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Singapore mistaken for Libya in Cambodian government video targeting ‘excessive’ civil rights

In a thinly veiled warning to protest groups, the Cambodian government has released a video cautioning against the misuse of civil rights which mistakenly depicts Singapore's skyline for that of Libya's.

By Jack Board
Posted 30 May 2016 11:18 Updated 30 May 2016 13:26

PHNOM PENH: Images of Singapore’s skyline have been mistakenly used to depict Libya in a Cambodian government video, which warns that a misuse of civil rights can lead a nation to ruin.

In a thinly veiled warning to stirring protest groups in the country, the video titled “Using The Rights In An Anarchic Way” uses examples of Syria and Libya as once beautiful, peaceful countries “destroyed by its own people".

It contrasts imagery of thriving metropolises, including one of downtown Singapore purported to be Libya, with images of bombed cities.

"This is the result of how the rights were misused. The excessive use of rights will bring about destruction," the video says. “As a result, all the rights were lost.”

The video then shows a speech by Defence Minister Tea Banh including references to the Khmer Rouge, the brutal regime that killed millions of people in the late 1970s.

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Rama wrote:

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OMG i didnt know that my country has become so war torn

hmm..... so confused!

prahkeitouj wrote:hmm..... so confused!

That's understandable . Why not have a day off to gather your thoughts.

Update from the PPP.


CHRC’s propaganda gaffes draw ridicule


A screenshot of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee’s video on human rights that labelled the Singaporean skyline as Libya before civil war. YouTube

Tue, 31 May 2016
Erin Handley

The government’s Cambodian Human Rights Committee was the subject of ridicule yesterday after a propaganda video tried to pass off snapshots of the Singapore skyline as those of pre-civil war Libya.

The video, titled Using Rights in an Anarchic Way, part of a web series, was uploaded on Sunday.

The slick video compiles a series of before-and-after photos of Syria and Libya, backed by dramatic strings, and warns “the excessive use if [sic] rights will bring about destruction”.

The two civil-war stricken states are a favourite metaphor of government officials urging Cambodians not to “misuse” their rights, yet the video uses an image of Singapore in place of Libya, as highlighted by Channel News Asia.

But the gaffes do not stop there. An image of Qatar’s capital of Doha also features in the video, while another video – which compares Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge era to the modern day – uses images of traffic jams in Vietnam to illustrate that there are now “too many people” in Phnom Penh.

The head of the human rights committee, Keo Remy, said the Singapore error was an “unintentional mistake” that his technical team had now fixed.

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