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| A woman holds a photograph of slain environmental activist Chut Wutty at his funeral. He was gunned down in Koh Kong in April. Photograph: Will Baxter/Phnom Penh Post |
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Claire Knox
The Phnom Penh Post
A group of international and regional human-rights organisations yesterday sent a letter to a number of embassies in the country and other aid donors, asking them to reference specific and recent human-rights violations at the meeting, including the incarceration of Beehive Radio director Mam Sonando, the murders of environmental activist Chut Wutty and journalist Serei Oudom, and the arrests and the detention of Boeung Kak and Borei Keila activists Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakmony.
“We strongly urge donors not to endorse and reward the actions of the RGC through a large-scale injection of new funds, but instead to make a coordinated and public condemnation of the government’s increasing human rights abuses,” it read.
Phil Robertson, of Human Rights Watch, said foreign donors aiding Cambodia’s development had a responsibility to raise human rights issues “whenever they meet with Cambodian officials”.
“We’ve stressed to the donors the importance on focusing [today] on human rights defenders who are facing prosecution for expressing their views – Mam Sonando, the Boeung Kak and Borei Keila activists – these are examples of what happens when people challenge the government. What we want is a unified stance across the board, in solid concrete, saying: ‘You should not do that.’
“In a meeting like this, it’s very hard to put something on the agenda, but it is possible to raise specific cases and these represent bigger issues – ELCs and land demarcation, human rights defenders … If the donors hang together, the government may ultimately listen to them.”
But Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak said the CDCF was a “smoke screen”and he was not confident NGOs’ calls would be answered today.
“The government and the donors know the agenda, and most of the things are agreed to beforehand by various working groups,” he said.
“There could still be the opportunity to push a few things through; we need a few people in the donor community to ... shake it up a bit.”
3 comments:
Ah Chut Wuthy slap huay. Why do you still mourning his death? Life is unpreditable, God assigned your life to be ended when your time comes. Please take of yourself, Chut Wutty is gone.
former KR soldier
Khmer Rouge regime was gone,why
still has a former KR soldier again.
KR regime was dead along with the
former KR soldier.
Stop barking former KR soldier.
Chhut Wutthy is a real Khmer
hero,but Khmer Rouge were Khmer
Butchers.
former KR soldier is a fake Khmer Rouges, but this bastard is a real Yuon Dog Eater. This bastard said previously, "I am a hard worker." He is a bullshit and liar on her. Wish could write in Khmer language to prove that he is Khmer Rouges and then we can figure out he is a Yuon CPP supporter. Wonder why he is here to support CPP that is a Dumb Yuon/Viet dog eating master's tool in Hanoi.
The comments of this Dumb Yuon Dog Eater as former KR soldier needs to be removed out of Ki-Media because he has made no sense.
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