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After UN Visit, Increased Stakes for Tribunal Credibility
Following the visit of the UN’s top legal representative to Cambodia last week, the Khmer Rouge tribunal is facing increased pressure to regain its credibility, court observers say. Patricia O’Brien, flew to Phnom Penh last week to warn Cambodian officials to refrain from speaking against two cases before the investigating judges. Continue reading
More Needed for Free and Fair Elections: Analyst
Cambodia needs to strengthen its enforcement of election laws if the upcoming polls in 2012 and 2013 are to be considered free and fair, analysts said last week. “They should be fired from their positions as civil servants if they defy neutrality or act to oppose or support any party,” Lao Monghay, a longtime political analyst who is a monthly guest on “Hello VOA,” said Thursday. “The law prohibits this.” To be free and fair, he said, elections must show “the real will of the people and voters.” “And if civil servants act to suppress others, to influence others, to make campaigns to help a political party, or oppose a candidate, that will make a controversy and put pressure on voters,” he said Continue reading
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Giant ‘Cycle of Abuse’ in New Dance Adaptation
The latest dance feature from acclaimed choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro is playing in California this week. “The Lives of Giants” is a Khmer classical dance adaptation of the Ramayana story of a giant named Akaeng Kameaso, a guardian for the Hindu god Shiva who is mocked for his ugliness. Continue reading
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Rights Group Calls for Action on ‘Flawed’ NGO Law
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights on Thursday called on donors, lawmakers and other power brokers to step up pressure on the government, which hopes to pass a law to regulate non-governmental agencies but is widely seen as a blow to their ability to operate. The 58-article law was sent to the Council of Ministers for approval last week, after which it will pass to the National Assembly for debate and passage. Numerous NGOs have said the draft law ignored their key recommendations, leaving it as a tool to repress groups that dissent from the views of the government and administration of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party Continue reading
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Human Rights Watch Condemns Case Against Rights Worker
Human Rights Watch on Friday called on the courts to drop all charges against a staff member for the rights group Licadho, who the group says has been unjustly charged with incitement. Leang Sokchouen lost an appeal Thursday and is facing a two-year prison sentence for allegedly distributing anti-government leaflets Continue reading
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Time Again To Think About Elections, Democracy: Advocate
With local elections on the not-too-distant horizon, a democracy advocate said Thursday Cambodians must now start thinking about political parties specifically and the functions of democracy generally. “Voters must remember that we are the owners of power,” said Koul Panha, executive director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections, as a guest of “Hello VOA.” “So those who own the power must actively work, not just think that we are the owners of power, than abandon our obligations, our duties. We all have to participate.” Elections for commune leaders are slated for 2012, with parliamentary elections to follow the year after. Continue reading
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