CPP Nguon Nhel (L) and CPP Cheam Yeap (R)CPP MPs’ reaction to the issue of freedom of expression raised by the UN Special Rapporteur
02 October 2009
By Zakariya
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer
The [CPP] vice-president of the National Assembly (NA) reacted to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia who indicated that freedom of expression in Cambodia is undermined. The UN Rapporteur’s report was raised by an opposition MP during the third session of the NA.
CPP MP Nguon Nhel, NA vice-president, indicated that the NA cannot accept the statement made by Surya Subedi, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for the UN Secretary-general in Cambodia, who indicated that freedom of expression in Cambodia is undermined. Mr. Subedi also indicated that critics of the government are charged with disinformation. Nguon Nhel indicated that this issue cannot be discussed on the NA floor.
Nguon Nhel’s reaction took place during the third session of the NA held in the morning of 02 October to discuss and approve the draft Penal Law. During the discussion, SRP MP Yim Sovann proposed to the NA to remove an article out of the Penal Law that involves defamation and insult, and to include these issues in a new draft law, or to the Civil Law, based on the statement made by Mr. Surya Subedi.
[In response,] Nguon Nhel criticized the UN, saying that: “During the Pol Pot regime, all types of freedoms were taken away. At that time, we did not have any human rights organizations or the UN paying attention on the death of the 2-3 million people at all, but to the contrary, Pol Pot sat at the UN seat.”
CPP MP Cheam Yeap also indicated that the NA wants the new Penal Law to follow the current events, according to the evolution of mankind, but the NA cannot discuss an issue raised by a foreigner during its debate.
Yim Sovann replied that what the UN Special Rapporteur reported involves the current situation that is taking place in the Cambodian society. “With the aim of building a society where its people are afraid of giving their opinion, if there is a tightening of the freedom of expression rights then this means that we are preventing the people from participating in the edification of the society,” Yim Sovann said.
Mr. Surya Subedi recently indicated that he is concerned about the freedom of expression in Cambodia being undermined because critics of the government and critics of high-ranking government officials are charged with disinformation and defamation and they are sent to jail by the court. This situation actually happens to two Cambodian reporters and one opposition MP.
Furthermore, on 30 September, Ny San, the Cham community leader in Kampong Yaul village, Borey Chulsa district, Takeo province, was arrested and sent to jail after he was accused of disinformation following his dispute with a religious leader in his community.
41 comments:
"Numerous former KR cadres currently occupy powerful positions. They defected prior to the fall of the [KR] regime to escape the internal purges. It was the cases of Sar Kheng, the minister of Interior, and of Hor Nam Hong, the minister of Foreign Affairs. Hun Sen, the prime minister, was also one of Pol Pot’s faithful followers, he defected to the enemy, the Vietnamese."
Khmer song
Pél Chégn Vaksa,friend lok SIN SI SAMUT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re1TEMGgOzk
Sad country lead by the stupid leaders like those two as example.
They are good in reaction only, not good in adjusting themselves...this is the navy of Cambodia.
2:13 PM
I believe and trust you and I am sure, you belonged to them.
To:Nom de l'institution : Tribunal administratif de l'ONU
Président :
M. Spyridon FLOGAITIS
Adresse :
Tribunal Administratif des Nations Unies
Nations Unies
DC2-560
New York, NY 10017
Etats-Unis
and
ECCC in Phnom Penh
"Numerous former KR cadres currently occupy powerful positions. They defected prior to the fall of the [KR] regime to escape the internal purges. It was the cases of Sar Kheng, the minister of Interior, and of Hor Nam Hong, the minister of Foreign Affairs. Hun Sen, the prime minister, was also one of Pol Pot’s faithful followers, he defected to the enemy, the Vietnamese."
2:02 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
To ECCC in Phnom Penh
In 1970,when Sihanouk let enter vietcong into Cambodia,I was there and I saw Vietcong and Polpot ,Ieng Sary,kiev Sampphân,hun sen,chea sim,heng samrin kissing and killing each other and some friends were killed.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLTFmWX4VE
Nguon Nhel and Hor Nam Hong Said:
Even PolPOt khmer rouge were welcome by UN.Because of that,Our Buddha said:
"One blind man leads many blind men"
Tell people of the World that ,who are Sok An and Helen Jarvis.
If Helen Jarvis is khmer,she must understand PoTho,Puthaing,Akni-Chaing,Aknata.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onDjy--ne0o&feature=channel_page
And whow paint they had all victims who were ArKor neng Teang Tnort,Dork KrorChork....etc
(killing by pull out the nails without any anaesthetic)
Correction: HOW PAIN THEY Had
Cheam Yeap and Ngoun Nhel must be stupid . Khmer Rouge didn't beg for any help from the world and Khmer Rouge didn't promise anything to the world in order to get donations thats why there was no humanrights watch in Cambodia during Khmer Rouge regime . Hun Sen begs the world for donations and Hun Sen promises the world to restore freedom and democracy and respect humanrights in Cambodia in Cambodia that's why there humanrights watch in Cambodia to keep an eye on Hun Sen to make sure he keeps his word .
A bunch of too old people working in ministry is a bad choice for cambodians and the country.
They seem to maintain their denial to any issues raised by citizens or NGOs or the UN envoy suggestions, in order to rectitfy their acts, for the benefits of cambodians. if they were so perfect in their management in govt, why cambodia is still requiring foreign donations after 30 years of running the country.
This communist concept to anyone expresses concerns against their management, is always treated as enemy. That is, in fact,the act of dictatorship. This distorted view seems to be encouraged, rather than accept the rationalised ideas offered.
When it comes to economic downturn and less financial aids, people of cambodia will vote them out.
Neang SA
What does Cheam Yeap knows about human evolution?
Is he the new Darwin?
Where is the leech new phally to defend his boss ngel nuon.
In article like this, New Pally needs to hide under the table.
Of course people are afraid to confront the truth, especially the truth that reveals their evil deeds.
How many think the current is capable of handling the public catastrophy like storm Ketsana and Parma that hit the Cambodia inland?
In my view, the Current Government -- the ruling party CANNOT HANDLE any public catastrophy WITHOUT the help from the NGOs, or FOREIGNERS. It's the foreigners that help feeds the Khmer population, and it's the foreigners that provided the Fiscal Operational Budget for the current government.
The Cambodian government SHOULD NOT bite the hands that feed them. Lets the NGOs operate without any restriction, or prosecution that government is hiding behind the DISINFORMATION AND DEFAMATION LAWS!
The Khmers people deserved people that lending them a hand in time of needs. The general population DOES NOT NEED THE CURRENT REGIME TO SUPPRESSED THEM TO MAKE THEIR LIFE MORE MISERABLE.
If the government he no clues of helping its own citizens, STEP ASIDE -- let the foreigners operate freely BECAUSE KHMERS DESERVE BETTER. We're living in the 21st century.
Khmer Society needs to move beyond the Hunting and Gathering Era.
8:37PM,
I agree with your opinions. But I think, for their political gains from such a big disaster, Hun Sen and his comrades won't let the NGO's help Khmer people without their involvement; they want to scoop the credit too.
they are good khmer leaders.
9:16 PM, you are a brilliant person. I, 8:52 PM, wholeheartedly agree with you too. They are good leaders at:
*making a big concession by giving part of our land and isles to Yuons for invading Cambodia and installing them in power.
*allowing Yuons to flow endlessly into Cambodia, so they can vote for them.
*giving Yuon more rights than Khmer citizens have, so Yuons can control Khmers.
*robbing Khmer people and depriving them of their land.
*violating human rights and threatening or killing those who are not supporting them.
*provoking all kind of violence.
*degrading moral value of Khmer religion and tradition.
*stealing 2/3 of national revenue in order to make themselves rich and happy while the coutry's economy got flattened and Khmer people are poorer and suffering. This government is corrupted from head to toes.
*slowly turning this country of ours into a military-ruled one, so in the near future only them can be the sole owners of it.
I hope that you 9:16PM must agree with me, because we share something in common, right?
correction= only they can be...
Nguon Nhel criticized the UN, saying that: “During the Pol Pot regime, all types of freedoms were taken away. At that time, we did not have any human rights organizations or the UN paying attention on the death of the 2-3 million people at all, but to the contrary, Pol Pot sat at the UN seat.”
It's very shameful that Dumb ass Nguon Nhel compares this current situaction to Pol Pot. He needs to learn more so he can understand the political climate at that time. The UN couldn't bring Cambodian issue to discuss because other country such as China, Russia object. So disgusting that no brainer like Nguon Nhel representing Cambodian at this level.
These PMs should ask their own people first, whether the comment of the UN Rep. regarding rights abuse is true or not, before they rejected it.
It's unfair for our Khmer people in many generations that they have been always victimized by their leaders, whether Communist or non-Communist regime.
Why are these leaders afraid of criticism so much? Don't they know that the whole world knows what's going on in Cambodia? Land grab, corruption, intimidation, righs abuse and so on.
Does it help Cambodia if these leaders rejected the criticism? What do Cambodians gain from this? These leaders should know that a problem can't be solved unless it was recognized in the first place.
Controlling Phnom Penh... I stopped here too many to specify.
Cambodia Town
Long Beach, Ca
H.E Ngoun Nhel was absolutly corrected, we need to preserve peace, stabilities, by preventing people from doing revolution again. The current, financial crisis situation are sensitives in Cambodia, so we need to be vigilent toward our Cambodian people.
New Phally
12:23 AM,
You reminded me of during Pol Pot's rule. After each speech of the Khmer Rouge cadre, the audience chanted "Chey-yo, Chey-yo" automatically just like machine.
9:59PM and 11:12PM
Thank you for raising validated points.
And New Phally, just the case you need to know that peace and stability effectively come from peace of mind. Cambodians do not have peace of mind.Fear set in many corners of current society, ie How high the boundary fences for those riches? and how scattered for those who are struggling to survive under management of current govt?.
How true is the slogan of" citizens get rich before the govt does"?. It is in fact quite the opposite.
Be true to yourself and own citizens if you care!.
Neang Sa
These two CPP assholes don't know what Basic Human Rights are. So, shut up and shovel it up your asses..MF.
Barking, and barking to cover up the truth, Viet puppets' dogs.
Pouk sut dongkov sop.Cadaver 's worms.
Come on brothers and sisters, let learn from other successful nations, like all for one and one for all, we must stop thinking about other racs are coming to our country, at this stage because we need more people to keep our country alive, remember! or it will be wiped out from the world map. The more people we have the better, it doesn't matter who they are or where they come from as long as they follow the rules of law. Just look at Aust, USA, Singa etc, they have a multicultural society(they keep increasing in their population growth)and right now many of our khmer people are now living among these countries including me. I believe it is very significant to increase in population growth because they are the foundation to the development of our nation. Aust so, cheers
To 1:24 PM,
Do you think the 5 Millions Viets in Cambodia are independent from the Viets in Vietnam? Do you know what Ho Chi Minh told his followers before he died. Do you know what happened to Lao now? To me, we cannot live side by side with the Viets and expect them to respect our country and not interfere in our country's affair. In the past, Viets played tricked with Khmers all the time. For example, in the 1970's Viets tricked Sihanouk into helping them by proclaiming that they would help fight to restore Sihanouk back in power. In 1975's Viets borrowed Pol Pot's hand to kill 2Millions of Khmer people. In 1978, Viets invaded Cambodia claiming to save Khmer people from Pol Pot. And up and until now, Khmer people are still tricted by the Viets and some people just don't realized that.
11:52 PM Exactly! Did you guy know that mostly Laotian speaks Yuon now. Ah Yuon is swallowing Phatet Laos today and we don't want that happen to us. Can you imagine there are 400+ businesses currently in srok Khmer.
1:24PM - don't be too naive. Since when yuons have ever follow the rules of law. The only rule yuons have is to swallow other countries. Learn to compare apple with apple. Cambodia is not US and vice-versa. US largely owes its successes to immigrants. Cambodia on the other hand has lost a large chunk of its territory in the past and present to yuon settlers.
motherfuckers look like pigs!
You motherfucker! Dn't fuck with my government ok dump ass.Just take care your opposition party ok bitch.
3:22 AM FU2! Clans of Phnom Penh...
These two youn monkeys keep deny the truth. Do u have one eye or two eyes?
Bark, bark,
Hanoi mad dogs of Vietnamese puppet regime.
DICKtator name is HUNt & SENd.
CPP Nguon Nhel and CPP Cheam Yeap, ah jrouk pi nak nis kier jea Youn.
To 3:22
Why do you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime who is responsible for killing almost two million innocent Khmer peoples and counting?
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