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SUMMARY:Reading the S-21 traces: towards new archival assemblages of Khmer Rouge crimes
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DESCRIPTION:The Vietnamese army entered Phnom Penh on 7 January 1979 after 
 a two-weeks blitzkrieg against the Democratic Kampuchea forces. When a patr
 ol came across the Khmer Rouge prison S-21, the men found thousand and thou
 sand pages of prisoners’ ‘confessions’, execution lists, photos, and cadres
 ’ notebooks the S-21 staff had left behind. Early one, this ‘bureaucracy of
  death’ (Kiernan and Boua, New Statesman, May 1980) was seen as S-21’s spec
 ificity. When the new authorities established the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museu
 m (TSGM) onsite a few weeks later, it was with a double mission: expose the
  cruelty of the Khmer Rouge regime and organize the S-21 documents for the 
 prosecution (in absentia) of Democratic Kampuchea leaders Pol Pot and Ieng 
 Sary (Phnom Penh, August 1979). Thirty years later, these archives played a
 gain an evidentiary role in the trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders. Furth
 ermore, in 2009, the UNESCO inscribed the S-21 archives as ‘World Documenta
 ry Heritage of International Significance’. Since then, nearly half a milli
 on pages have been digitized.\n\nThe proposed interdisciplinary panel will 
 explore the richness and complexity of this crucial material.\nObviously, t
 he S-21 archives have never been static: documents have disappeared, others
  reappeared (eg, donation of 1,500 photos of S-21 prisoners in 2012). Over 
 time, they have known different types of intervention for either preservati
 on or reuse. Concurrently, there have been, at the global level, changes in
  the way researchers approach archives (eg, ‘archival turn’, ‘archive-as-pr
 ocess’, decolonial archives).\n\nIn light of this, the participants will ad
 dress the methodological, epistemological, and ethical challenges that aris
 e from: 1) the use of the S-21 archives in the judicial context and beyond;
  2) the integration of new materialities of sources (eg, graffiti, textiles
 ) into the S-21 archives. They will propose novel research perspectives on 
 a range of issues, including ways of reading the ‘confessions’, the organiz
 ation and categorization of the S-21 archives, and the functioning of the p
 rison itself. Through this conversation, the panel will situate these resea
 rches in the continuity of the studies conducted from 1979 onwards (eg, Dav
 id Chandler, Steve Heder, Ben Kiernan), and at the same time, take stock of
  the impact on interpretive frameworks of major transitions such as the pos
 t-Cold War transition and the impending closure of the Khmer Rouge tribunal
 .
URL:https://euroseas2024.org/panels/reading-the-s-21-traces-towards-new-archival-assemblages-of-khmer-rouge-crimes
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