Original report from Phnom Penh
17 February 2010
The Japanese government on Wednesday announced a donation of $5.5 million in equipment to aid clearance of the mines and unexploded ordnance that still plague parts of the country.
The donation includes 484 mine detectors and other equipment to help the Cambodian Mine Action Center.
The donation was part of Japan’s continued efforts at “peace building,” Japanese Ambassador Masifumi Kuroki said in announcing the aid.
Japan has provided $110 million in mine clearance aid since 1999.
Landmines and ordnance kill an estimated 200 Cambodians each year. Experts estimate it will take another 10 years to rid the country of mines laid during decades of civil strife.
The donation includes 484 mine detectors and other equipment to help the Cambodian Mine Action Center.
The donation was part of Japan’s continued efforts at “peace building,” Japanese Ambassador Masifumi Kuroki said in announcing the aid.
Japan has provided $110 million in mine clearance aid since 1999.
Landmines and ordnance kill an estimated 200 Cambodians each year. Experts estimate it will take another 10 years to rid the country of mines laid during decades of civil strife.
Thank you Japaneses,
ReplyDeleteyou always good with Cambodians.
We will never forget that.
Its good to help the demining.
ReplyDeleteBut what about the curruptions, the land encroachment from both neighboring countries?
Help demining so the crooks from both countries can encroach upon khmer land?
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While the donation certainly provide vital contribution to the demining work in Cambodia, it is also important for Khmers to be aware of the fact that the donation itself has breeded corruption inside CMAC's top managment and the Japanese bidders for many years. During bidding opening, CMAC top leaders are usually invited by the governement of Japan to witness the bid opening that was attended by many Japanese bidding companies. And it is then that these CMAC top leaders are lobbied or paid bribed in the form of expensive gifts in order that their bid can be selected. Value of donation for those equipments most often than not, is always way beyond the market price.
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Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.