Thomas M. Stockwell
Napa Valley Register
Last spring we returned from Cambodia, where the idea of a free press is severely restricted by a regime that regularly intimidates reporters, editors, authors and critics. And I really mean “intimidate.”
Newspaper reporters are daily forced to file their stories — stories that simply report the facts of illegal activities by the government — under pseudonyms. Why? Because in a country that purports to have a free press, these newspapers are regularly sued for defamation by the government, editors are jailed for years by corrupt judges, and journalists who publish these reports are targeted for assassination.
It’s one of the reasons why Cambodia is still — 30 years after the Khmer Rouge — identified as the most corrupt government in Southeast Asia.
3 comments:
do not come back!!!!!!
If some people already read
this article,s/he said,s/he did
it,but some others did not read,
s/he would say,good to know or
good to read.
Few years old kids never lie,
but the adults always lie all
the times.
Don't blame newspapers,some
reporters reported the true,
but others didn't.
In Cambodia,under Hun Sen rule
if some newspapers reported the
true story,they would jail them.
Hi Everyone,
One of KI-Media member who has his name in Facebook as Khmer Sovannaphumi but his real name is Pang Sokheoun, former political asylum and now living in Sweden. He always copies news from here to post in his facebook profile to promote himself, but right now, he tries to removed and blocked anyone who dares to reveal his con activity particular he tries to hide what he has cheated his wife (Sreypov Chea) by having a girlfriend (Sokunthear Som) behind his wife back. Now, his girlfriend had ran way from him after she knew his cheating.
A con man Pang Sokhoeun as well as KI-Media like to insult to the government officers who have affairs, but himself does even worse than other people. What a shame!
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