Sopheap Chak

By Chak Sopheap, Guest Commentary to UPI Asia Online
Published on 2010 Jan 21
Niigata, Japan — After decades of isolation due to genocide and political conflict, Cambodia has integrated with regional groups like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and adopted a free market system. However, the right to movement in the country is still restricted [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Chak Sopheap
Guest Commentary, Published on UPI Asia
Niigata, Japan — One of the untold tragedies of U.S. policy has been the forced repatriation of young Cambodians, mainly men, who went to the United States as refugees after escaping the Khmer Rouge genocide of the late 1970s. The United States took in 130,000 Cambodian refugees between [...]