(Photo: AFP)Original report from Phnom Penh
26 February 2010
The Cambodian government lodged a criminal complaint against opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Friday, for publishing a Vietnamese border map on his party’s Web site the government claims is false.
The complaint was filed in Phnom Penh Municipal Court by government lawyer Ky Tech on Friday. Investigating judge Sok Klyan said he had received the complaint from prosecutors on Friday, but he did not give a timeline for concluding his investigation.
The charge of disinformation carries a jail term of three years, but the charge of distributing a false public document is more serious and calls for as much as 15 years in prison.
The Sam Rainsy Party claims on its Web site the Cambodia has lost land to Vietnamese encroachment. The map on the Web site is an apparent attempt to bolster those claims.
The map was posted on the Web site after Sam Rainsy was found guilty in January for destruction of property, for uprooting markers on the Vietnamese border where villagers said they had lost land to encroachment.
Land encroachment accusations from the Thai and Vietnamese borders are political flashpoints in Cambodia. In 2003 unsubstantiated rumors that a Thai actress had claimed Angkor Wat should belong to Thailand led to rioting and the looting and burning of the Thai Embassy.
Sam Rainsy has said the map on his Web site, depicting the Cambodia-Vietnam border in 1952, is correct. On hearing the government was considering a lawsuit earlier this week, Sam Rainsy told reporters, “The court can sentence me to prison, but Cambodian cannot lose its land.”
Prime Minister Hun Sen said earlier this week Sam Rainsy was a “betrayer of the nation” for posting the map on his Web site, a serious charge in the Khmer language.
Am Sam Ath, head of investigations for the right group Adhoc, said the government “should not think about complaints against the opposition leader, because Cambodia is facing a border dispute with
Thailand. So the government and the opposition should unite to protect Cambodian sovereignty and the borders with all the neighbors.”
The complaint will bring concern to the people over Cambodia’s political situation, he said. “It is not in the interest for the whole of Cambodian society.”
The complaint was filed in Phnom Penh Municipal Court by government lawyer Ky Tech on Friday. Investigating judge Sok Klyan said he had received the complaint from prosecutors on Friday, but he did not give a timeline for concluding his investigation.
The charge of disinformation carries a jail term of three years, but the charge of distributing a false public document is more serious and calls for as much as 15 years in prison.
The Sam Rainsy Party claims on its Web site the Cambodia has lost land to Vietnamese encroachment. The map on the Web site is an apparent attempt to bolster those claims.
The map was posted on the Web site after Sam Rainsy was found guilty in January for destruction of property, for uprooting markers on the Vietnamese border where villagers said they had lost land to encroachment.
Land encroachment accusations from the Thai and Vietnamese borders are political flashpoints in Cambodia. In 2003 unsubstantiated rumors that a Thai actress had claimed Angkor Wat should belong to Thailand led to rioting and the looting and burning of the Thai Embassy.
Sam Rainsy has said the map on his Web site, depicting the Cambodia-Vietnam border in 1952, is correct. On hearing the government was considering a lawsuit earlier this week, Sam Rainsy told reporters, “The court can sentence me to prison, but Cambodian cannot lose its land.”
Prime Minister Hun Sen said earlier this week Sam Rainsy was a “betrayer of the nation” for posting the map on his Web site, a serious charge in the Khmer language.
Am Sam Ath, head of investigations for the right group Adhoc, said the government “should not think about complaints against the opposition leader, because Cambodia is facing a border dispute with
Thailand. So the government and the opposition should unite to protect Cambodian sovereignty and the borders with all the neighbors.”
The complaint will bring concern to the people over Cambodia’s political situation, he said. “It is not in the interest for the whole of Cambodian society.”
Here we go again for another "Kangaroo Court" being played out in Cambodia against innocent citizen.
ReplyDeleteCall this the trial of Dictator Hun Sen vs. the innocent Farmers of Cambodia.
The main issue here is about Yuon's stealing of Khmer farmers' land, and Dictator Hun Sen try to cover up for his Hanoi masters at all cost.
This is a shameless and shitty political game the cambo govt is playing.
ReplyDeleteQuite frankly, I want to see the border demarcation verified by UN committee.
Those who love money, youns and curruptions supports the CPP/HUN XEN/ HANOI.
ReplyDeleteThose who loves khmer and justice please stand up, raise your voice, your time, and support those who support khmer, land and justice.
Oh well! What else can the Vietcong slave government do for Cambodian people beside obeying the Vietcong master in every command!
ReplyDeleteIf the Vietcong slave government refuses to tell the Vietcong master that there is a limitation to what they can do as slave and if the Vietcong keeping pushing, pushing, and pushing that Vietcong slave government must commit suicide to get what the Vietcong master want then Cambodian politic will always be a dagger in the Vietcong politic!
The latest Cambodian government lodged a criminal complaint against Xam RainXy for misinformation and false public document is the last nail on Xam RainXy's coffin. His political career in Cambodia is done and dashed. His life goes back to square one.
ReplyDeleteLie too much is destroyed yourself. So far, Xam RainXy has jumped too high, but when he fall back it hurts him very painful.
Khmer in Sydney CBD
what u expect? that's all he did since 1979. Kissing Youn's ass was and is the only way he can has his power. remember the K5 policy back in 1981 that pen sovann refused to went along, which result in his over 10 yrs imprisonment in hanoi? A kbot Hun Sen will by all mean bark at everyone that criticize ITs master. Good Dog Hun Sen, it's ashame for Cambodia to have a DOG like IT live and rule the nation. Let's vote to kill that fucking dog.
ReplyDeleteAH KWAK HUN SEN KBOT CHEAT AND HIS CPP GOVERNMENT ARE PATHETIC!
ReplyDeleteIF THEY PLAN TO CHARGE MR.SAM RAINSY THE CASE SHOULD HELD AT INTERNATIONAL COURT NOT AH KWAK COURT.
AH KWAK GOVERNMENT MUST PROOF MR. SAM RAINSY DOCUMENTS THROUGH INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENCE EXPERT. IT IS NOT RIGHT FOR AH KWAK KBOT CHEAT GOVERNMENT SEE SNOW RABIT AS BLACK WHEN EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD SEEING AS WHITE AS IT SHOULD BE.
UNITED NATIONS MUST STEP IN TO RESOLVE THIS ISSUES BETWEEN THE TYRANT, AH KWAK. THE WORLD SHOULD NOT FREELY ALLOW AH KWAK TO DO WHAT HE WANTS. HE HAVE BEEN COUNTLESSLY VIOLATING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FOR TOO LONG. ENOUG IS ENOUGH!
IF AH KWAK KBOT CHEAT GOVERNMENT CONVICT MR. SAM RAINSY AGAIN ALL KHMER PEOPLE WHO LOVE KHMER NATION IN CAMBODIA MUST STEP FORWARD TO BATTLE THIS TRAITOR GOVERNMENT. WITHOUT MR. SAM RAINSY AND SRP OUR NATION HAVE NO HOPE. AS LONG AS AH KWAK STILL ALIVE CAMBODIA WILL NEVER HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE.
IF THE INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL EXPERT FIND MR. SAM RAINSY PROOF IS CORRECT WHICH MAKE AH KWAK KBOT CHEAT HUN XEN AND HIS DISGRACEFUL CPP GOVERNMENT ARE FALSE THEN THEY MUST PRESS CHARGE THEM FOR TREASANT. INTERNATIONAL LAWS SHOULD AND MUST OVER-RIDE THE NATIONAL LAWS.
ReplyDeleteCORRECTION:
ReplyDeleteTREASANT = TREASON
vow look at this idiot khmer in Sydney!!! I don't think he is a real a Khmer in Sydney because there is no one in Sydney would be that desperated like him to sell their moral, their conscience and their head to Hun Sen and yuon at all. Only a low class, unemployed people who would lower their human mentality to serve foreigner and critising their own good people such as Mr Sam Rainsy and Mr Areak Prey. This idiot is looking for fortune from Hun Sen and from yuon.
ReplyDeleteCPP youth
Sam Rainsy is 60 years old, has convicted 2 years in jail and could plus another 18 years, means Sam Rainsy has to wait until he turned 80 years old before he can join politics in Cambodia again.
ReplyDeleteThis time, no one going to help him. His party (SRP) look like a human who has body in Cambodia but head in France.
1:01PM AND 2:22PM,
ReplyDeleteDEEPLY REGRETED THAT YOUR GRANDMA GAVE BIRTH TO YOUR MOM WHO GAVE BIRTH TO YOU. YOU ARE DISGRACEFUL! YOU ARE PATHETIC! YOUR MOM SHOULDN'T HAVE OPEN HER ROTTEN PUSSY FOR YOUR STUPID DAD. YOU MOM SHOULD HAVE A MISCARRIAGE. WHAT A WAISTE OF LIVING SPACE AND BREATING AIR.
YOU SEE WHITE AS BLACK JUST LIKE AH KWAK KBOT CHEAT HUN XEN WHILE EVERYONE SEE IT AS WHITE AS IT SHOULD BE.
THE SIDE WHO LIED IS AH KWAK AND HIS CPP CLANS NOT MR. SAM RAINSY AND SRP.
THE SIDE WHO COULDN'T READ MAP AND PRODUCE FALSE INFORMATION IS AH KWAK KBOT CHEAT HUN XEN AND HIS DISGRACEFUL CPP CLANS NOT MR. SAM RAINY AND SRP.
YOU WAITE AND SEE WHO'S CAREER IS END FIRST. YOU WAITE AND SEE WHO'S GOING TO THE COFFIN FIRST. YOU KNOW YOUR MASTER AK KWAK KBOT CHEAT LIFE IS NEAR END AND BEFORE MR. SAM RAINSY. IT IS OBVIOUS BECAUSE HE IS DOING AGAINST HIS WILL FROM THE ORDER OF YOUR GRANDMASTER YOUN. YOUN WILL DISTROY HIM AS SOON AS THEY DON'T NEED HIM ANYMORE.
YOU WAITE AND SEE THE END RESULT IF YOU STILL ALIVE.
CPP government uses laws like tool to promote its dictatorship.
ReplyDeleteIt controls juctice and jails Khmers who lost lands and Sam Rainsy who defend Khmer lands.
We call that treason when you defend strangers who harm your country and your people, when you sell your country for your pocket.
Cheat Proy and Democracy, these two words are most popular for cheating people. All previous Khmer leaders especially Pol Pot and nowday we see Samran Sy always uses these words to cheat people and a smallest amount of idiot supporters like above.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad to see Khmers inside the country are still sleeping. They just let the small group controlling their destiny. The reality is there are millions of illegal Vietnameses, the national resourecs were controlled by the small group and they became a millionaires. The Hun Sen clans has been working for the Viet communist. SO PLEASE WAKE UP KHMERS! Don't let Cambodia to be like Champa, Kampuchea Krom, or Laos.
ReplyDeleteNo one has the right to judge but have the right to have an opinions because everyone is different, it is not like a one side fit all things, accept the law where it can be for equal protection. Life is too short if we don' t work together as a team, we will lose it all. I would like to request to khmer gov't to re-call all intellectual people to come to the table and discuss about how to work together as a team immediately. Do not show any sign of negative feeling toward one another but more toward unity. We can not afford to let outsiders to have a chance of enjoying the benefit of our weaknesses. We must increase in skilled migrant people as many as we can because they are the foundation to rebuild our nation and country. These are the rule in which it can be very successful "love, compassion, respect and cooperation" Aust
ReplyDeleteDemocratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
ReplyDeleteMembers:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
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
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
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
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
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.
10 hearing< 1 seeing
ReplyDelete10 seeing< 1 touching
10 touching< 1 testing
So what reason to clear that Khmer oversea well known about internal situation. They above should be back to see by themself HOW develop, security, in their motherland.