multifaceted History of Khmer Rouge 1 From School to Prison to Museum 2 The Twenty-First Century: New Challenges, New Research, and New Researchers 3 Structure of the Book 01 M-13: the Rural Prototype 1 Finding M-13 2 Visualizing M-13 3 Linking M-13 and S-21 4 Conclusion: Memorializing M-13 Interviews Transcripts of ECCC Proceedings 02 Purity and Control in Khmer Rouge Interrogators’ Notebooks 1 Moral Purity, Self-Control, and Torture 2 Enemies within: the Confessions of Former Interrogators 3 Conclusion Documentation Center of Cambodia and Sterling Library, Yale University Virtual Tribunal, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Interviews by Author 03 A Unique Series of Testimonies: Memoirs 1 The Urgency of Recounting the Concentrationary Experience 2 The Visceral Nature of the Testimonies 3 The Effects of Justice 4 Conclusion Films Interviews Archives 04 Witnesses Abroad: Early Visitors and the TSGM 1 Visitor Books as Sources 1.1 Material Books 1.2 Performative Encounters 1.3 Textual Archives 2 Witnessing, Testimony and Solidarity: Three Cases 2.1 Monique Chemillier-Gendreau 2.2 Victor Umbricht 2.3 Yasuko Naitō 3 Conclusion Acknowledgements Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Documents United Nations Document Personal Communications 05 Holocaust References in the Early Years 1 Mai Lam and Pham van Bach: Linking the Vietnam War with Nazi Atrocities 2 “As If You Were Seeing Auschwitz”: Perceptions and Narrative Framings of Tuol Sleng by the First Journalists and Visitors 3 The Beginning of Tuol Sleng – “A Museum Similar to Those in Germany”? 4 Conclusion Acknowledgements Political Archive of the Foreign Office, Germany TSGM Archive DC-Cam Archive Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University Interviews 06 Polish Visitors in Tuol Sleng: the Issue 1 The Polish Entries in Visitor Books 2 Firsthand Accounts: the Reports and Books Written by Journalists 2.1 Zbigniew Domaranczyk 2.2 Wieslaw Gornicki 2.3 Monika Warnenska 3 Conclusion 07 Understanding S-21 1 Graffiti 2 The Historical Photos in Building A 3 Changes in the Buildings 4 The Digitization of S-21 Archives 5 Building up Research Skills 6 The 2019 Commemorative Exhibition 7 Conclusion: Outlook Acknowledgements Bibliography 08 Listening to the Museum: Affective Encounters with the Tuol Sleng 1 The Legacy of Personal Tour Guides 2 Telling the Story of S-21 3 Informing, Navigating, Connecting 4 Responding to ‘Affective Atmospheres’ 5 Conclusion 09 Threads of Evidence: Textile and Clothing Remains at 1 Politics of Dress and Textiles in Democratic Kampuchea and S-21 2 The Textile Archive: Conservation, Innovation, and Training 3 Initial Findings: Significance of the Collection and Reconstructing Identity 4 Conclusion 10 S-21 Archives as Evidence: From Early Accounts 1 Appropriation of Evidence as Relics 2 Judicial Evidence: the Crucial Role of S-21 in the People’s Revolutionary Tribunal 3 Archiving the Trial and Reactivating the Archive 4 Conclusion ECCC Documents 11 Confronting the Dead: an Anthropologist’s Engagement with Human Remains 1 Encountering and Interacting with Human Remains 2 Analysis of the Choeung Ek Crania 3 The Role of Human Remains in the Judicial Process at the ECCC 4 Conclusion Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) 12 “S-21 as a Purge Center 11. The prisoner lists and confessions delivered important information at the microlevel. How did the co-prosecutors use them on a broader scale? 16. Why did the prosecution rework the list of S-21 victims several times? 13 The Haunting Image and Memorial Construction for the 1.5 Generation: S-21/Tuol Sleng 1 Appropriated Reality in Séra’s L’Eau et la Terre: Photographs, Documentation, and Intertextuality 2 Through Nightmares: Absence and Transmission in Hui Phang and Sterckeman’s Cent mille journées de prières 3 (De)construction and Participation in Poustochkine’s La Colline empoisonnée 4 Conclusion 14 Tuol Sleng’s Photographic Portraits 1 The Photo Archive Group: Story of a Collection 2 Tang Chhin Sothy: Documenting Tuol Sleng’s Media Presence 3 Dominique Mérigard: the Book as Exhibition Space 4 Conclusion: the Inadvertent Portrait of Social Media 15 Irradiations of Violence 6. When you work on S-21, what linkages do you make with other genocides or mass crimes? 16 When the Dead Bring the Living: the Global Connections of Choeung Ek 1 Connecting the Living and the Dead: Care in Cambodia and Tourism at Choeung Ek 2 Necropolitics and Cambodia’s Global Dead 3 Conclusion: Choeung Ek as Global Place; the Dead as Global Dead 17 Conclusion: Towards a Historiographical Kaleidoscope Index