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Shooting in Service of the State—Order vs. Law
Form police officials to a government spokesman, the message was clear last week: The shooting dead of Eng Sokhom, a 49-year-old food vendor, and the injuring of nine other during violent clashes in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district was in the service of the protecting the state.
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Finance Ministry Defends Ambiguity in 2014 Budget Bill
The Finance Ministry yesterday defended itself against recent reports that some 45 percent of the government’s $3.4 billion draft budget for 2014 remains unallocated, issuing a statement explaining the money will pay for loans, subsidies and other vital expenses.
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Cambodian Logging Tycoon Accused of Concession Violations
Try Pheap’s activities have been the focus of several reports this year, including one in August by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, which said it had evidence of rampant illegal logging in Preah Vihear. Another investigation in October by National Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization concluded that licenses granted to the tycoon for extracting and buying timber from ELCs will leave the areas ecologically impoverished.
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Report Blames Tycoon For Major Forest Destruction
PHNOM PENH - Local human rights groups have identified 1,400 families who have been forcibly evicted from their land by a single business tycoon and his company.
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Three Cambodians Killed Illegally Logging Across Thai Border
Thai forestry officials killed three Cambodians who were illegally logging on Tuesday, in what they said was a shootout in Thailand’s Sisaket province, a border official said yesterday. The latest deaths bring the number of Cambodians who have been shot while logging across the border this year to 33 according to rights group Adhoc.
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Opposition Senators To Boycott Budget Debate
PHNOM PENH - Eleven senators supporting the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party say they will not take part in a Senate session on Thursday scheduled to debate the 2014 budget.
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Official Says Legality of Sanctuary Logging Unknown
A district-level-Environment Ministry official in Rattanakkiri province yesterday claimed that he had no way to determine the legality of logging operations by firms with private land concessions inside the province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary.
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Future Bleak For Bystander Paralyzed By Police Bullet
Hoeurn Chann clearly remembers the moment a police officer shot him in his side at close range on November 12, irrevocably changing the course of his life. Mr. Chann was shot following clashes between police and stone throwers, which erupted during a protest by SL Garment Factory workers in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district.
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SL Workers Demand Representatives Reinstated
About 200 workers protested outside SL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday demanding that managers reinstate 19 union representatives before a 15-day deadline set by the government elapses.
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Man Detained for Criticizing Police Commander on Facebook
A 23-year-old marking manager for mobile operator Cellcard was briefly detained yesterday in Stung Treng province after he posted a photograph of the provincial military police commander to his Facebook page along with comments claiming that the officer was a foul-mouthed extortionist.
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One Week on, Shooting Investigation Has Yielded Nothing
One week after police opened fire on civilians during clashes that broke out during an SL Garment Factory protest, killing by stander Eng Sokhom and injuring nine others, arrests have yet to be made on the back of an investigation that victims said appears to be going nowhere.
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CNRP Says No Further Negotiations Without Investigation
CNRP leader Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha said yesterday that the opposition party will no longer negotiate over the political deadlock with the CPP until the ruling party agrees to a transparent election investigation.
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Rights Group Slams ‘Rampant Impunity’ in Cambodia
Ahead of International Day to End Impunity on Saturday, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) highlighted murders of human rights activists and journalists which it says are never investigated, to cases where security forces that have beaten civilians go unpunished, to several well-connected officials that have evaded justice despite being convicted. “Rampant” impunity is hindering the development of democracy and human rights in the country, the CCHR said in a statement.
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Cambodia: Release Land Rights Activist Yorm Bopha Immediately
As an appeal hearing for land and housing rights activist YORM BOPHA will be held at Cambodia’s Supreme Court on 22 November 2013, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) reiterates its call to the Cambodian authorities for Ms. Yorm Bopha's immediate and unconditional release. Free Yorm Bopha Campaigns Page of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), OMCT network member in Cambodia
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Despite Denials, Levi’s Still Producing at SL Garment Factory
U.S. denim giant Levi Strauss continued to deny this week that its products are linked to the strife-torn SL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh, despite new photographs showing Levi’s trademark jeans stacked on benches at the plant in Meanchey district.
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Boeng Kak Activists Call for Supreme Court to Free Yorm Bopha
About 100 Boeng Kak activists marched around Phnom Penh’s Supreme Court yesterday afternoon calling for the release from prison of fellow activist Yorm Bopha ahead of her final appeal hearing on Friday.
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Demonstrators Gather Ahead of Supreme Court Hearing on Jailed Activist
PHNOM PENH - Housing rights activists demonstrated outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, four days before judges there will decide on the case of Yorm Bopha, an activist whose supporters say she is being held without proper evidence.
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ELC in Nature Preserve Is Illegal, Government Spokesman Says
An “unofficial” land concession granted earlier this year to an agroindustry firm that has logged luxury hardwood in Rattanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary is in violation of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s 2012 moratorium on new economic land concessions (ELCs), a government spokesman said yesterday.
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Police Denying Responsibility for Vendor’s Shooting Death
PHNOM PENH - Cambodian police have so far denied responsibility for the shooting death of a street vendor near violent clashes with protesters earlier this week.
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Social Media Challenges ‘Official’ Version of Events
Seeing is believing—particularly in a country where the government controls the broadcast media and current affairs news, aired on pro-ruling party TV and radio, is often at odds with the country’s few independent media outlets.
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