By Rithipol
Free Press Magazine Online
Translated from Khmer by Soch
Click here to read the original article in Khmer
On Tuesday morning, the Cambodian Appeal Court reduced opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s sentence from 10 to 7-year, and his fine was also reduced from 63 (~$15,750) to 3 million riels (~$750). The reductions are related to the charge of border document and map falsification leveled against the opposition leader.
The decision was made following the appeal made by Sam Rainsy’s defense lawyer against the sentence issued by the Phnom Penh municipal court which handed down 10-year of jail term and 63 million riels in fine to the opposition leader. Furthermore, the accusation was changed from publication of false information to incitation charge instead. Nevertheless, the Appeal court decided to preserve the decision by the Phnom Penh municipal court for the cops to arrest opposition leader and bring him to court.
In February 2010, Sam Rainsy posted on the SRP website border maps between Cambodia and Vietnam which showed that Cambodia lost land to Vietnam in Svay Rieng provinde. Nevertheless, Sam Rainsy said that his sentence was political and it was a threat so that Cambodians will not dare talk about border encroachment problems by Vietnam, these encroachments took place under the blind eyes of Hun Xen’s regime.
5 comments:
Our people lack of courage gave Ah Viet mam an incentive to keep trying to swallow our country.
We got to change our way of thinking: stand up for our right.
Be mentally strong first, then physically strong will follow.
Will Rainsy pay?
The role of law in Cambodia at the prensent in NULL. They create the the law but they seat on the law, their law is DOLLERS. Two of my well-knows studied in East Germany and now they is working as judge in Phnom Penh. One of them has 3 wifes and the other 2 wifes. Every wife get a luxus car (Land criser) and a willa. Those told me as old friend that "In Cambodia without dollars, you will never win the prozess. For us is egal what the country men to be, the importing thing we need Dollars for our new wifes and cars, we can make black to white and white to black and sometime we must to do that, otherwise our post was take away, that is the law in our country now. They add that after we returned from study in Germany we wanted to make country with full of law but if we try to judge fair what we had study at the university, then we can only eat the paper without money and cars and girls, or our post will be replaced".
continuation from 4:42 AM,
After we have talked for a long time in restaurant they talk to me "Don't care Pok Mak, we drink. After drink you can show me wich one (= girl) you like, please tell us, we get for you".
SADAM HUN SEN IS A MOTHER FUCKER.
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