Word: penh
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...years on the Cambodian police force, Keo Thea has seen a lot. But nothing quite prepared the deputy chief of Phnom Penh's anti-human trafficking police for the raid on the home of German national Karl Heinz Henning in August...
...torture of young local children by the tall, gaunt 61-year-old and another German, Thomas Engelhardt, 42, who was arrested a day later. Eight computer hard drives were also bagged for the court. (Karl Heinz Henning's lawyer has denied his client's guilt and the Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor said that Engelhardt told the prosecutor that he had probably taken drugs at the time and didn't know what happened...
DIED. Ta Mok, 80, last chief of the Khmer Rouge, nicknamed "the Butcher" for his role in the death of nearly 2 million Cambodians during the communist group's rule in the late 1970s; in Phnom Penh. The only Khmer Rouge leader who refused to strike a deal to defect or surrender to the government, Ta Mok was facing trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity when he died...
...DIED. Ta Mok, 80, last chief of the Khmer Rouge, nicknamed "the Butcher" for his role in the death of nearly 2 million Cambodians during the communist group's rule in the late 1970s; in Phnom Penh. The only Khmer Rouge leader who refused to strike a deal to defect or surrender to the government, Ta Mok was facing trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity when he died...
...Hanoi doesn't see Chanh in quite the same light. The government accuses him of masterminding a failed 1999 plot to blow up Vietnamese monuments and of ordering the 2001 bombing of its embassy in Phnom Penh, as well as other attempted attacks both in Cambodia and Thailand. In a 2001 interview with TIME, Chanh boasted of his involvement in the 1999 plot; he added that his operatives in Vietnam were planning more bombings to destabilize the government and that he "control[led] the codes" for the explosives. The Vietnamese government has declined to say whether it is seeking Chanh...