Mr. Reach Sambath at the Khmer Rouge trial. Mr. Reach Sambath, spokesman and chief of public affairs of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC), better known as the Khmer Rouge tribunal, has passed away at Calmette Hospital at 9pm last night, Wednesday 11th May. The report said that he had died from a stroke and blood clot resulting from high blood pressures. Mr. Reach Sambath suffered a stroke at 4:30pm on Tuesday 10th May while working at his office at the ECCC. He was immediately sent to Calmette Hospital, but due to the seriousness of his stroke, Cambodian and foreign doctors were unable to save him and he died at 9pm last night before he can be sent to Thailand for treatment. 47 year-old Reach Sambath was a 20 year veteran journalist who worked for many foreign news agencies, including AFP, but has quit has journalism career after he was appointed as spokesperson of the ECCC in 2006. Later, he was appointed as the chief of the ECCC Public Affairs. He is also a lecturer at the Royal University of Phnom Penh's Department of Journalism. Mr. Reach Sambath had received many qualifications from Cambodia and overseas, including a masters degree in journalism from Colombia University in the United States, and other qualifications from Germany and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. He is also a good friend and a fellow orphan of Miss Seng Theary, a Khmer-American who took great interests in the Khmer Rouge trials after her parents and family were all killed by the Khmer Rouge. After learning of his death, Seng Theary had left this message: "My deepest condolences to the family of Reach Sambath (a fellow orphan who took refuge with my family in my paternal grandfather's house in Svay Rieng in 1978) as they mourn his passing away earlier tonight. My prayers and thoughts are with you". He has left behind a wife, 2 sons and one daughter. Source: CEN and DAP NewsThursday, May 12, 2011
Mr. Reach Sambath at the Khmer Rouge trial. Mr. Reach Sambath, spokesman and chief of public affairs of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC), better known as the Khmer Rouge tribunal, has passed away at Calmette Hospital at 9pm last night, Wednesday 11th May. The report said that he had died from a stroke and blood clot resulting from high blood pressures. Mr. Reach Sambath suffered a stroke at 4:30pm on Tuesday 10th May while working at his office at the ECCC. He was immediately sent to Calmette Hospital, but due to the seriousness of his stroke, Cambodian and foreign doctors were unable to save him and he died at 9pm last night before he can be sent to Thailand for treatment. 47 year-old Reach Sambath was a 20 year veteran journalist who worked for many foreign news agencies, including AFP, but has quit has journalism career after he was appointed as spokesperson of the ECCC in 2006. Later, he was appointed as the chief of the ECCC Public Affairs. He is also a lecturer at the Royal University of Phnom Penh's Department of Journalism. Mr. Reach Sambath had received many qualifications from Cambodia and overseas, including a masters degree in journalism from Colombia University in the United States, and other qualifications from Germany and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. He is also a good friend and a fellow orphan of Miss Seng Theary, a Khmer-American who took great interests in the Khmer Rouge trials after her parents and family were all killed by the Khmer Rouge. After learning of his death, Seng Theary had left this message: "My deepest condolences to the family of Reach Sambath (a fellow orphan who took refuge with my family in my paternal grandfather's house in Svay Rieng in 1978) as they mourn his passing away earlier tonight. My prayers and thoughts are with you". He has left behind a wife, 2 sons and one daughter. Source: CEN and DAP News
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