ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses multivocal resistance to transitional justice in post-genocide Cambodia. It makes a twofold argument. First, local resistance to a Western model of transitional justice originates from the then-Second Prime Minister Hun Sen’s 1998 national reconciliation policy dubbed ‘win-win policy’ – essentially a political strategy for domination in the politics of power sharing in Cambodia. This policy pledged local power, land and amnesty from prosecution to Khmer Rouge defectors. Secondly, in response to such a political discourse, the former Khmer Rouge community produced and perpetuated a narrative of heroisation and innocence/victimhood at the local level. It reveals local forms of resistance to transitional justice at the local level.
