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Slate of ‘Nonjudicial Measures’ Proposed to Tribunal
Representatives of the documentation centre of Cambodia met yesterday with the Khmer Rouge Tribunal’s victims unit to present the first in-depth proposal of possible “nonjudicial measures” the court might help to provide victims. They include, for example, rebuilding a wooden stupa at Tuol Sleng, and placing donation boxes in pagodas around the country to collect money for victims. The victims unit was mandated to create these non-judicial measures, however it still has no funds to implement them.
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Slate of ‘Nonjudicial Measures’ Proposed to Tribunal
Representatives of the documentation centre of Cambodia met yesterday with the Khmer Rouge Tribunal’s victims unit to present the first in-depth proposal of possible “nonjudicial measures” the court might help to provide victims. They include, for example, rebuilding a wooden stupa at Tuol Sleng, and placing donation boxes in pagodas around the country to collect money for victims. The victims unit was mandated to create these non-judicial measures, however it still has no funds to implement them.
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100,000-Plus Migrant Workers Deported Via Poipet
More than 100,000 illegal Cambodian migrant workers were rounded up by Thai authorities and deported via Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet international border checkpoint last year, officials said yesterday.
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Boeung Kak Villagers Protest Chinese Firm
More than 300 villagers from Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak lake area continued protesting their relocation for a development project for the fourth day yesterday, demanding that representatives of a Chinese state-owned firm involved in the project negotiate compensation with them directly.
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Rape Rose Nearly 30% in’ 10, Police say
The member of Rape recorded across the country by the national police rose to 321 in 2010, up nearly 30 percent on 2009 figure, National police spokesman Kirth Chantharith said yesterday.
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S’ville Shops Demolish as Street Widened
Sihanukville business owners complained yesterday that local authorities had demolished shops on Monday in the process of expending a main tourist thoroughfare and made customer’s access more difficult.
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Villagers say They were forced to Accept New Land
Forty-nine villagers who will soon be displaced from their land in Banteay Meanchey’s Poipet city claimed yesterday that authorities forces them into accepting disputed land in neighboring village.
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36 People Attacked with Acid in 2010, Charity Says
Nineteen acid Attacks injure 19 women and 17 men nationwide last yea, with nine occurring in Phnom Penh and six in kompong Cham province, acceding to the Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity.
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Rape Rose Nearly 30% in’ 10, Police say
The member of Rape recorded across the country by the national police rose to 321 in 2010, up nearly 30 percent on 2009 figure, National police spokesman Kirth Chantharith said yesterday.
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Villagers say They were forced to Accept New Land
Forty-nine villagers who will soon be displaced from their land in Banteay Meanchey’s Poipet city claimed yesterday that authorities forces them into accepting disputed land in neighboring village.
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36 People Attacked with Acid in 2010, Charity Says
Nineteen acid Attacks injure 19 women and 17 men nationwide last yea, with nine occurring in Phnom Penh and six in kompong Cham province, acceding to the Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity.
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Boeng kak Residents Protest for Second day
Some 200 Boeng kak lake resident gathered at Phnom Penh‘s “ Freedom Park” near Wat Phnom yesterday to protest their pending evictions at the hands of CPP senator Lao Mengkin’s development project, according to protesters .
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S’ville Shops Demolish as Street Widened
Sihanukville business owners complained yesterday that local authorities had demolished shops on Monday in the process of expending a main tourist thoroughfare and made customer’s access more difficult.
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Boeng kak Residents Protest for Second day
Some 200 Boeng kak lake resident gathered at Phnom Penh‘s “ Freedom Park” near Wat Phnom yesterday to protest their pending evictions at the hands of CPP senator Lao Mengkin’s development project, according to protesters .
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B Meanchey Cassava Farmers Protest Reforestation
Hundreds of families in Banteay Meanchey province are collecting thumbprint to petition against the Forestry Administration’s plans to turn their cassava farms in to forest, resident and human rights group Adhoc said yesterday.
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B Meanchey Cassava Farmers Protest Reforestation
Hundreds of families in Banteay Meanchey province are collecting thumbprint to petition against the Forestry Administration’s plans to turn their cassava farms in to forest, resident and human rights group Adhoc said yesterday.
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Man held over rapes of wife’s daughter
BATTAMBANG provincial court yesterday charged a man with raping his stepdaughter dozens of times over a more than 10-year period, police said. Ros Saravuthy, 40, was charged of raping his stepdaughter more than 30 times between the ages of six and 16, said Koy Heang, director of the province’s anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection bureau. The alleged victim is now 19.
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Bridge Inquiry Aims To Find What Government ‘Missed’
Bridge Inquiry Aims To Find What Government ‘Missed’ The head of the organization, Ou Virak, told “Hello VOA” on Thursday that interviews with nearly 50 witnesses showed too few police were stationed near the bridge. “The response of the police was much lacking.” The Cambodian Center for Human Rights is continuing its investigation of the Nov. 22 Diamond Bridge catastrophe, but it lacks the authority to summon government officials and police for questioning. The center is holding its own investigation into the disaster, which killed 353 people, after the government’s official report was concluded in under a week and found no fault with Water Festival organizers, city planners or security officials.
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Surveys See Case 001 Through Eye of Khmer Rouge Victims
Many victims who applied to take part in proceedings at the Khmer Rouge tribunal are still not ready to reconcile with Khmer Rouge perpetrators, despite progress since the first public trial. More than 60 percent of 226 civil party applicants surveyed by the Berlin Centre for the Treatment of Torture Victims (bzfo) denied being ready, with 40 percent answering “not at all”.
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Bridge Inquiry Aims To Find What Government ‘Missed’
Bridge Inquiry Aims To Find What Government ‘Missed’ The head of the organization, Ou Virak, told “Hello VOA” on Thursday that interviews with nearly 50 witnesses showed too few police were stationed near the bridge. “The response of the police was much lacking.” The Cambodian Center for Human Rights is continuing its investigation of the Nov. 22 Diamond Bridge catastrophe, but it lacks the authority to summon government officials and police for questioning. The center is holding its own investigation into the disaster, which killed 353 people, after the government’s official report was concluded in under a week and found no fault with Water Festival organizers, city planners or security officials.
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