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Thai army to reinforce Cambodian border if needed

BANGKOK – Thailand’s army is prepared to defend its border with Cambodia if a territorial dispute heats up, the prime minister said Wednesday, as the two nations were set to tussle on the diplomatic front at a U.N. meeting in Brazil.
Deadly clashes have flared in the past over the Preah Vihear [...]

Read More » No commentJuly 30, 2010

Khmer Rouge prison chief to appeal conviction

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – The Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer plans to appeal his conviction by a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal, which sentenced him to 35 years in prison for overseeing the deaths of up to 16,000 people, the tribunal spokesman said Tuesday.
Kaing Guek Eav — also known as Duch — was convicted [...]

Read More » No commentJuly 28, 2010

Khmer Rouge prison chief awaits verdict

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – A U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal was expected to issue a decision Monday in the trial of the Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer and torturer — the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that created Cambodia’s killing fields.
Kaing Guek Eav, better known as [...]

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Cambodians seek justice in “Killing Fields” verdict

BANGKOK (Reuters) – The first U.N.-backed trial of a top member of the murderous Khmer Rouge “Killing Fields” regime will deliver a verdict next week that could bring some closure in one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century.
The Khmer Rouge’s chief torturer and jailer, 67-year-old Kaing Guek Eav, is [...]

Read More » No commentJuly 24, 2010

New Zealander in Cambodia for Khmer Rouge verdict

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – The brother of one of a handful of Westerners killed by the Khmer Rouge returned to Cambodia for a landmark verdict in a war crimes tribunal, saying there can never be adequate justice for his family.
It was not clear how Rob Hamill’s brother, Kerry, fell into the [...]

Read More » No commentJuly 22, 2010

Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge trial verdict due July 26

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia’s genocide tribunal announced Monday that it will give its verdict in July in the case of a notorious Khmer Rouge prison chief accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture.
Lars Olsen, spokesman for the U.N.-backed tribunal, said the court will hand down the [...]

Read More » No commentMay 25, 2010

Cambodia tells diplomats it is no ‘banana republic’

PHNOM PENH (AFP) – The Cambodian government has told all foreign diplomatic envoys to avoid criticising the country, insisting it is not a “banana republic”, in a letter seen by AFP Wednesday.
The foreign ministry letter sent to all diplomatic missions in Cambodia asked them to “avoid interfering in the internal [...]

Read More » No commentApril 28, 2010

Cambodian war correspondents mourn ex-colleagues

KANDOUL, Cambodia – The bodies were dumped in a shallow grave amid the untilled earth of rice paddies: five journalists who had been ambushed by Khmer Rouge and Viet Cong guerrillas on May 31, 1970.
Om Pao, then 12, remembers the stench of decay for days after. He helped his father [...]

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US cancels Cambodia trucks over Uighur case

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States on Thursday stopped a shipment of military trucks to Cambodia as punishment after it sent Uighur asylum-seekers back to China in defiance of international appeals.
Cambodia in December deported the 20 Uighurs, members of a largely Muslim minority group in western China, even though they were seeking [...]

Read More » No commentApril 2, 2010

Remains could belong to Errol Flynn’s son

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Forensic tests will be conducted on what two searchers believe are the remains of photographer Sean Flynn, son of Hollywood star Errol Flynn, who disappeared during the Cambodian War 40 years ago, the U.S. Embassy said Monday.
At least 37 journalists were killed or are listed as missing [...]

Read More » No commentMarch 30, 2010