CCHR Public Forum in Kompong Thom province May 24, 2005 (Photo: VOA)Sakada Chun
Voice of America
Phnom Penh
30/10/2006
Cambodia Center for Human Right’s campaign director, Ou Virak said on Monday that the ‘black box’ program, a campaign against corruption, has received approximately 2,000 complaint letters. The black box program is a national campaign designed to give ‘voices’ to the Cambodian people on corruption related issues.
The program encourages people to submit complaints, evidence, and documents related to corruption activities by putting them inside the black box.
Ou Virak told VOA that the complaints are mostly centered on general opinions of corruptions, while other complaints cited specific individuals who committed or are involved in corruption activities.
Government spokesman and Minister of Information, Khieu Kanharith welcomes the complaints, provided that the complaints are legitimate, can be supported by evidence, and have actual witnesses.
He went on to say that he does not know whether or not the complaints are propaganda-based or are actual complaints designed to help the government curb corruptions in Cambodia.
Khieu Kanharith says that, “the anti-corruption bill will be enacted after the National Assembly passed criminal law and the penal code.”
Keo Remy, opposition party legislator says that the complaints reveal active corruption in Cambodia, and suggested that these complaints be forwarded to the government.
More than twenty (20) human rights and NGO groups have submitted petitions to the National Assembly asking for anti-corruption measures.
Recently, the groups have met with opposition (SRP) and FUNCINPEC party officials, but they have yet to meet with Cambodian People's party (CPP) officials.
The program encourages people to submit complaints, evidence, and documents related to corruption activities by putting them inside the black box.
Ou Virak told VOA that the complaints are mostly centered on general opinions of corruptions, while other complaints cited specific individuals who committed or are involved in corruption activities.
Government spokesman and Minister of Information, Khieu Kanharith welcomes the complaints, provided that the complaints are legitimate, can be supported by evidence, and have actual witnesses.
He went on to say that he does not know whether or not the complaints are propaganda-based or are actual complaints designed to help the government curb corruptions in Cambodia.
Khieu Kanharith says that, “the anti-corruption bill will be enacted after the National Assembly passed criminal law and the penal code.”
Keo Remy, opposition party legislator says that the complaints reveal active corruption in Cambodia, and suggested that these complaints be forwarded to the government.
More than twenty (20) human rights and NGO groups have submitted petitions to the National Assembly asking for anti-corruption measures.
Recently, the groups have met with opposition (SRP) and FUNCINPEC party officials, but they have yet to meet with Cambodian People's party (CPP) officials.
7 comments:
This is only a tip of the iceberg.
Who is lying?
According to RFI (30/10/06), there are about 100 allegations against the government, and about 600 against CCHR and SRP.
SiS
From 2002 until now China have arrested over 500 000 corrupted officials which included the governor of Shanghai( a city of 16 millions people, bigger than Cambodia). All of these people being arrested have their position stripped and will be prosecuted.
Cambodian used to think that corrupted is Cambodian traditional practice. If you are government official, you are entitled to accepte bribery as donation. How the anti-corruption can be worked if this concept is in the brain of every Cambodian people already?
And how people with low salary can be survived with their penny salary.
There are checks and balance with CCHR, that is, being US funded, they're held to a higher degree of audits. Yes, there will be complaints against the CCHR, anyone loosing their jobs gonna be a little upset. Because of the political instabillity TRUST, commitment and honesty are often overlook, Can you blame CCHR for holding their employees to these standards?
Why haven't any complaint made public against the SRP camp?
who care...cambodia is a corrupted country from a to z....but people of cambodia can stop if only you as citizen stop supporting corruption by stopping giving any $ or riel to any authority...if do anything wrong go and pay to gov with an official bill not give 1000 riel or two and then camplaint later stop giving them and stand up with the corruption
2000 complaints? it is too little for corruption in Cambodia. CCHR, you should do better than that; and SRP too.
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