‘Crush! Crush! Crush!’: Towards a Finished Story of Pol Pot’s Trial and Death?

Abstract To this day, the trial of Pol Pot in July 1997 Anlong Veng remains an underexplored topic, possibly because it is seen as a parody justice organised by rival Khmer Rouge faction. Images event show old and fragile man who has to be supported guards meeting hall. Drawing on anthropologist Ashley Thompson’s study ‘substitute body king’, paper examines corporeal strategies at play display cremation Pot’s April 1998. Using range materials (articles media, pictures, videos, artworks), brings into conversation ‘forensic aesthetics’, performance theory, contemporary visual arts investigate role political tool troubled context post-transition Cambodia.