Cambodia
 Cambodia    | |
|---|---|
| Capital city | Phnom Penh |
| Location | Asia, South East Asia |
| Type |  nation state |
| Member of | ASEAN, International Criminal Court, La Francophonie, UN |
| A Buddhist nation in Indochina. | |
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia.
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Background
| Cambodia's under-developed social infrastructure has created an infamous breeding ground for child prostitution and sex tourism. |
The kingdom is an elective constitutional monarchy with a monarch, currently Norodom Sihamoni, chosen by the Royal Council of the Throne as head of state. The head of government is the Prime Minister, currently Hun Sen, the longest serving non-royal leader in Southeast Asia, ruling Cambodia since 1985. It has a population of over 15 million and Buddhism is enshrined in the constitution as the official state religion. It is practised by more than 97% of the population.[1]
Sex Work
Cambodia has a problem with underage sex prostitution. European courts reported in the 2010s of sexual abuse of children in Cambodian orphanages. Male perpetrators, in the guise of tourists or volunteers, get easy access to underage girls and boys. Several cases of this sort were uncovered in the past years. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) stated in a report released in February it was concerned about “orphanage tourism, which seems to be a growing phenomenon where children in institutions and orphanages are being exposed to sexual exploitation by foreigners” in Cambodia. 11000 girls are said to operate from just 700 clubs, bars and brothels, coming from the poor countryside, with the parents selling them themselves for debt. The kids often are tortured. The situation has been improving over the years. Nowadays trials take place and convictions occur. National and international media report such cases. According to data compiled by Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), a Cambodian NGO, 115 foreigners were convicted of child sex crimes between 2003 and 2014. [2]
Weblinks
The Cambodian Memory Hole - by Paul David Collins
Events
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Phoenix Program | A clandestine CIA research project into the use of terror as a means of social control. Techhniques from South East Asia, were later developed in Latin America |
| Vietnam War | The Vietnam War was a proxy war lead by US that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Millions of people were killed, mostly Vietnamese. JFK was assassinated soon after declaring his intent to withdraw US troops. The war helped the CIA to refine its methods of illegal drug trafficking, torture and the like. |
A citizen of Cambodia on Wikispooks
| Title | Born | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Angelina Jolie | 4 June 1975 | US actress and filmmaker |
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bandung Conference | 1955 | 1955 | Indonesia | Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:From Pol Pot to ISIS: Anything that flies on everything that moves | article | 8 October 2014 | John Pilger | The parallels between the rise to power of Cambodia's Khymer Rouge under Pol Pot in the 1970's and that of ISIS in the Iraq/Syria of 2014. |
| Document:The Long Secret Alliance | article | September 1997 | John Pilger | The suppressed history of US sponsorship of the genocidal Pol Pot Khymer Rouge regime in Cambodia through the 1970-80's |
