Some great images of a long march in Cambodia for “freedom of expression, political tolerance and non-violence” are available here and here. If any New Mandala readers have any background on this please post a comment.
Cambodia rights march
March 11th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 5 Comments
Tags: Cambodia
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1 Mike H // Mar 12, 2007 at 9:57 pm
From the photos, this is a march led by Kem Sokha of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights. They have done similar public actions around freedom of expression before. In fact the last one got 3 or 4 of them jailed under rather dubious defamation charges, at the begining of 2006. CCHR also runs a radio show which has quite a broad audeince (particularly around the markets I hear) which focuses on human rights and democracy issues: one of the pictures shows them having a round table talk which was probably broadcast.
2 amberwaves // Mar 13, 2007 at 3:55 am
from the IHT:
Cambodians start 2-week march demanding more freedom of expression
The Associated Press
Published: February 28, 2007
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Activists and Buddhist monks led about 150 people in Cambodia as they began a two-week march on Wednesday to demand more freedom of expression.
A statement from organizers said more people were expected to join the 230-kilometer (145-mile) march from the capital, Phnom Penh, to Siem Reap province, home of the famed Angkor Wat temple complex — an ancient symbol of the Cambodian nation.
The organizers call themselves the Alliance for Freedom of Expression in Cambodia, which includes the nongovernment group Cambodian Center for Human Rights.
“The door for exercising freedom is just narrowly open due to government restrictions, and we need to have it open wider for all the people,” said the march’s leader Kem Sokha, a well-known critic of the government.
He was among three human rights activists jailed for several weeks last year on criminal defamation charges filed by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government.
3 Cambodia » Blog Archive » Jumrok Snaeh Jumrok Teasey ( Part 10 of 5) // Apr 3, 2007 at 7:09 pm
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4 cchr // Apr 4, 2007 at 1:33 pm
You could find more information about this Rights March here
AFEC Rights March
5 Cambodia » Blog Archive » Kratie journal: life, swimming, turtles // Apr 5, 2007 at 7:03 pm
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