Posts Tagged ‘UN’

YEARENDER: Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal makes slow progress

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 [...]

Tribunal Sides Agree to Better Management

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 [...]

Rights & Wrongs: China, U.N. Peacekeepers, Cambodia and More

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 [...]

Hun Sen enters 34th year in power in Cambodia

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, [...]