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...what else can you say about democracy in Cambodia except that we are now doing a U-turn to a dictatorship?" UNG BUN ANG, spokesman for Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who fled the country following a government ruling that would allow him to be tried for allegedly libeling Prime Minister...
...said, it would not be able to compete on a level playing field with President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party. Lost in a Storm AFGHANISTAN Officials said all 104 people on board an Afghan airliner that crashed in bad weather near Kabul were feared dead. Into Exile? CAMBODIA Opposition leader Sam Rainsy fled to Paris after the Cambodian National Assembly stripped him and two other M.P.s of parliamentary immunity. Rainsy, who is charged with defaming senior government figures, said he would return once he received details of the allegations against him. MEANWHILE IN CHINA ... Nothing to Crow About...
...world had listened, we may have prevented Darfur, Cambodia, Bosnia and naturally Rwanda." ELIE WIESEL, author and Holocaust survivor, speaking on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz...
...SENTENCED. ABDUL AZI HAJI CHIMING, MUHAMMAD YALALUDIN MADING and SMAN ESMA EL, alleged members of the militant Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.) organization; for plotting to bomb the U.S. and British embassies in Cambodia, to life in prison; in Phnom Penh. The three men denied any involvement with the plot or the terrorist group, saying they had met Hambali?allegedly J.I.'s former operations chief?while working for a Saudi Arabian-funded charity that helped poor Cambodian Muslims. Hambali and two other foreigners, identified as Rousha Yasser and Ibrahim, were tried and sentenced in absentia...
...exaggeration to view corruption as a cancer that threatens this country's economic, political and social development." CHARLES RAY, U.S. ambassador to Cambodia, on the Southeast Asian nation's alleged misuse of foreign aid and estimated annual losses of up to $500 million to corruption...