ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the manner in which international criminal law represents an event such as the Khmer Rouge marriages through translation and classification. It discusses the representation of the victim of the Khmer Rouge marriages in the charge of the 'regulation of marriage' in the Closing Order for Case 002. The chapter describes the way the marriages are translated into crime and classified as such. By characterising the marriages as crimes against humanity, the Closing Order represents the victims in a relation to 'humanity'. Humanity is characterised by the fact that humans both hold individuality and live in groups. The Closing Order provides for the marriages to shift: from being an event in a social context to the Closing Order; in the Closing Order from 'factual' accounts to legal; and in legal accounts between crimes and underlying offences. The chapter is also concerned with the understanding of the underlying offences, namely rape, sexual violence and other inhumane acts.
