Opposition Accused of Border Post Destruction
By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
03 November 2009
The opposition Sam Rainsy Party will face yet another lawsuit, for the destruction of boundary demarcations on the Vietnam border.
Authorities of Chan Trea district, Svay Rieng province, say party leader Sam Rainsy colluded with local villagers to rip border markings out of the ground last week, officials said Monday.
The suit would bring to three the number of cases against the opposition in recent months, including Prime Minister Hun Sen’s defamation suit against lawmaker Mu Sochua, and a similar suit brought by 22 military officials against lawmaker Ho Vann.
The lawsuit stems from an Oct. 25 Katina ceremony, led by Sam Rainsy, in Samrong commune, Chantrea district. At the end of the ceremony, villagers showed gathered officials six boundary posts reportedly planted in their own rice fields, indicating incursion, officials said.
Sam Rainsy then said the markers should be removed, after which villagers pulled them up.
“The complaint has been filed for destruction of public property,” said the party’s Svay Rieng provincial deputy chief, Meas Kheng.
District Governor Chea Yieng confirmed a complaint had been filed but declined to give details, saying only it had to do with boundary markers and not the Kathina ceremony.
Cambodia and Vietnam agreed in 2005 to finalized border demarcation, in a bid to end decades of disputes on a nationally sensitive topic. However, border activists have continued to protest the alleged incursion by Vietnamese into Cambodian territory.
“If there is a complaint, it would be another concern, after Mu Sochua and Ho Vann,” said Am Sam Ath, an investigator for the rights group Licadho.
Judge Korm Chhean, president of Svay Rieng’s court, said he had not yet seen a complaint.
Authorities of Chan Trea district, Svay Rieng province, say party leader Sam Rainsy colluded with local villagers to rip border markings out of the ground last week, officials said Monday.
The suit would bring to three the number of cases against the opposition in recent months, including Prime Minister Hun Sen’s defamation suit against lawmaker Mu Sochua, and a similar suit brought by 22 military officials against lawmaker Ho Vann.
The lawsuit stems from an Oct. 25 Katina ceremony, led by Sam Rainsy, in Samrong commune, Chantrea district. At the end of the ceremony, villagers showed gathered officials six boundary posts reportedly planted in their own rice fields, indicating incursion, officials said.
Sam Rainsy then said the markers should be removed, after which villagers pulled them up.
“The complaint has been filed for destruction of public property,” said the party’s Svay Rieng provincial deputy chief, Meas Kheng.
District Governor Chea Yieng confirmed a complaint had been filed but declined to give details, saying only it had to do with boundary markers and not the Kathina ceremony.
Cambodia and Vietnam agreed in 2005 to finalized border demarcation, in a bid to end decades of disputes on a nationally sensitive topic. However, border activists have continued to protest the alleged incursion by Vietnamese into Cambodian territory.
“If there is a complaint, it would be another concern, after Mu Sochua and Ho Vann,” said Am Sam Ath, an investigator for the rights group Licadho.
Judge Korm Chhean, president of Svay Rieng’s court, said he had not yet seen a complaint.
20 comments:
“The complaint has been filed for destruction of public property."
=Destruction of public property? What is public property may I ask? Is it the Vietcong property on Khmer soil? Public property my arse! Get the fact straight and pull out the fucken map! Not the Vietcong map! I am talking about the international map! Call in the map experts and there are plenty of satellite imaging for sell if AH HUN SEN want to verify Cambodian boundary!
Destruction?
Of course the destruction of the invasion of vietnam is a construction of cambodia.
If it is true,please put across all the evidences in assembly,then televised to inform the cambodians who are the owner of cambodia.
Either side if found to be guilty on matters of demarkation, then the court can deal with that aferwards, if the rule of laws of JUSTICE applied.
Laws of violence is no longer relevant.
Neang SA
SRP is our Khmer hero!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOUN has cause destruction in Cambodia from 1979-1989!!!!!!!!!
And until now!!!!!!!!!!!!
POL POT said YOUN set up the killing field to kill Khmer then when he knew YOUN mass their troops into Cambodia.
YOUN was the killer and is continuing to kill Khmer slowly.
Khmer better watch out!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see only one way out: VIOLENCE
The Khmers must organize in hit and run death SQUADS similar to the Malays in southern Thailand.
We must prepare to seize the initiative and take the fight to the viet foes everywhere:
- in the rice paddy fields
- in the Mekong and Tonle Sap
- in the streets of Phnom-Penh
- in the garment sweatshops
- in the Office Buildings
- in the brothels at Sway-Pak district
We must make their life a LIVING HELL.
Lord Buddha willing, we shall prevail.
I told you it's only happened in Cambodia... What do you expect from the people of Cambodia when your government suing you from loving your country?
Yes, only that way to liberate khmer people from Viet colonisation as had been done by our ancestors during the reign of Ang Mei who dod rule by Ah Troeung Minh Giang and Ah Ong Lov in 1840.
Unite all Khmers and organise dead squats to chase Viets out of Cambodia.
FUCK THAILAND.....AND FUCKING AH HANOI,VIETNAM
those illegal viets who live in cambodia must be deported to their country. the lawsuit from cambogovt is baseless, rather they associate themselves with illegal viets so they too are criminals.
SR is a khmer hero!!!!
This is a good time for all khmers to unite and make a loud voice signal to our historical enemy that Khmers is standing up now.
Pouk ah yourn slave will be vanished.
As long as the viets continue their encroachment into cambodian territory, all khmers must stand up and fight their aggression. Let it be known that there will be no peace between cambodia and vietnam.
Not surprise, now it's time for farmer revolution and the entire country revolution, peaceful revolution via mass demonstration to remove this government. Now is the time...
The government of small minds suing their own people. They should be worrying about running the country than suing their own people who cares for their nation interest.
Yes, we must make the noise and embarrass this government again...
I wonder why all the CPP supporters that always take a shot at Mr. Sam Rainsy on this blog are so quiet on this matter? Where are you New Pally and co.? Any thing to say at all? I guess you guys always follow your "God" Mr. Hun Sen who never opens his mouth for matters relating to Vietnam or the Vietnameses residing illegally in Cambodia. I remember that at one ocassion, there were Vietnamese families resided inside a pagoda near the capital Phnom Penh and the community wanted them to move out. The Vietnameses said no because they had nowhere to go. What was the solution? The Government bought a plot of land for them. If those people are Khmers everyone can guess the government resolution of that matter, right?
SR fullfils his duty as representative to protect Khmer farmers who lost their land. The farmers lost support from the authority who are working as Viet slave so they must seek help from their true representatives, SR.
I would do the samething of shoot them if somebody encroach my property.
Sam Rainsy is wasting his time doing petty things like that to attract the media, audience and for electoral purpose.
HE Sam Rainsy, please be informed that it is very useless. Khmer people don't give a shit about themselves, so you should not care about them anymore. Let the vietnamese take our lands, let the thais invade us. Please take an easy life like the others traitors of FUNCINPEC and SRP who joined CPP.
Khmer people shall wake up by themselves. If they are willing to live under such idiocratic government, let them do...
Mr Sam Rainsy has told about our boss friends Vietnam that we must respect them like our master, they are highly priority on our society.
(signed),
Hun Xen, Chea Xim, Heng Xamring
Only the khmer farmers have the right to sue not the government. It's their property.
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