Former Swedish communist Gunnar Bergstrom who sympathized with the Khmer Rouge regime

Gunnar Bergstrom, right, a former Swedish leftist who sympathized with the Khmer Rouge regime, talks to journalists upon his arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. The 57-year-old, who visited this country in 1978 as a guest of the Khmer Rouge regime, returned to Cambodia on Sunday for the first time in 30 years, to donate his archives from the trip and publish a photo book recounting the journey.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

In this photo released by Linda Bergstrom, former Swedish communist Gunnar Bergstrom who sympathized with the Khmer Rouge regime, sits in a cafe in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 5, 2007. During his visit to Cambodia in 1978 at the invitation of the Khmer Rouge regime, Bergstrom supported the late dictator Pol Pot's denial of international accusations that the Khmer Rouge was committing atrocities against the Cambodian people under its 1975-79 rule. Bergstrom now apologizes to the Cambodians for his past misjudgment and support of the Khmer Rouge propaganda as he prepares to visit Cambodia for the second time in 30 years.(AP Photo/Courtesy of Linda Bergstrom)

Gunnar Bergstrom, right, a former Swedish communist who sympathized with the Khmer Rouge regime enters a van upon his arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. The 57-year-old, who visited this country in 1978 as a guest of the Khmer Rouge regime, returned to Cambodia on Sunday for the first time in 30 years, to donate his archives from the trip and publish a photo book recounting the journey.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Gunnar Bergstrom, left, a former Swedish communist who sympathized with the Khmer Rouge regime, talks to journalists upon his arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. The 57-year-old, who visited this country in 1978 as a guest of the Khmer Rouge regime, returned to Cambodia on Sunday for the first time in 30 years, to donate his archives from the trip and publish a photo book recounting the journey.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

In this photo released by Hedda Ekerwald, Gunnar Bergstrom, a former Swedish communist, in white shirt, meets with Cambodian villagers during his visit to Cambodia at the invitation of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1978. Bergstrom supported the late dictator Pol Pot's denial of international accusations that the Khmer Rouge regime was committing atrocities against the Cambodian people during its 1975-79 rule. Bergstrom now apologizes to the Cambodians for his past misjudgment and support of the Khmer Rouge propaganda as he prepares to visit Cambodia for the second time in 30 years.(AP Photo/Courtesy of Hedda Ekerwald)

In this photo released by Hedda Ekerwald, Gunnar Bergstrom, a former Swedish communist, posesfor a picture at an abandoned market in Kampong Cham province in eastern Cambodia during a visit at the invitation of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1978. Bergstrom supported the late dictator Pol Pot's denial of international accusations that the Khmer Rouge regime was committing atrocities against the Cambodian people during its 1975-79 rule. Bergstrom now apologizes to the Cambodians for his past misjudgment and support of the Khmer Rouge propaganda as he prepares to visit Cambodia for the second time in 30 years.(AP Photo/Courtesy of Hedda Ekerwald)

Civil Society and Politicians Appeal to the New Director General of the National Police to Revise Criminal Cases - Saturday, 15.11.2008

Posted on 16 November 2008

The Mirror, Vol. 12, No. 585

“Officials of civil society organizations and some politicians of the Sam Rainsy Party, an opposition party, call on Mr. Net Savoeun [a son in-law of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s older brother, Hun Neng], who was newly appointed as director general of the National Police, after the death of Mr. Hok Lundy, after his death in a plane crash on 9 November 2008, to revise and to investigate some major criminal cases which had happened previously, to find the perpetrators to be prosecuted according to the law, in order to provide justice to victimized citizens.

“The president of the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Mr. Chea Mony, said that the new director general will be able to find justice for his brother Chea Vichea [the president of Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia] who was shot dead by murderers [22 January 2004], by revising this case.

“Ms. Pong Chiv Kek, also known as Dr. Kek Galabru, the director of the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights – LICADHO – said that it is difficult to assess whether the death of Mr. Hok Lundy provides an advantage or a loss for the investigations of previous cases. However, she hoped that the new director general of the National Police will serve the citizens well.

“Ms. Pong Chiv Kek added that because these changes happened recently, no assessment can be made yet, as there is also an international organization to conduct an assessment, therefore, we as Khmers, we have to wait to see the work of the person replacing Mr. Hok Lundy. She expects and requests that the new successor will find justice for all citizens and will work according to the law.

“An investigating official of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association – ADHOC – Mr. Chan Soveth, said that even though Mr. Hok Lundy died, it does not mean that the evidence related to the cases investigated before is lost, because Mr. Hok Lundy had shared some of his duties with the judicial police for the investigation.

“As for the acting secretary-general of the Sam Rainsy Party, Ms. Ke Sovannarath, she said that if the person, who now receives the position as director general of the National Police, works for his benefit and his honor and for the nation in the future, he will make efforts to fulfill his obligations well, to show his achievements.

“She went on to say that she strongly believes that Mr. Net Savoeun will work hard to develop the country and the nation, and if he does it for the nation which now needs such a person, it brings real development for the nation that the world hopes for.”

Khmer Sthapana, Vol.1, #139, 15.11.2008
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Saturday, 15 November 2008

FAIL TO THE CHIEFS; BUSH WAS WORST PRESIDENT (EXCEPT FOR ALL THE OTHERS)

From bad to worse... Violation of civil liberties, war, criminal pardons, policy decisions that lead to economic problems? No problem!

NEW YORK POST

November 15, 2008

Farewell to George W. Bush. The. Worst. President. In. Modern. History.

Except for Nixon. That glowering paranoid freak sucker-punched the economy with his absurd price controls, secretly bombed Cambodia and led a gang of burgling henchmen who would later fill the federal prisons.

And Johnson. The most divisive event in modern American politics, it may surprise you to learn, is not the premature draping of a "Mission Accomplished" banner on an aircraft carrier or the decision to wiretap members of Al Qaeda's Friends and Family plan. It was the Vietnam War. It was a little matter of 60,000 fine Americans - many of them draftees, not volunteers - sent off to die for an irrelevant sliver of jungle on the shady pretext of a trumped-up, possibly fictitious attack in the Tonkin Gulf.

And Kennedy. LBJ sank into the quagmire that Kennedy stepped in. JFK wasn't kidding with that "Bear any burden, pay any price" nonsense, that "ask what you can do for your country" drivel. What he wanted you to do for your country was be drafted and go fight Communists wherever they lurked, even rice-paddy Communists in pajamas who would have posed no threat to this country unless they had figured out how to launch intercontinental ballistic spitballs. And how about botching the Bay of Pigs invasion, which led Cuba and the Soviets to buy an insurance policy in the form of a missile site that took this country the closest it has ever come to nuclear war?

And Carter. Four years of malaise. Inflation was running at levels last seen in Weimar Germany. Military morale sank to an all-time low as Carter allowed the armed forces to decay so badly that Delta Force commandos got nowhere near rescuing hostages being held by a bunch of jibbering religious freaks.

And Reagan. Let's not forget who presided over the only really agonizing recession since the Depression, the 1981-1982 one, in which the U.S. economy exhibited unemployment levels that can only be described as "Swedish." And let's not forget his whopper when he said he didn't know about the illegal Iran-Contra operation. Of course he knew.

And Truman. Small wonder he had an 22% approval rating when he was forced out of office instead of running for a second full term, after squandering 50,000 American lives who "died for a tie" in Korea.

And Clinton. A lying, venal, human petri dish of corruption, Clinton is to integrity what the frat house is to cleanliness. He swept up innocent people around him in his vortex of untruth and sold pardons to criminals for the hilariously pathetic purpose of adding to his own glory at his presidential library. Signing the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act that set investment banks free doesn't look so uncontroversial today, does it?

And FDR. The downturn of 1937 - in FDR's second term - was almost as bad as the original one. How could his stewardship of WWII have been much worse? What kind of president lets our trans-Pond cousins get bombed in their beds every night for months? And Roosevelt should have opened the doors to every Jewish refugee who asked for asylum. Instead he locked them out. And he was so unprepared for the Japanese attack military theorists had predicted for years that our sailors got bombed in their own beds from Hawaii to the Philippines. Later he imprisoned thousands of Americans for the crime of having Japanese ancestry. By setting up Social Security not as a charity for the poor but as a Ponzi scheme, he insured that the program would cripple the budget some day while millionaires collected their checks each month on the golf course. And long before any of this he unleashed perhaps the most deranged attack on the Constitution in presidential history when he proposed adding six new Justices to the Supreme Court because he didn't like the ones who were already on it.

Everything is the best/worst/funniest/most tragic/most brilliant thing ever, if you're a high school girl, the hero of "Memento" or a political commentator. Things look different if you extend your memory more than five minutes into the past. Maybe the problem is the lack of a buzzword for the scandal. Here's one: "Superlativegate."

Buddha-shaped termite nests in Cambodia

Inquirer.net
Agence France-PresseFirst
11/16/2008

PHNOM PENH--Hundreds of devout Cambodians have flocked to see five unusually shaped termite nests that look like seated figures of Buddha, witnesses said Sunday.

The iconic insect homes appeared on the cement floor of 56-year-old Kuong Keo Ry's house near Phnom Penh, shortly before a traditional death festival held in October when she was mourning her late husband.

"I am happy that my house has been chosen. After other people and I pay respect to the Buddha shapes, we all feel content," the widow told AFP by telephone.

She said she first became curious about the nests in October because she would sweep them away every day -- but that the wood-munching bugs would rebuild them overnight.

Over the past month around 50 to 60 people had come to her house every day to view the Buddhas, Kuong Keo Ry said.

A journalist who went to see the termite Buddhas said he was "thrilled" by them.

"It's like a miracle to me," said Sok Samnang, who hosts a Cambodian television show.

"One night after we put jasmine ornaments around the five Buddha shapes, they became higher. Each of them is 50 centimeters (19 inches) tall and looks exactly like a seated Buddha," he said.

Cambodian Buddhist scholars have said that the Buddha shapes represent apparitions of deities.

"I've never seen anything like this before in my life. I believe the termites are trying to bring us a message from God," said devout Buddhist San Son, 60, who visits the nests regularly to pray.

Buddhism permeates all aspects of culture in Cambodia, despite attempts to eradicate it by the former Khmer Rouge regime.

Cambodia: National Defense Go Third

Goal.com
16/11/2008

A hard fought 1-0 win over Build Bright United has allowed National Defense Ministry FC to move up to third in the Cambodia Premier League (CPL) as both teams head into the last two matches of the season.

Khim Borey was the toast for National Defense as his solitary strike in the 21st minute allowed them to pick up the full points against a team who are currently sitting second in the standings.

Build Bright have amassed 29 points from nine wins, two draws and five defeats while National Defense on third with 28 points from eight wins, four draws and four defeats.

Phnom Penh are still at the top of the table with 40 points from 15 games.

In the meantime, Naga Corp FC got back to winning ways when they beat Phuchung Neak FC 6-2.

Despite going down by an early goal from Heng Sokly in the second minute, Naga fought back through A. Peter Uadembuo (15th and 58th minute), Pich Sana (19th), Men Pisith (45th), O. Mohamdou (86th) and Sun Samprathna (90th) for the win.

The only other goal for Phuchung was scored by Toukaml P. in the 63rd minute.

Swede apologizes for sympathizing with Khmer Rouge

By KER MUNTHIT
Associated Press
2008-11-16

When Gunnar Bergstrom was a guest of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime in August 1978, the young Swede enjoyed a dinner of oysters and fish hosted by dictator Pol Pot.

The meal followed a rare interview he and three of his countrymen were given by the secretive communist leader who labeled talk about genocide under his rule a Western lie.

The young European leftists, members of an unofficial friendship delegation, shared Pol Pot's view, seeing the Khmer Rouge takeover as a revolution to transform Cambodia into a fairer society benefiting the poor.

Bergstrom has since realized he was mistaken about Pol Pot's brutal regime, and he wants to make amends.

"We had been fooled by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. We had supported criminals," he told The Associated Press by phone from his Stockholm home.

The 57-year-old returns to Cambodia this week, for the first time in 30 years, to donate his archives from the trip and publish a photo book recounting the journey.

Bergstrom has deep regrets about his August 1978 trip to Democratic Kampuchea, as Cambodia was then called. He was one of only a handful of Westerners whom the xenophobic Khmer Rouge allowed to visit during its 1975-79 hold on power.

While presenting an earnest and progressive face to foreign visitors, the Khmer Rouge were inflicting a reign of terror that left an estimated 1.7 million dead from starvation, overwork, disease and execution.

"For those still appalled by my support of the Khmer Rouge at the time, and especially those who suffered personally under that regime, I can only say I am sorry and ask for your forgiveness," Bergstrom says in his book, "Living Hell."

In 1978, Bergstrom was president of the Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association, a small political group that identified with the communism of Mao Zedong's China and was motivated by the movement against the U.S. war in Vietnam.

To their Swedish sympathizers, the Khmer Rouge revolution presented an "idealistic idea about an alternative society," Bergstrom said.

The Khmer Rouge had its origins in the struggle against French colonialism in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, while its ideology was shaped in part by the French university educations of several of its leaders, including Pol Pot. It came to power by toppling a pro-American Cambodian government in 1975 after a bitter five-year civil war.

Within days of their April 17 takeover, the Khmer Rouge began a radical social upheaval, emptying the cities and sending people to work in massive rural collectives. They simultaneously cut almost all links with the outside world.

But the regime's flawed plans for a communist utopia sparked a paranoid search for scapegoats.

Bloody purges swept the country, and attacks were made on border villages in neighboring Vietnam. An invasion by Hanoi would drive the Khmer Rouge from power in early 1979.

A few months before the collapse, the Khmer Rouge invited foreigners, mostly left-wing sympathizers, to visit in a halfhearted effort to whitewash accusations of human rights abuses.

During their 14-day tour, Bergstrom's delegation saw what their hosts wanted them to see: smiling Cambodian faces, clean hospitals, well-fed people eating happily in cooperative kitchens.

They interviewed Pol Pot, who called accusations of atrocities "Western propaganda and a lie."

The Swedes were sympathetic.

"Pol Pot was maybe wrong but he wasn't that bad," Bergstrom said, recalling his thoughts at the time. "We came home with a belief that we have found the truth somehow that this (story about killings) is Western propaganda."

"Our excuse was that 'The (Cambodian) revolution is young, immature, you will never have a perfect revolution, and that these killings ... are now (occurring) in the beginning and will stop later.'"

But evidence that emerged after the Khmer Rouge's fall forced Bergstrom to change his views.

"It's like falling off the branch of the tree," said Bergstrom, who now works as a counselor for drug addicts. "You have to re-identify everything you have believed in."

To make amends, he wrote articles for the Swedish press renouncing his support for the Khmer Rouge.

He is donating his photo and movie archive from the 1978 trip to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, an independent group researching Khmer Rouge crimes. The center is publishing his book and organizing forums around Cambodia at which Bergstrom will speak.

"It's a healing process for him," said Youk Chhang, the center's director. "He's part of our history now, and it's our mission to help people reconcile and move on."

Dragon boats race in Cambodia

CAMBODIA Youth Dance Troupe With Disabled Members Tours Spain

Union Catholic Asian News
November 14, 2008

BATTAMBANG, Cambodia (UCAN) -- A Church-organized traditional Khmer dance troupe that includes physically disabled children and teenagers recently went on a six-week tour of Spain.

Monsignor Enrique Figaredo, apostolic prefect of Battambang, organized the tour for the Dance Group of Tahen, based in Tahen, outside Battambang town, about 250 kilometers northwest of Phnom Penh.

During the Oct. 26-Nov. 5 tour, about 70 children and teenagers, of whom 15 are disabled, performed more than 20 times in more than 10 major cities. They also visited five schools for exchange activities with local Spanish students.

According to Alvaro Figaredo, who helped organize the tour, the Spanish students enthusiastically welcomed the Cambodian performers "as if they were the Rolling Stones" rock band.

The layman, a cousin of Monsignor Figaredo, a Spanish Jesuit missioner, told UCA News the Cambodian dancers covered more than 10,000 kilometers traveling around Spain. Aside from performing and making friends, he said they also saw an amateur bullfight and attended Mass at the Holy Cave of Covadonga, a Marian shrine near Spain's northern coast.

Recalling the tour, which sometimes involved getting up early and eating at odd times in odd places, Alvaro Figaredo said, "We have learned a lesson on sacrifice, being positive, happy and flexible, and especially on companionship." He added, "When one asks the Cambodian dancers what they like most about Spain, they inevitably answer: 'The people, the Spanish.'"

Some of the young performers spoke to UCA News, both in Spain and when they came back to Cambodia, on their experience.

Sam Botumn, who contracted polio when she was 9 months old, had not previously gone abroad. "I'm so happy to perform the 'blessing dance.' I thought I could not do what other people can do. But now I can do anything that physically abled people can do, even though I am always in a wheelchair."

Another girl, Pen, was 6 years old when polio struck her. "Being a disabled girl, I'm so proud to perform our Khmer classical dance, which is very hard to study," she said. Pen was thrilled to hear that some audience members planned to visit Cambodia. "I can help my country a little by letting the world know more about us. Before, the world knew Cambodia because of our war," she noted.

Cham Mech, 49, who was in charge of the troupe, commented: "We did not come only to perform our traditional and classical dances. We came as witnesses to our Catholic faith by the way we pray, celebrate Mass and also the way we sit and greet."

Alfonso Gonzalez Garcia, a volunteer who helped out during the tour, told UCA News he was impressed with how the troupe combines able-bodied and disabled youngsters in its dances. He also found the young Cambodians to be very respectful of elders and helpful to each other. In Spain, he remarked, it is difficult to find a child who smiles at a stranger.

After the tour, five young Spanish volunteers were set to go to Battambang to work with the Dance Group of Tahen.

One of them, Adela, told UCA News she was at first unsure of going to Cambodia but after being with the dance troupe for six weeks, "I truly want to go with the group and help out in Cambodia, especially in Arrupe and Tahen."

Monsignor Figaredo runs Arrupe Center, a care center in Battambang for disabled children.
During its tour of Spain, the troupe collected enough funds to finance two rural projects to support underpriviledged children in Battambang prefecture.

Empowering disabled children and promoting Khmer culture are just two of the many ministries that the local Church has undertaken since it revived in the early 1990s after two decades of civil war and religious persecution. Almost all Khmer, the predominant ethnic group in Cambodia, are Buddhists.

Airlines banned from European skies / Commission updates its blacklist

African Press Organization
15 November 2008

BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, November 15, 2008/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The European Commission today adopted the ninth update of the so-called blacklist of airlines that are banned from flying into the countries of the European Union due to safety concerns. In addition to the previous restrictions, the Commission has imposed a ban on all operations of Siem Reap Airways International from Cambodia. At the same time, it has extended the ban on TAAG Angola Airlines to all airlines certified in Angola on the basis of “significant safety concerns” raised by ICAO in its audit report of 1st October 2008, which still remain open and affect the safety of operations of all Angolan carriers.

“The blacklist is essentially a tool that ensures safer skies in Europe. Through this list Europeans and non-Europeans alike flying in Europe know that there exists a certain degree of safety on which they can rest assured. The European Commission will pursue actively its dialogue with all States – within and outside the Union – their civil aviation authorities and their airlines, to ensure that they conform to internationally required levels of air safety on a sustainable basis”, said Antonio Tajani, Commission Vice-President in charge of transport.The new list, which replaces the previous one published in July 2008, can already beconsulted on the Commission’s website.

With this update, the Commission has imposed an operating ban on the main air carrier from Cambodia, Siem Reap Airways International. The airline does not operate in compliance with the Cambodian safety regulations nor does it meet the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Significant concerns have also been expressed by ICAO with regard to the ability of the Cambodian civil aviation authorities to implement and enforce the international safety standards.

In view of the “significant safety concerns” contained in ICAO’s last audit report on Angola, the Commission decided to extend the operating ban already imposed on the carrier TAAG Angola Airlines to all operators from that country. The Commission thus prohibited any airline certified in Angola from carrying out international regular or charter air services into the EU. The Commission will continue close consultations with Angolan civil aviation authorities on the satisfactory completion of the action plan of correctives measures and the recertification of all carriers.

The Commission decided to maintain the ban on all operations of Ukraine Mediterranean Airlines and Ukraine Cargo Airways as the airlines have not proven the successful implementation of corrective actions for the permanent resolution of previously detected safety deficiencies. The Commission, together with Member States, will visit both carriers before considering any modification of the operating ban. The Commission also urged the authorities of Ukraine to further strengthen the enforcement of relevant safety standards.

With regard to Nouvelle Air Affaires certified in Gabon, the Commission decided to maintain the full operating ban already imposed on the air carrier. There is no evidence so far that the company’s plan of corrective measures has been approved and verified by the Gabonese civil aviation authorities.

The Commission also examined the action plan addressing the exercise of oversight in the Philippines, and intends to carry out with Member States a safety assessment of the Philippine civil aviation authorities in early 2009.

Hence, today, the Community list imposes a ban on all carriers from Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Indonesia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Gabon save for Gabon Airlines and Afrijet, whose operations are frozen to the current level under certain strict conditions. The carrier Siem Reap Airways International from Cambodia is added to the list of seven individual carriers whose operations remain fully banned in the European Union: Air Koryo from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; Air West from Sudan; Ariana Afghan Airlines from Afghanistan; Silverback Cargo Freighters from Rwanda; Ukraine Cargo Airways, Ukraine Mediterranean Airlines and Volare Aviation from Ukraine.

SOURCE : European Commission

Opposition party says Cabinet reshuffle meaningless

BANGKOK, Nov 15 (TNA) -- Thailand's opposition Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said the cabinet reshuffle planned by Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat would not improve the situation in the country because the coalition government is not serious about solving the problems.

A number of problems, the most critical being the October 7 violence when police suppressed anti-government People's Alliance of Democracy protesters, are still awaiting answers and the present government is not able to solve them.

Whether the planned cabinet reshuffle would improve the image of the government cannot be seen beforehand, Mr. Abhisit said.

Prime Minister Somchai said Friday that a cabinet reshuffle is likely after the royal cremation of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana, the elder sister of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The royal merit-making ceremony for the late princess began Friday and is scheduled to end Wednesday.

Addressing charges by the National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) that 28 ministers of the former government of then prime minister Samak Sundaravej violated Constitution Article 190 by illegally endorsing Cambodia's bid to register the ancient Preah Vihear temple as a UNESCO World Heritage site, Mr. Abhisit said those who were charged must explain it themselves, but he believed the charges would "not cause any changes" because several complaints still await investigation by the NCCC.

The United Nations body moved ahead with the approval action in July. (TNA)

Govt to set up panel to prepare testimony in Preah Vihear case

The government will set up a working group to prepare testimony for Cabinet members, including Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, who have been indicted by the anti-graft agency for their endorsement to a communiqu? supporting Cambodia's bid to list Preah Vihear Temple as a World Heritage site.

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) on Thursday resolved to charge 28 members of the previous Cabinet led by Samak Sundaravej for negligence and violating Article 190 of the Constitution, which states that any treaty that would affect Thai territories or sovereign rights must be approved by the National Assembly.

Many of those indicted are in the current Cabinet, including Somchai, who served as education minister in the Samak administration.

The Nation

NCCC decides to probe Samak Cabinet over Preah Vihear joint communiqu

The National Counter Corruption Commission resolved Friday to conduct an investigation against 28 members of the Cabinet of former prime minister Samak Sundaravej for their part in endorsing a Thai-Cambodian joint communiqu้.

Somlak Jadkrabuanpol, an NCCC member, said the NCCC would inform the 28 former members of the Samak Cabinet of the charges by Monday.

She said the NCCC would investigate the Cabinet members for endorsing the Thai-Cambodian joint communiqu้ in support of the listing of Preah Vihear as a world heritage site without seeking Parliament's approval first.

The Nation