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Democracy and the 2013 Cambodian Election
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2018
Coverage of ECCC verdict: A good example of bad reporting
Elections: An open letter to President Trump
A need for election monitors
An easy choice
Democracy: A comparison
RFA goes hunting
Sanctions
2017
US embassy explains return of Cambodian criminals
Supporting democracy or stirring up trouble?
Cambodian history vs. zombie facts
Cambodian politician on US racism
Commune elections: A question for the CNRP
‘Analysts’ and the KR trials
Bombs and debts
Islamophobia and its apologists
Memo to Cambodian English-language newspapers
2016
Many flaws in comparative election study
Gareth Evans’ complaint
‛Journalism’ as she is abused at the Cambodia Daily
Global Witness, markets and corruption
Global Witness and the language of deception
Global Witness’ flawed report on Hun Sen’s family
US Supreme Court replacement?
Mayaguez and Kissinger
A foreign-funded NGO in Cambodia’s elections
How Radio Free Asia tries to dupe Cambodians
Cluster bombs
Will they follow ‛best practice’?
Justice delayed
‛Politically motivated’
Obama, ASEAN and human rights
What we can learn from the complaints over NEC appointment
2015
NGO’s distorted view of human rights
EU resolution: less and more than meets the eye
‛Disputed’ election?
Which observers?
Rhona Smith, please don’t repeat Subedi’s mistakes
Parliamentary immunity: not as simple as it seems
Post disguises its opinions as news
The Ambassador for Selected War Crimes
How Cambodia can help the USA
Regulating NGOs: how another country does it
Chea Sim and Human Rights Watch
The rule of law – but not for everyone
NGOs get it wrong, again
HRW takes a hatchet to history
The Asia Foundation, surveys and media blindness
2014
Another illogical ‛cure’ from Surya Subedi
CNRP’s hand visible in ICC complaints
A very strange complaint to the ICC
How the US interferes in Cambodia’s elections
Radio Free Asia does an unsuccessful hatchet job
Allegations are not ‘reports’
Ignorance from a distance on Khmer Rouge trials
Sam Rainsy seeks another international patron
CNRP leaders need a reality check
The people’s voice
A breakthrough?
In elections, beauty is in the eye of the beholder
‛Objective’ reporting?
An open letter to a dead hero
The company they keep
Cambodia gets its silly season
Bomb disposal
Sam Rainsy interview reveals more than intended
Open letter to Philip Ruddock
Racism is more than a word – a reply to Sam Rainsy
On ‛mercenaries’
A newfound morality
Scapegoating is more than a word
The lynching of Nguyen Yaing Ngoc
How the ERA manipulated the media
ERA aims to cut soldiers’ and civil servants’ rights
How the ERA covers for violence and racism
ERA ‘findings’
The ERA, Comfrel and the indelible ink saga
How ERA report distorts statistics
Wrong twice
ERA report: Cambodia’s vanishing frustrated voters
ERA distorts proportional representation
The ERA report: is Cambodia’s representation system unfair?
2013
What is the Electoral Reform Alliance?
More US democracy for Cambodians
Dreaming about government
US democracy for Cambodians
Survey leaves more questions than answers
Cambodian elections: Elizabeth Becker gets nearly everything wrong
The question not asked
Dispute on election outcome
‛Rose Revolution’
NGO roll of honour
Trade or human rights?
Human rights or campaign rhetoric?
Press freedom or freedom with the truth?
Why Sam Rainsy wants to get rid of election observers
Misrepresenting KT tribunal’s history
2012
Subedi’s proposals won’t improve Cambodian elections
Cambodia’s international national elections
Campaign finance fallacies
Where have ‘all’ the observers gone?
Human Rights Watch versus voters’ rights
Navi Pillay’s selective defence of civil society
An open letter to Sam Rainsy
Jailed anti-terrorists
How final are ECCC decisions?
Rubber-stamped justice?
CHRAC confusion on appointment of ECCC judge
2011
A volunteer for the defence
‘Tidal’ war
An NGO hatchet job
Angelina Jolie
‘Interference’ with the ECCC
A lawyer’s tricks
Banks’ new plan for guaranteed utopia
Pressures and pressures
Contorted logic to attack a neighbour
Elizabeth Becker’s evasive response
Elizabeth Becker and the campaign to put NGOs above the law
US debt crisis
Slipshod journalist puts one over on Australian radio
Thailand and World Heritage
Evans or Wikileaks: an easy choice
A strange notion of justice
Reporter questions KRT appointment
Act to save Libyan civilians
Disputed matters
Why bother?
Incompetence or Karma?
2009
A cause for gratitude or a case of UN hypocrisy?
Observers
Human Rights Hearings Needed
Not all ‘observers’ alike
Less ECCC Commentary and More Facts, Please
Politics, corruption and the ECCC
2005-2008
A checkered history of ‘support’
Reply to a Wall Street Journal professor
Which Observers?
US Inefficiency
‘Tragedy of Cambodian History’
Microfinance
Exaggerated ‘Repression’
Parliamentary Immunity
Election Violence Fears
Good Question!
Pre-2005
Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Enemy Combatants
Good question!
Saddam’s Deadliest Weapon
NGOs and the KR trials
A dubious document and KR trials
Advocating Democracy
Which standards were those?
KR trials: UN’s story doesn’t add up
International observers reject commune elections
Embassy explains return of Cambodian criminals
‘Hermit kingdom’
Pchum Ben to be made globally competitive
Imperial arrogance
Human rights bread seller
2013
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