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Sihanoukville Land Eviction: 13 Arrested Should be Released and a Social Land Concession Given to Poor Families
The Cambodian League for Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) and the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) condemn the sudden violent eviction of 117 families in Commune 4, Mittapheap District, Sithanoukville. On the morning of April 20, 2007, some 150 military police and police officers armed with guns, eletric batons and tear gas, raided the disputed land, burning down 80 houses and demolishing the remaining 26 houses. The evicted families were not permitted to remove possessions from their houses before they were destroyed.
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Rule of Law is More Effective in Eradicating Land Grabbing
On March 3 2007 Prime Minister Hun Sen received from his party, the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), full power to eradicate the land grabbing that has been plaguing the country for many years. With this full support, Hun Sen set out to wage a war against land grabbers whom he has identified as "CPP officials" and people in power. Among these officials, he has singled out senior army officers as the main culprits, saying that land grabbing mostly involves military commanders, generals. He has urged all those powerful people to cease of land grabbing or he would strip them of all power, stressing that regardless of the persons rank and position, if they are directly involved or stand behind land grabbing, they must be punished.
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Unjust Verdict of Appeal Court on Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun Case
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), a coalition of 23 NGO members, deeply regrets the Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold the Phnom Penh Municipal Courts verdict in the case of Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, who were convicted of murdering Chea Vichea and sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay U$5000 each in compensation.
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Civil Society Gravely Concerned Over Exorbitant fees Derailing ECCC
PHNOM PENH, 4 April 2007: The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), a coalition of 23 NGO members expresses our grave concern over unresolved fees imposed on foreign lawyers to practice before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) by the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) which is creating a stalemate and derailing the ECCC process.
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Cambodia: After 10 Years, No Justice for Grenade Attack on Opposition
(New York)- Ten years after a grisly grenade attack on an opposition party rally in Phnom Penh left at least 16 dead and more than 150 injured, the Cambodian government has made no progress in bringing the perpetrators to justice, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to reopen its investigation of the attack, which the US government deemed an "act if terrorism."
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Civil Society Calls for Respect for Freedom of Expression in Cambodia in Support of OSJI
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL), the Cambodian Committee of Women (CAMBOW), the Alliance for Freedom of Expression in Cambodia (AFEC) and the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (NICFEC) are deeply concerned about the threat made by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to expel the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), an international organization, from the country or to revoke staff visas.
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Civil Society Calls for the Fees for ECCC Foreign Lawyers be Settled Immediately
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), a coalititon of 23 local NGO members and the Bangkok-based Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum Asia), applaud the progress made by the Review Committee on Internal Rules during the 10-day meeting in resolving the major disagreements. We trust the agreement of these issues responded to CHRAC’s nine key cocerns submitted to the First Plenary Session held in November 2006 ( ie, power of the Pre-Trial Chamber, nature of supermajority voting, defence rights, victim participation, protection and reparations, widespread public access to reasoned decisions of the Court, etc.) .
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