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| Party leader Sam Rainsy speaks during a press conference in Phnom Penh in 2009. (Photo by: Heng Chivoan) |
Monday, 13 June 2011
Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
Embattled opposition leader Sam Rainsy has been ordered to appear at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on June 22 to answer allegations that his political party did not send its 2006 annual report to the Ministry of Interior on time, sparking the Sam Rainsy Party to threaten a counter-suit.
The ministry filed a complaint against the SRP in August, 2007 for the late report. According to the summons, dated June 6 and obtained by The Post yesterday, the SRP failed to file a timely report on its activities, income and spending, bank-account balance and party inventory.
Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said yesterday that the SRP submitted the report, required of all parties, after the deadline. The ministry is demanding that the SRP pay 3 million riel (US$734).
When asked why the complaint was being dug up nearly four years after it was filed, Khieu Sopheak declined to comment, referring questions to the court.
Hing Bun Chea, the deputy prosecutor at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court who signed the summons, could not be reached for comment.
Meanwhile, the SRP has demanded that the ministry rescind the complaint, threatening to sue for defamation.
In a statement on Friday, the SRP said it had submitted the report by a deadline of December 31, 2006, and that both the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Economy and Finance had received it two days later, on January 2.
“The Ministry of Interior’s intention in filing a complaint to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court accusing the SRP of not sending its 2006 annual report to the Ministry of Interior is to disturb and defame the SRP,” the party said.
“The SRP would like to ask the Ministry of Interior to withdraw the complaint … otherwise, the SRP will sue the Interior Minister [Sar Kheng] of defaming the SRP,” the statement said.
Khieu Sopheak said the ministry would not withdraw its complaint, and said the SRP statement only made the ministry more inclined to file additional complaints against the opposition party.
“If [Sam Rainsy] dares to sue the Ministry of Interior, we will file additional complaints,” he said. Khieu Sopheak suggested that Sam Rainsy recognise his mistake and “implore” the ministry to withdraw the complaint.
SRP spokesman Yim Sovann said submitting a report one or two days late was “normal” and that the complaint was a “laughable” ploy.
He countered that the government was often late in responding to questions submitted by SRP parliamentarians, often taking months to reply and sometimes not responding at all.
“In the Constitution, it states that the government must answer in seven days, but sometimes in three months the government has not answered,” he said. “How does the Ministry of Interior think?”
Sam Rainsy, who currently lives abroad in self-imposed exile, would face as long as 14 years in prison from a string of convictions if he were to return to the Kingdom.
9 comments:
Sam is now busy with his gay shot in Pattaya, he will collect enough money to pay fine and come back. Don't summon anymore, ok?
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Pouk Ah kan tsass Youn CPP what do you want from Sam Rainsy Party(SRP)? Your law system is the communist system. With Khmer you are arrogant but with Youn you are really bullshit ! You are now so busy to sell Kampuchea to Viet but don't forget you children must marriage with Youn Kongays. Bravo what you doing!
11:05 PM,
instead you are busy with Kom Douy Youn and Hepethetis B,C because you all are afraid from coffin.
Stupid, bloody CPP has done nothing about millions of Viet illegal immigrants, keeps giving lands to Viet and keep harassing other Khmer opposition parties for no reason.
Destroying other Khmer for the benefit of Viet is their goal of those traitors CPP.
Pol Pot should rise up from his grave and wipe out theses traitors on more time.
1:11AM! may be Pot Pot rise from his ash to bang your mother!
Such a child games, When will be Cambodia or Interior Ministry grown up. Just a late report.
KI team, please post this if you can!
To Lok Prothean Sam Rainsy:
Have you spent a few minutes to think over and re-assess your progressive performance in the political arena so far? SWOT analysis from different perspectives will help!
- What defines Leadership to you?
- MPs Mu Sochua, Son Chhay & Mao Monivann and a few more are the core pillars of SRP. Ms. Mu has shown her great leadership skills. Everyday, she spends her time helping the poor Khmer victims. She refused to run away from the Kangaroo's court when come to injustice. You should not be afraid and stay in Cambodia. What can Hun Xen do to you? Instead, you will be gaining more popularity by showing your bravery/lealership. Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar dared to stay in the country even though she well knew that she risked her life. Nelson Mandela of S. Africa stayed in the prison for 27 years in exchange for true justice & freedom. That's the true leader.
- Stop painting the same Khmers. This is a lose-lose strategy. Speculation would lead to nowhere besides destroying our country.
The thing is not about CPP is stronger than SRP or HRP, but the opposition parties never learnt its past failure and refused to accept new ideas.
If SRP continues to run on the same status-quo platform with obsolete leadership skills, you will never ever be able to win the CPP/Youn Hun Xen.
Hope KI could help post this in your blog.
Best Regards,
SRP+HRP+All True Khmers>CPP/Youns!
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