Phnom Penh - When the former chief of the Khmer Rouge’s notorious S-21 prison camp was indicted by Cambodia’s war crimes tribunal in August, many observers thought 2008 could be marked by real progress at the UN-backed court. The appearance of Kaing Guek Eav, known by his revolutionary name Duch, in the dock represented for many [...]
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YEARENDER: Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal makes slow progress
December 18th, 2008 
Cambodian News 
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Tags: Duch, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Rouge Tribunal, killing field, notorious S-21 prison, Pol Pot, UN 
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December 16th, 2008 Cambodian News The UN and the government have agreed to joint meetings to strengthen the management of the Khmer Rouge tribunal, which has suffered continued allegations of corruption, officials said Wednesday. “We believe the court can be more efficient and the sides can have a joint session,†Pen Ngoeun, a spokesman for the Council of Ministers, told [...]
Posted in News Tags: Cambodian News, Center for Social Development, Council Minister, Khmer Rouge, Management, Sok An, UN No Comments »Rights & Wrongs: China, U.N. Peacekeepers, Cambodia and More
August 21st, 2008 Cambodian News CONTINUING CONCERNS ABOUT CHINESE HUMAN RIGHTS — The spectacular Olympic picture China has sought to paint for a world audience continues to be marred by human rights abuses, as media outlets, human rights groups and international diplomats put pressure on the Olympic host to ease controls on the Chinese people. U.S. President George W. Bush [...]
Posted in Feature Tags: Beijing Olympics, Cambodia, china, Democracy, Duch, freedom of expression, freedom of information, Human Rights, Kaing Guek Eav, Khmer Rouge, Olympics, Pol Pot's regime, politics, UN No Comments »Hun Sen enters 34th year in power in Cambodia
August 19th, 2008 Cambodian News With yet another election victory in the bag, Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Sen, is now entering his thirty-fourth year in power. Hun Sen draws his inspiration not from south-east Asia’s more democratic leaders, but from Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, who used dictatorial methods to build a modern, prosperous but tightly-controlled island city-state. Still only 57, [...]
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