Andrew Nachemson

 

The US State Department released its annual global human rights report on Friday, highlighting alleged rights abuses in Cambodia and prompting a government spokesman to dub the report an “attack”.

 

“Corruption was endemic throughout all segments of society and branches of government. There were reports police, prosecutors, investigating judges, and presiding judges received bribes,” the report reads, asserting that the judiciary was particularly subject to corruption and political influence.

 

The report also alleges that the government occasionally engaged in “arbitrary arrest and detention” and that police officials “committed abuses with impunity”, while a section on torture describes “credible reports military and police officials used physical and psychological abuse, and, on occasion, severely beat criminal detainees, particularly during interrogation”.

 

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10 hours ago, geovalin said:

a government spokesman to dub the report an “attack”.

The USA awaits your declaration of war.

Might be the best thing ever to happen for Cambodians.

Hun Sen and his merry band of crime lords are perhaps the biggest criminals and thieves in SE Asia. They are also thugs, serial killers, and engage in massive land grabs, and crimes against their own people. They deserve to be at the bottom of the list. Of course they are protesting. The US and the UN usually give them a free pass. And consider them a democracy, even though they murder and imprison their political rivals. Hun Sen is a wannabe Kim Jung Il. Except he has ten times the net worth.