EU Calls for International Probe Into Election
In the strongest international reaction to the contested result of
July’s national election yet, the European Parliament passed a
resolution on Thursday calling on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to
conduct an independent, internationally led investigation of the
election and the killing of five garment factory protesters earlier this
month.
The resolution by the parliament of the European Union
(E.U.)—Cambodia’s single largest aid donor—comes after the U.S. House of
Representatives passed a draft spending bill on Wednesday that would
cut some aid to Cambodia unless similar demands regarding the flawed
election are met.
Adopted by some 740 members of the European Parliament on Thursday,
the resolution also urges the government to “recognize the legitimate
role played by the political opposition in contributing to Cambodia’s
overall economic and political development,” and to implement reforms in
the judiciary as well as the electoral process, particularly the voter
list and free access to media.
Read the full article in The Cambodia Daily...
Agree. This "racist" allegation attached to the word "Yuon" (or its older form, "Yavana") appears to have started with one of the western Khmer affairs watchers in the early 1980's. Just go to the back pages of a more recent academic book on Cambodia and you can narrow these analysts down to less than half a dozen. Begin your search and start debunking.
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