Word: khieu
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...Already by June of this year, Cambodia was elevated slightly on the latest State Department tables to a tier 2 "watch list." Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said that the government has its sights set even higher. "We don't want to stay on tier 2. We want to go to tier 1," he said. "We have the political will. Cambodia will not be a place for child sex tourists...
...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
...never believed previously that people were killed when they stole one potato to stay alive." Khieu Samphan, Cambodia's head of state during the Khmer Rouge regime, who became the first senior leader to admit to widespread killings from...
...local police just shake their heads when asked if an investigation is ongoing. Few will even discuss the incident because in Cambodia corruption and bribery are endemic, and retribution can be severe for those who interfere in profitable criminal enterprises. "These are things we don't talk about," says Khieu Kort, a guard whose hammock hangs near the looted site. "It's too dangerous." Tranet is less circumspect. He blames the country's "chaotic political system," which encourages Cambodians to pillage, protected by local authorities who sometimes receive a piece of the action. "Last year [Cambodian Prime Minister...
...DIED. KHIEU PONNARY, 83, first wife of late Cambodian dictator and Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot; after decades of incapacitating mental illness; in Pailin, Cambodia. The daughter of a wealthy Phnom Penh family, Khieu Ponnary met Pol Pot in Paris and married him in 1956. Following the Khmer Rouge's 1979 overthrow, Pol Pot left her for a younger woman...