Wednesday, 06 January 2010“Sam Rainsy just pulled out six wooden border poles and they accused him of destroying public property, but when Khmer and Vietnamese authorities came to pull out the others nearby, that was not illegal” - Pov Pheap, second deputy chief of Samrong commune in Chantrea district
Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
In his keynote speech, the premier called for opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s arrest.
“This time I would like to declare … there is no [pardon]. After the court convicts, let it be,” Hun Sen said during an inauguration ceremony for a stretch of National Road 1 in Kandal province.
“There are no more chances [for Sam Rainsy] to write a letter of apology to me. This time, there is no more [chance for pardon], sorry. Prepare yourself. We don’t regard him as guilty yet – [we] just say that if he is, do not rely on Hun Sen.”
The premier also defended the current demarcation of the Cambodian-Vietnamese border, and noted that foreign embassies and international organisations have not sprung to Sam Rainsy’s defence.
“Now who are the foreigners and embassies that support such an action?” Hun Sen asked the audience.
Sam Rainsy was charged last week with racial incitement and destruction of property by the Svay Rieng provincial court after he led villagers in the province’s Chantrea district in a protest last year.
During the rally they uprooted wooden posts on the Vietnamese frontier at border marker 185.
The court issued an arrest warrant for Sam Rainsy, who is currently in Europe, after he failed to appear for questioning at a hearing last week. Two Svay Rieng farmers have already been arrested in connection with the protest, while warrants have been issued for three more.
Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann on Tuesday defended Sam Rainsy’s actions in the protest, saying that Hun Sen should focus on other problems facing Cambodia.
“As I listen to [Hun Sen], it seems that he is influencing the court,” Yim Sovann said.
The SRP released a statement on Tuesday alleging that Cambodian and Vietnamese authorities had conspired to remove other border posts placed near the site of Sam Rainsy’s October protest. In the statement, the opposition party claimed that the posts’ removal proved they had been installed illegally.
“Sam Rainsy pulled out six wooden poles at border marker 185, but subsequently similar wooden poles at nearby border marker 184, 186 and 187 have also been removed by the authorities themselves,” the statement read. “At marker 184 even the concrete foundations under the wooden poles have been dug out, put into a tractor and taken back to Vietnam.”
This action, the SRP claimed, demonstrated that officials from both countries knew that the border posts had been illegitimately placed on Cambodian farmland.
“Now realising they are on weak legal ground in the prosecution of Sam Rainsy and the concerned farmers, the authorities have surreptitiously resorted to do the same thing as Sam Rainsy did, ie removing illegally-imposed border markers, which is leading to a judicial imbroglio illustrating the political nature of the charges levied against Sam Rainsy,” the statement said.
Pov Pheap, second deputy chief of Samrong commune in Chantrea district, said Tuesday that the border markers in question had in fact been removed by Vietnamese authorities on November 16, the same day that Sam Rainsy’s parliamentary immunity was lifted, paving the way for the charges against him.
“Sam Rainsy just pulled out six wooden border poles and they accused him of destroying public property, but when Khmer and Vietnamese authorities came to pull out the others nearby, that was not illegal,” Pov Pheap said.
Var Kimhong, senior minister in charge of border affairs, rejected the claims made by SRP authorities but declined to comment further.
"Now who are the foreigners and embassies that support such an action?"PRIME Minister Hun Sen warned Tuesday that he will not request a pardon for Sam Rainsy if the opposition leader is found guilty in a pending criminal trial stemming from an October protest against alleged Vietnamese encroachment on Cambodian territory.
“This time I would like to declare … there is no [pardon]. After the court convicts, let it be,” Hun Sen said during an inauguration ceremony for a stretch of National Road 1 in Kandal province.
“There are no more chances [for Sam Rainsy] to write a letter of apology to me. This time, there is no more [chance for pardon], sorry. Prepare yourself. We don’t regard him as guilty yet – [we] just say that if he is, do not rely on Hun Sen.”
The premier also defended the current demarcation of the Cambodian-Vietnamese border, and noted that foreign embassies and international organisations have not sprung to Sam Rainsy’s defence.
“Now who are the foreigners and embassies that support such an action?” Hun Sen asked the audience.
Sam Rainsy was charged last week with racial incitement and destruction of property by the Svay Rieng provincial court after he led villagers in the province’s Chantrea district in a protest last year.
During the rally they uprooted wooden posts on the Vietnamese frontier at border marker 185.
The court issued an arrest warrant for Sam Rainsy, who is currently in Europe, after he failed to appear for questioning at a hearing last week. Two Svay Rieng farmers have already been arrested in connection with the protest, while warrants have been issued for three more.
Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann on Tuesday defended Sam Rainsy’s actions in the protest, saying that Hun Sen should focus on other problems facing Cambodia.
“As I listen to [Hun Sen], it seems that he is influencing the court,” Yim Sovann said.
The SRP released a statement on Tuesday alleging that Cambodian and Vietnamese authorities had conspired to remove other border posts placed near the site of Sam Rainsy’s October protest. In the statement, the opposition party claimed that the posts’ removal proved they had been installed illegally.
“Sam Rainsy pulled out six wooden poles at border marker 185, but subsequently similar wooden poles at nearby border marker 184, 186 and 187 have also been removed by the authorities themselves,” the statement read. “At marker 184 even the concrete foundations under the wooden poles have been dug out, put into a tractor and taken back to Vietnam.”
This action, the SRP claimed, demonstrated that officials from both countries knew that the border posts had been illegitimately placed on Cambodian farmland.
“Now realising they are on weak legal ground in the prosecution of Sam Rainsy and the concerned farmers, the authorities have surreptitiously resorted to do the same thing as Sam Rainsy did, ie removing illegally-imposed border markers, which is leading to a judicial imbroglio illustrating the political nature of the charges levied against Sam Rainsy,” the statement said.
Pov Pheap, second deputy chief of Samrong commune in Chantrea district, said Tuesday that the border markers in question had in fact been removed by Vietnamese authorities on November 16, the same day that Sam Rainsy’s parliamentary immunity was lifted, paving the way for the charges against him.
“Sam Rainsy just pulled out six wooden border poles and they accused him of destroying public property, but when Khmer and Vietnamese authorities came to pull out the others nearby, that was not illegal,” Pov Pheap said.
Var Kimhong, senior minister in charge of border affairs, rejected the claims made by SRP authorities but declined to comment further.
30 comments:
Brutality act must be the short life.
Hun Sen gives a lot of importance and pays a lot of attention to Sam Rainsy. Is he that afraid of Sam Rainsy?
No HUN SEN not afraid of sam rangsy,but in fact he is afraid of the people nationalism or people revolution.
Why is this guy ( Hun Sen ) always full of anger ? It seems like everymorning after he woke up he will look for someone to blame to make himself feel better. I think Hun Seh will die by heart attack if he can't say or do what he wants to .
Should Sam Rainsy give more gilfs to Hun Sen?
Sam Rainsy committed two bigs mistakes.
1-He broke the international community embargo against goverment HUN SEN-UNG HOUTH after the coup d'etat against Ranarith.
2-Accepted (50+1)
6:21 PM
No, he (SR)needs VERY sharp object shove into his (HS)asshole until he's bleeding to death, and then the people of Cambodia can use his blood to paint the Yuons.
Knowledge is MONEY
Why would foreign embassies care or the international organizations give a howl about this? They love the conflict to continue for their definite purpose. This may only be a test and more yet to come concerning the boarder issue.
This is the guilty convicting the innocence. It was not property damage by pulling them out, unless they used the posts to cook a dog with it.
Mr. Hun Sen is on his way to achieve the second dream of Uncle Ho Chi Minh.
If one day Hun Sen dies, he will be the hero of the Vietnamese people.
a oun hun xen clear at Khmer the same for yuon can't speak afraid dismiss of power ,someday yuon not believe kick out of power ,know te a oun
Hun Sen should be stepping down if he is incapable to lead the country to democracy.
Hun Sen should know people have the rights to protest unless that individual not hurting him.
And also have the rights to oppose the 7th of Jan as well.
People have the right to demonstrate.
The cpp have committed alot of crime especially against khmer.
These cpp are the worst of human kind. They kill their own, work for youn. And they have the nerve still to accused their own people who try to defend the country.
When the day come, those land they force people out and crime they committed will be repay. Its the law of nature. Paper law is not as effect as the one the cpp use against khmer.
May this regime that work hanoi fallls soon this year.
I think Hun Sen hates khmer. That is why he causing alot of suffering upon only khmer.
Hun Sen is a blood sucker, power hungry person. He does whatever for the sake of him and his family and his sycophants.
I concurred with 6:19 that from medical point of view, Hun Sen looks like he has high blood pressure or have cancer in his systems, or better yet, he is an alcoholic! I don't know for sure if he drinks or not but the way he looks and act like one!
With this kind of condition, I don't think his bodyguards could help!
Vietnam doesn't help Hun Sen at all, instead they keep proposed him with unpopular proposition or guidelines which in turn make Hun Sen unpopular with the population! the next move by Vietnam is to replace Hun Sen therefore, Mr. Hun Sen, I urged you to activate Plan B, before Vietnam get rid of you! That Plan B is to escape while you can, seek refuge in the west, under government protection, and once you're in the west you can turn 180 degrees, by reveal the Viets commies dirty plan in Cambodia and side yourself with us, and who knows, we may forgive you just like when the U.S. offered free passage to Saddam Hussein and his entourages but too bad Saddam didn't take the offer so what happened to him? he died miserably!
hi!freedowload
If all Khmers set back their religion like Angkor period (Hinduism or Muslim), Youn will disappear from Khmer land only one year late. If Youn disappear who will disappear too ???
Khmer Ghost
Yes, indeed! Buddhism stucked with Ahimsa whereas Brahmanism, Hinduism, or Sikhs allow to go to battle to war to kill as long as it is for righteouness such as defending our homeland! not abstain like Buddhism? not only that the head of the buddhist monks in Cambodia Tep Vong is a Viet Agent!@!!!
THE TRAITORS SAM RAINSY deserved to be in Prey Sar Prison.
measthes@yahoo.com
Who want to be with you and ah kwack choymaray 1:35AM?????
May you evils die in pain!
1:35 AM
Hey I know u just get out from your mom's pssy, that's y you don't know much about Mr. Sam Ransy. He works for Khmer, not like ah kwack works for youn
Khmer PP
Yes, indeed! Buddhism stucked with Ahimsa whereas Brahmanism, Hinduism, or Sikhs allow to go to battle to war to kill as long as it is for righteouness such as defending our homeland! not abstain like Buddhism? not only that the head of the buddhist monks in Cambodia Tep Vong is a Viet Agent!@!!!
11:46 PM
Go fuck yourself and read more! What the fuck with the contry with religions you are mention above!
Is your morther not a stupid hooker to give you VD brain?
Hey 2:40! After examined your case, it shows that you don't have VD but you have A.I.D.S. instead and it's stuck in your anus all the way to your tongue! including your stinky breath! My recommendation to you is to find Vietnamese excrements i.e. shit and eat moderately until Yama greets your soul in hell o.k.!
measthes@yahoo.com,
you are the real Dog of Viet and as you know the Viet said the Xmer officials are very corrupted they need only USD what thier land will be in the future they don't pay attention at all, so we must buy more land from this country, one day all belong to us. If you don't know at all, let me tell you. In oversea, I know one of former Vietnamese general who and his unit were the first unit conquered Phnom Penh (near the future as TagnFo Man Yang) in 1979. He tell me Viet will take your country all in nearby the future why your Khmers don't nothings about this?
If Khmers allow the Viet do like today, Khmer will be Kampuchea Krom nearby the future, first all of top leaders will be replace by Viet speaking Khmer from Hanio, then Middle leaders and finally low leaders.
Khmer Ghost
cambodia's phnom penh is not nom penh or whatever! no wonder khmer people still called ho chi minh city as prey nokor! it goes to show the predatory nature of viet/youn wishful thinking to steal from cambodia. no wonder khmer people do not trust youn altogether!
Sometime HUN SEN do it right, because most of Cambodia leader corruted including RASEY and SOKHA if you are the closed person with hime. People only lesten to hime belive RASEY and SOKHA is good but still corruted. Cambodia now need the goodwill of leader and nationallism leader. Vietnam can not take cambodia, why? 1 million Cambodia live oversea so do not allow Vietnam take Cambodia. Cambodia need united outside and inside. so cambodia can deverlop like other country. If we blam eather other no work. You must remember the chines spok person said a bout Khamer Ruoge case. What he say KHMER KILLED KHMER. not other country invoved. As we khnow it is very harted for Cambodian people. Khmer must UNITED. KHMER SOTH. USA
As always monsieur Hun Xen is a coward. he can only bark behind the podium.
Sam Rainsy has never feared to make a mess in Cambodia because he always realised on his last resort is writing a apologise letter to Hun Sen, but now, thing is changed and the door is locked.
There are two things that Sam Rainsy has to decide:
1. Goes back to Cambodia to faces the Court and prepare himself goes to jail if the Court convicted him.
2. Give up politics and keeps living in France as long as he likes.
Some analysis already said that Sam Rainsy is not brave like Mrs. Aung San Suu Yi in Burma. He is the runner, but not a fighter.
Cheers.
10:13
Can you please stop copying and pasting the same comment over and over. It is a bit redundant!
Correction, Mr. Sam Rainsy is a brave hero, who has risked everything to protect Cambodia and it's people. He has a good life in France, he does not need to deal with Uncivilized Barbarians like Hun Sen and the CPP, but he does it because he loves Cambodia and it's people. Only a true patriot would do that. Dealing with Hun Sen and CPP is worst than having your head drilled a thousand times. Your dealing with imbeciles, who have no shame, dignity and lack the capacity to differentiate right from wrong, wait correction, they simply don't care about doing what's right. They are only in the business of doing evil, bad things to the helpless and poor!
All people who care about justice and establishing democracy and peace in Cambodia, would be against everything that Hun Sen and CPP are doing to Cambodia and Cambodian People.
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