Sunday, December 06, 2009

Human Rights: War of words between the government and NGOs

Civil society tends to criticize human rights issues in Cambodia, in particular the forced evictions (such as the one in Dey Krahorm shown on Licadho's photos)

05 Dec 2009
By Leang Delux
Radio France Internationale
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Click here to read the article in Khmer


The Cambodian government and NGOs could never see eyes to eyes when it comes to human rights issues in Cambodia. Criticisms on the lack of respect for human rights led to sporadic violent angry outburst by Hun Xen. This week again, during the UN human rights meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, the topic turned into a fighting forum between the Phnom Penh regime and civil society organizations.

Click here to listen to RFI report (MP3).

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

The NGO’s activists of defence of human rights and other political party referring to the same cause (the defence of human rights), if you do not intervene to help these unfortunates Uighurs to obtain the asylum in Cambodia as they wish .

If you do not intervene with the same zeal for these Uighurs as you had made to defend the bonze activist monk Tim Sakhorn, you betray the cause of human rights; and criticism of the government towards you is completely established ; you are a simple appendix of the sam rainsy party and pawns of this party, and it is that you will appear to the eyes of the Cambodian and international public opinion.

Anonymous said...

May someone please throw a shoe or shoes at PM Hun Sen like they did to the US president and china president.

going once, going twice, step right up....

Anonymous said...

May someone throw acid at mee neary klahan Bun Rany, and all khmer kraham chumteav, please...

Anonymous said...

Dictator Hun Xen destroy the own people!!!!

Anonymous said...

Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:

Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention


Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:

Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over eighty members of Sam Rainsy Party.

"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
  
Executions
Executed members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son 
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed 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.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters. 
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
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.

Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.

Anonymous said...

It is convenient to lump everybody who oppose you to one camp and then start your attack on that camp with the biggest perceived threat (The SRP), but it takes a responsible individual and group to single, distinguish, and listen to the unique voices and and opposing opinion of others who may offer you constructive new perspective on how to better solve your people problem and boost your own "face" which the CPP seem to concern most about above all things, national interest, or national-well being.


The NGOs have a good idea because they look from the outside, they should not be treated as opposition because they point to you the weakness on your side.


If they were purely "opposition" people, they would not point out specific violations, and recommendations.

They work hard and took time to analyse the social problem to give these recommendations.


It would do you good Phnom Penh, to just listen for once and put your big head ego pride aside.