Word: khmers
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...Cambodia's volleyball players lost limbs to land mines. Some suffered polio or other childhood diseases, or were maimed by motorbike wipeouts on dangerous roads. Others are ex-combatants with nowhere to go: the Hawks, in the notorious Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin, field a mixed team of cashiered former rebels and government soldiers. From eight teams in 2002, the local league has grown to 16 sponsored squads in two divisions who compete for an annual $3,000 prize - a sum that goes a long way in rural Cambodia...
...Many Asian countries could go Nigeria's way so far as oil is concerned. Cambodia, which is still recovering from the Khmer Rouge era, ranks near the bottom of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, and does not possess the institutions to monitor how the government uses its new oil riches. East Timor's economy will have almost no other foundations - studies estimate over 90% of government revenues eventually will come from oil. Before its latest brutal crackdown on peaceful protestors, Burma's military regime already demonstrated such little concern for its people that it reportedly spent among the lowest...
...justice is not yet denied. Shortly after dawn on Sept. 19, Cambodian police special forces and military police surrounded a small wooden home on the outskirts of Pailin town in the country's northwest and arrested Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge's infamous "Brother Number Two," Pol Pot's deputy. Now 82, the most senior Khmer Rouge leader still surviving in Cambodia has had years to prepare for his eventual arrest. He surrendered to the government in 1998 but had been allowed to live in quiet retirement with his wife in a region that was a communist stronghold until...
...Nuon Chea is the second Khmer Rouge leader slated to be brought before the tribunal, a special chamber in the Cambodian courts. Authorities in July charged Kaing Guek Eav - known as Duch - with crimes against humanity for his role as commander of a Khmer Rouge prison where an estimated 14,000 people were sent to be tortured and executed. In custody since 1999, Duch said in an interview eight years ago that he was "like a water boy" for Nuon Chea...
...tribunal's judges say they have three more Khmer Rouge suspects in their sights, and a court official says that trials could begin in early 2008. In an interview with the Associated Press last year, Nuon Chea said he expected to be exonerated and that he was "glad to go [on trial], so that people in my country and other countries will know the truth of what happened." The families of millions of dead Cambodians are hoping for the same...