Khmer Rouge Leaders Guilty of War Crimes, Jailed for Life

Published on Aug 11, 2014 by Luke Hunt

Surviving henchmen of Pol Pot guilty of crimes against humanityWritten by Luke Hunt for The DiplomatA full bench of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) has found Pol Pot’s surviving henchmen guilty of crimes against humanity, and sentenced them to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.udge Nil Nonn said a bench of international and Cambodian judges had found Nuon Chea, 88, and Khieu Samphan, 83 guilty of murder, extermination, and an array of other criminal charges partially in regards to the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh in April 1975.Similar criminal charges involving a second phase of forced population movement between September 1975 and late 1977 and the slaughter of soldiers, bureaucrats and their families from....

Pol Pot's Chief Henchmen Face Genocide

Published on Aug 3, 2014 by Luke Hunt

Charges of genocide have been pressed against surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge by prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) as the tribunal enters its eighth year with further prosecutions in sight.Read more from Luke Hunt in The Diplomat.

Australian Family Abandons Thai Surrogate

Published on Aug 3, 2014 by Luke Hunt

The Thai surrogate mother of a critically ill twin baby abandoned by his Australian biological parents says she is determined to bring him up in her impoverished village with her two children aged six and three.Read more from Lindsay Murdoch at The Age .

Engaging Vietnam on Human Rights

Published on Aug 3, 2014 by Luke Hunt

When human rights in Vietnam are discussed in the international community it is invariably the nation’s track record on freedom of speech, or lack thereof, which takes precedence.Read more from Helen Clark in The Diplomat.

Cambodia Looks to Put Its Rice on the World’s Plate

Published on Aug 3, 2014 by Luke Hunt

For as long as Cambodian rice farmers can remember, their product has had an unsavory reputation. Tough, dirty and unmilled, it was impossible to cook evenly, and even farmers traded it as pig feed in exchange for cash or better-quality rice from Vietnam or Thailand.Read more from Luke Hunt in The New York Times.