{"id":4895,"date":"2013-06-07T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2013-06-07T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T17:13:00","slug":"cambodia-passes-bill-criminalising-genocide-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4895","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia passes bill criminalising genocide denial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Khmer Rouge victims<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cambodia’s National Assembly has approved a bill making it a crime to deny that atrocities were committed by the genocidal 1970s communist Khmer Rouge regime. Critics say the law will be used as a weapon against the political opposition.<\/p>\n

The assembly passed the bill unanimously in the absence of opposition lawmakers, who were expelled from the legislature this week. A committee controlled by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party said the lawmakers must relinquish their seats under the law because they had joined a new party to contest this July’s general election.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Hun Sen called for the law after a leading opposition lawmaker reportedly suggested that some of the evidence of Khmer Rouge atrocities was fabricated by Vietnam, whose army invaded to oust the Khmer Rouge in 1979. – AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cambodia’s National Assembly has approved a bill making it a crime to deny that atrocities were committed by the genocidal 1970s communist Khmer Rouge regime. Critics say the law will be used as a weapon against the political opposition. The assembly passed the bill unanimously in the absence of opposition lawmakers, who were expelled from … Continue reading “Cambodia passes bill criminalising genocide denial”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[2941,447,2942],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-cambodia","tag-genocide","tag-khmer-rouge"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cambodia-genocide.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4898,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/4898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}