Opposition leader Sam Rainsy (Photo: AFP)12/31/2009
Agence France-Presse
"Sam Rainsy has done nothing wrong. He just fulfiled his duty as a member of parliament" - Yim Sovann, SRP spokesmanCambodia has issued an arrest warrant for the country's main opposition leader after he failed to show up in court to answer charges of uprooting border markings, his lawyer said Thursday.
Cambodia has issued an arrest warrant for the country's main opposition leader after he failed to show up in court to answer charges of uprooting border markings, his lawyer said Thursday.
The move came after Sam Rainsy, who was stripped of his parliamentary immunity in November, failed to appear in court on Monday on charges of damaging markers denoting the international boundary with neighbouring Vietnam.
The opposition leader is currently in Paris.
"The arrest warrant for Sam Rainsy was issued on Tuesday by Svay Rieng provincial court," Sam Rainsy's lawyer Choung Chou Ngy told AFP.
He said the opposition leader had been charged with inciting racial discrimination and intentionally damaging property when he allegedly uprooted the border markings in October saying they were illegally placed by Vietnam.
Court officials could not be reached to comment, but opposition Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann called the move was "a plan organised by the ruling party to intimidate and to threaten members of opposition party".
"Sam Rainsy has done nothing wrong. He just fulfiled his duty as a member of parliament," he said.
The French-educated former finance minister is the main rival to Prime Minister Hun Sen. He has promised to promote liberal democracy and human rights if elected, while promising to raise wages and fight corruption.
Cambodia and Vietnam officially began demarcating their contentious border in September 2006, in a bid to end decades of territorial disputes.
The border row has sparked virulent anti-Vietnamese sentiment in Cambodia, fuelled by resentment of Vietnam's expansion over the centuries.
The 1,270-kilometre (787-mile) border has remained essentially unmarked and vague since French colonial times, with stone markers and boundary flags having disappeared, while trees once lining it were cut down.
15 comments:
Mr. Sam Raingsy, you used the wrong batter-field. Cambodia is your country and the right place for Freedom-Fighting.
12:52am,
Are you retard ?.
Som Rainsy has to show up in fron of the khmer court!
Do not run away the problem!
The leader like that Khmer people don't need in the Cambodia country!
That fucking court acted upon yuon's request.A khmer's court that served yuon's interest . As a khmer nationalist,no one will ever attend such dirty fucking court .Beside,Mr SAM RAINSEY has done nothing wrong.All he did was trying to prevent the takeover by yuon and,whoever ask him to go to that court so that he can be punished is absolutely a traitor or an enemy of the motherland Cambodia.
Mr. phay siphan is a power hungry dirt poor spineless scumbag whom the cpp uses as a barking machine to silence the voice of the opposition.
They should spending time arresting millions of illegal youns. Instead, they are arresting khmer.
This government is committing crimes over and over. May the new year bring down this stupid foolishness government.
1:55 who bring hun sen down, you tell me! police, milltary are with him! and there is no courage man like pol pot anymore, khmers now are chickens!
Mr. Sam Raingsy let me tell you what as you known do not wear father shoes if you do you have to be smarter then your father .you known the king father said to your father is KBAT JEAT now hun sen said that to you ,too. but a group of KBAT JEAT IS 3/4 of cpp.
A traitor is nobody but Sihanouk himself.
3;04am and 3;12am.
Rainsy and his father Sam Sary are different people with different character. From what I knew through British old news said Sam Sary was a savage bastard a wife beater. Not even that he beated up his wife to bleeding in front of Her Majesty the Queen, was too barbaric. Furtheremore he joined the western Libs with DapChhuon Mochul Pich to take Cambodia to the disaster direction ignoring Soviet-China's declaration to attack. While Soviet-China aimed toward Indochina Vietnamese were raoming all everywhere in Cambodia since the French colony. Sam Sary and DapChhuon Mochul Pich were mad men, and they both were killed by Gen Lon Nol's army.
If you hate King Sihanouk, then get your record straight, you bastard. Stop your Yuon propagandas when you knew shit about Sam Sary's intentions.
Idiot motherfucker 3:37AM,
i may not know Sam Sary as well but, i knew he had beat his wife while serving as ambassador to Great Britain but, that incident qualify to be Traitor ?Fuck NO.I don't know where did you get information from but, i knew Sam Sary never been associated with the notorious DAP cHHUON,he was with Mr SOEUNG Ngoc Thanh of course and,only THE NOTORIOUS dap Chhuon was killed by Sihanouk soldiers.Don't twist the fact if you motherfucker did not know a shit about history.
As for your buddy Sihanouk ,you can call him whatever you want but this Moron,a communist sympathizer a polpot's accomplice did call upon North Vietnam and vietcong in the 70s to invade and attack his own country and if you disagree with that just go to hell and burn yourself there you bastard motherfucker.
I heard Sam Sary associated with CIA. I heard Dapchhuon and Lon Nol associated with CIA against King Sihanouk. For some reasons, Lon Nol later learned of Dapchhoun's evil intentions, then Lon Nol killed him, then joined with King Sihanouk. I am still looking for those evidence in England and France.
If I were King Sihanouk and the country is under atatck by supreme powerul Communist like Soviet-China and with their strong puppet Hanoi, I won't hesitate to kill Sam Sary or any others who could put Cambodia in danger.
4:08 AM,
You and your family practice of fucking your own mother or what?
If you cannot debate then don't speak of fucking your own mother when you debate.
King Sihanouk was very wise to seek China helps after he knew Soviet-China supported Ho Chi Minh to take Cambodia and Laos.
A good leader should not be afraid of destroying the people like Dap Chhuon and Sam Sary. If I were King Sihanouk I will do the same.
6:20AM GO and screw your own mother with broom stick you bastard and also your daughter too asshole.You are nothing but a traitor yourself ah kbot cheat motherfucker.
the title should be "hanoi seeks to arrest Cambodian oppoistion leader"
first of all, it is yuons who want the head of rainsy and seek to silent all revolt against yuon crimes, yuon criminal expansionist policy
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