About 20 military and police blocked the public road in front of the National Assembly and barred reporters and others from watching the parliamentary vote.Monday, 22 June 2009
Reuters
Prime Minister Hun Sen warned foreign diplomats not to meddle in Cambodian politics on Monday after envoys were barred from a parliamentary session that voted to remove the legal immunity of two opposition lawmakers.
Mu Sochua of the main opposition Sam Rainsy party now faces a charge of defaming the government and risks a hefty fine. Another lawmaker, Ho Vann, is accused of spreading false information and risks a three-year jail sentence if found guilty.
"Foreigners, do not interfere in Cambodian laws. We choose the way of the court to solve problems because we want to avoid violence," Hun Sen said in a speech aired on national radio.
Turning to the lawmakers, he added: "Although you are MPs, when you act wrongly, you will be punished by the court".
About 20 military and police blocked the public road in front of the National Assembly and barred reporters and others from watching the parliamentary vote.
"There has been no reason given why today this is not a public session," German Ambassador Frank Mann told reporters outside the gate to parliament, where he stood with diplomats from the United States, Britain and France.
Critics and human rights activists have accused the government of using the courts to muzzle the opposition.
Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla, has dominated Cambodia for more than two decades.
His party won a landslide victory in the last general election in July 2008 and although European Union observers found some irregularities in the polling, they said these were not enough to alter the result.
10 comments:
I call for "Burgundy Revolution" in Cambodia NOW! We must stand up and protest the dictator Hun Xen +(Vietcongs in Cambodia) as the Iranians' "Green Revolution" against the dictators: Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei.
Freedom and Democracy must Prevail in the 21st Century!!!
Khmer Angkor.
Hun Sen. The parliamentary members must vote to lift his immunity, not Mu Sochua. even if the kid sees it unfair that those old men in khmer national assembly as a pupet and uneducated officials to work in parliament. They are not fit to call His excellency. They are bastard from Khmer rouge blood. People from all walk of life must stand up and get rid off this regime and its stupid king from Cambodia.
Everybody already knew that Ah Hun Khvack is former KR, so this animal is still animal. So all Khmers wake up and do something like Iran.
Hun Sen will be done when Thai invade Cambodia. I heard that Abhisit will finish HUN SEN.
The one eyed bandit true to his nature: a one eyed hyena feeding off dead cambodians.
1.7 millions killed without any riots what did it tell you. Khmers are dead. The people who run the country are gosts. Watch the movie "City of Gosts". Gosts can't fight.
Gosts just sucked people blood just like Wampire like western story.
Cambodian court ain't no court. Those two people from SRP will be found guilty anyway even if they do nothing wrong. Hun Sen government owns the court.
Show them the laws Mr. PM! Kick the fool foreigner out of the country if the dare not obeying you!
What now SRP who can you cry for help?
Cambodia will be one and strong under the leadership of Mr. Hun Sen!
"Kick the fool foreigner out of the country if the dare not obeying you!"
Yeah sure - only how will the beggar nation of Cambodia survive without foreigners to pay for the development that Cambodians are too lazy and stupid to work on themselves?
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