By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
12 March 2010
Cambodia remains a country with a poor human rights record and endemic corruption, whose citizens can face extrajudicial killings or abuse in detention, the US State Department said in a report released Friday.
Land disputes, forced evictions and a lack of democratic freedoms remained problems, according to the 2009 Human Rights Report.
“Although civilian authorities nominally controlled the security forces, in many cases security forces acted under directives of the [Cambodian People’s Party] leadership,” the rights report says. “Security forces committed extrajudicial killings and acted with impunity. Detainees were abused, often to extract confessions, and prison conditions were harsh.”
Cambodia’s judiciary remains weak, with human rights workers reporting “arbitrary arrest and prolonged pretrial detention,” according to the report. “Land disputes and forced evictions were a problem. The government restricted freedom of speech and the press through defamation and disinformation lawsuits and at times interfered with freedom of assembly.”
Phay Siphan, a spokesman for the Council of Ministers, said the report, which runs 29 pages, was “not fully complete.”
Cambodia was still dealing with vestiges of its civil wars and as a result lacks some human rights protections, he said Friday.
Land disputes, forced evictions and a lack of democratic freedoms remained problems, according to the 2009 Human Rights Report.
“Although civilian authorities nominally controlled the security forces, in many cases security forces acted under directives of the [Cambodian People’s Party] leadership,” the rights report says. “Security forces committed extrajudicial killings and acted with impunity. Detainees were abused, often to extract confessions, and prison conditions were harsh.”
Cambodia’s judiciary remains weak, with human rights workers reporting “arbitrary arrest and prolonged pretrial detention,” according to the report. “Land disputes and forced evictions were a problem. The government restricted freedom of speech and the press through defamation and disinformation lawsuits and at times interfered with freedom of assembly.”
Phay Siphan, a spokesman for the Council of Ministers, said the report, which runs 29 pages, was “not fully complete.”
Cambodia was still dealing with vestiges of its civil wars and as a result lacks some human rights protections, he said Friday.
Dont need this report to tell us this. Even a blind man can see it that Cambodia is a land of corruption. The question is, is it about time that somebody somewhere will do something about it? Enough talk already. Its time to act and the time is now!
ReplyDeleteDOWN TO HELL tonight POURK THMILL
ReplyDeleteKHMER ROUGE hun sen,AH Ruoun Bann thmill Sok annh ,AH THmill car accident va kimhong,AH Thmill Roleay Tep vong, Ah Kaun Me Somphoeurng thmill ho nam hong, Ah Cho Marai tmill kiet chhun, Ah thmill Trou Bek chheam yeap ,ah thmill kanchass chia sim ,Ah tmill chor marai heng som ri n fuck all Ah thmill cppps allow Yuon to kick my monks.
Hope that our human rights please can getting better soon.
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Come on Baby Hor & ah Hun Sen, the US State Department just said your country has a bad human rights record! With your cool new law, don't you wanna tell Hillary Clinton in her face and the rest of the US State Department that you wanna sue them???!!!!
ReplyDeleteAren't they whistle blowers to you???!
Here is hell on earth. Only in hell that people have to suffer from other animal like specy. This animal like specy peope do not understand how a civilised nation, people lives are so higly respected.
ReplyDeleteAt present we can only a few country like this when their leaders are very limited with education and leading skills.
Areak Prey
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
ReplyDeleteMembers:
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 bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
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.
Pouch ah jouy mar rai Hun Sen, and CPP keu jea pou ah jou louk jeath Khmer.
ReplyDeleteThe estimate report of how many civilians could have been killed when the US dropped 100's of million tons of bombs on Cambodia were 100 to 500 thousands people. They used outdated map for the bombing runs. The pilots who defected from their mission saw whole villages level out that were not Viet Congs holdouts. But those bombs must be drop for the sake of the manufacture of those bombs or the sake of Kissinger policy on Cambodia. Now they are concern for human right violation in Cambodia? Thanks for your concern US.
ReplyDeletethe guy is trying to hit the monk is he youn? no, he's khmer, so stop blaming others when it's proving that khmer against khmer, like it was exacly in ah pol pot regime, just stop blaming viet, viet stole khmer's land but viet don't hit khmer like this.
ReplyDeleteCOURT OF NOM BENH!
ReplyDeleteCUFFING PEOPLE PARTY!
COPS of PRIVATE PARTY!
yuon stole khmer's land and eleminate khmers without bleeding by using their secret agent to hit like this.that's yuon strategy. cantonese movie say CHe Tu Sat Danh
ReplyDelete* "When you support a regime not supported by the people you help the communists"
ReplyDelete* Letter to US Ambassador to Cambodia John Gunther Dean: "Dear Excellency and Friend, I thank you very sincerely for your letter and your offer to transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion. As for you, and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people, which has chosen liberty. You have refused us your protection, and we can do nothing about it. You leave, and my wish is that you and your country will find happiness under this sky. But, mark it well, that if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad, because we are all born and must die one day. I have committed this mistake of believing in you, the Americans. Please accept, Excellency, my dear friend, my faithful and friendly sentiments. Prince Sirik Matak."[1]
* Prince Sirik Matak's letter to United States's Ambassador to Cambodia John Gunther Dean was reproduced and added to the book Autrefois, Maison Privée.
The End of Cambodia;
ReplyDeleteThe Beginning of a Nightmare
On New Year's Day of January 1975 the Khmer Rouge launched what it hoped was the final assault on Phnom Penh. The Cambodian capital was now swollen with over two million refugees. Access to food supplies in the countryside was completely cut off, and Phnom Penh starved slowly as a stream of US airlifts unsuccessfully attempted to feed the entire city with less than 600 metric tons of food per day. Despite a brave fight, Lon Nol's troops quickly fell apart from lack of supplies, lack of support, and lack of leadership. The now-fanatical Khmer Rouge, strengthened by a steady stream of supplies from Hanoi and emboldened by surviving years of sustained US bombardment, made their push into the Phnom Penh suburbs. By the end of March it was clear there was no way of stopping the Khmer Rouge siege.
On April 1, a weeping Lon Nol, crippled by nervous breakdowns and a series of minor strokes, fled Phnom Penh for Hawaii with his family and entourage while Prince Sirik Matak and other Lon Nol supporters remained behind in the hopes of organizing a last-minute peace talks. The Khmer Rouge rejected the talks and pressed further into the capital. US Ambassador to Cambodia John Gunther Dean quickly made plans to evacuate US embassy staff and their families along with key Cambodian government officials, including Sirik Matak, Lon Nol's brother Lon Non, and acting prime minister Long Boret. All three declined the offer. In the hours leading up to the evacuation Sirik Matak responded to Dean's invitation:
Dear Excellency and friend,
I thank you very sincerely for your letter and for your offer to transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion.
As for you and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty. You have refused us your protection and we can do nothing about it. You leave us and it is my wish that you and your country will find happiness under the sky.
But mark it well that, if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad because we are all born and must die one day. I have only committed the mistake of believing in you, the Americans.
Please accept, Excellency, my dear friend, my faithful and friendly sentiments. Sirik Matak.
Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, former contender for the Cambodian throne and co-conspirator in the Lon Nol coup, would be executed by the Khmer Rouge two weeks later, along with Long Boret, Lon Non, and the other remaining members of the Lon Nol government.
On the morning of April 12, Ambassador John Gunther Dean and the US embassy staff boarded a series of US transport helicopters to evacuate to a navy ship waiting in the Gulf of Thailand. Khmer children observing the evacuation waved to the Americans, calling out "OK, bye-bye, OK, bye-bye" to the departing embassy staff. As the helicopters departed Phnom Penh, the Khmer Rouge shelled the evacuation zone, firing mortars into the crowd watching the departure. The civil war was coming to an end.
Five days later, on April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge forced marched unopposed into central Phnom Penh. At first the residents of the city celebrated - the siege was over, there would be no more fighting. But within hours, the joy would turn to horror as the Khmer Rouge began to implement their barbarous plan for a utopian communist society. April 17, 1975 was Day Zero for the new Cambodia - two thousand years of Khmer history were now meaningless.
i think that picture above was taken 10 years ago; it wasn't taken yesterday, you know! give cambodia a break, please!
ReplyDeletegive cambodia some credit, please!
ReplyDeletehow cambodia has a good credit if cambodia run by a groups of khmer rouge.
ReplyDeleteIn the US they called "Police brutality" and corruption, they called " Ethic violation ".
ReplyDeleteThe Us know how to use english words to make it sound worse for others and sound better for themself.
More often then not, people confuse between laws and orders with brutality. Every where in the world, whenever there is a protest in public place you will see violence take place.
It is the same in the US. If you disobey the command of the police officers you will see the results.
As far as human right in Cambodia, I think they high light too much in to the issue. It is counter productive toward Cambodia, she is not perfect but she is moving the right direction.
By putting the Human Right Org. to follow Gov. every where they go, whatever they do, ofcourse you will find some faults. It is the same in the US, if you send that UN teams to follow the troops in Afganistan, you will see some violations.
I wonder if the UN teams trying to point out all the faults in Cambodia just to justify their jobs. What happend if there is no violation in Cambodia, do they still have jobs in Cambodia????. By pointing faults on others, it doesn't make you perfect, think about it.
Please, think Cambodia as a hole not just individual gain.
10:32pm, good analysis. i agree with what you're saying. it's more a matter of words used, than the actual human rights violation, etc... of course, when you have unruly people, the police will take action, somehow. it happens all over the world, really! and to pick only on cambodia is pure bias, to say the least. no excuses in the world will justify their bias towards cambodia. i think human rights organization, etc, ought to focus their radar screen more on the most serious crime, or the most corrupted official etc.; they shouldn't assume the whole country of cambodia is that way, though. pinpoint on the individuals who committed crimes, violations, etc, not cambodia as a whole, really. otherwise, they are always bias inthe eyes of cambodia.
ReplyDeletei know, just because they saw one bad apple in a basket, doesn't mean all the apples are bad, you have to pick out the bad ones from the good ones, you know! there are more to cambodia than human violation, and so forth.
ReplyDeleteUS government lecturing on "human rights" is a cynical case of the pot calling the kettle black! It is the US gov't that is most guilty of human rights violations - illegal wars, torture, CIA renditions, black prisons, targeted assassinations, drone attacks on civilians, illegal detentions without legal representation or charges, the best fake "democracy" money can buy..... etc.!!!
ReplyDeleteUS government lecturing on "human rights" is a cynical case of the pot calling the kettle black! It is the US gov't that is most guilty of human rights violations - illegal wars, torture, CIA renditions, black prisons, targeted assassinations, drone attacks on civilians, illegal detentions without legal representation or charges, the best fake "democracy" money can buy..... etc.!!!
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