Lee Berthiaume's Stories and Photos
Hun Sen rejects fundraising for KR trial
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen says he will not establish a national fundraiser or solicit prominent businessmen to fund the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
- The Cambodia Daily, June 9, 2005
Sok An pleades to diplomats for KR funds
Cambodia's senior deputy prime minister makes an urgent appeal for help funding the governments share of the Khmer Rouge tribunal budget to international donors.
- The Cambodia Daily, May 31, 2005
UN envoy, government trade accusations
The UN human rights envoy to Cambodia accuses the government of burying its head in the sand on issues of corruption and says democracy in the country is sliding backwards.
- The Cambodia Daily, April 21, 2005
Montagnard Spokesman Decries Repatriation
A Montagnard leader tells the UN asylum-seekers should not be sent back to Vietnam unless their protection is assured.
- The Cambodia Daily, April 21, 2005
Hun Sen threatens land grabbers, NGOs doubtful
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen says he will punish and hold accountable officials who grab land from normal citizens, but NGOs say we've heard this all before.
- The Cambodia Daily, April 11, 2005
Government reviews presence of forestry watchdog
The Cambodian government decides to launch an investigation into why outspoken environmental group Global Witness is still in the country after it was fired two years ago as the government monitor.
- The Cambodia Daily, April 8, 2005
Families facing eviction told development requires 'sacrifices'
The Phnom Penh government tells 168 families that they will be forced to move for the good of the city's development.
- The Cambodia Daily, April 3, 2005
The Keeper of the Forest
An environmentally minded Buddhist monk tries to create a sanctuary in the forest to protect the forest.
- The Cambodia Daily Weekend edition, April 2-3, 2005
Villagers say police shot to kill
A blow-by-blow account of what happened during the bloody Poipet eviction.
- The Cambodia Daily, March 23, 2005
Police kill five Poipet villagers
Heavily armed police shoot and kill villagers after being ordered to evict them from land behind a casino.
- The Cambodia Daily, March 22, 2005
EU debates imposing sanctions on Cambodia
The European Union contemplates leveling sanctions against the country if the government does not release jailed opposition parliamentarian Cheam Channy.
- The Cambodia Daily, March 14, 2005
UN rights envoy slams government on all fronts
The UN human rights envoy to Cambodia calls the government a 'shaky facade of democracy' and worries about Hun Sen's growing power.
- The Cambodia Daily, March 8, 2005
Trent Facility Officially Opening, Contractor Dispute Unresolved
A local university opens a new building after months of lawsuits and other legal problems with the contractor.
- The Peterborough Examiner, Oct. 2, 2004
Organized Crime Looks to Pot Farms For Income
A pseudo-indepth look at one of the marijuana farms that are exploding across the country.
- The Peterborough Examiner, Sept. 22, 2004
The Silencing of Trent
Professors speak out against secrecy by board of governors at a local university.
- The Peterborough Examiner, July 17, 2004
Money, not health, key in meat inspections, hearing told
Former Ontario meat inspectors report that political interference has turned meat inspection into an untrustworthy system more concerned with money than food safety.
- The Peterborough Examiner, March 25, 2004
Bomb survivor recalls deadly attack
A Canadian soldier who survived a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan speaks about his experience.
- The Peterborough Examiner, Feb. 18, 2004
AIDS fatalities make "Business of Death" lucrative
In Zimbabwe, where dozens of other industries are collapsing, the funeral and burial sector is booming.
- The Standard, Nov. 2, 2003
Virginity tests return to fight HIV/AIDS
The traditional virginity tests is being resurrected by traditional leaders throughout the country as a way to fight HIV/AIDS. However, women's rights questions are raised in the process.
- The Standard, Oct. 26, 2003
Graft alleged as Chitungwiza water problems persist
Charges of corruption abound in a town council as water rate hikes of over 500 per cent leave poverty stricken citizens struggling to survive.
- The Standard, Oct. 26, 2003
Retrenched farm workers sink to destitution
Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabwean farm workers were forced to fend for themselves following the land invasions. Here a group of them tells their story.
- The Standard, Oct. 19, 2003
Water bills shock Chitungwiza residents
Poverty stricken residents of a Harare ghetto are hit with water rate increases of 500 per cent or more.
- The Standard, Oct. 19, 2003
Cattle die of starvation on resettled farm
The Zimbabwe SPCA investigates the deaths of hundreds of cattle on farms throughout the country.
- The Standard, Oct. 12, 2003
Rave scene rises from death bed
An outline of Harare's struggle to regain it's reputation as one of Africa's top party meccas
- The Standard, Oct. 12, 2003
More than 5.5 million will need food aid, says WFP
The number of Zimbabweans requiring food aid will be higher than original estimates of 5.5 million due to the country's economic crisis and severe shortages of seed and fertilizer.
- The Standard, Oct. 5, 2003
Patients die as drug prices hit the roof
Hundreds of Zimbabweans can no longer afford to buy medicine as inflation and the high price of importing raw materials to produce drugs have doubled and tripled prices over the last two months.
- The Standard, Sept. 28, 2003
Mbare widows ditch handouts for peanuts
A group of widows in a Harare ghetto raise money to support themselves and over 100 orphans by making and selling peanut butter.

- The Standard, Sept. 21, 2003
Zimbabwe gays soldier on
Gay Zimbabweans relate their experiences at living in a culture that does not acknowledge their existence.
- The Standard, Sept. 14, 2003
A system in crisis
Desperate voices of the beleaguered South African health care system
- The Mail & Guardian, June 28, 2003
Questions of death (PDF file)
Flesh-eating disease kills a woman and her family tries to find some answers
- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, Oct. 18, 2002
Nurses need voluntary addiction treatment program, inquest told
The results of an inquest into the suicides of a drug addicted nurse and her lover
- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, Sept. 26, 2002
Doctors' college recommend addictions be reportable
Doctors testify at an inquest into the suicides of a drug addicted nurse and her lover
- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, Sept. 16, 2002
Local police blast pot study
Law enforcement reactions to a Senate-committee recommendation to decriminalize marijuana
- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, Sept. 8, 2002
Drug unit brings down rural pot house
Vietnamese marijuana 'grow houses' move out of the confines of the city and into the country.
- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, Sept. 5, 2002
High-risk sex offender moves into county (PDF file)
In an exclusive interview, a repeat child sex offender tells the community why he won't offend again.
- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, Aug. 15, 2002
Alive and fighting (PDF file)
In an exclusive interview, a Colombian trade activist his escape to Canada to avoid assassination
- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, July 19, 2002
'She's a fighter' (PDF file)
A handicapped three-year-old girl's near-death fight with meningococcal disease
- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, July 11, 2002
Sugar bush bandits hunted: shot fired
Small story about an attempted robbery of a maple sugar bush
- Ottawa Citizen, April 3, 2002
Police can't keep up with 'grow' houses
Police say they are losing the battle against Vietnamese marijuana 'grow houses'
- Ottawa Citizen, April 1, 2002
Protesters plan return to Ottawa
Despite a change of venue, protesters still planned on marching on Canada's capital to protest the Kananaskis G8 summit
- Ottawa Citizen, March 30, 2002
Police kill man in highway gunfight
A Hells Angel wanna-be is killed in a gunfight with police (I was the only one to get the cop's name - or any name for that matter)
- Ottawa Citizen, March 11, 2002
Former students sue Algonquin
12 students sue the college for failing to deliver quality of education. (I was still attending Algonquin when I wrote this story.)
- Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 16, 2002
Orleans man entertains as 'Weekend Fisherman'
- The Orleans Star, 1998 (yup, one of the first)