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Families Seek to Farm Land Claimed by RCAF
Some 300 families from Banteay Meanchey province’s Preah Net Preah district embroiled in two separate long-running land disputes with the Royal Cambodia Armed Force (RCAF)-yesterday submitted complaints to the provincial governor asking for permission to temporarily farm on the land until the ownership dispute is resolved, villagers and authorities said.
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Khmer Rouge ‘Brother No. 2’ Expresses Remorse to Cambodians
A top leader of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge on Thursday for the first time accepted responsibility for the deaths of millions during the regime’s reign of terror in the 1970s. The 86-year-old Nuon Chea, known as “Brother Number Two” after former regime chief Pol Pot, took responsibility and offered apology to families of the victims of the regime’s atrocities while testifying before a U.N.-backed tribunal where he is being tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He expressed remorse for the bloodshed committed under his leadership while addressing questions from the families of victims alongside co-defendant Khieu Samphan, the former head of state for the Marxist agrarian movement.
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Provincial Prisoners Charged Bribes for Transport, Report Finds Print Share:
PHNOM PENH — Hundreds of prisoners across Cambodia are forced to remain in custody in the provinces, where they had to pay bribes in order to be transferred to Phnom Penh to have their cases appealed, a new report finds. Authorities claim they don’t have the money for fuel or staff to move prisoners to the capital, where all appeals are heard. But officials at the rights group Licadho say the practice is illegal, and the government’s prisons are required to transport prisoners to and from trial.
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Tales of Horror Continue to Emerge at Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Thouch Phandara remembers clearly the T-shirt her little boy was wearing when he succumbed to meningitis in the throes of the Khmer Rouge regime. The 67-year-old civil party witness in the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Case 002 took the stand yesterday and said her husband, a doctor, had made the diagnosis.
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Water Cannons Fired on Eviction Protesters
Firefighters in Phnom Penh yesterday used high-pressure water cannons in an effort to dislodge anti-eviction protesters who were trying to force a meeting with municipal governor Pa Socheatvong, knocking one woman temporarily unconscious.
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Hun Sen: Protest against Kem Sokha inevitable
KAMPONG CHAM (The Cambodia Herald) – Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that there will be protests throughout the country against Kem Sokha, acting president of the National Rescue Party (NRP). Kem Sokha was recently accused of exaggerating Cambodia's historical facts commenting that Tuol Sleng Prison was an artificial place prepared by Vietnam.
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CNRP Accuses Government of Misrepresenting Comments
A trio of opposition lawmakers yesterday tackled head-on a spate of allegations the government has leveled against them over the past week aiming to paint them as genocide-denying, monarchy bashing terrorists, in turn accusing the government of twisting their words and misrepresenting event.
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Villagers Petition Against Crematorium’s Removal
More than 1,000 villagers in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district have signed a petition protesting the removal of a crematorium that is currently on land slate for a large development project. According to a letter from the Council of Ministry addressed to the Ministry of Cults and Religion and dates April 25, 2012, the site has been handed over to the Eng Kaing Development Company. But the villagers in the area have fought against the crematorium being destroyed for nearly a year, saying that they want the land to build a new school.
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Kem Sokha’s CPP-Loyal Brother Given Police Promotion
Kem Sokha, the estranged brother of Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) acting president Kem Sokha ,has been appointed to a senior role within the Interior Ministry’s national police department , a week after he gave a televised a speech lambasting his sibling.
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Cambodian Activist Calls for Electoral Reforms
Cambodian activist and independent radio station chief Mam Sonando, who was recently freed from prison, says upcoming elections in his country would be deemed as not free and fair unless the authorities move to revamp the National Election Committee, which will conduct the polls. He said that Prime Minister Hun Sen's government should implement the long list of electoral reforms recommended by a United Nations expert to ensure that the July polls are credible.
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Land dispute residents protest in front of city hall
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Residents of Borei Keila, Boeung Kok and Thmor Kol communities gathered and blocked off a road in front of Phnom Penh City Hall on Wednesday. The anti-eviction activists held banners and shouted loudly in order to send a message to the newly appointed Phnom Penh governor, Pa Socheat Vong, to respect the promise he had made recently to help solve the long-running land dispute for their communities.
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Khmer Rouge Victims To Take Stand at Tribunal This Week
Washington - Civil parties at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal will begin a week of testimony at the court, in what supporters say is a critical moment in the tribunal process.
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Khmer Rouge denial law sought
PHNOM PENH – Prime Minister Hun Sen said he wants a law to punish people who deny that atrocities occurred during the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, apparently trying to link his political opponents to the widely despised movement.
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After Collapse, Workers Still Fearful at Wing Star Factory
PHNOM PENH — Union leaders say safety improvements have been slow at Wing Star shoe factory, where a mezzanine collapse killed two people earlier this month. Workers at the factory say they are still afraid of the working conditions there. Meanwhile, the family of one of the workers killed in the May 17 collapse says they will take compensation, rather than protest and risk getting nothing.
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Social Media Key to Social Change, Experts Say
PHNOM PENH — As more and more young Cambodians log on and use social media, technology is becoming an important source of change in the country, experts say. Cambodia has seen an explosion in the use of online and mobile technology, particularly social media platforms like Facebook. Participants of a recent technology workshop in Phnom Penh say this has made them more informed than ever.
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Police Photos Link Opposition Lawmaker to “Terrorist†Group
The national police yesterday posted image to its website of Son Chhay, an SRP lawmaker and Cambodia National Rescue Party election candidate , meeting with activists in the U.S. that the ruling CPP has accused of plotting to the overthrow the government and monarchy. The series of four photos, which Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the police to post on Monday during a speech, show Mr. Chhay at an event with Sourn Serey Ratha, president of the Washington-based Khmer People Power Movement (KPPM).
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Chelsea Clinton supports health, gay rights on Asian tour
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Chelsea Clinton said Tuesday she plans to become increasingly involved in the international health projects of her father’s foundation and to speak out for gay rights. The only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton told The Associated Press during a visit to Malaysia that her focus will be on the Clinton Foundation’s work, especially “related to health, not just in the United States but also around the world.”
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Linking opponents to Khmer Rouge, Cambodia PM seeks law to punish those who deny atrocities
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The Cambodian prime minister said he wants a law to punish people who deny that atrocities occurred during the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, apparently trying to link his political opponents to the widely despised movement. Hun Sen’s appeal to Parliament on Monday comes ahead of a July 28 election his Cambodian People’s Party is expected to win by a landslide. Hun Sen has been campaigning aggressively and has suggested several times that an opposition victory would be akin to bringing back the Khmer Rouge, even though there is no connection between the two.
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NRP supports Hun Sen’s new law proposal
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The National Rescue Party (NRP) supports Hun Sen’s law proposal to punish those who says the Khmer Rouge didn’t kill millions of Cambodian people. In a statement dated Tuesday, the NRP condemned those groups who were trying to incite, separate, and overstating the facts to cause chaos and social instability and swindle people for their own political benefit before the general election on July 28.
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Hun Sen wants law to punish exaggerators
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that he will call on the lawmakers of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the Funcinpec party in this term to create a law to punish those who said that the Khmer Rouge didn't murder millions of people in Cambodia. Hun Sen’s comments were made after Kem
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