On November 30, 2007, opposition leader Sam Rainsy left a plenary session of the National Assembly to go support some 2,000 workers on strike at Fortune Garment & Wollen Knitting Factory, in Roka Khpous commune, Sa'ang district, Kandal province.
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Cambodian party to submit draft law limiting PM to one term
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The leader of Cambodia's Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) has said that his party would submit a draft law to the National Assembly calling for a term limit of just one mandate for the position of prime minister, local press reported Monday.
The SRP has officially decided that the one-term limit for a prime minister will be incorporated into the party's internal regulations, Sam Rainsy was quoted by the Cambodia Daily newspaper as saying.
A meeting of the SRP permanent committee will be called this week to finalize the decision, he added.
"We want to give opportunities for our well-educated younger generations. When only one person consolidates all the power, it means that person insults or looks down on other educated people," Sam Rainsy said. "One term should be enough for the prime minister."
Cambodian Information Minister and government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said that the SRP's idea is not supported by the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP).
The current process for selecting the prime minister is a democratic one, he said, adding that frequent changes in the premiership could lead to instability.
"Changing the leader would be a problem," he was quoted as saying.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Sam Rainsy Firmly Opposed to Cambodia-Vietnam Border Marker Planting
Sam Rainsy, opposition party Leader (Photo: RFA)
03 Oct 06
By Sar Botum Moneakseka Khmer
Translated from Khmer
After returning to Cambodia yesterday morning, opposition leader Sam Rainsy called the installation of the border markers conducted according to the bilateral Cambodian-Vietnamese border agreement at the end of last month an act that ran counter to the national interests.
Sam Rainsy said, "I still do not think it is a good act conforming to our national interests, because there is no guarantee that the territorial integrity of our country has been properly protected."
Also yesterday, in describing his trip abroad to reporters, Sam Rainsy said he went to a number of European countries to visit his party members and also to open a few offices there. At the same time, Sam Rainsy disclosed that he met with his publisher and talked about publishing a book on his biography and his views on the situation in Cambodia.
Nevertheless, regarding the installation of the border markers, Sam Rainsy said, "I want to know and to hear about it because, anyway, it concerns our country."
It should be noted that based on the supplementary convention to the controversial 1985 state border treaty, Cambodia and Vietnam started planting their first border markers in Cambodia at the Bavet international gate of Svay Rieng province and in Vietnam at the Mok Bai pass of Tay Ninh province on Wednesday 27 September.
The inauguration ceremony attended by Hun Sen and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung proceeded in an extremely unpleasant and doleful atmosphere. Besides a handful of laughing and cheering Cambodian People's Party [CPP] and Vietnamese leaders, there was no participation as witnesses from the representatives of any other Cambodian political parties, civil society officials, or diplomatic envoys.
Nguyen Tan Dung, in his jovial speech, said that he has long waited for this opportunity in order to put an end to disputes and suspicions along the border of the two countries.
According to Va Kim Hong's hand-written report, the border markers will be planted all along the 1,270-km Cambodian-Vietnamese land border. Of a total of 353 border markers to be planted, some are made entirely of granite and others a mixture of granite debris and special cement.
The process of border marker installation will be checked against the maps the two countries have re-copied, which are the 1/1,000,000 SZI map attached to the 1985 state border treaty and the 1/50,000 UTM map also attached to the same 1985 treaty.
The border marker installation started after the National Assembly members from the CPP and the FUNCINPEC [National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia] Party raised their hands to approve the convention supplemental to the 1985 state border treaty in October 2005.
A number of Cambodian political personalities as well as civil society representatives said that the start of the Cambodian-Vietnamese border marker installation would seriously harm Cambodia's national interests. They noted that the Cambodian maps of the 1960s and 70s were fully recognized as having all the right characteristics by many countries as well as the United Nations, including the leaders of North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
The current process of installing the border makers between Cambodia and Vietnam, however, is conducted on the basis of the newly modified maps attached to the 1985 treaty that is full of irregularities.
Concerning this border marker installation, Kong Korm, vice president of the Sam Rainsy Party [SRP], pointed out that it would make Cambodia lose its sovereignty, integrity, and independence, because in 1985 Cambodia was controlled by Vietnam.
As for Yim Sovann, SRP parliamentarian for the Phnom Penh constituency and chairman of the National Assembly's 4th Commission, he described the start of the border marker installation as a demise of Cambodia's right to reclaim the territory it recently lost to Vietnamese encroachments.
Nevertheless, this SRP parliamentarian saved the Cambodian people from losing all hope by assuring them that if the SRP wins the elections, the SRP will review all treaties deemed detrimental to Cambodia's interests.
At the same time, Cambodians throughout the country, especially those living along the Cambodian-Vietnamese border, called the day Hun Sen and Vietnamese PM Nguyen Tan Dung joyfully celebrated the start of the border marker installation a day of mourning for the Cambodian people, a day the Cambodian people knew that many additional square kilometers of their territory were snipped away from the map of Cambodia.
Wow, it looks like people are having lot of fun in the video. I just hope they are ready to weep sometime afterward when the company pack up and move to Vietnam. Just watch when the time come.
What is a bunch of sick monkeys?
This strike is clearly illegal. The company is allowed to restructure in anyway as they pleased so that they can maintained the business here. If the worker don't like it, they can just quit. They are not the one who run the business here, and they have no right to effect the future of other people. What type of company would want to invest in such a jungle?
USA president Harry Truman once said something like: "I'll make a decision and if it is wrong, I'll make another one."
Guys, Cambodian need to have leader that make decisions and Hun Sen or Sam Rainsy did. This proves to me that they are as good as USA president.
Cambodian is not different from any country in the world. Democracy or Freedom never comes free. There are costs associate with it. Either it is in term of lives or money. Pol Pot drastically did the immeasurable damaged to our and we did not need this type. Many of the Cambodian government members are there. But what did they do? It is a string of questions that no one can answer for them. Get on the system or get off.
Hun Sen can shall clean up the corruption he has enough team and power to do or he will be cleaned. It is Hun Sen’s choice.
I would like to see changes but not like Pol Pot. A reasonable change that maintains Cambodia national, independent and territorial integrity is possible. We just need to learn from our mistake.
Hey! Cambodian workers should have some kind of dignity and not be treated like animal for one dollars a day!
Nobody is stopping those so called Companies from moving to Vietname! I just wish the Companies would move much sooner because they are taking space from legit businesses!
It seems the Viet people want to be treated like animal and the Viet have those Companies from Cambodia as their pride and joy! Ahhahahah
Such a bad economic model which force dirt people to work for nothing! Any Company that is in business to steal food from dirt poor people has got to go! Please just go and don't come back!
Stop dreaming, 12:25. They wasn't strike because of being treated badly. They strike to deter businesses from coming to Cambodia. That is what Ah Xam Frainsy and his pact had been doing since day1.
This type of strike is unlawful in most part of the world.
I ain't dreaming shit! There is no law in Cambodia that prevents dirt poor Cambodian workers from going on strike demanding fair treatment as human being!
Those workers in most part of the world like you said are slave workers or animals and they have no right!
Just shut the fuck up!
Wrong, you can't strike because the company is restructuring. No one is being treated badly here.
Secondly, before you strike, you need to inform the local official, but those people don't have the gut to do so because they know fair well that the strike is unlawful.
To 1:19AM!
What? What did you say? The company is restructuring by firing workers? Ahhahahhahhahhahhah!
Whatever!
Yes, many company on the planet does that to open up profit margin. This is nothing new. I don't like it, but that's how life is now days.
people are demanding their fair treatments.
if the worker don't, who would react for them. The railroad workers in Germany or in France, they were on trike until an agreement met. The writers of Hollywood were on strike. it ended a few weeks ago.
Cambodia is supposed to be a democratic state. Peaceful demonstration is protected by the constitution. NO need to request or inform anyone.
I am pleased to see Cambodian workers are strong and stand up to fight for their fairness.
Not quite, the problem is you can't always tell that a demonstration will be peaceful, and we can't afford to have as disaster if we can stop it. Therefore, you required permission.
But more importantly, what specifically are they demanding?
Hey SAM RAINSY,you're better turn your ship around and GO to AMERICA'S-because, if you wanted CAMBODIA'S-to get strong and better.the French-suck!they were suck before and they will be suck!again."ANANIKUM AMERICA RULES!"
Nope, nothing is above the constitution, the laws of the land.
keep striking...and all job will go to yuon....and u..and u...have no job.....get a job better than nothing....
whatever!
That's what I thought. These people are just troublemakers. They don't even know what they are demanding, hahaha, LOL, hahaha ... Who are you trying to fools. You don't deserved to work. Better off if we let Yuons have the jobs.
if you want to know what they demanding, be a human being like them. You will feel their pain.
it is better for that company to be in srok youn where they can drive youn workers like slaves and no one dare to tlak back. Youn is a communist state.
Well, I want to be treated like King. but that aint gonna happened, alright?
So tell me specifically what are they striking for and stop running around the bushes, will ya?
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