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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 27-10-2008 | | 
Phnom Penh, 23/10/08
Jean-Marc Lavergne, judge at the Trial Court Chamber for the Khmer Rouge trial
© John Vink / Magnum Some ten inches taller than the majority of his colleagues at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, Jean-Marc Lavergne stands out on the group picture taken on September 5th, i.e. last day of the fourth plenary session of the judicial officers for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The French judge, who officiates in the Trial Court Chamber, took his positions in Phnom Penh on July 1st with his wife and son. However, he first set foot in Cambodia in June 2006, when the ECCC magistrates were all called up to the swear-in ceremony. Shortly after that, he took part in the long and tedious drafting of the ECCC internal rules.
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| By Emiko Stock | | | 17-10-2008 |  Udong (Cambodia), September 2007. Traditional Mawlid cakes made by Imam San are being put up on the flashy Kah Lasai as celebration displays © Emiko Stock
In some Cham villages in Cambodia, the air has seemed milder for several days with the sweet-scented promise of delicacies to come. A pleasant smell of frying escapes from homes between Udong and Battambang. It announces the post-harvest season, the time for a treat for the palates. The cakes especially prepared for Mawlid celebrations will soon be ready so the saints can be celebrated.
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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 15-10-2008 |  Phnom Penh (Cambodia), 25/02/2006. Villagers invited by the Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) visiting the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide with a view toward the opening of the tribunal established for the trial of former Khmer Rouge
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The Internal Rules of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) allow victims of the Khmer Rouge regime to “seek collective and moral reparations” (Rule 23). Therefore, these reparations cannot be individual or financial. However, the term “reparation”, as it is understood by people, is too often associated with a compensation of a financial nature. A Cambodian NGO, in response to that, set out to meet victims in order to look more closely at this vague notion and explain it, to make sure that victims do not nourish illusory hopes and start thinking together about realistic claims for reparation. At this stage of the procedure, many questions still remain unanswered on this principle of International Criminal Law, a procedure in its early days.
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| By Zineb Dryef | | | 14-10-2008 | | Far away from the television sets where a stream of ephemeral pop music stars come and go, Cambodian youth remain imbued with hits that made the 60s the heyday of Cambodian rock. A heritage that some claim in their music, others endeavour to preserve on the Internet and one film-maker wanted to immortalise in a documentary. In search of a second wind, the Cambodian pop music of today – used to covering songs from Thailand – has not cut ties with its founding fathers, who were the first to dare to venture into musical crossovers. Little tour on the Web on the track of Cambodia's once lost rock and roll...
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| By Stéphane Janin (Lowell, USA) | | | 08-10-2008 | Lowell (United States), 16/08/2008. On the occasion of the Water Festival, campaigners of the association “Deported Diaspora” inform and raise awareness among visitors on the problem of deportations
© Stéphane Janin Lowell (state of Massachusetts), Tuesday, August 5th, 2008, 7.30pm – Somebody knocks on Chanthan's door. Chanthan, a 32 year-old Cambodian-American, was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and arrived in the United States in 1979 just aged 3. A plainclothes police officer, devoid of any search warrant, is asking to come in to see the young woman's brother, Chanthon, older by two years. “Don't worry, we are not here to arrest him...” Chanthan is hesitant. She eventually pretends her brother is not there. But what she is unaware of is that the whole neighbourhood has already been cordoned off by officers of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Ten minutes later, a handcuffed Chanthon leaves the house. He was later sent to the detention centre of Otero County, situated south of New Mexico, near the Texas border., in other words some 2,500 miles away from his home. And he is far from being the only one in that situation. Indeed, 15 Cambodians from Lowell were arrested the same evening, as part of a raid organised by the police in Lowell. They all face deportation to Cambodia at some point. Cambodia, a country which most of them left more than 25 years ago, a country they don't know, so to speak.
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Analyses
| Dr. Raoul Marc Jennar reviews the list of agreements, treaties and other conventions signed in the last century. According to him, they confirm the sovereignty of Cambodia over the area of Preah Vihear which is now disputed by Thailand. |
Spotted on the web
| Short, poor, ill and corrupt, or, in other words, the new potential composite of the average Cambodian person elaborated on the basis of statistical figures circulated here and there by various international and national organisations intervening in Cambodia. |
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