2009-10-01Associated Press
A U.N. human rights expert says freedom of speech is deteriorating in Cambodia after several government critics were convicted of defamation.
Surya Subedi says the conviction of an opposition lawmaker and two journalists in recent months "is a disturbing trend."
Subedi is U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy for human rights in Cambodia.
The Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, meanwhile, will debate a U.S.-Egyptian resolution on freedom of speech Thursday.
European countries have expressed concern that the resolution appears to endorse "codes of conduct" for journalists and give religions protection from criticism.
Surya Subedi says the conviction of an opposition lawmaker and two journalists in recent months "is a disturbing trend."
Subedi is U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy for human rights in Cambodia.
The Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, meanwhile, will debate a U.S.-Egyptian resolution on freedom of speech Thursday.
European countries have expressed concern that the resolution appears to endorse "codes of conduct" for journalists and give religions protection from criticism.
11 comments:
Surya,
Never compare Cambodia to the US, because your comment will make you look not dumber and dumber. I don't know where you are living, but if your are living on this planet earth as most us are, you must have known what the US has gone through for all these years and how effective the US laws are. Of course the US has owed China alot, but the US will be able to pay back its debt, while Cambodia will sink deeper and deeper in the black hole of corruption because those human leeches never get enough.
For 30 years since Cambodia has got out of the Pol Pot's regime by the Yuons' invasion, and aid has been poured into Cambodia, but Cambodia seems to need more and more. Why? Because 2/3 of the aid ahs flown into the pockets of the corrupted governing body by all kinds of dirty tricks. Hun Sen, his families, and and all of his criminal cliques care nothing about the welfare of the Cambodian people. What they care the most is about their power. The power that is not won by a free and fair election, but by stealing or robbing. An administration that consists of a whole bunch of the corrupted governing body will never get enough. They are the human leeches that hurt and harm the nation without end. Adn the biggest waste is the extrvagant spending of the national budget to feed Hun Sen's 4,000 personal bodyguards.
As long as Cambodia continue to be ruled by such despicable group who have been blinded by ignorance, greed, power, and uncontrollable pride, Khmer people will never get better off and happy.
correction= look not dumb but dumber.
HUMAN RIGHT IS = HUMAN WRONG,not much of the work has been done.A lot of country complaining a bout human right how they handle their job.
Dear all,
Freedom is not for free. Everybody has to fight to get it from the DICTATOR.
The cpp is getting to much aids from china to be democratic and plus youns is sucking most of the aids. Even the democratic neighbor like thailand is trying to suck khmer blood.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had 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 had 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
Executions
Executed members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
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
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
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.
UN convoys Subedi and his predesessor Ghai have common view on their reports.
relative to ways of living in cambodia, rights to live more fairly so far is poor. For those in the power and their cronies always deny their abuses to own citizens.Fear and intimidation have been used in many forms, ranging from physical to what's considered as legal mechanism (so called rule of laws),in fact it is rule of violations.Many NGOs have observed these cruel acts and do not see they are relevant to civil rights,in addition to psychological traumas that cambodians had experienced.
Just wait and see what the UN can do,regarding the reports that do not reflects to cambodian constitution which is frame work agreed to signatoried countries, for real peace and sovereinty of cambodia.
Neang SA
if ki has been reporting the wrong information about cambodia, then this un expert guy is also reporting the wrong information.
kit pichoy
Cambodia's human record will never look beter if the baseline compares with western standard. However, if the baseline compare with Pol Pot's regime as Hun Sen always announce, yes, Cambodian nowaday is a great country on earth. Hail a ONE EYE man ruler!!
What's a fuck of this saying?During khmer rouge killed khmer people more than 3 millions people so where a fuck of this at?
You are motherfucker.You don't go to my country motherfuck my people will fuck you up ok dump ass.
of course cambodia could do better, however, i give credit to cambodia for having improved so much since KR aftermath. i think UN human rights needs to focus more with vietnam (youn) and siem for their human rights abuse to khmer helpless khmer people.
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