PHNOM PENH - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday ordered the expulsion of an American charity working to rescue children trafficked for sex, charging it smeared the image of Cambodian women through reports broadcast by CNN and ABC News. AIM also was central to the production of an ABC News report entitled Life after trafficking: the girls sold by their mothers, broadcast on March 8. The prime minister ordered the Ministry of Interior to immediately search the organisation's facilities in Cambodia and shut it down for its participation in the making of those reports, which he said were a grave insult to Cambodian women and the nation. The president of the Federal Union of Journalists of Cambodia, Huy Vannak, also said he believed the broadcasts insulted Cambodian women. Huy Vannak also faulted the reports as factually inaccurate for showing an area identified as Svay Pak, and claiming it was a hotbed of child sexual prostitution.

Source: Bangkok Post August 01, 2017 12:36 UTC