ABSTRACT
“Extraordinary chambers” within the Cambodian court system that would include foreign judges, a compromise between the United Nations desire for an internationally controlled trial and the Cambodian determination that international assistance not infringe Cambodian sovereignty. The pullout and the Office of Legal Affairs’s demand for a new mandate are the latest twists in a tortuous road toward finding justice, which has eluded the Cambodian people for twenty-three years, since the overthrow of Pol Pot. Government support has been expressed in the provision of complimentary visas to foreigners involved in the work of the Cambodian Genocide Program and the Documentation Center, and in the donation of a plot of land in Phnom Penh on which the Center proposes to build a permanent home. The Documentation Center of Cambodia is an enterprise built on the basis of substantial government and nongovernment effort, both foreign and local alike.
