29 August 2006
By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
The Cambodian Ministry of Interior had accused local opposition activists of taking political advantage by distributing the statement issued by Heng Pov in which the latter accused and attacked on a number of government officials for their involvement in criminal acts and killings.
General Khieu Sopheak, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, told RFA on Tuesday 29 August that the distribution was done in the province of Battambang about one or two days earlier, before Mr. Sam Rainsy warned his party members not to be involved in the Heng Pov affair. Khieu Sopheak did not provide any details on the name of the village, commune, or district in Battambang where the distribution took place.
Khieu Sopheak added: “A number of local commune and village opposition [members] took Heng Pov’s statement to distribute to the public.”
Last Saturday, opposition leader Sam Rainsy who was on visit in the US, told RFA that in the US, he issued a statement warning his party members not to get involved in Heng Pov’s affairs, since this is an internal problem of the CPP. He also compared the dispute as a settlement between thugs.
RFA reached by phone Kang Sokhon, the Battambang province police commissar, on Tuesday, as well as three of his deputies (Chea Thon, San Hak, and So Sam An), all of them stressed that they did not know about the distribution of Heng Pov’s statement.
Eng Chhay Eang, opposition MP, rejected the claim made by Khieu Sopheak, saying that it is not true: “This is the right to read information, to read statements issued by an individual, whether it is political or not.”
Kem Sokha, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said that all Cambodian citizens, civil societies, opposition parties have the right to follow Heng Pov’s case in silence, i.e. without exaggerating it.
Kem Sokha said: “If the Heng Pov affair is exaggerated [beyond what is actually known], then the government can have doubt on us.”
At the beginning of August, Heng Pov, the former Phnom Penh police chief and former advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen, issued a 9-page statement accusing senior government officials of involvement in the killing of actress Piseth Pilika, the 1997 killing of the Ministry of Interior’s secretary of state Ho Sok, and the 1997 trafficking of 7-ton of dried cannabis by Mong Reththy, a close friend of Hun Sen.
The Cambodian government is still waiting for an answer from the Singapore authority regarding the arrest of Heng Pov and sending him back home to face the law for his involvement in four major crimes.
General Khieu Sopheak, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, told RFA on Tuesday 29 August that the distribution was done in the province of Battambang about one or two days earlier, before Mr. Sam Rainsy warned his party members not to be involved in the Heng Pov affair. Khieu Sopheak did not provide any details on the name of the village, commune, or district in Battambang where the distribution took place.
Khieu Sopheak added: “A number of local commune and village opposition [members] took Heng Pov’s statement to distribute to the public.”
Last Saturday, opposition leader Sam Rainsy who was on visit in the US, told RFA that in the US, he issued a statement warning his party members not to get involved in Heng Pov’s affairs, since this is an internal problem of the CPP. He also compared the dispute as a settlement between thugs.
RFA reached by phone Kang Sokhon, the Battambang province police commissar, on Tuesday, as well as three of his deputies (Chea Thon, San Hak, and So Sam An), all of them stressed that they did not know about the distribution of Heng Pov’s statement.
Eng Chhay Eang, opposition MP, rejected the claim made by Khieu Sopheak, saying that it is not true: “This is the right to read information, to read statements issued by an individual, whether it is political or not.”
Kem Sokha, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said that all Cambodian citizens, civil societies, opposition parties have the right to follow Heng Pov’s case in silence, i.e. without exaggerating it.
Kem Sokha said: “If the Heng Pov affair is exaggerated [beyond what is actually known], then the government can have doubt on us.”
At the beginning of August, Heng Pov, the former Phnom Penh police chief and former advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen, issued a 9-page statement accusing senior government officials of involvement in the killing of actress Piseth Pilika, the 1997 killing of the Ministry of Interior’s secretary of state Ho Sok, and the 1997 trafficking of 7-ton of dried cannabis by Mong Reththy, a close friend of Hun Sen.
The Cambodian government is still waiting for an answer from the Singapore authority regarding the arrest of Heng Pov and sending him back home to face the law for his involvement in four major crimes.
4 comments:
The people have the right to read all informations, to think and to express their opinion. If you were gold do not be afraid of fire.
What? AH KHIEU SOPEAK is a fraid of the general public? This mother fucker afraid of the Vietcong more than his parent!ahahahah
This mother fucker should never and ever forget that it is the Vietcong that create a shithead like him and the rest of the CPP clans! Why don't you afraid of your creator the Vietcong?
You fool!
Perhaps Heng Pov should set up his own website with all the information he knows of. So everybody can see what's been happening in the Hun Sen Government. Don't they know that there is this thing called 'freedom of speech'. If they have nothing to hide, why are they worried that the public have now read Heng Pov's statement. Sounds very fishy almost to me.
We are in the 21st century. The people should have way of accessing the public information, so he/she can decide whose good/evil.
It is ashame, though, a majority of population are so illiterate that they will buy anything the CPP threw at them. So Sad...
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