Friday, June 08, 2007

Ky Tech: Cambodia Bar Association President and Advisor to Bun Rany Hun Sen

Ky Tech has attracted recent media attention for his vocal criticism of proposals to allow foreign lawyers to practice at the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders.

Excerpt from Cambodia's Family Tree
Global Witness

June 2007

President of the Cambodian Bar Association Ky Tech is described by well-placed sources as an advisor to Hun Sen’s wife Bun Rany and he has close links with powerful players in Cambodia’s timber industry. In early 2001 he represented the logging concessionaire Everbright in its unsuccessful legal action against staff from Global Witness for alleged trespass. At the time Global Witness was the official independent monitor of government efforts to tackle forest crime and the alleged trespassing was an official inspection, mandated by the Council of Ministers, of the Everbright plywood factory. During this inspection, Global Witness uncovered evidence of large-scale royalty evasion by the company.

Like Kingwood, Everbright’s principal subcontractors included Seng Keang and Khun Thong. As described elsewhere in this chapter, Ky Tech has represented Seng Keang in her dealings with Kingwood’s directors and the Cambodian judiciary.

Ky Tech has attracted recent media attention for his vocal criticism of proposals to allow foreign lawyers to practice at the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders. He is also reported to have said that Cambodian lawyers participating in training organised by the International Bar Association in support of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal are in breach of Cambodian law. Global Witness wrote a letter to Ky Tech in February 2007 to ask him whether these reported comments are an accurate reflection of what he said and, if so, to explain their meaning. Ky Tech has not yet replied to this letter. Human rights workers have expressed concerns that Ky Tech is acting on instructions from senior Cambodian officials who want to see the tribunal process stall or disintegrate altogether.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ah Ky Tech is ah me teavee plech ah
jeep.

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Anonymous said...

Why AH KY TECH eyes are so small? Is he sleeping? Is he a sleep walker? I don't trust people with small eye!ahahahhaha

Anonymous said...

Hey! Ky Tech is a Khmer-Chinese-blooded. He is doing a play roll as President of KR Trial to sentence Khmer-blooded such as Khiev Samphorn, Xihanuk, etc.
Ha Ha Ha
Big joke.

Bizz

Anonymous said...

youns (vietnamese) are the China's ethnic people, so youns culture
and their old characteristic letters are the same as those of Chinese

No wonder that the tradition of Chinese ethnic people(vietnamese=youns
called by chinese) is that :
- vietnamese men in in any country, most of them are thiefs or robbers
- and vietnamese women in in any country, most of them are prostitutes

Anonymous said...

That was history, you fool. Today,
Yuon, Lao, ..., and Siam are alike.