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As I know some internet shop owners in Phnom penh: they say, it headache after the customers go back after renting a internet hours setting, files or programs that download from internet left in the screen after they use so they need to delete all files in the screen.
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Note: Before you set this program you should learn about it:

Note: you learn how to set up the Boot Control

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Sihanouk challenges his critics to return to live and work in Cambodia ... from Beijing

(Photo: AFP)

King-Father responds to his critics

20 April 2009
By San Suwidh
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Click here to read the article in Khmer

KI-Media note: The letter is not yet posted on the king's website

In his latest letter, the ex-Cambodian monarch challenged his critics to return back to Cambodia to serve the nation and the Cambodian people.
On Sunday, former King Norodom Sihanouk responded in a letter in French to Cambodians who are now living in Canada, France and other countries, and who criticized him for living in China more than in his native Cambodia. These critics want the former monarch to return and live in Cambodia.

King Sihanouk wrote to Cambodians to indicate to them that, while receiving treatment for his 3rd lymphoma B cancer, he requires special medical care through medicines and perfusions, etc… He also wrote that even if he loves, respects and praises the People’s Republic of China to which he owes a debt of gratitude for helping provide his past 2 cancer treatments, he never ceased to serve the nation and the Cambodian people at all.

Besides the above, the ex-monarch ended his letter by challenging Cambodians who are now living in Canada, France, etc… to return back to live in Cambodia to serve the nation and the Cambodian people.

One in jail, one at large after Cambodian festival shootings

April 20, 2009
JOY POWELL
Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, USA)

One man remained jailed Monday and another was sought by Dakota County sheriff's deputies after shots were fired at a Cambodian festival attended by about 2,000 people in Hampton on Saturday, the Sheriff's Office said. Nobody was hit.

The incident happened shortly after 3:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the Watt Munisotaram Temple, just off Hwy. 50, in the 2900 block of E. 220th Street. Several cars were struck, said Dave Bellows, chief deputy.

He said a 29-year-old man was arrested shortly after the incident, and deputies continued looking Monday for at least one other man. Authorities suspect that gang activity might be involved, Bellows said. The arrested man's name was not released Monday because of an ongoing investigation, and he had not been charged Monday afternoon.

Handguns used in the shooting were not recovered, Bellows said.

While most of the festival-goers were at the temple nearby, rather than in the parking lot, it was "very fortunate that no one was struck," Bellows said.

"We estimate that eight to 10 shots were fired between these two," he said.

The festival celebrated the Cambodian New Year. Such gatherings at the large temple, which opened in 2005, have been peaceful in the past, he said.

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Dakota County Sheriff's Office at 651-438-4720 or the TIPS line at 651-438-8477.

KR Victims in the US demand for “true justice”

19 April 2009
By Sary Rath
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Click here to read the article in Khmer

Witnesses still alive and relatives of the victims who are currently living in the US are demanding that the KR Tribunal (KRT) provide a trial that is fair and acceptable by the victims and their relatives who are still alive.

During a candle vigil to commemorate the victims of the KR genocide which was held in front of the White House in the evening of 17 April, Koh Bun Kon and his wife from San Jose, California, as well as others who participated in the vigil, called on the Cambodian government to push for a fair trial for the KR leaders.

Koh Bun Kon said: “Today, on 17 April, I am joining with other Cambodian friends and relatives to commemorate our relatives, our parents and the 1.7 million others who died during the Pol Pot era. May the spirits of our parents and relatives come to join us to push the KR Tribunal to speed up the trials. Today, I am very moved to meet a large number of our compatriots. Everybody, including myself, we used to live under the Pol Pot regime for almost 4 years, we were very hurt, extremely hurt, I still remember everyday because my parents, my siblings, my nephew died, they died by the hundreds. Therefore, I can only pay respect to their spirits, and I am asking the Cambodian government to complete the KR trials and to provide justice for us so I can have some peace.”

Tung Yap, President of the Cambodian-Americans for Human Rights and Democracy (CAHRAD), said that besides holding this meeting to commemorate the spirit of the victims, his organization, along with the International community, called for an international prevention of new genocide in the world.

Regarding the trial of the former KR leaders in order to provide true justice, Tung Yap indicated that the alliance led by Dr. Leakhena Nou will gather witnesses of the KR regime who are still alive in the US to provide testimonials to the ECCC in the near future. Tung Yap said: “We are pleased to support Dr. Leakhena Nou who gathered Cambodian-Americans to provide testimonials for the trial of the KR.”

In 2009, the International community has set the month of April as the genocide prevention month. Savage events in Germany, Rwanda, Bosnia, Armenia, Cambodia, as well the current event in Darfur, Sudan are reminders of this issue.

Genocide researchers indicated that the genocidal regime in the 6 countries above all savagely took power in the month of April.

At Jungle Prison, Duch Tortured, Murdered: Guard

By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
20 April 2009

A man claiming to be a former Khmer Rouge guard at M-13 prison told judges that Duch also tortured prisoners, as trial proceedings continued Monday.

The purported guard, Chan Voeun, said Duch, who is facing numerous atrocity crimes charges, had shot his uncle and lit fire to the breast of a female inmate at M-13, the Kampong Speu provincial prison he ran before he was chief of Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh.
Judges are considering the behavior of Duch at M-13 as reference to acts later carried out at Tuol Sleng, as prosecutors continued to build a case against him. Now 66, Duch, whose real name is Kaing Kek Iev, is the first to be tried by the UN-backed court.

“I saw him hang prisoners, beat them, and I saw my uncle fall down and die after [Duch] shot him,” Chan Voeun said Monday. “I saw Duch holding in his hand a gun. He put a torch to burn the breast of a woman prisoner. She died at the prison.”

In his defense Monday, Duch said Chan Voeun had not been a guard at the prison and that his testimony was a fabrication. However, Duch did recognize some testimony of Chan Voeun, that villagers from the commune of Am Laing, near the prison, were arrested and put in M-13 and later killed.

Chan Voeun, 56, told judges he worked for Duch at M-13 from 1974 to 1975, and that there were around 70 people from the village.

Duch said he remembered the prisoners, but he said the number was “not 70.” However many there were, they were killed, which he regretted, Duch said.

Other witnesses at Duch’s trial have said that five to 10 prisoners died each day at M-13. However, Duch has said that only between 200 and 300 prisoners were killed at the prison.

Chan Voeun said that on one occasion he passed the cells of prisoners and counted 10 people, but when he returned later, there only four or five remained.

Duch’s trial is scheduled to continue Tuesday and Wednesday, when judges are expected to look closer at Duch’s role at Tuol Sleng, known to the Khmer Rouge as S-21, where prosecutors say at least 12,380 people were tortured and sent to their deaths.

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Vietnam Offers Military Training to Cambodia

By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
20 April 2009

Vietnam’s deputy defense minister on Monday offered aid in military training to Cambodian soldiers and officers, at a time when Cambodian and Thai troops are entangled in a protracted border dispute in the north.

Maj. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh made the offer to Prime Minister Hun Sen following a ceremony for 22 senior military officials who recently returned from PhD and master’s programs in military science at the Army Institute of Vietnam, in Hanoi.

“He is ready to help for human resources development in the field of national defense and to strengthen the cooperation between the Cambodian Defense Ministry and the Vietnamese Defense Ministry,” Hun Sen’s spokesman, Ieng Sophaleth, told reporters Monday. “Vietnam and the Vietnamese army are ready to learn and share experiences between Cambodia and Vietnam, with the purpose of strengthening and building-up the capacity of territorial defense and the defense of respective sovereignties.”

Military officials have received training in Vietnam since the 1980s, when Cambodia was under Vietnamese occupation following the ouster of the Khmer Rouge, in 1979.

“From 2001 to 2009, there have been 170 Cambodian military senior officials going to study at the institute,” Nguyen Duc Xe, director of the Army Institute, said in remarks Monday.

The 22 graduates, all officers, wrote theses that “are not made for offensives to invade any countries,” Hun Sen said at the ceremony Monday, “but they are just about management and order of the military, to defend national sovereignty. This shows that Cambodia is not thinking about sending its troops to invade any countries.”

Graduates of the Army Institute who were recognized on Monday included Gen. Pol Saroeun, commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, and his deputy, Gen. Kun Kim, both of whom earned PhDs.

Pol Saroeun wrote his thesis on the defense of Military Region 3, which comprises the provinces of Kampong Speu, Kampot, Kep, Koh Kong, Preah Sihanouk and Takeo. Kun Kim wrote about Military Region 5, which includes the provinces of Banteay Meanchey, Battambang and Pursat, as well as Pailin.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Thai and Cambodian troops have been entrenched along the northern border of Preah Vihear province since July, when Preah Vihear temple was included on a list of World Heritage sites, sparking protests in Thailand. Talks have failed to bring about a resolution, and troops have clashed at least twice, leading to deaths on each side.

Justice, 34 Years in the Making, Falters

By Men Kimseng, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
20 April 2009

Thirty-four years ago on April 17, black-clad Khmer Rouge guerrillas walked into Phnom Penh and began nearly four years of terrible, terrifying rule, causing the deaths of nearly 2 million people and destroying the fabric of Cambodian society. Yet, for all that time, no justice has been served, even as five former leaders of the regime sit in a tribunal detention center.
Developments at the UN-backed, hybrid tribunal have raised questions about the court’s ability to deliver justice to victims of the Khmer Rouge: Prime Minister Hun Sen has said he would rather see the court fail than have indictments destabilize the country; the UN and the government can’t reach an agreement on how to handle nagging allegations of corruption; and prosecutors are at odds over how many people should even face trial.

The last one is a tough one. Cambodian prosecutor Chea Leang has said further indictments beyond the five currently in custody could lead to instability, while the UN-appointed prosecutor, Robert Petit, has advocated for more investigations.

“It is a line that is difficult to draw, sometimes, for prosecutors to proceed to a fairly worldly standard,” David Tolbert, a former UN adviser to the tribunal, told a forum in Washington recently. “But at the end of the day, it is a judicial judgment, and the arguments that have been put forward are not judicial.”

Caitlin Reiger, deputy director of the Prosecution Program and head of the Cambodia Program at the Center for International Justice, agreed.

“It is a matter for the judges to decide, based on, first of all, whether or not the evidence put before them is bared and whether the cases fall into their interpretation of the jurisdiction and the mandate of the court,” she told the forum, which was attended by academics, researchers and diplomats. “And the court mandate is explicitly [to try] senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge and those most responsible.”

The tribunal is undertaking its first trial, of former Tuol Sleng prison chief Duch, who, at 66, faces charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and murder. Duch, whose real name is Kaing Kek Iev, has been in custody since 1999, and his trial is the easiest to prosecute.

Trials for four more former leaders—‘Brother No. 2’ Nuon Chea, head of sate Khieu Samphan, foreign affairs minister Ieng Sary, and social affairs minister Ieng Thirith—have not been scheduled.

Hun Sen, who was once a Khmer Rouge cadre himself, says those five are enough, and more arrests could erode the fragile peace Cambodia has achieved since Khmer Rouge leaders and soldiers defected to the government as part of a peace plan in 1998.

Such statements, made “on an increasing basis over the last several weeks,” can undermine the credibility of the court, especially in Cambodia, where the judicial system is widely seen as politically influenced, Reiger said.

Cambodia has never had a reconciliation commission, as have other countries, so the tribunal, established in 2006, must function without interference if it is to deliver justice, Scott Warden, an expert on the rule of law at the United States Institute of Peace, told VOA Khmer.

“It is not just about getting a conviction for the senior people,” he said. “I think this is also an opportunity for the court to give a much larger story, to bring out testimony that otherwise wouldn’t be talked about.”

Meanwhile, allegations that Cambodian staff pay kickbacks in order to work at the court have sullied the reputation of the process, leading some donors to withhold funding and leading to a budget crisis on the Cambodian side of the tribunal.

Earlier this month, the UN’s senior legal adviser, Peter Taksoe-Jensen, failed to reach an agreement with the Cambodian government on how the court should tackle corruption allegations.

Cambodian officials wanted those who file complaints to be named; the UN maintains their identities must be protected. There is no indication of further talks, even as donors hold back their funding.

For now, the hope is that the five leaders under indictment will at least be tried, in a fair manner, contributing to the process of justice, a process that has proven elusive for three decades.

In Battambang, an Absence of Bird Flu Fear

By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
20 April 2009

Poultry vendors in Battambang province say they don’t always follow safety precautions for handling birds, mainly because they aren’t afraid of the bird flu virus, even as health authorities are working to prioritize areas to mitigate the threat.
Sitting on a box full of chickens, Yoern Yean, 31, told VOA Khmer recently he had been running his business for five years and never uses gloves to handle the birds.

Another vendor, Vy Savuth, 42, said he only buys healthy birds, so bird flu, caused by the H5N1 virus, was not a concern.

“I touch chickens every day, for 10 years already, by neither my wife nor I have ever had the bird flu virus,” he said.

Seven Cambodians have died from the bird flu virus, in eight outbreaks since 2005, making the country a target in the fight against the disease. Health officials worry that one day the disease could mutate into a form that could easily spread from human to human, creating a global pandemic.

“I never wear a mask or gloves,” said Meas Vy, 36, as she held a chicken in her arms. “I’m not afraid of the H5N1 virus.”

Pen Setha, director of the provincial animal health office, said market vendors are taught to use gloves and masks while handling birds, “but they don’t follow us.”

Health officials are seeking to change that behavior, especially in the districts of Samlot, Kamreang, Sampov Loun and Phnom Phroek, which are close to Thailand and therefore a greater threat.

Ex-Khmer Rouge says he is selling Pol Pot's shoes

2009-04-21
By SOPHENG CHEANG
Associated Press

A former member of the Khmer Rouge member said Monday that he is auctioning off a pair of shoes he claims belonged to the group's late leader Pol Pot to fund a museum about the brutal regime.
Nhem En, the chief photographer at the group's notorious torture center who photographed prisoners before and after they were tortured, is also selling his cameras. His images are the centerpiece of a permanent exhibition at the prison, which is now known as the Tuol Sleng genocide museum.

He has denied any involvement in the atrocities committed by the regime, whose policies were believed responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians when they were in power in 1975-79. He has said his job was only to take photographs.

As many as 16,000 men, women and children are believed to have been tortured at S-21 in Phnom Penh before being executed.

The prison's commander, Kaing Guek Eav, is currently being tried by a U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal. At the trial Monday, a witness at the U.N.-assisted genocide trial of Duch told the tribunal he had seen the defendant torture a woman.

Nhem En said a public auction would be held next week for the shoes and two cameras he used to photograph prisoners. Bids for the lot would start at $500,000, he said.

"I love and like these items very much, but if I don't sell them I would not have enough money to fund the museum," he said.

The photographer plans to build the museum at Anlong Veng, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in northern Cambodia where he now serves as a deputy district chief. The museum will display photos of the communist group's leaders.

Nhem En said he received what he says were Pol Pot's shoes from a close aide of the leader about a month after his death in April 1998. He said Pol Pot wore the shoes - rubber sandals made from automobile tires, which were standard issue footwear for Khmer Rouge guerrillas - for several years before his death while a prisoner of one of the group's factions.

He said the two cameras for sale were given to him in 1976 for his work at S-21.

At Duch's trial Monday, Chan Voeurn, 56, told the court on Monday that Duch had burned the breasts of the woman. Chan said he worked as a guard in 1974 at the M13 jungle prison, which had also been under Duch's command.

Crying as he testified, he also said that Duch had personally shot dead his uncle, another prisoner.

The defendant said the testimony was false, fabricated or based on hearsay accounts. The commander has denied most accusations of personally torturing and killing prisoners.

Duch is the first senior Khmer Rouge figure to face trial, and the only one to acknowledge responsibility for his actions. The 66-year-old is charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture.

Four other former Khmer Rouge leaders are in custody and are scheduled to be tried sometime over the next year or two.

"Salt Seeker" relives Khmer Rouge repression

Daravaan Yi (Photo: http://saltseeker.com)

4/20/09
Jenna Shepanski
The Quad, Student Newspaper of West Chester U. (Pennsylvania, USA)

West Chester University welcomed Daravaan Yi, author of "Salt Seeker" and a survivor of the Cambodian genocide, to speak of his experience on Friday April 17 2009 at 11 a.m. in Sykes Student Union.

April 17th consequently marked the 34th anniversary of the takeover of Cambodia in 1975, and Yi still gets chills when he talks about his experience. He noted this saying that he had goosebumps while sharing his story.

Yi was nine years old when Cambodia came under attack by the Khmer Rouge, an armed resistance movement formed by its leader Pol Pot. The men of the Khmer Rouge, which means "Red Cambodians" forced him out of his home, AK47s in hand, and made him walk for six days to a remote part of Cambodia. It was there where he was put to work by these men doing anything they asked. He lived in a tiny hut packed with people.

The men of the Khmer Rouge would take two or three people from these huts about every three months and they wouldn't return the next day. Yi explained. Yi's own brother was one of these people.

"They killed like a stealth bomber," Yi said. "You just never heard from them again." Others died from starvation, because they were given little to no food, or "they just gave up living," Yi said. He and the others who were enslaved were without soap, shampoo, or toothbrushes for four years.

He stayed a slave in Cambodia until he was 14 when he made the six day trek on foot to a refugee camp in Thailand. He remained there for a year until "this wonderful country took him in" and he became a legal U.S. citizen at age 15. When he arrived in the U.S. he had nothing, and knew no English.

"I wanted to learn English so I could tell my story," Yi said. After his arrival in America, he was placed into foster care and lived a life he had always dreamed of. He attended school where he learned English, and went on to college at Penn State. It was there where he earned a degree in Political Science in 1993. He then extended his schooling to earn a degree in student personnel. He now works as a counselor at the Philadelphia Community College.

He never forgets his experience and feels that he is a better person for having endured what he did.

"I am stronger than ever today, and if I die when I walk out of this building today, I die a happy man," Yi said.

Yi also sends the children of Cambodia items they desperately need to live every day life, such as medicine, bikes so they can ride to church, and sandals. He said that this is the way he gives back to those in need because he has everything he needs.

He then showed a series of photographs of his family, friends, and him while enslaved and at the refugee camp. He remembered those he knew and honored them for enduring for as long as they did.

Yi offered the students present a piece of advice at the conclusion of the presentation. He encouraged everyone to not give up on their dreams and to strive for whatever makes them happy, also to help people because "you can never be truly successful until you help someone in need," Yi said.

Jenna Shepanski is a fourth-year student majoring in English and minoring in Journalism. She can be reached at JS618186@wcupa.edu.

Gunshots fired at Buddhist temple

Monday, April 20, 2009
Nathan Hansen
The Farmington Independent (Minnesota, USA)

There were gunshots fired but no injuries when an argument apparently got out of hand Saturday afternoon at the Cambodian Buddhist Temple in Hampton.

Initial investigation suggests the incident may be gang related, Dakota County chief deputy Dave Bellows said.

The incident took place around 3:30 p.m. during a New Year's festival attended by about 2,000 people. At least two people exchanged gunfire in a parking area just west of the temple. According to Bellows there were eight to 10 gunshots fired, but nobody was hit. Several cars were damaged.

Three or four deputies were working the festival as off-duty security and were called to the parking lot immediately.

Bellows said there was not a large crowd in the parking lot when the shooting occurred but there were people nearby.

"It's extremely fortunate that nobody was hit given the number of rounds fired and the number of people at the festival," Bellows said.

A 29-year-old man was taken into custody following the incident and is currently in the Dakota County Jail awaiting charges.

Dakota County Sheriff's deputies are looking for additional suspects.

Anyone with information should call the Dakota County Sheriff's Department at 651-438-4720 or the TIPs phone line at 651-438-TIPS (8477).

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"...we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want": Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan's China comments prompt backlash

Sun Apr 19, 2009
AP

HONG KONG - Action star Jackie Chan 's comments wondering whether Chinese people "need to be controlled" have drawn sharp rebuke in his native Hong Kong and in Taiwan .

Chan told a business forum in the southern Chinese province of Hainan that a free society may not be beneficial for China 's authoritarian mainland.

"I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not," Chan said Saturday. "I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."

He went on to say that freedoms in Hong Kong and Taiwan made those societies "chaotic."

Chan's comments drew applause from a predominantly Chinese audience of business leaders, but did not sit well with lawmakers in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

"He's insulted the Chinese people. Chinese people aren't pets," Hong Kong pro-democracy legislator Leung Kwok-hung told The Associated Press. "Chinese society needs a democratic system to protect human rights and rule of law."

Another lawmaker, Albert Ho, called the comments "racist," adding: "People around the world are running their own countries. Why can't Chinese do the same?"

Former British colony Hong Kong enjoys Western-style civil liberties and some democratic elections under Chinese rule. Half of its 60-member legislature is elected, with the other half picked by special interest groups. But Hong Kong's leader is chosen by a panel stacked with Beijing loyalists.

In democratically self-ruled Taiwan, which split from mainland China during a civil war in 1949, legislator Huang Wei-che said Chan himself "has enjoyed freedom and democracy and has reaped the economic benefits of capitalism. But he has yet to grasp the true meaning of freedom and democracy."

Chan's comments were reported by news outlets in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but were ignored by the mainland Chinese press.

Although Chan was a fierce critic of the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in June 1989, which killed at least hundreds, he has not publicly criticized China's government in recent years and is immensely popular on the mainland.

He performed during the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics and took part in the Olympic torch relay .

Chan also is vice chairman of the China Film Association, a key industry group.
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Associated Press writer Annie Huang in Taipei contributed to this report.

Cambodian-Americans call for speed up in the trial of former KR leaders

19 April 2009
By Khim Sarang
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer

Cambodian people from many states in the US cannot forget 17 April 1975, the date when the Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh and started the killing of more than 2 million Cambodians during their 3 years, 8 months and 20 days reign.

Tung Yap, President of the Cambodian-Americans for Human Rights in Democracy (CAHRAD) organization, said that, besides the commemorations for the victims, his organization also appeals to the KR Tribunal to speed up the trial process for the former KR leaders, and to provide justice.

Tung Yap said: “Today, we are all gathering to light candles to commemorate all our compatriots who died during the Pol Pot genocidal regime. We pray that the spirits of these victims will push the KR Tribunal to speed up the trials prior to the death of the KR leaders, and that justice will be provided.”

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Cambodian-Americans call for speed up in the trial of former KR leaders

19 April 2009
By Khim Sarang
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer

Cambodian people from many states in the US cannot forget 17 April 1975, the date when the Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh and started the killing of more than 2 million Cambodians during their 3 years, 8 months and 20 days reign.
Tung Yap, President of the Cambodian-Americans for Human Rights in Democracy (CAHRAD) organization, said that, besides the commemorations for the victims, his organization also appeals to the KR Tribunal to speed up the trial process for the former KR leaders, and to provide justice.

Tung Yap said: “Today, we are all gathering to light candles to commemorate all our compatriots who died during the Pol Pot genocidal regime. We pray that the spirits of these victims will push the KR Tribunal to speed up the trials prior to the death of the KR leaders, and that justice will be provided.”

KRouge prison chief killed and tortured: witness

20 April 2009
AFP

PHNOM PENH - A witness at Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes court wept Monday as he testified that the former prison chief for the Khmer Rouge regime executed his uncle at a secret jungle camp.
Chan Veoun, 56, said he saw the jailer, known as Duch, kill his uncle while he himself was collecting food at the prison camp, M-13, in the early 1970s.

“He was my uncle. He was shot by Duch. He killed him in front of my eyes,” Chan Veoun said, weeping. He did not give a reason for the slaying.

Duch—whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav—charged in response that the testimony was fabricated.

Last month Duch apologised at the start of his trial, accepting blame for overseeing the extermination of 15,000 people who passed through the regime’s main prison, Tuol Sleng.

He has maintained however that he never personally executed anyone and has only admitted to abusing two people.

Chan Veoun told the court Duch regularly beat prisoners and once stripped a woman to her waist to burn her breasts with a torch soaked in gasoline.

Once, he added, prisoners kept shackled in pits were once left to drown in rainy season floods.

Duch denied his accounts, saying he recognised Chan Veoun but the witness had never worked under him.

“This is a complete fabrication—probably of what he heard and (he) added something on top,” Duch told the court.

“About the crimes committed at (M-13) I cannot forget it. It is a serious matter that affects me psychologically.”

The court has been hearing evidence about M-13, which Duch ran during the 1971 to 1975 Khmer Rouge insurgency against then then US-backed government, to better understand Tuol Sleng’s organising structure.

The Khmer Rouge were in power in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, when Duch is accused of supervising Tuol Sleng prison and sending thousands of people to their deaths in the so-called “Killing Fields.”

The former mathematics teacher has denied assertions by prosecutors that he played a central role in the Khmer Rouge’s iron-fisted rule.

He faces life in jail at the court, which does not have the power to impose the death penalty.

Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998, and many believe the UN-sponsored tribunal is the last chance to find justice for victims of the regime, which killed up to two million people.

Pol Pot's shoes up for sale [-Nhem En tries to cash in on Khmer tragedy?]

Nhem En

April 20, 2009
AFP

PHNOM PENH - A PHOTOGRAPHER for the Khmer Rouge said on Monday he is putting leader Pol Pot's sandals up for auction along with a pair of cameras used to picture life under his brutal regime.

Nhem En, who photographed inmates at the notorious S-21 torture centre and also snapped pictures at official ceremonies for the Cambodian regime, told AFP bidding for the items would open at US$500,000 (S$750,000)

'Now I offer for auction a pair of Pol Pot's sandals and my two cameras that I used to shoot Pol Pot and other Khmer Rouge leaders, as well as those who died and were victimised at S-21,' Nhem En said.

The sandals belonging to Pol Pot, who died in 1998, were made of car tyre, while the two cameras were manufactured in Germany and Japan, he added.

Nhem En, now a deputy governor of northwest Anlong Veng district, said he hoped to use the money to construct a museum to showcase photographs and items from the Khmer Rouge period, including Pol Pot's old toilet.

'I call for an auction of the items because I need the money to build a big museum in Anlong Veng,' he said.

Up to two million people died of starvation, execution, overwork or torture as the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, dismantled society in a bid to forge a communist utopia.

The former chief of S-21 prison, Kaing Guek Eav - better known as Duch - is currently on trial for crimes committed during the regime. Cambodia's UN-backed court also plans to try four other senior Khmer Rouge leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

KR victims in the US let their voice heard

Houng Poeuv, center, and Nin Poeuv, right, survivors of Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia, join other activists in a call for President Obama's attention in saving victims of genocide in Darfur at a rally in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, Sunday, April 19, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Human Rigts group helps Tim Skahorn seek refugee status in Thailand

18 April 2009
By Mondulkeo
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer

Officials of a human rights group in Cambodia said that they are legally providing help so that Venerable Tim Sakhorn receives temporary refugee status in Thailand.

On 18 April, Ang Chanrith, the executive director of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights Organization (KKHRO), claimed that his group is legally providing help so that Ven. Tim Sokhorn, the former abbot of the Phnom Den North pagoda, receives his temporary refugee status in Thailand.

Ang Chanrith said: “We who are living in Cambodia, we will not stop it, i.e. we continue to push so that he (Tim Sakhorn) receives the refugee status by the UNHCR in Bangkok. We are working with other human rights organizations, such as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Cambodia, and we are also working with Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International to have them help push this issue with the UNHCR in Bangkok so that he (Tom Sakhorn) can receive the refugee status.”

Following his one-year jailing in Vietnam, on 04 April 2009, the Viet authority allowed Ven. Tim Sakhorn, the former abbot of the Phnom Den North pagoda, to return to Cambodia to commemorate for his departed mother. However, the Viet authority set 17 April 2009 as his return date to Vietnam.

After he arrived in Cambodia, this former monk was re-ordained again, and he fled Cambodia to seek refugee status in Thailand.

Khieu Sopheak, spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, said that Ven. Tim Sakhorn has all the necessary rights like all other Cambodian citizens, so there is no need for him to fear anything. Khieu Sopheak added: “He has other goal, so he takes this opportunity to ask for refugee status. This is not a new affair, there are several others who are like him.”

Trinh Ba Cam, Hanoi’s mouthpiece in Cambodia, said that he does not pay attention to this issue. He added that Mr. Tim Sakhorn is merely a simple citizen. Trinh Ba Cam said: “We are not preventing him from going anywhere, he asked for the legal authorization, then it is legal, but when he fled, that is illegal.”

Ven. Tim Sakhorn fled to Thailand on 11 April because he fears for his personal safety. He is currently asking for refugee status from the UNHCR in Thailand

Mobile phone rivals fight for Cambodia

Cambodian mobile phone companies will extend their reach into rural areas. [ABC]

Sunday, April 19, 2009
Robert Carmichael, Phnom Penh
ABC Radio Australia

Cambodia has just 15 million people and is one of the poorest countries in the region - and yet it has nine mobile phone operators.
Five have launched in the last 15 months, and two more are preparing to open.

More than half the world's population has a mobile phone - there are 3.3 billion of the instruments according to latest figures.

But in Cambodia, says Thomas Hundt - chief executive of Smart, the latest entrant - market penetration is low, at 25 percent.

In other words, no more than one Cambodian in four owns a mobile phone and that makes telecommunication phone companies very excited.

Liberalisation

So Khun, Minister for Posts and Telecommunications since 1992, told Radio Australia's Connect Asia program the most important change in telecoms in his time is liberalisation, allowing private companies to enter the mobile telecoms market.

All the competitors agree on one thing, however: the market cannot sustain so many companies.

Syed Azmeer, chief marketing officer of Hello, says: "Basically it is a war of attrition. People are giving away free minutes and free SIM cards and there comes a certain point where they can't do that any more.

"Some of the not-so-serious players - once they amass a certain number of subscribers - will be up for sale."

MobiTel claims 60 percent of the market,and its parent company last month signed a loan for $US 100 million, which will be used to expand its coverage in rural areas.

Base stations

The company's chief operating officer, Kay Lot, thinks there is more urban growth to come, "but it won't last. There are only so many target markets that are still out there in the urban. So the longer-term strategy is to go out more into the rural areas."

To that end, MobiTel is erecting hundreds of new base stations each year.

Its more established competitors are also focusing their efforts outside the cities as the push to capture subscribers moves into the green Cambodian countryside.

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