Cambodia hailed over UN targets
09/06/2010 @ 4:12 pm
Phnom Penh Post, September 6, 2010
A REPORT prepared in advance of an international summit on United Nations Millennium Development Goals has placed Cambodia among the top five countries in terms of progress, offering a far rosier assessment than other recent updates.
The report, prepared by the Centre for Global Development, a United States-based independent policy research organisation, indicates that developing countries in Southeast Asia are outpacing those in other regions, placing Cambodia in a tie with Laos and Vietnam for second in terms of progress towards MDGs.
The eight goals were adopted by 189 countries in 2000 and are supposed to be achieved by 2015. Honduras topped the report, and the Kyrgyz Republic was also tied for second.
Its authors drew primarily from World Bank data, focusing on eight “progress indicators” selected from a pool of 60 indicators used by the United Nations.
Cambodia was found to be on track to achieve targets related to poverty reduction, education, gender equality, nutrition and water access. It was also expected to reach 50 percent of targets related to maternal health and child mortality.
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Khmer Language Professor Honored for University Work
09/06/2010 @ 4:10 pm
VOA; September 6, 2010
ACambodian professor in the state of Hawaii has been given a distinguished award for the creation of a Khmer-language program there.
Chhany Sak Humphry was awarded the Regent's Medal for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Hawaii for her work building the language program over nearly 25 years, said John Mayer, director of the Indo-Pacific Department of Languages and Literature at the university.
Humphry, who is 57, had created “the best Cambodian program in the US,” he said, through an online program, text book and CD.
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal Legacy Found in Communities Around Country
09/01/2010 @ 11:21 am
VOA, August 30, 2010
As an international tribunal in Cambodia prepares to charge four Khmer Rouge leaders with genocide, some people are looking ahead to what will be left behind when the court finally closes its doors.
On the outskirts of Battambang stands the Wat Samroung Knong. Today this Buddhist temple is tranquil, but when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, it was anything but.
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Wrestling with the Khmer Rouge Legacy
08/27/2010 @ 8:05 am
History News Network; 8-30-2010; By Tom Fawthrop
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal delivered its first verdict in July against Kaing Guek Euv, alias “Duch,” the director of the notorious S-21 prison, a torture and extermination center under the rule of Cambodian dictator Pol Pot.After a 77-day trial, the five judges—two international and three Cambodian—unanimously convicted Duch of committing crimes against humanity.He was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison.
This landmark decision came only days after the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the restoration of U.S.-Cambodian relations.U.S. officials made no mention of their critical role in helping Pol Pot’s forces come to power.Nor did the trio of former U.S. ambassadors—Charles Ray, Kent Wiedemann, and Joseph Mussomeli—issue any apologies during the two-day celebration for the Nixon administration’s secret B-52 bombings that inflicted massive destruction on the Cambodian countryside or for U.S. diplomatic support for the Khmer Rouge from 1979 to 1990. Read Full Article, click here.
Khmer Rouge jailer Duch submits appeal
08/26/2010 @ 8:18 am
BBC News, August 25, 2010
A former Khmer Rouge prison chief found guilty of crimes against humanity has started formal appeal proceedings.
Last month, judges at a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia sentenced Kaing Guek Eav to 35 years for his role in the torture and murder of thousands of people. But the man best known as Comrade Duch has argued that he should not be held responsible. Prosecutors have also launched their own appeal.
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