Thursday, August 30, 2007

Cambodian PM denounces call for punishment of Sihanouk

August 29, 2007

Prime Minister Hun Sen has decried the requests by a little-known NGO that former king Norodom Sihanouk should have his royal immunity stripped and face trial, local media said on Wednesday.

"The Cambodian Action Committee for Justice and Equity's (CACJE) request is a mistreatment not only of the king but also the people and the nation," he said at the opening of a pagoda in Kandal province, reported Cambodian-language newspaper the Koh Santepheap.

None of the government, the National Assembly and the Senate will stand by and watch as the violation sets a fire in the heart of the Cambodians, he added.

Sihanouk has suffered more than most rulers, said Hun Sen.

In 1941 he endured the rigors of French colonial rule when he ascended to the throne at just 19 years old, before leading the nation to independence in 1953 and an age of fruitful development, before the 1970 coup de tat thrust the nation into war, said the premier.

CACJE last week wrote to National Assembly President Heng Samrin, asking him to call a plenary meeting to nullify Article 7 of the Cambodian Constitution, which ensures the king's status as inviolable, or beyond reproach.

Sihanouk, 85, stepped down as king in 2004 and his son Norodom Sihamoni succeeded him.

Source: Xinhua

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes,and only in Cambodia, when you stole a motobike you go to jail, but when you are an accomplice of a mass murderer you remain free...hahaha.You will be burn in hell for eternity for causing so much pain to all of us.

Anonymous said...

oK DUDE 12:54am EVERY WHERE THE BIG CROOK AWAY GET FREE, ALSO IN THE US OR CHINA!

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen has gained everything in life for the past 30 years after Pol Pot took control of Cambodia. He hasn't suffered anything because he was a Khmer Rouge too. Therefore he cannot represent suufering people from Pol pot regime and his regime. If we want social justice, people of all level will face the same justice.

Anonymous said...

Cambodia has Cancer in the fourth stage,because we do not catch it or detect it on time so the result will be A: Operation
B.-Waiting to die
C.-Giving her life to God.
But folks the Plan A is the best solution for our choice,no matter it take to clean up like put the old King, Hun Sen and Noranorith on trial ,we have to make up our mind or we are all will stay in stage B with suffering and suffering no ending up.

Anonymous said...

All true Khmer compatriots, ladies and gentlemen,

Cambodia's had cancers that were embedded into her by China+YUONS+Vietminh-CPP-Hun Sen+all royal's crooks through traitor Sihanouk's flesh and blood, also through his YUON's wife Monique and Sihanouk’s clique.

To have a true and lasting peace for Cambodia these cancers have to be removed once for all, either by the law of ECCC-KRT or by any means, as long as the majority agree with.

If these cancers remain inside Cambodia without proper treatments YUONS will continue to swallow us bit by bit every day and China will gobble the whole region without mercy toward Cambodia land and all Khmer people, with the last assistance of NORODOM SIHANOUK-HUN SEN.

KULEN MONOROM
(the rice farmer's son)