I hope you like what the Globe had to offer you:
"Cambodian opposition calls for inquiry on vote" Associated Press, August 27, 2013
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia opposition leader Sam Rainsy told thousands of supporters Monday that his party will stage massive protests around the country unless an independent committee begins investigating alleged irregularities in last month’s election.
The rally of more than 10,000 people took place as time is beginning to run out for a compromise over the results of the July 28 polls, which are being challenged by Sam Rainsy’s Cambodia National Rescue Party.
Official results give Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People Party 68 National Assembly seats against 55 for the Cambodia National Rescue Party. Sam Rainsy says his party would have won 63 seats if the election was fair.
The state National Election Committee is expected to ratify the results by Sept. 8. Sam Rainsy said the protests would be held before the ratification unless an independent committee is established to scrutinize the election process.
Hun Sen moved troops and armored vehicles into the capital after the opposition first threatened protests several weeks ago. Hun Sen has been in power for 28 years and shown a heavy hand in dealing with his opponents.
The two parties and the election committee have agreed in principle to set up such a body, but have failed to have a working meeting.
The opposition rally was a test of strength, and a chance for Sam Rainsy to rally his supporters, after not staging a major rally in the capital for almost three weeks.
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"20,000 demand election inquiry
PHNOM PENH — Nearly 20,000 opposition supporters gathered Saturday in Cambodia’s capital to cheer their leaders’ demands for an investigation into alleged election irregularities, just a day before the victory of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party is to be ratified (AP)."
"Clash over election results in Cambodia leaves one dead" Associated Press, September 16, 2013
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Riot police clashed with protesters in the nation’s capital on Sunday, shooting one to death and wounding six more, opposition activists said, in a new wave of demonstrations against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government following a disputed July election.
The demonstrations in Phnom Penh, which also left one policeman injured, marked one of the biggest challenges yet against the autocratic rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power for nearly three decades.
They also raised fears even bloodier days could be ahead, with opposition leader Sam Rainsy vowing to keep up the pressure until the post-election deadlock is resolved.
Although the government allowed Sunday’s rally to go ahead, it had warned protesters to stay within the confines of the capital’s Freedom Park, where tens of thousands of people had gathered peacefully earlier to hear Rainsy speak.
I'm starting to see this as a CIA coup.
Thousands of opposition supporters marched across parts of the city anyway. Police mostly let them go ahead.
The marches turned violent in the afternoon when about 200 demonstrators tried to dismantle a barricade of razor wire and roadblocks that had been erected to keep them away from the Royal Palace. Police fired water cannons and then smoke grenades, and demonstrators responded with rocks, shoes, and other objects.
One policeman was hit in the head with a small iron bar.
In a separate incident late Sunday, police fired more smoke bombs to disperse protesters who had tried to remove another barricade at a downtown overpass that heads toward the opposition’s headquarters, witnesses said. Security forces then fired into the crowd, killing one person.
Must have been Hun Sen supporters.
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Politics: the propaganda pre$$'s candy.
"Genocide trial nears end of stage" by Justine Drennan and Sopheng Cheang | Associated Press, October 18, 2013
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Prosecutors at Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal said Thursday the trial sends a strong message to the world that massive human rights violations will not go unpunished.
They spoke as the prosecution launched its closing arguments against two surviving leaders of the communist regime under which an estimated 1.7 million people died.
We have killed more in Iraq, 'murkn.
Nuon Chea, the regime’s chief ideologist, and Khieu Samphan, its head of state, both in their 80s, are charged with genocide and crimes against humanity.
The Khmer Rouge, in power from 1975 to 1979, emptied cities, forcing Cambodians into backbreaking work in rural cooperatives and executing anyone suspected of dissent. Executions, starvation, torture, lack of medical care, and overwork were rampant.
All after a six-year U.S. bombing campaign that set the stage for such atrocities.
‘‘This trial is important for Cambodia, but not just Cambodia — it is important for the entire world,’’ prosecutor Chea Leang told the court. ‘‘It demonstrates that crimes of such magnitude and severity will not be forgotten and that those responsible will be held to account.’’
Unless they are committed by the forces of the EUSraeli empire.
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Related: Slow Saturday Special: Cambodia Makes Holocaust Denial a Crime
Yeah, you can thriow Cambodians in with Serbs and Africans as the only ones worthy of war crimes trials.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
Genocide tribunal drawing near end; A final defense for Khmer Rogue
Well, it is ROUGE, and if they can't get that right why are we to believe their account of those events?
Yeah, that one today left me with a REAL SOUR TASTE in my MOUTH!
