King Of Cambodia
Cambodia (04/05)
Agriculture was collectivized, and the surviving part of the industrial base was abandoned or placed under state control. Cambodia had neither a currency nor a banking system. The regime controlled every aspect of life and reduced everyone to the level of abject obedience through terror. Torture centers were established, and detailed records were kept of the thousands murdered there. Public executions of those considered unreliable or with links to the previous government were common. Few succeeded in escaping the military patrols and fleeing the country. Solid estimates of the numbers who died between 1975 and 1979 are not available, but it is likely that hundreds of thousands were brutally executed by the regime. Hundreds of thousands more died of starvation and disease--both under the Khmer Rouge and during the Vietnamese invasion in 1978. Estimates of the dead range from 1.7 million to 3 million, out of a 1975 population estimated at 7.3 million. ... [Read More]
Cambodia
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CA - Hours of Operation & Holidays
January 17 [Read More]
US Embassy Phnom Penh, Public Holidays Schedule for Year 2005
January 17 [Read More]
Cambodia
Although the enforcement of the anti-trafficking laws and prosecution of perpetrators continued to be uneven, there was some improvement in prosecution and conviction rates. The MOI reported that 62 individuals were arrested under the Trafficking Law (which includes charges for human trafficking and procuring), of whom 41 were put on trial and 21 remained in prison under investigation by the court system. Local NGOs reported that of 18 individuals suspected of involvement in trafficking cases, 16 were convicted to prison terms during the year. The Chief of the Prison Department (Phnom Penh) reported that 11 persons sentenced for trafficking entered the Phnom Penh prison system during the year. Three NGOs involved in the prosecution of trafficking cases reported that from March 2002 through March 2003, suspects in 10 of the 50 trafficking cases they worked on were tried in court. Nine suspects were convicted and sentenced, one was acquitted, 18 were dismissed for lack of evidence, and 1 ... [Read More]
USIS -- Issues of Democracy, May 1996 -- Malamud onCambodia
The databases, according to Yale University, will includecomputerized maps of prison sites and victim graveyards; adatabase of the Cambodian elite of the time, many of whom werekilled; a database of the Khmer Rouge leadership; thousands ofphotographs of victims before their execution; archives oforiginal documents of the Pol Pot regime; and a comprehensivebibliography. ... "Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of peasants were shipped outof the East of the country and sent to the Northwest and theywere given a uniform which consisted often of blue clothing,including a blue checkered scarf with an unusual blue color, andthey had to wear these. ... [Read More]
U.S. Welcomes Cambodian King’s Signature of Khmer Rouge Tribunal Law
The United States welcomes King Norodom Sihanouk’s signature of the Law on the Establishment of Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea. This is an important step toward bringing justice to victims of the atrocities committed between 1975 and 1979 in Cambodia that resulted in the deaths of approximately 1.7 million people. We are pleased to see the Royal Government of Cambodia taking steps to come to terms with the past. ... [Read More]
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