Responding to Rainsy, Minister Steers Clear of 'Personal Issues'
By Yun Samean
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
Finance Minisler Keat Chhon prefaced his remarks to the National Assembly Thursday by resolving not to discuss "personal issues" during the debate over the 2007 budget.
He said SRP leader Sam Rainsy's comment Wednesday that he had been a close associate of Pol Pot made him lose his patience.
"My patience is limited," he said "Talking without evidence is difficult to accept."
During Wednesday's budget debate, Sam Rainsy compared recent evictions of poor villagers from Phnom Penh with the Khmer Rouge's wholesale evacuation of the city in 1975, before alleging that Keat Chhon had been Pol Pot's secretary and adviser at the time.
"Today's environment is different from yesterday," Keat Chhon told the National Assembly. "If he bites, I won’t bite back."
Sam Rainsy did not show up at the Assembly on Thursday.
A bodyguard who answered his phone said Sam Rainsy was meeting with constituents in Banteay Meanchey province.
CPP lawmaker Ek Sam Ol told the Assembly that Wednesday's debate was good because there had been no violence.
"We didn't use violence," he said. "We kept our dignity."
CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap said in an interview Thursday that CPP leaders are not afraid to testify at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia because none were top leaders in the Khmer Rouge nor among those most responsible for the crimes committed between 1975 and 1979.
He said SRP leader Sam Rainsy's comment Wednesday that he had been a close associate of Pol Pot made him lose his patience.
"My patience is limited," he said "Talking without evidence is difficult to accept."
During Wednesday's budget debate, Sam Rainsy compared recent evictions of poor villagers from Phnom Penh with the Khmer Rouge's wholesale evacuation of the city in 1975, before alleging that Keat Chhon had been Pol Pot's secretary and adviser at the time.
"Today's environment is different from yesterday," Keat Chhon told the National Assembly. "If he bites, I won’t bite back."
Sam Rainsy did not show up at the Assembly on Thursday.
A bodyguard who answered his phone said Sam Rainsy was meeting with constituents in Banteay Meanchey province.
CPP lawmaker Ek Sam Ol told the Assembly that Wednesday's debate was good because there had been no violence.
"We didn't use violence," he said. "We kept our dignity."
CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap said in an interview Thursday that CPP leaders are not afraid to testify at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia because none were top leaders in the Khmer Rouge nor among those most responsible for the crimes committed between 1975 and 1979.
3 comments:
THis old animal Keath Chhon doesn't undertand between personal and public affairs.
Verrrrry good, Cheam Yeam, I want and wait very long time to hear such a word from the mouth of your CPP leaders.I hope you all just say you knew nothing beside obeying Pol Pot's orders to escape executing punishment. CPP should stop interfering the tribunal process using Ky Tech to obstacle the tribunal. If you all are men in dignity, you should stand before the court and tell the truth to people. I wish to see Kiet Chhon, Hor namhong, Chea Sim, Heng Samrin, Hun Sen..... show transparency of your past.
Don't worry Kiet Chhon!! evidence will come later unless you don't intent to destroy it, but I don't think you can cover it as everyone know who you were in that blood thisrty regime. Maybe, your hands are still stained with my father's blood and many other oversee students' blood. Look to your hands carefully. Do you ever have nightmare??????????
AH CHEAM YAPP! Yapp mane!
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