B. whereas four human rights defenders accused of anti-state crime – Mom Sonando, Head of the Association of Democrats of Cambodia and Director of Beehive Radio, and his co-defendants, Phorn Sreoun, Touch Ream and Kann Sovann – were sentenced by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on 1 October 2012;

Senator Campbell: I can only give you some advice in that regard: The band manager is much the same as a city manager in a municipal government, and councils come and councils go, but the manager is the one who holds the place together.

There are many examples: in many parts of Russia ordinary citizens walked the streets bearing yellow stars with the words ‘I am Georgian’; in Moscow, some high school directors threatened to fire any teacher who handed over lists of students with Georgian names to the police, at the risk of they themselves being fired on the spot for such acts; in St Petersburg, taxi drivers instructed by the city council to refuse lifts to passengers who even looked Georgian, and to refuse to take passengers to some of the numerous Georgian restaurants in the city, refused to obey those orders and threatened to go on strike if pushed.

Now, I am convinced that this reason originates in a healthy concern, in good intentions on the part of the Commissioner and Members, but we must be very vigilant about this aspect, because there is the risk that we will be starting a process that will delegitimise our democratic institutions, made up of elected members, governing bodies, assemblies at municipal and local level; in short, the system of democratic guarantees that are the only supreme guarantees able to fully represent citizens’ interests.

Mr. Burrell: I am the city's director of disaster services, and under the local bylaw, that role is held by the fire chief.

In municipal government, history is maintained by the infrastructure, and mayors come and mayors go but the city manager is there forever.