Cambodia: Treatment of the elite group in Cambodia (in this case a mayor's family) suspected of being spies
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 June 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | KHM5805 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Cambodia: Treatment of the elite group in Cambodia (in this case a mayor's family) suspected of being spies, 1 June 1990, KHM5805, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad7a9c.html [accessed 30 May 2023] |
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Information pertaining to the treatment of the elite group in Cambodia is not currently available to the Documentation centre, in published sources. Only one article indicates that the Khmer government is arresting liberals. [ "Cambodia Dismisses Reformist Newspaper Editor", Reuters, 19 June 1990.] Dissident senior government officials have also been arrested very recently in Cambodia. [ David Brunnstrom, "Report: Six Cambodian Officials Held for Trying to Form Rival Party", The Associated Press, 13 June 1990.] However, the government of Cambodia is reportedly intolerant of people alleged to have links with outside forces. [Ibid.] Moreover, political prisoners (often from the remaining upper classes opposed to the official communist ideology) are still numerous in Cambodia today. [ Amnesty International, Kampuchea: Appeal for Information About Political Prisoners and for an Inquiry into Reports of Death in Detention, (Londres: AI Index: ASA 23/01/89, 14 March 1989).] The Khmers Rouges, whose infamous treatment of the elite during its administration (1975-1978) is well documented [ Peter Carey and John Pedler, "Cambodia's Tragic Half-Truths", The Independent, 19 June 1990, p.16.], are still a major armed force in Cambodia and became quite threatening at the beginning of 1990 by seizing control of the second major city of the country, Battambang. [ "Cambodia: DK Radio on Evacuation of Cambodian Government Personnel From Preah Vihear", VONADK (in Cambodian), 3 January 1990 at 2315 GMT, reported by the British Broadcasting Corporation, 6 January 1990.
John Pedler, "Cambodian Regime Opts for a Very Civil War", The Financial Times, 16 January 1990, p.4.
Angus MacSwan, "Cambodian Guerrillas Say They Capture Vietnamese Soldiers", Reuters, 28 February 1990.
"Radio on Danger of `Genocidal' Regime's Return", Phnom Penh Domestic Service (in Cambodian), 8 March 1990 at 1300 GMT, reported by Foreign Broadcast Information Service-EAS-90-047, 9 March 1990, p.39.
Roger Matthews, "The Khmer Rouge Inheritance", The Financial Times, 19 March 1990, p.18.
Christopher Lockwood, "Thailand Fears Big Refugee Flow After Cambodian Battle", The Daily Telegraph, 5 April 1990, p.14.
Jim Wolf, "Pressure Grows in U.S. to Cut Aid to Cambodian Resistance", Reuters, 19 June 1990.]
