When the Dead Bring the Living: the Global Connections of Choeung Ek and Tuol Sleng

Caroline Bennett

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Chapter 16 When the Dead Bring the Living: the Global Connections of Choeung Ek and Tuol Sleng

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Pages:: 274–293

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004536890_018

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This chapter considers the way Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, the main killing site of Tuol Sleng, and specifically the dead within it, connects people from around the globe, and by doing so brings the Khmer Rouge regime into new networks of understanding and experience, that continually recreate its meaning and relations both in Cambodia and abroad. It argues that those killed during the genocide are the imagined others that are at the center of processes of globalization. Based on a case study from fieldwork at Choeung Ek, I position Choeung Ek at the center of a global network, considering how people from around the world are connected to the sites, and therefore how the contemporary global is also created by Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek. I do this by considering relations to the dead, and in this case specifically to Chan Kim Srun - a young woman and her baby detained at Tuol Sleng, and most likely killed at Choeung Ek. As much as Choeung Ek attracts visitors from across the globe, it is the dead who provide the connection, drawing others via their deaths and their lives – physically in their display at Choeung Ek and symbolically through their images at Tuol Sleng. By examining an interaction that brought a Thai family from Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the UK to Choeung Ek on behalf of Chan Kim Srun, I consider how Choeung Ek is a place of connectedness, where those who visit interact with the living and the dead, to continually remake and reshape its meaning in the world, and provide connections across the globe, and where the dead are the imagine others at the center of globalization.

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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

A Multifaceted History of Khmer Rouge Crimes

Series: Brill's Southeast Asian Library, Volume: 13

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004536890

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 09 Apr 2024

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