The start last month of the French trial of Hing Bun Heang and Huy Piseth, bodyguards of former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, for their alleged role in a 1997 grenade attack in Phnom Penh was not enough to draw a large turnout from the Cambodian diaspora in the country.Continue Reading
Not far from the tourist city of Siem Reap in northwestern Cambodia, roughly a thousand devotees gather around a picturesque pond. They are there to listen to the words of their guru, Khem Veasna, whom they believe has descended from the realm of Brahma in human form. His mission: toContinue Reading
The delay in the French trial of Cambodian generals Hing Bun Heang and Huy Piseth for their alleged role in the lethal 1997 grenade attack in Phnom Penh sheds light on the workings of French diplomacy. The grenade attack on a protest march led by Cambodian opposition politician Sam RainsyContinue Reading
On February 18, Cambodia’s Ministry of Justice released a statement regarding an opinion article I had published in Radio Free Asia (RFA) a few days earlier, headlined, “Banning Khmer Rouge denialism is a bad move for Cambodia and the world.” I won’t recite what I wrote, although I would noteContinue Reading
A central puzzle for analysts of contemporary Cambodia is how to explain the remarkable durability of the current ruling party, the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). In power since 1979, the CPP government, which was led for more than 38 years by former Prime Minister Hun Sen, has gradually managed toContinue Reading
Gerald Flynn, a British journalist and staff writer for the environmental news site Mongabay, has been banned from entering Cambodia, where he has reported on environmental issues for the last five years and spent two years of those years as president of the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia. Flynn, 33,Continue Reading
