PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Meach Sovannara, a senior official of opposition party, and a monk and other Boeung Kok land rights activists including prominent activist Tep Vanny will be released ahead of Khmer New Year, said opposition lawyer Friday.
Choung Chou Ngy, a defense lawyer for Cambodia National Rescue Party, told reporters that Phnom Penh Municipal Court will hear their cases on 13 April.
He said according to political compromise, Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy will send letter to King to seek royal pardon for Meach Sovannara other Boeung Kok land rights activists.
Meach Sovannara, head of Cambodia National Rescue Party's information and media Department, was arrested and detained since November 11 last year for his alleged connection in the violent protest.
He was charged with leading an insurrection and inciting violence over the protest near the Freedom Park on July 15, 2014.
For Boeung Kok case, they were arrested late last year after protesting in front of Phnom Penh City Hall to demand that government address flooding issues in their community.
They were charged with the violation of traffic law by blocking a public road, and sentenced them to one year each in prison.
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មើលចុះ ហ៊ុន សែន ចេញយក្ស ស្រែកឡូឡា បាន ឈ្នះទៀត ព្រោះសង្រ្គោះជាតិ បើមិនលុតជង្គង់ ហ៊ុន ច្បាស់ជាកាប់រុំលាយ ហើយ ដូច កែម សុខា ថាមិនខ្លាចទេ ហ៊ុន សែន តែទៅតុលាការតាម កំណត់ដែរតើ ឃើញថា ហ៊ុន កាច់ត្រង់ៗតែម្តង អាឡប់ថាបើមិនទៅច្បាស់ជាដូចមាចចាន់ដារ៉ាហើយ តែសុខចិត្តធ្វើដូច្នេះ ហ៊ុនក៍លែង មាច ចន្ទដារា មកវិញ ហើយប្រហែល លែងនិយាយលើកដៃលើកជើងពីរឿងយួនហើយមើលទៅ ព្រោះយួនដូចជាដាក់អន្ទាក់ជាប់អស់ហើយ តើមែនទេបងប្អូន? មើលទៅចាំថ្ងៃរះពីលិចហើយដឺង។
Ambassador: US handed Cambodia to 'butcher' 40 years ago
Associated Press By DENIS D. GRAY 13 hours agoUnique Method May Regrow Lost HairHair Loss Protocol SponsorPARIS (AP) — Twelve helicopters, bristling with guns and U.S. Marines, breached the morning horizon and began a daring descent toward Cambodia's besieged capital. Residents believed the Americans were rushing in to save them, but at the U.S. Embassy, in a bleeding city about to die, the ambassador wept.Forty years later, John Gunther Dean recalls one of the most tragic days of his life — April 12, 1975, the day the United States "abandoned Cambodia and handed it over to the butcher.""We'd accepted responsibility for Cambodia and then walked out without fulfilling our promise. That's the worst thing a country can do," he says in an interview in Paris. "And I cried because I knew what was going to happen."Five days after the dramatic evacuation of Americans, the U.S.-backed government fell to communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas. They drove Phnom Penh's 2 million inhabitants into the countryside at gunpoint. Nearly 2 million Cambodians — one in every four — would die from executions, starvation and hideous torture.Many foreigners present during the final months remain haunted to this day by Phnom Penh's death throes, by the heartbreaking loyalty of Cambodians who refused evacuation and by what Dean calls Washington's "indecent act."I count myself among those foreigners, a reporter who covered the Cambodian War for The Associated Press and was whisked away along with Dean and 287 other Americans, Cambodians and third country nationals. I left behind more than a dozen Cambodian reporters and photographers — about the bravest, may I say the finest, colleagues I've ever known. Almost all would die.The pullout, three weeks before the end of the Vietnam War, is largely forgotten, but for historians and political analysts, it was the first of what then-U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger termed "bug-outs.""It was the first time Americans came anywhere close to losing a war. What worries me and many of us old guys who were there is that we are still seeing it happen," says Frank Snepp, a senior CIA officer in Saigon and author of "Decent Interval," which depicts the final years of the Vietnam War. After Cambodia and Vietnam came Laos; there would be other conflicts with messy endings, like Central America in the 1980s, Iraq and — potentially — Afghanistan.Today, at 89, Dean and his French wife reside in an elegant Paris apartment graced by statues of Cambodian kings from the glory days of the Angkor Empire. A folded American flag lies across his knees, the same one he clutched under his arm in a plastic bag as he sped to the evacuation site. Captured by a photographer, it became one of the most memorable images of the Vietnam War era.
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