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UNCLAS PHNOM PENH 000383 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR PM-HDP, DRL, EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP AND S/GHD 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL MOPS PHUM MARR MASS CB
SUBJECT: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INDIVIDUAL TO ATTEND THE 
PEACEKEEPING TRAINING CENTER COMMANDANTS'CONFERENCE IN DHAKA, 
BANGLADESH, FROM JUNE 28 - JULY 1, 2009 
 
REF: 03 SECSTATE 034981 
 
¶1. This is an action cable. See Paragraph Six. 
 
¶2. Reftel is guidance for screening nominees for U.S. sponsored 
training programs. 
 
¶3. To comply with the Leahy amendment relative to U.S. sponsored 
security assistance training, the U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh has 
conducted local human rights vetting for the following individual 
selected for the Peacekeeping Training Center Commandants' 
Conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from June 28 - July 1, 2009. 
 
NAME: Chau Yoeun (Male) 
DPOB: Aug. 27, 1956; Phnom Penh 
POSITION: Chief of Training Office 
RANK: Colonel 
DEPT/UNIT: Department of Peacekeeping Operations, General Department 
of Policy and Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense 
 
¶4. U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh has reviewed its files and finds that, as 
of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross 
violations of human rights by the above individual. 
 
¶5. The individual will attend the Peacekeeping Training Center 
Commandants' Conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from June 28 - July 1, 
¶2009. 
 
¶6. Action request: Please verify whether the Department possesses 
any credible information that the individual named above has been 
implicated in gross violations of human rights. 
 
¶7. Points of contacts for Amembassy Phnom Penh are Major Wayne 
Turnbull at turnbullpw@state.gov or tel: 855-23-728-219, or Jenae 
Johnson at Johnsonjd3@state.gov or tel: 855-23-728-118. 
 
 
RODLEY