By Mean Veasna, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
12 December 2007
Prime Minister Hun Sen said in public statements Wednesday the UN special rights envoy to Cambodia, Yash Ghai, should be replaced, or the international body can expect no cooperation from him.
Ghai, who is from Kenya, completed a 10-day visit to Cambodia on Monday, claiming at the end that the rights situation remained poor and that people lived in fear of the government, courts and police.
He has said in the past that many of Cambodia's rights problems stem from Hun Sen's authoritarian control of the government.
"You raised only the negative points," Hun Sen said Wednesday, addressing the envoy without naming him during a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Phnom Penh. "If we speak of his country, it is 100 times worse than ours. Try to improve your own country first. Don't act too smart in Cambodia. I defy you, I defy your own country and I defy the United Nations."
Ghai is the second UN rights envoy in a row to have earned the ire of Cambodia's cantankerous premier, following the resignation of Peter Leuprecht, another critic of the government's human rights record.
Hun Sen said Wednesday UN Secretary-General Ban Kim-moon should replace Ghai.
"I would like to inform UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon that if he continues to assign this kind of person [as his rights representative], the Cambodian prime minister will not cooperate," Hun Sen said.
Rights workers said Wednesday the government should have met with Ghai during his visit. Instead, he was shunned, meeting only with civic groups and disaffected villagers, including victims of land grabs in the provinces.
"We are a democratic government, in which we announced that we respect human rights, so we should have come to meet him," said Van Sophath, a rights worker with the group Licadho. "Don't try to conceal, but seek solutions. That I think is a good image for Cambodia."
Ghai, who is from Kenya, completed a 10-day visit to Cambodia on Monday, claiming at the end that the rights situation remained poor and that people lived in fear of the government, courts and police.
He has said in the past that many of Cambodia's rights problems stem from Hun Sen's authoritarian control of the government.
"You raised only the negative points," Hun Sen said Wednesday, addressing the envoy without naming him during a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Phnom Penh. "If we speak of his country, it is 100 times worse than ours. Try to improve your own country first. Don't act too smart in Cambodia. I defy you, I defy your own country and I defy the United Nations."
Ghai is the second UN rights envoy in a row to have earned the ire of Cambodia's cantankerous premier, following the resignation of Peter Leuprecht, another critic of the government's human rights record.
Hun Sen said Wednesday UN Secretary-General Ban Kim-moon should replace Ghai.
"I would like to inform UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon that if he continues to assign this kind of person [as his rights representative], the Cambodian prime minister will not cooperate," Hun Sen said.
Rights workers said Wednesday the government should have met with Ghai during his visit. Instead, he was shunned, meeting only with civic groups and disaffected villagers, including victims of land grabs in the provinces.
"We are a democratic government, in which we announced that we respect human rights, so we should have come to meet him," said Van Sophath, a rights worker with the group Licadho. "Don't try to conceal, but seek solutions. That I think is a good image for Cambodia."
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This guy Hun Sen, defying the UN. A country that existed based on donation make such demand, come on. Don't bite the hands that feed you ah Hun. If the facts are falsifying as you claimed, then HunSen you should produce the evidence.
Have you not hear or see the suffering of the poor people? Have you not see the homelessness, landlessness, and abusivenness that plaque the country? I strongly support Ghai's claimed 10 to Xth power.
Nope 4:18, the suffering of the poor only bothers compassionate people. Reptiles like Hun Sen, and those mocking, smirking toads that support him on this blog would fit right in as guards at Tuol Sleng. Believe me they would VOLUNTEER to smash babies up against trees for sport. They would place bets to see how many whacks would do the trick. But look at these old bastards in the dock at the ECCC now. "It wasn't me, it was them!" Brave enough to laugh at other people's suffering but to chicken shit to pay the piper.
ហ៊ុនសែនបានក្លាយជាឆ្កែឆ្កួតយូឆ្នាំណាស់មកហើយតែរាស្រ្តខ្មែរមិនដឹងថាវាឆ្កួត។មានតែពួកមនុស្សខូចទើបដឹងថាវាត្រូវយួនហាណូយចាក់ថ្នាំឆ្នួត។ម្លោះហើយបានជាគេបង្អៅវាតាមចិត្តបានឲ្យឈរវាឈរឲ្យអង្គុយវាអង្គុយ។មានតែមនុស្សឆ្កួតទេទើបពួកអាឡេមឡឺមពង្វក់បាន។ថ្ងៃណាមួយគេយកវាទៅពេទ្យឆ្កួតនៅហាណូយហើយ។មើលមុខវាមើលដូចស្លាប់ទៅហើយ។ប៉ុន្មានថ្ងៃនេះវាវឹកសម្បើមណាស់។
Ah Hun Chi Sen is working for his father Ho Chi Minh's country, Vietnam where he received his doctor degree from there. He and his clans killing poor Khmer people silently which many of us Khmers don't know.
We don't care who PM work for, as long we get jobs, jobs, jobs.
Because of you don't care who your Khvak PaPa is working for, that's why you get no jobs and no jobs and nothing.
Wrong, we get more jobs than anyone else can get.
"We don't care who PM work for, as long we get jobs, jobs, jobs."
10:22AM=Retarded
"We don't care who PM work for, as long we get jobs, jobs, jobs."
"Wrong, we get more jobs than anyone else can get."
10:22PM & 2:23 PM - same cumsucker person = same Retarded remarks always.
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