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Cambodia: Opposition Activists Targeted In Post-Election Reprisals
The waning of post-election political violence in Cambodia following an appeal by the Second Prime Minister Hun Sen showed that the Cambodian leader did indeed have the power to turn such violence on and off at will, Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. But the organization said that the fear created by attacks and threats in the immediate post-election period had already done its work, making people in Phnom Penh and outside the capital wary of voicing dissent or supporting opposition organizations. It called on the international community to exert pressure on Hun Sen to disarm and punish the perpetrators of the latest incidents of attacks on opposition party members so that Cambodians could freely exercise their rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly.
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Cambodia: Focus Should Be on Rights, Not Elections
(New York) - In a report, "Cambodia: Aftermath of the Coup," Human Rights Watch/Asia calls on the international community to ensure that before elections are contemplated in Cambodia, the opposition members now in Thailand must feel it is safe to return and those members of First Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government responsible for grave human rights violations during and after the July 5-6 coup must be brought to justice.
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International Community Urged to Protect Cambodians and Condemn Coup
(New York) - Human Rights Watch today called on the international community to unequivocally condemn the coup in Cambodia on Saturday by Cambodian People’s Party leader and co-Prime Minister Hun Sen against his coalition partner, Prince Ranariddh of the royalist FUNCINPEC party, and to take all necessary measures to prevent the CPP from carrying out a massive purge of its opponents.
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CARAM and other NGOs have released this joint statement to congratulate the Cambodian government and ASEAN for ratifing the the protocol to protect and to protect migrant workers and for establishing the ASEAN Committee on the Implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers(ACMW).
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