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PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIA announced plans on Sunday to build a monument to dozens of foreign and local journalists killed covering the country's 1970-75 war won by the communist Khmer Rouge regime.
A ceremony ahead of its construction will be held next month, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the regime's victory and a reunion of correspondents who covered the war, said government spokesman Khieu Kanharith. 'The monument is to pay tribute to those reporters and photojournalists killed... and to attract their family members and relatives to visit Cambodia,' he told AFP.
At least 37 journalists were killed or disappeared during the brutal conflict between the US-backed Lon Nol government and Khmer Rouge guerrillas supported by North Vietnamese fighters.
Mr Khieu said officials have not yet decided where in Phnom Penh to put up the monument, dedicated to reporters from Japan, France, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, India, Laos, Australia and Cambodia.
Chhang Song, former information minister for the Lon Nol government, told AFP he had commissioned the monument and was organising the reunion of journalists, to be held on April 20-23.
Several similar correspondent reunions have been held in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, but this would be the first such event in Cambodia, organisers said in a statement.
A ceremony ahead of its construction will be held next month, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the regime's victory and a reunion of correspondents who covered the war, said government spokesman Khieu Kanharith. 'The monument is to pay tribute to those reporters and photojournalists killed... and to attract their family members and relatives to visit Cambodia,' he told AFP.
At least 37 journalists were killed or disappeared during the brutal conflict between the US-backed Lon Nol government and Khmer Rouge guerrillas supported by North Vietnamese fighters.
Mr Khieu said officials have not yet decided where in Phnom Penh to put up the monument, dedicated to reporters from Japan, France, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, India, Laos, Australia and Cambodia.
Chhang Song, former information minister for the Lon Nol government, told AFP he had commissioned the monument and was organising the reunion of journalists, to be held on April 20-23.
Several similar correspondent reunions have been held in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, but this would be the first such event in Cambodia, organisers said in a statement.
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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 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.
5:58 AM You love to put more fuel onto our khmer nation and you love to create more conflict for us. Why can't stop putting this adv, as we already know who behind all the acts or who did what because life is all about right and justice and at the end they will be judged accordingly. Let say Hok Lundy committed such a crime a gainst Piseth Pilika and the question is where is Hok Lundy now? did he paid the price already by lightning strike? So, there you go. So stop filling up the sceen and let others around the world have a say on how to improve the quality of life for our Khmer citizens, thanks. Wisdom
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