Mu Sochua speaks to the press after being found guilty of defamation earlier this month. (Photo by: Heng Chivoan)Philippine female legislators denounce Hun Sen over slur
Monday, 31 August 2009
Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
Group calls the premier's defamation suit against Mu Sochua an act of chauvinism designed to stifle freedom of expression.
Mu Sochua, an SRP parliamentarian, was convicted on August 4 of defaming Hun Sen and ordered to pay 8.5 million riels (US$2,028) in fines and 8 million riels ($1,909) in compensation. The charges stemmed from an April speech by Hun Sen in which he referred to an unnamed woman as a "cheung klang". The term means "strong legs" and is considered derogatory when used to describe women.
The speech prompted Mu Sochua to file a defamation suit, but Hun Sen denied that he had been referring to her and countersued her for defamation, pointing to an April 23 press conference in which she made her suit public. Mu Sochua's case was thrown out, whereas the premier was allowed to proceed with his.
The verdict, which Mu Sochua described as a "political game" that has cast Cambodia's judicial system "into darkness", met with widespread international condemnation.
Last week, the Gabriela Women's Party (GWP), which describes itself as the only all-female party in the Philippine House of Representatives, accused the prime minister of being a chauvinist.
"We strongly protest the discriminatory slur of the statements of the prime minister as anti-women and chauvinist," the statement reads. "Likewise, we deplore the alleged acts of repression as forms of attacks against the right to free expression, democracy and equality."
"We denounce these tactics of intimidation, persecution and repression, using the legal system against the administration's critics and members of the opposition party. We urge the Cambodian government to respect the rights of MP Mu Sochua as a woman leader and parliamentarian who is working for democracy, equality and justice."
The government was dismissive of the criticisms on Sunday. Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan accused the party of knowing nothing about Cambodian politics.
"They have no right to make statements such as this because they don't know the facts of the situation in Cambodia," he said.
"A party in the Philippines probably knows the least about Mu Sochua's case."
A hearing on the dismissal of Mu Sochua's lawsuit against Prime Minister Hun Sen was postponed earlier this month because of her absence from court.
The lawmaker was summoned to appear in court on August 17 by Prosecutor General Ouk Savuth after she contested a Municipal Court decision in July rejecting her lawsuit against Hun Sen.
Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann said she requested the hearing be delayed because she was due to visit the United States for medical treatment.
The parliamentarian, who represents Kampot province, is scheduled to return from the US on September 20.
"WE DENOUNCE THESE TACTICS OF INTIMIDATION, PERSECUTION AND REPRESSION...."A women's party in the Philippines has joined the international call for the Cambodian government to halt its campaign of intimidation against opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua, accusing Prime Minister Hun Sen of sexism.
Mu Sochua, an SRP parliamentarian, was convicted on August 4 of defaming Hun Sen and ordered to pay 8.5 million riels (US$2,028) in fines and 8 million riels ($1,909) in compensation. The charges stemmed from an April speech by Hun Sen in which he referred to an unnamed woman as a "cheung klang". The term means "strong legs" and is considered derogatory when used to describe women.
The speech prompted Mu Sochua to file a defamation suit, but Hun Sen denied that he had been referring to her and countersued her for defamation, pointing to an April 23 press conference in which she made her suit public. Mu Sochua's case was thrown out, whereas the premier was allowed to proceed with his.
The verdict, which Mu Sochua described as a "political game" that has cast Cambodia's judicial system "into darkness", met with widespread international condemnation.
Last week, the Gabriela Women's Party (GWP), which describes itself as the only all-female party in the Philippine House of Representatives, accused the prime minister of being a chauvinist.
"We strongly protest the discriminatory slur of the statements of the prime minister as anti-women and chauvinist," the statement reads. "Likewise, we deplore the alleged acts of repression as forms of attacks against the right to free expression, democracy and equality."
"We denounce these tactics of intimidation, persecution and repression, using the legal system against the administration's critics and members of the opposition party. We urge the Cambodian government to respect the rights of MP Mu Sochua as a woman leader and parliamentarian who is working for democracy, equality and justice."
The government was dismissive of the criticisms on Sunday. Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan accused the party of knowing nothing about Cambodian politics.
"They have no right to make statements such as this because they don't know the facts of the situation in Cambodia," he said.
"A party in the Philippines probably knows the least about Mu Sochua's case."
A hearing on the dismissal of Mu Sochua's lawsuit against Prime Minister Hun Sen was postponed earlier this month because of her absence from court.
The lawmaker was summoned to appear in court on August 17 by Prosecutor General Ouk Savuth after she contested a Municipal Court decision in July rejecting her lawsuit against Hun Sen.
Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann said she requested the hearing be delayed because she was due to visit the United States for medical treatment.
The parliamentarian, who represents Kampot province, is scheduled to return from the US on September 20.
35 comments:
Hun Sen deserves not only cusses and curses from human beings; all creatures living in hell also cuss and curse him nad wiat for him to join them soon.
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
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leader of the Free Trade Union
Attempted Assassinations on Chea Vichea and Sam Rainsy
Attempted Murders on Chea Vichea and Sam Rainsy
Executed members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders members and activists of Sam Rainsy Party
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 the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leader of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
Cambodia Town
Long Beach, Ca
Phillipine legislators should take care their owned business, they have a lot worst case scenario inside theirs country such as unemployment, violence, corruption.
New Phally
Hun Sen deserved That title ,and New Pally you are crazy that is Asian affairs too ,you want all Asian leader walk ,talk and act like Hun SEn?
NO WAY
Satan is waiting for HUN SEN!!!
Don't mind ah Kun/New Phally; he's been fed by Hun Sen; he therefore must bark to defend his boss as mauch as he can.
New Phally,
your comments sometime have shown that you not a righteous man. Sound like you can flip and flop when you need to. That is example of not being righteous.
Asian should stand up for each other and respect each other! What the thai and youns doing to khmer and laos is no exceptable period!
Have you seen the white mistreading each other? fug no !
change or reform society there too as male chauvinism is actually overwhelmingly in the society, not just individual leader. if we failed to see this, it will sure to repeat itself in the future. be smart, please.
when look at cambodia, make sure to educate the society in general as well. these traits aren't just individual character, they exist in society. so, educate the entire society to think smartly, etc...
New Phally , what is the percentage of unemployment in the Phillipine and can you name of the corruption cases that you have been talking about ? Give me the fact of what is going on there .. don't make up stuffs just to make yourself look smart.
It seems like Hun Sen and his Government have been creating more and more troubles for themselves. People around the world have denounced his action again and again in the last 2 months.
Ah idiot New Phally,
Where is your protegé ah "stu of astronomy UVa". He got screwed over by you - is that why he can't be here to protect you anymore? I think he has changed his nickname to "Khmer in the U.S.A" now, do you know that ah Viet's slave New Phally?
Come kiss my arse ah New Phally...now!
Soon or later this tiger will lose its fangs!
Hun Sen a demon from hell!!
New Pally another craziness of your thinking,you like some things backward like you go to bed? Doggy style,what is matter with you. The Asian neighbors they do not like the dictator communist cancer close by their home,so do Cambodian people do not like gangsters in their societies,why you ask them to mind their business? That part that they took if take care their businesses.
So next time do not act or pretend to be stupid if you reside in the States people in the States they are very smart way better than you.
Just to make it clear, anyone of you known HUN SEN?
I seen his speech a couple of times and I think the CPP consider him GOD.
Though I am impress that you are so concern about current political agenda.
I can say IF YOU KNOW MORE ABOUT HIS STANCE AT THIS POINT THE OPPOSITION WOULD OF WON LAST ELECTION.
YOU KNOW NOT EVERYBODY LIKES MR. SEN IN HIS PARTY.
AND, YES THEIR ARE SOME VIETNAMESE PEOPLE IN CPP.
YOU KNOW NORDOM CHANRANGSEK? 1979?
THE GATHERING OF FREEDOM FORCE 1979 TO FIGHT YOUN INVASION INTO CAMBODIA.
READ HUN SEN HISTORY< HENG SAMRIN< CHEA SIM?
THEY KILL ALL THE FREEDOM FORCE OF 30,000 FROM KHMER-THAI BORDER 1979...WHO WERE ORGANIZE TO FREE CAMBODIA FROM VIETNAM CONTROL.
ANYONE HERE KNOW THE REAL STORY?
ANYONE JOIN THE FORCE?
I GUESS ONLY ME WHO KNOW THIS STORY. THEN HUH?
Beggars SRP supporters, members 2:58 AM (first essay), have you been tasted Mu Suchua's big hole juice already. you don't tell me yet about her preferable position. How much time you were handle with her?
Khmer in U.S.A
3:32AM.
Stop lying . You know nothing about Khmer Nation Liberation Front . I was one of those fighters who fought Vietnamese and Vietnamese Puppet till we signed the agreement in Paris in 1991. What you said up there was bogus . That's all I want to tell you
4:35AM
BULL SHIT YOU ALL THOSE WHO FOUGHT THE VIETNAM PUPPET REGIME ALREADY DEAD WHO YOU ARE SPEAKING OF? THEY PUSH BARELY FAR AS PHNOM PENH?
IF THEY REALLY FOUGHT THEN< WHY NORDOM CHANRANGSEK THEN FREE KHMER?
WHO IS YOUR COMMANDER?
YOUR FAKE-----> (4:35AM)
I HATE YOU (4:35AM) YOU LIED TO KHMER PEOPLE....
I KNOW MORE ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC FORCE ORGANIZE AT KHMER-THAI BORDER THAN YOU.
YOUR JUST ANOTHER WANNABE....
CAUSE ALL THE PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT THE VIETNAM PUPPET REGIME ARE ALL DEAD AT THE FIRST STRIKE.>
DIDN'T KNOW WHO IS YOUR COMMANDER?
YOUR JUST A SOLIDER UNDER WHAT BANNER?
I KNOW MORE THAN YOU>
FAKE GUY> YAPAPPAPA FAKER......
OMG NOT THE FUCKING CANDLE AGAIN LOL
FUCK THAILAND
4:43 AM . I got out of Cambodia in 1977 you dummy . I got locked up in jail for 6 months in Chanthaburi Thailand for entering their Country without permission. After I got ou tof jail I joined lok ta Seung San to fight Khmer Rouge till Viet took over Cambodia and then we fought Vietnames and Vietnamese puppet till 1991 . Have you hears of KNLF ? Maybe you were still naked at that time .
4:51 AM. If you know alot , can you name those 3 factions and who controlled each faction ?
cambodia should look into taking care of the veterans who fought in wars for the country. it should be one of the topic of debate in election, and it's a good one! now that a whole generation is getting older, gov't should take care of veterans and the elderly. stop letting them down and stop have them depend on their children for support, because children could be busy at work and have no time to take care of their elerly parents, ok! there ought to be gov't program to take care of the aging population, too.
Cambodia Town
Long Beach, Ca
To:2:33 AM
There were so many nurses run away from Phillipne looking for jobs here, most of them were sponsors by the employers, but they earned less than people whom were graduated here. Therefore, the Philipine legislators were arrogants, and theirs people were also bad mouth.
New Phally
Interesting how a fiction can be picked up as a cause.
Cambodia needs another revolution to rid off khmer rouge cadres. the current cambodian administration is run by former khmer rouge soldiers. They are a bunch of peasants who commited genocide in cambodia.
Please, please just $20.00 you may see me.
6:41AM
KHMER ROUGE - POL POT
KHMER DEMOCRATIC FIGHTER-PRINCE CHANRANGSEK
YOUN HANOI KHMER PUPPET- HENG SAMRIN
GOOD ENOUGH!
DIDN'T KNOW THAT OR WHAT?
Disgrace Mu Sochua’s problem all along, is that she is trying to be a politician. She's not, never has been and quite obviously, never will be. She should have just been herself, provide alternative policies and show Khmer people what a great alternative MP opposition she would be. Instead, her foray into being a politician has been a disaster. She comes across as pretending to be something she's not. Now, her political career is on the line and herself also in the hot water.
While the nation is facing complex economic, social and environmental issues disgrace Mu Sochua tried to promote her political stunt, aimed to get media attention. If this wasn’t such a clear demonstration of her selfish pursuit of personal ambition it would be laughable. There is no doubt that Mu Sochua has no real regard for the best interest of the nation. She is driven solely by a desire to become a “Champion of Women or new Aung San Suu Kyi” by any means available to her, even if that has the potential to destabilize the country. Even worse she has lodged the appeal her case against Prime Minister Hun Sen to the Appeal Court following the announcement of her guilty verdict by the Phnom Penh municipal Court.
People of integrity admit their faults, make amends and are judged fairly...Disgrace Mu Sochua is lacking in integrity and common sense and tries to change Cambodia into her own world. As long as Cambodia’s Court doesn’t issue any verdict which is fitted for her political stunt, she will scream for the justice all day long.
Khmer Australian
Mu Sochua is Khmer-born Liev Yii...she is not different from Cory of Philipine and Suyi of Burma
Fuck you...USA and Mu Sochua!
I wish your guy don't come to my country and cause trouble again. This is going to be created another problem against the Cambodian government again. Bullshit! Mu Sochua...I thought you get your ass out of my country. Why don't you stay there in the US and have your White Man help find you a job.
(Note: To those who write long sentence like a whole book, I won't read it.)
AngkorianMan Krama Man
Bun Rany Hun is CEO of CPP:
Hun Xen is CFO of CPP:
Clan of Phnom Penh
Court of Corrupted People
Cuffed People Party
Collected People Property
Claimed People Plot
Canceled Pageant People
Choking Poker Player
Commission of Pay Pal
Controlling Police Patrol
Criticized Poor People
Champange Party People
Cigar of Pimping People
Collected People Paid
Canceled Paper Press
Clan of Profit Party
Cell Phone Profit
Criminal Party People
Cheated Poll Party
Cheated Party People
Cheated on Poor People
Collected People Purses
Claiming People Party
Clan of Police Party
Clan of Pol Pot
Cell Phone People
Calling People Perverted
Caused People Problem
Concealed Pistol People
Commission of Patroleum Party
Her suit was not defamation because calling someone a name is not defamation. She was ill advised to file it and it was properly disposed of by the Khmer courts as it would have been in any other country. However, it is her agenda, and that of others, to use it has some kind of injustice. Nothing could be further from the truth. She had her day in court, and lost- simple as that!
12:38,
You can't read any way, you fucking Khmer Rouge retard.
Now, take your Krama (graharm) wrap around your neck and pull it until you passed out.
It's hot down there, isn't it? Say "hi" to Ah Hok Lundy and your daddy loP toP for me.
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