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In Minority Communities, Preparation for Election
MONDULKIRI Province - With July’s national election approaching, ethnic minorities say they face challenges in voting, including illiteracy and ambiguity about the voting process. Ethnic minorities come from 20 different groups and make up about 1 percent of Cambodia’s total population. Many in the older generation cannot read or write, and they say they don’t fully understand the process, even though they are willing to go to the polls in the July 28 general elections.
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Witness Recounts Study Sessions With Senior KR Cadre
On his secondary day of testimony at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, witness Nou Mao described how some of the regime’s high-ranking members spread their ultra-Maoist ideology by delivering study sessions to cadre before they took control of the country.
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Opposition Asks Donors to Stop Work With Government
Lawmakers from the opposition SRP and Human Rights Party who were expelled from Parliament earlier this month have called on the foreign diplomatic corps and international donors to stop signing agreements and conducting other business with the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
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Opposition Looks To Facebook for Election Push
WASHINGTON — Editor’s note: With no access to traditional media ahead of the July national election, Cambodia’s opposition is increasingly turning to the country’s small but growing online media to attract voters. Last week, opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who is president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, celebrated online “victory” over Prime Minister Hun Sen after his Facebook page attracted more 70,000 fans. That number, he claims, makes him the most popular Cambodian politician on Facebook leading into the July 28 elections. He spoke to VOA Khmer via phone last week.
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Nike Calls for Probe Into Crackdown on Cambodian Factory Workers
Nike has called on the Cambodian government to launch an independent inquiry into a police crackdown on workers at a factory making sportswear for the U.S. multinational after reports said the violence caused two pregnant women to miscarry and left others injured. In letters to Cambodia’s labor and commerce ministers made public on Friday, Nike expressed “deep concerns” over the May 27 incident at the Sabrina Cambodia Garment Manufacturing plant outside the capital Phnom Penh three weeks ago.
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Despite Law, Minority Rights Receive Very Few Protections
The government does little to protect the rights and livelihoods of the country’s many ethnic minorities, who are under constant threat from rapid development, representatives of indigenous groups said yesterday.
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Teacher’s Diary Describes ‘Dark Days’ of Khmer Rouge
WASHINGTON DC - The diary of a primary school teacher who was arrested by the Khmer Rouge and ultimately put to death sheds new light on the “dark days” of the regime. Poch Yuon Ly, a former school inspector in Kampong Chhnang province, started writing his diary on a notebook in Oct. 28, 1975. The entries end abruptly less than two weeks later, when he was arrested and imprisoned, suspected as a soldier in the regime of Lon Nol.
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Cambodia Drops on US Global Human Trafficking Ranking
The U.S. has downgraded Cambodia in its latest global Trafficking in Persons Report for showing no discernible improvements in its efforts to combat human trafficking over the past year, the country’s first demotion in five years.
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Hun Sen Defends His Decision to Break the Law
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday again admitted publicly to breaking the law when he helped opposition leader KemSokha escape arrest for an alleged sexual encounter with a 15-year-old girl.
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In Mondolkiri, Political Candidates Address Ethnic Minority Concerns
MONDOLKIRI Province - Human rights workers and other civil society groups on Wednesday urged the competing political parties for July’s election to address the ongoing land crises and illegal deforestation that are hurting indigenous populations. About 100 people from various ethnic minority groups from five provinces attended a forum in Mondolkiri province, describing problems with deforestation, mining and land concessions to a group of political representatives.
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In Southeast Asia, Free Speech Is Still a Work in Progress
Six advocates from Southeast Asia yesterday put the spotlight on freedom of speech violations at the opening session of the bi-annual IFEX meeting in Phnom Penh, comparing the feeedoms they lacked in the light of different laws and protection mechanisms implemented in each of their countries.
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City Evacuations Were ‘Political Suicide’ for Khmer Rouge
The decision to evacuate people from cities and towns around Cambodia was “political suicide” and meant certain death for those who were relocated, according to a witness who took the stand at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday.
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Hun Sen Tells CPP KemSokha
Prime Minister Hun Sen instructed senior CPP officials yesterday to begin legal action against Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader KemSokha over his allegations that the ruling party has engaged in a campaign to disrupt the opposition’s election bid.
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Hun Sen Threatens Lawsuit in Ongoing Attacks of Opposition
PHNOM PENH - Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday threatened to file a lawsuit against senior opposition official Kem Sokha, if he and others of the Cambodia National Rescue Party don’t stop accusing the ruling party of a plot against them. His public speech seemed to indicate a continuation of a wave of attacks on Kem Sokha, the top opposition leader in the country, and follows public accusations that Kem Sokha denied Khmer Rouge atrocities and that he has a mistress.
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US-Cambodians Want UN Repercussions for Assembly Expulsions
WASHINGTON DC - A group of Cambodian-Americans says the United Nations should consider suspending Cambodia’s seat, in the wake of the expulsion of 29 lawmakers from the National Assembly earlier this month. Critics of the expulsion say it has cost the Assembly its legitimacy and has made it legally impossible to hold sessions.
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Cambodia Says Cultural Barriers Impeding Human Trafficking Fight
Cambodia on Thursday lashed out at the U.S. State Department for downgrading the country’s ranking in its annual report on human trafficking, saying cultural barriers were hampering government efforts to combat the problem. The State Department in its 2013 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report downgraded Cambodia a notch to the Tier 2 Watch List—the scale’s second-lowest rank—from Tier 2 for failing to “demonstrate evidence of overall increasing efforts to address human trafficking over the previous year.”
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Disgraced Police Chief Tries His Hand at Provincial Life
Former BanteayMeanchey police chief Hun Hean, who was released last month on a royal pardon after being sentenced to four years in prison in 2011 for taking bribes from drug dealers, said yesterday that he has returned to his family farm in his home province.
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Petition Circulating To Have Lawmakers Returned to Assembly
PHNOM PENH - Opposition lawmakers have begun to collect support in a petition to have 29 lawmakers returned to the National Assembly, after their expulsion earlier this month. Yim Sovann, a spokesman for the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said they had collected some 7,000 thumbprints—the equivalent of signatures—from Phnom Penh and nearby Kampong Speu province. They expect to collet 20,000, he said.
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Police Detain Protesting NagaWorld Staff
Nineteen NagaWorld casino employees were detained yesterday afternoon as police attempted to break up a protest of more than 500 workers who had picketed in front of the casino for the past six days, demanding the company increase their salaries.
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Hun Sen Says Vote Like an Attacking Football Team
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday took on the role of an in inspirational midfield player, figuratively at least, as he used the inauguration of a new football academy in Takeo province to draw a light-heated analogy likening the CPP to a football team preparing to beat the opposition in the upcoming national election.
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