Monday, 12 July 2010
Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
Border Dispute
OPPOSITION leader Sam Rainsy will be tried at Phnom Penh Municipal Court on August 6 on charges of falsifying public documents and spreading disinformation, court officials said yesterday. Deputy judge Ker Sakhan said the trial would be conducted in absentia if the Sam Rainsy Party president, currently in self-exile abroad, did not attend. In January, Svay Rieng provincial court sentenced Sam Rainsy to two years in jail for his involvement in an October 2009 incident in which he joined villagers in uprooting six wooden border posts. An appeal hearing in that case is scheduled for August 9. The new charges refer to maps and documents published by Sam Rainsy after the Svay Rieng verdict, alleging widespread Vietnamese encroachments in Cambodian territory. If convicted on both charges, he faces up to 18 years in prison. Sam Rainsy’s lawyer, Choung Choungy, said he could not predict the result of the trial, but that he had “already prepared enough evidence” to defend Sam Rainsy. SRP lawmaker Chea Poch said that if the court is independent it will acquit the SRP leader.
13 comments:
sam rainsy needs to separate this activist activities from his parliamentary duty. it creates a conflict of interest. i think lawmakers should be sworned to hold prcedence national interest and to upheld the law of the land. there is clearly a conflict of interest here when people like sam rainsy and mu sochua played too many roles in gov't. i hope cambodia will learn from the past mistakes when one individual was allowed to hold many positions or roles in gov't like sihanouk of the past regime, i guess! not good for cambodia in the long run for sure! wake up people my fellow khmers!
i know, can't be king and prime minister at the same time like sihanouk did in the past. yes, it's called the conflict of interest, in case some people do not understand it! definitely not good for the country in that sense. don't be so greedy or selfish; trained more people to know and understand the law for the sake of cambodia, not personal interest, ok! there are more to cambodia that one or a handful of individuals, really! and two wrongs don't make it right either! do learn from the past for brighter future, ok! thinking or analytical skill is essential to have in every leadership position, it should be required for the qualification in gov't services, i think!
This time CPP members would prove that they are a band of thieves or statesmen..
Please think about this,
Dear Leadership in Cambodia, What can you do for your own community?
Yes, I am the leaders in Cambodia and what I can do for the community in Cambodia is to sale lands, forests, and people properties to foriegn businesses, and whoever protest me, I take them to court.
I am the leader who dare against me?
Thanks
Red-Ant.
Stupid leader and stupid followers .
12:14 AM
Sam Rainsy and Mu Sochua are not from the government . They are paliamentarians from SRP. Government is from CPP like Hun Sen and people who have been appointed by him to form a gervernment . Learn something before you talk about it .
When khmer is going to stop fighting khmer? ONLY AH YOUN BENEFIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!What's wrong with ah kwack? H1N1 taking him yet?
CPP members will do anything for their Party and families. They never care about the people and the country . If they do care about the people and the country, they wont wont take Sam Rainsy to court because Sam Rainsy didnt do it for himself .. He did it for the people and the country.
12:14 and 12:19 AM, you talk like an idiot, you speak English but you just an idot who writes English.
Sam Raingsy and Muo Sok-huor are citizen, they are Parliment member, a parliment member could also be Chief of Opposition.
They protect Cambodia, they protect Cambodians, they did nothing wrong, they did nothing against Cambodian laws, they act against thieves, against bandits.
You must go to school to understand what is justice and what is law.
I am glad that the court will proceed and it is good to see Sam Ransy going to jail for his attempt to defend the country from being swallowed by Vietnam under conspiracy of CPP members in RGC.
It is in his jurisdiction of raising this very critical issue to cambodians.It would have been better if RGC had agreed to investigate the matter for the sovereinty of Cambodia.
However,we praise for your brave act Mr Sam Ransy and your team to help poor cambodians in svay rieng.
May lord Buddha help you all the way!
Peasant
I bet you he will be guilty... because the verdict has already been decided. No need to for evidence... I have been to a court trial once for my mother's land dispute... and I learned it well about Cambodian court system. They are all animals nothing more and nothing less.
There are many KM that Vietnam and have moved the boarder posting into Cambodia Land. Sam Rainsy case is 1 issues out of the many.
But it seem no CPP Hun Sen govenemtn is accountable for the lost of Land/sea and boarder territories to Vietnam? why is that?
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO CALL A FEW MILLIONS KHMER TO RISE UP AND REMOVE HUN SEN FROM POWER. WAKE UP CAMBODIAN PEOPLE. IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A BETTER FUTURE, FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, YOU MUST CALL ALL YOUR BROTHER, SISTER, COUSIN, ETC.. TO STAND UP. JUST ONE PERSON LIKE MRS. MU SOCHUA ALONE CAN'T DO IT.
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