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Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, July 7, 2007
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On June 1, in commemorate with International Children's Day, Licadho visited and distributed gifts to 300 prisoners in Prey Sar prison. The prison detains 306 men, 275 women and 15 children who live with their convicted mothers. Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, June 2, 2007 |
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Koh Santepheap Daily, March 7, 2007 |
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The new National Assembly building was constructed with wood from Rattanakiri forests. The government contracted a logging firm to fell 40 hectares of a rare type of timber. Unfortunately, far less than this amount was used to build the Assembly building, and the contractor is now profiting off of sales of the excess timber. Our forests need to be properly managed in two fronts: environmental sustainability and to ensure that the financial benefit of our natural resources goes to the public, not to a small number of individuals. This is a sad case of mismanagement of a public resource. Source:
Koh Santepheap
Daily, January 31, 2007
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Approximately sixty people gathered on the morning of January 22 to mourn the death of Chea Vichea and recall his vision for the workers of Cambodia. Vichea, the former President of the Free Trade Union Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia, was assassinated three years ago. He was widely respected as an organizer of Cambodian garment workers, and worked in the face of intimidation and death threats from authorities. Supporters marched from the FTUWKC headquarters to the cite of his murder, where they held a memorial service and spoke words in favor of his mission. The service was moderated by Rong Chuon of the Cambodian Independent Association of Teachers, and speakers included Chea Mony (brother of Chea Vichea), Kek Gallabru (President of LICADHO), Mu Sochua (Secretary General of the Sam Rainsy Party), Son Chhay (MP, Sam Rainsy Party) and Yim Sovann (MP, Sam Rainsy Party). NGO Teacher Association, Source:
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Over the last few days, an
unexpectedly high number of ordinary citizens have come to register, or to
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On November 29, 2006 hundreds of Thai soldiers in black uniform crossed Cambodia border at Toul Prasat village, Poi Pet commune, Ou Chrov district, Bantey Meanchey province to demolish 5 houses inside Cambodia territory. Thai army claimed that those houses were built on white border area that has not been recognized by border authority.
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Everyday there are hundreds of illegal Khmer
workers in Thailand have been detained and sent back to Cambodia. A statement
from border authority confirmed that the number of illegal workers range from
300 to 800. Those workers use international entry at Poi Pet and other entries
along the Cambodia-Thailand border to enter Thailand with the cost of 50 to 100
baht. To get a job in Thailand they have to pay 2000 to 3000 baht to a job
finder. Most workers were able to work from 5 to 12 months before they were
detained and sent back. Some were lucky to save a few hundred baht but many who
worked for a cruel Thai boss would not received any wages and have to return
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Factory workers massively traveling from Phnom Penh to their
native provinces to get registered as voters. |
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Kim
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September 13, 2006 a French national found dead by the beach of Kompong Som. Police reported that cause of death may related to robbery. For full story.
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Arm Robberies and
killing in Ang Snuol district became more violence but authority is unable
to find the culprits.
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On July 25,
2006, about 102 families protested in front of the provincial governor's
office, demanding solution to land dispute in Kors Kralor district,
Banttambang province. |
On July 9, 2006
more than 200 people near Sombok Chab village protested against future
evacuation by the municipal authority. After evacuated Sombok Chab
village, the council plans to give private company to develop a new road
to Koh Pich. The municipal authortiy proposed to pay compensation of $500 and a
small land (5m+12m) outside the capital. People disagree with
their proposal and the amount of compensation. |
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Phnom Penh,
June 20, 2006: Garment factory workers march was forcibly broke up by 200
polices with shields and electric batons. About 1500 workers from South Be
and Golden-Crown demand for reinstate their union leader, Mr. Heang Ren. |
Phnom Penh: In the middle of the night on Sunday, June 11, twelve detainees broke out of Prey Sar Penitentiary, including the infamous Hang Vuthy called "Yomeriec", to the surprise of people everywhere. Cutting through prison bars and tying blankets together as ropes the inmates miraculously escaped their modern, high-security jail at approximately 2 am and climbed over the security wall, all under the cover of night. Amazingly, even city power had failed at the same time allowing the detainees to escape unnoticed. All 12 fugitives were accused of serious crimes such as murder or robbery and were awaiting trial. Hang Vuthy was charged with the intentional murder of Municipal Court Judge Sok Sethamony. Vuthy's trial was set to begin on Monday, June 12, just a day after his escape. Obviously, the jailbreak was aided and probably prearranged by someone on the outside. The tools used to escape included a hack-saw, 2 knives and 2 hatchets. These items were doubtlessly smuggled into the prison and passed on to the inmates. It is not a small thing for 12 prisoners to escape such a facility - a modern penitentiary built to international standards and funded by the government of Australia. However, what's at question here is surely not the quality of the prison nor even the competency of the guards. What people are wondering is why did prison officials seemingly look the other way when tools were being smuggled in and when the prisoners were climbing over the wall? Were some of them paid off? If so, then who paid them off and why?
Yomeriec's miraculous jailbreak out of
Prey Sar was possible arranged by powerful men more concerned about
silencing a witness than freeing a friend. Were there others who
conspired in the murder for which he was charged that plotted for his
escape on the eve of his trial? Will he be ever seen again?
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Angry villagers at Sambok Chap
village (village 14), Bassac commune stormed the village's surrounding
fence made of corrugated metal belongs to the Suor Srun company and set
fire to the village 14 office on May 31, 2006.
Three people were injured in this incident. |
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A crowd of onlookers and
policemen surrounded the robbed Kim Ly Huot Jewelry and Money Exchange
shop located in downtown Phnom Penh. A stash of currencies worth over US
$3,000 were robbed off at gun point from the shop owner, Mrs. Kim Ly
Huot, on May 19, 2006 at 12:10 PM by three unidentified robbers. |
The belongings of one of the total 1,367 families of Sambok Chap communities, Tonle Bassac commune being unloaded from a truck hired by the Sour Srun Company on May 04, 2006 (the 2nd day of the relocation process) at Anchanh village, Trapaing Krasaing commune, about 20 km outside Phnom Penh . Despite the outrage of the villagers and the harsh criticism from NGO's people and the SRP MPs over the precarious conditions of the new location, the unfairness and the irregularities of the compensated land distribution, the Chamcar Morn district police with the cooperation of the Phnom Penh Intervention police unit and the Sour Srun Company are still moving ahead with their plan to complete the relocation process by next week. There have been reports of dishonest approaches being used by the company's people including threat and bribery to have the villagers agreed to leave.
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A brawl erupted and lasted nearly
two hours in the morning of April 24, 2006 at a place located some 200
meters away from the Custom office in Poipet (near the Thai-Cambodian
border). The dispute engaged a dozen officers of Banteay Meanchey provincial
police hired by the Chuop Lorn Company and an estimated 200 Cart Pushing
workers who support the exporters of used clothes to Thailand. |
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This 11 days old baby was seized by an anti-human trafficking and minor protection police officer from its young mother Ngyuen Thy Long, 21, a Vietnamese resident living in Phnom Penh on April 04, 2006. Nguyen Thy Long confessed to the police of having sold this baby to another female Vietnamese resident Ngyuen Thy Dep for nearly $175, because she is too poor and could not afford to raise her. Selling of human being is a crime in Cambodia.
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A big crowd of Villagers from Praka
Village, Prey Sar Commune, Dangkor District, Phnom Penh City are
confronting with a group of more than one hundred armed military
personals who prevent them from filling dirt upon a 4.5 ha land they
claim to have owned since 1979. These Villagers alleged that the then
Commune Chief Mr. Mai Seng plotted to sell their land illegally to an
unknown businessman and the Phnom Penh Court
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A Cambodian street child is sniffing glue as part of his routine practice. Poverty, family breakdown and other family problems have deprived these kids the schooling opportunities. They are obliged to roam the Phnom Penh streets day and night for a living and end up joining the Bang Thom or Gang kid groups. Adult drug addicts as well as glue sniffing addicts are estimated at thousands in Cambodia. Source: Phnom Penh Post, March 10-23, 2006 |
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David Mitchell aged 37, a British citizen and owner of Sna Meas bar was stabbed to death at his Phnom Penh home at 12.15 am of February 22, 2006. His Dutch girl friend was seriously injured and was transported to Bangkok the same day and said to be in stable condition. An18 years old man named Tong Chin suspected of killing Mitchell was arrested shortly after the incident at 400 meters from the scene. Chin is alleged to be a heavy drug addict and was looking for money to buy drug. There are thousands of drug addicts in Cambodia who cause serious problems to the Cambodian society and this hurdle has yet to be addressed. Source: Rasmei
Kampuchea Daily, 23 February 2006
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Opposition leader Sam Rainsy is being
interviewed by the press upon his arrival at Phnom Penh International
Airport in the morning of February 10, 2006. Expressing his happiness
with this fresh return after a one year absence from the country, Rainsy
told a big crowd of reporters and party members that «his urgent task is
to visit his constituents around Cambodia and to complete his party’s
overhaul work for the sake of democratic implementation in the party by
June 2006». |
Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) Member of Parliament Cheam Channy who was staying
one year in the Military prison in Phnom Penh, out of the seven years
jail term is seen here blessing by the monks and surrounded by his SRP
colleagues after being freed on February 06, 2006. MP Cheam Channy
release is a follow-up to a series of the recent releases of a group of
jailed human rights and border activists in January 2006 namely MM. Kem
Sokha, Pa Nguon Teang, Mam Sonando, Rong Chhun and Yeng Virak. This
Channy’s release along with President Sam Rainsy’s sentence dropping
were possible thanks to the pardon granted to them by His Majesty King
Norodom Sihamoni on February 05, 2006 at the request of Prime Minister
Hun Sen. SRP President Sam Rainy is due to return to Cambodia in the
next few days after taking a one year self-imposed exile abroad.
Analysts said this recent positive development of Cambodia’s political
situation was the result of a strong international pressure on the Phnom
Penh Government and a recent deal struck by both sides the Opposition
Party and the Government. Source: Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, February 07, 2006 |
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Mr. Kem Sokha and Mr.
Yeng Virak, respectively President of the Cambodian Center for Human
Rights (CCHR) and Director of the Legal Education Center (a branch of
CCHR) were both arrested and detained by a throng of Cambodian polices
in the morning of December 31, 2005. Both were charged with defamation
charges by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on the same day of their
arrests. Photo source: The online Manager Magazine dated January 02, 2006. |
Mam Sonando, an independent Radio Journalist who has been jailed at Prey Sar prison about 15 KMs from Phnom Penh by the authority since October 11, 2005 for defamation and incitement charges. He was summoned from his cell on December 09, 2005 by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to add another charge of spreading false information. Sonando alleged crimes happened when he interviewed a well-known Cambodian border expert based in France a few days before his arrest about the most controversial additional border treaty that Prime Minister Hun Sen signed with Vietnamese Premier Phan Van Khai in August 2005. His detainment prompted scores of local and world Press organizations as well as international human rights organizations around the world to issue strong condemnations on the Phnom Penh Government ever since. This radio journalist is one of many other democratic activists who fell as victims of the autocratic rule of the Hun Sen's Government . Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, December 10-11, 2005 |
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Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodian Independent Teacher's Association (CITA) is being escorted out of the Appeal Court's trial room after being denied bail by Appeal Court judge Oum Sarith on December 02, 2005. Chhun was charged with defamation charge and has been jailed since October 15,2005. Chhun's alleged crime stems from his issuance of a statement on October 11, 2005 he co-signed with three other leaders of the Cambodian Watchdog Council criticizing the Supplemental Border Treaty signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen and his counterpart Mr. Pham Van Khai in the past few months. The other three leaders of the Watchdog Group have the arrest warrants waiting for them, and are seeking refuge in Thailand and France. Source: Rasmei
Kampuchea Daily, 3 December 2005
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Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodian Independent Teacher's Association is being escorted by police from Poipet commune, Banteay Meanchey province to the Phnom Penh Court. He was charged with defamation and an order was given for his temporarily detention at Prey Sar prison on the same day of his arrest on October 15, 2005. Chhun is one of four persons sued by Prime Minister Hun Sen for a statement issued on October 11, 2005 in which, they alleged the Additional Treaty signed between Hun Sen and his Vietnamese counterpart Mr. Phan Van Khai between October 10-12, 2005 caused thousands of Kilometer Squares of the Cambodian land loss to Viet Nam. In a week preceding his arrest, an owner and director of the sole independent radio station was arrested and detained on the same charge. Using such border issue as a pretext, Prime Minister Hun Sen started to clamp down on his political opponents as well as democratic movement leaders, human rights officials and journalist. A move branded by Human Rights Watch as a campaign to suppress freedom of expression and freedom of press in Cambodia (Human Rights Watch statement dated October 18, 2005). Source: Rasmei
Kampuchea Daily,
16-17 October 2005
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Students and teachers of various educational institutions in Phnom Penh hang the posters strongly criticizing Cambodian Opposition leader Sam Rainsy. One of the posters read: "Sam Rainsy is a criminal behind the recruitment of the shadow army aimed to overthrowing the government". Those alleged students and teachers appealed for the Court to prosecute Sam Rainsy and demanded the right to hold demonstration against the return of the latter. Meanwhile, the students and teachers' will to will to hold protests against Sam Rainsy has brought into question when several students and teachers in many state-owned universities in Phnom Penh told the media that they were not aware of such protest plan and criticized their "university officials" for turning their schools which supposed to remain neutral into a political wrangling scene. Furthermore, the bias decision of the Phnom Penh Municipality to allow one side to hold peaceful demonstration and rejected Sam Rainsy Party supporters request to peacefully welcome their leaders en masse, this has caused the public to allege this is the government inspired demonstrations aim at preventing the return of the Opposition leader to the Country in the near future. Source: Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, 23 September 2005 |
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Widow Patol, 56 years old, seating right and eight of her children in front of the tomb of her husband and father Nhem Onn, 60 years old, victim of starvation in Kampong Speu province. According to Radio Free Asia broadcasted on 21 September 2005, five people had already died in Kampong Speu due to hunger. This phenomenon spread to many other provinces of Cambodia such as Kampot and Prey Veng. Illegal logging has been the main cause of drought and flood that persist successively in Cambodia in the past three years making the Cambodian farmers unable to grow crops. As a result, hunger is seriously threatening the people’s lives today.
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Claude Sothy, 39, a rich Cambodian-born American woman from San Jose who was kidnapped on 26 August 2005 had been freed unharmed on 29 August 2005. The group of kidnappers led by a one star general of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forced Kim Van Thai. Thai demanded a 5 million dollars ransom from Sothy, a demand she could not deliver. After gone high profile in the late 90s and sustained a periodic calm, kidnapping has resumed since last year. It scared both local and foreign investors as well as tourists in Cambodia. Since this case involved a senior army official, people suspect of a possibility that powerful people are behind this act. Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, 31 August 2005
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MP Cheam Channy stands trial at the Military Court tribunal on August 08, 2005. He was convicted for illegally establishing a shadow army to overthrow the Phnom Penh Government and Fraud. He was sentenced to 7 years in jail . The Cambodian Courts, both Civil and Military are well-known to be very corrupted and subservient to the Government. The trial was strongly condemned by the respective London and New York-based Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Amnesty International branded MP Cheam Channy a prisoner of conscience and demanded for his immediate and unconditional release. The condemnation also came from the US Embassy in Phnom Penh, the European Council Chairman in Brussels and the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary- General for Human Rights in Cambodia, HE. Mr. Peter Leuprecht who stated that the Court has no legal ground to convict MP Cheam Channy . He expressed doubts over the independence of the Court and said that the trial is another attempt of the Government to frame the Opposition Party.
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Koh Santepheap
Daily,
09 August
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Hundreds of overload trucks carrying up to 30 tons of sand, laterite, logs etc… cross the roads surrounding Angkor Wat temples in Siem Reap province during the rainy season every day. The tremor caused by these trucks could cause damage to some temples in the area, especially the stairs of Angkor Wat temple itself. Such practices frequently occur with senior provincial officials' complicity. Source: Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, 12 July 2005 |
In the above photo, the Cambodian security forces engaged in the controversial forced repatriation to Viet Nam of 93 Montagnards ( a tribal community living in Viet Nam central highlands) whose refugee status were denied by UNHCR. These Montagnards people fled to Cambodia for fearing repercussion after their protests against the removal of their ancestor's land, were brutally oppressed by the Vietnamese authorities in the last few years. Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, 21 July 2005 |
In the above photo, two Thai prison's trucks carry back more than 100 deported illegal Cambodian workers to Poipet, Banteay Meanchey Province every day. Poverty and worse unemployment condition in Cambodia have forced tens of thousand Cambodians to illegally crossing border to find illegal jobs in Thailand although having to endure vulnerable life in Thailand.
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Funcinpec sign apparently is worth more as scrap metal, or its members are so poor that the sign is their only valuable possession they can sell for money. According to Koh Santepheap Daily, Funcinpec sign in Thmakol Village, Chaom Chao Commune, Dangkao District, Phnom Penh was heading for a scrap metal yard on 23 June 2005. One of the three suspects was detained for questioning. Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, 24 June 2005 |
According to Koh Santepheap Daily, furious villagers from three communes in Svay Rieng Province revolted against a brother of a district chief. Up to 900 angry villagers in Samley, Angkanh, Prey Koky Commune destroyed up to 4 hectares of Acacia plants belonged to the district chief's brother, Sam Sophoan, who refused to discuss a case of land dispute, which is affecting the villagers' livelihoods. Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, 15 June 2005 |
According to Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, a
Conservation Forest official says during June 2005, some people fenced
off and cleared all forest of 6,000 hectares as their own properties in
three districts of Siem Reap Province: Banteay Srey District, Angkor
Thom District and Prasat Bakong District. Source: Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, 10 June 2005 |
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Cambodian People in Oudong District, Kampong Speu Province are searching the Lotus roots to substitute their daily rice ration due to food shortage. Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, 2 June 2005
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Destruction of Native Tree Piles of palm tree trunks are for sale along National Highway 1 in Kraol Kor Commune of Svay Chhrum District, and Svay Rieng Commune of Svay Rieng District in the Province of Svay Rieng. According to Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, many villagers fear the cutting down of the palm trees for trade destroys the native tree, not found in either Vietname or Thailand. Those trunks are from various provinces including Kompong Speu, Kompong Chhnang, and Kompong Thom. Source: Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, 14 May 2005
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"Only the Boss Knows" Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, 5 May 2005 |
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Hundreds of logs around Phnom Pok and Phnom Krob Bay in Sre Ambel District, Koh Kong Province. According to local villagers, conservation officials knows about the illegal logging, as they are sometimes involved in transporting those logs. Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, 29 March 2005
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Five villagers were killed
when the authorities went into Kbal Spean village to enforce a court
verdict against 218 families in the Village (Poipet Commune, Banteay
Meanchey Province) in favour of a village chief. According to Koh
Santepheap Daily, it is doubtful if the village chief is really the
owner of the contested four hectare land. Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, 22 March 2005 |
Intervention police forcefully dispersed approximately 1,000 Sam Han Factory workers who gathered in front of the factory in Russey Keo District on 22 February 2005, demanding their wages and termination payments. In the crackdown, police used tear gas, electric batons, and riffle butts. They fired bullets into the air, and arrested a man who was accused of inciting the crowd. Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, 23 February 2005 |
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Leaders of Free Trade Union of Workers of the
Kingdom of Cambodia, Mr. Chea Mony and Mr. Heng Sophoan, were detained
for a few hours by
the police at the Union Headquarters on 20 January 2005. |
According to Koh Santepheap Daily, electric baton-wielding police bludgeoned one taxi driver and arrested two others who were on Tuesday in Santuk Commune, Angsnuol District, Kandal Province protesting against an introduction of tolls along National Route 4. Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, 5 January 2005
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The discovery of a
truck full of illegally cut log in Siem Reap province on Road 67 at the
midnight, December 24, 2004, has caused a dispute between Environmental
Officials and Forest Conservative Officials. After the confiscated wood
was left in the Forest Conservative office, 6 big luxurious logs are
missing and only 4 small logs are left. There are two different sources
of the event. |
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Sen Vuth holding a rock in his hand is kicking and hitting his wife,
Suos Samon, on December 6, 2004 at Baek Chaan village, Baek Chaan
commune, Angsnuol district, Kandal province. Source: Koh Santepheap Daily, December 7, 2004 |
The picture shows some of the 48 logs transported on 8 tractors arrested
in Prarsat Traeng in Banteay Chmar commune, Puok district, Banteay
Meanchey province. According to Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, illegal logging
in Banteay Chmar conservation region has rapidly spread to other areas. |
About 200 drums of
illegal petroleum hidden in a well in Trapaing
Phlong village, Memut district, Kampong Cham
province were confiscated on 2 November 2004. Koh
Santepheap Daily claims the smuggling occurs
everyday. |
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The Phnom Penh municipality plans to remove 1,000
physically impaired beggars from the city in 2005,
even though some officials complain it will not
work, according to Rasmei Kampuchea. |
According
to Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, there are more beggars
now than ever in the city. Many of them come from Prey
Veng and Svay Rieng Province. The authorities have
plans to move them out of sight soon. |
Lay
Liet, 42, is a typical transporter. He
pays 1000 riel for his permit and then 200 to 300
baht (20,000 to 30,000 riel) customs duty on the
goods he brings across . He pays officials at five
different locations on the crossing .
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Just to serve a court eviction
order, |
Plotted by the forest and environment officials,
the flooded forest near Tonle Sap lake which
serves as the bird sanctuary in Boeng Per, Staung
district , Kampong thom province is being
destroyed illegally with total anarchy.
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UNTAC-built bridge in
Banteay Neang village, Mongkol Borei district, Banteay
Meanchey province collapsed when an overweight truck
carrying goods imported from Thailand tried to cross
on September 5, 2004. Roads in Cambodia have been
seriously damaged because there are more and more
overweight trucks carrying logs (deforestation) and
imported manufactured goods.
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Hundreds of people burning tyres on the
street on 18 August 2004 in front of about 100 police
officers. According to Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, they were
protesting against a court verdict on a land dispute
involving three hectares of land in Phnom Penh Thmey
Village/Commune, Russei Keo District, Phnom Penh. Source:
Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, Thursday, August 19, 2004 |
A protester choosing to lay on the National Road # 4 on 9 August 2004. According to Koh Santepheap Daily, the man and his fellow villagers of about 300 from the village of Chamkar Chek, Treng Trayeung commune, Phnom Sruoch district, Kampong Speu province were demanding a release of their representative the authorities had taken into custody over their land disputes. The Daily claims the police wounded at least 3 protesters including a handicapped, in a scuffle. Source: Koh Santepheap, August 10, 2004 |
According to
Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, a piece of land belonging to His
Majesty the King in Sihanoukville has shrunk almost half
from 13 hectares to a bit over 7 hectares. The Daily
expects the whole land will disappear soon due to the nice
work of some rich and powerful. If
the King’s land can be whipped away, what hope do
the ordinary Cambodians have in keeping their land? Source: Rasmei Kampuchea, July 29, 2004 |
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The allegedly SRP recruited soldiers shown by the authority to implicate the SRP in the unfounded accusation of illegal army build up to overthrow the Hun Sen government. Source: Koh Santepheap, July 27, 2004
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Many of the new chiefs at the first Council of Ministers Meeting on 16 July 2004 - some were still missing perhaps due to insufficient accommodation. According to Rasmei Kampuchea Daily (18-19 July 2004), there are supposed to be 171 members of the new government; but only 166 signed the attendance list. And the Daily says it is not too sure how many were really absent. Talking about losing count! Sources: Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, 18-19 July 2004 |
Tens of thousands of bamboo sticks were caught floating on 21 June 2004 under Kizuna Bridge (in Kampong Cham province) against regulations. The permit indicates only 15,000 sticks, but Rasmei Kampuchea Daily claims the count reaches 50,000. The paper alleges in many cases there are logs tied underneath the raft of bamboo sticks to conceal illegal activities; it claims only forestry officials would know. Sources: Rasmei Kampuchea Daily, 24 June 2004 |
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A bus carrying several dozens of garment factory workers
en route to a day at Sihanoukville shore collided with
a truck on the National Route 3 on June 13, 2004 at
about 3:30 am, killing 14 and seriously injuring 23. |
Six of these long logs were photographed on May
26, 2004 being transported to Vietnam via Koh Sampov
commune, Peam Chor district in the province of
Prey Veng |
Students and moto-doups demonstration on June
01, 2004 |
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A heavy truck caused the collapse of a bridge on May 14, 2004 on National Road # 7 in Kratie province ( Source: Rasmei Kampuchea, May 16-17, 2004)
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Ros Sovannareth,
branch president of Try
Nonga Komara garment factory of the
Free Trade Union Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia,
was gunned down
by two unidentified men on May 7, 2004
at around 3:30 p.m. near the Royal
University of Phnom Penh.
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Another timber trader
was killed in a timber truck crash in Siem Reap
Province on 14 April 2004. Overloaded timber trucks have destroyed lives,
bridges, and roads at an alarming rate.
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A bridge on the road
from Siem Reap City to Banteay Srey temple was destroyed
on April 10, 2004 following the passage of a convoy of
heavy trucks carrying timber. |
A
concealment of small logs with bamboo sticks was
uncovered only by accident. Koh Santepheap newspaper
reports on 31 March 2004 a
total of 300 logs were moved from Kompong Speu’s
Kirirom National Park to Phnom Penh. The truck driver
said he had paid a forest
inspector and police officers to turn a blind eye
to the illegal act. |
llegal logging around Angkor Wat protected area |
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Massive
deforestation due to illegal logging goes on unabated.
The above photo was taken a few days ago in Srayang
Koh Ker commune, Siem Reap province |
Phnom Penh, Preah Sihanouk Boulevard,
January 25, 2004 |
GAMBLING, RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY |
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A Khmer old woman in Siem Reap province. |
One of Phnom Penh’s ugliest houses, on Norodom Boulevard. The blend of Roman, Baroque, Thai and Chinese styles reflects the bad taste of Cambodia’ s nouveaux riches. This is the residence and the office of Mr. Benson Samay, a controversial “Lawyer” who was complacently appointed by Prime Minister Hun Sen as Cambodia’s only “Notary”. |
Illegal logging, meaning the destruction of Cambodia,
continues everyday. The photo above was taken on
November 27, 2003, in Siem Reap province, Varin
district.
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A newly built
bridge "donated by the Royal Government of Cambodia" |
Shoe factory
owner Vong Chov
Sem, 50, a Cambodian American
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An alleged
thief is lynched by the crowd |
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