Word: cambodians
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...have nothing to hide." Khieu Samphan, former Cambodian head of state under the Khmer Rouge, describing his autobiography, which asserts he had no knowledge of the mass killings of the 1970s
...DIED. CHEA VICHEA, 40, leader of a Cambodian garment workers' union aligned with the country's political opposition; of gunshot wounds in an attack while he was reading a newspaper near a Buddhist pagoda; in Phnom Penh. Chea Vichea is the latest victim in a series of at least four killings in the past year of individuals linked to political parties opposing Prime Minister Hun Sen. "It's very difficult to say it was not politically motivated," said Prince Norodom Sirivudh, secretary-general of the royalist FUNCINPEC party...
...years ago, two nephews of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen were accused of involvement in a shootout in a Phnom Penh shopping center. After a brief stretch in jail, the pair was released when a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to support charges that they possessed guns at the scene of the shooting. Last week, another of the Prime Minister's nephews was on trial, this time accused of manslaughter?and again the case appears to be falling apart. According to police, Nhim Sophea, the 22-year-old son of Hun Sen's sister, was partying with friends...
...Nhim Sophea merely touched the trigger accidentally in a bid to prevent the slaughter. Whatever happened that night in October, few expect the prosecutors to find additional witnesses to bolster the case against Hun Sen's nephew. Says Sok Sam Oeun, executive director of the nongovernmental legal-aid organization Cambodian Defenders Project: "I don't think they will find enough evidence." The judge says he expects to reopen the trial in two or three weeks...
ARRESTED. NIM SOPHEA, 22, nephew of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, on murder charges in the shooting deaths of two people after a car race ended in a crash that killed a third person; in Phnom Penh. Police said Nim Sophea, the son of Hun Sen's sister, took part in the race. He allegedly fired an automatic rifle at onlookers who gathered at the crash site, killing two and injuring two. Authorities suspect Nim Sophea was drunk...