By Matt Potter
San Diego Reader (USA)
Wikileaks, continuing to release its trove of purloined U.S. diplomatic cable traffic, has posted an unclassified message dated February 23 of last year to the U.S. State Department from the American embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
It discusses the need to check out the human rights record of a pair of Cambodian generals set to arrive in San Diego the following month "to attend the US Military Installation for Civil-Military Operations and Army Training."
"To comply with the Leahy amendment relative to U.S. sponsored training," the cable says, "the U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh has conducted local human rights vetting for the following individual to attend the US Military Installation for Civil-Military Operations and Army Training, March 15-April 5, 2010 in SAN DIEGO, California."
The cable goes on to name a major general and a brigadier general in the Cambodian ministry of National Defense, adding, "U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh has reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the above individuals.
"Action request: Please verify whether the Department possesses any credible information that the individual named above have been implicated in gross violations of human rights."
6 comments:
i think it is wrong to base an allegation from biased individuals, especially from an oppositon political party! everybody knows it was biased opinion from a political party that often cry foul all the time no matter what the issue is. that is so wrong to based it on that type of source, bias, that is!
Does Wikileaks have others cablewire sources beside US Gov't. So far it seems trying to embarass US Government.
Concerning Human Rights abuse prompted US State Dept to check Two Cambodian Generals background(sic).
late Gen. Hok Lundi stepped his foot on US soil in plain daylight by the invitation of FBI. After repeatedly denied him the entry. US Dept has full documents about his notorous human rights abuse and extra-judicial killing acts.
hok lundi was an exception to the rule, of course, that guy committed human rights abuse, but to assume just because this one bad apple existed then and to apply that same allegation to everybody in cambodia is not right! people are individuals, we cannot say that all people in cambodia are all the same! treat it as an individual case by case basis. stereotyping is a sign ignorance, i think! i thought people are smarter than that, you know!
I'm sorry if I don't make it clear. Did I mention other Cambodians?
Hok Lundi is the only rotten apple and only him. And that US allowed to enter despite having gross evidence of Human rights abuse.
That was how the FBI took his DNA and so the lightning striked him!!!!!
Voila!!!
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