By Phan Sophat
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
On Saturday, a government official declared that he is currently mulling the idea of shutting down the UN office in charge of Human Rigths in Cambodia, in the very near future, because it is no longer needed.
Khieu Kanharith, government spokesman and minister of Information, discussed about the reason for this closure plan: “In the past, we planned on shutting it down once already, however, based on the request made by Kofi Annan, during his meeting with Samdach Dek Cho Hun Sen, he asked for an extension (of this office). Now, we believe that this extension is enough, maybe the prime minister did not decide yet, but for me, I think that it is sufficient now.”
The declaration issued by Khieu Kanharith was made after the successive criticisms leveled by Hun Sen against Prof. Yash Ghia, the UN Special Envoy on Human Rights in Cambodia, because Prof. Ghai issued a report on his 10-day visit to Cambodia on 10 December 2007. In this report, Prof. Ghai openty criticized the leadership of the current Cambodian regime, saying that pitiful violations of human rights are being perpetrated on Cambodian people. He also criticized the fact the Cambodian people are living in fear of the justice system, in fear of the police and the local authority, in fear of seeing their lands being grabbed.
(In response to Prof. Ghai’s report), Hun Sen called him rude, and he also called those who support Prof. Ghai’s report as being cheap people.
Regarding Khieu Kanharith’s declaration on the closure of the UN Human Rights office in Cambodia, Ou Virak, President of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), said that if, indeed, the decision will be made to close this office, it would be a black mark for Cambodia.
Ou Virak said: “First, if we reach to a point of closing the (UN) Human Rights office, this means that we are following the same path as Burma. If we talk about rights to this closure, we can claim so, but we cannot talk about the hardship of Cambodian people. In some instances, a number of countries are using their own people as hostage, this means that if the population does follow their orders, they will oppress their own people, this is not right.”
The UN Human Rights office in Cambodia was set up after 1993, following the general election supervised by the UN, at the end of the UNTAC era.
This office is in charge of reviewing the protection and the reporting, etc…, of the human rights condition in Cambodia to the UN.
Khieu Kanharith, government spokesman and minister of Information, discussed about the reason for this closure plan: “In the past, we planned on shutting it down once already, however, based on the request made by Kofi Annan, during his meeting with Samdach Dek Cho Hun Sen, he asked for an extension (of this office). Now, we believe that this extension is enough, maybe the prime minister did not decide yet, but for me, I think that it is sufficient now.”
The declaration issued by Khieu Kanharith was made after the successive criticisms leveled by Hun Sen against Prof. Yash Ghia, the UN Special Envoy on Human Rights in Cambodia, because Prof. Ghai issued a report on his 10-day visit to Cambodia on 10 December 2007. In this report, Prof. Ghai openty criticized the leadership of the current Cambodian regime, saying that pitiful violations of human rights are being perpetrated on Cambodian people. He also criticized the fact the Cambodian people are living in fear of the justice system, in fear of the police and the local authority, in fear of seeing their lands being grabbed.
(In response to Prof. Ghai’s report), Hun Sen called him rude, and he also called those who support Prof. Ghai’s report as being cheap people.
Regarding Khieu Kanharith’s declaration on the closure of the UN Human Rights office in Cambodia, Ou Virak, President of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), said that if, indeed, the decision will be made to close this office, it would be a black mark for Cambodia.
Ou Virak said: “First, if we reach to a point of closing the (UN) Human Rights office, this means that we are following the same path as Burma. If we talk about rights to this closure, we can claim so, but we cannot talk about the hardship of Cambodian people. In some instances, a number of countries are using their own people as hostage, this means that if the population does follow their orders, they will oppress their own people, this is not right.”
The UN Human Rights office in Cambodia was set up after 1993, following the general election supervised by the UN, at the end of the UNTAC era.
This office is in charge of reviewing the protection and the reporting, etc…, of the human rights condition in Cambodia to the UN.
31 comments:
Knock, Knock! Who's there?
Yuon. No wonder, i did not hear my dog bark.
it is hard to blam hun sen of what happened because the leader is phisical blind and mentholy more blind, if your leader has blind eye is hun sen right or other blind people, they will have very effective ear to hear, but hun sen is menthol and phisical blind, cant see or hear.. stubborn like blind buffolo as old say.
Cambodia is leaded by a criminal and mental people. I wonder how Khmer people can stand with these criminal.
Potpot regime killed 2 millions Khmer people in a period of less than 3 years.
Hunsen regime in a long period of time will kill more Khmer people than Polpot. Since both Polpot and Hunsen came from the same master and same goal of killing Khmer people.
Will the World (UN) just be watching the Khmer people dying?
If not what are you waiting for?
Maybe it is too late again.
After the withdrawal of UN office, Cambodian people will live in panic. Now, authority just take land and farm, later on they will take home, then owners. Now robbery happens on streets, later will happen inside individual's house.
Cambodia is ruled by criminal elites with verbal order rather than adopted laws. How they claim to the world without shame about their development and rule of law?
Don't worry, this government only barks but will not bite. It is normal that government has to protect criticim on government, if PM does not talk then people will completely what the report said. Unfortunately, the report was come up from people in many places through out cambodia including indigenous people in rural areas.
Do what you must do, cause you will not be in power 4 much longer . A new goverment will change everything
If I were hun sen I would not just bark about shutting it down. Shut it down! I dare you!, you'll see what's going to happen. This is a threat. If I were you, I will not take this lightly. Just don't talk about it SHUT IT DOWN!!!. The outcome will be instability to your headquater.
If a ganster can kill the policemen, he will do it .
Otherwise the thaicong and vietcong will just have to kill all khmer leaders to take the Cambodia.
Hunsen is scared of youn vietcong but he is not scared to dye like Saddam Hunsen.
Knock ... knock! Who's there?!
FUCK YOU!
If you're shutting down the agency, might as well shut the US Embassy, too.
Warning: Intelligenct information gathering (FBI and CIA) already have all the poltical elites on their targets. You made the wrong move, the death will be on your side.
Shutting down the Untied Nations is like shutting down the Uncle SAM embassy! Ahahhahhah!
AH HUN SEN needs to learn anger management otherwise nobody will give a fuck about his sorry arse!
I don't think Hun Sen will the gut to do it. threatening to shut down the Human Rights Office in Cambodia is for internal consumption only. So long as he still relies on foreign donation money to run the country he will not dare doing so.
It will be another wrong move if he ever did it. He should also prepare to put his face in the sand. Is he trying to be another Samdame Hussein among the world community?
Cambodia cannot be compared to other nations in SEA about having UN's representative office in PP because those nations had no genocidal and treaty with the UN.
Cambodia has both genocidal and treaty with UN. The attitude of Hun Sen not to cooperate with UN or UN's represtative is his grave mistake, but to shut down the UN's office in PP is more grave than that.
KY
Who want to bit on this.Does hun sen decide to shut down HRO in PP or not?You are an absolutly a pagoda dog.You are not qualify to be a Cambodian PM.Your time is running out.
This is something I expected all along, this push toward closing the Human Rights offices. Vietnam and its puppet CPP are testing the reaction of the world community. They will make their next move soon enough. They might not have the gut to go ahead and do it right now, but it is definitely down the road sooner or later. This is dangerous for Cambodia and Cambodian people. It wil provide a faster super highway for Vietnam to legally implement its total annexation of Cambodia.
Sadly, the US Embassy is not doing its job. Uncle Sam needs to do more to prevent Cambodia from sliding back into another dark period in Cambodian history.
Khmer young:
You need to disable your monitoring device. If you don't, we'll take out your system via your broadcasting IP. Furthermore, you should not act as if you're a G-man (FBI).
Yeah, I think that Hunsen will do that because it is the only way for the vietcong and Hunsen, as a vietcong slave, to achieve their goal to annexe Cambodia.
We have to know that the vietcong need more lands because their population will be around 100 Millions and they will lose lands to China.
UN OFFICE WILL BE NOT SHUT DOWN. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, UNLESS WE CHANGE OUR REGIME. WHO KNOW?
DON'T FORGET UN IS USA. SO THINK TWICE ABOUT POLITICAL GAME? NOT JUST USE YOUR EAR AND REACT.
The Vietcong are gaining more economic right over Cambodia as we speak and the superhighways and rail roads supported by the Vietcong government are designed to move more Cambodian natural resources across the border to fuel the Vietcong factories and to employ the Vietcong population!
What Cambodian people get in return is the Vietcong oppression of Cambodian population at the hand of AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave government! And Cambodia will be bankrupted and the Cambodian people will be enslaved to work for $1 a day!
How is it possible that the more Cambodia has economic expansion and dirt poor Cambodian people continue to face more corruption, more oppression, more anti-human right and more violent committed against them?
Cambodia needs a new kind of economic system and a new kind of economic monitoring system to track the whole Cambodian economy!
Hunsen is nothing without the vietcong that is why he is their slave.
Why will he work for Cambodia ?
He prefer being a traitor of the nation.
As he was born as a poor and a KR soldier, even if he had a work, he could not earn more than 1$ a day.
So he can destroy Cambodia and kill Khmer people for his masters.
Ah Kan Rith Khiev is talking LOP LOp on RFA. No one can understand his stupid barking shit. Please don't go near this animal because he has very stinky mouth.
UN STOP PLAYING GAME WITH OUR HEAD! GET OUT OD CAMBODIA! BEFORE OUR GREAT PM KICK YOUR OUT!
SHAME ON YOU! UN ! YOU ARE NOT WELCOME!
If UN want to save us. Why don't they save during genocide regime?
What is the role of UN in Iraq??? Nothing!
UN should sanction USA for invading Iraq, including other allies.
Because of UN and the world community that you are where you are today. Without them your country is back to the stone age.
To 11:20 p.m. United States was trying to save Cambodia from falling into Communist hand in 1970's but the Cambodian government under Lon Noll was so currupted plus with Sihanouk on Communist side, with unlimited resources in the form of loan from China and that make the war unberable. I don't blame the United States from giving up on Lon Nol since we, at the time received support from them but we did nothing to help ourselves. You asked why the U.N. did not help us when the Khmer Rouge rule the country. Which country in the world is willing to help us while we don't try to help ourselves.
11:55PM where we are today is worst that than the stone age, fool!
Beter to be a free man than a slave. UN make us lose our hope and made our resitance to put off our weapon and be killed alot in 1997!
We not thank the stupid head that never complet their promise!
Only you son of a bitch Vietnamese and gansters that enjoy the action of the stupid lier UN!
1:14AM! American needd our help in 1970 to fight the Vietcong( the American congres acept that.)
The Lon Nol goverment were corrupted but understandable, because it start as a war goverment there was no time to controle and organized, supplied with uncontroled support from the US!
American can over rule Lon Nol and did something to help Cambodian, But the policy on that time is pure politic even if Lonol was verry good, Aamerican can not stay because it had to pull out from South-Vietname and laos too, to win over China from Soviet!
Cambodian was sacrifid ( some of the US congresman said so in the 80's)
Yes WE may be not that of help to ourself cause of our best was killed in the erly 70 to defend our country and the fight against the Communist!
But let talk about after the killing field when the whole f.... world know that we Cambodian are down to out face! Duringr the Vietnamese invasion some of us tried to get on our knees crawling to the jungle and start our resitance ther! Not much but hope we got!
The UN and World community come along feel sorry about us and tried to do something to help us! It come the unbelievable plan of Paris Agreement!
What Paris agreement is doing to us know no hope of free our country but legal Slave to the fucking Youn Vietnamese!
Do Paris agreement should give the peower to the people or to the fucking excommunist politicians?
Reform the Army and the police, trace our frontier as the agreement and let siple people have chance to compette with Hun sen CPP or Norodum Funcinpec!
They ( the politician ) is not represent Cambodia like the communist think! GIve us a real chance and you can blame us after that!
2 billions spending and all the receptions for signing of the agreement and you still want us to be killed (in thousands )on the street?
Yes we will do when the time come when we have chance to fight!( not 0% like this!)
Go to hell with unfinish Paris Agreement! may the same faith fall on you and your children someday because of you lie to us and to yourselves!
Cambodian's gov speak out for youn hanoi,because almost time to cook tea ONG again,this time hun sen ,kanharith and some others will be the three stove head.
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