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NEC Falls Short of Removing All ‘Ghost Name’ From Voter List
The National Election Committee (NEC) yesterday closed the official voter registration period, which last for 20 days and saw more than 170,000 people added and nearly 100,000 names struck from the voter list.
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Historic Peace Agreement No Cure For Cambodia’s Current Woes
Tens of thousands of opposition supporters marches through the streets of Phnom Penh yesterday with banners calling on the signatories of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement to revisit the accords, which were supposed to usher in a liberal, pluralist democracy in Cambodia.
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Tens of Thousands Join First Day of Mass Opposition Demonstration
PHNOM PENH - Cambodia’s opposition began three days of mass demonstrations in the capital on Wednesday to call for the government to allow an independent probe into alleged fraud in the country’s July elections. Under the accords, “four factions of [Cambodians] agreed to bring peace to the country,” said Ou Virak, head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. That could be done today, he said.
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CNRP Marches Through Phnom Penh, Delivers Petition to UN
More than 10,000 opposition CNRP supporters marches from Freedom Park to the U.N.’s human rights office in Phnom Penh yesterday to deliver a petition urging signatories of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement to intervene in the country’s current political deadlock.
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US Senator Calls for Suspension of Military Aid to Cambodia
U.S Senator Lindsey Graham last week submitted a resolution to the U.S Committee on Foreign Relations requesting the suspension of U.S. military assistance to Cambodia until an independent investigation into July’s national election is conducted.
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Ethnic Bunong Families Seek Solution to Communal Land Dispute
Three ethnic minority communities in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district are drafting a petition to send to provincial authorities in an attempt to resolve a land dispute in which part of their communal land has been granted to other communities and private landowners.
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Cambodia Races Death, Dwindling Resources on Khmer Rouge War Crimes
PHNOM PENH — The clock is ticking at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, where the two elderly defendants are in poor health and funds vital for bringing some semblance of justice for the horrors of the “Killing Fields” era are fast drying up. “With uncertain foreign funding, government obstruction and concerns about the health of the accused, the likelihood of such trials occurring are slim at best,” the Cambodia Center for Human Rights said in a tribunal briefing.
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Police Train at Freedom Park as Protesters Target Hun Sen’s House
As hundreds of riot police conduct protest suppression drills in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park yesterday morning, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s mansion in the center of the city was the focal point of a demonstration by some 2,000 garment factory workers.
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Massive Police Presence as Housing Activists Gather in Capital
PHNOM PENH — More than 1,000 riot police were deployed to the heart of Phnom Penh on Monday, where demonstrators for housing rights gathered to demand resolutions to ongoing evictions and poor resettlement deals.
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Still No Agreement Over Opposition Marches
A meeting between representatives of the CNRP and Phnom Penh City Hall officials yesterday failed to produce an agreement over the opposition party’s plans to march throughout the city during its three consecutive days of demonstration starting Wednesday.
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Tribunal Prosecutors Ask for Life Sentence for Noun Chea, Khieu Samphan
PHNOM PENH — Prosecutors at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal have asked for life sentences for two aging leaders of the regime, as they continued with closing statements in a portion of the case against them.
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Another Haul of Illegal Logs Found on Vietnamese Firm’s Land
Forestry Administration officials on Friday confiscated 1,000 pieces of luxury wood on land belonging to a Vietnamese rubber company that has been repeatedly accused of illegal logging in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district, local officials and human right workers said yesterday.
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Court Dismisses Rights Groups’ Complaints
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court has dismissed to complaints submitted by two local human rights groups, Adhoc and the Cambodia Center for Human Rights (CCHR), against local officials who they alleged had defamed and intimidated their staff, court officials said yesterday.
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CNRP Rejects Marching Ban During 3-Day Protest
CNRP vice president Kem Sokha said yesterday that the opposition will not heed an order by Phnom Penh City Hall banning marching in the city, and will push forwards with plans to supporters to the offices of the U.N. and at least seven embassies during its three-day demonstration starting Wednesday.
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City Residents Support CNRP Demo, Fear Violence
Residents around Phnom Penh yesterday expressed trepidation but an all-round acceptance for the opposition CNRP’s plan both to hold a second three-day mass demonstration at Freedom Park and to march to foreign embassies through the city starting Wednesday.
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Media Groups Call On ‘Political Elite’ to Protect Reporters
More than a dozen Journalism and human rights groups have called on Cambodia’s political forces to protect journalists and guarantee citizens’ access to an open and unobstructed press during the current political unrest.
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Appeal Court Hear Double Rape- Murder Case From 2009
The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the case of four men acquitted of the brutal rape and murder of two young girls in Pursat province in 2009. In January 2009, the mutilated bodies of cousins Nai Vann, 11, and Phal Sophoeun, 14, were found hanging from a tree in Krakor district’s Svay Sar commune, leading to the March arrest of four men who were acquitted of premeditated murder by the Pursat Provincial Court in October 2010.
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People’s Assembly Will Rally at Freedom park on Monday
About 1,000 members of the Cambodia Grassroots People’s Assembly—as network of communities throughout the country that includes farmers as well as land and labor activists—will rally at Freedom Park on Monday to demand an end to the current political impasse.
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Cambodian Authorities Violently Disperse Protests Over Shooting Death
Authorities in Cambodia's capital on Friday violently cracked down on a group of protesters demanding justice for a man shot dead after police opened fire at the sidelines of an opposition rally last month, witnesses said. The gathering started off peacefully but "transformed into a violent confrontation with security forces, resulting in at least five people, including one foreign freelance journalist, receiving minor injuries," the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) said in a statement.
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Prosecution Says KR Leaders Knew Plans Were Criminal
As closing statement moved into their second day the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal yesterday, co-prosecutors attempt to prove to the judges that co-accused Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were deeply entrenched in a criminal enterprise that knowingly and deliberately caused the deaths of up to 2.2 million people.
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