Sam Rainsy raised Mrs. Meas Srey's hand to show her courage to uproot the border stakes (Photo: Meng Huor, Radio France Internationale)26 December 2009
By Pen Bona
Radio France Internationale
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy declared that he is taking sole responsibility for the uprooting of border stakes in Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province. Sam Rainsy’s decision to come out and take this responsibility takes place at a time when the Svay Rieng provincial court charged a number of villagers of colluding with Sam Rainsy to uproot the border stakes at the end of October. This legal case is heating up the political atmosphere in Cambodia one more notch.
Sam Rainsy, who in the past claimed that he was only a witness in the uprooting of border stakes, has changed his mind and he now accepts the full and sole responsibility in this case.
From France where he is now staying, the opposition leader issued a statement on Friday indicating that, according to the law, he is the person who is solely responsible and who should be tried by the court. All the other persons who were present in this incident were victims of his action only.
Sam Rainsy’s decision to accept full responsibility is taking place at a time when the Svay Rieng provincial court is continuing its investigation in this border stakes uprooting. The court also charged a number of villagers who participated in the uprooting with Sam Rainsy. Up to now, the court has arrested two villagers and three others fled because they are concerned about being arrested.
At the end of October, Sam Rainsy and a group of villagers uprooted 6 border stakes that were installed by the joint Cambodian-Viet border committee in Koh Kban Kandal village, Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province. The villagers charged that these stakes were planted on top of their rice fields. Subsequently, Sam Rainsy was charged by the Svay Rieng court for destruction of public properties and for inciting racial discrimination.
Sam Rainsy declared that he was only witnessing the uprooting of these border stakes that led to the loss of Cambodian territories. However, now, he declared that he is taking full and sole responsibility in this case. Yim Sovann, SRP spokesman, explained today that Sam Rainsy did not uproot the stakes, but as a MP who was present on the spot, he accepts to take the responsibility for the villagers.
Yim Sovann claimed that the villagers are not to be blamed because they uprooted border stakes that are planted on their properties. However, if the court wants to charge anyone in this case, the court should only charge Sam Rainsy. Nevertheless, the Svay Rieng court is still continuing its work in this case.
Sam Rainsy, who in the past claimed that he was only a witness in the uprooting of border stakes, has changed his mind and he now accepts the full and sole responsibility in this case.
From France where he is now staying, the opposition leader issued a statement on Friday indicating that, according to the law, he is the person who is solely responsible and who should be tried by the court. All the other persons who were present in this incident were victims of his action only.
Sam Rainsy’s decision to accept full responsibility is taking place at a time when the Svay Rieng provincial court is continuing its investigation in this border stakes uprooting. The court also charged a number of villagers who participated in the uprooting with Sam Rainsy. Up to now, the court has arrested two villagers and three others fled because they are concerned about being arrested.
At the end of October, Sam Rainsy and a group of villagers uprooted 6 border stakes that were installed by the joint Cambodian-Viet border committee in Koh Kban Kandal village, Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province. The villagers charged that these stakes were planted on top of their rice fields. Subsequently, Sam Rainsy was charged by the Svay Rieng court for destruction of public properties and for inciting racial discrimination.
Sam Rainsy declared that he was only witnessing the uprooting of these border stakes that led to the loss of Cambodian territories. However, now, he declared that he is taking full and sole responsibility in this case. Yim Sovann, SRP spokesman, explained today that Sam Rainsy did not uproot the stakes, but as a MP who was present on the spot, he accepts to take the responsibility for the villagers.
Yim Sovann claimed that the villagers are not to be blamed because they uprooted border stakes that are planted on their properties. However, if the court wants to charge anyone in this case, the court should only charge Sam Rainsy. Nevertheless, the Svay Rieng court is still continuing its work in this case.
48 comments:
GO down all ah youn dog. Ott komneut pouk ah khnom youn go to hell. I do not want to spend my fucking earn money to see the hell in Srok khmer on my fucking vacation .
I hate injustice ,and slaves.
So are going to come back to Cambodia to take reponsibility of your lawlessness act now or are you going to be coward hidding in France and let these poor people take responsibility of your lawlessness act.
Mr. Sam Rainsy you never done anything good for Cambodia, but only inciting problems in Cambodia. You deserve to be in prison.
measthes@yahoo.com
Svay Rieng people, don't let me see or hear your cry!!... You are destroying yourself. How you do destroy yourself? You voted for CPP, thats how.
Vote for CPP last time Cambodia only lost your land. Vote for CPP next time, we lost the whole country. Do you people understand it now. This is what CPP does to you. If you want your land and your country saved, you all need to vote for whoever fighting for you, whoevery stands for you, whoevery protect you, whoever not on Vietnam side.
Remember CPP Hun Sen and its puppets are all on Vietnam side. SAM RAINSY IS NOT. YOU NEED TO REMEMBER THAT.
go to court and don't blam to people Mr Somrainsy!
measthes@yahoo.com
You have not asnwered my old question but runing amok all over the place.
Do you agree that Youn encroaching into Cambodia?
Sam Rainsy is only a little bitch. That is what he is. Taking full responsibility? How? By evading the law that you broke? I have gone to college to buddy and your action is anything but taking responsibility. Sam Rainsy is a coward. He creates situations to benefit his party at the expense of innocent Khmer villagers like this one case.
How does Sam Rainsy take responsibility? By hiding in France and let the people that trusted him to be left to the consequence of his irresponsible actions. This is the end of Sam Rainsy for sure. Better start working on your grape farms, buddy. Your career in Khmer politics is over. Bon Voyage, Mr. irresponsible for your action.
"Sam Rainsy, who in the past claimed that he was only a witness in the uprooting of border stakes, has changed his mind and he now accepts the full and sole responsibility in this case."
This is it. A flip-flop politician. Can't be trusted. Your political life is over, honey. Sorry!
Bull shit and cowards accusation,he did not up root the borders post but taking the responsibility , that is not enough? If I was rainsy I would call the Thai to bomb Tuol Krasang Royal Palace and I wanted to blow out the traitors, that is not fair to Ransy because of his duties to protect the Cambodia.
Even though the king ah Trangol preferred to release Thai spy whom damaged the Cambodia interest but not bother to give Ransy an excuse ah Trangol ah trangaol sdach youn Taing euv taing koun Ah kompooch thaok teab make all citizen suffer ,miserables no ending.
Go to hell all ah youn slave tang sdach tang reastr!
My dad told me that the politicians are snake. It is proven by the actions of Sam Rainsy, some time he told the people in overseas that Svay Rieng people uprooted the poles but now he is very snaky to say that he is solely responsible for those actions.
From his snaky, make the public very confusing.
One more thing that Cambodian never forget is "Sam Rainsy is very deleterious to associate with"
Don't Believe SAM RAINSY alot......
Best wishs from KON KHMER
Alot of stupid like to accuses innocent people!
How do you think about Mr. SAM RANGSY Characteristic ????? When something happened, he run away abroad. so who are in prison now ??????
3:37 PM
Is your head that far up your ass you can't even come to grip with reality that your lover Sam Rainsy is an inconsistent person that can't be trusted and won't be trusted by the people as they come to see his true color. At first he denied the involvement but his party coordinators failed in making it seem like only the villagers did. He has no choice but to admit to it but instead of admitting to it like a real man, he uses another political ploy issuing statement like this "taking full responsibilities." He is only saying so now because that is that best he could do. This guy would never admit his fault if they didn't catch him so red-handed. It's game over for you if you flip flop. Bye bye!
It seems SRP supporters like this moron here 3:37 PM only knows how to talk shit about the Viet. It's like if you take viet bashing out of their conversation, they become mute or something lol. Interesting observation. Do you guys have like a party where you go to talk shit about viets and jerk each other off while doing it? I hope you wear some rubbers if you do haha.
hahhahhahhah the answer are so easy ,what is Hun Sen characteristic?
I answer for all ,stupid , coward youn slave destroy what left over from year zero, ignorant. So for me I am looking for back up also ,so run for live and not bow down to the devil like Hun Sen.
4:24PM what a shamelessly face like you, dare to say with youn ,because of your master. It doesn't matters a hundred more years khmers be heading or absolutely youn slave because people like you born from youn whore so your conscious is toward youn.
Damn I got the youn site
You people know why at first Mr. Sam Rainsy said, he was only witness to the uprooting of border post and now he said, the person who did the uprooting of those border posts was himself?
Here is why, right after he uprooted those posts, he was interviewed by Radio Free Asia. In the interview he said, he was the person who uprooted those posts and take full responsibility of his action. And the Government is using the interviewed as evidence.
The government air his interview on national TV last week, that why he confessed to it now. What a shame criminal Sam Rainsy.
measthes@yahoo.com
yes Ransy are way better that youn slaves here hundred times, that he didn't sell his head to youn.
If we listen the VDO clip Ransy did not commit any crime to destroy Cambodia but that is very bizarre twist of Hun Sen viet slave mouth pieces.
Thang Meas Thes, A Kon Xmer Kbal Youn.
If you have any mind, you would see that what Sam Rainsy say and did were not inconsistent.
At first he was invited by grieving villagers to the border to show where their land had been stolen by puak ah Yiekcong. The villagers as you saw if you watched the video, uprooted the pole on their own accord by their own rights as owner of their farm.
So because Sam Rainsy did not tell people to uproot, Sam Rainsy stated the facts of event initially that Sam Rainsy did not uproot the border when the charge by the government was placed on him.
But, later on he takes "full responsibility"? Why? Because he is a Khmer politician working for Khmer people. When Sam Rainsy saw that the villagers became the target of this Yiekcong charade court, he have to step in and as you say "change" his mind. Something your Xamdech Decho Hun Xen would never do, that is accepting responsibility on the behalf he represents.
As you can see, Sam Rainsy is far from a coward. A coward is a a Svar Kim Hong, and A kanchas who lie to the Cambodian people about the border process and Ta Kanchas Heng Samrin who when told that his village was also part of Vietnam territory only smiled back - because that was all he can do. In his might of power in the seat of head of Cambodia parliement his greatness can only smile at the fact that his home got annexed into VietCong.
Now Thang Meas Thes, who is your great hero now? Where are your great heroes and their answer for the Khmer people when Son Chay and SRP called them to testify before the national assembly?
A Meas, or maybe I should call you, a Aich Kamrouch Thes. You are not a Khmer, You are a VietCong agent or a Xmer citizen, product of the Vietcong civilian army reserve that never left Cambodia since their occupation and now pretending to be talking and barking on Khmer behalf. Do yourself a favor and brand yourself by your own true color.
You got nothing to be ashame for being a Viet Cong or a Khmer traitor. Your life as a low-life plunder of Khmer natural resource, inflictor of suffering of Khmer low class rural and urban poor should give you immunity to being able to feel embarrassment and shame.
A Kbal Youn kolai chia Khmer! A Khmer Thmei! Puk a Xmer, Puak A "Kon Chau" Hun Xen. The day you all meet your divine fate like Hok Lundy is the day that Khmer can rejoice. As the so called Khmer Rough post goes, "to keep you is no gain and to lose you is no lost". Thang Meas Thes who the likes works against Khmer, for the earth to open up and the sky to strike you like HOk Lundy is no lost to us Khmer people.
3:19 meas thes
if those villagers are innocent like you said why the cpp run court jail them? What it tell then?
RCA should not take and show meas srey's picture and put her risk like these.
Rainsy has a political gain and rfa gained a story to cover
"All for one and one for all" is the main objective in the 21st century guys. Just try to follow the European way of life, everything will be alright!. The only key for succession is ,love, compassion, share and respect. Follow these rules, we all be saved both bodies and souls. Just do the right thing for the righteous will forever and the wicked will be terminated. Khmer intelligent
Sam Rainsy cannot win! Sam Rainsy doesn't have military force to protect him, his party and the people who he cares about.
I think the weakness in Mr. Sam Rainsy's leadership is that he does not have any plan or strategy. He is often seen in either catching-up or damage control mode. When will he start to realize that his party will fade away if he continues to lead without a well-defined strategy? Furthermore, when will he start to learn accepting other people views, open up the party, and recruit more intellectuals? He got to realize that he alone can never win.
Political game is no different from chess game. You have to be able to anticipate your opponent next move, else you're in trouble until your final defeat.
Si Lok Sam Rainsy est une
personne courageuse et responsable, lok Sam Rainsy doit retourner au pays puis faire libérer ces pauvres agriculteurs. Car sa présence est nécessaire pour payer la libération des ces pauvres personnes.
Mais lok Sam Rainsy préfère plutôt rester confortablement à Paris pour savourer le champagne avec le fois gras et le caviar en laissant plusieurs personnes en prison à sa place.
J'aimerais faire appel a des vrais nationalists a l'interieur du PSR d'elire un nouveau leader qui peut mener et operer sur le terrain plutot que de se cacher dans une chambre de l'hotel a Paris.
Le liberte a un prix, et ce prix est paye par le courage et la sacrifice. S'il M. Rainsy n'est pas pret pour ce defit ultime, il devra ceder sa place a quelqu'un d'autre, faute de quoi il sera accuser d'etre dictateur ou traitre.
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I would like to appeal to all true nationalists inside SRP to elect a new leader twho can lead and manoeuver in the field, not hiding in a hotel room in Paris.
Freedom comes with a price, which is paid by courage and sacrifice. If Mr. Rainsy is not ready for that challenge, he must resign and give his position to someone else, otherwise he is just another dictator or traitor.
correction: La liberte
If Sam Rainsy taking responsibility, come back to Cambodia and go to court instead of hiding in Franch and let the poor villagers getting punish for Sam Rainsy stupid action.
Sam Rainsy, if you are a man, and a leader to defend the poor villagers like you claim to be, come back to Cambodia and fight this. Go to jail if you have to. Why so afraid! Even Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mendela, are all spend times in jail.
So if you are real, never afraid to fight, go to Jail or even die for your cause. If not, forget about it, and hide in Franch forever, and let someone else take the lead.
“Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” - Robert F. Kennedy, Capetown, 6 June 1966
In Cambodia, this man is Sam Rainsy. He is an inspiration to the young and the old, to the women and the men. Because of Sam Rainsy, we have labor rights. Because of Sam Rainsy, we know more about our environmental problems. Because of Sam Rainsy, we know more about democracy in Cambodia. Because of Sam Rainsy, we are more courageous and more hopeful. Sam Rainsy is our man. He is the leader for Cambodia! Unless we want to continue to live in these conditions of begging and violence and soon to be homeless because the current "leaders" do not care to protect the nation or its people. Cambodians want Sam Rainsy to be our leader!
Mr. Rainsy is the bravest Cambodian! He fights for his people and for his country, unlike the current leadership.
In the history of mankind, freedom is obtained through courageous struggle and sarifice, not candle light, quotation or romantic sentiment.
To quote the article by Ms. Theary Seng, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Keep up the good fight, wherever you are, Mr. Sam Rainsy!
The more they fight you, the more you know you are doing and saying the right thing. Particularly in this topsy turvy society where things are not what they seem, where everything is turned upside down.
We need you alive and free to fight for us and with us.
The REAL COWARDS are those who hide behind power and status and oppress poor villagers!
Sam Rainsy is a coward and a con man!
It is sad that he is foolish so many people and still fooling many Khmer oversea. But in Cambodia, many people is start to see his hypocrisy!
It's may sound good to proclaim that you are an idealist, and unrealistic dreamer, but if you are coward and have no clear plan, you will fail. Even worst, if you succeed in taking power, you will create disaster like Mao and Pol Pot.
10:54Am - Many Khmer oversea don't like Sam Rainsy. He has a complex personality and thinks he's the smartest. That's why the majority of Khmers oversea do not support him.
Just like many Khmers in Cambodia, many Khmers oversea don't approve Hun Sen's policies, but it does not mean they support Sam Rainsy.
I am Rainsy's supporter and I know whoever hate Rainsy like Meas??@yahoo.com are Yuon spies or Youn's instruments. Cambodia is lucky to have an opposition leader like Rainsy.
11:50PM, I agree! Who else have the will more then Mr. Rainsy to take lead on facing Hun Xen? None! Everyone else just all talks and theory but no guts or will to go through what Mr. Rainsy went through for the last decade an a half.
HRP, Kem Soha? Long corrupted history when he was the president of CHHIR. Only good on speech but no action. His brother left him last year to joined CPP. Since he returned with his HRP, he have done nothing to really oppose Hun Xen. They are more like of CPP puppet. If they are not, by the time HRP established their grassroots as strong as SRP today there will be no Cambodia left to denfend.
Add on to 12:37AM,
As old saying, "the more you do the the more blame you'll get". People blaming SRP because the are doing something. Whenever, wherever our people suffering there always SRP there trying to resolve the issues and or defending our poor victims.
Everyone one else are to coward to step up to defend our people. People don't critics them because they don't do anything to critics about. They all seems like angels to public eyes. SRP seems bad because they are attempting to help.
There are 3 kind of people:
1. Wonder what happen
2. Watch what happen
3. Trying to make it happen
The one who is tryin to make it happen gets the most blame. Mainly from those who wonder and watch.
In Cambodia's judicial systems it's called "Meatra Ti Buon, Ah Chor Ruoch Kluon, Mchas Choab Kouk!" so for those of you who bashed Mr. Raingsy, you need to have your brain examine by a specialist and that is if you have any brain left or have any brain at all? Hopefully you can now distinguish right from wrong?
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 80 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 over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered journalists
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.
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ah thes meas hun sen's cock sucker!,
ah juoy marai!,
ah rorleay!,
ah ronteas banh!,
kon me kaandooy ahyeas!,
kon me joa kaa juoy!,
kon me sompurng!
i have a question for you.
why do you support the khmer rouge regimes (ah pol pot and/or ah hun sen) who's kills 1.7 million innocent khmer peoples and counting?
if i don't get answer from you and/or if i'm not 100% satisfy with your answer, i will continue to post this question every time you post bad comment about democratic party (SRP) who is defending khmer peoples and khmer territories.
Mr. Rainsy,
Please come back now to Cambodia since you admitted you are responsible, not the villagers.
Stop living your luxury life in France while other people rot in jail.
Khmer in Phnom Penh
to whom it mayconcern'
regarding on up rooting border posts
at svay reang imagine ,if the border posts are placed in the middle of chba ompov bridge,and how many cpp member would brave enough to stand a ginst yorn guess,who will stand up
and fight whith youn?, ,
those samdach? cpp member? or ah slave ah svar NAM HONG? of cause not. for MR.SAMRAINSY PARTY ,they would do same thing in svey reang
Khmer Phnom Penh and/or Thes Meas are/is Vietnamese. Khmer cannot be like him.
CPP members,
if you don't work for Vietnameses,
give back those lands to Khmers.
revolution will do!
HEY WHY I DON'T SEE THE PICTURE OF MR. RAINSY
UPROOTING OF BORDER STAKES? HUH KI-MEDIA
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