November 9, 2009VIETNAM’S PRIME MINISTER NGUYEN TAN DUNG
BLOWS MY SYMBOLIC GESTURE OUT OF PROPORTION
BLOWS MY SYMBOLIC GESTURE OUT OF PROPORTION
On November 4, 2009, the state-run Voice of Vietnam radio reported, “Regarding acts and statements made by Sam Rainsy - President of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), who recently uprooted six temporary poles for Marker 185 between Vietnam’s southern province of Long An and Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province – [Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ] proposed that the Cambodian government take due measures to deal with Rainsy’s acts of sabotage and not permit similar cases to occur, as they negatively affect the fine relations between the two nations.”
What Vietnam’s Prime Minister “proposed” above is nothing else than an order to the Cambodian government to punish me in my capacity as an elected representative of the Cambodian people because I dared defend Cambodian farmers who are losing their rice fields because of border encroachments by the Vietnamese authorities in Svay Rieng province.
Please see evidence at http://tinyurl.com/yzvabev
The Cambodian people can assess how independent Cambodia is today, especially on this very day, November 9, which is Cambodia’s Independence Day.
As already explained in the November 1 SRP statement titled “Vietnamese authorities accusing and Cambodian government suing Sam Rainsy on unfounded charges”, I have not uprooted any border marks. See full statement at http://tinyurl.com/yjj2bze
Mr. Trinh Ba Cam, a spokesman for the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh, was quoted in The Cambodia Daily, November 2, as specifying, “The wooden posts [Sam Rainsy is accused of having pulled out] were not official markings for the border.”
Therefore, how could I be involved in any “acts of sabotage”? Maybe, by just exposing the truth about border encroachments, I have sabotaged the expansionist plan of a powerful neighboring country…
We all know that in Cambodia the rich and the powerful can grab land from the poor and the powerless with total impunity while victims of land grabbing and those who try to defend them are branded as criminals.
I informed His Majesty the King Norodom Sihamoni and His Majesty the King Father Norodom Sihanouk about the plight of Cambodian farmers living along the Vietnamese border respectively during an audience at the Royal Palace on October 27 and through a November 7 letter sent to Beijing.
Besides, the Sam Rainsy Party, which is the country’s second largest political party, has taken two initiatives to enhance the role of the National Assembly in the country’s effort to peacefully and amicably solve border problems with Thailand and Vietnam:
1- The SRP calls for the establishment of a special multi-party parliamentary committee to investigate into border issues including the situation of Khmer farmers who are losing their rice fields along the borders with Vietnam and Thailand. More information at http://tinyurl.com/yzm4an6
2- The SRP suggests that a multi-party parliamentary delegation visit Vietnam and Thailand in the very near future to help improve relations between Cambodia and her neighbors and strengthen peace and cooperation in the region. More information at http://tinyurl.com/yzc7eez
Therefore, Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung must not blow out of proportion my symbolic gesture to morally support Cambodian farmers who are just defending their legitimate rights to protect their lands.
Sam Rainsy
Member of Parliament
What Vietnam’s Prime Minister “proposed” above is nothing else than an order to the Cambodian government to punish me in my capacity as an elected representative of the Cambodian people because I dared defend Cambodian farmers who are losing their rice fields because of border encroachments by the Vietnamese authorities in Svay Rieng province.
Please see evidence at http://tinyurl.com/yzvabev
The Cambodian people can assess how independent Cambodia is today, especially on this very day, November 9, which is Cambodia’s Independence Day.
As already explained in the November 1 SRP statement titled “Vietnamese authorities accusing and Cambodian government suing Sam Rainsy on unfounded charges”, I have not uprooted any border marks. See full statement at http://tinyurl.com/yjj2bze
Mr. Trinh Ba Cam, a spokesman for the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh, was quoted in The Cambodia Daily, November 2, as specifying, “The wooden posts [Sam Rainsy is accused of having pulled out] were not official markings for the border.”
Therefore, how could I be involved in any “acts of sabotage”? Maybe, by just exposing the truth about border encroachments, I have sabotaged the expansionist plan of a powerful neighboring country…
We all know that in Cambodia the rich and the powerful can grab land from the poor and the powerless with total impunity while victims of land grabbing and those who try to defend them are branded as criminals.
I informed His Majesty the King Norodom Sihamoni and His Majesty the King Father Norodom Sihanouk about the plight of Cambodian farmers living along the Vietnamese border respectively during an audience at the Royal Palace on October 27 and through a November 7 letter sent to Beijing.
Besides, the Sam Rainsy Party, which is the country’s second largest political party, has taken two initiatives to enhance the role of the National Assembly in the country’s effort to peacefully and amicably solve border problems with Thailand and Vietnam:
1- The SRP calls for the establishment of a special multi-party parliamentary committee to investigate into border issues including the situation of Khmer farmers who are losing their rice fields along the borders with Vietnam and Thailand. More information at http://tinyurl.com/yzm4an6
2- The SRP suggests that a multi-party parliamentary delegation visit Vietnam and Thailand in the very near future to help improve relations between Cambodia and her neighbors and strengthen peace and cooperation in the region. More information at http://tinyurl.com/yzc7eez
Therefore, Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung must not blow out of proportion my symbolic gesture to morally support Cambodian farmers who are just defending their legitimate rights to protect their lands.
Sam Rainsy
Member of Parliament
27 comments:
It's a waiste of time to inform the old ex-king and the current young idiot king about this situation. They don't care. Those king care more about their pet dog then all the poor Khmer in the country.
KHMER KING ARE DISGRACEFUL!!!!
THEY DON'T EVEN LIVE IN CAMBODIA. THAT'S PATHETIC!
To MR, SR:
Let show to the world this kind of attitude the viet Dung has towards our Country!We must unmask this greeds and cruelty of the Viet Dung, who are trying to robbed our Lands.
Xam Rainxy, your public stunt will put you into the hot water again. Those wooden posts which you pulled out were not official marking for border, but you has ran a smear campaign against Cambodian government to get a cheap political point and now, you accused that VN Prime Minister blows your public stunt out of proportion. This has indicated that even though, you has said that you are not afraid what you did, but you are really nervous in facing the criminal case against your action which government will file in due course.
Khmer in Sydney
shut the fuck up Youn Nam Vang or in Sydney.
What else you can say, Khmer in Sneer?
You don't try to find a joint conclusion for the benefit of Cambodia, but you foolishly support CPP and Vietnam to condemn Sam Rainsy who were frustrated by the complaint of our innocent farmers at the border.
Mr. Khmer in Sneer, you can continue supporting the rich and the powerful and the Vietnamese to any extent you can do in this world. It is your free will!
KY
khmer goverment need to explaint this issue clearly why the border pose on khmer rice field?? even tho its not an official one?
I belong to no political group, but common sense and years of following the situation in Cambodian politics it is quite clear that Vietnam controls every aspect of decision-making for this poor nation.
Xam RainXy is really good in political stunt but not a substantial. I hope his fate is not the same as his father (Xam Sary) who ran away from Cambodia and shamely died in overseas.
I hope hun sen &his clans will be beheade by Kro Torp Ha Noi soon.when they're no longer usefful for their boss Chor Kro Torp Hanoi.
SR had great courage to uproot these 6 markers. Bravo, SR, you are the only one Khmer who dares to pull them out of the Khmer rice field. Why these markers are not in the VN territory? Why they are in the Cambodia side? middle of the Khmer rice field?
1:28PM
can you please put things into perspective,it is truly not a political stunt as way you described.
Who does not know that khmers at Svay Rieng border have suffered long enough, since 60's?
Why is it considered to be a crime when helping cambodians?
What sort of frame of mind do you have, after have been living in Australia?
What a shame!!!
Neang SA
What the fuck does that mean, non-official marking? Oh, you mean you tried to steal the land and we caught you in daylight?
Fucking youn race and don't call yourself Khmer Sidney.
Today, Radio Samleng Prachea thipatai VOD is broadcasting that, Cambodian students go to the border to check out about the six wooden poles that villagers uprooted and threw away. They were chased away by the local authority. What wrong?
Xam Rainxy AKA Rambo...LOL.
Please NGO and International organizations join Sam Rainsy to visit the area as witness where the wooden poles were. Vietnam has no right to interfer with cambodian affairs. Governor must be corrupted and sided with the Viet thiefs . He must be prosecuted accordingly. Farmers are the witnesses and invited Sam Rainsy to protest and pull the poles as evidenced in the video. Hun Sen must use his brains to protect our land
Vietnamese illegally marking their border with wooden sticks into Cambodia territory. The world community should punish Vietnam by remarking Cambodia territory properly.
If you call Sam Rainsy a coward, then every khmer person is a coward too. How many khmer people ran away to the US, Canada and other places that aren't worth mentioning?
Nguyen Tan Dung is Chinese origin. He is a Chinese spy.
HUMMMMM.....Hope that this stupid sam rainsy’s action does not give the idea to Thailand and Vietnam secretly to agree for to better share Cambodia’s territory.
i hope sam rainsy and his party will push this youn back to dai viet. these people are thiefs. in the old day the nguyen took one of his daughter to khmer king so their family would have better life, later on she must had provided good sex for the king and the king like her so he gave some land to the youn to stay temporary. time went by the thief ngyun claimed it their land. now it is time for sam rainsy's party and his people take care of the old business.
When Thailand and Vietnam will agree to share the territory of Cambodia, due to the sam rainsy’s heroic action , sam rainsy will say that this is no longer his problem, this problem is now Khmer’s people problem.
And he flies to Paris with his french nationality.
HUMMMMMMMMMMM.......
Don't worry 2:57AM, yuons want Cambodia all by themselves and they would never share Thais.
The stupid Thais are very weird people all the times. They always want to hurt Cambodia, but when Cambodia got into trouble with yuons they got scared, because they know they will be the next.
The stupid Thais should see yuons as a big threat to them and unite with Khmers to kick yuons butt.
Since the foundation of Angkor Wat, Cambodia has always lost its territory and its population against these two powerful neighbors.
HUMMMMMMMMMMMMM…………
CLOSED ALL BORDERS!!!
Well used our biggest island for Port of CAMBODIA (Koh Tral) on 01/02/2012. We can exchange goods all over the world. Except Ah Siem and Ah Yuon. Both countries have to take a boat trip for entry.
Oh, OMG I meant 2010...
from the picture above, the border markers seemed to be out of place, really. cambodia and youn should use natural boundary lines as much as possible like river, canal, waterways, mountains, etc, instead of just planting man-made block of wood, etc, which naturally will deteriorate with time, really. now, that was stupid of youn to want to steal more khmer land, really!
Cambodian people should not be afraid of these aggressive neighbours. Dont let the size of their population intimidate you. They are no better than you. If you poke back their skin...they will bleed.
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