This brazen attack, carried out in broad daylight, ingrained impunity more than any other single act in recent Cambodian history. But that appears to have been one of its purposes. |
This is a pretty typical pattern for March. |
This is an opportunity – albeit a grim one – for the government to open up access to the province and allow independent monitors, media and human rights organizations in. |
This is sure to make the AIDS crisis worse. |
This report should serve as a wake-up call to the government and donors. This young country can avoid emulating its former colonial master, but only if concerted action is taken now. |
Today's arrests are an attempt to suppress any vocal opposition to the king, or his attempts to win legitimacy by holding elections. Silencing the leadership, the king hopes, will silence the people. Such actions belie his stated belief in democratic principles and the rule of law. |
We want the U.N. Security Council, whether it is under the international threat to peace (measure) or just on the basis of its human-rights mandate, to take up the issue of Burma much more seriously, much more consistently. |
We were shocked to find so many credible accounts of torture and severe ill-treatment by police officers. |
Yet they still remain afraid of their own citizens and the healthy diversity of news and views which defines a modern society . |