Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Cambodian Concerns

They are every ones!

"Court frees 13 Cambodian land eviction protesters" by SOPHENG CHEANG  |  Associated Press, June 28, 2012

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A Cambodian appeals court ordered the release Wednesday of 13 women who had been sentenced to 2½ years in prison for protesting their eviction from their homes without adequate compensation, in a case that was widely seen as an example of injustice.

In AmeriKa it is seen as an ashamed fault of oneself.

The women cheered in the courtroom, their supporters applauded, and observers from foreign embassies, including the United States, smiled in the audience after the judge’s ruling. Local and foreign human rights groups hailed the women’s freedom, but said the court also should have overturned their guilty verdicts....  

But they don't take on the banks and their fraudulent foreclosures here! They get a chump-change kickback of a settlement that doesn't get your home or life back.

Their joy Wednesday was marred by a clash outside the court between police and the women’s supporters, a reminder of the evictees’ prolonged struggle against a government with little tolerance for dissent....  

What one is?

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"The investigation of a mystery disease that has killed dozens of children in Cambodia is advancing after the discovery in patient samples of a virus that causes hand, foot, and mouth disease....

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