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Prosecutors Issue List of Potential Witnesses to Tribunal
WASHINGTON DC — Prosecutors at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal have issued a list of 96 witnesses to the court they would like to take part in second phase of a trial against two aging regime leaders.
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CNRP a Threat To Stability Defense Minister Says
Defense Minister Tea Banh has instructed troops in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forced (RCAF) to brush up on history in order to know how to spot propaganda peddled by the opposition that could cause the country to descend once again into war.
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Interior Minister Says Opposition Divided Over Negotiations
Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday blamed stalled negotiations over the dispute results of July’s national election on divisions within the opposition CNRP whose leaders he said were of two minds about resuming talks.
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Two Arrested in Separate Cases of Child Rape
A 43-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for rape of an 8-year-old girl in Preah Sihanouk province, while a 22-year-old man was arrested in Kandal province on the same day for raping a 7-year-old girl.
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Activists Say Chinese Embassy to Set Up Meeting With Dam Investors
The Chinese Embassy yesterday accepted a petition calling for it to intervene in Chinese companies’ investment in three proposed hydropower dams agreed to bring those companies to meet with villagers whose livelihoods would be affected by the dams, villagers said.
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Government Drops Challenge to Official Forest Cover Figure
The Forestry Administration yesterday said it could not comment on the accuracy of new, satellite-generated maps that suggest the government has been vastly overstating the country’s forest cover. Open Development Cambodia, an open data website, on Wednesday published a series of maps using U.S satellite data indicating that only 46.3 percent of the country’s land mass was currently covered by forest and that the rate of deforestation was accelerating.
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Debate on Land Reform Takes Place in Absence of the CPP
Civil society group held a workshop in Phnom Penh yesterday in which government officials and lawmakers were invited to discuss post-election land grabs and land-based conflict, although the ruling CPP failed to turn up to the event.
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Prosecutor Say More Charges Could Be Heard in Less Time
Prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday told Trial Chamber judges that they would need about 96 days to cover the remainder of charges against Noun Chea and Khieu Samphan in their second “mini-trial.”
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Arrested Missionary Faces Further Questioning
The American missionary Daniel Johnson, who was arrested on Monday for child sex crimes committed in the U.S., was questioned at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday but faces further questioning today before being charged, an official said.
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Police Officer Rejects Blame for Kem Sokha Death Threat
The man at the center of an investigation into a death threat posted on the Internet against CNRP Vice President Khem Sokha said yesterday the he will provide authorities today with documents proclaiming his innocence.
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Hun Sen’s Human Rights Speech Finds Little Purchase
Ou Virak, head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said the amount of corruption among government officials makes improving human rights very difficult. “Some of them have changed,” he said. “But many individuals who violate human rights are still holding key positions in the government. They have a culture of looking down on the poor, and also caste divisions of old habit.”
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Krousar Thmey to Be Integrated into the Education Ministry
Krousar Thmey, the country’s pre-eminent NGO working to educate disabled children, is in the process of being integrated into the Education Ministry, the company’s director and government officials confirmed yesterday.
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Swiss Bank Buys Further into Firm Accused of Land Grabs
Global Witness has rebuked leading financial services firm Credit Suisse over its new investment in Vietnamese from Hoang Anh Gai Lai (HAGL), whose rubber plantations in Cambodia have been linked to illegal logging and land grabs by the London-based environmental campaign group.
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Opposition Confirms Plans for Weekly Rallies
CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha confirmed yesterday that the opposition party is moving forward with its plans to hold the first of what will become weekly demonstration in Phnom Penh and around the country on Sunday.
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Forest Falls in Ratanakkiri to Tune of Chainsaws and Trucks
LUMPHAT WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, Ratanakkiri Province- From behind the corrugated metal walls of Daun Penh Agrico’s wood depot, the raspy buzz of a chainsaw rattled through the surrounding forest on Monday afternoon. As the chainsaw revved and cut, a heavy-duty truck packed full the long sawn logs of high-grade timber rumbled through the depot’s front gate, kicking up a chocking cloud of dust that enveloped Keo Souleng’s modest stilt house.
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Rainsy Visits Logging-Ravaged Prey Long Forest
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and other members of the CNRP visited Kompong Thom province’s heavily logged Prey Long forest yesterday to meet with villagers affected by logging and host a public forum.
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Group of Rights Protesters Continue to Rally in Phnom Penh
A small group of protesters forcibly removed from the park opposite the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday night continued to call for the government to step down yesterday, this time rallying in front of the French Embassy and marching around Phnom Penh. The group of about 12 mostly elderly people were taken to a pagoda in Russei Keo district on Tuesday night by Daun Penh security guards after spending most of International Human Rights Day stationed outside the U.S Embassy.
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Police Ordered To Investigate Facebook Threats, Official Says
PHNOM PENH — Authorities say they are looking into an alleged threat made to an opposition official over Facebook. Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, told VOA Khmer Wednesday that Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered the national police to investigate the threat, which came over Facebook from the account of a policeman and included a picture of a pistol and bullets.
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KRT Judges and Lawyers Being Talks on Second ‘Mini-Trial’
Lawyers, judges and administration officials at the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal began talks yesterday on when a second trial against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan could start, and whether it would be necessary to establish a second panel of judges to hear it.
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New Study Sees ‘No End in Sight’ to Cambodia’s Land Conflicts
CCHR land reform project coordinator Vann Sopheth said that although the laws on the books provide a relatively strong protective legal framework for land rights, they are not carried out properly, often leaving residents marginalized and vulnerable. “The corruption, nepotism, and lack of political will [to protect land rights] causes land disputes between villagers and investors,” he said at a conference on land disputes organized in conjunction with the report’s launch.
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