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Prosecutor Confirm Ieng Sary Died of Natural Causes
The office of the Co- Prosecutor at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday released its finding following a standard investigation into the death of war crimes defendant Ieng Sary last month at the age of 87, declaring that he died of natural causes.
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SRP Commune Chief Told to Stop Talking to Media About Dam
Officials from the Stung Treng provincial forestry administration have warned a local SRP commune chief against speaking to the media about the clearing of trees from 36,000-hectare site set to become the reservoir of a giant hydropower dam in area , the commune chief said yesterday.
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Monitor Says 1.25 Million Voters May Be Lost
An estimated 1.25 million eligible voters may lose their right to talk part in the July national elections because of errors made by the National Election Committee (NEC) during the voter list registration and amendment process, the Committee for Free and Fair Election in Cambodia (Comfrel) said yesterday.
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Supporters of Jailed Activist Petition Royal Family for Help
Supporters of Jailed Activist Petition Royal Family for Help
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Court Concludes Trail Over Journalist’s Murder
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday conclude hearings in the trail of a military police official and his wife who were charged with murdering a journalist found hacked to death in the trunk of his car last year.
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Activist Says Cambodian Government Has Failed Victims of Land Grabs
WASHINGTON — Outspoken housing activist Tep Vanny says Cambodia’s struggles with forced evictions has gained international attention, hopefully leading to solutions to what has become an intractable problem for the government. Tep Vanny is in Washington to receive a leadership award this week from Vital Voices, an organization started by Hillary Clinton in 1997.
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As Dam Plan Goes Ahead, Villages Face Displacement
PHNOM PENH — Along the lower Sesan River, villagers say they fear what a move will mean when a hydropower dam comes to Stung Treng province. Last month, hundreds of them marched along the river, protesting the construction of the dam, which would force as many as 1,500 families to resettle.
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Wages will increase following economic growth
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Hun Sen said, salaries for civil servants and garment workers will increase yearly coinciding with the growth in the economy. Speaking at a graduation ceremony for the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) at the Koh Pich center on Tuesday, he said during the general assembly of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) last month, it was agreed that wages will not be raised by 20 percent every year, but depending on economic growth.
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Nuon Chea Fit To Stand Trial, Tribunal Finds
PHNOM PENH — Jailed Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea can continue to participate in an atrocity crimes trial against him at the UN-backed tribunal, judges ruled Friday. The 86-year-old, who suffers from high blood pressure and recently had bronchitis, was examined by experts at the court earlier this month, who found his health fit enough to participate in hearings.
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Hun Sen Tells Voters to Look His Three Sons for Help
Speaking to thousands of CPP members and villagers, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday asked the public to turn to his three sons- Hun Manet, Hun Manith and Hun Many-should they need any help from the ruling party.
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International Parliamentarians Want Return of Sam Rainsy for Election
WASHINGTON — A group of parliamentarians representing 162 countries has renewed a resolution urging the Cambodian government to find a way for opposition leader Sam Rainsy to return to Cambodia to contest the July elections. Sam Rainsy is in exile abroad, facing imprisonment on charges he says are politically motivated should he return to Cambodia.
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Hun Sen wants free, fair election
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The Prime Minister said, he wanted a free and fair election without any violence which all political parties are susceptible too. The comments were made Tuesday at a graduation ceremony in the Koh Pich center, referring to the up-coming general elections on July 28. Hun Sen urged authorities and officers to ensure the security and safety of every political party in the elections. He also asked the political party's not to insult each other and exaggerate their campaigns as it would hurt the nation, urging his party members to be patient with criticism from the opposition.
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KRT Defendant Khieu Samphan Seeks Bail as Case Languishes
Lawyers for war crimes defendant Khieu Samphan yesterday filed a motion for his immediate bail, arguing that their client’s right to a trail with a “reasonable delay” had been violated and that his continued defendant was “excessive and unjustified.”
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How a Brutal Khmer Rouge Leader Died 'Not Guilty'
A verdict was never reached in Ieng Sary's human rights abuses case. His story reveals the limitations of international tribunals. MALAI, Cambodia-- It was the sort of send-off his own regime would never have permitted: an elaborate Buddhist funeral that ended with prayers, reminiscences, and the crackle of fireworks in an inky night sky. Ieng Sary, one of the last surviving leaders of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime, died of a heart attack on March 14, at the age of 87. For a week afterward, hundreds of white-clad mourners turned out in this former communist stronghold to pay their last respects to a man they remembered as a comrade and patriot--a man who thought only of his nation.
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Ieng Sary Did Not Stash Funds Overseas: Son
Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary’s son has denied reports that his father hid funds in an overseas bank account before he died last month while on trial for war crimes. News reports said in recent weeks that among the assets the co-founder of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime held was a Hong Kong bank account that at one point contained U.S. $20 million in funds funneled to the movement by the Chinese government.
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HRP Reshuffle Presidency Ahead of Election
The Human Rights Party (HRD) yesterday officially appointed a new president to replace outdoing leader Kem Sokha, who is to be deputy president of a newly formed opposition coalition to run in this year’s national election.
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Orphanage Under Scrutiny Could Reopen
An unregistered Christian-run orphanage in Phnom Penh –from which police last week removed 21 children –could reopen if the Australian NGO that runs it completes the necessary paperwork, an official said yesterday.
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Group Sees in Trafficking Cambodian Fishermen
Only a few months into the new year , the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is already warning of a dangerous increase in the number of Cambodians being trafficking into Thailand’s notorious deep-sea fishing industry. In a statement it released earlier this month the Geneva-base IOM said in the first months of this year its Phnom Penh office has already help repatriate 26 men either trafficking onto deep-sea trawler in Thailand over kept them on them against their will ,just as many as it helped in all of 2012.
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Workers Being Clearing Land for Lower Sesan 2
Workers in Stung Treng province have begun clearing forested land with chainsaws in order to make way for the reservoir of a massive hydropower dam that has say they have not been informed about the dam’s contraction plans.
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Only CPP dares condemn US, S. Vietnam actions of 1970
KAMPONG CHAM (The Cambodia Herald) -- Hun Sen said, only the Cambodian People’s Party and the Royalist Funcinpec Party dared to condemn the United States and South Vietnam, for their actions in the illegal bombing and occupation of Cambodian territory. Speaking at the ground breaking ceremony for the Kampong Russey temple, in the district of Tbong Khmom, he said, he hasn’t yet heard any opposition parties denouncing the coup that overthrew the government on March 18, 1970.
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