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| Supporters of Mam Sonando, a 71-year-old radio broadcaster and land-rights campaigner for 20 years, hold a protest calling for his release near Phnom Penh Municipal Court, October 1, 2012. |
October 01, 2012
Irwin Loy
Voice of America
PHNOM PENH — A Cambodian court has sentenced a government critic to 20 years in prison on charges of seeking to incite a rebellion against the state. Prosecutors accused independent broadcaster Mam Sonando, 71, of fostering a secessionist movement, but rights groups say the charges were unfounded.
Rupert Abbott, of the London-based human rights group Amnesty International, says the charges were baseless.
“I think the verdict against Mam Sonando is outrageous," Abbott said. "There’s been no evidence to suggest that he was involved in anything, any insurrection or indeed that an insurrection took place at that village. So the verdict seems very much politicized, and in our view is designed to shut down the voice of someone who’s been a prominent critic of the Royal Government of Cambodia.”
In May, Cambodian security forces used live ammunition against villagers protesting forced evictions from their homes. A 14-year-old girl was killed in the shooting. Cambodian authorities subsequently accused some villagers of attempting to launch an armed insurrection. They accused Sonando of inciting the alleged rebellion.
But rights advocates who attended Sonando’s September trial say the prosecution failed to present sufficient evidence to prove the alleged plot. The severity of Monday’s sentence, then, came as a shock to some observers.
“I’m very, very upset given the fact that we’ve been doing this, we’ve been pushing this government for almost two decades now. And it hasn’t changed," said Ou Virak, who heads the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. "The court is still a political tool. The verdict was basically written like a political essay. That’s what upset me even more.”
Sonando operated Beehive Radio, a rare independent outlet in a country where the airwaves are dominated by media sympathetic to the government. He also headed a non-governmental organization that promoted human rights and democracy.
Hundreds of Sonando supporters gathered near the courthouse Monday. As the verdict was announced, the protesters surged forward toward the courthouse, only to be pushed back by riot police.
Sonando has 30 days to appeal the verdict against him.
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why are you all so naive for? Viet is controlling srok khmer and always wanted khmers to kill khmers and Hun sen is doing just that for the viet so that he can save his ass but, for how long? 100 years are like a minute away, so why do evil when you can choose to do good. You can not continue to kill for your own benefit. It has to come from the heart not from power and abuse Mr PM. You are using evil power and it will not work, noooooo it is very wrong to kill to earn but to give to earn is the way to go Mr dumb dumb. In the end, the good always win but not bloodsucker like you Mr.
Madam Secretary of States, Ms. Hillary Clinton and her undersecretaries of States should know that Vietnamese masters in Hanoi who have involved the crisis in Cambodian for more than 3 decades in the dirty political games and played the major roles to destroy Cambodia/Khmer Nation in order to erase the lies of their bad and disgusted Yuon behaviors and ill-intentions to slowly replace Yuon/Vietnamese folks (illegal Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia in every corners) and done the trick in the blind eyes of gullible innocent Khmer/Cambodian people, foreigners and International Communities in the world.
Hun Sen has been living in fear because of his Yuon/Vietnamese masters and now Hun Sen is a very wealthy because of the stolen properties, lands for sales, Yuon/Vietnamese business deals with corrupted CPP clans (Yuon-Khmer, Dumb leaders of CPP) and including Yuon-Chinese mixed thieves like Var Kim Hong, Yeay Phu, Lao Meng, and beyond. How much longer those Yuon thieves under the Hanoi Masters and Hanoi masters will continue to do this until the blames and pressures coming from the UN, EU leaders, the U.S., International Communities and innocent Khmer/Cambodian people.
Time will come to destroy Hanoi Masters before their Yuon Hanoi puppet Hun Sen who will be arrested and put him on trial both at the UN and Cambodian People Courts because of more than 3 decades of losses of international donors' money, assistance, and more.
Yes, Vietnamese masters will return everything that have been stolen from Cambodia and Cambodian/Khmer people to Hanoi or Vietnam to make their country become developed and economically successfully to compete with ASEAN countries and other countries like Japan, S. Korea, China during their control over their Yuon puppet Hun Sen.
Cambodia has everything and is a very rich with natural resources that is why the evil Vietnamese/Yuon masters in Hanoi saw the big opportunities to make big wealth and profit by getting rid of Mr. Penn Sovan (former PM) and installed Yuon Puppet/Slave Hun Sen be illegally unrecognized PM among Cambodian people and the world. They (Hanoi masters and Yuon/Vietnamese slave Hun Sen) are just the thieves.
What they want from Cambodia are the following:
1. Angkor Wat (Tourists pouring money in)
2. Forests/Trees (giants trees - 500 to more than 1000 years olds)
3. Fish productions
4. Oil and gas
5. Rubber plants
6. Rich soils for plants
7. and beyond.
That is why Cambodia country is not poor because of very rich natural resources comparing to Taiwan, S. Korea, Thailand, Malay, and so on.
Those f**kng Hanoi masters have oversaw things and want to steal everything from Cambodia by having Yuon/Vietnamese slave Hun Sen. You have seen the terrible situations in Cambodia. Yes, uneducated Khmer leaders (no High School diplomas or not done with High School) have been very easily targeted by Hanoi masters including evil Ho Chi Minh in order to brainwash those blind and uneducated Khmer peasants like Hun Sen and others to be manipulated and influenced before hurting his or their own Khmer people.
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