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Ruling CPP Lauds Its Strength Ahead of Election
Senior leader of the ruling CPP held their annual congress in Phnom Penh over the weekend and said the ruling party was stronger and more popular than ever heading into July’s national elections, while accusing government critics of seeking to drag its reputation down by any means possible.
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Groups Want Bundith Tries in Phnom Penh
The shooting case involving from Bavet City governor Chhouk Bundith should be sent to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court , which already dropped all charges against him once, two prominent unions and a human rights group said in a joint statement yesterday.
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Police Accuse Four More Khmer Krom of Acts of ‘’Terrorism’
Four Khmer krom men were arrested by Thai authorities in Thailand ‘s Pathum Thani province outside Bangkok and are being charge with what Cambodian police claim are acts of terrorism and plans to attack Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government. The arrests come exactly a week after the arrested of two other Khmer Krom men in the same province by Thai authorities on similarly vague charges.
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With Death of Ieng Sary, Tribunal Faces Further Jeopardy
PHNOM PENH and WASHINGTON - The passing of Khmer Rouge co-founder Ieng Sary Thursday means the loss of testimony at the UN-backed tribunal, and the loss of another chance for victims of the regime to see justice done, court observers said Friday. It was also a reminder that the court is facing major challenges as it seeks now to continue the trial of two other leaders, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan.
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Six arrested for illegal military
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) --Police arrested six Kampuchea Krom individuals for establishing an illegal military and terrorist group, according to National Police Website. Keath Chan Tharith, Spokesman for National Police, said the arrests were made Friday after Thai authorities deported them back into the country for illegally crossing the border to Thailand. Keath Chan Tharith added that the suspects were sent to court and charged with terrorism, illegally building a militia, scattering banned leaflets, deploying explosive elements which are all against the law.
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Freed Cambodian Activist to Push Democracy
Cambodian activist and independent radio chief Mam Sonando walked out of prison Friday after a court quashed his conviction for alleged involvement in a secession plot, pledging to continue his efforts to promote democracy but vowing to stay clear of politics. “I will not establish any political party and I will not become involved in politics,” he told RFA’s Khmer Service after throngs of jubilant supporters greeted him when he stepped out of Prey Sar Prison in Phnom Penh.
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After 8 Months, Beehive Radio Owner Released From Prison
Ou Virak, head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said the courts should investigate the economic concession in Broma village, in Kratie province’s Chhlong district. “If Mam Sonando was charged with [deforestation], I think the government should investigate the company in Broma village, to see whether the land concession was legal, because if the land was forested, the concession was illegal,” Ou Virak said.
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The slow death of justice: Demise of key suspect leaves Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal with only one conviction
When the ornately decorated court complex on the outskirts of Phnom Penh opened its doors in the summer of 2007 it was seen as a milestone in Cambodia's tortured journey towards justice. Survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime, which killed up to 1.7 million of its own citizens, flocked to see the first defendant, a slight, wiry prison commander called Kaing Guek Eav, brought before the judges. "I'm very disappointed that Ieng Sary escaped justice, escaped the trial," said Ou Virak, whose father was killed by the regime and who now heads the Cambodian Human Rights Centre. "This is exactly what we have been saying. There is no time to waste."
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Beehive Radio Owner To Be Released
PHNOM PENH - The Cambodian Appeals Court is expected to release jailed Beehive Radio owner Mam Sonando on Friday, giving him a suspended sentence and time served after hearings last week. Mam Sonando had been facing a 20-year prison sentence for charges related to sedition, but the Appeals Court dropped the heaviest charges against him and ordered his release in an announcement Thursday.
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Analysis: Why land rights matter in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, 15 March 2013 (IRIN) - Faced with widespread evictions and opaque private sector deals, activists in Cambodia are calling on the government to be more open and transparent about land concessions, beef up mechanisms for resolving land disputes, and abide by the rule of law. "Land security, land tenure, is not there," Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR), told IRIN in Phnom Penh. "A handful [of people] will always be fearful that their land will be grabbed. I think that is an insecurity that needs to be addressed." Land rights remains a highly controversial issue in Cambodia, where the communist Khmer Rouge banned private property in the late 1970s in their effort to establish an agrarian society, destroying scores of land documents in the process.
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Ambiguous laws and a weak court system add up to big trouble for uprooted villagers trying to get a fair deal
“Fair and just compensation depends on the market value and [the government] does not clarify this specifically in any laws – how can a company know what is the proper compensation?” said Vann Sophat, land reform project coordinator for the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR), who works closely with villagers who will be or have been displaced by major infrastructure projects. “The government should have some guidelines, or a survey based on area-by-area studies so they can set a base cost for compensation,” Sophat said, adding that such guidelines should price improvements and permanent fixtures to the property such as housing or farming structures, electricity and wells installed by villagers.
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Ieng Sary, Co-Founder of Khmer Rouge, Dies While on Trial
PHNOM PENH - Ieng Sary, the co-founder and foreign minister of the Khmer Rouge, died early Thursday morning, due to heart complications, officials said. Ieng Sary, who was 87, was on trial for atrocity crimes alongside two other aging regime leaders when he was hospitalized March 4. His death confirmed the worst fears of victims of the regime: that the leaders accused of crimes including genocide will not see justice under a tribunal that has struggled to complete its work. Citing doctors at a press conference Thursday, Chea Leang, a prosecutor for the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal, said Ieng Sary died from heart failure. He had been on oxygen and unable to eat in his final days.
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Ex-Khmer Rouge Leader Ieng Sary Dead at 87
PHNOM PENH — The Khmer Rouge’s former foreign minister, Ieng Sary, has died in Phnom Penh at age 87. He was one of three defendants in the genocide trial of the former leaders of the Khmer Rouge and his death highlights the problems the United Nations-backed tribunal has as it seeks to deliver some form of justice. Since the start of the trial in late 2011, Ieng Sary has been seen as the most frail of the defendants. His heart condition and various other ailments meant the Khmer Rouge’s former foreign minister was often absent from court - either recuperating in hospital, where he spent more than two months last year, or watching proceedings from a holding cell.
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Six Seriously Injured as Housing Activists Clash With Police
PHNOM PENH - At least 11 people were injured in violent clashes between housing activists and police on Wednesday, as demonstrators attempted to march on the home of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Witnesses and rights activists said six people were seriously injured after they were beaten by riot police armed with shields and electric batons. Another three people fainted, witnesses said. About 100 protesters pushed against some 200 police, as demonstrators demanded the release of Yorm Bopha, an activist who has been in jail since December. The protesters were trying to break through a police barricade preventing them from reaching the prime minister’s house.
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Low pay fuels anger among Cambodia's garment workers
PHNOM PENH (AFP) -- As night falls thousands of weary workers stream from textile factories that fan out across Phnom Penh's outskirts, the clothing industry's desire for cheap labour having created an abundance of jobs. But as the number of international clothes companies tapping into Cambodia's workforce grows, so does anger at the low wages and tough conditions that come with such employment in the global garment industry. Twenty-five-year-old Ou Nin looks exhausted as she describes working for an American clothes brand for just over $5 a day. "They print on T-shirts. The smell is very unpleasant, it is unbearable," she told AFP while waiting for the truck to take her home. Overwork, malnutrition and poor ventilation are to blame for staff fainting in factories since 2010, according to Moeun Tola, program manager at the Community Legal Education Centre, which provides advocacy for workers. "It's often hot inside these factories. Sometimes they inhale toxic substances," he said, adding that last year 1,100 workers are known to have lost consciousness at work while a further 30 fainted in a workshop in mid-January.
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Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary dead at 87
"It's upsetting both as a victim of the regime and as a human rights activist," said Cambodian Center for Human Rights director Ou Virak of the death.
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Death Coming Before Justice for Khmer Rouge Regime
Ieng Sary's death was no surprise given his age and ailing health, said Ou Virak, who heads the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. But "given the fact that the other two defendants are also in their 80s, it should act as a wake-up call to all concerned — the Cambodian government, the U.N., the international donors and the tribunal itself — that these cases need to be expedited urgently so that justice can be served."
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Violence Against Eviction Protesters Condemned
State security forces yesterday beat at least 10 anti-evictions protesters during a march near Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Phnom Penh home, according to protesters and human rights groups who condemned the police violence. One of the protesters lost three teeth. Another said that police broke her arm.
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Ieng Sary's charges dropped because of death from heart failure
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Ieng Sary's death from cardiac failure led to the termination of his case, announced, co-prosecutor Chea Leang, at the Extra-ordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia. Last year, Ieng Sary was often hospitalized many times at the Cambodian-Russian Friendship Hospital. The last time he was on March 4th for vomiting and cardiac arrest. She added that Ieng Sary has had a long battle with heart disease. Lars Osen legal communication officer at the ECCC said according to the Cambodian law, the proceeding against Ieng Sary extinguished (end) as he died.
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Khmer Rouge Victims Express Sadness Following Death of Top Leader
Victims of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge are expressing disappointment that one of the movement's top leaders has died before his genocide and war crimes trial could finish. Eighty-seven-year-old Ieng Sary died Thursday at a hospital in Phnom Penh from what his lawyers say are gastrointestinal problems. He was one of just three elderly Khmer Rouge leaders on trial for the deaths of as many as two million Cambodians in the 1970s. His death confirmed the fears of many survivors of the ultra-maoist revolution who have become increasingly pessimistic that those responsible will ever be brought to justice. Ou Virak, a victim of the Khmer Rouge regime and head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said Ieng Sary's death should serve as a "wake-up call" that these cases need to be "expedited urgently." He said in a statement that if all three men die before their guilt or innocence can be determined, the Cambodian people "will quite understandably feel robbed of justice."
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