Abstract

This chapter takes up the enduring problem of human nature and mass atrocity through the lens of the Cambodian genocide. It considers the category of perpetrator; some of the assumptions underlying it; and, using a set of metaphors, the ideologies, cultural understandings, and microdynamics that inform and structure perpetration. It argues that the ways we think about perpetration misdirect us from understanding the actions of people like security chief Duch (Kaing Guek Eav), who, in 2010, was convicted of crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

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