Cheang Sokha and Sebastian Strangio
The Phnom Penh Post
No details of warrant available, Svay Rieng’s top policeman says.
A senior Svay Rieng police officer said Wednesday that the provincial court is believed to have issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sam Rainsy after he failed to appear before a judge on Monday in connection with his removal of border posts on the Vietnamese frontier, although no details of the order are available.
Svay Rieng Police Commissioner Prach Rim said he could provide no additional information about the warrant, adding, “It has not yet arrived in my hands, so that is why I cannot elaborate further”.
Earlier this month, Svay Rieng court officials charged Sam Rainsy with racial incitement and the destruction of property over an October 25 incident in which he joined villagers in uprooting six wooden posts near the border with Vietnam.
The outspoken government critic was stripped of his parliamentary immunity last month over the incident.
Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann said he did not have specific information about the warrant, but defended the SRP president’s actions on the border.
“I will repeat that Mr Sam Rainsy has not done anything wrong. Because the demarcation posts were put in the middle of the people’s land without their participation … they had a right to pull them out,” he said.
He said the SRP has long opposed the border treaty signed with Vietnam in 2005, which it feared would lead to the loss of Cambodian land, adding that Sam Rainsy’s current tour in Europe would help publicise the Vietnamese incursions.
“This is a political problem so we have to find a political solution … by speaking to the international donors that provide financial assistance to the government,” he said, adding that he did not know when Sam Rainsy would return.
Government officials, however, said the issuing of an arrest warrant was standard procedure in cases where individuals failed to honour a court summons.
“He failed his obligation to present himself at the court. As a member of parliament, he should set a good example and respect the court’s request,” said Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan. He said he had received no formal notification of the warrant.
“We are trying to respect the rule of law – no matter who you are, you have an obligation to obey the court,” he said.
A senior Svay Rieng police officer said Wednesday that the provincial court is believed to have issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sam Rainsy after he failed to appear before a judge on Monday in connection with his removal of border posts on the Vietnamese frontier, although no details of the order are available.
Svay Rieng Police Commissioner Prach Rim said he could provide no additional information about the warrant, adding, “It has not yet arrived in my hands, so that is why I cannot elaborate further”.
Earlier this month, Svay Rieng court officials charged Sam Rainsy with racial incitement and the destruction of property over an October 25 incident in which he joined villagers in uprooting six wooden posts near the border with Vietnam.
The outspoken government critic was stripped of his parliamentary immunity last month over the incident.
Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann said he did not have specific information about the warrant, but defended the SRP president’s actions on the border.
“I will repeat that Mr Sam Rainsy has not done anything wrong. Because the demarcation posts were put in the middle of the people’s land without their participation … they had a right to pull them out,” he said.
He said the SRP has long opposed the border treaty signed with Vietnam in 2005, which it feared would lead to the loss of Cambodian land, adding that Sam Rainsy’s current tour in Europe would help publicise the Vietnamese incursions.
“This is a political problem so we have to find a political solution … by speaking to the international donors that provide financial assistance to the government,” he said, adding that he did not know when Sam Rainsy would return.
Government officials, however, said the issuing of an arrest warrant was standard procedure in cases where individuals failed to honour a court summons.
“He failed his obligation to present himself at the court. As a member of parliament, he should set a good example and respect the court’s request,” said Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan. He said he had received no formal notification of the warrant.
“We are trying to respect the rule of law – no matter who you are, you have an obligation to obey the court,” he said.
6 comments:
Mr. phay siphan is a barking robot. he can not think straight as to why he has been used as a political tool for the cpp. Had he used his smart brain to think of the logic behind this shameless order by the corrupt cambodian court in svay rieng, he would have known that he's being trapped in a political scheme. Phay siphan should relearn political science 101.
And you 2;01am forget that this spoke person Phay Siphan is instructed to speak what is in the paper, or otherwise? If you know Phay Siphan is being trapped and why did you not understand the problems what has to do? If you were Phay Siphan, you would be the same.
CPP Court do every thing to please the Vietnamese by punishing the one that protect the Khmer land and Khmer people from the Vietnamese expansion. What kind of the CPP Government is by destroying and killing Khmer people. This new year 2010 is a dead end to the evictees and millions of Khmer are suffering and dying under the CPP hand worst than the Khmer Rouge era. Khmer people lost every thing that can never be restore or reclaim from the Vietnamese if the World and United Nations keep silence on the Khmer people like in Tibet. All Khmer people must rise up against all enemy internal and external in order to regain and control our land from the Vietnamese expansion.
គួរឲ្យខ្មាស់យួនណាស់ ។យួនអាចបង្គាប់ខ្មែរឲ្យចាប់អ្នកដឹកនាំខ្មែរ ដែលគ្រាន់តែហ៊ានចេញមុខកាពារផល់ប្រយោជន៍ខ្មែរ។អស់សង្ឃឹមរលីង។នេះបានជាហៅថាអាពូជឈាមកប់មិនខុសមែន។
The Svay Rieng court should order arrest the thief Nguyen tan dung, hun Sen, Chea Sim, Heng samrin and Sihamony this motherf**ker is the real criminals.
The Svay Rieng court you have to do right thing,don't be afraid to support justice,you should arrest those thieve instead of your own people.
Ah nguyen,ah hun ,ah chea,ah heng all of you the lighting will struck you in your sleep because you cause too much miserable for innocent Khmer people.
Next time when ah thief gnuyen enter Cambodia God will take your life or Khmer people will dump you without delay.
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