A community portal about Cambodia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia with a population of more than 13 million. Cambodia is the successor state of the once...
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A community portal about Cambodia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia with a population of more than 13 million. Cambodia is the successor state of the once powerful Hindu and Buddhist Khmer Empire, which ruled most of the Indochinese Peninsula between the 11th and 14th centuries.
The Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal said Wednesday that it has appointed a new international prosecutor whose most recent job was defending former Liberian President Charles Taylor at his war crimes trial. Andrew T. Cayley of Britain, who has also served as a prosecutor at international war crimes courts, was named to the post left vacant in September by the resignation of Canadian co-prosecutor Robert Petit, the tribunal said in a statement. The tribunal, known as the Extraordinary Chambers... Read Full Story
The gold-coloured convertible turns heads on impoverished Cambodia's roads -- not least because of creator Nhean Phaloek's outlandish claim that it can be operated telepathically. "I just snap my fingers and the car's door will open. Or I just think of opening the car's door, and the door opens immediately," says the 51-year-old as he proudly shows off the homemade car, named the Angkor 333-2010. Onlookers gasp as he demonstrates the trick, and with the fibre-glass vehicle having cost him 5... Read Full Story
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer and jailer asked to be freed Friday, the final day of testimony for the first member of Cambodia's brutal former regime to face justice, saying he was not a top leader. The request for acquittal at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal was a shock development in the nine-month trial of the commander of the notorious S-21 prison, 67-year-old former maths teacher Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch. Duch is accused of "crimes against... Read Full Story
Thailand and Cambodia's diplomatic row over fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra will not cause further clashes between their armed forces, their defense ministers said after meeting Friday. Relations between the countries, which have fought a string of deadly gunbattles on their border since last year, plunged earlier this month when Thaksin visited Phnom Penh as an advisor to the Cambodian government. After a two-day meeting in the Thai resort town of Pattaya which ended Friday... Read Full Story
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand and Cambodia said on Friday a recent diplomatic row will not lead to conflict on their heavily armed common border where troops have clashed in deadly exchanges in the past year. Relations deteriorated after the appointment of former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, on the run from a graft conviction, as an adviser to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who infuriated Thai authorities by hosting Thaksin this month. Cambodia rejected Bangkok's request to extradite... Read Full Story
Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch stunned Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court Friday by unexpectedly asking judges to acquit and release him on the final day of his trial. Prosecutors said the 67-year-old's sudden demand raised doubts about his admissions of responsibility and his pleas for forgiveness for overseeing the deaths of 15,000 people at a notorious torture centre. "I would ask the chambers to release me. Thank you very much," Duch said at the end of his closing statement to... Read Full Story
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer and jailer had to "kill or be killed" and operate like an "obedient machine," his lawyer said on Thursday in defending the first member of Cambodia's murderous regime to face justice. In the final two days of testimony in the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal, a lawyer for the commander of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison said his client's life was at stake when he ordered the murder of more than 14,000 people in the 1970s... Read Full Story
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer and jailer expressed "excruciating remorse" on Wednesday for more than 14,000 people killed under his watch at a notorious prison during Cambodia's ultra-Maoist revolution of the 1970s. In the final week of testimony for the first senior Khmer Rouge cadre to face the U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal, Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, said he was solely liable for the killings but that he served a "criminal organization." "I... Read Full Story
Prosecutors asked Cambodia's war crimes court Wednesday to hand a 40-year jail term to former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch, accused of overseeing 15,000 deaths at the regime's main torture centre. The former cadre, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, was set to give his final remarks later Wednesday in which he is expected to beg forgiveness for his role in the communist movement behind the "Killing Fields" atrocities. But lawyers for the prosecution said the previous expressions of remorse... Read Full Story
Prosecutors called on Tuesday for the former Khmer Rouge prison chief to get a lengthy jail term, saying he embodied the ruthless efficiency of the regime behind the "Killing Fields" atrocities. Kaing Guek Eav -- better known as Duch -- has apologised repeatedly and admitted responsibility for his actions under Pol Pot's blood-soaked communist movement, which killed up to two million Cambodians in the 1970s. But prosecutors giving their final arguments to the UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes... Read Full Story
