Hun Sen's regime?Dec 10, 2007
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP)--A visiting U.N. envoy was shunned by Cambodia's government Monday after he accused the country's courts and administrators of failing to uphold human rights and justice.
Yash Ghai, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative for human rights in Cambodia, said many Cambodians live in constant fear of being swindled and mistreated by authorities.
"Fear of the state, fear of political and economic saboteurs, fear of greedy individuals and corporations, fear of the police and the courts describes the plight of numerous communities and families in Cambodia," said Ghai, who was winding up a 10-day fact-finding mission in which he toured several areas of the country.
He spoke at an event marking International Human Rights Day.
Ghai's past criticisms have angered the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, which has dismissed them as untrue.
"Yash Ghai is a long-term tourist to Cambodia. He speaks as he is paid (by the U.N.) to speak and he has no competence to solve human rights problems in Cambodia," said police Lt. Gen. Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, which also oversees the police force.
Because of Ghai's criticism, government officials won't meet him, Khieu Sopheak said. He said the government always respects human rights and promotes justice.
Ghai said he regretted not being able to meet any government officials despite his earlier request to see several, including Hun Sen.
He said he had met victims of land disputes and housing evictions who "have little faith" in the courts to address their problems.
Ghai, a persistent critic of the human rights situation in Cambodia, said many poor villagers have been evicted from their land by commercial developers and have no means of protecting themselves and their livelihood.
In a report Monday, Licadho, a prominent private human rights group, accused the Cambodian court system of failing to uphold justice, despite millions of dollars provided by foreign aid donors over the past 15 years for reforms.
It said the courts continue to be used to persecute the government's critics and political opponents and protect the economic interests of the rich and powerful, while allowing parties acting on behalf of the state to commit abuses without fear of punishment.
In the past 15 years, "there has been no progress whatsoever in the single most important issue affecting the courts, (which is the) lack of independence from political and financial influence," it said.
"While reform of the courts is undoubtedly in the best interests of the Cambodian people, it is not seen by the Cambodian government as being in its best interests," the report said.
Yash Ghai, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative for human rights in Cambodia, said many Cambodians live in constant fear of being swindled and mistreated by authorities.
"Fear of the state, fear of political and economic saboteurs, fear of greedy individuals and corporations, fear of the police and the courts describes the plight of numerous communities and families in Cambodia," said Ghai, who was winding up a 10-day fact-finding mission in which he toured several areas of the country.
He spoke at an event marking International Human Rights Day.
Ghai's past criticisms have angered the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, which has dismissed them as untrue.
"Yash Ghai is a long-term tourist to Cambodia. He speaks as he is paid (by the U.N.) to speak and he has no competence to solve human rights problems in Cambodia," said police Lt. Gen. Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, which also oversees the police force.
Because of Ghai's criticism, government officials won't meet him, Khieu Sopheak said. He said the government always respects human rights and promotes justice.
Ghai said he regretted not being able to meet any government officials despite his earlier request to see several, including Hun Sen.
He said he had met victims of land disputes and housing evictions who "have little faith" in the courts to address their problems.
Ghai, a persistent critic of the human rights situation in Cambodia, said many poor villagers have been evicted from their land by commercial developers and have no means of protecting themselves and their livelihood.
In a report Monday, Licadho, a prominent private human rights group, accused the Cambodian court system of failing to uphold justice, despite millions of dollars provided by foreign aid donors over the past 15 years for reforms.
It said the courts continue to be used to persecute the government's critics and political opponents and protect the economic interests of the rich and powerful, while allowing parties acting on behalf of the state to commit abuses without fear of punishment.
In the past 15 years, "there has been no progress whatsoever in the single most important issue affecting the courts, (which is the) lack of independence from political and financial influence," it said.
"While reform of the courts is undoubtedly in the best interests of the Cambodian people, it is not seen by the Cambodian government as being in its best interests," the report said.
15 comments:
"long term tourist has no competence to resolve human rights violations in cambodia." it is absolutely right this statement because the human rights violators are the permanent perpetrators in Cambodia. How can a long term tourist solve this deep rooted problem?
Well, when you have no jobs, you have no money to buy land, and we ain't going to allowed anyone to grab the State's land because of that.
There are many people in the US who is homeless also because they don't have job, and the US didn't give them no land either.
12:57AM
Your government and your parent grab lands from the poor and sell or lease it to the Vietnamese and powerful business people. Even sell and lease the state lands to those people. Why you said your CPP not allowed anyone to grab the state's land. You're very dumb and very stupid mind.
In the US the government does not grab their citizen's land or sell any state's land illigally. If they do, they will be in jail, not Cambodia CPP. The US has welfare system to provide to the poor, even you and your family comes to the US illigally. The US will pay for your medical bill, but not your CPP.
Mr. Yash Ghai is doing the right thing for Cambodia and her citizen, but Hun Sen don't listen. Until the UN forced him from power and put him in the UN tribunal. At that time he will listen to the world. He think he is untouchable, but history repeats all the time. When the uneducated person is in power, he is very blind.
We wish to hang him in the near future.
Wrong, 2:38, we don't grab land from anyone. On the contrary, we are trying to keep Ah Khmer-Yuon illegal immigrant from stealing State's land that is needed to develop our country.
And no, we do not sell any land to any foreigner, at least not at this point. We just leased to them for development, and that is it.
As for the US, they had sold land to many foreigners that included Japanese, Philippine, ..., and what have you.
As for welfare, how can we provide such a thing when we are a welfare recipient ourself. Where on earth, to you know a welfare recipient offer welfare program to anyone?
And no, Ah Chkout (Ghai) is just barking nonsense. He can't even help his own country (Kenya) out of poverty, how is he expected to help others? You must be out of your mind to listen to such a lowlife loser.
STUPID 3"27 aM YOU BAKE LIKE DOG NOW, YES AMERICAN MEDICAID HELP ANY ONE IN THE STATE AND ALSO FOODSTAMP! FOOL!
AND MR. GHAI IS NOT TO HELP PEOPLE RICH BUT TO BE HELP PEOPLE GET THEIR RIGHT!
YOUR FATHER IS COMMUNIST AND YOU ARE PRICK ( SON OF AH HUN XEN )
Well, that still sounds a lot better than not having land and be Yuon slave forever like Ah Khmer-Yuon losers in Vietnam.
Ah 4:45 Booooo! Go take cover inside your youn sompeng mama's tapoke. Hahaha. Why are you so afraid of ah YOUNs if your mama is already mee YOUN sompeng, ah le ker. Hahah. Before you die, make sure you give a written note to a coroner to cut your face flesh from your face skull so that your brain can be pulled out to be studied. Hahha. Just shut the f*ck up, Kone Mee srey sompeng YOUN. Stop living in fear of ah YOUNs, ah truv krop. Hahha.
5:00, you got everything backward. I am not the one who is begging and complaining to the UN about lost land, oppression and abuses by the Viecong.
Hun Sen thinks himself who is reincarnated from Sedech Korn...but he forgot that his head would chop off at the end of his live.
His head will display at the wall of Khmer-History.
A ugliest traitor of Khmer Nation.
Fear is necessary in a despotic government
“9. Of the Principle of Despotic Government. As virtue is necessary in a republic, and in a monarchy honour, so fear is necessary in a despotic government: with regard to virtue, there is no occasion for it, and honour would be extremely dangerous.
Here the immense power of the prince devolves entirely upon those whom he is pleased to entrust with the administration. Persons capable of setting a value upon themselves would be likely to create disturbances. Fear must therefore depress their spirits, and extinguish even the least sense of ambition.”
From Book III.
Of the Principles of the Three Kinds of Government in
Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu , De l' Esprit des Lois (The Spirit of Laws)
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
Dr. Lao, which country controls criminals with sweet and charming?
The US is currently using bombs and ammunitions in Iraq. I don't think diplomacy will worked for them.
I say let this imbecile Viet troller bitch that pretends to be Khmer speaking for Khmer @12:57 AM, @3:27AM, @4:45 AM, @5:26 AM, and 8:29 AM run out of air and drop dead miserably because no Khmer in the right mind would never ever derogatorily call Khmer names "Ah Khmer-Yuon" throughout KI-Media and no Khmer in the right mind would never ever be swayed or influenced by this Viet troller bitch nonsensical, trash talking and writing.
[khmer unicode]មីសំផឹង យួនឯងនឹង ពូជអាយួន ឈ្លានពាន នឹងត្រូវខ្មែរ ស្នេហាជាតិ សំឡាប់អោយផុតពូជមិនខាន៕
Fuck You and Go To Hell Ah Khmer Lop Lop who supported Ah Khvack Hun Sen who know nothing but $$$$$$$.
We, $$$$$ is what we needed right now.
Your uncle Ho "DONG" much sweeter than $$$$.
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