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  • A Few Reasons Why Optimism is So Important


    AuthspotAuthority Authority: 559
    Winston Churchill once said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”   I am not a doctor of any sort, so I do not have an education in psychology to directly support me in this; however, I have done extensive research from doctors who ...
    20 hours ago
  • A Race Changes Lives in Cambodia


    Real Cambodia, Khmer NewsAuthority Authority: 437
    SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA — At first, San Mao thought he had been shot in the leg. Rahman Roslan for the International Herald Tribune San Mao, center, the winner of the 10-kilometer, or 6.2-mile, race for athletes with artificial legs, shook hands with the second place winner in the 14th Angkor Wat ...
    3 days ago
  • Cambodias first war crimes trial marred by flaws


    Real Cambodia, Khmer NewsAuthority Authority: 437
    The trial of Khmer Rouge prison commander Comrade Duch underscores the difficulties of such an endeavor in a country with a reputation for corruption and a compromised judiciary. Reporting from Phnom Penh, Cambodia - The scene at the untidy conclusion of Cambodias first war ...
    5 days ago
  • On-Stage: Sweet Karma


    J.B. SpinsAuthority Authority: 132
    Academy Award-winning actor and physician Dr. Haing S. Ngor’s 1996 murder in apparent hold-up attempt seemed like a case of fate gone cosmically out-of-synch. To survive the real life “Killing Fields” of the Cambodia Marxist Khmer Rouge regime Dr. Ngor had to endure the unthinkable. The question of how such ...
    5 days ago
  • Silencing the NGO’s in Cambodia


    The Daily ClarityAuthority Authority: 127
    Cambodia is at a fork in the road and which direction it takes will determine its future. When we were there earlier this year the local scuttlebutt among the journalists and ex-pats was a tightening up on human rights and freedom of speech. This contrasts with the current trial of the Khmer Rouge head jailer of the ...
    1 week ago
  • War, death and justice


    Cambodia: Details are SketchyAuthority Authority: 128
    Prime Minister Hun Sen wields the specter of war as he threatens the ECCC against pursuing additional suspects. “I prefer the failure of the tribunal than to let the country fall into war,” he said, reiterating concerns that further indictments could lead to instability. “You must consider this. If there is ...
    1 week ago
  • ‘Be Careful’ of War, Hun Sen Warns Tribunal


    Cambodian News: Politics, Economics, Education, Technology, Tourism...Authority Authority: 115
    Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal would not be able to indict more suspects than it already has, repeating his warnings that further indictments could lead to instability and, potentially, war. “I prefer the failure of the tribunal than to let the country fall into war,” he ...
    1 week ago
  • Justice watch


    Cambodia: Details are SketchyAuthority Authority: 128
    In The New York Times, Richard Bernstein takes a look at American indifference to the Khmer Rouge Tribunals and the pace of court justice. He argues that the court’s tepid progress is the result of its adherence to international standards of justice. And in regards to pending cases, he moves the opening dates even ...
    1 week ago
  • Talks on KR reconciliation focus on individual hopes


    Real Cambodia, Khmer NewsAuthority Authority: 437
    Intergenerational conference seeks to heal the wounds of survivors by educating youths about the Kingdom’s decades of killing and warfare “IT starts from sentiments,” said Long Khet, director of Youth for Peace. “Reconciliation begins with feelings for a new generation.” For the past three years, Youth for ...
    1 week ago
  • Letter from America: As Notorious Khmer Figure Is Tried, Few in U.S. Take Notice


    NYT > TheaterAuthority Authority: 905
    The trial in Phnom Penh of Kaing Guek Eav, one of the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, has finished its first phase, but it doesnt seem as though many in the United States know or care.
    1 week ago
  • New guy at the court


    Cambodia: Details are SketchyAuthority Authority: 128
    The ECCC names a new international prosecutor . Briton Andrew T. Caley, who has worked at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has been formally appointed by Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni, a court statement said. The appointment was welcomed by court ...
    1 week ago
  • Cambodia’s Struggle with Justice


    Human RightsAuthority Authority: 118
    Things have been difficult for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), pretty much from the start.  The one thing the UN-backed court charged with holding the leadership of the Khmer Rouge responsible for their crimes had going for it was that its first defendant, Kaing Guek Eav, better known by ...
    1 week ago
  • In Diplomacy, There is Nutz, and then There’s Really Nutz?


    Dummidumbwit's WeblogAuthority Authority: 141
    In Diplomacy There is Nutz and then There’s Really Nutz? In Diplomacy there is Nutz, and then there’s Really Nutz? For example, if you are an old Retired Frybrain (or if not try to follow anyway) from the 60’s, You remember we fought against a regime in Vietnam that ...
    1 week ago
  • In Final Plea, Duch Asks To Be Freed


    Real Cambodia, Khmer NewsAuthority Authority: 437
    By Men Kimseng, VOA Khmer Original report from Washington 30 November 2009 The final stage of the trial for jailed Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Kek Iev ended Friday, with the defense split and the defendant asking to be set free despite admissions of guilt. Prosecutors have demanded Kaing Kek Iev, better known as ...
    1 week ago
  • The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Cambodias Healing Process


    Real Cambodia, Khmer NewsAuthority Authority: 437
    When the Khmer Rouge emptied the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh of human inhabitants in 1975, one of Pol Pots soldiers murdered 4-year-old Theary Sengs father. Later, Theary Seng, her mother and siblings ended up in a prison in southeast Cambodia. One day, Theary Seng awoke to an empty cell — the prison population had ...
    1 week ago
  • Khmer Rouge Death Camp Commander Awaits Sentence


    NEAAT!Authority Authority: 140
    HNOM PENH — The trial of a Khmer Rouge prison commandant who oversaw the deaths of at least 12,000 people has wrapped up. But in his final statement, Kang Guek Eav, also known as Duch, stunned the court by asking for an acquittal.   Dunlop is credited with tracking down Duch, who he found working at his old ...
    1 week ago
  • News Analysis: Cambodian Trial, Though Grim, Broke New Ground


    NYT > TheaterAuthority Authority: 905
    The first trial to showcase the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge three decades ago may have helped Cambodia begin to move beyond the horrors of its past.
    1 week ago
  • Film With Rare Khmer Rouge Interviews Opens


    Real Cambodia, Khmer NewsAuthority Authority: 437
    By Men Kimseng, VOA Khmer Original report from Washington 27 November 2009 A documentary film that uses rare interviews with Khmer Rouge leaders and foot soldiers to demonstrate the regime’s chain of command is screening in Amsterdam this week. The 94-minute “Enemies of the People” includes testimony from the ...
    1 week ago
  • Asia Cast for Saturday 28th November


    Asia CastAuthority Authority: 126
    The original Chinese Epoch Times report exposing the failier of Chinese officials to report outbreaks of H1N1; as was teh case with SARS. (Courtesy of The Epoch Times) In this Bulletin… - H1N1 almost as bad as 2003 SARS outbreak in China; - A hundred more suspects in Philippines massacre; and - Australian ...
    1 week ago
  • Its Not Like I Killed 12,400 or Anything


    The Disaffected LibAuthority Authority: 431
    Lets do the math. 10-years in prison or about 3,653 days all in. 12,340 dead or at least thats the number youll admit to. Thatd work out to about three and a half murder victims a day for each day youve spent in the slammer. But hey, enoughs enough already! Khmer Rouge mega-murderer and torturer-in-chief Kaing ...
    2 weeks ago

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