Petition to French and Indonesian Presidents regarding the application of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements

[KI-Media note: The same petition in French was also sent to French President Nicolas Sarkozy]

PETITION

To Mr. SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO

PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA,

CO-PRESIDENT OF THE 1991 PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE ON CAMBODIA,

c/o The Republic of Indonesia Embassy

47-49, rue Cortambert, 75116 Paris, France

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We, the Representatives of the Cambodian Civil Society in France, who have gathered at the Trocadéro Human Rights Plaza in Paris on October 24th, 2010, to commemorate the October 23rd, 1991 Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia,

Considering that the Government of Cambodia led by Mr. Hun Sen and his CPP party:

1. Unscrupulously violates fundamental human rights, the Kingdom's Constitution and democratic principles;
2. Fails to provide justice to hundreds of assassination cases of political opponents, trade unionists, journalists and independent lawyers since 1991;
3. Conducts violent evictions of villagers from their homes and lands throughout the country, and dumping them in isolated and unhealthy locations;
4. Systematically abuses its power to stifle all legitimate criticisms and protests raised by the citizens and the opposition through the use of repressive government police and armed forces and its court system;
5. Acts as an accomplice to Vietnam in the latter’s pursuit of colonization of Cambodia, in spite of the fact that Vietnam is itself a signatory to the 1991 Paris Peace Accords. The number of Vietnamese "immigrants" has now reached more than five million, i.e., more than 35% of the entire fourteen million population of Cambodia, thereby dangerously threatening the identity and the national unity of the Cambodian people;
6. Endangers Cambodia’s independence and neutrality, and the Cambodian people's right to self-determination by accepting growing interferences from the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on Cambodia disguised as bilateral ‘cooperation’ in the fields of politics, judicial system, administrative system, economic system, as well as security and national defense;
7. Proceeds with Vietnam to the border demarcation between the two countries on the basis of the illegal 1985 treaty.

• Similarly, Thailand, also a signatory of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements, had decided to militarily occupy several locations along Cambodia’s western and northern provinces, including the area of Preah Vihear temple, by publicly rejecting the border delineation established through the 1904-1907 Franco-Siamese treaties and later recognized by The Hague International Court of Justice in its 1962 ruling on the Preah Vihear temple case.

Along with the undersigned, we are denouncing:

• The measures and actions taken by the governments of Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, as they are deemed as a factor that will dash the hope of the Cambodian people to find their freedom and democracy, the independence and territorial integrity of their country, as stipulated in the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements whose aim was to end the indescribable suffering through many years of war, massacre and occupation by Vietnam;
• In fact, up to now, Cambodia still has not yet found peace and security stipulated in the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements, and the Cambodian people still continue to live in misery under the terror imposed by those who are power currently, as well as by foreign domination;

Therefore, we urge you, Mr. President, in your distinguished role as Co-Chairman of the Paris Peace Conference on Cambodia, to kindly consider establishing an International Control Commission for the Application of these agreements, a Commission with the mission of engaging the governments of Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand to scrupulously observe the provisions of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia in order to help our Country get out of a dangerous destruction path and also to restore peace, stability and security for the sake of Cambodia’s development.

Done in Paris, October 24, 2010

Representatives of the Demonstrators

SEAN Pengsè,

6 Allée des Frênes,

77420 CHAMPS-SUR-MARNE, France

- Le Comité des Frontières du Cambodge en France et dans le Monde - CFC,

Représentant : (M.) SEAN Pengsè,

6 Allée des Frênes, 77420 Champs-sur-Marne, France

- La Fédération des Khmers du Kampuchea-krom – FKKK France-Europe,

Représentant : (M.) THACH Vien,

46 r Voie des Prés, 93420 Villepinte, France

- L’Association groupant le Parti Sam-Rainsy en France,

Représentant : (M.) (M.) PENG Muny Sara

15 boulevard du Champ-du-Moulin

77700 Serris, France

- L’Association groupant le Parti des Droit de l’Homme en France,

Représentant : (M.) LIM BUN Sidareth,

5 Allée Ravel,

92320 Châtillon, France

- La Ligue Cambodgienne des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen – LCDHC,

Représentante : (Mme) DY HAY Phanny,

56 rue Pouchet,

75017 Paris, France

- L’Association Culturelle Cambodgienne – ACC,

Représentante : (Mme) LONG Kunny,

Boîte 87, Maison des Sociétés,

69500 Bron, France

- Relations avec les Manifestants,

Représentant : (M) LIM Kim-Ya,

26 rue Labbé, 94600 Choisy-le-roi, France