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"Mr President, one of the big concerns is that since January apparently at least 15 people, mostly opposition supporters, have been killed in violence related to the forthcoming election in July. When we in the ASEAN delegation were in Cambodia not so long ago, we met with some of the opposition parties and some of them were going to funerals of their members who had been killed. This situation is completely unacceptable.
The human rights situation and standards have not improved in Cambodia in the last 10 years and human rights organisations have routinely pointed out that their big concern remains impunity for the perpetrators of human rights violations, notably members of the police and the military. The only successful prosecution in Cambodia dates back to 1993, when under the UN administration someone was charged and sentenced; that was a Mr Ten Seng, who is still working as deputy chief in the prison where he committed his crimes.
There is also grave concern for the Vietnamese Montagnard refugees, who are still being returned to Vietnam to face ill treatment and unfair trials. This was brought up before in this Parliament. The legal safeguards exist but they are not being respected in Cambodia. There is a provision to outlaw the use of torture and to provide mechanisms and safeguards within the judicial and penal system against different forms of ill treatment and to ensure sanctions towards the perpetrators. That problem however, is still not being solved because there is a disregard for the existing safeguards.
I would hope that a new or future government and parliament would ensure respect for these laws and ensure that this kind of situation cannot continue. There must be total freedom there. It is also very important that the new future government or parliament will ensure the former leaders of the Khmer Rouge are put on trial. It is quite incredible to think that these people are still getting off scot-free for mass abuses of human rights."@en1
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