PETITION TO HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT
September 20, 2010
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
We, as Cambodian-Americans, citizens of the United States, Cambodia, and other nationalities, write to you today to express our deepest concern over the rapidly declining state of democracy in Cambodia. We seek your support and intervention to end the Cambodian government's policies and practices of forced land evictions in the name of development. Land-grabbing by the government is increasingly widespread throughout the country. It has caused enormous pain and suffering, with unimaginable long term consequences to the lives of many poor, defenseless people.
Secondly, the country's defamation law places severe restrictions on fundamental human freedoms. It is a legal tool designed to effectively silence any critics of the Cambodian government, corrupt officials and their relatives. The Cambodian government and its corrupt officials regularly use the court system, controlled by the ruling party, to convict journalists, victims of land disputes, political activists, and even the people’s elected representatives. For example, on November 16, 2009, the National Assembly voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of Mr. Sam Rainsy, leader of the official opposition party. This was done without any regard for his elected rights or those of the people who chose him to be their representative.
Mr. Sam Rainsy is currently exiled in France, continuing to speak out to Cambodians and the world about the government's abuses. For his publicly spoken opinions, the Cambodian government is currently pursuing an 18 year prison sentence. Given the track record of the Cambodian court system, Mr. Sam Rainsy will be found guilty for sure.
There is a planned US-ASEAN summit during the 65th United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 24, 2010. I implore you to take issue directly with the Cambodian government over this oppressive act.
We seek your support to end the on-going erosion of civil liberties and systematic human rights violations in Cambodia, by putting the Cambodian government on notice that such abuses can no longer be tolerated. We request you to help Mr. Sam Rainsy to return so he can resume his parliamentary activity and continue to promote democracy in Cambodia.
Petition:
As Cambodian-Americans, citizens of the United States, Cambodia, and other nationalities, we invite the United Statess to persuade the Cambodian government to:
Respectfully Yours,
Undersigned, Cambodian/American Community
Cambodia and other nationalities adhering to this petition
Secondly, the country's defamation law places severe restrictions on fundamental human freedoms. It is a legal tool designed to effectively silence any critics of the Cambodian government, corrupt officials and their relatives. The Cambodian government and its corrupt officials regularly use the court system, controlled by the ruling party, to convict journalists, victims of land disputes, political activists, and even the people’s elected representatives. For example, on November 16, 2009, the National Assembly voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of Mr. Sam Rainsy, leader of the official opposition party. This was done without any regard for his elected rights or those of the people who chose him to be their representative.
Mr. Sam Rainsy is currently exiled in France, continuing to speak out to Cambodians and the world about the government's abuses. For his publicly spoken opinions, the Cambodian government is currently pursuing an 18 year prison sentence. Given the track record of the Cambodian court system, Mr. Sam Rainsy will be found guilty for sure.
There is a planned US-ASEAN summit during the 65th United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 24, 2010. I implore you to take issue directly with the Cambodian government over this oppressive act.
We seek your support to end the on-going erosion of civil liberties and systematic human rights violations in Cambodia, by putting the Cambodian government on notice that such abuses can no longer be tolerated. We request you to help Mr. Sam Rainsy to return so he can resume his parliamentary activity and continue to promote democracy in Cambodia.
Petition:
As Cambodian-Americans, citizens of the United States, Cambodia, and other nationalities, we invite the United Statess to persuade the Cambodian government to:
- Defend the human rights of the Cambodian population from government abuses
- Steadfastly restore and guarantee the freedom of speech and freedom of expression
- Guarantee freedom for the protesters and human rights defenders
- Release all villagers jailed for protesting to defend their farm land
- Withdraw the arrest warrant for MP Sam Rainsy
- Restore immunity for MP Sam Rainsy
Respectfully Yours,
Undersigned, Cambodian/American Community
Cambodia and other nationalities adhering to this petition
21 comments:
បើមានឧត្តម្ភកតិជាខ្មែរ នៅពេលនេះ គេគួរណាស់តែនាំគ្នាធ្វើញត្តិ
ដើម្បីអោយលោកអូបាម៉ាជួយជ្រំជ្រែងក្នុងការដាក់សម្ពាត ទៅលើរដ្ឋាភិបាលថៃ
ក្នុងករណី ការពារបូរណភាពទឹកដី ខ្មែរ ។ មិននឹកថា មានក្រុមខ្មែរចំឡែកមួយនេះ
បែរជាទាមទារអោយលោកអូបាម៉ាជួយជ្រុំជ្រែងក្នុងការដាក់សម្ពាត ទៅលើរដ្ឋាភិបាល
ខ្មែរទៅវិញ !
សូមកុំភ្លេចថា ការរំលោភសិទ្ធិមនុស្ស គឺនៅអាមេរិកក៏មាន នៅបារាំងក៏មានដែរ
ចុះទំរាំស្រុកខ្មែរទៀតនោះ គឺតិចឬច្រើន វាតែងតែកើតមានជាយថាហេតុជាមិនខាន
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This is a good time to accomplish this petition.
To Khmer Rouge supporter
Khmer in Sydney CBD
Why are you support the Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime kills 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime kills hundreds of innocent Khmer peoples?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime extrajudicial execution over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime murders over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime murders 3 leaders of the Free Trade Union?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime murders 10 Journalists?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime kills at least 18 innocent Khmer peoples during a grenades attack (terrorism) on March 30, 1997 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime police brutality against monks and evictees?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime burn poor people's house(s) down to the ground and leave them homeless?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime torture innocent Khmer peoples?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime human rights abuses innocent Khmer peoples?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime sex with children in Cambodia?
Khmer in Sydney CBD, do you like to sleep with children?
The reason why I'm asking is because you gay guys support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime who is continue to keep child sex industry open.
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime committed corruptions in Cambodia?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory and oil fields?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime illegal arrest, mass evictions, land grabbing, firearms, logging, deforestation, sold state properties, removed parliamentary immunity of parliament members and plunder national resources?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime abuse the laws, the National Election Committee and the National Assembly?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime violate the laws, the Constitution and the Paris Accords?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime oppress, injustice, impunity, persecute, unlawful detention and death in custody?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime 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 and disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters?
Why are you support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime abuse the court as a tools to send political opponents, journalists, land owners and farmers to jail?
You're support the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime who is responsible for killing almost two million innocent Khmer peoples and counting.
Please do me a favor, don't ever tell anyone that you are Khmer because you make Khmer peoples look bad.
Khmer in Sydney CBD enjoys yourself in hell.
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.
1:22 PM,
Khmer in Sydey CDB will not understand your English,
you cannot say "You're support"
you can say
"You support" or
"You're supporting"
I am Khmer-American too, but I don't support this stupid petition. They have new petition every few weeks,but nothing happen, so don't waste your time.
I use to like SRP, but never like the way SR run the party. I think other people such as Son Chay and Mu Sochua is more fit to lead the party. I sure there are many other party supporter support this idea.
Corrupt authority, whether it be an abusive spouse or a dictator, employs secrecy to hide it’s true activities. Otherwise the subjects would have the wool pulled back from their eyes and see the authority unclothed.
Corrupt authority is understandably paranoid and threatened by the subjects it maintains control over and harvests wealth from. Corrupt authority tells nothing about itself and seeks to secretly know everything about the individual in name of “national security.” A constant state of war is necessary, and is produced to divert attention away from the true cause and to justify a police state of affairs. The cost of maintaining a police state is enormous, just ask the Ancient Romans if you could. More and more of the economy is always devoted to servicing the growing military/police state, but it cannot be sustained.
The end can turn out in different ways. Often the criminals behind the proverbial curtain will loot the treasury and escape, leaving the country burn. Or, a slow death in which the corruption saps perception of credibility from all authority, and authority is nothing without credibility. It is the people who give authority in the first place. The purpose of non-violent protests is to demonstrate this. However non-violent protests are generally isolated and for a finite time. In the end, people en-mass will walk away from the system itself, permanently, leaving it defenseless.
ពួកអាបល់បាយគណៈបក្សសម រង្សី និងគណៈបក្ស
គឹម សុខា រួមទាំង អាសួន សេរីរដ្ឋា
បានតែព្រុសនៅក្រៅប្រទេសតែប៉ុណ្ណោះ... ពួកអាចោលម្សៀតអស់នេះវាគ្មានសេចក្ដីក្លាហាន
និងនាំគ្នាធ្វើបាតុកម្ម ឬ មហាបាតុកម្មនៅចំពោះមុខ
សមេ្តចអគ្គមហាសេនាបតីតេជោ ហ៊ុន សែន ស្អីទេវាបានតែដើរញុះញង់ បោកប្រាស់អ្នក
ទាំងអស់គ្នាតែប៉ុណ្ណោះ... !!!
ជ័យយោ រជ្ជកាលទី៤នៃសមេ្តចអគ្គមហាសេនាបតីតេជោ
ហ៊ុន សែន វរ្ម័នទី១!
បរាជ័យ! ពួកអាក្បត់ជាតិ!
Before we start this petition, we should know more of the bilateral agreement between the 2 countries , USA and Cambodia.
មិនមែនទេ!!! អាចុយម៉្រាយខ្ញុំកញ្ជះដាច់ថ្លៃយួន
២:១៣AM ឯងទេដែលជាពួកអាក្បត់ជាតិនោះ!!!
អា ២:១៣AM 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 ២:១៣AM!!!
Obama said...
Unless Cambodians follow the religion of Islam, I will not help them obtain freedom.
The President Of United States of Islam, Obama.
Also we, (Muslims) are very peace loving religion. We lop off the heads of those who dare stand up to oppose us. We, (Muslims) it is our duties to kill Jews and Christians. We, (Muslims) will not tolerate church buildings in Muslim countries and we execute every believers we can find in our Muslim countries and non-Muslim countries must allow us to build our mosques. If not, you are very intolerant of our beliefs.
You cannot burn our Koran. We'll kill you in plain view. We love burning the Bible and believers in the Bible just a bunch of wimps to us. So, learn some "tolerance" you bible thumpers- Imam.
Ah kawck give people justice and a real democracy! You motherfucker do not see what hapened to Shehato and Sadam Husen 's families????
Do your grand children a big favor , fool!!!!!
Let's worry about HUMAN RIGHTS in Cambodia. If Hun Xen doesn't give our rights, we should not give him his rights either!! Sam Rainsy deserves to go back home, and he our hope for Democracy in Kampuchea. No Rainsy, No Democracy, No freedom, No nothing including our beloved land. Don't allow those VIET-CONG, VIET-MINH, VIET-MAM OR VIET WHAT EVER...THEY ARE OUR HISTORICAL ENEMY AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO TERRORIZE US UNTIL THE LAST PERSON IN THAT COUNTRY. They are savages and they NEVER appreciated nothing in life but their own ill-logical communist idea born from Ho ho ho chi chi chi minh minh minh rear end (ASS). That is where it comes from!! So my brother and my sister... go do more research about Indochina war and you will see who is who is an idiot...what do they want LAND and POWER!! Vietnam killed Khmer people during the Khmer Rough by hiding its face as Angkar Leu... and put blame on POL POT the true Khmer Nationalist!! tank Q
Oh....also DO Not Forget that... after The what-ever Viet "killed the Khmer people, they pretend to come rescue the Khmer People from the Khmer Rough and using The Khmer Rough as a pretext to invade Cambodia and installed the Fake Statue in Our Country as 7 Makara ( Pram Pee Makara )the day Viet-shit take over Cambodia not SAVE Cambodia...!!! Hun Xen Knows the "Pram Pee Markara but Xen scared of Hanoi His Big BOzzzzzz will spank him and his wife in the butt. Let's be serious.... Hun Xen has problem on his own too, trove te near ra tess chenh pi srok tuv oy chnay dem bey phot pi kroush tnak dol chivit ... mane te Bong Ba-oan!!!! Pi prous Youn ning tam roke ta Hun Xen oy keun dam bey komtich toung pouch....pi prous Hun Xen deung roung youn kmao kro kvak yang chren...Or Kuunn bong ba-oan ... see how nice it is to write without fear...so let keep our freedom so we can express our concerns when it is important for the whole nation...ok!!!
One last comment for today... by the way My Name Is "Dara Devi" I had read majorities of the idea published in this Blog, I want to Thank to the Ki-Media for allow such channel for voices and opinions around the world to express their thoughts freely. Keep it up Ki-Media, I support you all the ways till our country back to The Jayvarman VII Era. Where peace and prosperity and true love exist!!!
Of course, it's free to express our opinions and views but it should not go beyond the morality line. Everybody claims to be patriots while we don't even have mutial respect for our fellow Cambodians.Anyway, I support the idea that we at least have a channel to say something we want to through this web blog. Ran
Tith Sothea--- the mouthpiece of the Press and Quick Reaction Unit (PQRU) of the Council of Ministers working for CPP---ASSUMING….they also has a “QUICK REACTION UNIT” crew for online. DOES THE CPP also have a “FACE TO FACE - QUICK REACTION UNIT” OVERSEA?
BARKING FROM CAMBODIA? BARKING ONLINE? HOW MUCH THEY PAID YOU PEOPLE?
LOL
Sam Rainsy must take Hun Sen to court; Failure to prosecute Hun Sen will result in more innocent Khmer peoples being murder.
Sam Rainsy must not give Hun Sen another option to pick to escape justice.
Which one is better?
1. Hun Sen Death Squad (The Cambodian Organize Crime) go to federal prison for life in the United States for terrorism on March 30, 1997 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
2. Sam Rainsy get his jail terms drop.
Option 1 will benefit all innocent Khmer peoples and Khmer national.
Option 2 will benefit Sam Rainsy and the Cambodia People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime (Hun Sen Death Squad, assassins, murderers, killers, human rights abusers and land grabbers...).
The last time, Sam Rainsy picked was option 2.
I remember Sam Rainsy said "I'm not doing this for Sam Rainsy, I'm doing this for Khmer national."
Sam Rainsy, please do a favor for the Khmer national, take Hun Sen to court.
I am hopping that Sam Rainsy pick the right option this time so that the same thing will not happen again ever.
Sam Rainsy must not allow Hun Sen to continue to kill more innocent Khmer peoples.
Sam Rainsy is in a position to take Hun Sen to court because Hun Sen was trying to assassinate him on March 30, 1997 Grenade Attack (Terrorism). This is a rare opportunity. Only victims have the power. I wise, I have this power to bring Hun Sen to federal court in the United States.
This is a million times better than spend hundreds of million of dollars to hire a private military contractor (Black Water, now XE etc...) to bring justice to criminals (Hun Sen Death Squad and the Khmer Rouge Regimes) who is responsible for killing almost two million innocent Khmer peoples and counting.
Who ever charge, prosecute, convict and sentence Hun Sen is a Khmer hero. You will be saving a lot of innocent Khmer peoples life. Because Hun Sen is responsible for murders his political opponents, leaders of the free trade union, journalists and innocent Khmer peoples.
Hun Sen is the most powerful person in Cambodia.
Sam Rainsy have the power to send the most powerful person in Cambodia (Hun Sen) to federal prison for life in the United States.
By
Victim of
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
&
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
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