Monday, February 09, 2009

Without corruption law, no court can be called corrupt

Monday, 09 February 2009
By Naranhkiri Tith
Letter to The Phnom Penh Post


Dear Editor,

In a recent article in your newspaper, titled "Corruption probe to continue, but joint sessions inconclusive", in the February 4 edition of The Phnom Penh Post, the question of corruption in the ECCC was raised by the international community.

How can anybody be accused of corruption when there is no corruption law in Cambodia? Also, it is well known that the Cambodian judicial system is completely politicised and controlled by Hun Sen and his Cambodian People's Party.

So, how can the international community talk about corruption without looking into the Cambodian judicial and legal systems, which are totally politicised and controlled by Hun Sen. For this writer, this accusation of corruption in the ECCC is at least puzzling, if not totally illogical.

More precisely, how could anybody be accused of corruption when there is no anti-corruption law in Cambodia?

Naranhkiri Tith
Washington, DC

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you need anti-corruption law in order to called someone corrupted, you have gone looney beyond repair, Ah Naranhkiri Tith (George Washington's potato digger).

Anonymous said...

and you CPP leech @11:29 PM should eat shit and die!

Anonymous said...

And yes that is precisely why the CPP leech continues to being the infamous leech in the world.

Thank you Dr. Tith, we love to hear more from you. And please wrote more and write often.

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Anonymous said...

write more*

Anonymous said...

of course, this is co-incidental. that's why having anti-corruption law and penal code is essential to curb or discourage rampant corrupt, especially in gov't and people with authority and responsibility in servicing the public.

Anonymous said...

Bullshit, the US got plenty of anti-corruption laws, and it didn't curb shit. If anything, it made it worse. Just look at the financial hell they are in now. So far they have allocated about 2 trillion USD to fix it, but it seem to do shit.

Please don't listen to Ah potato diggers. They only trying to deceive you. What a sore losers?

Anonymous said...

you can have any law in cambodia, but the fact remains that the cpp people are from the eastern jungle don't respect the law and and some can't read and write, how can you implement law in the first place ?

Anonymous said...

And 3:21 AM can go ahead, be the freaking Viet slave by yourself, see if any Khmer cares!!!

Go eat shot and die you freaking Viet Slave CPP leech!

Anonymous said...

And 3:21 AM can go ahead, be the freaking Viet slave by yourself, see if any Khmer cares!!!

Go eat shot and die you freaking Viet Slave CPP leech!

Anonymous said...

We must be more common sense that people cannot live with half-hungry. To combat with corruption, Cambodian government needs to pay all public servants with a liveable level of salary and wage. We cannot blame the low income public servant as a corrupted person at all. We have to blame Hun Sen and his government for systematically to destroy Cambodia by imposing to pay public servants with slavery salary. People must stand up to kick Hun Sen and his gangs out from Cambodia for his incompetent government. Areak Prey

Anonymous said...

Wrong, if you are born from a poor parent, you are not going to get pay as much as you were born from a rich parent. And if you are desperate for money and you got caught robbing bank, people, or dealing drug, you are the only one to blame, not your parent.

Anonymous said...

areak srok

but the problem is the people who are the most corrupt are the people who are already dirty rich like sok an, hun sen, cahm prashit. what else do they want ? corruption at the lower level is not hard to contain.

Anonymous said...

systematic Coruption!!!!!! Do ma ah Youn Kwack!!!!!

Anonymous said...

What are you talking about, 4:16? Corruption at the top doesn't cost much, maybe 10-20 millions top, but corruption at the bottom is about 5 times that amount.