Brad Adams
Brad Adams
Brad Adams is the executive director of the Asian division of Human Rights Watch and has been in the position since 2002. Adams worked in Cambodia for five years prior to his work at Human Rights Watch, he was the senior lawyer for the Cambodia field office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He also worked as the legal advisor to the Cambodian parliament's human rights committee. Adams is a member of the State Bar of California...
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Indonesia's trials for crimes in East Timor speak for themselves: The process was a sham.
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If the purpose of the coup was to end the Maoist insurgency, then it has been a failure. The insurgency shows no signs of abating, and the government's security forces seem as far from a military victory as ever.
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The Cambodian government doesn't seem to understand the sad irony of threatening critics of the prime minister on International Human Rights Day, but the rest of the world does. Cambodia seems to be traveling down the path to becoming an elected dictatorship. It is time for Cambodia's friends in the international community to reengage politically and make it clear to the government that it has to meet its human rights commitments.
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Impunity from prosecution for human rights violations is the most important problem in the region, and the most widespread.
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Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated.