Sopheap Chak

By Chak Sopheap
Published on UPI Asia, December 23, 2009
Niigata, Japan — Phorn Sarith, a 37-year-old Cambodian logger, died when Thai soldiers reportedly fired indiscriminately on 25 loggers working in the Dangrek mountains in Oddar Meanchey, a Cambodian province on the Thai-Cambodian border, last Saturday.
Since September Thai soldiers have killed six Cambodian loggers, wounded several more [...]

“As life goes on I’m starting to learn more and more about responsibility
I realize everything I do is affecting the people around me
So I want to take this time out and apologize for things I have done
And things that have not occurred yet
And the things they don’t want to take responsibility for,”
lyric from “Sorry, Blame [...]

By Chak Sopheap
Published on UPI online, December 02, 2009
Niigata, Japan — This year’s theme for Human Rights Day on Dec. 10 is “non-discrimination,” based on the concept that all human beings are born free and are equal in dignity and rights. However, much needs to be done before this concept will be a reality in [...]