Gender underplayed in KRT’s 002/01: report
The Khmer Rouge’s forced evacuation of Phnom Penh in 1975 and its fallout carried unique and at-times harsher consequences for women, a phenomenon that the Khmer Rouge tribunal missed a valuable opportunity to explore in Case 002/01, according to a new scholarly report.
In Recognition of Gendered Experiences of Harm at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia – published last week in the journal Feminist Legal Studies – author Diana Sankey argued the 2014 guilty verdict in Case 002/01 against former Khmer Rouge leaders silenced diverse gender experiences. “In some situations women may be disproportionately affected by particular harms,” Dr Sankey wrote.
