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1991 PRK's plan for build K5 - by Nhim Vannda

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Opposition Leader Prepares Suits Against Hun Sen

Men Kimseng, VOA Khmer
Washington, DC Tuesday, 07 June 2011

“I have met my lawyer to prepare lawsuits against Hun Sen for killing many people on several occasions."

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy says he is preparing to file more complaints against Prime Minister Hun Sen, similar to allegations he has already made in a New York court.

“I have met my lawyer to prepare lawsuits against Hun Sen for killing many people on several occasions,” Sam Rainsy told VOA Khmer in an interview last week, without elaborating. “He was involved in these crimes, including crimes against humanity.”

Sam Rainsy alleges Hun Sen was responsible for the deaths of people sent to clear forests along the Thai border in the 1980s, where they met with malaria and other diseases and land mines.

“I would like to appeal to all people in Cambodia or overseas who lived through K5, who witnessed the events, or who fell victims themselves, to come together now,” he said.

Hun Xen worried about Sam Rainsy's lawsuit for his involvement in the K5 plan?

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2010
By Cheang Sokha
The Phnom Penh Post

In yesterday's speech, the premier also criticised opposition leader Sam Rainsy for filing an international complaint against him in connection with the so-called "K5 plan".

PRIME Minister Hun Sen has lashed out at his royalist opponent Prince Norodom Ranariddh, warning that his recent return to politics could drag the monarchy back into politics.

Speaking at the inauguration of a new university building in Battambang province yesterday, Hun Sen warned Ranariddh - who announced his return to political life this week - against doing politics as a representative of the Royal Palace.

"You can do whatever you want, but there is one thing: If you do politics it will be linked to the monarchy, you have to be clear on this point," he said in reference to Ranariddh, who is a senior adviser to King Norodom Sihamoni.

"If you want to do politics, you have to quit the Supreme Council as adviser to the King, otherwise the King will lose neutrality on the matter of politics. The name of the King will be used for propaganda, saying I am a brother of the King, I am the son of former King, and it will link the King with politics."

Last weekend, Ranariddh said he would return to head the Norodom Ranariddh Party more than two years after he walked away from politics.

Speaking to supporters in Kampong Cham, he issued a stinging denunciation of his former colleagues in Funcinpec, the royalist party he led to victory in the 1993 elections, saying its current leadership had sold itself out to the ruling Cambodian People's Party in exchange for minor government posts.

He also issued a call for Funcinpec members to defect to his camp.

Hun Sen yesterday reiterated earlier warnings that Funcinpec government officials attempting to defect to Ranariddh would be fired from their government posts.

"I would like to say clearly that with Funcinpec, whether they receive less or more [National Assembly] seats, we will still work together because we have worked together for years, and there is no need for others," Hun Sen said. "Please don't confuse and do anything disorderly to lie to others."

Noranarith Anandayath, chief of Prince Ranariddh's cabinet, declined to comment on Hun Sen's comments, except to say that there were many other royal advisers involved with politics.

In yesterday's speech, the premier also criticised opposition leader Sam Rainsy for filing an international complaint against him in connection with the so-called "K5 plan".

Hun Sen said the plan - devised in 1984-85 as a response to the continuing threat from Khmer Rouge insurgents - would not have been implemented were it not for the United Nations and Western governments supporting resistance factions including the KR.

"At that time, if there was a trial, the UN should be on trial first as it recognised the Khmer Rouge and allowed the Khmer Rouge to sit in the UN," he said.

"I want to see Hun Sen handcuffed": Sam Rainsy

Rainsy to lodge K5 complaint

MONDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2010
MEAS SOKCHEA
The Phnom Penh Post

OPPOSITION leader Sam Rainsy announced over the weekend that he planned to file new lawsuits abroad accusing Prime Minister Hun Sen of crimes against humanity in connection with the “K5 plan” carried out by the People’s Republic of Kampuchea government.

“I want to see Hun Sen handcuffed,” Sam Rainsy said Saturday by video link from Finland during a press conference at Sam Rainsy Party headquarters in Phnom Penh. “This is also a crime against humanity.”

Sam Rainsy said that he planned to file lawsuits in Finland and other countries against Hun Sen, but would not reveal when or where. “I don’t want to say which country’s court I will file the complaint in so as to avoid Hun Sen knowing – in order to have Hun Sen slip up and be arrested,” he said.

In 1984-’85, the PRK government and its Vietnamese mentors devised the “K5 Plan” in response to the continuing threat from the Khmer Rouge, which had retreated to the Cambodian-Thai border region and resumed guerilla resistance efforts after being overthrown by the Vietnamese in 1979. Hun Sen became prime minister in 1985.

Historians estimate that between 140,000 and 380,000 Cambodians were enlisted in a conscripted work effort from 1984-’87 to clear, secure and mine the densely forested border region. It is thought that thousands died from malaria and land mines. Historian Evan Gottesman has said that 25,000 died from malaria alone.

Cheam Yeap, a senior lawmaker of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, yesterday dismissed the allegations against Hun Sen, saying people voluntarily participated in the campaign, and that it was necessary to protect the country from the Khmer Rouge.

“If K5 was carried out to defend Hun Sen’s house, I would be worried, but because [we] did it for the nation to block the return of Pol Pot’s regime, I am not concerned,” he said.

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