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Charges Dropped Against the Accused of a Killing Case in Kbal Spean Village
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), a coalition of 18 NGOs, would like to express its dissatifaction with the Battambang Provincial Court for dropping charges against 128 police, military police and civilians accused of killing five villagers and injuring eight other during a forced eviction on March 21, 2005 in Kbal Spean Village, Poipet Commune, O’ Chrov District, Banteay Meanchey Province. Victims sustained extensive property damage during the eviction.
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Unjust Verdict Issued by Phnom Penh Municipal Court in Chea Vichea Case Against Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHARC), a coalition of 18 NGOs, is deeply concerned by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s guilty verdict for Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, accused of the murder of Chea Vichea, Free Trade Union leader and Sam Rainsy Party activist. They were each sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay $5,000 compensation each to the plaintiff.
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Influence of Political Party Over Parliamentary Membership
Civil Society Organizations are deeply concerned on the decline of the rights and function of Member of Parliament (MP) mainly the freedom of expression. Civil Society Organizations have noted that political Parties influence has been increased, mostly political leader over the MP in 1st legislation started from the parliamentary membership withdrawal of H.E.Mr. Phay Siphan and H.E.Mr. Pou Savath; of Cambodian People Party (CPP), and the recently attempt for parliamentary membership withdrawal of H.E.Mr. Khem Veasna from Sam Rainsy (SRP).
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CHRAC Condemns Forced and Violent Repatriation of 100 Montagnards
The Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), a coalition of 18 local NGOs, is deeply concerned by today’s forced and violent repatriation of 100 Montagnards in Cambodia to Vietnam. The CHRAC condemns the deportation including the extensive use of electric batons which was used against the Montagnards by Cambodian police while loading them onto buses to begin the deportation from a center in Phnom Penh.
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Position of the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations to the Senate Election Process
The coalition of civil society organizations has noticed that the Senate and the National Assembly, who adopted the proposed law on election of members of the senate, plan to elect senators as a result of the votes of members of both the national assembly and commune council. The coalition of civil society organizatons, however, strongly regrets that recommendations of the coalition, electoral stakeholders, and political parties are not included in the Senate Election Law.
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Land Concession for Pine Tree Planting to Wuzhishan Company and Complaints Lodged by Phnong Tribe Communities in Mondulkiri Province
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), a coalition of 18 NGOs, is deeply concerned about the development plants of the Wuzhishan Company’s land concession in Mondulkiri Province. As currently described, their plans will violate the historic land, customs, traditions, and daily life of Phnong tribe communities in seven communes. In particular, the company’s intention to clear mare than 10,000 hectares of land to plant pine trees represents an illegal action that seriously impacts the livelihood of the tribes in the communes of Dakdam and Sen Monorum of oraing District.
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Civil Society Calls on Government to Fulfill its Agreement with UN and Contribute to Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Civil society is deeply saddened to hear that the Government now claims it cannot contribute its $13.3 million share to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) three-year budget. It declares that it can only give $1.5 million leaving a short fall of $ 11.8 million. It is interesting to note that the $ 4.4 million per year required from the Government to run the KRT amounts to only 0.5% of the Annual National budget of $ 792 million. This seems like a ridiculously small price to pay for the possible achievement fo justice and reconciliation for victims of the Khmer Rouge regime and for Cambodia as a whole.
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Private Farmers Assistance Program
In the fall of 2002, the PFAP program was evaluated by USAID. The Evaluation Team found that PFAP had successfully undertaken and implemented a wide and substantive array of activities. Very large numbers of rural residents had received training and technical advice in a variety of areas with many of the needed rural organizations also created andlor strengthened. New management, accounting and other systems in these organizations had been put into place, dozens of business plans had been prepared, additional credit had been provided and thousands of new land titles had been issued and hundreds of thousands registered.
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