By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
30 July 2009
Cambodia’s British Embassy sent a letter to the Financial Times Wednesday, criticizing the daily paper’s reporting earlier this week on a government crackdown on dissenters.
In an article headlined “Cambodia Cracks Down on Dissenters,” the London paper reported on an opposition newspaper’s closing, following the threat of a government lawsuit, as well as defamation cases against two opposition lawmakers.
“I think the internal affairs of a sovereign country cannot cause concern to other countries in the region,” British Ambassador Hor Nambora wrote the editors.
Regarding a legal suit brought by Prime Minister Hun Sen against opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua, Hor Nambora said the prime minister was within his legal right to “defend and protect his reputation.”
Koy Kuong, a spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Wednesday he considered the publication of the Financial Times story an attack on “the honor of Cambodia.”
However, Yim Sovann, Sam Rainsy Party spokesman, said Wednesday the letter and statements were more evidence the ruling party Cambodian People’s Party never admitted its faults.
“I call on the government to recognize the truth and improve the situation of the country, to avoid the condemnation of international and Cambodian people,” he said.
In an article headlined “Cambodia Cracks Down on Dissenters,” the London paper reported on an opposition newspaper’s closing, following the threat of a government lawsuit, as well as defamation cases against two opposition lawmakers.
“I think the internal affairs of a sovereign country cannot cause concern to other countries in the region,” British Ambassador Hor Nambora wrote the editors.
Regarding a legal suit brought by Prime Minister Hun Sen against opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua, Hor Nambora said the prime minister was within his legal right to “defend and protect his reputation.”
Koy Kuong, a spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Wednesday he considered the publication of the Financial Times story an attack on “the honor of Cambodia.”
However, Yim Sovann, Sam Rainsy Party spokesman, said Wednesday the letter and statements were more evidence the ruling party Cambodian People’s Party never admitted its faults.
“I call on the government to recognize the truth and improve the situation of the country, to avoid the condemnation of international and Cambodian people,” he said.
37 comments:
Did you hear that?baby hor said." the prime minister was within his legal right to defend his reputation". WTF,in fact it was the PM himself who insulted the woman in public and then turn around and accused the woman of defaming him .Who the fuck give this retard individual a job as ambassador.It's ashamed.
Damn what kind the dumbo jumbo leaders in Cambodia shame shame you are ashamed of your self to the public and the whole world.
What is sovereignty Nambora means when the people in this country is exploited by their leader?
Once every one have known this guy and his father were the butcher from Beung Trabek khmer rouge jail, and his father refused all the involvement ,and got free from the French Court's verdict.
I have some questions,any intelligences can give some advises to clarify my complicate Cambodia's ill? Does the khmer rouge investigators have the authority to ask Duch the S21 leader,a bout Ho 5 Hong involed with the leader jobs in khmer rouge.
Father Ho and baby boy Ho I guest they won't come clean.
A CHKè FAMILY HOR IS A TREATER
HOR NAM BORA PEDO....
HOR NAM HONG EX KHMER ROUGE
THEY ARE HUN SEN'S DOG
Our PM is within legal rights to defend and protect his reputation.
Get out of that shell!What about other people rights. These KR will never know about human rights of cambodians. It is rather sad that even the young ambassador of cambodia for England does not recognise other human rights and previledges but themselve.
This biased mentality has led cambodia to have abused own people for generations.
Unbelievable that denial of acknowledgement of human rights that Hor Nambora can bluntly express.
Kaun Khmer
A Baby Horse is trying to hide the facts from everyone just to save the face of his boss. You can keep barking but you cant hide it no matter how hard you try .
Is this guy Bora dumb or is he just acting dumb ? who in the wolrd don't know that Hun Sen has been abusing his power by using the court to silence anyone who don't agree with him or his Government ? I havent seen anyone outside the CPP say that they agree with what Hun Sen is going .
cambodia is not a sovereign country. Don't let the evil nature of hanoi like baby Hor fool anyone, any country.
I am very disturbed with this hypocritical CPP mouth-piece baby Hor. Here he is barking like a low life dog in London for his boss Hun Xen and at the same time him and his family enjoy living in a complete democratic city London. I am wondering what conscience did he have when he is barking. Is he barking because he have to in order to please his boss even thought his conscience tells him it is wrong? Or he is barking because he believes it is right thing to do so? If he believes it is the right thing to do so then him and his family do not deserve live in such a democratic city like London. So, Khmer people live in that city should do something to make leave to where they belong to.
Baby Hor is an evil embassader because he serves an evil government.
Baby wHORe and the majority of the cambodian diplomatic missions are non qualified puppets of the one eyed hyena governmnt.
from what i heard:
- a posting to an embassy can cost 15000 to 50000 usd entrance fee for a civil servant and after that its a percentage of their salary.
- any cambodian passport holder needing to extend the validity date, new passports etc need to pay a bribe.
- if you have been robbed, sick etc and need embassy help, you either have to pay bribes or/and assistance is non existant.
-Most/almost all ambassadors are CPP members.
Most cambodians abroad I know prefer to avoid all contacts with the embassy and wait till they get back home to get passport renewals etc
I know of a cambodian not travelling for five years because the embassy refused to renew her passport. she finally got her citizenship in a european country.
The above examples concern the cambodian embassy in france, malaysia and the philippines.
if anyone here has similar stories please feel free to add.
We should denounce corruption and demand accountability.
Thanks
The prime minister was within his legal right to "defend and protect his reputation"? This is bullshit! Stupid ass Hun Sen insults and defames practically everyone all the time! Go to any Cambodian school graduation ceremony where the stupid piece of shit prime minister is attending and giving a speech and you'll always hear him ranting, whining and giving people insults. These lowlife peasant Khmer Rouge (aka The CPP) needs to all just jump off of a cliff. And the CPP followers (aka Cambodians without any dignity & conscience) needs to do the same. Sick of them plaguing Cambodia as a backwards & incompetent nation while our Thai and Vietnamese neighbors are rapidly advancing both socially and economically.
we failed, we jailed they hail, they bail.......
Do ah HO Nambora and ah Ho nam Hong remember the Khmere Rouge time! When no one care about their fucking internal affairs?
whatever, at least mr. hor is standing up for cambodia and defending cambodia from bias media and bias people out there! i say good job, mr. hor. god bless cambodia.
shut the fuck up hor chui minhsssssssssssssssssssssssss
Baby Horse is addicted to do his dirty job in order to meet the profile like his unpopular boss Hun Xen.
12:13 AM
Why should NGO , international and united nations go against your governement ? only CPP (Corrupted People's Party )members think that the government is doing the right things. dont you think its time for CPP ( Corrupted People's Party ) to sit down and think why they are so unpopular ?
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Tortures
Executions
Massacres
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Overwork to Death
Slavery
Rapes
Human Abuses
Assault and Battery
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Assassinations
Assassinate Journalists
Assassinate Political Opponents
Murders
Killings
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and others military official on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Remove Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Under Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed all of these crimes above within Hun Sen Khmer Rouge government have ever been brought to justice.
Ah PPU aka Ah Anthony, you're support CPP Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime who is killing innocent Khmer peoples, do me a favor don't ever tell anyone that you are Khmer, because you make Khmer peoples look bad.
Ah Poking Pussy Unfinished and Ah Another-Honey partner and don't sCREAM.
Khmersta
Ah Hobora ant to be a killer just like hi father ah HoNam Hong!
Do ma Ah Ho Nam Hong internal affair!!!
To supporters of
(Cambodian People's Party
Hun Sen Death Squad
Khmer Rouge Regime).
Please do me a favor, don't ever tell anyone that you are Khmer, because you make Khmer peoples look bad.
Politically speaking, Cambodia is not as yet an independent, sovereign country, but a proxy state of Vietnam led by a proxy clique subservient to Hanoi. Sovereignty implies lawful exercise of an independent party over affairs locating within its legitimate remit or domain. Where the exercise of this party’s will is subject to approval or prior consent of a third party, or even just to its watchful , scrutinising eye, the notion of sovereignty itself can be said to collapse squarely on its head, and along with that, the claim of internal concerns by the same party.
It can even be said that this small group is not entirely bereft of its own will or autonomy, but what is deeply worrying is how closely the patterns in the relationship between Hanoi and PP resemble those in the relationship between the PP regime and the Cambodian people at large. Just as Hanoi has carefully nurtured and manipulated events inside Cambodia through its surrogate channels like the CPP and its predecessors so has the current PP regime through a mixture of ruthless, violent assault on public liberty on the one hand and the embracing arms of social bribery and corruption on the other.
For almost four years the rapacious KR dragged the Khmer nation to the brink of extinction ostensibly in pursuit of an ideological utopia so pure an abstraction that even the Stone Age would have been kinder to the human condition. To an unprecedented extent, Democratic Kampuchea was sealed off to the rest of the world. Even the likes of North Korea and China would have difficulties verifying daily events taking place inside the country as most of their diplomatic representatives were confined to the perimeters of their embassy compounds. This isolation did not extend to Vietnam, however, who had been midwife to the birth of the KR as a political force through the creation of the Indochinese Communist Party and whose proactive network of intelligence and spies has helped to veer major events and outcomes to Vietnam’s own interest and volition.
I will not go into what motivated the KR to kill or why Hanoi opted to remain silent throughout the DK period knowing a prompt intervention could have saved millions more of human lives. What concerns me in light of today’s events is the systematic emasculation of nationalist forces; the suffocation of indigenous voice that yearns to speak for Cambodian interest first and foremost. Just as the KR targeted the intelligentsia who consistently spearheaded Cambodian nationalism likewise a pattern is becoming depressingly familiar whereby civil and political groups fighting for national interests from territorial treaties, the degradation of the environment to urban/rural destitution, influx of illegal settlers, conversion of farm lands into commercial plantations, the silent attack on women and minors through domestic violence and organised sex industry are all being held at arm’s length in one fashion or another.
There will always be a minority who argue that Cambodia is ill-equipped for the emergence of democracy, and that authoritarian rule is justified if it brings about enforced development of some sort. This line of reasoning is not helpful to a country with Cambodia’s social record: ranked as one of the most deprived country in the world; one of the most aid-dependent nation; ruled by one of the most corrupt and closed core of related oligarch (see the Hor family, Cambodian team at the ECCC, the army generals etc.) who between them wield all the power of the political and economic office of the land. The absence of an independent broadcasting mass media is a major barricade against the growth of civil society and political pluralism. Unless and until fundamental reforms are instigated to move Cambodian interest into the heart of decision-making, or a coup is hatched somewhere. . . the Cambodian people will be condemned to live deprived of human dignity in the shadow of their neighbours and made to face an uncertain future for ever.
MP
Ah Whore Bora wants to be the next prime minister of Cambodia after ah Hun Sen is dead that's why he keeps barking to make his name well known by voters . keep barking you Whore Bora , the more you bark the more you look stupid.
To MP
I like your comment.
I like to read more of your comments.
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This Hor Nam guy didn't even admit that Cambodian Government has been corrupted , so whatever he says , there is no credibility in his comment .
when you write something ...whatever it is , try to make it short and sweet more readers will like to read it . but if it's too long to read , it will become less interesting and most people will stop reading it .
ah Hor nambora is use to get thing easilly so he affread to lose his job as an embassodor.
emty brain like ah hor nambora use to begging for food and job from his dad so he had no abbility and a feelling of how to be a real man get out there challeng with other people to get a job in a fair ways that is why he so affraid because he still a baby, his dad take care every thing for him, that is why he should not be a ambassador in England be cause he had no brain to do it.
see because he has no brain to work as an embassador that is why he had so much time to blow out and keep bitching about inside of the country.
ah empty brain Hor what did you do as an embassador? i quess you just sit in a chair do a shit and get money that all ah cha kear hor do. no brain do nothing besided bitching back to country, dummy brain can't work with other country because no goald or how to do his own job.
dummy brain Hor have to much free time, that how he keep bitching back or work inside of the country instead of how to lead England to understand khmer and how England could help khmer in present time or in the futture. fuck dummy brain hor stop bitching back to the country if you would like to work inside of the country than get out as an ambassador let other people do it.
if you empty brain can't work or can handle the job or does not know how, let other people have you job. ah hor nambora seem such a dog, without cpp party he can't live or find a decent job. that how he keep bitching back be a real man ah hor son. stop being a baby.
Please light me up with your new fresh comments; I need to add them to my hard-earned knowledge.
Remember: calm before the storm. Soon after, I will add -- this time -- lots of fuel to fire to cause a major conflagration to embroil everyone into a new conflict in an effort to have the information flow once again. Until then be prepared ... a new perfect storm is headed your way--and, you won't be able to stop it.
PPU: information collector
11:39pm you meant you will be standing right behind hor nambora and he will unleash a shit load of gassy farts in your face. So be ready mister!
PPU
transsexual mutant, go to the thai border and distract the thais with your dick in the ass.
Hard-earned handed out Diplomas!
PPU: Asses Collector
PPU= information collector=fucken spy
Baby Hor needs to learn to shut his mouth or needs to do a psychiatric evaluation in England.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to collect your knowledge and other vital information. Again, thank you.
PPU: hard-earned knowledge
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