The chapter discusses the only partial coming to terms with the genocide trauma against the background of the socio-economic-political and cultural-religious conditions of this Southeast Asian country. The surviving victims and their descendants suffered severe marginalization in their role: their fates were not really dealt with publicly, and they were not granted the status of historical victors. The psychosocial and social science research conducted in relation to genocide survivors, generally from the late 1990s and largely only in the 2000s and 2010s, mirrored in many respects the international developments. It was mainly researchers from the Global North who published studies on the post-genocidal situation in Cambodia. However, anthropologists from the Global North dealt extensively with certain cultural Cambodian aspects of the genocide aftermath. One cultural syndrome garnered particular attention: baksbat, which is characterized by a subjective feeling of ‘broken courage’. This phenomenon manifests as both a normal reaction and a pathological, exaggerated reaction. The treatment approaches for survivors usually include Buddhist or ethnically mediated rituals as an amalgam alongside internationally developed testimony therapy.

Whistleblowers speak out about illegal or unethical actions at work. One of most striking aspects of listening to whistleblowers is how they feel silenced. As one whistleblower put it, "They wouldn't talk about it, and they wouldn't talk about not talking about it." Silence does not just mean the absence of speech. Silence means that one party to the dialogue refuses to engage the other. Whistleblowers try to talk about what the organization is doing. Their bosses will only talk about the whistleblowers and their problems. "Nuts and sluts" is the name given to this strategy by experienced whistleblowers, in which the goal of the organization is to turn the issue into one of the mental health or morality of the whistleblower. What is unsaid, what cannot be spoken, is almost always the moral and ideological corruption of the organization. Corruption means the loss of an organization's mission. Society is a conspiracy of silence against those who cross an invisible boundary that most of us will not recognize, for to do so would establish our willingness to do almost anything to belong.