This paper traces these transformations in the local and global remembrance and commemorations of Democratic Kampuchea (DK) from the genocidal period of Khmer Rouge rule into the present. In doing so, I explore both the way in which differing versions of the "truth" about the past have been produced by Cambodian government and the international community, and how such discursive regimes have been understood, resisted, ignored, or interpellated by Cambodians on the local level. I conclude by considering the ways in which the Cambodian case throws into question given meta-narratives of global governance, transitional justice, and peace and reconciliation.

Alexander Hinton is Associate Professor of Anthropology & at Rutgers University of New Jersey, USA, and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. He serves as the Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Dr. Hinton is the author of the highly acclaimed Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (University of California Press, 2005), and the editor of Annihilating Differences: The Anthropology of Genocide (University of California Press, 2002) and Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell, 2002).
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