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Gov’t Slammed Over Plans to Send Montagnards to Vietnam
Almost all of the remaining 36 Montagnards currently in Phnom Penh are to be returned to Vietnam despite attempts by the U.N.’s refugee agency to transfer the asylum-seekers to a third country, according to an email leaked to reporters on Thursday night. → Read More
Gov’t Slammed Over Plans to Send Montagnards to Vietnam
Almost all of the remaining 36 Montagnards currently in Phnom Penh are to be returned to Vietnam despite attempts by the U.N.’s refugee agency to take the asylum-seekers to a third country, according to an email leaked to reporters on Thursday night. → Read More
Hun Sen, Laos PM to Request French Border Maps
Prime Minister Hun Sen met his Laos counterpart at Phnom Penh’s “Peace Palace” on Friday in an effort to further de-escalate tensions that flared up last month over Laotian soldiers occupying Cambodian land, with both agreeing to write a joint letter to the French president requesting border maps. → Read More
Tribunal Prosecutors at Odds Over Ta An Genocide Case
Former Khmer Rouge official Ao An, better known by his revolutionary alias “Ta An,” should be tried for genocide and a slew of other crimes against humanity, the international co-prosecution at the Khmer Rouge tribunal has argued in its submissions. → Read More
In Bid to Muzzle Critics, CPP Exploits Facebook
From the 1990s to the turn of the last decade, the CPP had a stranglehold over the lion’s share of Cambodia’s media. Radio and television fed their listeners and viewers a diet of gushing accolades about Prime Minister Hun Sen’s achievements. → Read More
As Refugee Group Appeals to Gov’t, Montagnard Fears Future
A refugee rights network has appealed directly to Interior Minister Sar Kheng to not send 36 Montagnard refugees back to Vietnam, as one of the group on Tuesday spoke of his increasing fear of being returned to the country where he spent a decade in jail for protesting. → Read More
Voice of Democracy Latest Casualty In Attack on Independent Media
Amid a sprawling government clampdown on independent media, Voice of Democracy has been taken off the airwaves in what its director on Friday derided as a politically motivated move ahead of next year’s general election. → Read More
25 Years of Foreign Press Freedom Under Threat
For more than 25 years, the English-language newspapers in Cambodia have had the freedom to print the news as they saw fit, exposing corruption, writing about patronage, telling stories about deforestation, forced evictions and fraud. → Read More
NDI Banned, Foreign Staff Face Forcible Expulsion
Foreign staff given one week to leave the country after the U.S.-affiliated National Democratic Institute was ordered to cease operations in Cambodia on Wednesday will be forcibly removed if they fail to leave on their own accord, a CPP official said. → Read More
NDI Ordered to Halt Operations, Foreign Staff Face Expulsion
The Foreign Affairs Ministry on Wednesday ordered the U.S.-based National Democratic Institute to stop its operations in Cambodia and gave its foreign staff one week to leave the country for not fulfilling tax and registration obligations. → Read More
After UN Provided Glimmer of Hope, Montagnards to Be Deported
A group of 13 Montagnard asylum-seekers who appeared to have had their deportation to Vietnam stalled due to U.N. pressure will be sent back today “on a voluntary basis,” according to the U.N.’s refugee agency, a fact a rights worker disputed. → Read More
Hun Sen’s Violent Rhetoric: Will Words Become Deeds in 2018?
Threats to “eliminate” hundreds in order to maintain stability, warnings to former opposition leader Sam Rainsy to “prepare your coffin,” and vows to bury the corpses of those who seek his demise—Prime Minister Hun Sen’s rhetoric this year has been increasingly violent. → Read More
Surrogacy Broker Given 18-Month Sentence
Slumping on a bench inside her holding cell on Thursday morning, Tammy Davis-Charles put her head in her hands and began sobbing as the reality of her prison sentence began to sink in. → Read More
First Khmer Rouge History Mobile App Released on Android
The first mobile app offering a comprehensive and interactive history of the Khmer Rouge, created in the hopes of ending a “collective denial” about some of the atrocities committed by the Pol Pot regime, went live on Tuesday. → Read More
UN Officials Blocked From Villages Facing Threat of Flood
Authorities on Tuesday turned back U.N. human rights monitors heading toward a village expected to sink underwater as a new hydroelectric dam tested its floodgates, officials said. → Read More
Takeover of Zaman Possible, Ambassador Says
Turkey is in talks with the Cambodian government over the possibility of taking control of the Zaman-operated schools in Phnom Penh, which it alleges have links to a “terrorist organization” behind last year’s attempted coup, the Turkish ambassador said on Friday. → Read More
Ambassador Talks of Possible Takeover of Zaman
Turkey is in talks with the Cambodian government over the possibility of taking control the Zaman-operated schools in Phnom Penh, which it alleges has links to a “terrorist organization” behind last year’s attempted coup, the Turkish ambassador said on Friday. → Read More
Car Window Smashed After Dropping Off Activist Monks
A large rock smashed through the side window of a car that had just dropped off members of the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice in Kandal province on Tuesday night, the group’s leader But Buntenh said on Wednesday. → Read More
Parliament Boycotts Bear Little Fruit for Opposition
While highly contentious new rules were being passed in the National Assembly on Monday banning the CNRP from collaborating with its former leader Sam Rainsy, photographs were posted to Facebook of senior opposition lawmakers dining at a riverside hotel in Kampot province. → Read More
Tribunal Judges: Im Chaem Too Lowly for Court Prosecution
Investigating judges at the Khmer Rouge tribunal dismissed the case against Im Chaem—finding her to be too low-ranking within the regime’s hierarchy—despite “reliable evidence” that she had the authority to order executions, according to documents released on Monday. → Read More