By Prak Chan Thul
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The Cambodian government has threatened to expel a senior United Nations official, accusing him of interfering in Cambodian politics.
Cambodia's foreign ministry expressed concern over comments by U.N. Resident Coordinator Douglas Broderick, who urged more public debate on an anti-corruption bill to safeguard the rights of Cambodians and to meet international standards.
The comments were a "flagrant and unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of Cambodia", Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong wrote in a letter to Broderick on Saturday.
If they were repeated, Broderick would be expelled, said the letter, seen by Reuters on Monday.
U.N. spokeswoman Margaret Lamb declined to comment.
Cambodia's National Assembly, dominated by the ruling People's Party, voted in favour of the long-awaited bill on March 11 despite calls from the United Nations and civil society groups to postpone the vote so the public could be consulted.
Opposition lawmakers walked out in protest at what they said was a law that lacked transparency and would deter individuals from reporting corruption, rife in Cambodia where payment of bribes is part and parcel of doing business.
"To its knowledge, no draft law has been shared with interested stakeholders, including civil society, since 2006," Broderick, head of the U.N. Country Team in Cambodia, said in a statement to media on March 10.
Cambodia's foreign ministry said Broderick was acting without direction from the U.N. Secretary General in New York and the U.N. Country Team had exceeded the limit of its mandate.
Graft watchdog Transparency International last year ranked Cambodia 158th out of 180 countries in terms of corruption, with a low ranking denoting high instances of graft.
(Editing by Jason Szep and Jerry Norton)
Cambodia's foreign ministry expressed concern over comments by U.N. Resident Coordinator Douglas Broderick, who urged more public debate on an anti-corruption bill to safeguard the rights of Cambodians and to meet international standards.
The comments were a "flagrant and unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of Cambodia", Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong wrote in a letter to Broderick on Saturday.
If they were repeated, Broderick would be expelled, said the letter, seen by Reuters on Monday.
U.N. spokeswoman Margaret Lamb declined to comment.
Cambodia's National Assembly, dominated by the ruling People's Party, voted in favour of the long-awaited bill on March 11 despite calls from the United Nations and civil society groups to postpone the vote so the public could be consulted.
Opposition lawmakers walked out in protest at what they said was a law that lacked transparency and would deter individuals from reporting corruption, rife in Cambodia where payment of bribes is part and parcel of doing business.
"To its knowledge, no draft law has been shared with interested stakeholders, including civil society, since 2006," Broderick, head of the U.N. Country Team in Cambodia, said in a statement to media on March 10.
Cambodia's foreign ministry said Broderick was acting without direction from the U.N. Secretary General in New York and the U.N. Country Team had exceeded the limit of its mandate.
Graft watchdog Transparency International last year ranked Cambodia 158th out of 180 countries in terms of corruption, with a low ranking denoting high instances of graft.
(Editing by Jason Szep and Jerry Norton)
23 comments:
send all of them home..make them unemploy. it send all nation home so yuon can do what they wanted, like the khmer did in 75.
typo...i meant let send all nation out of cambodia...
OMG! Hun Xen's government threating UN. UN is afraid of Hun Xen...?
Hmmmmmm....... what's good is it if the FBI afraid of the rival street gangs?
Hun Xen's government is getting out of control. This people need to be slauter as soon as possible before there are no Cambodia left.
Under CPP's laws no one can say anything, but foreign cambodian foreign minister CAN.
In the country,the only one can is Mr PM.
Unbelievable!!!
Kaun Khmer
International organization, especially United Nations should not afraid Hun Xen's government. If the UN is right they need to stand firm and proof that the Cambodian government is wrong. UN should not be coward and easily theaten especially when they are not wrong. UN need and must stand firm. I am sure UN knows how Hun Xen regimes is. If UN not dare to stand for what is right and ethical then mind as well shut it down. What good is it if they are easily threaten and afraid of the national level like Hun Xen.
if they don't leave they will die..they are not khmer nationality..if hunyuonkvak says..they have to go. sorry for his he just advocated for the speechless khmer.
All khmer need to learn from the red shirts thai...if this red shirt thai can over-thrown their government, khmer will do the same. let look at thai very seriously and learn from them. silent politic and cannot win the dictator government. eeyore
I agree with you we need to start a revolution against this Yuon Puppet Regime, the problem is we have how many thousands of Vietcong troops in Cambodia and VietHanoi will send more forces to stop the revolution. Regardless of this fact, we must still overthrow this incompetent government that only works to serve Vietnam and itself! Let's smoke out the Vietcongs that have infested our government and our country and have robbed us of our livelihood!
gangsters cpp! any1 thining about revolution can go and suck a pig cock.
What the hell Hun Sen and their gangsters thinking?
Kick UN or UN will leave the gangsters in the hell once a gain?
3:05 p.m.
You are an idiot!Stop sucking on Hun Sen and his cronies Dick and start thinking about the future of Cambodia!
On behalf of the G. I am answering your questions below:
-We are protecting our interests
-Our logic is so unique than the rest of the world
-Our Philosophy is the best
OK?
Selfish
Traitor
Bullshitter
No shame Cambodia for sale
What disgrace of the youn slavery
You are out site of the world ,you are intelligent in your own mind.
OK!
we just need your money but not your advice, stupid.
your so call revolution can kiss my azz cambodian suffer enought from pol pot communist revolution i guese you are one of them.
Vietnamese Government will not allow cambodia to have any regime's system defferent from what they have in Hanoi now. the CPP.will keep those who follwo them. they do not care about those who againt them. THE SAME WAY WHAT POL POT HAD DONE. after all that where CPP was originated. If khmers want to live as khmers then. only khmers can stand up strike back againt pouk kbot cheat.
TO. Those poor khmers. you need to find out why you poor.
The CPP.want you to stay that way, because the 3gk of rice,2can of tuna fist,may be one more sarong for you to vote for them. and that will be you who legitimize them and help them to sale cambodia to youn.
sorry. correction.2can of tuna fish. (not fist 7:47 am)
In 1991-1993 Cambodia was sponsored and born out of UN. Why the hell this regime CPP wanted to expel UN out of the country?
UN must prepare an warrant arrest of these top CPP officials such as:
HUN SEN
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Nam Hong
Keat Chhon
UN must issue a warrant arrest these clowns immediately or it will be too late!!!!!!!!
Canbodia may just deserve that! BUT THE VICTIMES OF THE KILLINGFIELD NEED MORE HELP OF HOW TO STADING UP!
Get motherfuckers out of our back a while please!!!!!!!!!
UN or ICC must issue a warrant arrest for the former Khmer's leaders with blood on the hands to the court. Here are those guys.
Sihanouk
Chea Sim
Hun Sen
Heng Samrin
Hor Nam Hong
Keat Chhon
Sim Ka
Ouk Bun Chhoeun
Mom Nai
YUON's leaders
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.
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