Press Release
Cambodian Americans Condemn the Unjust Verdict of Mr. Mam Sonando, Cambodian Human Rights Defender, to 20 Years
A Cambodian court on Monday, October 1, 2012 sentenced Mr. Mam
Sonando to 20 years in prison on insurrection charges that critics claim
are part of a political vendetta by the government. The AP reported
that "the 71-year-old Mam Sonando was convicted and sentenced on four
counts related to an alleged secessionist movement in eastern Cambodia.
He was charged with instigating an alleged insurrection in Kratie
province in May this year and inciting armed rebellion."
Mr. Mam Sonando is President of the Cambodian Association of
Democrats and owner of the Beehive Radio that is one of the country's
few radio stations broadcasting criticism of Prime Minister Hun Sen's
government.
CAHRAD condemns this unjust and politically-motivated verdict. The
ruling Cambodian government is attempting to intimidate and silence the
opposition with scare-tactics as the national general election is
approaching. The protest in Kratie province resulted from a land dispute
that caused many farmers to be wrongfully evicted from their homes.
The dispute involves a 58-square-mile tract of farmland that had been
awarded as a concession to a private company. The farmers resisted
eviction, and in May 2012, a 15-year-old girl was shot dead when
hundreds of armed police stormed the settlement.
A month before Mr. Mam Sonando was detained, Prime Minister Hun Sen
had called for his arrest, charging that he was leading a plot to
overthrow the government and establish a state within a state. The court
verdict was simply to comply with the Prime Minister's order and not by
a decision of an independent judiciary system.
CAHRAD is appealing to all human rights organizations, institutions,
governments and people around the world to protest and condemn this
sentence and to demand the immediate release of this human rights
defender and other innocent people.
6 comments:
don't included me in this statement,
i'm not in ur group.,
all of u, don't know the real fact
and behind the door,that, mam sonando did.
2;51am
and who includes you (faceless/nameless) in their group?
and what is the fact? everything relating to cambodia, the facts are in yuon' hands who control cambodia.
you lied, because you don't what is fact beside being brainwashed by yuon.
your fact is fucking.
2;51am
and who includes you (faceless/nameless) in their group?
and what is the fact? everything relating to cambodia, the facts are in yuon' hands who control cambodia.
you lied, because you don't know what is fact beside being brainwashed by yuon.
your fact is fucking.
2:51 AM,
You have enough evidences or you just being brain-washed and being Vietcong slave forever, which one one you want?
You might be a hero to Ah HUn Shit, but you're zero when it's comes to court case. Wake-up before it's too late. If you're Vietcong slave, go wash yourself, you smell like shite from eating Ah Hun Shit poops.
like Mr.Rainsy said,
dummy -scare crow- nationally
assembly, as well as khmer court.
they do what the dog say.
dog of the viet.
viet's dog do not have sense of shame. no one person, sonando, can
make a country inside the country.,
shame on viet's dog ,Hun sen.
like you said ah Hun Sen or
contemptible Hun Sen, the Chhke of yuon, the traitor,the worst of the worst , dammed he is so disgusting.
Mom Sonando is the ring leader of an armed forced creating a country within a country, with chicken and pigs??
CPP dogs are so stupid.
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