Win Thida, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
06 November 2007
Amid rising pressure from opposition groups and election watchdogs, the National Election Committee announced Tuesday it had removed 56 foreign names from registration lists.
Critics say Vietnamese nationals have been allowed to register to vote, stirring a sensitive topic among Cambodians as the country heads toward national polls.
"After some research, local authorities and local police noted that those [56] people only have residency cards are and not Cambodian citizens," NEC Secretary-General Tep Nitha said. "They did not have sufficient grounds and clear documents concerning their nationality, and we decided to remove the names from the list."
Cambodia has citizens who are ethnic Vietnamese and by law should be allowed to vote, but those registrations have been tainted by the possibility of Vietnamese non-residents also trying to vote, a move often decried as trickery of the ruling Cambodian People's Party.
Critics say Vietnamese nationals have been allowed to register to vote, stirring a sensitive topic among Cambodians as the country heads toward national polls.
"After some research, local authorities and local police noted that those [56] people only have residency cards are and not Cambodian citizens," NEC Secretary-General Tep Nitha said. "They did not have sufficient grounds and clear documents concerning their nationality, and we decided to remove the names from the list."
Cambodia has citizens who are ethnic Vietnamese and by law should be allowed to vote, but those registrations have been tainted by the possibility of Vietnamese non-residents also trying to vote, a move often decried as trickery of the ruling Cambodian People's Party.
7 comments:
What a system? There are over 6 millions voters - 56.
Here is is what it look like:
6,000,100-56=6,000,044
I have to ask myself if this is real? Can he remove another 44
What difference does it make? Why are they spending $millions searching through millions of registered voters, just to remove a few hundreds. Stop wasting our poor tax payers' moneys! We don't need to be 100% perfect.
We know who this Animal Viet troller @6:40AM that is pretending to be Khmer speaking for khmer is. This animal Viet troller will be castrated and then euthanized when time comes.
Go home Viet troller!
Go home Vietcong!
If you let CPP has control, Viet people will continue dominated in Cambodia.
Yeah, that's what you said 20 years ago, but so far, no one see any domination going on. What is the viet waiting for?
yeah at day time =viet residential
at night time=Vietnamese soldier in Cambodia,they are waiting the green light to go,why don't you see a little thing like that must be a vitcong kids trollers pretend to be khmer and speak for khmer..
THE VIETS CAN VOTE AND OWN OUR LANDS, BUT YOU AND I CAN'T. THEY HAVE CAMBODIAN CITIZENSHIPS AND WE DON'T. AS LONG AS THE CPP ARE RUNNING THE COUNTRY, WE ALL WILL BE ELIMINATED FOR GOOD POLITICALLY IN 20 YEARS OR LESS. VIETNAMIZATION OF CAMBODIA IS AT HIGH SPEED RIGHT NOW. THE SUPER HIGHWAY WILL BE BUILT, JOINT DEVELOPMENTS WILL CREATE JOBS FOR VIETS AND SO 5-6 MORE MILLIONS OUT OF 100 MILLIONS VIETS, WOULD DEFINITELY SPELL THE END OF US. I AM THINKING OF JOINING OUR KAMPUCHEA KROM BROTHERS JUST TO GET AHEAD START OF EVERYONE ELSE. THE RIGHTS OF THE MINORITY PEOPLE OF ORIGINS AS IT CALLED UNDER THE UN FLAG SHIP. THANKS TO OUR HERO-KING, OUR SAMDACH HUN SEN, CPP AFFILIATES, VIETNAM AND ALL OF OUR DONORS FRIENDS FOR MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR HO CHI MINH DREAM TO COME TRUE.
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