Opposition leader Sam Rainsy (Photo: RFA)Wednesday 17 March 2010
By A.L.G.
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Tola Ek
Click here to read the article in French
In a letter dated March 16 sent to the ex-monarch, the opposition MP who is now in exile indicated that “top leading experts” whom he consulted in France agree with him on the Khmer-Viet border issue without providing further details.
In a letter written in French sent to King-Father from Paris, opposition leader Sam Rainsy reminded Norodom Sihanouk to the speech he gave in Beijing in 2005 about the border issue.
“Exactly five years ago, day for day, You declared from Beijing :
«[…] Our (present) Cambodia, represented by H.E. Var Kim Hong’s team (the chief negotiator for frontier issues nominated by Prime Minister Hun Sen), accepts to commit suicide by recognizing, even in the eyes of International law, that Cambodia has no precise frontiers.
The word “suicide” is not an exaggeration. A country which recognizes that it has no legal and precise frontiers is a dead country. »”
Sam Rainsy who was sentenced to two-year of jail time for uprooting stakes marking the border between Cambodia and Vietnam in Svay Rieng, is also currently being sued for “diffusion of false information” and “falsification of public documents.”
In his letter, Sam Rainsy indicated that “top leading experts” he consulted with in Europe (top research authorities and professors from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS -, from the Institut Géographique National – IGN – and from the Federal Polytechnique School of Lausanne) agree with him on the Vietnamese “encroachment” in Cambodia.
On 22 February, sVar Kim Hong denied any such encroachment, claiming that Sam Rainsy used a 1984 datum to post coordinates on a map dated from 1960, thus the difference with the computation performed by the government border committee.
Without replying precisely on the datum issue, Sam Rainsy believes that the “scientific truth” “has put a stop to biased political talk and propaganda around the border issue” and that it would allow “to have the Khmer peasants freed, those who were put into prison because they dared protest again the confiscation of their rice-fields by the neighbouring country with the complicity of the local Cambodian authorities.”
I remind myself of the following words by Emile Zola, “The truth is coming to light. Nothing can stop it (…). Justice can only be in the truth,” Sam Rainsy added.
In a letter written in French sent to King-Father from Paris, opposition leader Sam Rainsy reminded Norodom Sihanouk to the speech he gave in Beijing in 2005 about the border issue.
“Exactly five years ago, day for day, You declared from Beijing :
«[…] Our (present) Cambodia, represented by H.E. Var Kim Hong’s team (the chief negotiator for frontier issues nominated by Prime Minister Hun Sen), accepts to commit suicide by recognizing, even in the eyes of International law, that Cambodia has no precise frontiers.
The word “suicide” is not an exaggeration. A country which recognizes that it has no legal and precise frontiers is a dead country. »”
Sam Rainsy who was sentenced to two-year of jail time for uprooting stakes marking the border between Cambodia and Vietnam in Svay Rieng, is also currently being sued for “diffusion of false information” and “falsification of public documents.”
In his letter, Sam Rainsy indicated that “top leading experts” he consulted with in Europe (top research authorities and professors from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS -, from the Institut Géographique National – IGN – and from the Federal Polytechnique School of Lausanne) agree with him on the Vietnamese “encroachment” in Cambodia.
On 22 February, sVar Kim Hong denied any such encroachment, claiming that Sam Rainsy used a 1984 datum to post coordinates on a map dated from 1960, thus the difference with the computation performed by the government border committee.
Without replying precisely on the datum issue, Sam Rainsy believes that the “scientific truth” “has put a stop to biased political talk and propaganda around the border issue” and that it would allow “to have the Khmer peasants freed, those who were put into prison because they dared protest again the confiscation of their rice-fields by the neighbouring country with the complicity of the local Cambodian authorities.”
I remind myself of the following words by Emile Zola, “The truth is coming to light. Nothing can stop it (…). Justice can only be in the truth,” Sam Rainsy added.
11 comments:
To all Vietnamese
If you want more land, please, remove mountains from the west and throw them in the sea and you shall have more land. Don't tell me you can't do it; you moved a lot of supplies during the war through thick jungles and swampy marshes using human couriers. Get to work!
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
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 bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
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.
I love Mr. Sam Rainsy. His courage is legendary as expresed in the Japanese saying: "For the cause of justice, even if there are a million foes, I go!".
Another story: Soy Sopheap keeps saying that Mr. Sam Rainsy of Akphijun (noble) lineage can't be united with Kim Sokha of (middle class) family. What does that mean?
US F B I know HING BUN HEANG body guard HUN SEN throw grenade to SAM RAINSY parade. order by HUN SEN....
កុំនាំក្មេងជំនាន់ក្រោយ អោយឆ្កួតតាមយើងនោះ ។ បើខ្លួនឯងឈ្លក់នឹងស្តេចនោះ ក៍ឈ្លក់តែឯងទៅ ។
ព្រោះស្តេចនេះ គ្មានន័យអ្វីទៀតឡើយ ចំពោះស្រុកខ្មែរ ។
don't count on tah kjass siachnorouk, he's in terminal phase for leading the country. the mail might be blocked to get through siachnorouk, anyway he won't do nothing in today politic. one thing is why sam rainsy instead send it to sidamony ? he's a kingdump too.
If khmer don't love khmer no one in the world will. so, stop condemn its own citizen and also don't allow outsider take the benefit of our internal conflicts. We must be strong and try to promote unity and team work for the benefit of our country and nation. The Chinese way of saying is "one chop stick and can easily be broken into two but not in a bunch". So, we have to be together as a group and discuss about what else can be done for our nation. try to avoid personal conflict at all cost or else we will have nothing left. The more ideas we have the better. Try to use e.g the "Tuckman Theory" that is forming, storming and norming etc for effective outcome of team work. Aust
tuckman's forming storming norming performing four-stage model
The progression is:
1. forming
2. storming
3. norming
4. performing
Aust
remember ex-king is retired. don't bother the old man, let him rest, really!
9:07AM ! what about In a basket of fish if one rotten the whole basket is rotten!
3:24am, let's be serious. don't be a smarty pants, ok! it is the principle that counts, here. of course, there are exception to every rule as you indicated. nothing is absolute, ok! the point is do learn from the wise ones, that's all!
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