All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account CNN’s Helen Regan contributed to this report. In 2018, almost four decades after the collapse of the brutal regime, a UN-backed tribunal ruled that the Khmer Rouge had committed genocide. There is now a new petition by the same group demanding an apology to the Cambodian community.Īt least 1.7 million people - nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population - died from execution, disease, starvation and forced labor under the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled the country between 1975-1979. On Monday, they noted that while the story had since been retracted, “there has been no apology from either Vice or Mr. Campaigners called on Loughrey to “please stop using photos of Cambodian genocide victims for your experimentation and entertainment.” By Monday, it had gathered more than 7,000 signatures. Over the weekend, a petition was circulated online, demanding that Vice take the article down. Scars of the Khmer Rouge: How Cambodia is healing from a genocide (Photo credit should read CLAUDE JUVENAL/AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images Loughrey did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Ī woman cries next to a dead body, 17 April 1975 in Phnom Penh, after the Khmer Rouge enter the Cambodian capital and establish government of Democratic Kampuchea (DK). The minister is now calling on the artist “to immediately stop spreading these horrific images and specifically to take them off his website and out of public view.” The distorted photographs have needlessly once again traumatized the families and our nation.” However, in this case, the artist has clearly desecrated the memories of the dead and robbed the victims of the Khmer Rouge of their dignity. “We understand and respect artistic freedom. “The alteration of these photographs shows an utter insensitivity for the people who died, the families who have had to continue on without their loved ones, and historical truth itself,” Phoeurng Sackona, Cambodia’s minister of culture and fine arts, said in a statement to CNN Business on Monday. Khmer Rouge executioner 'Comrade Duch' who oversaw notorious torture prison dies age 77ĭespite the retraction, Cambodian authorities have strongly objected to the use of the images, after a government review found that several photographs were changed to add smiles. In October, the Candlelight Party’s Son Chhay was given a large fine after being found guilty of defamation for saying that the June local elections were unfair, charging that the National Election Committee was biased in favor of the Cambodian People’s Party.Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, sits in the courtroom in Phnom Penh Friday. In recent years, his government has aggressively pursued legal action against its opponents, hindering their ability to operate freely, and sometimes hounding them into exile or jailing them. Hun Sen, an authoritarian ruler in a nominally democratic state, has held power for 38 years. The Cambodian People’s Party has held an iron grip on power for decades and controls almost every level of government. In last June’s local elections, the Cambodian People’s Party won 74.3% of the votes and the Candlelight Party received about 22.3%. The Candlelight Party became the unofficial successor to the Cambodia National Rescue Party. It was disbanded just months ahead of the polls by a controversial court ruling that said it had plotted the illegal overthrow of the government.Ĭambodian courts are widely believed to be under the influence of the government, and the party’s disbanding allowed the governing party to win all of the seats in the National Assembly. Hun Sen’s party faced a much stronger challenge ahead of the 2018 election from the highly popular Cambodia National Rescue Party. “The Candlelight Party regards that the arrest and detention of Thach Setha was politically motivated and a form of real threat in order to intimidate the spirit of the Cambodian people from joining political activities with the Candlelight Party ahead of the general election in July,” it said in a statement.
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