Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Cambodian opposition leader calls for street protest if election probe demands are not met



Photo SAM Rainsy facebook at Freedom Park in Phnom Phenh August 08 ,201


BY SOPHENG CHEANG, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUST 6, 2013

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia's opposition party declared Tuesday it will call for a street protest if demands for an impartial investigation of irregularities in the country's recent general election are not met, raising further tensions over the disputed results .


Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy told a rally of as many as 10,000 supporters that the protest would take place in the coming days if the state National Election Committee failed to accept his side's conditions for an investigation.

Earlier, he said his party will reject the official election results due to be announced this Saturday. The election committee has said it would ratify them four days later if it receives no objections. A complaint by the opposition would mean the committee would postpone ratifying the results until Sept. 8


Provisional results released by the government-appointed election committee favour the ruling party's claim to have won 68 seats of 123 National Assembly seats against the opposition's 55. Long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen has said he will take office again if those results stand.

The opposition says it won 63 seats. Both projections show a substantial gain from the 29 seats the opposition had in the last assembly.

The threat to bring protesters into the streets ups the ante in the post-election manoeuvring between Rainsy's party and Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party.


The prospect that the losing side will not peacefully accept the results has rattled some Cambodians who recall street fighting in the capital following previous elections.

The strong showing by the opposition has stirred passion among its supporters. In his spirited speech in a public park, Sam Rainsy sought to fan their enthusiasm for the long-odds battle against Hun Sen, who has led the country for 28 years.


"This time we're not scared at all," he said. "Don't intimidate us. There will be a demonstration 10 times bigger than this rally in the upcoming days."


His party charges that voter registrations were manipulated so that more than 1 million people may have been denied their right to vote. Several non-partisan groups have supported the claim.

Sam Rainsy on Tuesday released a letter to the election committee reiterating his party's demand that a special committee be set up to investigate allegations of irregularities. Preliminary agreement was reached Saturday among the committee and the contending parties to form such a group, but the opposition declined to attend its organizational meeting the next day because the group's membership was too limited.

He said that in view of the problems — including missing, duplicated and misspelled names of voters on the electoral rolls, and people registered at polling stations in areas where they were not residents — his party could not accept the results, and called for a special investigating committee to be established with representatives of the two major parties and Cambodian and foreign election observers, with the election committee as co-ordinator and the United Nations as mediator.


The election committee had agreed to allow representatives of the two parties join it as members, but with the U.N. and Cambodian civil society representatives serving only as observers.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...



The International Criminal Court ( ICC ) is about to open and prosecute its biggest case in its history when:

1- The evil Vietnam which used to:

a- Obliterate the Champa race
b- Bury Khmer people alive and kept only their heads above the ground and used their heads as posts to hold their pan to cook their tea
c- Abduct Khmer children in 1955, brainwashed them, brutally trained them to be a killing machine for Vietnam. Vietnam called them Khmer Vietminh.
d- Use those Khmer Vietminh to kill 3 million of Khmer people along with the Khmer Rouge during the Pol Pot era, and blamed all the killings on the Khmer Rouge.
e- Execute its K5 project in an attempt to obliterate Khmer race in the 1980s

The evil Vietnam planned to used its hidden soldiers and special agents who have been living in Cambodia since 1979 and infiltrated into Cambodia after 1979 to suppress this CNRP's upcoming demonstration against electoral fraud.

2- The worst traitor in Khmer history, Hun Sen,

a- who was behind the 1997
grenade attack,
b- who initiated the 1998 coup
d'Etat and killed hundreds
of Khmer people
c- who ceded Khmer land to his
master Vietnam and
destroyed most of Khmer
natural resource
d- who refused to accept his
party electoral loss in 2013

Hun Sen planned to go along with his master Vietnam to suppress this nationwide upcoming demonstration.

Fortunately, the whole world is on the CNRP side. It would take this force to break this stubborn Vietnam's ambition.

Every story has its ending and the bad guy always end up dead.

This time is the time that a man who touted himself as Sdach Karn will end up as Sdach Karn, and a country, Vietnam, which never stop wanting to expand its territory will end up losing all of its expansion and will be severely punished by the world when the world knew the truth behind Khmer people suffering. The world would finally react and say "Ah ha, it was the evil Vietnam that caused Khmer people' sufferings"

Finally, Cambodia would commence its journey to prosperity with a well educate, competent, honest, and courageous leader - Sam Rainsy.

Bun Thoeun

Anonymous said...

to Bun Thoeun,

You have forgotten one important point in the Nr. 2). a0- Who killed Khmer people in the killing Fields?

Anonymous said...


The proposal of Herrm Sam Rainsy's so easy, even kids can do, but Mr Sam Rainsy has spoken with the thief Hun Sen (sure, his boss is standing behind this game) and receiving stolen property NEC. What is the next?

Anonymous said...

Bravo CNRP!
Bravo Khmer Youth!!!
Bravo Cambodian People!!!

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