How has religion shaped the political movements in Vietnam and Indo...

How has religion shaped the political movements in Vietnam and Indonesia?

Works Cited

Hinton, Alexander Laban (2013) "Justice and Time at the Khmer Rouge
Tribunal: In Memory of Vann Nath, Painter and S-21 Survivor,"
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 8: Iss. 2, Article 5.

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Time Is Out Of Joint: The Collective Trauma Of Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam and the Search for Redemption and Justice

I think it is hard to think about mass genocide and how we can right wrongs done by to-talitarian regimes. Learning that Cambodia killed almost three quarters of its own people is a dif-ficult concept to wrap one’s head around, and it makes me wonder if religious thought has a way to seek out justice. When we think of totalitarian regimes that have wiped out entire populations of people in the name of a party line, how does a religious sense of time and justice help us to make sense of the atrocity? In this essay, I shall use Alexander Laban Hinton’s essay "Justice and Time at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal: In Memory of Vann Nath, Painter and S-21 Survivor,” as a resource to think about how Indonesia, Vietnam, and Cambodia’s political history is bound up with religion, justice, and time.
I think it is appropriate to think about time. I think in one way linear time is helpful, but it is only helpful in the scholastic sense, and it is not helpful in the more emotional and psychologi-cal sense....