Vanida Chithtamath
Soc 202
Sept. 19, 2008
11:11am
Cambodia, a "developing" country, is facing more consquences for not enforcing their human rights. They have been deliberately avoiding and discouraging human rights to their people. In the last 15 years the country itself has seen much growth in their economy. They had increase infrastructures and jobs for their people but the people themselves lack any human rights. The last time any improvements had occured in Cambodia on their human rights issue was in 1993, almost 15 years ago. "In the Paris-peace Accords it states that with economic growth it must go hand-in-hand with the respect of human rights," as stated in the article. At the center of Cambodia's Human Rights issue is that the unfairness of its court system. Forced evictions further impoverish the poor, who are deprived of a trial. Violence against women goes unpunished. Freedoms of expression and association are compromised and human rights defenders, opposition journalists, and community activists defending land and natural resources are imprisoned on false charges, physically attacked, or murdered; the perpetrators are rarely brought to justice. This is where regulation needs to come in and help reform these systems and provide a system of checks and balances.
The government of Cambodia does not want to give its citizen the right to think for themselves, I guess they possibly feel that if the citizens are allowed to think on their own, they might rebel against this government. Yes, Cambodia has come a long way from the time of the Khmer Rouge, which was a horrible time in its past but it does not have the right to treat its citizen the way it does. The courts are suppose to be there to protect the innocent not imprison them. I just think this is a skew way of controlling your people. It people had more rights they might be willing to have much more country pride and maybe the country itself will prosper.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/09/17/cambod19830.htm
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