Monday, December 8, 2014
Cambodia: Death Highlights Detention Center Abuses.
The Cambodian government should promptly close all centers arbitrarily detaining people outside the criminal justice system, Licadho and Human Rights Watch said today. The abusive nature of these centers was highlighted by the death on November 26, 2014, of a man who was arbitrarily detained and denied medical treatment at the Prey Speu center outside Phnom Penh. “Keeping Cambodia’s detention centers open is an endless invitation to the authorities to violate the human rights of people deemed ‘undesirable,’” said Naly Pilorge, director of Licadho. “The systematic abuse of Cambodia’s most vulnerable people occurs at these centers and the government should close them immediately.” Around November 2, authorities brought a man named Phea to Prey Speu’s Po Senchey Vocational Training Center, according to a center official and other witnesses. Phea had been picked up during “sweeps” by security forces in Phnom Penh to clear homeless people and others considered “undesirable” off the streets prior to Cambodia’s traditional Water Festival being held on November 5-7. The sweeps – part of an operation that also aimed to deter anti-government protests during the holiday – were carried out by police, para-police “public order” contingents, and heavily-armed gendarmes acting on orders from Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatevong. The governor, through the municipal Department of Social Affairs, Veteran, and Youth Rehabilitation, has authority over the Prey Speu facility. Phea, who had been living on the streets, was seriously ill when taken into custody. He was extremely thin and covered with infected wounds on his legs and other parts of his body. Sources said that during his weeks-long detention, the center staff made no effort to provide him medical treatment and refused to take him elsewhere for treatment. He died on the morning of November 26, after which his body was taken for immediate cremation at a Buddhist temple, Wat Sopheakhuon. Police failed to launch any proper investigation into his death. The United Nations Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment provides that medical care and treatment shall be provided to detainees whenever necessary and free of charge. Whenever a person dies in detention, “an inquiry into the cause of death … shall be held by a judicial or other authority.” In addition, “[t]he findings of such inquiry … shall be made available upon request.” The poor conditions at the Prey Speu center resulting in Phea’s death are faced by other detainees at the facility, Licadho and Human Rights Watch said. Approximately 30 other people were in Prey Speu at the time of Phea’s death. These include two small children who were with their physically ill mother, and a third small child who was with his or her father, in violation of international law prohibitions against the arbitrary detention of children. All are being held without charge or trial. A late-term pregnant woman detained at the center escaped when she believed she was going into labor, fleeing with a transgender person who was also being held, according to one source. Long history of center abuses Licadho, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights organizations have documented torture and systematic cruel and inhumane treatment, as well as rapes, killings, and other abuses at the Prey Speu center since it became operational in 2004. In late 2008, following public revelation of abuses at Prey Speu and other centers run by the Ministry of Social Affairs, government authorities claimed that Prey Speu had stopped arbitrarily detaining people. While there were initial indications that some people were released and others held for shorter periods, in more recent years the Prey Speu center has reverted to detaining people against their will for weeks and sometimes months. Across Cambodia, authorities routinely detain alleged drug users, homeless people, “street” children, sex workers, and people perceived to have disabilities in a haphazard system of detention centers around the country. Some of those detention centers are ostensibly for drug treatment, while others are ostensibly for “social rehabilitation.” In addition to Prey Speu, the Ministry of Social Affairs also has authority for the Phnom Bak center in Sisophon town, Banteay Meanchey province, and jointly manages a drug detention center with the military on a military base in Koh Kong town, Koh Kong province. There are a further six drug detention centers across the country that each year hold at least 2,000 people without due process. Human Rights Watch has previously documented how guards and other staff whip detainees with rubber water hoses, beat them with bamboo sticks or palm fronds, shock them with electric batons, sexually abuse them, and punish them with physical exercises intended to cause intense physical pain. Detainees from some centers have been forced to work on construction sites, including in at least one instance to help build a hotel. Authorities hold out the prospect of on-site treatment by nongovernmental organizations of a small number of mentally-ill “residents” to justify Prey Speu’s continued existence. There is no reason why this treatment cannot be provided on a voluntary basis, outside the confines of a center in which systemic abuses occur and that has proved stubbornly resistant to reform, Licadho and Human Rights Watch said. Homeless and other marginalized people who remain there “voluntarily” often do so because they fear being harmed on the streets by the security forces and believe there are no voluntary, community-based services available to them. “Cambodian authorities need to admit that it’s impossible to transform Prey Speu and similar centers into institutions that respect human rights,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The latest death at Prey Speu should be the last straw for donors, UN agencies, and embassies, who should together demand Prey Speu be shuttered, and commit to back genuinely voluntary services to assist marginalized Cambodians.”
Cambodian Fishermen Urge Better Studies on Lao Dam.
PHNOM PENH— As Cambodia prepares for a regional meeting over a contentious Lao dam on the Mekong River, fishing communities in Stung Treng province have appealed to Laos to cancel the project. The Don Sahong dam would be built on the Mekong, two kilometers from the Cambodian border. While some critics warn it could endanger livelihoods downriver, other say communities upstream in Thailand and downstream in Cambodia both face a risk of fish shortages if the dam is completed. Fisherman Kong Chanthy, of Stung Treng’s Thala Barivat district bordering Laos, tells
VOA's Khmer service the Laos government should conduct a cross-border feasibility study before going ahead with the plan. “It is very close to the border ... on the white zone, [so] I want to request to our government of Cambodia to reconsider about this issue and talk with the Laos government to find common ground solutions," he said. "I would like to send this message to the Laos government, stakeholders and decision makers [and ask] if they have conducted feasibility study about the impacts on the people living downstream.” The chief of a fishing community not far downstream from the proposed site, Sek Sophal, says 200 families there would be affected by the dam. “I request to NGOs and the government to not support the Don Sahong project and to stop it immediately,” he told VOA Khmer. The Mekong River Commission will hold a regional public meeting on December 12 to discuss the project. Cambodia has held regional and national level meetings at least three times to hear people’s concerns over the project, which is being built by a Malaysian company. Duong Pov, deputy governor of Cambodia's Stung Treng district, says people living along the Mekong River bordering Laos do not want the project to happen. “In short, people do not want the dam to exist,” he said. “If built, it will affect us. Once it exists, the solutions would be complicated. We do not know what to do to prevent it from happening.” Thai, Vietnamese and Cambodian communities have protested the dam project, though Laos has had Mega First conduct a feasibility study. But civic groups and environmentalists say that study has not complied with international standards, particularly the cross-border impacts of the dam. Hans Guttman, CEO of the MRC Secretariat, said in statement that the Dec. 12 consultation will be a chance for Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to express concerns over the project. “The process is also an opportunity for Lao PDR, who proposes the project for development, to better understand the concerns and to consider measures to address them,” he said in a written statement. But Te Navuth, secretary-general of the Cambodian National Mekong Committee, said Laos is likely to go ahead with the plan, regardless of objections. “I think that Laos is already prepared for the construction because they have planned and studied about the project for four or five years already," he said. "They didn’t plan and build it the same year. They have conducted a lot of studies in the past.” Lao officials could not immediately be reached for comment. The Don Sahong dam would generate 260 megawatts of electricity.
VOA's Khmer service the Laos government should conduct a cross-border feasibility study before going ahead with the plan. “It is very close to the border ... on the white zone, [so] I want to request to our government of Cambodia to reconsider about this issue and talk with the Laos government to find common ground solutions," he said. "I would like to send this message to the Laos government, stakeholders and decision makers [and ask] if they have conducted feasibility study about the impacts on the people living downstream.” The chief of a fishing community not far downstream from the proposed site, Sek Sophal, says 200 families there would be affected by the dam. “I request to NGOs and the government to not support the Don Sahong project and to stop it immediately,” he told VOA Khmer. The Mekong River Commission will hold a regional public meeting on December 12 to discuss the project. Cambodia has held regional and national level meetings at least three times to hear people’s concerns over the project, which is being built by a Malaysian company. Duong Pov, deputy governor of Cambodia's Stung Treng district, says people living along the Mekong River bordering Laos do not want the project to happen. “In short, people do not want the dam to exist,” he said. “If built, it will affect us. Once it exists, the solutions would be complicated. We do not know what to do to prevent it from happening.” Thai, Vietnamese and Cambodian communities have protested the dam project, though Laos has had Mega First conduct a feasibility study. But civic groups and environmentalists say that study has not complied with international standards, particularly the cross-border impacts of the dam. Hans Guttman, CEO of the MRC Secretariat, said in statement that the Dec. 12 consultation will be a chance for Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to express concerns over the project. “The process is also an opportunity for Lao PDR, who proposes the project for development, to better understand the concerns and to consider measures to address them,” he said in a written statement. But Te Navuth, secretary-general of the Cambodian National Mekong Committee, said Laos is likely to go ahead with the plan, regardless of objections. “I think that Laos is already prepared for the construction because they have planned and studied about the project for four or five years already," he said. "They didn’t plan and build it the same year. They have conducted a lot of studies in the past.” Lao officials could not immediately be reached for comment. The Don Sahong dam would generate 260 megawatts of electricity.
Abused Brides Come Home After China Ordeal.
Two Cambodian women were returned to Phnom Penh on Monday after each spending more than a year in China, where they both say they suffered through abusive marriages so bad that they decided to leave their newborn babies and escape from their husbands. The rescued women were the latest in what is an increasing trend of young Cambodian women being lured to China by brokers with
promises of a wealthy husband and better life, only to find themselves in abusive relationships and with few ways out. Two Cambodian women who returned Monday from China, where they had been trapped in abusive marriages, speak to reporters at the office of rights group Adhoc in Phnom Penh. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily) Two Cambodian women who returned Monday from China, where they had been trapped in abusive marriages, speak to reporters at the office of rights group Adhoc in Phnom Penh. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily) One of the women, a 27-year-old from Ratanakkiri province, said her hopes of finding a well-paying job after marrying a Chinese man disintegrated upon her arrival in Jiangxi province. “I thought that if I married a Chinese man I would get a lot of money, be able to work at a Chinese factory and send money back home,” she said upon arriving at the Phnom Penh International Airport on Monday. Instead, she found herself in an abusive marriage. She said she made three futile attempts to run away from her husband and reported the abuse to local police, but to no avail. Finally, without her 5-month-old child, she said, “I went to the police station, pretended I didn’t know Chinese and said I lost my passport. So, they called the consulate who sent a volunteer to pick me up.” Along with the second victim who returned Monday, the woman’s return flight was organized by local rights group Adhoc. The second woman, a 20-year-old from Kompong Thom province, said her family was also wooed by the promise of a better life. “My family’s condition was very poor. The broker promised me money and a good future, so they agreed to send me,” she said upon arriving home Monday. In September last year, the bride was taken to Fujian province to live with her new husband and his family. She said they barely fed her and kept her locked in the house, where she was regularly subjected to sexual abuse. In October, she escaped—also leaving behind her 5-month-old child—and started a four-week journey to the Cambodian consulate in Guangzhou. Upon arriving, she met three other women in similar situations, who helped take care of each other with the help of a consular official. Now that she is back in Cambodia, she said she felt “reborn.”
promises of a wealthy husband and better life, only to find themselves in abusive relationships and with few ways out. Two Cambodian women who returned Monday from China, where they had been trapped in abusive marriages, speak to reporters at the office of rights group Adhoc in Phnom Penh. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily) Two Cambodian women who returned Monday from China, where they had been trapped in abusive marriages, speak to reporters at the office of rights group Adhoc in Phnom Penh. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily) One of the women, a 27-year-old from Ratanakkiri province, said her hopes of finding a well-paying job after marrying a Chinese man disintegrated upon her arrival in Jiangxi province. “I thought that if I married a Chinese man I would get a lot of money, be able to work at a Chinese factory and send money back home,” she said upon arriving at the Phnom Penh International Airport on Monday. Instead, she found herself in an abusive marriage. She said she made three futile attempts to run away from her husband and reported the abuse to local police, but to no avail. Finally, without her 5-month-old child, she said, “I went to the police station, pretended I didn’t know Chinese and said I lost my passport. So, they called the consulate who sent a volunteer to pick me up.” Along with the second victim who returned Monday, the woman’s return flight was organized by local rights group Adhoc. The second woman, a 20-year-old from Kompong Thom province, said her family was also wooed by the promise of a better life. “My family’s condition was very poor. The broker promised me money and a good future, so they agreed to send me,” she said upon arriving home Monday. In September last year, the bride was taken to Fujian province to live with her new husband and his family. She said they barely fed her and kept her locked in the house, where she was regularly subjected to sexual abuse. In October, she escaped—also leaving behind her 5-month-old child—and started a four-week journey to the Cambodian consulate in Guangzhou. Upon arriving, she met three other women in similar situations, who helped take care of each other with the help of a consular official. Now that she is back in Cambodia, she said she felt “reborn.”
Monday, December 1, 2014
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Phnom Penh: Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong and International Cooperation on November 27, said that women Khmer Korean whose husband had died in an accident. According to the Cambodian Embassy in the Republic of Korea said on August 23, 2014, in Korea there is a family meet accidents caused couple Khmer pregnant 7 months, died at the scene, and her husband Koreans suffered minor injuries. After the incident, police Korea has been conducting research to find the cause of the accident and found that Korean husband intentionally killed Khmer couple accidents to payment from her life insurance company that has nearly $ 9 million. Korean police have arrested a husband and evil and brutal. Khmer women suffering until death is called protein females Zealand native of the village commune paper wedge Trea Khmom who is married and lives with her Korean husband in 2008. There have been a 5-year-old daughter. On the scene, her daughter was not in the car with their parents. Koy Kuong said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Embassy advised to claim compensation for family and compensation for raising a daughter who survived. For the above case, Madam President of the Republic of Korea, is noteworthy, and some famous Korean TV plans to travel to Cambodia to film and interview family woman in the upcoming Khmom. Click arrows under see more video ................
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