NOTE: Mr Hammarberg is currently en route to Cambodia for his eighth visit since being appointed Special Representative in 1996. Hammarberg said he envisaged a close cooperation between the Cambodian authorities and the international community in any process of providing justice for what happened in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime. "Injecting justice and accountability for the Khmer Rouge period is an important step in breaking the cycle of impunity which even today remains a major problem in Cambodia," said Mr. According to the General Assembly resolution of December 1997 their role will be to "evaluate the existing evidence and propose further measures, as a means of bringing about national reconciliation, strengthening democracy and addressing the issue of individual accountability". The Special Representative is in the process of putting together a group of legal experts to address the issue. In fact, Khmer New Year originally began on the first day of the first month in the lunar calendar, which can be in November or the beginning of December. Khmer New Year begins on April 13th or can begin on April 14th, depending on the MohaSangkran, which is the ancient horoscope. He noted that several prominent members of the Khmer Rouge regime were still active. Phnom Penh ( AKP ) 6/1/74 On May 30, 1974, Marshal Lon Nol, President of the Khmer Republic told a meeting of the Center for Coordination that five major. It is three days of festival and sometimes can be four days. Hammarberg said Cambodians were still traumatized by the horror of those years - most people had lost close members of their family either through executions or starvation caused by the policies of the Khmer Rouge regime. Five journalists from local independent media outlet VOD and four environmental activists from Khmer Thavarak were detained for about seven hours on Tuesday. Thomas Hammarberg, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia, today said that the death of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot did not remove the need to assist the Cambodian people in establishing justice for what happened from 1975-1979 - the years the Khmer Rouge controlled the country.
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