{"id":69114,"date":"2025-01-25T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/25\/cambodia-to-punish-khmer-rouge-genocide-denial-with-jail-under-draft-law"},"modified":"2025-01-25T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:47:20","slug":"cambodia-to-punish-khmer-rouge-genocide-denial-with-jail-under-draft-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69114","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia to punish Khmer Rouge genocide denial with jail under draft law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who \u2018deny the truth of the bitter past\u2019 could be jailed for up to five years under the law, which still needs parliament approval<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia\u2019s government has approved a draft law that will jail for up to five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge.<\/p>\n<p>The draft law \u2013 which aims to prevent a repeat of the Khmer Rouge\u2019s crimes and provide justice for victims \u2013 was approved during a cabinet meeting chaired by the prime minister, Hun Manet, on Friday, the government spokesperson Pen Bona said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/25\/cambodia-to-punish-khmer-rouge-genocide-denial-with-jail-under-draft-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who \u2018deny the truth of the bitter past\u2019 could be jailed for up to five years under the law, which still needs parliament approvalCambodia\u2019s government has approved a draft law that will jail for up to five years anyone denying atrocities, includ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-khmer-rouge"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69115,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69114\/revisions\/69115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}