SRP MPs Ly Srey Vina (L) and Yim Sovann show to jail guard the authorization letter for them to visit Khmer villagers jailed for uprooting border stakes (Photo: Sok Serey, RFA)24 March 2010
By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer
On 24 March, twenty SRP MPs traveled to visit Mr. Prum Chea and Mrs. Meas Srey who are currently being jailed in Svay Rieng after they were charged with uprooting border stakes.
Mr. Prum Chea is currently suffering from a stomach, trachea and neck inflammation. Mrs. Meas Srey is also suffering from irregular period, weak heart and she is also discouraged.
Four MPs were authorized by the jail guards to visit the two villagers: Yim Sovann, Kim Suor Phearith, Mrs. Ly Srey Vina and Mrs. Pot Pov.
This is the second visit by the SRP MPs, the first one took place in January.
Following the visit, SRP MP Yim Sovann who led the SRP MPs said: “By what we saw, they lack medicine, and lack everything. They had to buy medicine, based on the receipts they showed us just now, it costs them almost $300, therefore, the SRP will help them.”
The SRP MPs left medicines, including vitamins, and money for the two villagers with the jail guards.
Mrs. Ly Srey Vina, who is also a doctor, said: “[Mrs. Meas Srey’s] problem is that she is sick when she has her period. She has difficulty in jail, and her period problem stems from insufficient food, she lack iron etc… so much so that her period is irregular and is not normal. As for Mr. Prum Chea, I am very worried about him. He has stomach inflammation, his instestine has problem and he could also have stone kidney, he could also have stones in his bladder or he could have some inflammations inside there. There are signs that show up when we checked his body.”
Dr. Bin Vorn, the medical doctor of the Svay Rieng jail, said that all prisoners, including Mr. Prum chea and Mrs. Meas Srey, receive weekly health checkup. He said: “By their present condition, they are normal when it comes to their disease.”
Suos Sokho, the deputy jail warden, who authorized the visit, said: “It’s not just Mr. Prum Chea and Mrs. Srey Meas, all our prisoners are followed up by doctors, night and day, when something happens, jail officials will visit them immediately.”
On 27 January 2010, Mr. Prum Chea and Mrs. Meas Srey were sentenced to 1-year of jail time each after they were charged with willful destruction of public property for participating in the uprooting of border stakes at post no. 185 with opposition leader Sam Rainsy. The incident took place in Koh Kban Kandal village, Samrong commune, Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province on 25 October 2009.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy was sentenced in absentia to 2-year of jail time for destruction of public properties and incitation to racial discrimination.
Currently, Sam Rainsy also faces an additional lawsuit by the government which accused him of falsifying public documents and distribution of false information. The additional lawsuit was brought up by Ky Tech, the government lawyer, on 26 February. However, Sam Rainsy said that lawsuits against him are purely political.
Mr. Prum Chea is currently suffering from a stomach, trachea and neck inflammation. Mrs. Meas Srey is also suffering from irregular period, weak heart and she is also discouraged.
Four MPs were authorized by the jail guards to visit the two villagers: Yim Sovann, Kim Suor Phearith, Mrs. Ly Srey Vina and Mrs. Pot Pov.
This is the second visit by the SRP MPs, the first one took place in January.
Following the visit, SRP MP Yim Sovann who led the SRP MPs said: “By what we saw, they lack medicine, and lack everything. They had to buy medicine, based on the receipts they showed us just now, it costs them almost $300, therefore, the SRP will help them.”
The SRP MPs left medicines, including vitamins, and money for the two villagers with the jail guards.
Mrs. Ly Srey Vina, who is also a doctor, said: “[Mrs. Meas Srey’s] problem is that she is sick when she has her period. She has difficulty in jail, and her period problem stems from insufficient food, she lack iron etc… so much so that her period is irregular and is not normal. As for Mr. Prum Chea, I am very worried about him. He has stomach inflammation, his instestine has problem and he could also have stone kidney, he could also have stones in his bladder or he could have some inflammations inside there. There are signs that show up when we checked his body.”
Dr. Bin Vorn, the medical doctor of the Svay Rieng jail, said that all prisoners, including Mr. Prum chea and Mrs. Meas Srey, receive weekly health checkup. He said: “By their present condition, they are normal when it comes to their disease.”
Suos Sokho, the deputy jail warden, who authorized the visit, said: “It’s not just Mr. Prum Chea and Mrs. Srey Meas, all our prisoners are followed up by doctors, night and day, when something happens, jail officials will visit them immediately.”
On 27 January 2010, Mr. Prum Chea and Mrs. Meas Srey were sentenced to 1-year of jail time each after they were charged with willful destruction of public property for participating in the uprooting of border stakes at post no. 185 with opposition leader Sam Rainsy. The incident took place in Koh Kban Kandal village, Samrong commune, Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province on 25 October 2009.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy was sentenced in absentia to 2-year of jail time for destruction of public properties and incitation to racial discrimination.
Currently, Sam Rainsy also faces an additional lawsuit by the government which accused him of falsifying public documents and distribution of false information. The additional lawsuit was brought up by Ky Tech, the government lawyer, on 26 February. However, Sam Rainsy said that lawsuits against him are purely political.
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ReplyDeleteIn years to come historians will write about the significance of and implications for those seemingly harmless, rustic six wooden poles planted on citizens’ rice field in a Svay Rieng commune along the shifting borderline with Vietnam. They will point out, with historians’ penchant for irony and coded meaning in small details that the posts, though “temporary” and contrived/ makeshift in appearance, were purposefully deployed as tentative, advance outposts for a more deadly wave of invasion to come; that for what was to follow in terms of deciding a small nation’s fate, consolidation and entrenchment of foreign power and foothold over this subjugated land, they exceeded in deed and significance the far better known and violently fought over 9th century temple of Preah Vihea along the western frontier with another troublesome neighbour.
The poles’ utility can be liken to an army’s reconnaissance unit of between 2 or 3 foot soldiers sent into enemy’s abandoned territory with the aim of gauging indigenous reaction to foreign presence in their midst. When no resistance is encountered, the rest of the division could then advance into the said territory and prepare for the next phase of troops movement until the end point is reached. This tactic was indeed exactly what the Vietnamese army deployed in 1979 shortly following the retreat of Pol Pot’s forces from the Eastern Zone and elsewhere in Cambodia.
Those searching for hints as to the limits of Hanoi’s territorial and political ambition should not look further than the current tragedy of the 2 unjustly imprisoned villagers and the amount of finance and hardware poured towards the defence of the western frontier. In previous centuries, Siamese and Vietnamese annexations might have converged conveniently along the Mekong, but today the river might be less of a factor in granting their wishes over the country in the middle, with Khmers being allowed to do the honour of defending their ancestral land in the west while in the east the Phnom Penh regime is throwing the white towel with its insistence that “Cambodia does not have precise borders.”
This admission about the absence of clearly delineated border lines would have been acceptable in context of a time in history when the Khmer Empire consisted of identifiable regions marked by differences in dialect and ethnicity. But even then the ordinary inhabitants of the Empire would still have been aware of the extent and limit of the Kingdom’s expanse. In any case, history should have taught the Khmers enough lesions about giving the Vietnamese state the benefit of such a doubt.
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As for the shifting border in Svay Rieng, locals often relate that the Khmer buffalos seem to know precisely where the international border lies by grazing just inside the Khmer part of the border and never stray onto the other side! This they manage even without concrete legal documents and the benefits of science and technology like maps deposited at the UN and Global Positioning System, not to mention Google . . .
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Clearly those six wooden posts are only ‘temporary’ devices in the manner of an invading army’s forward unit or outpost – what they embody first and foremost is an iron will, an irreversible advance into the conquered territory, and the imprisoned farmers themselves have been unfortunate enough to be in the way of this relentless march. Yet, all this could not have been accomplished without the subservient, blind eagerness and narrow self-interest with which the villagers’ own rulers have made a sacrifice of their lives (farmers’) at the mighty alter of the six wooden sticks, against which from here on end, not even the Khmer buffalos will have the incentive to scratch their itchy backsides. Or will they?
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Correction: the phrase: 'By denying that the country does not possess precise borders,' above should read: 'By denying that the country possesses precise borders,' instead.
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