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Chheang Vun Visits Mondolkiri, Apology Not Part of the Program
CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun yestedraya held a ceremony on a mountain sacred to ethnic minority communities in Mondolkiri province, but it was not held on appease the area’s indigenous people following an incendiary remark he made in the National Assembly last year.
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Minority Decry Loss of Land Under National Titling Scheme
Ethnic minority villagers from Ratanakkiri province testified yesterday to the harm they face at the hands of a nationwide push to furnish privates land titles to hundreds of thousands of families living precariously on state land. The 10 representatives from as many ethnic minority communities gathered in Phnom Penh for the lunch of a new report which claimed that the land titling project, know as Directive 01BB, has forced them to give up more of their ancestral lands rather than helping them settle their disputes with agro-industry firms moving onto their land.
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More Than 100 Boeng Kak Protesters Clash With Police
More than 100 women from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community classed with police yesterday as the protested in front of CPP headquarter and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house for the release of anti-eviction activist Yorm Bopha and land titles they say have been granted to them by law.
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Luxury Wood Haul Found on Rubber Concession
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province arrested and charged two men with illegal logging after discovering about 4,000 pieces of luxury wood on an economic land concession held by Vietnamese rubber company, official said. A group of forestry and provincial administration official on Thursday confiscate a haul of cut wood totaling 84.6 cubic meters, which was comprised of Thnong, Beng and Neang Noun-all species of luxury –grade timber-according to Deputy Provincial Forestry Administration Chief Phan Phoeun.
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Former Khmer Rouge Commander Takes stand at KR Tribunal
Chhouk Rin,60, who has spent the past 10 years of his life un Prey Sar prison after being found guilty of hijacking a train in Kampot province and killing 13 Cambodians and three foreigners in 1994, took to the witness stand yesterday at the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
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Report Finds Land –Titling Project Denied Minorities of Property Rights
Hundred of indigenous minorities in Ratanakkiri province are being made worse off by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Land titling scheme which ,rather than securing their property rights, is contributing to the loss of their ancestral lands, according to a new report. The report supports complaint aired since last year by minority communities in the country ‘s northeast that the prime minister’s land-titling initiative , know as Directive 01 and launched in June, is depraving them of their rights to communal land titles.
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Truth hazy in rape case
Police have shifted their investigation away from the stepfather and onto the biological father of the 17-year-old girl who attempted to take her own life after an alleged rape effectively ended her engagement. According to Dangkor district police chief Yim Saran, the young girl’s mother said during questioning Sunday night that the girl had been raped by her biological father – a policeman in Kandal province’s Takhmao district – and not her stepfather, despite the girl’s ex-fiancé’s prior claims to the contrary.
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Cambodians Urged to Exercise Restraint in Border Row
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday cautioned his people against turning a dispute with Thailand over an ancient temple site into an “armed conflict,” saying they should remain calm and await a ruling on the issue from the United Nations’ top court later this year. Last week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague heard presentations from both Southeast Asian nations about which country should administer a 4.6-square kilometer (1.8-square mile) tract of land surrounding the 11th century Preah Vihear temple.
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Activists Demonstrate Once Again for Release of Yorm Bopha
PHNOM PENH - Housing rights protesters resumed demonstrations in Phnom Penh Monday to demand the release of a jailed activist. Around 100 supporters gathered in from of the headquarters of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party to demand the release of a jailed activist named Yorm Bopha, underscoring the persistence of a movement that the authorities have been unable to quell.
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Khieu Samphan Not a Political Leader, Witness Tells Tribunal
PHNOM PENH - A former Khmer Rouge commander gave testimony at the UN-backed tribunal Monday, claiming defendant Khieu Samphan had little political leadership in the regime. Chhouk Rin, 60, who is serving a life sentence for killing three Western backpackers in 1994, took the stand in defense of Khieu Samphan, the former head of state for the Khmer Rouge. “He was not a political leader,” Chhouk Rin told the court.
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Thai Soldiers Shoot Dead Rosewood Logger
A 33-year-old man was shot and killed Saturday by Thai soldiers after he was caught sneaking into Thailand from Oddar Meanchey province to log for rosewood, border police officer said yesterday. Captain Lan Sam Roeun, a border soldier stationed at Samraong district’s O’Smach commune, said that Van Vet, 33, had illegally entered Thailand with a group of other men when he was shot deep inside Thai territory.
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NRP protest plan needs ministry’s approval
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Phnom Penh City Hall allowed the opposition National Rescue Party (NRP) to march on Wednesday to the headquarters of the Election Committee, but warned that it also needs approval by the Ministry of Interior.The decision was made Monday in a meeting between Phnom Penh authorities and representatives, Ho Vann and Kuy Bunroeun, from the NRP, an alliance between opposition Sam Rainsy and Human Rights parties.
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US Says Court Corruption and Rights Abuses Still Rampant
The U.S once again named the endemic corruption of Cambodia’s justice system as the country’s leading human rights problem in its latest annual report on human rights around the world. Released in Washington on Saturday by U.S Secretary of State John Kerry, the report follows the first visit to Cambodia by a sitting U.S head of state in November, when Prime Minister Hun Sen and criticized his government’s rights record during a private meeting.
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Adhoc Investigator Under Investigation for Inciting Protests
Official in Ratanakkiri provincial are investigating the provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc for incitement after he helped villagers organize a demonstration, ultimate canceled, against a Vietnamese rubber company in O’Yadaw district.
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Opposition To Hold Demonstrations Over Election Reform
PHNOM PENH - The Cambodia National Rescue Party says it will hold a demonstration this week to demand election reforms by the National Election Committee ahead of polls in July. Opposition leaders say they expect some 4,000 people to take part in non-violent protests on Wednesday, for election reforms that include a review of voter registration they say is skewed in favor of the ruling party.
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Monk Rapes 6-year-old Girl in Preah Vihear
A 38-year-old monk in Preah Vihear province was charged Thursday with raping a 6-year-old girl in the pagoda where he lived, according to a police official. Luon Leoum enthinc the girl to enter his room at the Kulen Cheoung pagoda by offering her soda and then told her to lie down and watch cartoons on his smart-phone before he raped her according to Kulen district police chief Lack Sievleng.
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After death of 'Brother No.3', calls are made to speed up trials of remaining leaders behind Cambodia's killing fields.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - More than 30 years after the Khmer Rouge's murderous rule came to an end, the United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia faces a race against time to bring the regime's aging leaders to justice. Underscoring the urgency, a founding member of the Maoist-inspired group, Ieng Sary - one of four defendants accused in a joint trial of the former leaders - died in a hospital from heart failure last month at age 87.
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Hun Sen Warns of ‘War’ if He Loses Election
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen warned Friday that the country would plunge into civil war if the opposition National Rescue Party wins the election in July and follows through on pledges to prosecute former notorious Khmer Rouge members in his government. His comments followed a statement this week by exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy that if his party wins the July 28 polls, it will bring unnamed members of the current government to justice for their role in the Khmer Rouge regime, which killed millions of Cambodians during its 1975-79 reign of terror.
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Opposition Commune Chief Meeting With US Communities Ahead of Polls
WASHINGTON DC - Opposition commune chief Buth Saruth began a monthlong visit to the US this week, where he will seek more support for the opposition ahead of July’s election and look for ways to improve community organizing.
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Photo Exhibit in Washington Highlights Plight of Cambodia’s Newly Landless
WASHINGTON DC - A new exhibition of photography that displays the effects of land grabs in Cambodia is now on display in Washington. “Cambodia: Losing Ground,” works by photographer Emma Hardy, a regular contributor to New York Times Magazine, shows forced evictions and its effects. The exhibition is supported by the advocacy group Oxfam.
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