ABSTRACT
This chapter describes two narratives on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) during the Khmer Rouge period that have emerged from survivor testimonies. It also describes the way in which SGBV during the Khmer Rouge regime has been dealt with in Case 002. The chapter examines the responses by civil society and their production of an alternative narrative. It argues that while the testimonies organised by civil society are presented as acts of resistance against the silencing of SGBV by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), they are also acts of exclusion. The charge of the regulation of marriage appears in spite of previous neglect both at the ECCC and elsewhere, and thereby becomes representative of SGBV in general. The testimonies in the civil society hearings and at the museum are all presented as in spite, in particular in spite of silencing.
