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Cambodia: of Vice and Men
French attorney Jacques Vergès has devoted a long career to defending terrorists, dictators and mass murderers. He has consistently challenged the wider social order judging his defendants. Critics call him a devil's advocate, and a scandalously immoral publicity seeker.
Stéphanie Giry found a more complex reality as she traveled with Vergès to Cambodia on a visit to his client Khieu Samphan, the former Khmer Rouge president of Cambodia.
Stéphanie Giry
Stéphanie Giry is a Senior Editor at Foreign Affairs magazine and a freelance writer. She has written for Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, and has worked for Legal Affairs magazine and The Associated Press. Before turning to journalism, Stéphanie practiced international law in a large corporate firm and at the United Nations...
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About the Khmer Rouge years:
The Cambodian
Genocide Project at Yale
The Documentation Center of Cambodia has collected documents and
testimonies about the Khmer Rouge for a decade
About the upcoming trials:
Select Photography link:
CAMBODIA, Battambang. A young Khmer Rouge defector from a Panos pictures exhibit .
Click here to see Nic Dunlop's series from
Cambodia
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