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Article: NO DEGREE IN LAW, BUT POLITICAL TIES IN KHMER ROUGE TRIAL.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 17, 1999
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There is no diploma on the wall of Benson Samay's law office. But there is something better - photographs in which he poses with influential government figures, the best credential in Cambodia's corrupt and politicized judicial system.
Samay, 56, said he studied law in the United States but did not earn a degree. He said he graduated from law school here in 1968, seven years before the Khmer Rouge took power and destroyed official records such as those of universities.
From 1970 to 1996, he lived in France and the United States, where, he said, he was a legal assistant, returning here to practice lawfor the first time three years ago.
Now Samay ...