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Brainstorm session ahead of MRC Summit
Before the Mekong River Commission summit opens, local and foreign NGOs will hold a brainstorming session on the subject at Chulalongkorn University today and tomorrow.
Ideas resulting from this session would then be given to the government to raise during the MRC summit, which runs from tomorrow to Monday in Prachuap Khiri Khan's Hua Hin district.
Suwit Kularbwong, an activist, said he disagreed with Natural Resources Minister Suwit Khun-kitti's proposal to build seven dams in four member countries: Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.
The activist said he regarded the 15 years of MRC's existence a failure because most of the projects were aimed at improving the economy, but failed to recognise development in cultural and social terms. He added he hoped the issue of setting up an NGO panel in the MRC would be brought up at the summit.
Thailand, currently chairing the MRC, should formally ask China to provide details about four more dams planned in addition to the four already built, the activist added.
Another activist, Phianphorn Deethes, said building a dam along the Thai-Lao border might cause massive flooding in Chiang Rai province's Wieng Kaen and Chiang Khong districts.
She said she expected the current drying up of the Mekong along the Thai-Lao border would be brought up with China at the summit. China is not a member of the MRC but has agreed to attend the summit as an observer.
Somkiat Khuenchiangsa, also an activist, said the construction of dams in China caused massive flooding in Thailand in 2008 and dried up the river this year.
Responding to the red-shirt protesters' vow to stage a rally at the seminar venue, Suwit said he hoped a pleasant atmosphere was maintained because this was the first time in 15 years that China had agreed to release details about its dam projects. He added that Thailand was also hoping to lure China and Burma into joining the MRC during the summit. "This is a key issue, because MRC has been wishing to have more members all along," he said.
Before the Mekong River Commission summit opens, local and foreign NGOs will hold a brainstorming session on the subject at Chulalongkorn University today and tomorrow.
Ideas resulting from this session would then be given to the government to raise during the MRC summit, which runs from tomorrow to Monday in Prachuap Khiri Khan's Hua Hin district.
Suwit Kularbwong, an activist, said he disagreed with Natural Resources Minister Suwit Khun-kitti's proposal to build seven dams in four member countries: Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.
The activist said he regarded the 15 years of MRC's existence a failure because most of the projects were aimed at improving the economy, but failed to recognise development in cultural and social terms. He added he hoped the issue of setting up an NGO panel in the MRC would be brought up at the summit.
Thailand, currently chairing the MRC, should formally ask China to provide details about four more dams planned in addition to the four already built, the activist added.
Another activist, Phianphorn Deethes, said building a dam along the Thai-Lao border might cause massive flooding in Chiang Rai province's Wieng Kaen and Chiang Khong districts.
She said she expected the current drying up of the Mekong along the Thai-Lao border would be brought up with China at the summit. China is not a member of the MRC but has agreed to attend the summit as an observer.
Somkiat Khuenchiangsa, also an activist, said the construction of dams in China caused massive flooding in Thailand in 2008 and dried up the river this year.
Responding to the red-shirt protesters' vow to stage a rally at the seminar venue, Suwit said he hoped a pleasant atmosphere was maintained because this was the first time in 15 years that China had agreed to release details about its dam projects. He added that Thailand was also hoping to lure China and Burma into joining the MRC during the summit. "This is a key issue, because MRC has been wishing to have more members all along," he said.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
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King Sihanouk
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.
Richard Chan,CPP in Gold Coast, Australia
CPP doesn't have ethics value understanding the humanity. they do what they want and feel to gain money from the Cambodian and Nation. so that is why our nation is driven into poverty by CPP, hun sen sok anh chaom prasith oun parnmoniroth pen simorn and all cpp cadre
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