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Decreasing Freedom in Cambodia

SRP MP Mu Sochua was surrounded by a sea of Hun Xen's regime cops

Monday, August 10, 2009
By Kimberly Curtis
Foreign Policy Blog

Cambodia has never been known as a haven for free speech and political dissent, but several recent developments in the country have observers even more concerned about the shrinking space for political expression.

Last week, a Cambodian court found an outspoken opposition MP guilty of defamation for filing her own defamation suit against Prime Minister Hun Sen. The case has been a high profile one for months in the Southeast Asian country and has polarized the public, but observers claim that the conviction of Mu Sochua is proof of a growing crackdown on dissent by the Cambodian government.

The case arose out of a speech Sen made in April in Kampot province, the province that Sochua represents in parliament and one of the provinces that has seen forcible evictions by the army for their land. Although Sochua was not mentioned by name, comments that Sen made deriding and insulting the province’s parliamentary representation were clearly aimed at her. Sochua responded by doing the unthinkable - she filed a defamation suit against the Prime Minister for his comments. The case was immediately rejected by the courts, but Sen fired back by filing his own defamation suit against Sochua for filing against him. The courts upheld his suit and last Tuesday, handed down a ruling in Sen’s favor against Sochua and fined her $4000.

The result was not surprising in a country where the government has a long history with interfering with the courts. But it is also just the most recent development in the government’s mission to silence criticism. There have been numerous lawsuits filed against prominent opposition members, journalists, and human rights activists in recent months that seem aimed at intimidating dissent. The charges usually involve libel or disinformation, and the cases always end with conviction. Some of the targets have been jailed, some have fled the country to avoid jail, and some have capitulated and abandoned their critical positions to swear allegiance to the ruling party in order to avoid the courts.

This trend is not new, but continues without consequences from the international community. The government is even suspected of interfering with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the hybrid tribunal set up by the UN to try people for grave crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. But all the international community does is weakly protest such interference before allowing it to continue. The same appears to be happening regarding the domestic courts, where the rule of law is actually the rule of Sen’s law.

Opposition parties are now divided about what to do. Continuing to criticize government policies is a losing battle that some seem keen to give up, while others feel that it is their duty as political representatives, activists, and journalists to keep fighting that battle, especially because of the growing pressures on dissent. It is likely that in the future, Sochua’s trial will be seen as a turning point for the Cambodian opposition, but at this moment it is unclear what that future will be.

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SRP MP Yont Tharo's son shot dead in Phnom Penh

08/10/2009
DPA

Phnom Penh - The son of an opposition parliamentarian was shot dead late Sunday in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. Yont Thauron, 25, the son of Yont Tharo, a member of parliament for the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), was shot while returning from a wedding after the vehicle in which he was travelling was involved in a minor traffic accident.

Veteran SRP politician Son Chhay said the party is concerned the killing could have a political dimension.

"In the past, opposition members have been easy targets for (criminal acts)," he said.

But the city's police chief, Touch Narath, flatly rejected any suggestion of political overtones.

Touch Narath told the German Press Agency

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Khmer language is part of public school curriculum in Surin province

Mr. Chey Mongkol teaching Khmer language to students in Surin province (Photo provided)

09 August 2009
By Kesor Ranya
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer

A source from Surin province indicated that the Surin province education department agreed to include Khmer language as part of the education curriculum in public schools.

While the border dispute along Preah Vihear temple has not been resolved yet, Khmer people living in the North of Surin province indicated that an official authorization was approved for the teaching of Khmer language in public schools in Thailand’s Isan provinces.

Chey Mongkol, Chairman of the Surin province Language and Culture Association, indicated that his association recently made the request to Thailand’s ministry of Education, asking for an official authorization to include several hours of Khmer language reading and writing teaching in school curriculum.

On Wednesday 05 August, the Surin province department of education agreed to this request and it also agreed to organize a conference that will bring in representatives from 30-40 primary and high schools from various districts in the province. The conference goal is to discuss the education of Khmer language in classrooms.

Chey Mongkol said: “I had a good talk with them. I met with the provincial education director to discuss about Khmer language. We had a good talk, we indicated that we live in the same country, there is no need to use the law to confront each other, we seek for a common understanding so that people will not say that Khmer do not hold cordial discussions with others. They agreed, after their meeting, they OKd it, then they asked me what to do? I wanted them to gather school principals and the majority of them agreed to include Khmer language in the teaching curriculum. I was told over the phone that 30-40 schools agreed to it.”

Based on the official plan, Khmer language teaching in public schools will be held for 2 hours per week, starting from grade 1 in elementary school to the end of 12th grade in high school. The teaching will ramp up starting on September, and the first school where the program will be initiated is located in Svay district.

The main problem facing the teaching of Khmer language is the lack of teachers. Chey Mongkol indicated that in order to resolve this issue, he will use students whom he has personally trained through his own initiative to maintain the Khmer language in Thailand.

Chey Mongkol added: “For the teachers, we will use our students, this is better because teachers in those schools are already busy with their work. If we use our students [to teach], this is a mean to attract more people to come to study. Furthermore, these Khmer teachers come from local villages, they do not disappear, unlike bringing teachers from outside and they could disappear very quickly.”

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Typhoon Morakot slams into eastern China; 1 reported killed

Residents gather to remove a fallen tree blocking a road in Changle, China, in Fujian province on Saturday.

August 9th, 2009

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- At least one person was killed Sunday as Typhoon Morakot slammed into eastern China, packing high winds and torrential rain.

Nearly a million people had been evacuated from Fujian and Zhejiang provinces as Morakot approached.

The storm made landfall in the coastal area of Beibi Town, Xiapu County in Fujian province at about 4:20 p.m. Sunday (0820 GMT), according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency.

Morakot's winds were clocked at 118 kilometers per hour (73 mph) in its eye, according to the province's meteorological bureau as cited by Xinhua.

Five houses were destroyed as the front of the typhoon brought flooding rains to Wenzhou City in neighboring Zhejiang province just after 8 a.m. Sunday, Xinhua said.

Three adults and a 4-year-old boy were buried in debris about 8 a.m.; rescue workers were unable to save the child, and he died, the city's flood-control headquarters told the news agency.

More than 300 homes collapsed, and more than 16,000 hectares (39,500 acres) were flooded, Xinhua said. The city's airport was closed and 56 roads were rendered impassable.

As the eye of the storm reached Beibi, the sky turned completely dark, and people caught in rainstorms staggered as they used flashlights to see, Xinhua reported. Trees were being uprooted and torn apart by damaging winds.

Farmers were attempting to recapture large amounts of fish, flushed from mudflat farms by high winds, Xinhua said.

In addition, more than 35,000 ships were recalled back to port, and several highways were closed.

As of about 9:40 p.m. Sunday, the storm remained about 600 kilometers (372 miles) south-southeast of Shanghai, said CNN meteorologist Karen McGinnis. It was still at tropical-storm strength, she said, and is forecast to hit Shanghai within the next 24 to 48 hours as a weakened tropical storm.

Late Friday, the storm lashed Taiwan, killing two people, wounding 15 and knocking off power to about 650,000 households, according to Hong Kong's Metro Radio.

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