PHNOM PENH, April 25, 2011 (AFP) - A Cambodian court on Monday slapped exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy with yet another two-year jail term, this time for accusing the foreign minister of being a former Khmer Rouge member.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court found the outspoken politician guilty in absentia of defamation and inciting discrimination for claiming in a 2008 speech that Hor Namhong once belonged to the blood-soaked communist movement.
Sam Rainsy, who lives in France, now faces a total of 14 years in prison if he returns to Cambodia following a string of convictions that opponents say are politically motivated.
"The verdict is unjust," Sam Rainsy's lawyer Choung Chou Ngy told AFP, adding that he will now discuss with his client whether to appeal the ruling.
Sam Rainsy was also ordered to pay eight million riel ($2,000) in compensation to Hor Namhong.
In September 2010, the leader of the eponymous Sam Rainsy party was handed a 10-year sentence in absentia for publishing a false map of the border with Vietnam.
It followed a two-year sentence in January 2010 for inciting racial discrimination and uprooting border markings with neighbouring Vietnam in an incident the previous year.
After exhausting his appeals against that punishment, Sam Rainsy was last month stripped of his parliamentary seat.
The opposition party and rights groups have said the convictions are an attempt to keep Sam Rainsy, 62, from taking part in Cambodia's national election in 2013.
He is seen as the main rival to Prime Minister Hun Sen, 60, who was a Khmer Rouge cadre before he turned against the regime. Hun Sen has vowed to stay in power until he is 90 years old.
Up to two million people died of overwork and starvation or were executed under the Khmer Rouge, which outlawed religion, property rights, currency and schools during its 1975-1979 rule.
Hor Namhong has long said that he and his family were prisoners at a Khmer Rouge camp, and has successfully sued people in the past for claiming that he had links to the regime.
Last May, a French appeals court upheld a guilty verdict against Sam Rainsy for remarks made in his autobiography about the foreign minister's alleged role in the hardline communist movement.
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Even though Thai army fire thousand missiles into Cambodia and kill as many Khmer army. Dr. Hun Sen is a great leader who practice sensible, desire no war. That is What Khmer TV always say when every time they present the news in Cambodia!
But Dr. Hun Sen is very extremely cruelty toward his own people such as K5 policy, Coup 1997 and so on...He murdered thousands of patriot Khmers during 1997 coup by shooting in the head one by one, not one or two Khmers life but thousands Khmer lives have been cut shortly by PhD Dr. Hun Sen. Why doesn’t Dr. Hun Sen love peace at 1997 coup, as now with Thai? I wonder how many Cambodian life has PhD Dr. Hun Sen taken so far but why does he practice sensible, peaceful with Thai and Viet? But not with his own Cambodian people.
How come Dr. Hun Sen has no mercy on his own people but he has plenty mercy on Thai and Viet. I am Khmer but I don't understand.
Can anyone please explain why?
Bad ass Hun Sen enjoyed what his evil and pusshy Yuon wife (Bun Rany = Hidden White powdered faced bitch) ordered him what to do to obey her Viet/Yuon devils in communist Hanoi.
Hen Sen was drugged by his evil and pussy Yuon wife influenced and manipulated horny Yuon dog Hun Sen to hate his own people.
I am very amused with their sentence to 2 years jail for Mr Sam Ransy to say that Hor Nam Was a Khmer Rouge. Why Can't he said that? Wasn't he Boeung Trabek prison boss? When the law is in their hand they can say anything they like. But why they didn't put Mr Sam ransy to 100 years in jail?
Funny funny funny Court
Justice Court Systems in Lawless Cambodia are ridiculous under the communist CPP and Hun Sen who were illegally installed by Communist Vietnamese evils from Hanoi.
How about millions of Cambodian people who could say Hor Namhong was a former Khmer Rouges? Could Hor Namhong jailed millions of those Cambodian people?
Yes, millions of Cambodian people and myself know that You, Hor Numhong was a Khmer Rouges cadre.
Millions of Cambodian peoples and opposition party members can collect millions of signatures to show that wHore Namhong was a Khmer Rouges because of the real evidence.
wHore Namhong is very dumb and silly!
រាជធានីភ្នំពេញ ៖ នៅថ្ងៃទី២៤ មេសា ២០១១ ម្សិលមិញ កងទាហានឈ្លានពានថៃ បានធ្វើការវាយលុកជាច្រើនលើកច្រើនសា រួមជាមួយនឹងការបាញ់ផ្លោងជាង១.០០០គ្រាប់ មកលើកងយោធពលខេមរភូមិន្ទ ដែលឈរជើងនៅតំបន់ប្រាសាទតាមាន់ និងប្រាសាទតាក្របី ក្នុងគោលបំណងដណ្តើកាន់កាប់ប្រាសាទ ។
Over 1000 shells of 155mm into Cambodia
In late 1945, along the banks of the Techa River in the Soviet Union, a dozen labor camps sent 70,000 inmates to begin construction of a secret city. Mere months earlier the United States’ Little Boy and Fat Man bombs had flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leaving Soviet leaders salivating over the massive power of the atom. In a rush to close the gap in weapons technology, the USSR commissioned a sprawling plutonium-production complex in the southern Ural mountains. The clandestine military-industrial community was to be operated by Russia’s Mayak Chemical Combine, and it would come to be known as Chelyabinsk-40.
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Because he wants you to eat your own shit.
I dont understand Millions Khmer people in Cambodia knowing that Hun Sen government is a crook, selling the country and do no favor to help Khmer people. Why dont Khmer people doing nothing about it.
I am disappointed in Sam Rainsy. He is showing his true colors. He remind me too much of the former coward king. When things get hot they run and hide in other countries. He should serve his sentencing and lead by example. By going to jail he can prove himself to be a stronger leader. Martin Luther King, Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. All served time in prison. When they were released everyone admired their sacrifices.
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