Cambodia to send troops to E Timor
AAP
CAMBODIA will send troops to East Timor following talks between Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen and Prime Minister John Howard today.
Mr Hun Sen told a lunch in his honour in the Great Hall of Parliament House that Cambodia would join its second peacekeeping mission since its own civil war.
"Cambodia has sent its troops to Sudan in Africa and this morning Cambodia also proposed to send troops to East Timor in the near future," Mr Hun Sen said.
Mr Hun Sen met with Mr Howard, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Justice Minister Chris Ellison during his visit to Parliament House.
With the Cambodian courts preparing to try former Khmer Rouge members over the country's genocide, Mr Howard announced that Australia would commit $30 million over five years to strengthen Cambodia's criminal justice system.
A further $45 million will go to agricultural projects in the Asian country.
Senator Ellison and Mr Hun Sen also signed a prisoner transfer agreement between the two countries.
But Senator Ellison said Australians jailed in Cambodia should not expect their sentences to be reduced because of the signing.
He said the treaty would benefit both countries but was not designed to cut the sentences of Australians serving jail terms in Cambodia, or vice versa.
"Some people misunderstand the nature of it," he told Parliament.
"It is not a means of reducing a sentence. It's a means of returning a person to their home country to serve out a sentence and also come under community supervision of their home country."
Five Australians are serving prison terms in Cambodia, while there were 13 Cambodian inmates in Australian jails as of May this year.
Mr Hun Sen told a lunch in his honour in the Great Hall of Parliament House that Cambodia would join its second peacekeeping mission since its own civil war.
"Cambodia has sent its troops to Sudan in Africa and this morning Cambodia also proposed to send troops to East Timor in the near future," Mr Hun Sen said.
Mr Hun Sen met with Mr Howard, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Justice Minister Chris Ellison during his visit to Parliament House.
With the Cambodian courts preparing to try former Khmer Rouge members over the country's genocide, Mr Howard announced that Australia would commit $30 million over five years to strengthen Cambodia's criminal justice system.
A further $45 million will go to agricultural projects in the Asian country.
Senator Ellison and Mr Hun Sen also signed a prisoner transfer agreement between the two countries.
But Senator Ellison said Australians jailed in Cambodia should not expect their sentences to be reduced because of the signing.
He said the treaty would benefit both countries but was not designed to cut the sentences of Australians serving jail terms in Cambodia, or vice versa.
"Some people misunderstand the nature of it," he told Parliament.
"It is not a means of reducing a sentence. It's a means of returning a person to their home country to serve out a sentence and also come under community supervision of their home country."
Five Australians are serving prison terms in Cambodia, while there were 13 Cambodian inmates in Australian jails as of May this year.
3 comments:
Under Hun Sen, his government will sent all Cambodian abroad as long as he got the monies.
-They sent workers to Korea
-They sent workers to malaysia,
-They sent women to Taiwan for house wife and women to malaysia as cheap maid.
Very soon Cambodia will import Vietnam to replace Cambodians. This most stupid leader is from Khmer Rouge.
AH HUN SEN mighty army can't even protect Cambodia from the Vietcong and now he want to send his military to protect East Timor?
ahahahahahahhahahahaha!
I thought Cambodia have peace and why the fuck AH HUN SEN still maintaining his corrupted army?
Hun Sen is the King of Cambodia. He can send Cambodian troops to East Timor without any consultations with the National Assembly and Senate. These two public institutions should at least be given some prior warning and a chance to rubber stamp his decision. In some countries, this will require an amendment to their constitution. As he is the real King of Cambodia, Cambodian constitution is just a toilet paper for him.
We can find more Cambodian troops in and around Phnom Penh than along the Cambodian border. Soon, the National Assembly and Senate will approve a compulsory military service for young Cambodians without connection in high places and send them to die on a foreign soil while still leaving Cambodian border poorly defended. Hun Sen can make a decision, which affects the lives of other people and their poor families, to gain a distinguished recognition for himself on the international stage. He does not care as long as those cheap lives are not related to his families, relatives, cronies and CPP officials.
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