October 13, 2011
I REAFFIRM THAT HOR NAM HONG IS A FORMER KHMER ROUGE PRISON CHIEF
Today the kangaroo court in Phnom Penh upheld a previous verdict in the case related to a defamation lawsuit filed against me by current Cambodian Foreign Minister and former Khmer Rouge prison chief Hor Nam Hong.
The same defamation lawsuit had been filed against me in France by the same Hor Nam Hong who denied my assertion that he is a former Khmer Rouge prison chief. But on April 27, 2011 the French Supreme Court ("Cour de Cassation") declared I was not guilty of anything and Hor Nam Hong finally and definitively lost his lawsuit before the French tribunal.
Therefore, the guilty verdict rendered by the Phnom Penh tribunal today is a blatant violation of the "Non bis in idem" principle (no one shall be twice tried for the same offence). It appears laughable when one compares the degree of independence and respectability enjoyed respectively by the French (real) court and the Cambodian (kangaroo) court.
We must remember that Hor Nam Hong, along with five other top dignitaries of the current regime, refused last year to comply with a subpoena by UN-appointed judge Marcel Lemonde to testify as witnesses before the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh dealing with perpetrators of crimes against humanity. In a democratic country with an independent justice system such an offence would send Hor Nam Hong and his CPP colleagues to jail.
Sam Rainsy
Elected Member of Parliament
3 comments:
thiounn prasith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOgCVPogbks&feature=related
whatever! stop attack mr. hor nam hong! you are not doing a service for cambodia by your personal attack, etc, ok! stop be stupid and blinded by your small brain, ok! there are more to cambodia than your crazy afford, good for nothing to cambodia, you know! your story is so uninteresting to me, you know! i don't support you at all, you know! stop running away and hide overseas forever, ok! or forever hold your peace, ok!
Ms Nguyen is right!
Cambodia is a lucky country to have Mr Hor Nam Hong. He can kill anyone he wants. One day, Hor Nam Hong will kill Hun Sen, and he will be a new hero! Chea Sim is next!
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