AFP
Cambodia's opposition leader has been stripped of his role as a member of parliament after exhausting his appeals against a prison sentence, according to a statement seen by AFP on Wednesday.
Sam Rainsy was last year handed a two-year jail term in absentia for inciting racial discrimination and uprooting border markings with neighbouring Vietnam in a 2009 incident, a case his lawyer said was politically motivated.
The outspoken politician, who lives in self-imposed exile in France, lost his final appeal against the sentence when Cambodia's Supreme Court upheld the verdict earlier this month.
Citing the country's constitution, election laws and the Supreme Court's decision, the National Assembly announced in a statement dated March 15 that Sam Rainsy "loses his rights, privileges and membership as member of parliament... for the fourth mandate."
Yim Sovann, a spokesman for the Sam Rainsy Party, slammed the decision by a parliament dominated by MPs from the ruling Cambodian People's Party.
"We will not recognise the politically motivated decision by the parliament which violates the principle of democracy and human rights," he said.
"They want to... keep Sam Rainsy out of politics."
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights expressed disappointment over the move, which it said showed "how the judiciary and legislature serve the political objectives of the executive".
"The removal of his membership of the National Assembly comes as little surprise and the executive is one step closer to its stated goal of 'making the opposition die'," said the group's president Ou Virak.
Sam Rainsy now faces a total of 12 years in prison if he returns to Cambodia, after a court late last year also sentenced him to 10 years for publishing a false map of the border with Vietnam in a separate case.
The Sam Rainsy Party and rights groups have in the past said the convictions were an attempt to keep Sam Rainsy from taking part in Cambodia's national election in 2013.
He is the main rival to Prime Minister Hun Sen, 59, who has ruled Cambodia since 1985 and has vowed to remain in power until he is 90 years old.
13 comments:
550 years we had greatly sufer, now we Khmer are reunion and him idiot Sam rainsy he wanted to devide us again, Sam sary are khmer traitor, right? sam sary and sam rainsy all Sam familys for generation cheating and stealing our supporter money isn't it right?, let me say it again the whole Sam family are lived by cheating and stealing Khmer money wasn't it right? why don't we stope thise evile Rainsy barking or claiming himself khmer compatriot? in pol pot time and befor 1993 we lived in hardshipe where was Rainsy, it absolutely clear some Khmer are stupid contineu support this Chines vendor with no reason, blindly support evill rainsy family,Rain sy he work very hards for Thai he separet us, he want to kill Hun sen 4 times, and he stooled 270,000dollar in 2003, why we stile support him, are we stupid or what? khmer, wake up Rainsy is chinese they never die for khmer.
The CPP is pol pot khmer rouge.
HoonXen is khmer rouge, no difference from pol pot.
Those who support the CPP are no better than khmer rouge or pol pot.
Cambodia is not democratic.
HoonXen is DICK-tator like the middle east.
9:19 PM Who paid you to make such a comment? We are not Rainsey supporters, but your comment is baseless and nonsene. We can't buy it.
9:19 PM,
As you go far back to his father, you must be old enough to know parts of recent Khmer history, right? I want to ask you some questions:
1-What did Sam Sary do then that makes you called him a traitor?
2-What did Sam Rainsy do that makes you call him a traitor?
3-How about ah Hun Xen, who has given to Yuons some Khmer isles, parts of Khmer land, natural resources, and allow millions of Yuons to live legally in Cambodia? Does he fit in the category as a traitor? And what will you SOB call him then?
That 9:19 PM is a Youn speak Khmer. He used a name aka Kampucheachun in google. He said 550 is not accurate. When Youn living in South of Khmer land sent his daughter Ngoc Van to marry Cheychetha2 was around 1650's or so, so the day Youn entered our land we suffered by them for more than 300 years. Ngoc Van and her 500 soldiers were spies in Khmer land, and the same strategies these evil Youn have continued to divide us. Youn are everywhere and are online. In Camdisc Youn like Pheng Kim Ving, Youn kampucheachun, ..Youn aka rattanakiri just chasing and biting Khmers.
Read from the real history kept by the west, and organize by the west to wake up Khmer people.
English:
http://static.blog4ever.com/2011/03/476705/artfichier_476705_221544_2011031559387.pdf
French:
http://static.blog4ever.com/2011/01/462157/artfichier_462157_202036_201101212147127.pdf
Don't see then go to
http://janecadhlanews.blog4ever.com/blog/index-462157.html
Youn aka kampucheachun kind are the most dangerous Youn. These kind of Youn should be existed on earth at all.
Youn aka kampucheachun kind are the most dangerous Youn. These kind of Youn should not be existed on earth at all.
i'm not surprised! because sam rainsy keeps running away and hiding overseas instead of working and tend to his duty as a lawmaker, etc, you know!
sam rainsy is a real loner, you know! he is starting to lose credibility!
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