Thursday, October 07, 2010

Opposition Preparing Atrocity Crimes Case Against CPP

Fleeing Phnom Penh residents carry their belongings after a fuel dump exploded on Sunday July 6, 1997. (Photo: AP)
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Washington, D.C Wednesday, 06 October 2010
“There has been much evidence that remains of those who used cruel power to torture before killing Funcinpec officials after the coup.”

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy says he is prepared to sue Prime Minister Hun Sen for crimes against humanity, for killings alleged committed in the 1997 coup and for the treatment of civilians during the civil war in the 1980s.

“There has been much evidence that remains of those who used cruel power to torture before killing Funcinpec officials after the coup,” Sam Rainsy said Monday.

The fighting in July 1997 led to the crippling of the royalist Funcinpec party, as the Cambodian People's Party seized power from a brokered coalition.

Sam Rainsy said as many as 100 Funcinpec officials were killed or executed in two days of fighting. Spouses of the deceased fled the country, he said, and many now live in dire conditions.


Sam Rainsy recently filed a complaint in the state of New York accusing Hun Sen of collusion in a 1997 grenade attack on an opposition rally, which killed 16 people and injured nearly 100, including one American.

Prior to those incidents, when Cambodia was occupied by Vietnam, he said, civilians and children were forced to the front lines in Cambodia's civil war, where they cleared the forests and were injured by land mines or fighting. Such acts constitute crimes against humanity, he said.

“There was conscription of civilians to clear the forest, living and working in areas with malaria and land mines,” he said. “That's a criminal policy.”

CPP lawmaker Cheam Yiep dismissed the allegations. During the 1980s, the country was at war with the Khmer Rouge and needed people's help building barricades, assisting the Vietnamese troops and laying mines, he said.

“The volunteer Vietnamese soldiers were like brothers,” he said. “They helped us because we did not have weapons in our hands and had no army.”

He said there is no evidence linking the CPP leadership to crimes that Sam Rainsy has alleged. Hun Sen “does not have any involvement in those issues.” Cheam Yiep said the 2008 election, which the CPP won in a landslide, had been a determination of justice by the public.

“Sam Rainsy has the right to file complaints in the US court, to any courts, even to God, but they will not be able to interfere in Cambodia's internal affairs,” he said.

Sam Rainsy said Monday he was collecting evidence from widows, orphans and the disabled in preparation to file in court.

“Even if it was a long time ago, the courts have the capability to receive complaints [for killings],” he said, citing the arrest of the leaders of Fiji and Panama accused of similar crimes.

Sam Rainsy is currently in exile, facing a prison of 12 years on forgery, disinformation and incitement charges related to public claims he has made of Vietnamese border encroachment. He is currently traveling in the US and will stop next in Canada, where his party is expected to hold a congress.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just do it!

Anonymous said...

Mr yab said was baseless.

The plan K5 created by Viet. to order Hun Xen Kill khmer.

Anonymous said...

Make long story short. I don't like monachy either. But people have the right to choose their own leader in democratic world. Hun Senn have murder the opposition party like Funcipec and Sam Raingsy that is inhumane. Put civilian as a shield to fight war and now still have member of Khmer Rouge serving the regime from Parliment to the village. I feel sorry for our Khmer/Cambodian people. Vote at the gun point behind your back, that's no freedom of expression. Mr. Sam Raingsey is the only hope for Cambodian people toward true democracy.
Khmer Poit Paet live in U.S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-pAksDMmgU

Anonymous said...

WE MUST BRING HUN SEN THE CULPRIT AND MURDERER - WE WANT JUSTICE.

CHEAM YEAP...IS A MAN WITH NO BRAIN. HE NEEDS FOOD BRAIN.

LIKE - KHMER BRAIN. NOT HUN SEN AND HANOID BRAIN.

CHEAM YEAP IS STINKY MOUTH.

STOP IT CHEAM YEAP.

HOW MUCH ACHE JO PAY YOU TA CHEAM YEAP

WE SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT TO BRING HUN XEN AND CHEAM YEAP AND GANGS HANOID AND PAI SEE PAN, WHO ELSE

WE WANT JUSTICE FOR ALL KHMER VICTIMS...

PLEASE HELP US UNITED STATES AND THE WHOLE WORLD ... OUR PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO BE KILLED BY HUN XEN AND HIS GANGSTERS...

PLEASE HELP US...

STOP IT CHEAP YEAP.

Pol Roth Khmers... said...

Anonymous said...

WE MUST BRING HUN SEN THE CULPRIT AND MURDERER - WE WANT JUSTICE.

CHEAM YEAP...IS A MAN WITH NO BRAIN. HE NEEDS FOOD BRAIN.

LIKE - KHMER BRAIN. NOT HUN SEN AND HANOID BRAIN.

CHEAM YEAP IS STINKY MOUTH.

STOP IT CHEAM YEAP.

HOW MUCH ACHE JO PAY YOU TA CHEAM YEAP

WE SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT TO BRING HUN XEN AND CHEAM YEAP AND GANGS HANOID AND PAI SEE PAN, WHO ELSE

WE WANT JUSTICE FOR ALL KHMER VICTIMS...

PLEASE HELP US UNITED STATES AND THE WHOLE WORLD ... OUR PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO BE KILLED BY HUN XEN AND HIS GANGSTERS...

PLEASE HELP US...

STOP IT CHEAP YEAP.

Anonymous said...

Cheam yeap must stop barking.Cheam Yeap talks no one listening to Hun Sen or Viet dogs.Now Hun Sen and his clans get worst and worst every day.May gods bless Khmer innocent people and Khmer people must stand up with two feet and fight back against Hun Sen.Cheam Yeap stop opening your stink mouth.

Anonymous said...

How crazy you are? Ah crazy Cheap Yeap said without thinking like person who has no brain.We trust you as animal.

Anonymous said...

These 3 new criminal cases, the international should be hanged Hun Sen easily!!!

Down Puok ah jkae Kbort Jeat!!!

Anonymous said...

Bravo PM Rainsy !!!!!!!Please do more and continue to do all this case to international law!!!
Now the dictator Hun Xen cannot sleep well,Hun Xen choose his son Hun Maneth to be his bodyguide because he is very afraid!!!

Anonymous said...

No one in Cambodia would dare crossing Hun Sen and bring this up, but the SRP. Cambodian need to really take a good look at who is who? and make the right decision next election. Also Prince Tomico who lost his parents in Boeung Trabek's prison could use the opposition party for a support in finding justice for them. No? Wake up Prince.

Anonymous said...

Hun sen, the cpp are traitors!

Prosecute him and his regime.
Very evil. They are no better than khmer rouge. They are khmer rouge.

Very currupted.

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen was a member of the Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime.

Hun Sen is a leader of the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime.

Hun Sen was behind the terrorism on March 30, 1997 grenade attack in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
A U.S. citizen Ron Abney was injure during the grenade attack.
Source:
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Senate Foreign Committee Investigation

Hun Sen attempted to assassinate Sam Rainsy (leader of opposition party) and Chea Vichea (leader of the Free Trade Union) during grenade attack on March 30, 1997 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Hun Sen is responsible for murdered Chea Vichea (leader of the Free Trade Union).

The Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime is responsible for killing 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples.

The Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime is also responsible for killing 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples and counting.

The Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime is responsible for extrajudicial execution over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party.

The Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime is responsible for murders over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.

The Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime is responsible for murders 3 leaders of Free Trade Union.

The Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime is responsible for murders 10 journalists

The Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime is responsible for murders at least 16 innocent Khmer peoples during a grenade attack on March 30, 1997 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Anonymous said...

Don't just said, hit it and collect all information with documentation from UN Human Rights Office in Phnom Penh on masacre killing during 2 days coup in 1997to prove within the complaint.

Anonymous said...

that is right collect all the evidences and give it to the Human Right office in PP.

we help protect each other for our cause of saving our lands and people of Khmer ...

Pass it on... bong Bross ba-oan Srey.

Anonymous said...

I guess there is ground to sue HS.

However, why did Sam Rainsy wait until now to sue. Is it because he has been forced out through the court?

I'm not for Hun Sen, but Sam Rainsy's motive is questionable.

If Mr. Sam Rainsy cares so much about justice he should have sued Hun Sen long ago. Decide to sue now make Sam Rainsy look really desperate. I just hope does not try to use Hun Sen pass crime for political gain.

Anonymous said...

We still remember K-5 Plan, it is the most cruel and criminal policy used by the Viet Puppet government in Cambodia. the second killing field after Khmer Rouge.

Anonymous said...

K 5 is Killing Field Number II

I am very sad for the Khmer People!

We had suffered too much... suffering ever...

Why Khmer?

God bless Cambodia...