Cambodia: Of Vice and Men
Launched September 18, 2006
French attorney Jacques Vergès has devoted a long career to defending terrorists, dictators and mass murderers. He has consistently challenged the wider social order judging his defendants. Critics call him a devil's advocate, and a scandalously immoral publicity seeker.
Stéphanie Giry found a more complex reality as she traveled with Vergès to Cambodia on a visit to his client Khieu Samphan, the former Khmer Rouge president of Cambodia.
Grantee
Stéphanie Giry is a Senior Editor at Foreign Affairs magazine and a freelance writer. She has written for Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The New Republic,...
