Tuesday, January 30, 2007

SRP Supports CHRAC Campaign Calling For Release Of Chea Vichea Prisoners

Phnom Penh, January 30, 2007

SRP SUPPORTS CHRAC CAMPAIGN CALLING
FOR RELEASE OF CHEA VICHEA PRISONERS


Chea Vichea (left) with Sam Rainsy a few hours after the March 30, 1997 grenade attack.

The Sam Rainsy Party welcomes the new billboard campaign of the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee, and redoubles its call to release from prison the two men wrongfully convicted of the murder of Chea Vichea. Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun have been under custody since January 28, 2004. Not only are these 1,098 days that these men have been wrongly imprisoned, but they are also 1,098 days that the real killers have gone free. Justice has been doubly denied.

Chea Vichea founded the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia in 1996 with the support of Sam Rainsy, and was elected President of the Union in 1999, 2001 and 2003. Prior to his focus on labor issues, Chea Vichea was a founding member of the Khmer Nation Party, what was later renamed as the Sam Rainsy Party. For the last ten years, the SRP has cooperated with the FTUWKC to support workers’ rights in Cambodia.

The unjust detention of Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun is an affront to the justice owed to many different groups. Primarily, the two men and their families are harmed by being taken out of society for a crime they did not commit. The family and friends of Chea Vichea are not assuaged of their pain as the real killers of their husband, father and friend have not paid for their crime. Labor rights leaders remain threatened to silence when they see that they can be killed in the streets without any protection of the arms of justice. The thousands of workers represented by the FTUWKC are intimidated from coming together in association, a right enshrined in both national and international law. And most broadly, the Cambodian people remain under the thumb of a judicial system that refuses to prioritize the rule of law over the whim of men.

We repeat our call for the release of Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, falsely accused of the murder of Chea Vichea, and expect that the Cambodian authorities will try, convict and punish those individuals who are truly responsible for this crime.

SRP Members of Parliament

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15 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is rather sad that SRP, with the photo, seems to milk Chea Vichea's tragic death all the way.

30i07

Anonymous said...

Ah HUN SEN IS THE CRIMINAL AGAINST HUMANITY

HE MUST BE HANGED TO DEAD BY CAMBODIA PEOPLE

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Anonymous said...

HI POUK AH SVA GANG KMEAN EDUCATION... !

JUST TO SAY THAT IT IS NOT EASY LIKE HOLLYWOOD .. OR BOLLYWOOD. DO NOT DREAM! PREPARE YOUR COFFIN BECAUSE YOU WILL BE PUNISHED BY YOUR OWN SHADOW SOONER OR LATER...

DO YOU HAVE POUCH AMBOR? ALIENS OR SVA... OR SEK .. HERE YOU ARE IDENTITY! THAT'S ALL ! WE ARE NOT SURPRISED BY YOUR BEASTIAL EXPRESSION.

JUST DREAM IF YOU WANT! YOU ARE BEAST KMEAN POUCH AMBOR... AND WE
ARE STILL KHMENG WAT KNONG SROK

Anonymous said...

POUK AH SVA AND POUK AH SEK KMEAN SROK

YES IT IS BETTER TO LIVE AND DIE FOR CAMBODIA RATHER THAN LIVE AND DIE IN THE CAGE FOR BEAST OF UNCLE SAM... ?

YES IT IS BETTER TO GOVERN AND LEAD THE COUNTRY RATHER THAN PRETENDING TO BE EDUCATED AND BEHAVED LIKE BEAST AND SATH SVA AND SATH SEK KMEAN SROK NEUV.. ?

WE ARE IN THE BETTER POSITION TO GIVE AND TEACH BEAST AND ALIENS HOW TO BEHAVE AS HUMANS... ?

KMENG WAT KHNONG SROK

Anonymous said...

POUK AH SVA AND POUK AH SEK KMEAN THOR A

YES IT IS BETTER TO LIVE AND DIE IN THE FREE VAST OPEN PRAIRIE FIELD OF UNCLE SAM... THEN
TO LIVE AND DIE SENSELESSLY UNDER THE RULES OF SVA CPP WITHOUT HUMANITY AND JUSTICE.

YES IT IS BETTER TO PRETEND TO BE EDUCATED AND LOOK FOR CHANGE THEN TO GOVERN MERCILESSLY LIKE BEAST SATH SVA AND SATH KMIN KOMNOD CHI MUNOUS.

WE ARE IN THE BETTER POSITION TO CHANGE AND SHOW BEAST AND ALIENS KMENG WAT THAT THEIR BEHAVIORS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE HUMAN BEING. WE ARE IN POSITION TO TEACH THEM KMENG WAT NOT TO EAT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING'S SBEK? ARE THEY UNDERGROUND DEMONS? WE ARE IN POSITION TO MAKE THEM HUMAN AGAIN...?

KMENG RONGCHAK CHEP MOT KANDAL THNGAI

Anonymous said...

Chea Vichea deserved to be burned
in hell for using khmer people
against Khmer people.

He have pushed thousands of our
prescious jobs away from the most
desperate needies and make them
suffered beyond anyone
immagination.

His dead is justice specifically
giving to the suffering caused by
this vicious Evil (Chea Vichea.)

This is nothing strange. It is
just one of the many works of
the lord; that is evil will be
used to destroy evil until evil
is no more on our holly soil,
and that is the word of the Lord.

Anonymous said...

may you rest in hell ... :)

Anonymous said...

It is sad to see this picture and it reminds me that Sam Rainsy apologized to Hun Sen.

Anonymous said...

I don't see anything sad about the
picture. Just a couple of guys
that missed their death within
a centimeter, that is all.

Anonymous said...

You will see the sadness soon when your whole family be dragged and executed in front of you.

Anonymous said...

Fine, but meanwhile would you mind
shut the fuck up?

Anonymous said...

HUN SEN´s turn is coming . he will GET SHOT like Chea Vichea.

He will die terriblier than Chea Vichea by his own boygurad!

Anonymous said...

Yeah, that is the story that
Hollywood has been seeking. Take it
to them, dude.

Anonymous said...

What's the point? These thugs like 3:56 AM knows the rule of gangster.

Anonymous said...

Hey, your backstabers SISOWATT
Sarimatakis people who brought
gangs into Cambodia, in case you
don't know. So stop crying, will
ya?