| Rights groups are calling for a full government investigation into the shooting death of a prominent land rights activist in Cambodia. Chut Wutty, an outspoken critic of illegal logging, died after being shot by military police. His son is asking the international community to find justice for his late father. One police officer also died in the incident which is still under investigation. Wutty's colleagues say the activist had previously received threats. |
| Family members and activists vow to follow a prominent environmentalist's footsteps after his shooting death in Koh Kong province last week. Chut Wutty, director of Natural Resource Protection Group, was shot and killed in a forest while escorting two journalists covering illegal logging. A military policeman was killed in the same incident and the Cambodian government says it will establish a joint committee to investigate. |
About half of Cambodia’s population of 14 million is aged between 15 and 30.
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Cambodia’s youth are often regarded as useful to politicians, but seldom are they given the chance to vie for elections such as those scheduled for this year and next.
This has made them “political slaves,” Yong Kim Eng, president of the People’s Center for Development and Peace, told “Hello VOA” on Monday. “They are just supporters, not decision-makers who can determine their own fates.” |
 at a hospital in Siem Reap. |
Eight-year-old Nan Kini remains in the hospital, after his heart
was repaired recently at a hospital in Siem Reap. He is frail, but he is
alive.
It has been a long journey for the family, one that often seemed hopeless. Nan Kini’s father, Huy Nan, says there were times he wanted to see his son die rather than suffer so much from heart disease. The 42-year-old motor-taxi driver says he could not afford to have Nan Kini treated and often had to borrow money to send him to the hospital. |
| Loun Sivaey has been working for years on this plot of land in Kra Lanh village, Pursat province, 170 kilometers from the capital. Now, a local company has come in to clear her and hundreds of other villagers from the land. The company has brought in bulldozers and security guards. Loun Sivaey says she and others are preparing to resist them. (Say Mony interviews residents in Pursat province.) |
Nearly 200 families were moved here from the city, following a forced eviction at
Borei Keila, a Phnom Penh neighborhood slated for development by the company
Phan Imex.
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Far from the Asean ministerial meetings underway on Monday, victims of forced evictions in Cambodia say they need regional leaders to help enforce human rights.
At a squalid relocation camp at Phnom Bath mountain, where many displaced families live in poverty, Nhim Sopha, 29, told VOA Khmer she needs Asean’s leaders “to help solve the problems, so that I can have a plot of land.” |
