Thursday, September 23, 2010

Cambodia trying to silence me, says opposition leader

Cambodia opposition party leader Sam Rainsy. [Reuters]

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Zulfikar Abbany
Australia Network News


The Cambodian opposition leader in exile, Sam Rainsy, says the government has used a subservient court to try to silence him.

He was sentenced to a further 10 years in prison in absentia over a border dispute that involves Vietnam.

Mr Rainsy says he has maps - internationally verified - to prove that Vietnam has been moving border posts further and further into Cambodia.

He says Cambodian farmers are losing valuable land.

Crack down

It is not the first time that he has been sentenced in absentia.

Mr Rainsy, in self-imposed exile in France, told Radio Australia: "The current government is using a politically subservient court to crack down on critics of the government."

He accuses Vietnam of using its influence over Cambodian in the case.

He has been fined for spreading disinformation and received a two-year sentence in January.

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

O come on idiot, no body silence you for speaking out or criticize government, you are doing it all your life, no body arrest you or send you to court for that. The reason you are in trouble right now is not because you criticize government, but because you pull out the border post.

You want the media attention, but forget to think that the action can give the government the weapon to sue you.

Now you are so desperate, going around the world crying and asking for help. No body going to help you. You can either find a job and live in France or come back to Cambodian jail. Your choice.

Anonymous said...

Cambodia is not silencing you, it is Hun Sen and his court. I am part of Cambodia, but I do not silence you. You did the right by pulling that illegal border post allowing Youn encroachment on our soil, and we khmers stand behind you. The above commentor is a traitor to Cambodia and Cambodians.

Khmer Young said...

This is another effort to slap on face to all donors and human rights watch.

This is another effort to make a mockery to Cambodian people who voted for the CPP.

This is another effort to silence the rests of Cambodian dissents.

KY

Khmer Young said...

Ultimately, this is another effort to achieve the lasting friendship and comprehensive cooperation attempted by Vietnam with their former client, the CPP and Hun Sen government.

Bravo Vietnam!

KY

Khmer Yuong said...

បើសិនជាលោក សម រង្សី មានការទទួលខុសត្រូវ
ក្នុងការនិយាយស្តី ឬ ក៍មិនបំផ្លើសយកចំណេញខាង
នយោបាយ រឿងអ្វីៗអាចនឹងធូរស្រាលឡើងវិញ។

តែបើសម រង្សីនៅតែយកសាំងទៅចាក់ពីលើភ្លើង
គឺដូចគេដុតកន្ទុយខ្លួនឯងដែរ ហើយលទ្ធផលគឺដេក
មិនសុខបក់មិនល្ហើយ។

Anonymous said...

It is true that Vietnam has been border posts farther and farther into Cambodia. I am living in Kompong Cham province. Someone can saw a rice sack mouth,but someone can not saw my mouth or blind my eyes.Khmer people who are living at the Khmer-Vietnam border are knowing it.There are some people here who are blind eyes and deaf ears,and also blind heart.

Anonymous said...

I'm totaly agreed with you 9:22 PM,

khmer in France

Anonymous said...

Correction:Vietnam has been moving border posts farther and farther into Cambodia.

Anonymous said...

My Fellow Khmers:

I have tremendous respects for both Mr. Sam Rainsy and Mr. Khem Sokha, and I believe these two respectable elders have lasting roles to contribute to Cambodia future. However, given the current circumstances, I humbly think it is time for them to pass on the torch and elect a new figure to head the merged opposition. The two gentlemen can act as honourable founders and personal advisers to the new leader.

I'm a younger generation willing and able to lead the new party. If asked, I will lead with strength and determination. I will take a pro-active and non-partisan approach to build the momentum. If I do not deliver results within five years, I'm committed to step down for a new leader.

It is grand time for all of us to be the master of our destiny. The nation can not afford to wait, and expects us to take our political platform to the next level. I represent the new generation of know-how, and together I have utmost confidence in our abilities to do the right things for the country.

Join me, walk with me and be part of the change you want to be!

Anonymous said...

Poor CPP members and supporters, the band of monkeys, you accept that Hun Sen steals demomocracy from your children, your descendants will live under dictatorship for ever, dump.

Anonymous said...

Let go! Hun Sen! bring Cambodia to the top of development in Asia!

Anonymous said...

sam rainsy acted like a dictator himself i.e. self-imposed exile!

Anonymous said...

Poor CPP members and supporters,
the band of monkeys,
Sam Rainsy and his children live outside
but you and your children, you live under dictatorship for ever,
you will never know what is freedom,
DUMP.

Anonymous said...

sam rainsy is so blinded to see how his "living outside" of the country effected his prospect of winning. i think most khmer prefer the leader to live in cambodia and conduct business in cambodia, not in some refugee status way overseas. no wonder he always not favored by the khmer people in cambodia, at least! wake up, people, if your old tactics is not working, it is wise and smart and clever to change or reform that, ok! this is not the dark ages anymore, you know! get rid of that outdated mentality! it's useless in the computer age, really!

Anonymous said...

My Fellow Khmers: 9:46 We need a name and location sir... Where do we start?? I think CPP are going to get rid of Mr. Sam Rainsy and Mr. Khem Sokha from politic. So we need to start a new one

Anonymous said...

HAY...! TO ALL KHMER SUPPORTERS...
WHY DON'T YOU DO THE RESERCH OR READ MORE HISTORRIES OR LESTEN NEW.... WHO DO YOU THINKS,OR WHICH LEADER, CAN BE SAFE KHMER COUNTRY IN THE FURTURE...

IF ANY ONE OF KHMER OR YOUN DOGYS KEEP SUPPORT HUN SEN AND YOUN DOGY....THAN FOR GET ABOUT KHMER.... CAUSE IN THE FUTURE THERE NO MORE KHMER....

WAKE UP ALL KHMER....

Anonymous said...

9:46! you sound like stupid shithead son of ah PhD From Hanoi!

Work hard don't bage and do evil thing to your own people for power stupid!

GO working to serve community and people don't ask for a handout!

You wento to western scholl, don't act like your stupid jungle monkey PhD from Hanoi ah Kwack Hun xen motherfucker!

Why ah Hun Xen stop teach his Children to stop beging and do evil thing!!???

Anonymous said...

លោកសមរង្ស៊ីបានយកភ្លើងមកដុចខ្លួនឯងសោះ
រួចហៅ​អោយគេជូយពន្លត់ ! ឥឡូវត្រូវជាប់គុក
១២ឆ្នាំ ។រដ្ឋាភិបាលខ្មែរ​នឹងសុំអោយរដ្ឋាភិបាល
បារាំង អោយធ្វើមាតុភូមិវិវត្ត លោកសមរង្ស៊ីមក
កម្ពុជាវិញ​អោយ​ខាងតែបាន ។ ព្រោះថាទង្វើ
ធ្វើផែនទីក្លែងក្លាយ គឺជាគ្រោះថ្នាក់ធំណាស់
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Anonymous said...

It's about time to replace Sam Rainsy. The guy is coward and clueless. Even Mu Sochua is braver than him. She stand her ground and he is not afraid to go to jail, and now see that the government dare not do anything to her. SR have a lot to learn from Mu Sochua. I think we should appoint Mu Sochua to be SRP leader now and change the party name back to its old name the Nationalist Party.

Let SR stay in France and work his profession as a banker. May be he will be more happy and make a living that way.

Anonymous said...

Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth
Hun Sen...

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's leaders and members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth...

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.

Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
"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."
  
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 detonate 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 Vietnam 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. 

Anonymous said...

In Cambodia should not elected anyone that got a duel citizinships as their leaders most of them are coward when they're in troubled they took off to abroad as their safe haven and left their followers suffer in srok Khmer ...DIE DIE DIE MY DARLING JUST SHUT YOUR PRETTY MOUTH..WE WONT BE SEE YOU AGIAN IN CAMBODIA...YEH YEH!

Anonymous said...

មិនមែនទេ!!!​ អាចុយម៉្រាយខ្ញុំកញ្ជះដាច់ថ្លៃយួន
១១:៥៧PM ឯងទេដែលជាពួកអាក្បត់ជាតិនោះ!
អា ១១:៥៧PM ឯង នឹងត្រូវខ្មែរអ្នកស្នេហាជាតិ
សំឡាប់អោយផុតពូជមឹនខាន៕

There are plenty of true patriotic Khmer in sleeping cell around you, so watch out! It's just a matter of time! believe me អាចុយម៉្រាយខ្ញុំកញ្ជះដាច់ថ្លៃយួន​ ១១:៥៧PM!

Anonymous said...

when you break the law, of course, you pay for it! stop using lame excuses1 try to break the law in america or anywhere else, and see if the police don't come to get you and book you in jail! wake up, people; same concept in cambodia, ok!

Anonymous said...

sam rainy tries to recruit ignorant people to support him because educated people and those of us with analytical skill or critical thinking skills just don't buy into sam rainsy's hypocricy, really!