Human Rights
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia has published a new report and it is quite the hot topic. Yash Ghai describes how the laws, courts and constitution are routinely bent to suit the powerful. He describes human rights abuses as not inefficiency or misrule but instruments of power in themselves. It is not a new topic in Cambodia. Corruption is in each part of society.
However the Government has decided that Ghai is motivated by bitterness and is blaming the government for doing things right. They call him the laziest staffer of the UN. This is, of course, rubbish. The Government has a history of pouring scorn on Special Representatives including Mary Robinson who was accused of exaggeration in her reports and Peter Leuprecht who was deemed stupid. The last time Ghai visited the PM accused him of rudeness and longterm tourism.
With the accusations of corruption in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and the now the savagery that the PM attacks the UN Special Representative, Human Rights are taking a beating in Cambodia.
However the Government has decided that Ghai is motivated by bitterness and is blaming the government for doing things right. They call him the laziest staffer of the UN. This is, of course, rubbish. The Government has a history of pouring scorn on Special Representatives including Mary Robinson who was accused of exaggeration in her reports and Peter Leuprecht who was deemed stupid. The last time Ghai visited the PM accused him of rudeness and longterm tourism.
With the accusations of corruption in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and the now the savagery that the PM attacks the UN Special Representative, Human Rights are taking a beating in Cambodia.
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