Original report from Washington
23 October 2008
On the anniversary of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords, which brought an end to decades of civil strife in Cambodia, a US group said it regretted the government had not worked to fulfill the promises of the peace agreement.
Nineteen countries, including Cambodia, Britain, France, Laos, Thailand, the US and Vietnam, signed the Peace Accords Oct. 23, 1991, putting an end to hostilities between warring factions and paving the way for a constitution and elections.
The anniversary of the accords ceased being a Cambodian public holiday in 2004.
Cambodia has ignored the tenets of the accords, including the respect of human rights and principles of democracy, said Yap Kim Tung, president of Cambodian Americans for Human Rights and Democracy.
Yap Kim Tung said the three branches of government, legislative, executive and judicial, are controlled by a single individual, while the freedoms of expression and press are sensitive points for the ruling government.
The government has failed to stanch pervasive land grabs nationwide, driving farmers into deeper poverty, often at the hands of high-ranking officials, he said.
Yap Kim Tung also said the endorsement in 2005 of a Cambodian-Vietnamese treaty from 1985 was contrary to the spirit of the 1991 accords.
Ir Channa, general secretary of the Cambodia Watchdog Council, based in Norway, told VOA Khmer the 2005 endorsement cost the loss of thousands of hectares of Cambodian land, and 30,000 square kilometers of maritime territory.
The treaty should be annulled, according to the principles of the 1991 accords, he said.
Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said the government was implementing full respect for human rights and democracy, and had strived to have a multi-party democracy with the inclusion of civil society.
Meanwhile, the government was working diplomatically to solve disputed border issues with neighboring countries, he said.
However, critics say it was the failure of the government to solve border issues which has led to a military build-up with Thailand on the northern border, which last week devolved into a series of gun battles, killing at least one Thai and three Cambodian soldiers.
Nineteen countries, including Cambodia, Britain, France, Laos, Thailand, the US and Vietnam, signed the Peace Accords Oct. 23, 1991, putting an end to hostilities between warring factions and paving the way for a constitution and elections.
The anniversary of the accords ceased being a Cambodian public holiday in 2004.
Cambodia has ignored the tenets of the accords, including the respect of human rights and principles of democracy, said Yap Kim Tung, president of Cambodian Americans for Human Rights and Democracy.
Yap Kim Tung said the three branches of government, legislative, executive and judicial, are controlled by a single individual, while the freedoms of expression and press are sensitive points for the ruling government.
The government has failed to stanch pervasive land grabs nationwide, driving farmers into deeper poverty, often at the hands of high-ranking officials, he said.
Yap Kim Tung also said the endorsement in 2005 of a Cambodian-Vietnamese treaty from 1985 was contrary to the spirit of the 1991 accords.
Ir Channa, general secretary of the Cambodia Watchdog Council, based in Norway, told VOA Khmer the 2005 endorsement cost the loss of thousands of hectares of Cambodian land, and 30,000 square kilometers of maritime territory.
The treaty should be annulled, according to the principles of the 1991 accords, he said.
Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said the government was implementing full respect for human rights and democracy, and had strived to have a multi-party democracy with the inclusion of civil society.
Meanwhile, the government was working diplomatically to solve disputed border issues with neighboring countries, he said.
However, critics say it was the failure of the government to solve border issues which has led to a military build-up with Thailand on the northern border, which last week devolved into a series of gun battles, killing at least one Thai and three Cambodian soldiers.
4 comments:
Phay Siphan, You are the biggest liars.
You are no difference from animal.
The out side world knew every thing in side Cambodia
Cambodian government afraid to use the peace accord of 1991 because of the vietnamese dictatorship over cambodia. Because land of is being taken by not the thai, but also the vietnam neighbor that the world refused to acknowledge.
This world is full of hipocrisy.
Big world war is just unavoidable cause of this unjustice system.
The man with the money, and the gun rule. It is still that way today although it is the 21 century.
From dissecting the response from Phay Siphan, it appears he's doing routine job in order to keep his job. His response is not his actual understanding based on the facts...his response is what the government wanted him to say for the public. We don't need to kill the messenger. He is an ordinary person...just to have a descent meal for his family.
The real question is... how long can a person with a decent knowledge last by knowing what he said is total the opposite. In other words, how long can he continues to LIE for the sake to keep his position. Phay Siphan is a man with no principle, integrity, dignity, conscience and no pride in himself as an educated person was once resided in the U.S.
To 7:05 AM and all Khmers,
I agree with your view, the 3rd world war is unavoidable, as we saw a lot of conflicts had occured troughout the world.
It's very near now, may be 2012,
December the 21st, when all seven planets on our solar system will be aligned in a strait line.At the same time the solar magnetic rays will shoot on our planet earth, and will tourment people mind and affect all living beings when a natural force will change the earth's rotation angle.
And this coming event will be the END of our Cambodia, as a country vs a Nation and Race.
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