Opposition Lader Sam Rainsy's formal charge on Bun Rany Hun Xen

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Opposition Leader Sam Rainsy's Accusation

ACCUSATION

My name is SAM RAINSY, a Member of Parliament of Cambodia. I publicly accuse Mrs. BUN RANY HUN SEN, the wife of Mr. HUN SEN, Prime Minister of Cambodia, of masterminding the assassination in 1999 of Ms. PISETH PILIKA, a renowned Cambodian artist. The assassination was perpetrated in Phnom Penh with the complicity of Mr. HUN SEN and the Police under his orders.

I invite Mr. and Mrs. HUN SEN to be courageous enough to dare file a defamation lawsuit against me before the French Court since it is from the French soil that I accuse them of murder.

Mr. HOR NAMHONG, Cambodia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, has already filed such a lawsuit against me before the French Court.

If Mr. and Mrs. HUN SEN do not dare to start a lawsuit against me, they would show up their cowardice and would implicitly recognize that they are effectively murderers.

This statement was published in Paris on October 23, 2011.

Sam Rainsy

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ACCUSATION

Je soussigné SAM RAINSY, Député du Cambodge, accuse publiquement Mme BUN RANY HUN SEN, épouse de Mr HUN SEN, Premier Ministre du Cambodge, d’avoir fait assassiner en 1999 Mme PISETH PILIKA, une artiste cambodgienne renommée. Cet assassinat a été perpétré à Phnom Penh avec la complicité de Mr HUN SEN et de son entourage policier.

J’invite Monsieur et Madame HUN SEN à faire preuve de suffisamment de courage pour oser porter plainte contre moi devant la justice française car c’est sur le sol français que je les accuse publiquement d’assassinat.

Mr HOR NAMHONG, Ministre des Affaires Etrangères du Cambodge, a déjà porté plainte contre moi devant la justice française.

Si Monsieur et Madame HUN SEN n’osent pas porter plainte contre moi, ils se comportent comme des lâches et reconnaissent implicitement qu’ils sont effectivement des assassins.

Fait à Paris, le 23 octobre 2011

Sam Rainsy

Sacrava's Political Cartoon: Mme KhmerCroix-Rouge

Cartoon by Sacrava (on the web at http://sacrava.blogspot.com)

Blood-stained Bun Rany Hun Xen received by Ban Ki-moon in New York

Sinatoon: UN National Champion certificate for Bun Rany

Cartoon by V. Sina

Does UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Know Who Is Really Mrs. Bun Rany Hun Sen?

Bun Rany receive the certificate from the UN proclaiming her "national champion"

Hun Xen (L), Piseth Pilika (C) and Bun Rany Hun Xen (R)

3 June 2011

DOES UN SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON KNOW WHO IS REALLY MRS. BUN RANY HUN SEN?

The United Nations has recently given Mrs. Bun Rany, the wife of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, the title of “famous person.” Mrs. Bun Rany Hun Sen is expected to be received later this month by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the UN headquarters in New York.

A totally uneducated person, Mrs. Bun Rany Hun Sen has recently secured for herself the laughable title of “Doctor” from a “University” that exists only on paper.

More seriously, Mrs. Bun Rany Hun has some blood on her hands.

When they meet in New York Mr. Ban Ki-Moon should ask Mrs. Bun Rany Hun Sen, for instance, whether she remembers anything about the death of Ms. Piseth Pilika, a famous and very popular Cambodian actress who was assassinated in Phnom Penh in July 1999, at a time when Prime Minister Hun Sen was having an affair with her.

If Mrs. Bun Rany Hun Sen’s answer is not clear, we suggest Mr. Ban Ki-Moon to ask the UN staff to do some research on this topic.

Open Letter from Lem Piseth, Free Press Magazine Editor-in-Chief

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Unofficial translation from Khmer by Socheata

Open letter from the Editor-in-chief
of the Free Press Magazine
to the Readers

Respected and beloved Readers!

The Free Press Magazine (FPM) is restarting its publication again on the Internet, starting from 06 July 2009, through the following website: http://www.fpmonline.net

The restart of our publication takes place after the magazine suspended its publication for more than one year because our workgroup in Cambodia is concerned about their security and personal safety following the launch of our first number in November 2007, and the subsequent confiscation of our magazine from the various newspaper kiosks selling them in Phnom Penh and a number of other provinces. Furthermore, it was reported that spies from the Cambodian ministry of Interior copied the personal biography of the FPM personnel from the information center in order to investigate on them.

Mr. Khieu Kanharith, government spokesman, accused the FPM of violating the constitution for publishing an article about the role of King Norodom Sihanouk, the former king of Cambodia, during the Khmer Rouge regime and the trial of the former Khmer Rouge leaders at the KR Tribunal. The article was written by Dr. Lao Mong Hay and it was titled: “There is no immunity for Samdech Norodom Sihanouk.”

In his interview with The Cambodia Daily in its 03 November 2007 edition, Mr. Khieu Kanharith also accused the FPM editor of being a Khmer Republican group that wants to topple the monarchy.

However, regarding the confiscation of the FPM, political observers in Cambodia are of a different opinion: the magazine was confiscated because it published an article on the murder of Mrs. Piseth Pilika, a famous Cambodian actress. The publication of this article earned the ire of Mr. Hok Lundy, then-national police commissioner, as well as those of Mr. Hun Sen and Bun Rany Hun Sen, because of their involvement in this murder.

The author of the article, which was titled “The identity of Mrs. Pilika’s assassin is known, but the authority wouldn’t dare arrest him,” showed numerous proofs left behind by Mrs. Pilika, as well as a poem personally penned by Prime minister Hun Sen sent to her, and the results of the investigation provided by the former chief of investigation on this murder.

Since the confiscation of the magazine, all FPM personnel resigned from their position because they were concerned about their security and personal safety.

Furthermore, FPM had a hard time finding a print shop in Cambodia that dares print its copies. When the FPM’s Editor-in-chief returned back to Cambodia following a short flight overseas, the print shop which used to print the magazine refused to continue its printing and the print shop owner raised the fact that he was concerned the government may shut him down. Other print shops also said the same thing, therefore, the second number of the FPM, which would have been published on 02 January 2008, had to be suspended and all that the editor-in-chief could do was to send out the articles to readers through emails.

In order to share editorials and comments with our readers, the FPM plans to restart its publication again under my responsibility. We have decided to publish the number 5 issue of the FPM online on 13 July 2009, through the following website: http://www.fpmonline.net

I am also stressing that the current publication is not under the responsibility of the former reporters and editors of the FPM in Cambodia. Therefore, I am calling on the Cambodian government and authorities not to harass these former employees.

Quite to the contrary, I am encouraging the government of Cambodia to continue its application of the [1991] Paris Peace Accords [on Cambodia], the [Cambodian] Constitution, and the [Cambodian] information law to resolve the lawsuits it brought against Cambodian journalists.

Done in Norway, 13 July 2009

Lem Piseth
Editor-in-Chief

Sacrava's Political Cartoon: The Fish & The Ants

Samdach Hun Sen said: "During high tide, the fish eats the ants ... at low tide, the ants eat the fish"

Cartoon by Sacrava (on the web at http://sacrava.blogspot.com)

Sacrava's Political Cartoon: Tuol Krasaing's Gallery

By Sacrava (on the web at http://sacrava.blogspot.com)

Opposition Blasts Government For Unsolved Murders, Attacks

Mony, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
29/05/2007

Opposition lawmakers Monday lambasted the government for its inability to solve the murders of or attacks on several famous singers, as debate on a legal code continued.

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said the new penal code would be good for justice in Cambodia, but he criticized the government's apparent inability to solve the murders of several famous singers, some believed to be mistresses of high-ranking officials.

Unsolved cases include those of Pisith Pelika, who was killed in 1999, That Marina, who survived an acid attack, Touch Sreynich, who was paralyzed after a shooting and the most recent victim, Pov Panhapich, who survived a shooting in February.

"The prosecutors did not file lawsuits, the victims did not dare file lawsuits. So it is the end," Sam Rainsy said. "The cases were closed. They killed them according to their whim in Cambodia. Impunity is the culture of the people with power, with money. They kill according to their whim, and they always get away free."

Song After the Shooting: Touch Sunnich's American Life

Touch Sunnich was spared death, but others, like Piseth Pilika, whose funeral is pictured, were not so lucky. Touch Sunnich said Cambodia's entertainers would do well to steer clear of affairs.

Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
11/05/2007

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[Editor’s note: this is the second in a two-part series]

Touch Sunnich, the Cambodian pop singer who was shot in the face by unknown attackers in 2003, told VOA Khmer this week she had been disheartened by some Cambodian magazines that had made fun of her after her recovery and denied reports that an affair had led to her attack.

A 20-minute interview of the singer, who is paralyzed from the neck down, and her father, Seang Touch, paints a cruel portrait of the country she left behind.

“Some magazines said that I weighed 135 kilograms, even though I myself didn’t know my weight,” she said.

Magazines had distorted her image to make her appear larger, an act she called “unreasonable.”

“This is a sad thing,” her father said. “It’s not a joke.”

Touch Sunnich’s tragedy underscores the tenuous position of Cambodian women, especially entertainers, who are often victimized in a lawless country of powerful men and killers. No one has been arrested in the shooting, which killed Touch Sunnich’s mother.

No arrests have been made in the recent shooting of another singer, Pov Panhapich, who is hospitalized in Vietnam. And no arrests have been made in the murder of popular star Piseth Pilika in 1999. Piseth Pilika’s family claimed she was having an affair with Prime Minister Hun Sen when she was killed.

Touch Sunnich said she would never have an affair. The singer, who was also a university professor, had been raised in a traditional family, she said. She urged all Cambodian singers to follow such a path—and to steer clear of affairs with men.

Paralyzed Singer Recounts Her Life After Being Shot

Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
10/05/2007

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[Editor's note: this is the first in a two-part series.]

Touch Sunnich, the Cambodian singer who survived a murder attempt in October 2003, sang into the phone Wednesday, an unaccompanied, haunting melody describing a lover who keeps the house dog away whenever a young girl comes to visit.

"When I go to see you," she sang, "you help by keeping the dog on a leash."

The song, which came unprompted during an exclusive interview with VOA Khmer, proved the young woman still had her singing voice, even though she had to sing from bed, paralyzed from the neck down.

Touch Sunnich, who survived a shooting in the face by unknown assailants, said she relived her own fear when she learned another singer, Pov Panhapich, was shot in February.

"It's the same thing that happened to me," Touch Sunnich said.

Touch Sunnich lost her mother in the 2003 attack. They were shot by four men on motorcycles after a shopping trip in Phnom Penh.

Pov Panhapich remains in treatment in a Vietnamese hospital after she was shot in the throat. Her condition is improving, but her recovery is likely to be long and expensive, and she is trying to move to another country.

The motives for those shootings are unknown.

Actress Piseth Pilika, who family members claim was having an affair with Prime Minister Hun Sen, was murdered in 1999. That murder, too, has gone unsolved.

SRP on Int'l Women's Day: End Impunity for Violence Against Women and Girls; Give Justice to Victims

Phnom Penh, 8 March 2007

International Women’s Day 2007

“End Impunity for Violence Against Women and Girls;
Give Justice to Victims”

On March 8, International Women’s Day 2007, the Sam Rainsy Party joins women across the globe in calling for an end to violence against women and girls by bringing perpetrators to justice.

Domestic violence, sexual exploitation, trafficking and rape can be stopped, given the necessary political will and resources.

The SRP calls on the government to show progress on the recommendations made in the January 2006 report of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women of Cambodia. These recommendations include:

• Effectively prosecuting and punishing perpetrators of violence against women and girls with speed and seriousness;
• Training the judiciary, law enforcement officials, legal professionals, social workers and health providers on the new Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence and Protection of Victims;
• Providing legal aid to victims in both urban and rural areas, and providing free of charge the medical certificates required as evidence in court;
• Increasing the number of female judges and law enforcement officials as a means to increase women’s access to justice and trust of the judicial system.

The Cambodian nation awaits the results of investigations into the murder of Piseth Pilika, the attempted murder of Touch Srey Nich, the acid attack on Tat Marina and the most recent attack on Pov Panhapich.

To provide impunity to perpetrators of violence is to deny a woman’s natural right to live in dignity and in peace.

General Secretariat

Contact: 012 831 040