Official: Envoy's Rights Report WrongBy Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
20 March 2008
The government issued a strong denial of a UN human rights report Thursday, claiming its work in improving the rights situation had gone unmentioned.
Cambodia's human rights adviser, Om Yentieng, said in prepared remarks to the UN Human Rights Council that a report by UN special rights representative Yash Ghai did not accurately reflect the "real situation in Cambodia."
Ghai delivered a report and an address to the Rights Council in Geneva Thursday, saying Cambodia's slow progress in building the rule of law led to a lack of guarantees and security.
This led to the victimization of the poor and the increasing marginalization of disadvantaged communities, he said.
Om Yentieng, who is the chairman of Cambodia's Human Rights Committee, said Ghai's analysis of the government was "not acceptable."
Ghai had also been critical of donors, who he said continue to deliver aid despite widespread rights abuses.
Kaori Yoshimatsu, third secretary at the Japanese Embassy, said Thursday Japan contributed to human rights by providing aid in the building of civil law, procedures of law and the training of legal professionals.
French Embassy spokeswoman Fabiene Mansencale said Thursday France hoped Ghai and the government would "find a way of working together for the wider benefit of the people of Cambodia."
Cambodia's human rights adviser, Om Yentieng, said in prepared remarks to the UN Human Rights Council that a report by UN special rights representative Yash Ghai did not accurately reflect the "real situation in Cambodia."
Ghai delivered a report and an address to the Rights Council in Geneva Thursday, saying Cambodia's slow progress in building the rule of law led to a lack of guarantees and security.
This led to the victimization of the poor and the increasing marginalization of disadvantaged communities, he said.
Om Yentieng, who is the chairman of Cambodia's Human Rights Committee, said Ghai's analysis of the government was "not acceptable."
Ghai had also been critical of donors, who he said continue to deliver aid despite widespread rights abuses.
Kaori Yoshimatsu, third secretary at the Japanese Embassy, said Thursday Japan contributed to human rights by providing aid in the building of civil law, procedures of law and the training of legal professionals.
French Embassy spokeswoman Fabiene Mansencale said Thursday France hoped Ghai and the government would "find a way of working together for the wider benefit of the people of Cambodia."
6 comments:
Ah Pleur Om Yentieng!!You are the dog from Hun Xen!!!You are the dog of Youn Hanoi,you destroy the khmer nation.You are the tmil!!
We hate you so.
You can talk only what Ah Hun Xen want!!
Slow down with you,you are the second man that will be in tribunal when Ah Kvang Hun Xen has no more power!!
Cambodian peoples are not racist towards any other races especially Vietnamese. But repeatedly, the Cambodian violence and social turbulence including atrocity are just the by-products of foreigners who have attempted to control and influence Cambodia.
Currently, Cambodia is not yet a nation-state. The very weak structure of Hun Sen's administration is compared like tribalism or feudalism or merchantilism in the 18th century.
Under Hun Sen's leadership, Cambodia as a nation-state is easily fragile and easily manipulated by evil leaders especially the interference of foreigners.
If you are younger Cambodians, and want to see Cambodia has bright and advanced future, you have to help whatever: change leader, laws reform, or working tirelessly inside Hun Sen's current fragile government to restructure the strong Cambodian nation-state for the future. Those restructuring efforts mainly focus on the strengthening the rule of laws, independence of court, parliament, executive, contribution of fair access to national mass media, alleviate poverty through anti-corruption, cronyism, favoritism, nepotism or patronage etc.
Many other countries have fast developed to other modern style of government system such as neoliberal globalism and egalitarian capitalistic state etc to facilitate well being for their citizens. But Cambodia is still a tribalism leadership led by few so-called elites with the political behavior as a mafia community.
KY
Extremism does not serve your cause, on the contrary, the extremism harms the causes of your fight.
In Cambodia, we are not any more at war.
Wake you!
again, it is time for self re-examination or self-scruntiny to see why the UN say as they did about cambodia. because they still see cambodia is still very weak in its judicial reform and justice system is still weak. so i hope cambodia will listen to the wise and drill reform into its justice system.
Stupid arse hole @1:22AM,
Just because Khmer is living under the fake peace of the Viet's agression/colonialism does not mean that Khmer is free. Got that sob/Bitch (note capital B)?
You got it backward, 2:51, it's the UN that's badly needed a severe reform, perhaps an overhaul if you will.
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