KI Media: “Indonesia not wanted, Prayuth insists [-Which part of the word "OBSERVER" does Praytuh not understand?]” plus 24 more |
- Indonesia not wanted, Prayuth insists [-Which part of the word "OBSERVER" does Praytuh not understand?]
- ប្រាំពីរមករាខ្លោចផ្សាដួងចិត្ត - Sorrowful 07 January: A Poem in Khmer by Khmer Sachak
- “Angkor and Its Global Connections”: An International Conference to be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 10-12 June 2011
- 30 Years of Vietnamese Oppression in Cambodia - By Antoine Phirum Pich
- 30 March 1997 Commemoration by SRP Switzerland
- Reality Journalism
- US Treads Fine Line as Ally in Yemen Could Fall [-Another dictatorship about to fall?]
- Muammar Gaddafi's presidential bolt-hole [-Hun Xen's Tuol Krasaing fortress rivals with Gaddafi's compound?]
- SRP Policy on Agriculture
- Stop that rhetoric: Sam Rainsy is not a killer nor like the Khmer Rouge
- Hun Sen: " I slave of Youn will kill you because you are birthplace traitors
- Prayuth afraid that Indonesian observers may uncover its perfidy?
- [Thai] Army: Indonesian observers not wanted [-Siem min choal khbuon]
- Sam Rainsy's Interview on RFA - 23 March 2011
- "Virapheap Chea Sme" a Poem in Khmer by NhiekKiri
- The March 30, 1997 Tragedy
- COMFREL will conducts workshop in remote area of Kratie and Kampong Speu provinces on the 4th week of March 2011
- Press Release: Rural Development Bank (RDB) to Visit CEDAC's Organic Rice Warehouse and Mill
- CCHR concerned by removal of principled UN head (in Khmer)
- Battle at Kruger: When the weak fight back - A life lesson for a so-called Strongman?
- Former child sex slave elicits tears at Imagine Solutions Conference
- Join Habitat for Humanity in Cambodia
- Cambodian government to investigate orphanages after UN concern
- Despite Japan’s Crisis, Vietnam Aims to Win Region’s Nuclear Race
- Cambodia's Sam Rainsy predicts revolution, remains in exile
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:23 PM PDT 24/03/2011 Wassana Nanuam & AFP Bangkok Post Observers from Indonesia are not needed to solve the Thai-Cambodian border dispute, army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha insists. Thai military leaders have also proposed that Thailand and Cambodia set up joint checkpoints to secure the disputed area. "A third country or any other country must not get involved. Thailand and Cambodia can talk. He repeated the stance taken by Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon and armed forces chiefs. They want the Foreign Ministry to tell Cambodia they do not want any observers from Indonesia, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), to get involved in bilateral border issues. "I do not reject observers but I do not think they are necessary because we can solve the problem ourselves. "If observers finally come, I will keep them on the outside. "Why should they enter the strategic area? That is dangerous. If observers are there, can they prevent Cambodia from violating the 2000 MoU? This is the point," Gen Prayuth said, referring to the Thai-Cambodian memorandum of understanding on bilateral demarcation. Indonesia proposed a compromise solution on Feb 22 to try to solve the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia by sending 15 of its observers to each side of the border near the Preah Vihear temple. The army chief also insisted that the next meeting of the General Border Committee (GBC) would happen in a bilateral manner. He said it was the turn of Cambodia to organise the GBC but if Cambodia was not ready to host it, Thailand could do so. Meanwhile, the world heritage body Unesco is sending an urgent mission to examine Preah Vihear temple after it was damaged in border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia. "I intend to send a mission to the area as soon as possible," Unesco's head Irina Bokova said on Tuesday. Ms Bokova called for "calm and restraint" around the Preah Vihear temple, which suffered damage during recent fighting. "World Heritage sites are the heritage of all humanity and the international community has a special responsibility to safeguard them," she said.  | ||
| ប្រាំពីរមករាខ្លោចផ្សាដួងចិត្ត - Sorrowful 07 January: A Poem in Khmer by Khmer Sachak Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:05 PM PDT ប្រាំពីរមករាខ្លោចផ្សាដួងចិត្ត   | ||
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT "Angkor and Its Global Connections": An International Conference to be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 10-12 June 2011 In collaboration with the APSARA (Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap) National Authority of Cambodia, and with the support of the UNESCO Phnom Penh Office, the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore is pleased to announce the convening of a conference entitled Angkor and Its Global Connections in Siem Reap over three days 10-12 June 2011. The aim of the proposed conference is to examine the history of the Khmer polities which were centred in and around the Angkor region, the development of their urban centres, and the links between these polities and other political and cultural centres in Southeast Asia, East Asia and beyond. It is hoped that the papers presented, selections of which will be subsequently published in an edited volume, will offer a state-of-the-field overview of Khmer polities, their urban development and their relations with other polities and cultural centres, including Tai, Thai, Cham, Viet, and Chinese polities, the Arab and Persian worlds and maritime Southeast Asia. The need for such a conference is obvious. While there are annual ICC-Angkor meetings held in Siem Reap under the auspices of APSARA and UNESCO, these relate mainly to the preservation and maintenance of the monuments of the Angkor region. It has often been the case, however, that these ancient cities have been examined in splendid isolation, without sufficient reference to their external links which, it must be affirmed, are integral and essential elements for any functioning metropolis in history or today. The most recent major scholarly conclaves to address the broader issues of the historical and external contexts of the Khmer centres were the 'Khmer Studies Symposium', hosted by the Greater Angkor Project at Sydney University in 2005 and the 'Contemporary Research on Pre-Angkor Cambodia' conference convened by the Centre for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap in the same year. The amount of archaeological, textual, epigraphic and comparative research which has been conducted since then suggests that the field would benefit from another gathering of specialists, with some new foci. It is to this end that the proposed conference is being convened. This is the first conference in the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre's "Early Cities of Southeast Asia" series. Research institutes throughout the world are invited to nominate scholars whose participation in the conference they will financially support. Independent scholars are also invited to submit proposals, but funding will be limited to those from Asia most in need of financial support. The languages of the conference will be English and Khmer. Proposals should be directed to: Angkor and its Global Connections Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119614 Email: lucyliu@iseas.edu.sg Applications close 10 April 2011 Queries should be directed to: Ambassador Pou Sothirak (sothirak@iseas.edu.sg) or Dr Geoff Wade (gwade@iseas.edu.sg) With all best wishes, Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Singapore  | ||
| 30 Years of Vietnamese Oppression in Cambodia - By Antoine Phirum Pich Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:54 PM PDT The following book by Antoine Phirum Pich is now in full French text on Google Books. The English version is forthcoming. Please stay tune.   | ||
| 30 March 1997 Commemoration by SRP Switzerland Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:43 PM PDT  What: Commemoration of the 30 March 1997 Grenade Attack on Peaceful SRP Protesters When: Sunday 03 April 2011 From 9:30AM Where: Biel Pagoda 5 Rue de la Cascase 2603 Péry Switzerland  | ||
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:37 PM PDT Reality Social Experiment Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Chhay Chanda Originally posted at http://cambodianchildren.blogspot.com/ Over the years, especially during the past two decades, I have heard on numerous occasions about young Cambodian women jumping onto the marriage's bandwagon for the opportunity to come to live in the United States, or some other developed countries. Some of these young women sometimes married men as old as their grandfathers or married people they didn't even know. Though there are reasons regarding our individual personal choices, the issue of a woman, especially young woman, deciding to marry someone as old as her grandfather or someone she didn't even know and took the risk of possibly living unhappily ever after has always stirred my curiosity. After giving some thoughts to the issue over the years, I came to a hypothetical conclusion that the reasons these young women took the risk might stem from the following factors:
There are many more factors that could be added to the list, but I believe, if people have these three factors eliminated from their lives, they would certainly not take the options mentioned above. Late last year, I had an opportunity to put my hypothesis into a test. Because I was not a researcher, and, by no means, an expert on what I was doing, my life-altering experiment was somewhat eccentric, to put it mildly. After having gone through a divorce, I found myself feeling lonely and sad. So I took a three week vacation and went to Cambodia to look for a soul mate. Upon arriving in Cambodia, I met M who is an independent factory inspector and my cousin. M offered me a temporary job as an assistant factory inspector so that I could tag along with him to visit the many garment factories located in and around Phnom Penh. My compensation was $20 for each day I went to work. Though tiny comparing to my salary working at my job in the US, the $20 a day pay was a huge sum comparing to the salary of factory workers who make only $61 a month on average. So, without giving it much thought, I accepted the job offer and became an assistant factory inspector during my three week stay in Cambodia. A brief bio about M: M was a rather dimwitted boy when he was growing up. His mother told me that she had to make him repeat the first grade because he could not read or understand the basic letters being taught to him in the previous year. As a result, his younger sister caught up with him on the grade level. When I left Cambodia almost 3 decades ago, M was just a tiny boy running in the dusty country road naked. He knew me only through my picture when he was growing up. Because I was somewhat successful in terms of overcoming adversity in life, his mother occasionally used my picture as a role model to inspire him to learn and be successful in school. With his mother's cajoling, M was able to make it to the 12th grade at which point the family was no longer able to support his schooling. So, M's mother told him to write me a letter asking for financial support for his continuing education at the college level in Phnom Penh. M's letter was the most uninspiring one I had ever seen coming out of a 12th grader's writing that it made me thought he was not college material. I did not answer him. A few months later, M's younger sister wrote me a letter asking for financial support for her higher education. It was the most convincing letter which could only come out of a brilliant young mind. So, I decided to fund M's younger sister to go to college instead of him. But through a twist of fate, I ended up funding M's college's education instead of his younger sister as there was no place for her to stay in Phnom Penh except for the pagoda which was not suitable for a girl to seek refuge from. The promise had been made; the money had been sent; nothing much I could do except for going through with my commitment investing my hard earned money with a less than ideal candidate. After funding M's college education expense for 2 years, I had an opportunity to go visit Cambodia in late 1997 which enabled me to meet him for the first time. During our initial meeting, M struck conversation with me in English which revealed a rather determined young man who would not let life's adversity hinder his struggle for success. After that initial meeting, my confidence in M grew and he has become one of my trusted friends from whom to seek consultation when I need to get things done in Cambodia. This is how M and I get to know each other at the personal level. My decision to become M's assistant was not so much to earn that $20 per day pay but rather to peer at his career and to find out what has become of him after I spent so much of those hard earned money funding his college's education. Now that you know M's background, let's go for a ride with a factory inspector. The first garment factory we went to inspect was located in Khan Reusey Keo. We showed up at the factory's gate in a dilapidated 16 years old Toyota Corolla. The security guards were not impressed and reluctant to let us in even after we told them our credential. So, a phone call to the factory's higher-up had to be made in order to gain access into the premise. While we were waiting, I asked M why isn't there any memo of our inspection left with the security guards so that the process would go smoothly. M told me that this is how things normally operate in Cambodia. He told me of an incidence he once had showing up to inspect a factory on a motorbike. He was not allowed to get through the factory's gate and made to wait outside for hours. After a few phone calls to his headquarter in Hong Kong, an apologetic compliance officer came charging out to get him in. After a few minutes of waiting, we were given access into the factory's compound. The manager came down to meet us at the parking lot and we were taken up the elevator to the executive suite where a number of administrative staffs waited to greet us. A VIP's treatment I felt, while a few minutes earlier we were not even accorded any regard by the security guards. The first order of business for us was to meet with the factory's owner or general manager (GM), who was usually a foreigner, to go over the protocol of our inspection. Because he was the lead inspector, M did most of the talking while I observed him in awe and amazement. Based on M's fluent conversation in English, and his confident exhibition of skill and professionalism, it was painfully clear that the once considered dimwitted boy has now earned my utmost respect. As a US trained journalist, I even doubted my ability to perform the tasks anywhere close to M's professional level. With the factory manager acting as our guide, we began our inspection from the very bottom of the organization's echelon and moved our way up to the administrative areas where we spent a lot of time inspecting payroll and legal paperwork to ensure that the workers were not abused one way or another. It took us one full exhausting day to complete a factory's inspection. After work, M took me to dinner at a restaurant to go over my first-day-on-the-job experience and to see how I feel working in Cambodia for the first time. I told him that I was very excited to be able to gain unlimited accesses to a factory and had a good look at what was going on inside. However, after observing how the workers were organized within the factory's organization, I noticed a group of office personnel sitting in front of computers as they were working. This group of people was given air-conditioned rooms in which to work and appeared to be mostly performing administrative function. The majority of them were women in their late 20s or early 30s. I made some inquiries about the backgrounds of these administrative staffs. M told me that those who worked at the factory's administrative level were mostly college graduates. They were among the most successful, the crème of the crops one would say, in the private sector. They generally came from the province and had to overcome a lot of adversity in life to get that far. As administrative staffs, they earned between $300 to $500 per month, plus some other perk such as free food and transportation to and from work. Based on what M was telling me, it appeared that the young women who worked as factory's administrative staffs were among the most secured people as far as careers and incomes were concerned, not to mention their educational assets. After a quick thinking, I decided to put my hypothesis into a test by using myself as a subject of experiment. Without revealing what I was up to, I told M that I came to Cambodia to look for a soul mate, and that I was interested in searching for a prospective mate among the young ladies who worked as administrative staffs in the factories. Upon learning of my desire, M was so excited. He told me that he knew a lot of the young ladies who worked as administrative staffs in the garment factories because he had been in frequent interaction with them when going about doing inspection. After careful discussion on what we would go about meeting my prospective dates, we decided to use dinner as a venue for our endeavor. M and I would use the occasion to talk about our lives and in the process evaluate the compatibility between my date and me. We both agreed that I would go to the next step by asking my date if she would like to be my spouse and go to live in the US with me only if both M and I unanimously believed that she was the right person. My first date, Ms. A, was a 34 years old lady. For a woman her age, she looked great. However, after the meeting, I didn't feel any spark igniting up in my emotion. I asked M if he had any sense of positive thought about my date. He too was feeling rather hapless. So, we decided to move on. My second date, Ms. B, was a 31 years old woman who was very bright and intelligent. Being the first born child, she had to quit school at 19 in order to work and help support the family. Her income helped put many of her siblings through college. She was truly a selfless person. After the meeting, both M and I agreed that I should go on to the next step. Next day, M made a phone call to Ms. B on my behalf to make the proposal. Her answer was a disappointing no, as she already had a boy friend. Whether having a "boy friend" was just a diplomatic way of rejecting my offer to take her to the US was anybody's guess. But we had to accept her answer on face value though. Feeling a bit dejected, M and I went to conduct another inspection on a factory located in Chaum Chao. At that factory, I met a very attractive young lady, Ms. C, who was working as compliance officer there. She had a Westerner's name and could speak English fluently. At first I thought she was an expatriate, but upon further inquiry she only had relatives living in the US, and her Westerner's name was bestowed upon her by one of those relatives. She happened to know M as well. Thus, after our initial interaction, I conferred with M if I should explore a possible dating with Ms. C. M told me a bit about her background and we both agreed to pursue the subject of my desire. We were scheduled to inspect the factory where Ms. C worked for a period of two days. So I had ample time to interact with her. M and I planned to invite Ms. C to dinner in the evening of the last day of our inspection. However, due to her busy schedule, she was unable to join us for dinner. So we took the afternoon of our last day of inspection, which by then our works had been completed, to talk with Ms. C about what was going on in our lives. To my absolute surprise, I learned that one of Ms. C's relatives, who lives in the US, and I know each other. What a coincidence! Without even consulting with M, I decided to move ahead to the next step by telling Ms. C what I was up to. I asked her to call her relative in the US to inquire about my character and let me know about her decision in a couple of days. M and I waited for two days for Ms. C to call and give us her answer. But no call from Ms. C was forthcoming. So, M decided to give her a call, which was met with dead silence, another diplomatic way of saying no, I assumed. By the time I met Ms. C, it was the last weekend of my stay in Cambodia. Both M and I were a bit depressed after failing to accomplish our objective. In a last minute effort, M's girl friend arranged for me to meet Ms. D over dinner. We ended up having breakfast and lunch together the following day. Due to the breakneck nature of this high speed dating, I had to leave my tacit agreement to go on to the next step's pursuit of this affair of the heart with M after returning to the US. Three weeks later, I was informed that Ms. D did not want to come to the good old US of A, or, to put it in other words, NO to my matrimonial offer to sponsor her to the US. Back to my hypothesis: It appears that when people are well educated, well informed, and have a means to maintain a fairly good livelihood, the allure of a better life in a faraway land does not have much appeal. Of course my experiment was crude, by any scientific standard. But it nevertheless provides us with a tiny glimpse into people's behaviors. Though I feel a bit disappointed over my failure to find a soul mate, I am somewhat happy to see that my hypothesis has been supported by this rather short and silly experiment. And I welcome those who wanted to challenge my finding to conduct a more structured experiment to see if this result could be rebutted. Chanda Chhay  | ||
| US Treads Fine Line as Ally in Yemen Could Fall [-Another dictatorship about to fall?] Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:19 PM PDT March 23, 2011 By BRADLEY KLAPPER WASHINGTON (AP) The Obama administration sought Wednesday to avoid undermining an embattled ally in Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, offering no prediction whether Saleh could ride out spirited street protests to remain in power and refusing to acknowledge any contingency plans in case he is removed. The caution from top officials such as Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton represented a careful balancing act for the administration. The U.S. does not want to add pressure on Saleh, who has proven himself a key partner in the fight against al-Qaida, even as American officials have become increasingly perturbed by the harshness of his government's crackdown on peaceful protesters. In Cairo for meetings, Gates said that while things are unsettled in Yemen, it was too early to know the outcome. He stressed that the United States had a good relationship with Saleh, whose offer to step down at year-end after more than three decades in power has been rejected by the opposition. And, Gates said, the administration had not formulated an approach to the country for when the aged president leaves office. That message was echoed in Washington by Clinton, however unlikely it seemed that the U.S. government had conducted no planning for how it might react to Saleh's departure from Yemen, a main counterterrorism battleground. "We're not going to make predictions about what will happen in Yemen," Clinton said after meeting Morocco's foreign minister. "We support dialogue as a path to a peaceful solution to Yemen's current political situation that includes genuine participation by all sides." That dialogue has yet to begin in the country on the Arabian Peninsula. The crisis intensified Wednesday as Yemen's parliament granted Saleh's request for sweeping emergency laws that include new powers of arrest, detention and censorship to quash the popular uprising demanding his removal. The move escalated the showdown between Saleh and a movement that now includes top military commanders, religious leaders and protesting youth. Rival factions of the military have deployed tanks in the capital, Sanaa. In the most brutal show of force against anti-government demonstrators, security forces shot dead more than 40 protesters on Friday. The violence and instability are causing unease in Washington. For two years, the Obama administration had a relationship of convenience with Yemen, keeping its government armed and flush with cash in return for assistance against al-Qaida. And after seeing longtime allies in Tunisia and Egypt chased from power in popular revolts, the U.S. has sought to cajole Saleh into promising the types of reforms that might appease frustrated youths and others in the Arab world's most impoverished country, while maintaining stability and continuity in the fight against Islamic extremists. Asked if the administration had a strategy in place in case Saleh was ousted, State Department spokesman Mark Toner was careful not to contradict his superiors. But he stressed that "our interests in Yemen go beyond specific individuals." "We along with the people and the government of Yemen have a strong interest in combating terrorism," Toner told reporters. U.S.-Yemen relations "go beyond one individual; they are government-to-government." The Obama administration considers the al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula offshoot to be the most serious terror threat to the United States. The group nearly succeeded in bombing U.S. cargo jets last year and a passenger airliner on Christmas 2009. ___ Associated Press writer Lolita C. Baldor in Cairo contributed to this report.  | ||
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PDT 
By Kathryn Westcott BBC News Bab al-Aziziya - Splendid Gate - the nerve-centre of Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime has long been a symbol of the Libyan leader's defiance. At the heart of the sprawling presidential compound in downtown Tripoli is the shell of his former residence, partially destroyed by American laser-guided "smart" bombs in 1986. Col Gaddafi claimed that his adopted baby daughter Hanna had been killed in the attack, ordered by former US President Ronald Reagan. The Libyans had been accused of the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque in which two American GIs were killed. The building has not been rebuilt and has been renamed House of Resistance. In front of it stands a giant, gold, clenched fist crushing an American plane. In the past few months, the iconic building has formed the backdrop for Col Gaddafi's televised addresses, as it did in 2001 when the Libyan leader spoke out angrily against the Lockerbie verdict. And it is here that this week ordinary Libyans rallied in support of Col Gaddafi, scaling the monument and straddling the plane in front of the cameras of the invited media. About a quarter of a mile away, nestling among the trees, stands Col Gaddafi's Bedouin-style tent, one of his homes for the past four decades. It was here, in 2004, that the then German Chancellor Gerhard Shroeder was entertained as he became the first German head of state to visit Libya. Col Gaddafi doesn't stay long in one location and his current whereabouts is a mystery. Last weekend, a three-story administration building about 50m (160ft) away from the tent was almost demolished in an air strike. Coalition officials insist their target was a command and control facility Col Gaddafi used to communicate with his troops. It is reported that key military leaders and personnel are based in the compound. A day before the strike, a BBC team had visited the high-walled complex. At the south-eastern side of the compound is a football pitch, probably used by the families that inhabit the rows of houses just inside the compound. Ordinary Libyans came to the compound to rally in support of Col Gaddafi "The streets with the low houses reminded me a bit of a refugee camp in Gaza," said one member of the team. The houses are thought to be military accomodation. The team saw a small child peering out of one of them. Beyond these houses is a lower wall and then an entrance into the compound's "inner sanctum". All visitors are security checked and have to pass through metal detectors. The BBC team saw a lot of soldiers inside the compound and some old, light anti-aircraft guns attached to the back of trucks. "There was a feeling that there were bunkers underground - I saw some air vents," says one member of the BBC team.  | ||
| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:37 PM PDT 23 March 2011 Source: SRP This morning, the SRP launched its agriculture policy at a press conference where MP Son Chhay, who led the policy study team, explained in details on how survey were conducted before the policy can be drawn. The next two issues to be studied by SRP are Health and Employment. SRP Policy on Agriculture http://www.scribd.com/doc/51419131/SRP-Policy-on-Agriculture SRP Policy on Agriculture (English) http://www.scribd.com/doc/51419395/SRP-Policy-on-Agriculture-English  | ||
| Stop that rhetoric: Sam Rainsy is not a killer nor like the Khmer Rouge Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:38 PM PDT 23 March 2011 Opinion by Timothy Chhim originally posted at http://timothychhim.blogspot.com KI-Media Note: Recently, former SRP Mao Monyvann decided to switch to Kem Sokha's Human Rights Party after he was kicked by the SRP following his resignation from his position as MP. Mao Monyvann subsequently likened the SRP leaders to the Khmer Rouge and the HRP took the opportunity to organize a hoopla reception for the newly defected SRP MP and his followers. The following article by Lok Timothy Chhim analyzes this issue as well as the future of the merger between the SRP and the HRP. Mao Monyvan's allegation that SRP's leaders are like the Khmer Rouge is too extreme. Regardless, whether you like Sam Rainsy and SRP or not, the are not Khmer Rouge nor like the Khmer Rouge. Politicians ought to tone down their rhetorical statements and be informative or enlightening instead of being enrage with verbal abuses. HRP's leaders and the so-called special event's creators should also have better moral values in conducting such an event which could be harmful to future relations between the non-CPP political parties, if they are serious about gaining additional seats in the National Assembly. However, from the very beginning HRP has been speculated that it was created to split Sam Rainsy's Party and some reliable sources pointed that its President was given financial supports and a green light by Premier Hun Sen to help created the Party. Such allegations have never been proven but they have never been clarified. Actions by HRP speak the truth. With regards to which parties is more democratic the people ought to know by now that the answer is none. Such a self-serving maneuver or accusations are used to demonize the previous party to cover up the real internal or personal problems one does have. The structures of the party may say that it is "true" democratic, but the application is not---the money, the fame, the "not what you know, but who you know" are the key factors. Cambodian voters are much smarter now and so are political supporters. Politicians may dupe them twice, but the third time it won't happen. What they are looking for is not [the hearing of] empty promises, but something that they can see, smell and touch. Right now what they see are the politicians jumping ship, what they smell is nepotism and dishonesty, what they can touch is not here—the money. It is unfortunate that the only party with plenty of money now is not one of the oppositions.  The Unity that is stil in the clouds.  | ||
| Hun Sen: " I slave of Youn will kill you because you are birthplace traitors Posted: 23 Mar 2011 08:28 AM PDT | ||
| Prayuth afraid that Indonesian observers may uncover its perfidy? Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:26 AM PDT Army chief: Indonesian observers will make situation more difficult BANGKOK, March 23 (MCOT online news) - Thai army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha on Wednesday said resolving the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia will be more difficult if Indonesia sends observers into the disputed areas claimed by both neighbours. The Thai army commander-in-chief expressed his disagreement following reports that Indonesian observers will enter the contested zone to observe the situation. Tension along the Thai-Cambodian border was renewed with several clashes between soldiers of the two countries near the ancient Preah Vihear temple in early February, leading to casualties among the troops and civilians on both sides, as well as forcing the evacuation of villagers in the areas. Indonesia, as the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), said it will send a team to observe the borders of Thailand and Cambodia, but not as a peacekeeping or peace enforcement team. Gen Prayuth commented that he disagreed with the observer team, no matter from which country, but it depends on the decision of the government and the foreign ministry. The army chief reasoned that the border conflict should be resolved at the bilateral level, adding he has no objection if the observer team will stay at the border but their location must be fixed first. "I earlier said the Thai-Cambodian General Border Committee (GBC) meeting should be held first so that the defence ministers of two countries will talk and find a solution as to whether the ASEAN observers should enter the area or not," Gen Prayuth said. "If the observers will really enter at the borders, I don't want them to enter the disputed area as it's dangerous zone and will make it more difficult to solve the conflict." Gen Prayuth reiterated that the Defence Ministry, the Royal Thai Army and the commanders of Thailand three branches of the armed forces also disagreed with the move regarding ASEAN observers. Regarding the possible GBC meeting, the army chief said Thailand has proposed to its neighbour to hold the meeting as soon as possible and that Thailand is ready to host the event if Cambodia is not ready. Gen Prayuth added any agreement regarding the border dispute cannot be achieved by either country alone but with mutual agreement by the two countries. In a related development, Thai foreign ministry spokesman Thani Thongpakdi said on Wednesday the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh has already submitted letters seeking royal pardons from the Cambodian monarch for two convicted Thai activists of Thai Patriots Network on Mar 14. Mr Thani said he has been informed that Cambodia is considering letters of Veera Somkwamkid and Ratree Pipattanapaiboon, while reaffirming that any political change in Thailand will not affect the royal pardon request of the two Thai nationals. The spokesman added he cannot tell when the royal pardon request process will be completed as it depends on the consideration of Cambodian authorities case by case. A Cambodian court on Feb 1 ruled that the two were guilty of espionage, illegal entry, and trespassing in a military zone. Mr Veera was sentenced to an eight-year jail term while Ms Ratree was handed a six-year jail term. Mr Veera's health is reportedly deteriorating as he has congenital diseases and has not been given appropriate medical treatment and nutrition while serving his jail term there.  | ||
| [Thai] Army: Indonesian observers not wanted [-Siem min choal khbuon] Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:13 AM PDT 23/03/2011 Bangkok Post Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon and commanders of all the armed forces have resolved not to allow Indonesian observers to enter the 4.6 square kilometre dispute area on the Thai-Cambodian border, army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Wednesday. Gen Prayuth said the top brass wanted the Thai-Cambodian conflict to be solved by bilateral negotiations between the two countries, without outside involvement. He said the army had made a proposal to Cambodia through the Foreign Ministry that if there were to be joint checkpoints in the disputed area, then a special centre should be set up to coordinate their operation. The coordination centre must be manned by Thai and Cambodian soldiers only. It was not necessary to have Indonesian observers. If Cambodia insisted on having Indonesian observers, they should be allowed to perform their duty only outside the disputed area, Gen Prayuth said. "Why do they want to enter the disputed area? It's not safe there. The question is, if Indonesian observers come, will they be able to order Cambodian soldiers not to violate the Memorandum of Understanding?" he said. The army chief was firm in his stand that the Thai-Cambodian conflict over the ancient Preah Vihear temple area was a matter to be solved by Thailand and Cambodia, and that Indonesia or any other third country should not be involved. "Thailand and Cambodia, can reach a settlement through negotiations, especially between the soldiers," he said. Gen Prayuth reaffirmed the Thai top brass would not attend the General Border Committee (GBC) meeting in Indonesia on April 7-8. "The 8th GBC was initially to be hosted by Cambodia. If Cambodia cannot host the meeting, we would offer to host it in Thailand. We are contacting Gen Tea Banh, the Cambodian defence minister, over this matter," he said. Asked what would happen if Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen insisted on not holding bilateral talks, he said: "If the meeting cannot be held, it will not be held." Talks must be bilateral and foreigners should not interfere, Gen Prayuth said. Regarding the map to be used in talks to settle the border conflict, Gen Prayuth said Thailand stands firm on using the 1:50,000 map, not the 1:200,000. "Fighting will not bring anything good, only losses. Problems must be solved through negotiations," he said. Foreign Ministry spokesman Thani Thongphakdi said the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh has submitted a petition seeking a royal pardon on behaldfof Thai Patriots Network coordinator Veera Somkwamkid and his personal secretary Ratree Pipatanapaiboon. Mr Thani said the petition, signed by Mr Veera and Ms Ratree, was submitted through the Cambodian Foreign Ministry on March 14. The petition had been forwarded to the proper agency and was being considered, he said. Asked Mr Veera's reported illness, Mr Thani said the Thai embassy reported that his condition had improved. Asked if a change of government after the general election would affect the petition for a royal pardon, Mr Thani said he did not think so. No matter what the politics may be, the Foreign Ministry is duty-bound to help Thai people in trouble, he said. Mr Thani had no idea how long the pardon process would take. Mr Veera and Ms Ratree were among the seven Thais arrested by Cambodian soldiers on Dec 29 for illegal entry. The five other Thais were sentenced by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to nine months in jail for illegal entry. They were freed after the remaining eight months in jail was suspended by the court. The pair was additionally charged with spying. Mr Veera was sentenced to eight years in jail and Ms Ratree six years in jail.  | ||
| Sam Rainsy's Interview on RFA - 23 March 2011 Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:05 AM PDT | ||
| "Virapheap Chea Sme" a Poem in Khmer by NhiekKiri Posted: 23 Mar 2011 06:37 AM PDT   | ||
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| Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:55 AM PDT Dear all, COMFREL will conducts Voter Voice Workshops in remote areas of Kratie and Kampong Speu province on 4th Week of March 2011. Please find and see the attached file for details. Best regards, COMFREL Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia Head Office : # 138, Street 122, Sangkat Teuk La ak, Khan Tuol Kork, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. P.O.Box 1145, CCC Box 439 Phone : (855-23) 884 150 Fax : (855-23) 883 750 E-mail : comfrel@online.com.kh Website : www.comfrel.org   | ||
| Press Release: Rural Development Bank (RDB) to Visit CEDAC's Organic Rice Warehouse and Mill Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:53 AM PDT Dear All, On March 23, 2011, a delegation from the Rural Development Bank (RDB), led by H.E. Son Koun Thor, will be visiting CEDAC's organic rice warehouse and Taiwa Seiki rice mill machine. Thanks and kind regards, Him Khortieth .............. Communication Officer Centre d' Etude et de Développement Agricole Cambodgien (CEDAC) No. 119, Street 257, Sangkat Toek Laak 1, Khan Toul Kork B.P. 1118 Phnom Penh H/P: 855-16-57-57-13 Tel : 855- 23-880-916 Fax : 855-23-885-146 E-mail: himkhortieth@cedac.org.kh www.cedac.org.kh    | ||
| CCHR concerned by removal of principled UN head (in Khmer) Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:49 AM PDT    | ||
| Battle at Kruger: When the weak fight back - A life lesson for a so-called Strongman? Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:42 AM PDT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM  | ||
| Former child sex slave elicits tears at Imagine Solutions Conference Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:18 AM PDT
Cambodian now saves girls from prostitution Mar. 22, 2011 News-Press.com
Somaly Mam was a child sex slave. She's not sure how old she is now - probably about 40. A Cambodian, Mam owns a house near Phnom Penh. But "home" is not on a map. It is where "the girls" in her shelters are. Through two nonprofit foundations, Mam has rescued more than 4,000 children who were victims of human trafficking. Most are 12 to 15 years old, and like Mam, they were commodities sold by their families into lives of prostitution. Mam spoke Tuesday to attendees at the Imagine Solutions Conference at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples. In an interview with The News-Press on Monday, she said her goal was to raise both money and awareness of human trafficking in her native country and throughout the world. "It's not easy to understand. It's scary and heavy for people, and emotional," said Mam, a petite woman with dark hair and the dark skin of a marginalized Cambodian ethnic minority. As many as 500 girls at a time live in her foundation's shelters and clinics in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, she told the audience, who watched as photos of them - including a smiling young teen rescued at age 7 after her eye had been cut out by a client with a knife - were projected onto two screens. They are as young as 3 years old, Mam said as a moan rippled through the room. They have been rescued from brothels and are recovering from lives of rape and other violence, racism and other punishments. Some have AIDS and do not recover. At particular risk for AIDS are the young virgins, she wrote in her autobiography, "The Road of Lost Innocence," first published in French in 2005. They fall prey to a myth among Cambodian men, that sex with a virgin will cure them of HIV. It is a harrowing tale of her abandonment in childhood by her parents and "adoption" by a man who said he was her grandfather and sold her to a brothel. With only a spotty elementary school education, Mam speaks Khmer, Pnong, Laotian, Thai, French, English and a little bit of Spanish. But asked which is her native tongue, she says none - and all - of them. Like nearly all Cambodians, Mam was once Buddhist. But no longer. She finally has been able to stop believing that she is an "unlucky" or "broken" person for misdeeds in a past life. Most girls are sold into slavery in Southeast Asia as simply a way to pay off a debt, or to raise money to feed the family's other children - in particular, the boys, Mam said. But it is this cultural belief in their doomed karma that keeps them enslaved. They are not seen as worth saving. But they are to Mam, who travels throughout the world and speaks, but cannot be away from the girls in her shelters for more than 10 days at a time, said Somaly Mam Foundation CEO Bill Livermore. After a week or 10 days, the nightmares begin again, he said. Mam nodded. The speaking is necessary to raise the money to keep the girls recovering. "It takes five minutes to save them. But then what are you going to do with them?" Mam said. "It takes five to 10 years to recover them and give them the hope of a new life." That takes economic empowerment, for the girls and their families as well - through a garment business in Cambodia and mulberry tree and silk production in Laos. "We're researching other businesses to implement in the community," said Livermore, a former executive with Lexis-Nexis who worked with Mam on the company's behalf before joining the foundation full time. The father of two teenagers, he finds the twice-a-year trips to Southeast Asia both punishing and rewarding. "It's heartbreaking to meet an 8-year-old girl who is terrified of you because you are a man," he said. But he's clear-eyed about the foundation's mission. Teaching the girls a trade helps the girls themselves and may allow them to return safely to their families. "If we can show that they're a revenue stream (rather than simply a one-time source of $100 for their enslavement), then they're more valuable to their families." Regardless, some of the girls cannot return because they remain at risk of abuse by relatives who see them as permanently dirty. These children usually stay at foundation shelters until they reach age 18. Mam is sometimes haunted by their stories. She carries with her an iPad and iPhone full of photos of the children, which helps her get through the days when she is away from them, she said. "We teach them first of all forgive. Forgive the people who do this to you and forgive yourself," she said. "We say be happy with what you are now." Kandi O'Donnell of Naples, a teacher at Immokalee High School, said she was "brought to tears" by Mam's speech, which she delivered in heavily accented English while standing alone on stage and several body lengths from the podium. entrepreneurial talent, gave the example of 10-year-old changemaker Talia Leman from Iowa, who led a Halloween trick-or-treating campaign among kids to raise $10 million for Hurricane Katrina victims. Christa Gannon founded FLY, a Bay Area program that teaches troubled youth about the legal system. She said it costs California $100,000 a year to jail a child; her program costs $8,000 a year per child. "Instead of investing in their failure, let's invest in their success," she said. Daniel Ravicher, executive director of the Public Patent Foundation, fights against undeserved patents that prevent the advancement of technology. His foundation filed a suit charging that patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer are unconstitutional. He said the patents prevent women from getting tested.  | ||
| Join Habitat for Humanity in Cambodia Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:25 PM PDT March 22, 2011 By Staff Issaquah Press (Washington, USA) Help build houses in Cambodia alongside Habitat for Humanity of East King County employees. Emily Fortman, director of family services, and bookkeeper Kathy Davis plan to lead 12 adventurers on a Global Village trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia, from June 10-18. Global Village trips consist of volunteers and a local family working side by side. The family then lives in the home. In addition to the project, volunteers can experience authentic Cambodian meals and cultural activities. Volunteers age 16 and older can apply for the slots. Contact Fortman at efortman@habitatekc.org or 869-6007 to learn more. Because space is limited, participants should make reservations as soon as possible. Since Habitat for Humanity International registered a branch office in Cambodia in January 2003, Habitat for Humanity Cambodia has built more than 1,000 homes and served more than 3,000 families through housing and community development programs in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Kandal and Battambang.  | ||
| Cambodian government to investigate orphanages after UN concern Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:11 PM PDT Mar 23, 2011 DPA Phnom Penh - The Cambodian government has started inspecting hundreds of orphanages after the UN children's agency UNICEF said it was worried children were at risk, in part from 'volunteer tourism.' The Cambodia Daily newspaper reported Wednesday that a spokesman for the Ministry of Social Affairs had confirmed action commenced out of concern for children at orphanages. 'We are conducting the inspections because we don't know how the children are treated,' said spokesman Lim El Djurado, adding that those orphanages which fell short would be closed. Earlier this week UNICEF said there were now 269 orphanages in Cambodia, almost double the number in 2005. The number of orphans had also risen to nearly 12,000 from 5,751 over the same period. But nearly three-quarters of 'orphans' still had at least one surviving parent, which raised questions as to why so many children were being institutionalized. UNICEF country head Richard Bridle told the German Press Agency dpa that just 21 orphanages were state-funded. The rest were predominantly 'overseas funded and faith-based.' 'Overseas donors are the main funders of residential care,' Bridle said. 'Many residential care centres have begun to turn to tourism to attract funders, and in doing so, are putting children at risk.' Bridle said that so-called volunteer tourism, where foreign nationals help out at orphanages for a few days or weeks at a time during their travels, was problematic. 'Even with the best intentions, tourists and volunteers, who make significant contributions towards orphanages, are funding a system that is contributing to the separation of children from their families,' he said. International studies have shown that care by a parent is far preferable to institutional care, and is also much cheaper. Bridle said putting children in care 'should be a last resort.' Rights organizations have long been concerned that some orphanages are simply thinly disguised businesses, allowing unscrupulous people to earn money from children. Last week, the US special advisor for children's issues, Susan Jacobs, was in Cambodia to research whether the country's regulations were sufficiently stringent to allow inter-country adoptions to resume. The US was among a number of Western nations that banned adoptions from Cambodia in 2001 after compelling evidence emerged that some children were being trafficked and sold to foreign parents. Cambodia is looking to resume international adoptions in April under a new law that it says will accord with the Hague Adoption Convention.  | ||
| Despite Japan’s Crisis, Vietnam Aims to Win Region’s Nuclear Race Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:07 PM PDT Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR IPS WRITER BANGKOK — Vietnam's race to build nuclear power plants has barely skipped a beat despite the troubling scenes unfolding in Japan, where a nuclear nightmare has gripped the country for over a week. It places the Southeast Asian nation at odds with its regional neighbours who have similar plans but are urging caution. Led by the country's ministry of science and technology, Hanoi has declared that the unfolding crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan—where desperate efforts are underway to cool the overheated nuclear complex—will not derail the construction of Vietnam's first nuclear plant in the south- central province of Ninh Thuan. "Vietnam is planning to build nuclear power plants," Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Dinh Tien said at a press conference last week, according to the Vietnamese media. "Information and assessments of the blasts at the Fukushima No. 1 plant will act as a foundation to help Vietnam's relevant authorities appropriate nuclear power programmes in the country." A multi-billion dollar deal inked between Russia and Vietnam last October to build the Ninh Thuan plant triggered what some analysts describe as a race to tap nuclear technology to meet the region's growing energy needs. By 2031, Vietnam hopes to achieve its goal of having eight nuclear plants in operation. Other countries with similar blueprints for nuclear energy include Thailand, which aims to build five nuclear plants; and Indonesia, with ambitions for four nuclear plants. The Philippines, on the other hand, built the controversial Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in the early 1980s—it has never been commissioned and fuelled. But unlike Vietnam, the governments in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines have appeared less strident with regards to their respective nuclear agendas following the grim news flowing out of Japan—the aftermath of the dual shocks of the most powerful earthquake to hit the country, followed by a tsunami, that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi plant on the country's northeastern coast. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has captured the mood in some of the region's capitals though his note of caution against the country's first nuclear power plant due to begin operations in 2020. "He has expressed concerns over safety at the nuclear plants, with accidents and terrorist attacks being the main worries," Panitan Wattanayagorn, a spokesman for the government, told IPS. Indonesian Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta has weighed in as well, telling 'The Jakarta Post' that "there is no need to hurry to build a nuclear power plant except if we start running out of energy resources." Philippines President Benigno Aquino has been the most unequivocal—rejecting the need for nuclear energy in his country in the wake of the crisis unfolding in Japan. Aquino wants a greater push towards non-nuclear energy sources, according to the Philippines media. Filipinos like Lotong Velasco are among a growing chorus of anti-nuclear activists in Southeast Asia who are using the crisis in Japan to raise their voices against the region's race for nuclear power. "The Bataan power plant is a structure full of defects and we do not want it to begin operations," Velasco told IPS during a telephone interview from Morong, the seaside town where the plant is located. "We need to avoid the nightmare in Japan happening in our own backyard one day," added the Velasco, vice chairman of the Nuclear Free Bataan Movement Net. "It has been built near the Pinatubo volcano." Little wonder why anti-nuclear activists are troubled by the emerging divide across Southeast Asia between Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, all of which have democratic cultures that offer space for public discussion over nuclear policy, and Vietnam, under the iron grip of the communist party, where criticism and opposition to public policies are tolerated selectively. "Vietnam's nuclear policy is a worry for the region," says Tara Buakamsri, the Southeast Asia campaign director for Greenpeace, the global environmental lobby. "They need to do more studies and need to set up an independent nuclear safety regulatory commission in line with requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency before proceeding further." Nuclear plants in Indonesia and the Philippines are worrying because both countries lie within the Pacific Ring of Fire - a belt around the Pacific Ocean prone to large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. "People's lives would be put at risk if nuclear plants are built and operate in such areas," Tara argued. The region is further hampered by the lack of a nuclear safety protocol in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), a 10-member regional bloc that includes Brunei, Burma (or Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. For now, the only agreement Asean's members have inked on nuclear safety is the 1995 treaty to keep the regional bloc a zone free of nuclear weapons. It not only limits the use of nuclear weapons, but also checks against member countries threatening to use nuclear arms against other members in the bloc. "People are alarmed and if they don't know what their governments are doing or plan to do, that sense of alarm can spread," Simon Tay, chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, told IPS. "Governments should pause and evaluate and open up the process [of building nuclear power plants] for discussion." Southeast Asian governments need to draw lessons from Asian giant China. In China the events in Japan have prompted a "stop at present [to their nuclear power programme] as they re-evaluate," Tay said. "Southeast Asian countries—with no experience in nuclear energy—should too."  | ||
| Cambodia's Sam Rainsy predicts revolution, remains in exile Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:02 PM PDT  ABC Radio Australia Cambodia's opposition leader in exile, Sam Rainsy, says the democratic changes sweeping the Arab world will also be felt in Cambodia. So far there has been no outward signs of coordinated anti-government protests and Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been elected three times during his 26 year rule, says he will crush any uprising. The comments from Sam Rainsy come after MPs from his party asked Cambodia's king Norodom Sihamoni to pardon their leader, who has exhausted all appeals against a two-year jail sentence, in a case his supporters say was politically-driven. Presenter: Sen Lam Speakers: Sam Rainsy, Cambodian opposition leader in exile, leader of the Sam Rainsy Party RAINSY: As a matter of principle, we have to go through all the legal channels, which is why we have called upon the King. But as you have pointed out, Mr Hun Sen is determined, to prevent the King from giving any amnesty to me. So this is a political problem that requires a political solution. A political solution can come anytime when the political situation in Cambodia changes. As in the past, there has political compromise. When the ruling party and the prime minister Mr Hun Sen is under pressure, then the prime minister will back off. And he would allow the King to pardon his political opponents. i think the political situation will change in the near future. You can see that the whole world is changing. Dictators who have been in place, for ten, thirty years, like Mr Hun Sen must fear now, that the population, their own people want democratic change, want justice. So, after Ben Ali in Tunisia, after Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, and soon, after Moammar Gaddafi in Libya, I think there will be pressure on Mr Hun Sen to step down. Then, the political situation in Cambodia will definitely change. LAM: Do you see signs of that pressure building in Cambodia, do you see signs of a peaceful Jasmine Revolution, if you like, taking place in Cambodia? RAINSY: Yes! There are many indications, many similarities between the situation in North Africa and the situation in Cambodia. All the ingredients for a change, a deep change, are there in Cambodia. The Cambodian people have lived under oppression for some thirty years. It's a long time, it's not very different from Gaddafi. it's not very different from Mubarak. There are a lot of social injustices in Cambodia, operation, corruption, lack of freedom. LAM: You say the signs are there, but the prime minister Hun Sen just recently said that he wanted to rule for the next forty years. RAINSY: I think Mr Mubarak neither, did not want to step down. And Gaddafi now doesn't want to step down. Therefore, it does not depend on the dictator. It depends on the people. Nobody can deprive a member of parliament who has been elected by the people, of his parliamentary seat. I, Sam Rainsy have been elected by the people. Therefore, only the people can dismiss me from parliament, from the National Assembly. The ruling party cannot chase the leader of the opposition from parliament. This is totally undemocratic. This is the sign - the obvious sign of dictatorship that the Cambodian people will get rid of, in the near future. LAM: What sorts of conditions are you looking for? What factors will prompt you to return to Phnom Penh? RAINSY: I am looking for the rule of law. The Cambodian government, the ruling party does not even respect our own law, especially our constitution, the Supreme Law of the Nation.  |
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