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| By Ros Dina | | | 24-04-2009 |  Svay Rieng (Cambodia). 16/08/2007: Public hospitals in Phnom Penh will become Referral hospitals. For hospitals in the provinces, like the Svay Rieng ‘referral hospital’ above, the reform will have to wait ©John Vink/ Magnum
A small revolution is on its way in the Cambodian public health system. Indeed, by the end of this year, no less than four public hospitals in Phnom Penh will become autonomous. The law, which has already been adopted and enforced for several years at Calmette hospital will progressively be extended by the Ministry of Health to the National Paediatric Hospital, the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, Kossamak Hospital and the National Maternal and Child Health Centre. Consequences for those institutions are that they will be able to manage their budget themselves in a much more flexible and reactive way, but they will also be in charge of more responsibilities. Here is a little explanation, by the main protagonists in this major change.
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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 23-04-2009 |  Kambol (Phnom Penh, Cambodia). 23/04/2009: Villagers from Kampong Speu province visiting the ECCC. They live near M13, the antechamber to the S-21 interrogation centre. ©John Vink/ Magnum
On Thursday April 23rd, the courtroom was packed as some 250 villagers came to attend the hearing. They live in the Omlieng commune, where the M-13 centre, formerly directed by Duch, was located, and were taken to Phnom Penh by the Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam). Also, about sixty inhabitants living on the outskirts of Phnom Penh were there, taken to the tribunal by the ECCC (Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia) Public Affairs Section and fifty students from the private Build Bright University (BBU) also came to watch. The hearing, which only took place in the morning, started late and was slowed down by the search for sorting marks on documents but Duch, the accused, began mentioning the early stages of S-21, where more than 15,000 people lost their lives.
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| By Duong Sokha | | | 23-04-2009 |  Phnom Penh (Cambodia). 15/01/2009. Kem Sokha, leader of the Human Rights Party, and Sam Rainsy, leader of the Sam Rainsy Party, at the press conference about the alliance of both parties into the Democratic Movement for Change. ©Vandy Rattana
Land grabbing, economic crisis, falling farming products prices… The two political opposition parties in Cambodia, the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and the Human Rights Party (HRP) do have some leeway and have proved zealous in attacking the Cambodian government on all fronts over the past few weeks. The basis of their criticism is nothing new, but their method has nevertheless shifted: SRP and HRP are now singing from the same hymn sheet within the “Democratic Movement for Change”, an alliance formed in January 2009. Representatives of the two formations say they are proud of their new solidarity. Not only do they hope to put an end to several years of election failure but they also wish to make the ruling and rock-solid Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) sway in the next elections. But before then, they still have to go through another step: the merging of the SRP and HRP, planned for 2011.
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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 23-04-2009 |  Kambol (Phnom Penh, Cambodia). 21/04/2009: Simultaneous translation earphones at the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, at the ECCC. ©John Vink, with the help of Stéphanie Gée
The trial of Duch is now entering its third week and the problem of simultaneous translations, sometimes uncertain during the hearings - it is to be reminded that the court operates in three languages: Khmer, English and French - was at last brought to the fore via an initiative of the Defence. After an interesting debate over the question of the admissibility of documents presented before the Trial Chamber and the outstanding revelations made by Duch regarding the conditions in which he was interviewed by a UN representative, the M-13 chapter is finally closed. By the end of the day, the core of the case was eventually reached - the S-21 centre - with, for starters, a look back on the establishment of the death machine in August 1975.
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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 21-04-2009 |  Kambol (Phnom Penh, Cambodia). 21/04/2009: Heavy rainfall interrupted the hearing on the 9th day of the Duch trial at the ECCC. ©John Vink/ Magnum
Tuesday April 21st marked the ninth day of the trial of Duch, while a feeling of stalemate somehow pervaded the hearing over the mentioning of the M-13 security centre. The day was generally chaotic and summed up hopes that the trend would change rather sooner than later, that translation issues would be tackled during the hearing and things would at last get to the heart of the matter, in other words S-21. Witness and former guard at M-13 Chan Khan seemed more relaxed than he was the day before, but the audience saw all sorts of happenings in the courtroom. Indeed, a Civil Party lawyer turned up and asked to go back to the very beginning of the story, another Civil Party lawyer was snubbed for not respecting a decision of the pre-Trial Chamber, judges were commanded by parties to do their job and a deafening thunderstorm beat down on the premises of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), thus leading debates nowhere and causing a short recess in the hearing.
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| 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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