WEEKEND EDITION All the News Without Fear or Favor The CambODIa DaIly Volume 63 issue 58 Saturday-Sunday, January 30-31, 2016 2,000 riel/50 cents Cambodian- American Naval Officer Pleads Guilty By GeorGe wriGhT the cambodia daily Nearly four decades after flee- ing Cambodia as a child, a tearful Michael Vannak Khem Misie - wicz returned to his home coun- try in De cember 2010 on the U.S. Navy guid ed-missile destroyer he commanded. After dropping anchor off the coast of Sihanoukville, he em - braced long-lost relatives as louis Armstrong’s “what a wonderful world” played over loudspeakers. It was a hero’s welcome for Mr. Misiewicz, a man who had become a symbol of the American dream. Reuters “America is truly the land of Oregon State Troopers block a road near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside Burns, Oregon, opportunity. It’s the one country on on Thursday. A handful of armed protesters remained holed up in the federal wildlife refuge surrounded Earth where you start from the rice by police and federal agents. fields of a war-torn country and rise to command a U.S. Navy destroyer. It doesn’t get any better,” he said at Dutch Pedophile Placed on Interpol Wanted List the time. Mr. Misiewicz’s fall from grace By Taylor o’Connell daughters. persons. has been equally dramatic. the cambodia daily And while a Belgian journalist On January 21, Mr. Ceulen was On Thursday, the 48-year-old Interpol has issued a Red Notice and NGO director familiar with the convicted in absentia at a court in U.S. Navy commander pled guilty for Dutch pedophile Pieter Ceulen, case said on Friday that Mr. Ceu - Antwerp of sexually abusing chil- Continued on page 2 who went missing around the time len had likely returned to Cam bo - dren, as well as creating, distribut- he was sentenced to 19 years in dia, a local Interpol official said he ing and viewing child pornogra- prison in Belgium last week for sex- would wait until Monday to inform phy, all while living in Cambodia ually abusing and making pornog- police here that the 60-year-old and Belgium and traveling on raphy with young Cambodian chil- child abuser had been added to occasion to the Philippines, dren, including his own adopted the agency’s list of most wanted Continued on page 5 India and Egypt Say No to Facebook’s Internet By annie Gowen So when Facebook chief execu- he was bitterly disappointed. The the washington post tive Mark Zuckerberg helicop - app, called Free Basics, is a pared- AlwAR, India - Connecting people tered in about a year ago to visit a down version of Facebook with to the Internet is not easy in this small computer lab and tout In - other services, such as weather re - impoverished farming district of ternet for all, Osama Manzar, di - ports and job listings. Book Takes Readers Off the wheat and millet fields, where rector of India’s Digital Em power - “I feel betrayed—not only be - Beaten Path in Phnom Penh Weekend Page 4 working camels can be glimpsed ment Foundation, was thrilled. trayed, but upset and angry,” Man - along roads that curve through the But when Manzar tried Face - zar said. “He said we’re going to cambodiadaily.com low-slung Aravalli Hills. book’s limited free Internet service, Continued on page 2 The Daily Newspaper of Record Since 1993 2 The CambODIa DaIly satuRday-sunday, januaRy 30-31, 2016 aNd also Newsmakers Flag Tribute Lands Man in Jail ■ TORONTO - Canadian sports fans cried foul on Friday after the National ReuteRs for crimes considered contravening Bask etball Association snubbed local rap star drake in favor of the British ISlAMABAD - A Pakistani man has Pakistan’s sovereignty and carrying singer sTinG to headline the halftime show at its upcoming All-Star Game been arrested for hoisting the flag a sentence of up to 10 years in in Toronto. within minutes of the announcement, Twitter posts mocked of archrival India on his roof, an act prison. the league’s decision to go with Sting, 64, since Drake, 29, is the Toronto police described as “anti-state” but Police said they received infor- Raptors’ global ambassador, and will be in his hometown for All-Star which the accused says was a trib- mation on Monday that Draz had weekend, from February 12 to 14. “Cana dians have six of the top 10 ute to Indian cricket captain Virat hoisted the Indian flag. He went on songs on the Billboard charts right now - and the NBA hires Sting to per- Koh li, officials said on wednesday. the run, but police managed to find form halftime. Brutal,” read a tweet by local sportscaster jim lanG. “Does Umar Draz, from the eastern him on Tuesday. anyone under the age of 35 even know who Sting is?” “Really Pakistani district of Okara in Pun - “It’s illegal to hoist the flag of @Toronto2016? Sting? what were your backup options, Cher and the jab, was charged under the Paki - another country,” police officer Is - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra? How about some TORONTO talent!” stan Penal Code, which is reserved mail Khan said. wrote former Toronto Mayor roB fordon his Twit ter page. (Reuters) Activists such as Savetheinter - million in India. Chris Daniels, Facebook’s vice Internet... net.in, professors from leading uni- “It’s a very important test case president for Internet.org. “Fun - versities and tech titans such as for what will be India’s network damentally, the reason for the sur- ConTinued from paGe 1 Nandan Nilekani, the co-founder of neutrality regime,” said Sunil Ab - prise is that the program is doing solve the problem with access and Infosys, have spoken out against it. raham of the Center for Inter net good. It’s bringing people online bandwidth. But Facebook is not Another well-known Indian entre- and Society in Bangalore. who are moving onto the broader the Internet.” preneur dubbed it “poor Internet India’s debate could impact the Internet.” Zuckerberg launched his sweep- for poor people.” way other countries address the India, a country of 1.2 billion, has ing Internet.org initiative in 2013 as The debate escalated in recent question of whether it’s fair for In - the second-highest number of In - a way to provide 4 billion people in weeks after India’s telecom regula- ternet service providers to price ternet users in the world, but an the developing world with web ac - tor suspended Free Basics as it websites differently. The U.S. estimated 80 percent of the popula- cess, which he sees as a basic hu - weighs whether such plans are Federal Communications Commis - tion does not have Internet access. man right. fair, with new rules expected by sion’s rules on net neutrality went India has 130 million Facebook But the initiative has hit a major the end of the month. into effect only this past June. users, second only to the U.S., a snag in India, where in recent A week later, Free Basics was Officials at Facebook launched key market as the social media months Free Basics has been em - banned in Egypt with little expla- an advertising blitz in recent giant looks to expand beyond the broiled in controversy—with critics nation, prompting concern that weeks to counteract the negative developed world, where its growth saying that the app, which provides the backlash could spread to other publicity. “who could possibly be has slowed. limited access to the web, does a markets. More recently, Google against this?” Zuckerberg won- “If Facebook manages to get disservice to the poor and violates pulled out of the app in Zambia af - dered in a Times of India editorial another half a billion users in In - the principles of “net neutrality,” ter a trial period. An estimated 15 on December 28. dia, that’s a valuable set of eyeballs which holds that equal ac cess to the million people are now using Free “I think we’ve been a bit sur- to sell to a political party or corpo- web should be un fettered to all. Basics in 37 countries, including 1 prised by the strong reaction,” said ration,” Abraham said. among other means, using clan- nationally publicized return to Officer... destine email accounts, which they Cambodia in 2010. periodically deleted,” it said. During the trip, Mr. Misiewicz ConTinued from paGe 1 Officials at the U.S. Embassy distributed supplies at orphanages to bribery charges as part of a plea and the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hon o - and paid a visit to a center run by deal struck more than two years lulu declined to comment on the anti-human trafficking activist So - after he was charged, according to case when contacted on Friday. maly Mam, who resigned as presi- a statement from the U.S. Depart - Born Khem Vannak in Kandal dent of the Somaly Mam Foun da - ment of Justice. province in the mid-1960s, Mr. tion in 2014 after media reports re - Mr. Misiewicz admitted to ac - Misiewicz fled war-torn Cambodia vealed that she had fabricated cepting bribes including cash, in 1973 after being adopted by Ma - parts of her backstory and coached prostitutes and other gifts in ex - ryna lee Misiewicz, a U.S. Army young girls to lie about their past in change for handing over U.S. Na - veteran and stenographer at the order to raise funds. vy secrets, the statement said. U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh However, Mr. Misiewicz’s gold- Between January 2011 and Sep - who had her apartment cleaned en image was shattered in Sep - tember 2013, according to confes- by the young boy’s aunt.