Word: cambodians
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...student, at the Children's Defense Fund, as First Lady of Arkansas, in the White House and the Senate. "She is the best candidate for President I've ever had a chance to support," Clinton says. A list follows: She supported Senegalese women victimized by genital multilation; she inspired Cambodian women to work for education for their daughters; she worked on health care programs for poor American kids; registered voters in dusty Texas towns; toiled for peace in Ireland... "All her life she has been an agent for change," Clinton says...
...Thirty years have passed. But what happened then remains alive for me.' SIN KHOR, Cambodian whose husband and two brothers were killed under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, speaking at the first public session of a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal to try the country's former leaders in Phnom Penh...
...hearing that ended Wednesday in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh was a watershed for Cambodia. With almost three decades having elapsed since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, some believed a tribunal would never take place, and that justice would not be served for the estimated 1.7 million people who died during the regime?s radical political and social experiment between...
...Vann Nath, 62, another S-21 survivor and a well-known Cambodian artist, said he did not attend the hearing as Duch's appeal for release, eloquently argued by his U.N.-sponsored lawyers, made a mockery of the dead and those who narrowly survived. "Where was the U.N.?? he asks. ?Where were the international judges and lawyers when I was in S-21? Where were the human rights groups to help me at that time...
...issue before the court on Tuesday and Wednesday wasn?t the fate of Duch?s former prisoners, but his own detention without trial by the Cambodian military court, which arrested him in 1999, long before the tribunal took custody of him on July 31 and charged him with crimes against humanity and war crimes. Duch's two lawyers argued that their client's rights had been so violated by his more than eight years of incarceration that he should be released, or at least placed under house arrest, ahead of his trial - or compensated with a reduced sentence if found...