Khmer Rouge trials offer baseline study for mental health impact to a society of war crimes tribunal (w/ Video)
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 16:28
in Psychology & Sociology
As leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime testify in a human rights tribunal, in harrowing detail, for the killing of more than a million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979 a central medical question remains unanswered: will the trials help a society heal or exacerbate the lingering affects of widespread trauma?