SRP MP Son ChhayBy Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
23 February 2010
Opposition lawmakers submitted their own anti-corruption law to the National Assembly on Monday, in a symbolic act to push the Council of Ministers to hand over the real draft.
The Council of Ministers approved a much-anticipated anti-corruption law in December, but it has not moved the bill over the National Assembly for debate.
Officials at the Council say the draft is undergoing proofreading by legal and anti-corruption experts, but Sam Rainsy Party lawmakers said Monday the law needs to be debated and passed.
SRP lawmaker Son Chhay delivered the opposition draft to the office of National Assembly President Heng Samrin Monday evening.
“We have not yet received any government anti-corruption law, so we must request our anti-corruption [draft] as a necessary means to effectively fight corruption in Cambodia,” Son Chhay said Tuesday. “It is very important for the government to fight against corruption and for development.”
Donors have pushed the government for years to pass anti-corruption legislation. The US estimates the government loses $500 million a year to the practice and in February began training government officials in its prevention.
“The anti-corruption draft law will be able to pass before the completion of the training course against corruption in late June,” Om Yentieng, head of the government’s anti-corruption unit, said Tuesday.
Phay Siphan, a spokesman for the Council of Ministers, said the draft law will be made public when it moves to the National Assembly for debate.
Cheam Yiep, a lawmaker for the Cambodian People’s Party, said the draft legislation was important for the National Assembly to consider, but he added that the government’s law was a bigger priority than the opposition’s.
The Council of Ministers approved a much-anticipated anti-corruption law in December, but it has not moved the bill over the National Assembly for debate.
Officials at the Council say the draft is undergoing proofreading by legal and anti-corruption experts, but Sam Rainsy Party lawmakers said Monday the law needs to be debated and passed.
SRP lawmaker Son Chhay delivered the opposition draft to the office of National Assembly President Heng Samrin Monday evening.
“We have not yet received any government anti-corruption law, so we must request our anti-corruption [draft] as a necessary means to effectively fight corruption in Cambodia,” Son Chhay said Tuesday. “It is very important for the government to fight against corruption and for development.”
Donors have pushed the government for years to pass anti-corruption legislation. The US estimates the government loses $500 million a year to the practice and in February began training government officials in its prevention.
“The anti-corruption draft law will be able to pass before the completion of the training course against corruption in late June,” Om Yentieng, head of the government’s anti-corruption unit, said Tuesday.
Phay Siphan, a spokesman for the Council of Ministers, said the draft law will be made public when it moves to the National Assembly for debate.
Cheam Yiep, a lawmaker for the Cambodian People’s Party, said the draft legislation was important for the National Assembly to consider, but he added that the government’s law was a bigger priority than the opposition’s.
MP Son Chay you are doing the right thing for on behalf of Khmer People. Keep pushing until it happens.
ReplyDeleteJust don't put an earning cap on Hun Sen's salary. We want him to able to have a private jet flying all his buddies around Indochina.
ReplyDeleteDoes Mr. Heng Somrin AKA Heng Suoy care about the draft? He just listens to Hun Sen telling him what to act.
ReplyDeleteMr. Heng Suoy abides to the rules of law when he’s told to do and disrespect the law when it comes to bribery.
Don't expect the clowns to respect oppositions pal!
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
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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.
SON CHHAY YOU DOING A GOOD JOB
ReplyDeleteKEEP GOING.GOD BLESS.
If khmer don't love khmer, no one in the world will! So, wake up every body, enough civil war. We need to learn from the past mistakes and turn it into a positive learning outcome. In other words, the gov't must include all intellectual people and get some ideas off them because they are the foundation to re-build its nation and country. Just look at the Aust way of life, they have migrated many skilled people from all over the world and use them to improve for the benefit of its nation and country. Aust is only just above 200 years old and their cities and house are very modern into the 21st century. Now, all khmer leaders need to promote unity and avoid all personal conflicts at all cost. Do not let the outsider look down on us no more because others will take advantage of our downfall. So please, listen to me carefully, 1) create a welfare system to help the poor 2)having a police headquarter in every province to protect the poor 3) putting new infrastructures as quick as you can 4) Building new drainage and dams to catch rain water for future uses or sale them (make them into commodities) 5) increase in population growth so that we can develop and improve the quality of life. We can not do it without qualified people. Finally please learn to accept critical judgment in term of how to improve the country. In other words, it is all about work and nothing to do with personal issues and so don't turn against each other, instead give each other an applause, if disagree the do the vote without bias. Usually, the gov't would listen to their opposition leaders and follow suits. Aust
ReplyDeleteOur Prime Minister Hun Sen can do almost everything even the border demarcation with the Vietcong government and send Cambodian troop to fight the Siem naked aggression but when it comes to passing anti-corruption law and he is helpless and powerless!
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