Reporters without Borders (www.rsf.org)
Prime Minister Hun Sen took a step virtually unprecedented in the region of decriminalising defamation, soon after releasing a jailed radio boss. However threats and law suits continued against journalists investigating corruption.
Mam Sonando, director of radio Sombok Khmum (Ruche FM 105), was freed in January under international pressure, three months after his arrest along with other figures critical of the government. The head of state followed this up with a draft law to decriminalise defamation, which was quickly passed by parliament. This decision made Cambodia one of the very few Asian countries to stop imposing prison sentences for libel or slander. But Hun Sen publicly reminded journalists that they risked heavy fines if they attacked him.
Several suits were entered against journalists under laws inherited from the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) providing for one-year prison sentences for putting out “false news”.
The often partisan press faces competition from Khmer-language news programmes broadcast by international stations such as Radio Free Asia and Radio France International which are very popular in the capital and in the country’s cities.
Threats against journalists who probe corruption among high officials has never stopped. The editor of an opposition bi-weekly, was forced to flee the country after receiving a death threat in June. He had condemned the misdeeds of a nephew of Hun Sen. Five other reporters, including a Radio Free Asia correspondent, were threatened in 2006.
Government interference also extended to television. A news programme due to go out in August on Cambodia Television Network (CTN) was pulled after Hun Sen accused it of putting the country’s reputation in danger.
Mam Sonando, director of radio Sombok Khmum (Ruche FM 105), was freed in January under international pressure, three months after his arrest along with other figures critical of the government. The head of state followed this up with a draft law to decriminalise defamation, which was quickly passed by parliament. This decision made Cambodia one of the very few Asian countries to stop imposing prison sentences for libel or slander. But Hun Sen publicly reminded journalists that they risked heavy fines if they attacked him.
Several suits were entered against journalists under laws inherited from the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) providing for one-year prison sentences for putting out “false news”.
The often partisan press faces competition from Khmer-language news programmes broadcast by international stations such as Radio Free Asia and Radio France International which are very popular in the capital and in the country’s cities.
Threats against journalists who probe corruption among high officials has never stopped. The editor of an opposition bi-weekly, was forced to flee the country after receiving a death threat in June. He had condemned the misdeeds of a nephew of Hun Sen. Five other reporters, including a Radio Free Asia correspondent, were threatened in 2006.
Government interference also extended to television. A news programme due to go out in August on Cambodia Television Network (CTN) was pulled after Hun Sen accused it of putting the country’s reputation in danger.
17 comments:
Do thousand need to die to get the world attention!
Keep the Kr traile money to help other partof the world, we will be die one by one any way who care of the past justice, if are living in present unjustice!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you all fool! fool! fool! world organization!
United Nations you are fool!
Fellow KI-Media readers,
Be advised that we have Viet trollers pretending to be Khmer in our hand here on KI. One typical common language of theirs is pretty much the same - calling us all (racist) Ethiopian fleas. Another one with broken khmerEnglish portrayed himself as "KMENG WAT KNONG SROK" (my translation of that nick would be: local pagoda's thug). They are here to sabotage KI, not to intelligently argue with us...So please beware and just ignore them. We cannot be distracted by these Viet trollers. These killers Viets are specifically no different than the killers Viet behind the Killing Fields.
Passer-by Guest
Please join me to say:
Vietcong Go home!
Vietcong Go home!
Vietcong Go home!
Stop trying to change the subject
you Ethiopians tics.
We all know you are here to sell
your stupid obsolete weapons to
us for our oil so that we will
distroyed what we have lelf, that
is why you created high tension
between Khmers, and Khmers and its
neighbors.
But unfortunately for you, you
ain't smart enough for that.
And last but not least, don't even
try to whitewash your crime against
khmer people also for burning
our country down to the ground in
the 70's. Capice?
KMENG WAT KNONG SROK SAID HELLO TO POUK AH DERAHCHHANN... BEAST OF THE BEAST
WE IDENTIFY POUK AH DERAHCHHANN AS FOLLOWS:
KI MEDIA = THE CHIEF OF THE CLAN
Passer-by Guest= SLAVE & FOREIGNER WITH NO EMPLYOMENT
ME SVA KMEAN SROK= THE SATH SVA TOLONG MOUL
POUK AH PLEOU THE REASON WE AS HUMANS WE DO NOT WISH TO ARGUE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT CONSIDERED AS HUMAN BUT BEAST= SATH DERACHHANN AND HOW YOU COULD BE CONSIDER AS
INTELLIGENT BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE BRAIN JUST SHIT...
AS I SAID MAJORITY OF INTELLECTUALS RELALIZE QUITE WELL THAT POUK AH DERACHHANN KI MEDIA AND POUK SVA AND SEK KMEAN SROK AND FOREIGNERS WITH NO JOB ARE THE TROUBLE MAKERS AND WANT TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE OF KHMER AGAINST KHMER... THIS IS THE TRUTH!!!
DO YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN CHANGE THE DESTINY OF CAMBODIA AND ITS 14 MILLION PEOPLE???? IF YOU BORN FROM KHMER PARENTS... ASK THEM IF THEY ARE PROUD OF YOU TO BE CALLED AS SATH DERAHCHHANN... KMEAN SROK KMEAN POUCH SASH!!!!
I AM NOT RACIST... BUT YOU HAVE CREATED THIS E-FIGHTING THROUGH KI MEDIA... BETTER TO CALL KI-MEDIOCRITY?
SO WHO IS INTELLIGENT??? AND WHO ARE JUST TROUBLE MAKERS???
WE ACCEPT AN DIFFERENT APPROACH OF DICUSSION BASED ON MUTUAL RESPECT
POLITNESS... DO NOT THINK THAT LIVING ABROAD PERMIT YOU TO LOOK DOWN CAMBODIA AND ITS PEOPLE... THIS IS WE CAN' T ACCEPT AND WE CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR CAMBODIA AND ITS PEOPLE!
MY ADVICE TO ALL OF YOU: TRY TO BEHAVE AS HUMANS AND WE CAN TALK..
KMENG WAT KNONG SROK
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
1- I AM NOT SLAVE TO ANYBODY, NOT TO CPP, NOT TO HUN SEN, NOT TO VN, NOT TO YUOUN VN BUT YOU ARE RIGHT I AM PROUD TO BE A SLAVE FOR THE SAKE OF MY COUNTRY, SLAVE TO PROTECT THE IDENTITY OF CAMBODIA, ANGKOR... YOU ARE DIFFAMING CAMBODIA, THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US: WE ARE HUMANS AND YOU ARE BEAST BECAUSE YOUR PARENTS ARE ALL KHMERS AND BROUGHT TO WORLD TO BE KHMER... SO WHY YOU SHIT ON YOUR PARENTS' S LAND????
2- YES I AM UGLY: BUT JUST WITH THE BEAST KMEAN SROK LIKE YOU! KHMER KNONG SROK MAY BE UGLY BUT THEY ARE COURAGEOUS TO FIGHT THE DEMONS OF BEAST AS YOU ARE!
KMENG WAT KHNONG SROK
You bloodly-handed Viet Hanoi, Go home!!!
it's like pouring water over duck's head. it is so limited up there.
Mostly it's all the UPPER CASE letters (yelling) there that turn me off. I don't think anybody bothers to even read it.
Yeah, but it still better than you three traitors who don't have a
clue about the topic. You just try
to cover up your crime against
Khmer people in the 70's and it
ain't gonna work.
You lied, Primitive Taliban 8:43 AM,
I was not born in Cambodia and I was not born yet. You joined Yuan Khmer Viet Minh then Khmer Rouge, and it was you and them who wrecked Khmer Nation.
It doesn't matter if you were born
in Cambodia or not. You are still
liable for Cambodia distruction
because your parent destroying
Cambodia, enough with the excuses,
okay?
i think ah khmeng wat knong srok is yuon or yuon tinh kbal .ah yuon nis vear chro nen khmers nov krav srok,vear tveu ey khmer min ban......he keeps on screaming and frustrating with jealousy.just ignore him,all khmers,puok ah yuon or puok ah khuor kbal yuon vear teh jeung heuy....hehehehe....
Who care who KMENG WAT KHNONG SROK
is? At least he did not burned
Cambodia down to the ground like
your backstabers SISOWATT
Sarimtakis people did. Get it?
8:34 AM, you are a Primitive Yuan Taliban. You are Khmers' killer.
Go home to your Yuan Hanoi.
Hey, stop trying to misdirect us
from your crime against Khmer
people int the 70's, Ethiopian tic.
All right Primitive Yuan Taliban.
Get any clue that the Ethiopian are far better than the Primitive the primitive Taliban.
Now pack your junks and head back to Hanoi.
Noope, that is because you are
viewing thing through your stupid
blue-eyed Godess, but we see the
contrary.
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