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On the not-working-so-well front, Prime Minister Hun Sen is dancing around the Khmer Rouge trials and making statements that are less than comforting.

... on Wednesday in former Khmer Rouge heartland, Hun Sen preferred to focus on Cambodia's new era of peace and sidestep the growing storm over the pace of justice - a matter he has left in the hands of Deputy Prime Minister Sok An.

"So many people died in the war," Hun Sen said in the speech, which was broadcast on national radio. "We achieved national reconciliation. Please don't let national reconciliation break down."

The lack of direct reference to the trials was unlikely to please critics, some of which have accused Hun Sen's government of deliberately delaying the long-awaited trials of a handful of surviving leaders of the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime.

Human Rights Watch is convinced the government is "meddling in the trial process".

No doubt.

A group of twenty-four Cambodian human rights groups are urging the Cam gov't and the UN to get on the stick, saying that both have their reputations at stake.

Sorry, but this gets a giggle out of me. Well, a giggle that jams in my throat and makes me gag, since I put the reputations of Hun Sen's government ... Cambodia's ruling body headed by a former Khmer Rouge and about as crooked as they come ... right on par with the UN's in all its PR spun glory.

The Finns aren't happy about Heng Pov, the former PP police chief convicted in absentia for murders and more, being sent back to PP instead of Helsinki, but they should be. He was bound to be more trouble than a murdering slime ball is worth.

Just offering asylum caused bad blood between the countries.

Cambodian authorities reacted angrily by offering to send all their convicts to Finland, adding that it was "regrettable" that Finland would “protect criminals”.

Didn't Martin Sheen get himself into something like that sort of a mess when he was mayor of Malibu? It's ringing some bells with me.

And as a head's up, here's a tip for the next time you're invited to a Cambodian wedding: Keep some distance from the bull.

Six people were hospitalized after being gored by a rampaging bovine who'd decided to crash the wedding party of about one hundred guests. It's claimed no one knows why.

I have my suspicions.

And that's another Friday Cam News Wrap ...