Cambodian Press Freedom: 'A Difficult Situation'

Cambodia is ranked 144th and of 180 countries by Reporters Without Borders, for Press Freedom. In what is frankly an odd understatement such a ranking places Cambodia's Press in a “difficult situation” the organization claims.

This 'difficult situation' results in arrests, persecution and murder of Cambodian journalists said Delphine Hagland, the US director of Reporters Without Borders

Government spokesman and king spin-man Phay Siphan unsurprisingly rejected the report.

Now, trying to put a positive spin on any number of various reports and scandals must be a difficult and dirty job but surely even the patently stupid Phay Siphan could have come up with a better counter-argument:

" Journalists who have been killed in Cambodia recently have mixed their roles, as police, journalists and others, he said. “They are not real professional journalists.” 

Oh, so those murdered were only part-time journalist?

That's OK, then.

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