Moeuk Dara, secretary-general of the the National Authority to Combat Drugs, was put under arrest by the Ministry of Interior.
Under the Pol Pot regime, people were taught to keep silent, and often their survival depended on that silence.
Hun Hean, the recently demoted police chief of Banteay Meanchey province is being held on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Critics say the proposed law creates tangles of red tape that could be used to attack groups that don't follow the government line.
More than 700 people sought the free services of the doctors and medical staff on the first day, Monday.
Professor Sum Chhum Bun says the literature, arts and culture during the regime were used for Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Residents say they will sit at Freedom Park, for a week in search of mediation.
According to officials, more than 1,600 Cambodians died in road accidents in 2010.
Nearly three quarters of all the rapes involved girls under the age of 18.
More than 1,000 of 4,000 families have already been evicted or have moved from Boeung Kak lake area.
Surin was once part of a wider Khmer empire that encompassed parts of modern-day Thailand and Vietnam.
The Khmer Rouge tribunal sentenced Duch to a commuted 19 years in prison, earlier this year.
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