Surya Subedi (Photo: Reuters)Monday, 07 June 2010
Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
SURYA Subedi, the UN’s special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia, will arrive in the country Tuesday for a 10-day trip, during which he will assess the state of the country’s judicial system, UN officials said.
“I will focus my mission to Cambodia on the functioning of the judiciary as part of my ongoing assessment of institutions critical to the promotion and protection of human rights, with a view to assessing the extent to which it is accessible to ordinary Cambodians and delivers justice,” Subedi said in a statement issued Friday by the local office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The visit – Subedi’s third since he was appointed to the position in 2009 – will also include meetings with King Norodom Sihamoni, Prime Minister Hun Sen, judicial officials and civil society representatives.
Tith Sothea, a member of the Press and Quick Reaction Unit at the Council of Ministers, said Sunday that officials from the government-run Cambodian Human Rights Committee will welcome Subedi and work with him in order to improve the human rights situation in Cambodia.
“We will continue to cooperate with him to promote human rights issues and continue to reform our judicial system to serve the interest of democracy in Cambodia,” he said.
Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights, said the judiciary’s lack of independence was on display last Wednesday when the Supreme Court upheld a conviction against Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Mu Sochua, who has been charged with defaming Prime Minister Hun Sen.
“Freedom of expression remains a hot issue, and we will raise the controversial conviction of opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua as an example of the rights violations and judicial loopholes that allow the powerful and the rich to put pressure on freedom of expression and the poor,” he said.
Each year, Subedi presents a report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva assessing the Cambodian human rights situation.
“I will focus my mission to Cambodia on the functioning of the judiciary as part of my ongoing assessment of institutions critical to the promotion and protection of human rights, with a view to assessing the extent to which it is accessible to ordinary Cambodians and delivers justice,” Subedi said in a statement issued Friday by the local office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The visit – Subedi’s third since he was appointed to the position in 2009 – will also include meetings with King Norodom Sihamoni, Prime Minister Hun Sen, judicial officials and civil society representatives.
Tith Sothea, a member of the Press and Quick Reaction Unit at the Council of Ministers, said Sunday that officials from the government-run Cambodian Human Rights Committee will welcome Subedi and work with him in order to improve the human rights situation in Cambodia.
“We will continue to cooperate with him to promote human rights issues and continue to reform our judicial system to serve the interest of democracy in Cambodia,” he said.
Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights, said the judiciary’s lack of independence was on display last Wednesday when the Supreme Court upheld a conviction against Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Mu Sochua, who has been charged with defaming Prime Minister Hun Sen.
“Freedom of expression remains a hot issue, and we will raise the controversial conviction of opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua as an example of the rights violations and judicial loopholes that allow the powerful and the rich to put pressure on freedom of expression and the poor,” he said.
Each year, Subedi presents a report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva assessing the Cambodian human rights situation.
It sounds right to start with the four stakeholders,the king, PM, court and social organisations.
ReplyDeleteOur national constitution is the key of working together. Roles of the four parties are to enforced,and the missing links have to be established, connecting up the judicial system under he roles of the king as speculated, in order to improve image of the court and provide justice to the ordinary people.
Preventitive machanisms are also set,so that PM does NOT have to concern himself so much about the court, providing him edequate time to commit to changing for better prospect of Cambodia.
Unfortunately,the corruption laws have to be varified and scrutinied, for the purposes intended.It has to be agreed by house assembly through debate rather pushed by majority.
It is well and truely, needs a royal commission as a mechanism to enforce the change rapidly if everyone wishes.Without that Injustice and corruption are likely continued.At the end of the day,cambodians would still be suffering under forms of abuses and negligence.
As court system reformed under supervision of the king,justice will be effectively carried out and supported, thus human rights would be met by ordinary cambodians. Prosperity will then take shape,along with education and effective management of RGC.
Kaun Khmer
Waste of donor's money, they can not even criticize the CPP Government!
ReplyDeleteThey collaborate with donor's nation to let this country run by the regime who abuse it's power.
What is the point?
In cambodia justice for rich and powerful family only...
ReplyDeleteNo ther is no JUSTICE only INJUSTICE and CORRUPTION!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNo money can buy Justice! Only INjustice can be baught!!!!!!
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
ReplyDeleteMembers:
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 10 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.