23 September 2010
Sarah Williams, VOA
"This is actually the third or the fourth time that the court is being used as a political tool by the ruling party to crack down on the minority" -- Sam Rainsy, Cambodian opposition leaderCambodia’s main opposition leader is rejecting a Phnom Penh court’s decision to sentence him to 10 years in prison for altering documents and spreading disinformation involving a border dispute with Vietnam.
The court convicted Sam Rainsy of altering a map to show that Vietnam’s border is encroaching onto Cambodian land. The judge, declaring that the actions would have discredited the government, fined the opposition leader more than $1,000 and ordered him to pay at least $14,000 to cover the government's legal fees.
In an interview with VOA Thursday, Sam Rainsy called the charges politically motivated.
"I am not surprised at all, because this is not the first time that I am sentenced to a prison term," Sam Rainsy said from Paris, where he lives in self-imposed exile. "This is actually the third or the fourth time that the court is being used as a political tool by the ruling party to crack down on the minority."
In January, the opposition leader was sentenced to two years in prison for uprooting posts demarcating the border with Vietnam. Sam Rainsy says he is being unlawfully prosecuted by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.
“I am doing my duty in defending Cambodian farmers who have been losing their rice fields along the border with Vietnam because of border encroachment,” Sam Rainsy said. The 61-year-old accused the government of covering up the loss of Cambodia land to Vietnam.
Vietnamese troops occupied Cambodia for 10 years after toppling the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in 1979. Some Cambodians view Hanoi as a liberating force, while others consider it a self-serving government that is using Cambodia’s leader as a puppet. Cross-border relations are a political flashpoint that generally flare during election seasons.
The opposition says Mr. Hun Sen’s ruling party is taking action because it is concerned about the group’s influence in the 2013 general election.
Brad Adams, the Asia director for Human Rights Watch, also expressed concern Thursday about the treatment of Cambodia’s opposition.
“It's another example of the Cambodian government and Hun Sen, the prime minister, personally trying to persecute political opponents who have something different to say than the government does on various subjects," Adams told VOA.
Mr. Hun Sen is a former Khmer Rouge fighter who defected to Vietnam in the late 1970s. He returned to Cambodia to work in the Hanoi-backed government, becoming prime minister in 1985. Sam Rainsy is his chief rival, but has made few gains in his bid to challenge the prime minister.
10 comments:
Cambodian Court jailed Sam Rainsy for 10 years in absentia is the last nail on Sam Rainsy's coffin. From now on, Sam Rainsy's political career in Cambodia is done and dush. So, will SRP survive until the next election and beyond? Everyone can bet for it.
Khmer in Sydney CBD
THE SRP IS NOT DONE IF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES RESPECTS THE PARIS PEACE ACCORD.
We want Mr. Sam Rainsy return home safely, freely, and legally. We will bring you back home Sir! We will fight for your rights as well as our rights... If your rights is denied, our rights will be denied also...!!!
Dear All, if you want Mr. Sam Raisy to return home safely you need to be reunited and work as a team, on the 22th of October is the big day for supporting Mr. Sam Rainsy.
KHMER ALWAYS LOVE KHMER!
sam rainsy can reject whatever! but the law is the law, you know! no more double standard for official who violated the law; otherwise, the bad cycle won't stop here! and cambodia is not all about sam rainy either, you know! there are more to cambodia than that, really!
of course, anywhere in the world, they use law to punish people! it's called the rule of law, you know! get used to it, cambodia is not in the dark ages any more, ok! make sure to keep up-to-date with new law to control unruly individual for the good of society and cambodia, you know! try to tell that to the judge! it's called justice! this is not the KR brutal gov't, ok, this is a rule of law gov't in cambodia! there are right and wrong way to change the law, apparently sam rainsy is trying to change the law by himself like a dictator would; that's not how it works any more in cambodia, ok! like in teamsports, if you don't work with the team, you are useless! out you go! their way or the highway, ok! it's not that hard, really!
Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes,...
It' the law that they can twist to their liking really!
And wake up 10:41Pm and 10:57PM OK! for your boring writing style really because we know the monkeys who are implementing the laws already.
The first step the Vietcong government used dirt poor Cambodian farmers rice fields to demarcate their border!
The second step the Vietcong government used AH HUN SEN's house to demarcate their border!
The third step the Vietcong government used all dirt poor Cambodian people houses to demarcate their border! By then Cambodia will be another Khmer Kampuchea Krom!
If the Khmer Krom are ready fighting the Vietcong government to gain independence nation and why on Earth Khmer in Cambodia want to do the same? Why? Why?
The Khmer Krom is a living legacy for all Khmer(Cambodian) people to see as example!
If Khmer(AH HUN SEN) hate another Khmer(Sam Rainsy) then the enemy(the Vietcong government) will have hate Khmer even more! It doesn't have to be this way!
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
To Khmer Rouge Regime 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.
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