Probe into baby 'hired to beggars' Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 12:32 GMT, Monday, 9 November 2009. Probe into baby 'lent to beggars. (BBC News -- South Asia)
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Page last updated at 06:56 GMT, Tuesday, 10 November 2009. India lawmaker hit for Hindi oath. (BBC News -- South Asia)
UK surveillance plan to go ahead Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 13:57 GMT, Monday, 9 November 2009. By Dominic Casciani BBC News. (BBC News -- Technology)
Rhyme nor reason Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 09:23 GMT, Tuesday, 10 November 2009. Sniper's motive remains a mystery. (BBC News)
Tories claim immigration cover-up Nov 10, 2009
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Britney 'upset' over miming row Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 08:32 GMT, Tuesday, 10 November 2009. Britney started her Circus tour in March. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
19th Century cardinal 'answered cure prayers' Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 14:51 GMT, Monday, 9 November 2009. Back 'cured by Cardinal prayer. (BBC News -- UK)
Penis tissue replaced in the lab Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 02:37 GMT, Tuesday, 10 November 2009. The work was carried out on rabbits. (BBC News -- Health)
Grieving mother's challenge to PM Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 08:52 GMT, Tuesday, 10 November 2009. The opening lines of the letter sent to Jacqui Janes. (BBC News -- UK)
Test improves Alzheimer diagnosis Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 10:53 GMT, Monday, 9 November 2009. There are about 275,000 undiagnosed cases of Alzheimer's in the UK. (BBC News -- Health)
Mountain rescues double in a year Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 09:03 GMT, Tuesday, 10 November 2009. Rescuers say more people are on the mountains, and view Tryfan as a challenge. (BBC News -- UK)
Cancer recurs in 'dense' breasts Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 10:06 GMT, Monday, 9 November 2009. Women with denser breasts had a 21% risk of cancer recurrence. (BBC News -- Health)
Vehicles sought over arson death Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 08:39 GMT, Tuesday, 10 November 2009. Andrea Daly died in the bedroom of her house. (BBC News -- UK)
Boy killed in hallway of high school; student arrested Nov 10, 2009
His death devastated his parents, Rorth and Ry Sou, who immigrated 17 years ago to the U.S. after surviving the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. At the time, Ry Sou was pregnant with her son and was seeking a better life for him. (Yahoo News -- School Violence)
Teaching Pol Pot Nov 10, 2009
Textbook sheds light on Khmer Rouge era ... A former Khmer Rouge prison guard helped distribute the new textbook ... School and government officials were formally handing out the new Khmer Rouge history book, a scene that will be repeated across the country in the closing months of this year. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Cambodia rattles Thailand's chain Nov 10, 2009
Cambodia, still impoverished after a three-decade civil war and traumatized by the killings of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, is led by Hun Sen, a once barefoot temple boy who lived on handouts from Buddhist monks before becoming a teenage soldier. He first fought for the Khmer Rouge - a struggle that cost him his left eye - and then as part of the Vietnamese offensive that liberated the nation from the same radical Maoist regime in 1979. (Asia Times Online)
Brain 'can beat early blindness' Nov 10, 2009
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Soldiers 'hit and kicked' Mousa Nov 10, 2009
Page last updated at 16:03 GMT, Monday, 9 November 2009. A post-mortem examination showed Mr Mousa had at least 93 injuries. (BBC News -- Africa)
Undoing the past in Cambodia Nov 6, 2009
Hong Kong, China (CNN) -- Aki Ra was forced to be a child soldier in the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the early 1980s, taught to shoot a gun and plant deadly landmines. He was later seized by the Cambodian army and the Vietnamese, who were fighting together against the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge, and he again planted explosives in the ground as war raged in the Southeast Asian nation ... Heng Ratana, director general of the government's demining agency --- the Cambodian Mine Action... (CNN -- International)
Cambodian 'jungle woman' hospitalised Oct 31, 2009
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Free speech at Braintree Public Library Oct 27, 2009
In the course of his talk, he compared educators to the former Soviet communist government, to Mao s Chinese government, and to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. One of Mr. Camenker s other stated truths was that Planned Parenthood, Teachers Unions, and gay lobbyists control our school boards, town governments, and state governments. (Braintree Forum, MA)
Karadzic war crimes trial off to slow start Oct 27, 2009
"Even if the victims are not represented by the lawyers in the trial, as it is the case for the court trying the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, you can be sure that they will be following the trial closely," Werner said. "One cannot generalise, but my experience of international jurisdictions tells me that the fact that a court has judged their [the victims] testimonies of suffering as authentic and trustworthy is often of great importance.". (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
From killing fields to fields of dreams Oct 22, 2009
Those people were the Khmer Rouge and they invaded his village, burning homes to the ground ... "It was only 18 miles [29 kilometers] to the border but it turned into 80 because we had to keep moving back and forth, criss-cross because landmines were everywhere. So were the Khmer Rouge, and the Vietnamese who had just invaded." ... The skill of Cambodia's players was the envy of much of Southeast Asia until the Khmer Rouge all but put an end to the sport. (Asia Times Online)
Cambodia balances East and West Oct 20, 2009
China's support from 1975-79 for the radical Khmer Rouge regime - as a counterweight to the assertiveness of the recently reunited socialist Vietnam - led Hun Sen to refer to China as "the root of everything that was evil" in Cambodia in a 1988 essay. As memories of Cambodia's long civil war have faded and Hun Sen has consolidated his power, historical grievances have yielded to more practical concerns. (Asia Times Online)
Nat Finkelstein, 76; was Warhol house photographer Oct 16, 2009
He also managed the post-punk noise group Khmer Rouge, whose members he used as photographic subjects. After weaning himself from drugs in 1989, he resumed his photography career in earnest. (Boston Globe)
Want Peace? Give a Nuke the Nobel Oct 11, 2009
Clearly not the slaughter in China during the Cultural Revolution, in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, in Rwanda between Hutu and Tutsi offer bloody proof. Is it the United Nations. (Time.com)
Khmer Rouge case judge 'biased' Oct 11, 2009
Khmer Rouge case judge 'biased ... Lawyers for Cambodia's former foreign minister have called for the removal of the judge investigating his role in the Khmer Rouge era ... His defence team claims the judge at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal, Marcel Lemonde, is biased. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Cambodia's reserves top $2.5 bln: PM Oct 9, 2009
"As of the end of August 2009, calculated international reserves had reached 2,522 million US dollars," he added, in the speech marking 30 years since Cambodia rebuilt its national bank that was destroyed under the Khmer Rouge. After several years of double-digit growth fuelled mainly by tourism and garment exports, Cambodia was buffeted by 2008's global economic downturn. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Undiscovered Asia Oct 8, 2009
But it is not easy to rebuild tourism in a country that has seen sustained violence, like Cambodia, where up to two million people died under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. Read more on Cambodia and Pakistan on Page Two. (iAfrica.com)
Gates: Military Ready for Obama War Plan Oct 6, 2009
If we leave, the Taliban duplicates the Cambodian "Killing Fields" scenario under the Khmer Rouge and murders between 400,000 to 600,000 Afghan citizens who supported or participated in western occupation. 2. (CBS News)
Trial and tribulations in Cambodia Oct 6, 2009
PHNOM PENH - In a legal landmark for Cambodians and for international justice, testimony at the first trial of the Khmer Rouge tribunal has successfully come to a close ... The prime minister was once a low level member of the Khmer Rouge, but he defected and fled to Vietnam ... Other former Khmer Rouge members in government include Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Keat Chhon and president of the National Assembly Heng Samrin. (Asia Times Online)
After Delays, Cambodia Rekindles Stock Market Dream Oct 5, 2009
The idea of a Cambodian stockmarket has been floated since the 1990s but has struggled for traction in a country known for a culture of political impunity, chronic poverty and a history of violence, including the Khmer Rouge "Killing Fields.". But authorities argue those days are over and plan to sign a deal this month with World City Co Ltd, a South Korean-backed developer, to start building a $6 million, four-storey stock exchange on the waterfront of a new financial district. (ABC News -- Wire)
The night Zhou was drunk under the table Oct 2, 2009
Kang resurfaced long enough to ensure that the People's Republic put its weight behind Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. In retrospect, I am glad I never had to shake his hand. (Asia Times Online)
Cambodians testify for war crimes tribunal Sep 26, 2009
The tiny Cambodian woman trembled slightly and stared blankly ahead as she told the story that has haunted her for half a lifetime: her parents and brother died in Khmer Rouge labor camps ... Prom, 63, is one of dozens of Cambodian refugees speaking publicly many for the first time about Khmer Rouge atrocities so a legal team can use their testimony in an international war crimes tribunal underway in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital ... The Khmer Rouge is implicated in wiping out an estimated... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Cambodians in U.S. tell of Khmer Rouge Sep 26, 2009
Cambodians in U.S. recall Khmer Rouge terror ... Damian Dovarganes / APIn this photo taken Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, Cambodian-Americans Rany Ork, left, and Chanthan Pich, foreground, who survived the wrath of the Khmer Rouge, wipe tears from their eyes during a workshop in Long Beach, Calif ... The two survivors are some of the many Cambodian refugees across the U.S. who are sharing their memories of Khmer Rouge atrocities with a legal team so they can be used as evidence in an international war... (MSNBC -- International)
Stay and fight or cut and run? Sep 24, 2009
Rupert Cornwell: Has America reached the turning point in Afghanistan. - Rupert Cornwell, Commentators - The Independent. (The Drudge Report)
Leading Asian magazine to close Sep 22, 2009
Many of the region's greatest names in reporting made their mark in the pages of the Review - from the legendary Richard Hughes of Korean War fame, to Nate Thayer, the journalist who found Cambodia's Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Cambodia's Trial of the Century, Televised Sep 12, 2009
Kaing Guek Eav, former chief of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, is seen on a screen during his trial in Phnom Penh on July 13, 2009 Heng Sinith / AP ... Neth Pheaktra and Ung Chan Sophea's 24-minute weekly show summarizing and analyzing the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as 'Duch,' the chief of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 interrogation facility also known as Tuol Sleng, has become a sleeper hit in Cambodia ... With one in five Cambodians watching the show every week, Duch on... (Time.com)
9/11 + 8 years: The psychology of terror Sep 12, 2009
She thinks today's suicide terrorists share the still-born moral and emotional development she saw in the Khmer Rouge, who created a bloodbath in Cambodia during the late 1970s. "Their definition of right and wrong is very black-and-white, and is directed by an uthoritative director," says Fields. (Why Files)
Prosecutor Wants 5 More Khmer Rouge Investigated Sep 9, 2009
Prosecutor At Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal Recommends Investigating 5 More Suspects ... (AP) A prosecutor at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal has formally recommended that five more suspects be investigated for crimes against humanity and other offenses, setting the legal body on a collision course with the country's powerful prime minister ... Hun Sen once served as a Khmer Rouge officer and many of his main allies are also former members of the group. (CBS News -- World)
* More Khmer Rouge trials could ignite war: Cambodian PM Sep 8, 2009
More Khmer Rouge trials could ignite war: Cambodian PM ... Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday renewed strong warnings his country could be plunged back into civil war if the UN-backed Khmer Rouge court tried more suspects from the late 1970s movement ... The prime minister in a speech in March made similar assertions that further prosecutions at the Khmer Rouge court could destabilize Cambodia, saying that he would prefer the court failed than indict more suspects. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
* Khmer Rouge court to investigate more suspects: officials Sep 3, 2009
Khmer Rouge court to investigate more suspects: officials ... Cambodias UN-backed war crimes court announced yesterday that it would investigate more suspects from the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, blamed for the deaths of up to 2 million people. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
World Bank in talks with Cambodia over evictions Aug 31, 2009
Land ownership is a controversial issue in Cambodia, where legal documents were destroyed and state institutions collapsed under the Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s and the civil war that followed. The World Bank joined with other aid donors in July to ask the government to halt forced evictions [ID:nBKK395211] and the problem was raised again by its vice-president for East Asia and the Pacific Region, James Adams, during a visit last week. (AlertNet)
Evansdale vet awarded overdue Purple Heart Aug 26, 2009
Fred Morris, co-owner of People's Appliance in Waterloo, suffered shrapnel wounds in the leg and wrist on May 15, 1975, as he and other Marines rescued the merchant ship SS Mayaguez and its crew from seasoned Cambodian Khmer Rouge communist guerillas ... Instead, it may have been as many as 600 --- all seasoned Khmer Rouge communist guerrillas. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Columnist: PETA's methods at times tasteless Aug 26, 2009
And imagine, in front of you sits a large exhibit comparing dead pig carcasses to the Cambodian group Khmer Rouge's reign of terror in the late 1970s ... Let me make a point clear: I am all for the ethical treatment of animals, but PETA's tactic of comparing dead pigs to dead Cambodian civilians murdered in Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's grand scheme of genocide is not only tasteless, it's completely and utterly offensive. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Khmer Rouge Verdict Expected In Early 2010 Aug 26, 2009
Khmer Rouge Tribunal Expects To Deliver Long-awaited First Verdict In Early 2010 ... (AP) A verdict in the trial of the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer _ its first senior leader to face justice _ is expected early next year, the tribunal's spokesman said Thursday ... Kaing Guek Eav _ better known as Duch _ headed the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, where up to 16,000 people were tortured and later taken away to be killed. (CBS News -- World)
GOP congressman blasts Holder probe: 'It's disgraceful... you wonder which side they're on'... Aug 26, 2009
The practice as used by the CIA bears similarities to the methods of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and by the current dicatorship in Burma, according to congressional testimony and torture experts. The program also included other coercive tactics that are forbidden in the U.S. military and widely considered unlawful among human rights advocates. (The Drudge Report)
Boy killed in hallway of high school; student arrested Aug 26, 2009
His death devastated his parents, Rorth and Ry Sou, who immigrated 17 years ago to the U.S. after surviving the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. At the time, Ry Sou was pregnant with her son and was seeking a better life for him. (Yahoo News -- School Violence)
New Anticorruption Measures at Khmer Rouge Tribunal are Insufficient Aug 18, 2009
NEW YORK, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New measures to combat corruption at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal fall short, the Open Society Justice Initiative said in a report released today. According to the report, donors to the court must work to further strengthen the anticorruption effort. (PR Newswire)
NZ man seeks justice for brother at Khmer Rouge trial Aug 18, 2009
A New Zealand Olympic rower told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court on Monday how he had felt like killing the boss of the Khmer Rouge prison where his brother was killed by the regime ... Duch has said that the Khmer Rouge used the official term "smash" to refer to killing its enemies ... Lefeuvre said that in 1991 she and her family came to see Tuol Sleng, which was turned into a genocide museum after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and found his name on a list of the dead. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
LIZ BUSHMAN: Will we ever grasp the lessons of history? Aug 15, 2009
Khmer Rouge official wants 'harshest punishment. The former chief of the Khmer Rouge's main torture center, being tried by a U.N.-backed tribunal on genocide charges, asked the Cambodian people Wednesday to give him "the harshest punishment." ... Khmer Rouge court told how Westerner burned alive. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Iran reformist leader says he has torture accounts Aug 14, 2009
Ex-Khmer Rouge medic testifies in Cambodia trial. A former medic at the most notorious Khmer Rouge prison in Cambodia told a genocide tribunal he treated people with missing fingernails and toenails, saying Monday that hundreds of prisoners died from torture wounds ... Up to 16,000 people were tortured under Duch's command and later were taken away to be killed during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-1979 rule. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
A land for sale? Aug 13, 2009
The roots of the problem date back to the 1970s when the brutal Khmer Rouge regime abolished private property and destroyed many title documents. A land law passed in 2001 recognises the rights of people who have lived on land without dispute for five years or more, but in many cases it is not being implemented. (BBC News)
Ex-torture chief wants 'harsh punishment' Aug 13, 2009
Khmer Rouge official on trial in Cambodian genocide could get life sentence ... PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The former chief of the Khmer Rouge's main torture center, being tried by a U.N.-backed tribunal on genocide charges, asked the Cambodian people Wednesday to give him "the harshest punishment." ... Up to 16,000 people were tortured under his command and later killed during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-1979 rule. (MSNBC -- International)
The Legend of Woodstock is a Distorted Truth Aug 13, 2009
The Communist North Vietnamese Army also proved instrumental in the rise of Pol Pot s Khmer Rouge, ultimately resulting in the Cambodian genocide. This is not how the 1960s is typically remembered, however. (Human Events Online)
* Khmer Rouge prison chief admits to torturing inmate Aug 12, 2009
Khmer Rouge prison chief admits to torturing inmate ... The Khmer Rouges main jail chief admitted for the first time before Cambodias UN-backed war crimes tribunal yesterday that he had personally tortured a prisoner ... But Duch said the most serious crime he committed was the political indoctrination of his staff at the prison, also known as S-21, to make them consider the inmates as enemies of the Khmer Rouge party. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Khmer Rouge prison chief admits torture Aug 11, 2009
The Khmer Rouge's main jail chief has admitted for the first time before Cambodia's war crimes tribunal that he tortured a prisoner personally ... But Duch said the most serious crime he committed was the "political indoctrination" of his staff at the prison, also known as S-21, to make them consider the inmates as enemies of the Khmer Rouge party ... The prison in the capital Phnom Penh was at the centre of the Khmer Rouge's brutal campaign of repression and was later turned into a genocide... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Misjudgment: Sometimes, grand prosecutions of war crimes don’t make sense Aug 9, 2009
With the help of the United Nations, the country is putting on trial senior leaders from the Khmer Rouge regime, whose reign of terror killed as much as one-quarter of the country s population between 1975 and 1979 ... The Khmer Rouge era left a legacy of trauma and violence, and the country s culture and society remain in tatters ... Held 30 years after the fall of the regime, the trial focuses on only five leaders - Khmer Rouge head Pol Pot died a decade ago - leaving thousands of former Khmer... (Boston Globe)
Cedar Mill Library completes second part of oral history project Aug 5, 2009
Chann Noun is a local immigrant from Cambodia who lived under the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s and early 1980s. After fleeing Cambodia and living in a refugee camp for four years, he came to the United States to rebuild his life here. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
No Negotiation with the Taliban Aug 4, 2009
This would be like putting the Nazis back in office after the fall of Berlin or the Khmer Rouge in charge of Cambodia again. No matter how much spin is placed on this negotiating strategy, it smacks of defeatism and appeasement, and a failure to place the conflict in Afghanistan within the broader context of a global war against a brutal Islamist ideology that seeks the destruction of the West and the free world. (Human Events Online)
Khmer Rouge prisoners had child medic Aug 3, 2009
A former child medic at the Khmer Rouge's main prison has told Cambodia's war crimes court that he tried to keep torture victims alive with pills known as "rabbit pellet medicine" ... The so-called medicine, nicknamed for its grainy resemblance to rabbit faeces, was a homemade mixture of various ingredients used to treat a wide range of illnesses during the Khmer Rouge regime ... But he has consistently rejected claims by prosecutors that he held a central leadership role in the Khmer Rouge and... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Warfare by Remote Jul 24, 2009
CNN's Dan Rivers profiles members of the Khmer Rouge, as they face justice before a U.N.-backed trial ... CNN's Dan Rivers goes on the hunt for Ta Chan, chief interrogator of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison camp ... CNN's Dan Rivers details corruption allegations at the Phnom Penh trial of Khmer Rouge leaders. (CNN -- International)
Cambodian PM undermining KRouge court: activists Jul 23, 2009
Cambodian premier Hun Sen's calls to limit prosecutions at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal bring into question the independence of the war crimes court, a leading rights group said Thursday ... The lobby group demanded the court's judges, who are expected to soon rule whether to pursue additional former Khmer Rouge cadres, show independence in their decision ... Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known by the alias Duch, has accepted responsibility for overseeing the... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Interrogator recounts torture techniques Jul 21, 2009
A former interrogator at the main Khmer Rouge prison in Cambodia has described how staff were taught to torture prisoners using electric shocks and suffocation. Prak Khan, 58, was testifying at the UN-backed war crimes tribunal against Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch, who is accused of overseeing the torture and execution of around 15,000 people held at Tuol Sleng prison, also known as S-21, in the late 1970s ... The witness, who was assigned to be an interrogator in late 1976 after being... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
War of words for Cambodia, Thailand Jul 17, 2009
It became a Khmer Rouge jungle base in the 1970s, and their rusted canons still sit beside the temple's 800-meter-long causeway ... "The Preah Vihear issue provides a very convenient excuse to divert the international attention from negative phenomena in [Cambodia], like reluctance to solve the problem of Khmer Rouge legacy and reproaches against rampant corruption," said an ambassador based in Bangkok. (Asia Times Online)
