UN representation disputes: A case study of Cambodia and a new accreditation proposal for the twenty-first century

California Law Review

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1207-1208

  Ratliff, Suellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0041780168     PISSN: 00081221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3481042     Document Type: Review

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1. Auto-genocide is a term of art coined in reference to the mass killings of Cambodians at the hands of their own government. It should be noted that a majority of the killings would not technically qualify as genocide under existing international law, however, because a large number of the executions were based on political or educational affiliation - categories not included in the widely accepted definition of genocide under Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. See Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly Dec. 8, 1948, 78 U.N.T.S. 277 (entered into force Jan. 12, 1951).
2. See LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, CAMBODIA: THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS 14 (1992); Donald M. Seekins, Historical Setting, in CAMBODIA: A COUNTRY STUDY 75 (Russell R. Ross ed., 3d ed. 1990).
3. See LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, CAMBODIA: THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS 14 (1992); Donald M. Seekins, Historical Setting, in CAMBODIA: A COUNTRY STUDY 75 (Russell R. Ross ed., 3d ed. 1990).
4. GARY KLINTWORTH, VIETNAM'S INTERVENTION IN CAMBODIA IN INTERNATIONAL LAW 6-7 (1989) (quoting Sir Robert Jackson, Under-Secretary-General and Senior Advisor to the UN).
5. The factors that played into the international reaction, or lack of reaction, to the seating of the Khmer Rouge government in the UN are complex and involve geopolitical decisions that cannot be adequately dealt with here. The complexity of the situation in South East Asia during the Vietnam War era and the U.S. role in the region, should not be glossed over. When Vietnam intervened in Cambodia