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Workers not allowed to march on Labor Day
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Around 20,000 workers from the garment, construction, tourism, banking, service and agriculture sectors want to march to present a petition to the National Assembly on International Labor Day, May 1, but Phnom Penh City Hall did not approve the rally. City hall asked them to wait for the approval from Ministry of Interior before they do anything further.
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Guesthouse Owners Charged With Human Trafficking
The Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court yesterday charged four guesthouse owners in Poipet City with aiding human trafficking after their premises were raided and 132 Cambodians were discovered, many of whom were waiting to cross the border to work in Thailand. Provincial prosecutor Phann Vanarath said that he could not release the name of the guesthouse owners, as the case was still under investigation.
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Witness Tells Court Exports Thrived Under Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday hearfd testimony from 60-year-old rice farmer Ros Suy, whose position as a warehouse chief under the regime mad him privy to the huge quantities of rice cultivated by starving laborers only to be exported abroad.
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Cambodian Activist’s Family Wants Murder Case Reopened
Family members of slain Cambodian environmental activist Chut Wutty on Friday held a Buddhist ceremony to mark the one-year anniversary of his death, calling for the reopening of investigations into his murder and urging authorities to find his “true killer.” The call came as members of Cambodia’s civil society held a memorial service for the activist in the country’s capital Phnom Penh, appealing to the government to end a “culture of impunity” they say prevented him from receiving justice.
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Adhoc Defends Staffer After Incitement Claim
Human Rights group Adhoc yesterday criticized a commune official in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district for accusing one of its staffs of incitement and spreading disinformation after villagers he was assisting traveled to Phnom Penh in March to protest over a land dispute with well-known businessman Try Pheap. “Adhoc condemns the Thmar Da Commune Chief’s attempt at intimidating its staff member and calls on the judicial authorities not to open any criminal case against Phoung Sothea. His work as a human rights defender should be protected, not hindered, by state authorities,” Adhoc said in a statement yesterday.
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One Year On, Family Marks Murder of Activist Chut Wutty
Today marks one year since leading environmental activist Chut Wutty was shot and killed by a military police officer in a remote area of the Cardamom Mountains in Koh Kong province, where his family will hold a Buddhist ceremony in his memory. Chut Wutty was escorting two Cambodia Daily journalists investigating illegal logging in Koh Kong province’s Mondol Seima district on April 26, 2012, When the group was detained by military police officers and security guards.
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Rubber Firm Accused of Illegal Deforestation
A rubber company that has been repeatedly accused of encroaching on communal land belonging to an ethnic minority in Ratanakkiri province has cleared 150 hectares of forest outside of its economic land concession (ELC) in the past investigator for local rights group Adhoc. A communal forestry committee formed by ethnic Jarai minority residents of Lom Vilage in O’Yadaw district’s Paknhai commune has monitored the operation of Vietnamese owned Company 72 over the past month promises not to do so, the company has continued to clear land outside of its 6,000-hectare ELC.
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Weak Judiciary Cited in Annual US Rights Report
WASHINGTON DC - The US State Department says “pervasive” corruption, a weak judiciary and ongoing discrimination continue to create human rights problems for Cambodia. In an annual report issued last week, the State Department said Cambodian authorities continue to engage in arbitrary arrests, torture during suspect questioning and corruption. The State Department pointed out the courts’ “ineffectiveness” in settling land cases, which led to disputes in every province.
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Families Ordered to Leave Disused Airfield Land in Preah Vihear
More than 25 families living on the site of the long-disused airfield in Preah Vihear province have been ordered to move off the land, a district official yesterday. Sok Hai, governor of Choam Ksan district where the airfield is located, said the families ear-marked for eviction had moved on to the site since May 2012, and have no legal claim to return on the state-owned land.
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Decision Pending in Dispute Between Villagers, Businesswoman
Farmer in Kopmong Chhnang province locked in a land dispute with a local businesswoman are waiting for the government to make a decision on who owns the property after student volunteers measured the area earlier this month as party of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nationwide land-titling program.
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Opposition Demands Delays to National Elections
The Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) told thousands of supporters at a rally in Phnom Penh yesterday that it will hold an even bigger demonstration next week if the National Election Committee (NEC) does not reform ahead of July’s elections.
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Svay Rieng Provincial Court Sets Bundith Retrial Date
The Svay Rieng Provincial Court will retry former Bavet city governor Chhouk Bundith on May 21 for his alleged role in s shooting last year that left three females garment workers injured, a provincial court official said yesterday.
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Incitement, Disinformation Suit Filed Against Rights Worker
A commune official in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district has filed a lawsuit accusing human rights workers of incitement and disinformation after villagers the NGO staffer spoke to travelled to Phnom Penh to protest over a land dispute involving well-known businessman Try Pheap.
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German Man Arrested Having Sex With Two Boys
A 69-year-old German was arrested yesterday by municipal anti-human trafficking police while attempting to leave the country, after he allegedly had sex with two under age male prostitutes, police said. Garder Hans was arrested at about 11 am in Pur Senchey district’s Kakab commune on his way to Phnom Penh Airport; according to municipal anti-human trafficking police chief Keo Thea.
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NEC says petition of NRP the same
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The National Election Committee (NEC) said Wednesday, it has received the National Rescue Party’s (NRC) petition and already submitted the document to the heads of the committee. Tep Nitha, secretary general of the National Election Committee, said, he had received the document and sent it to the NEC. He said, the recommendations presented to the NEC were not new because Kuy Bunroeun, a representative of the NRP, petitioned on the same issues and brought it once last week in a meeting with committee, and the they had already responded to them.
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Former Khmer Rouge Commander Defends Regime’s Intentions
Convicted murder and former Khmer Rouge commander Chhouk Rin yesterday told the war crimes tribunal that evacuation across the country when communist forces took power in 1975 were necessary following years of civil war.
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Cambodia’s Election Panel to ‘Consider’ Opposition Demands
Leaders of Cambodia’s main opposition party held a mass protest in the capital Wednesday in a push for electoral reforms but called off a march after the country’s electoral body agreed to study demands for changes in election procedures ahead of upcoming national polls. The National Rescue Party (NRP), a coalition set to challenge Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party in July elections, had earlier threatened to march from Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park to the offices of the National Election Committee (NEC), defying warnings by the authorities.
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Villagers Protest Eviction by Chinese Company
More than 100 villagers living on a 20-hectare swath of a rubber plantation in Ratanakkiri province gathers outside O’Chum commune hall yesterday to protest their eviction at the hands of a Chinese company, local officials and rights activists said. About 120 families from Trang Churng village in O’Chum district, who are living on land that was sold by locally owned Tay Seng Company to China’s Fib Rubber Co .Ltd. in 2010, called for authorities to intervene after they were informed by representatives of the company that they would be evicted.
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Southeast Asian Nations Aim to Restore Unity at Annual Summit
BANGKOK — Leaders of Southeast Asia are gathering in Brunei this week for an annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The regional group is trying to move forward with plans for economic integration and repair divisions about disputed territory with China in the South China Sea. ASEAN has set a deadline to form an economic community, similar to the European Union, by the end of 2015.
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Opposition Holds Demonstration To Demand Election Reform
PHNOM PENH - More than 1,000 opposition activists staged a demonstration in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, demanding reforms to the National Election Committee ahead of July’s parliamentary polls. Opposition leaders from the Cambodia National Rescue Party said some supporters from the provinces were barred from entering the capital to join the demonstration.
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