Ros Sokhet (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post)
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
By Mom Kunthear
Phnom Penh Post
Government officials are finally letting Ros Sokhet publish his newspaper, and he only had to change the name – twice.
The
Khmer Nation, called Revelation-Corruption News in a former life, and
Anti-Corruption News in the life before that one, is supposed to hit
newsstands today in Phnom Penh.
Ros Sokhet, 43, said he printed 1,000 copies of the four-page, black and white weekly.
The paper, put together with a staff of six salaried reporters, costs 1,000 riel (US$0.25).
Earlier this year, officials from the Ministry of Information rejected the two previous choices on the basis of the word “corruption”.
They
felt his readers would associate the name with the Anti-Corruption
Unit, formed to weed out graft and criminal activity among holders of
public office.
A freelance journalist and publisher, Ros Sokhet spent a year in prison in 2009 and 2010 on disinformation charges.
Judging
by the first batch of articles set for publication today, one of which
says relatives of Prime Minister Hun Sen are helping to destroy the
country, life behind bars does not seem to have cowed The Khmer Nation
publisher.
“I’m doing this for my country, because I want to
erase corruption from society. We don’t have power to stop these rich
people, but we will stop them indirectly,” Ros Sokhet said.
Seventy per cent of his newspaper will focus on economic land concessions and the powerful abusing the weak.
To contact the reporter on this story: Mom Kunthear at kunthear.mom@phnompenhpost.com
2 comments:
Bravo...Bravo...Mr; Ros Sokhet...I am proudly to see a person like you sir,you've earned my respect as a Khmer individual,hatred toward corruption of the pigs.In order to eradicate the CORRUPTIONS out of our society,we need people like you sir,Cambodia needs more individual like you to eradicate/eliminate this cancer of our nation.
I am with you [Ros Soket]1000% on these matters,corruptions kills opportunity,corruptions create favoritism,corruptions,dividing khmers into different clases,corruptions,make ways for greeds,corruptions kills justice for all khmers,corruptions,created land concession,land robbers,corruptions destroy our khmers nation as whole.
Corruptions is a disease thatwise,we need more people like Mr:Ros Sokhet to fight this cancer from spending.I am very happy to see those whose fight a good fight on these cancers that ruins our society today.
In the spirits of those whose died in the coup de'feat in 1997 and Mr Chea Vichea,Chut Vuthy would be very proud to see those whose fight to clean up corruptions from khmers society, please keep these people's spirits alive by continue to fight corruptions.Also,bring those corruptors to justice for killing these mention above.
Kmenhwatt
Spreading not spending....correction above..
Kmenhwatt
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