ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on work at public forums and events held across Cambodia to illuminate how different communities negotiate, accede to, or resist the sorts of claims made about victimhood and perpetration that emanate from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). It illustrates different tendencies and responses to public outreach that are politically significant and therefore analytically instructive in their own right. As the chapter shows, claims about victimhood and perpetration in Cambodia can be varied, often unstable and ambiguous, with political implications and lessons for transitional justice and memory in Cambodia and beyond. Tuol Sleng raises important questions about how and why the museum is deployed for Cambodian visitors in the name of the ECCC. The problems that arise from the presence of 'direct' or lower-level perpetrators within Cambodian communities are fundamentally not complaints that the prospective further ECCC prosecutions through Cases 003 and 004 could begin to resolve.
