By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
09 March 2010
“This law is under the honor and reputation of the CPP ... We won’t destroy our honor, prestige and reputation” - CPP Cheam YiepA committee of rights organizations is recommending that the National Assembly delay debate on an anti-corruption bill for at least a month, allowing time for the long-awaited draft to be studied before it is passed into law.
“Our recommendations will help promote the effectiveness of the fight against corruption,” Sok Samoeun, director of Cambodian Defenders Project, told reporters Tuesday. “If the National Assembly denies our recommendations, the situation of corruption in Cambodia will remain unsolved.”
The draft law creates an independent Anti-Corruption Council and an anti-corruption unit under the Council of Ministers. The 11-seat council will consist of political appointees, as an oversight body. The draft also requires public officials to disclose their assets and empowers the courts to seize property and assets.
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee on Tuesday forwarded its request to the National Assembly, requesting a one-month delay for debate on the bill, which is scheduled for Wednesday.
The coalition requested that the National Assembly open the draft for public debate.
It also suggested that the Anti-Corruption Council to be independent, rather than comprised of political appointees, and for the head of the anti-corruption unit under the Council of Ministers to be separate from the council. The head of the unit should be required to disclose his or her assets, the committee said in a statement Tuesday.
The law needs to be stronger in its protection of witnesses and informants who come forward against corruption, the group said.
“Our recommendation is the main step in fighting corruption,” Ny Chakrya, chief investigator for the rights group Adhoc, told reporters Tuesday. “If the National Assembly passes the anti-corruption law without the NGOs’ recommendations and participation in discussions, this anti-corruption law will be a very weak law, will not have international standards, and will not prevent corruption.”
Meanwhile, 15 opposition lawmakers from the Sam Rainsy Party issued a letter to National Assembly President Heng Samrin requesting a delay for debate until April, after the Khmer New Year.
“We all understand that to solve the high responsibility of the legislature in the anti-corruption law, the National Assembly should delay the special session to debate the draft law,” the lawmakers wrote. The lawmakers requested enough time to study the draft in order to ensure “effective implantation” of the law after it passes.
Cheam Yiep, a lawmaker for the Cambodian People’s Party, said the request for delayed debate had come “too late,” but he promised effective implementation of the law after it is passed.
“This law is under the honor and reputation of the CPP,” he said. “We won’t destroy our honor, prestige and reputation.”
8 comments:
Why AH Cheam Yapp afraid of democratic debate on anti-corruption law? If dirt-poor Cambodian people can wait for 17 years for this anti-corruptions law and it wouldn't hurt to wait another month just to find out what is in the fine print! AH Cheam Yapp can't force his jungle law down Cambodian people throat in anyway he wanted!
Why now in such a hurry after 17 years of waiting for anti-corruptions law?
“This law is under the honor and reputation of the CPP,” he said. “We won’t destroy our honor, prestige and reputation.”
Everything that comes out of CPP is always all about the CPP. Ahpler Cheam Yiep, you should understand that there isn't anything more important than khmer people and the nation.
Mr. Cheam Yiep, no matter which party came up with the law, it is congress's role to review it as it effects the entire nation. This is what we elected our representatives to do - review laws that will effect us and the country.
When you refuse the law to go through proper discussion, then you are writing the law for yourself and a group of specific individuals rather than the country. For this you should understand that there lies no prestige or honour.
Sai Rndul
Ahpler cheam yiem is not working for khmer people. He is working for ah youn gov. Look at his face! he is real youn.
together we can change our country for better into the future.
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.
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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.
Ah Cheam Yeap is a crook PM. He 1 2 fuck young, juicy girls rather than seeing anti-corruption law being passed. This same behavior is also found for Ah Hun Pleu.
LOL
Ah Cheam Yeap is a crook PM. He 1 2 fuck young, juicy girls rather than seeing anti-corruption law being passed. This same behavior is also found for Ah Hun Pleu.
LOL
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