Original report from Washington
18 February 2010
Cambodian and international rights groups remain concerned over the fates of 20 Muslim Uighurs ejected from Cambodia in December.
A Chinese government spokesman indicated to the New York Times last week that the Uighurs would be or have been tried.
“China is a country ruled by law,” Ma Zhaoxu, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, told the Times. “The judicial authorities deal with illegal criminal issues strictly according to law.”
It remains unclear what has happened to the group.
“Of course this is very sad,” Brad Adams, Asia director for Human Rights Watch, told VOA Khmer from London. “Nobody has any idea what they have been charged with, what the evidence is, what crime they may have committed.”
Chinese trials are not fairly conducted, with defendants unable to effectively defend themselves or produce witnesses in a meaningful way, he said.
His concerns were echoed by Ou Virak, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, who said any case against them “should be transparent and shown to the public.”
Twenty-two Uighurs fled to Cambodia late last year, seeking refuge with the UN after a violent crackdown against unrest in their home province of Xinjiang in July.
Cambodian authorities deported 20 of them to China, citing immigration violations, after two escaped. Cambodian officials have said the case of the Uighurs is now under Chinese sovereignty.
Still, with death sentences already handed out to some Uighurs from the July protests, Cambodia will retain responsibility for the fates of the deported, Adams said.
The country could also face consequences in relations with the US, he said, including in trade, aid and military relations.
A Chinese government spokesman indicated to the New York Times last week that the Uighurs would be or have been tried.
“China is a country ruled by law,” Ma Zhaoxu, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, told the Times. “The judicial authorities deal with illegal criminal issues strictly according to law.”
It remains unclear what has happened to the group.
“Of course this is very sad,” Brad Adams, Asia director for Human Rights Watch, told VOA Khmer from London. “Nobody has any idea what they have been charged with, what the evidence is, what crime they may have committed.”
Chinese trials are not fairly conducted, with defendants unable to effectively defend themselves or produce witnesses in a meaningful way, he said.
His concerns were echoed by Ou Virak, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, who said any case against them “should be transparent and shown to the public.”
Twenty-two Uighurs fled to Cambodia late last year, seeking refuge with the UN after a violent crackdown against unrest in their home province of Xinjiang in July.
Cambodian authorities deported 20 of them to China, citing immigration violations, after two escaped. Cambodian officials have said the case of the Uighurs is now under Chinese sovereignty.
Still, with death sentences already handed out to some Uighurs from the July protests, Cambodia will retain responsibility for the fates of the deported, Adams said.
The country could also face consequences in relations with the US, he said, including in trade, aid and military relations.
4 comments:
If they cann't find those 20 people, the chinese's gov and Cambodia's will be in the dogs'house.
They will never find them. They are dead.
They are all in chinese Guantanamo.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
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.
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