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Cambodian Action Committee for Justice & Equity (CACJE)
451 Revere Beach Blvd, Revere, MA 02151, USA
Email: cac_je@yahoo.com, Tel: 401 451 8090
Spokesman and Representative to Cambodia: Mr. Nam Tara, Tel: (855-11) 918 009
451 Revere Beach Blvd, Revere, MA 02151, USA
Email: cac_je@yahoo.com, Tel: 401 451 8090
Spokesman and Representative to Cambodia: Mr. Nam Tara, Tel: (855-11) 918 009
20 August 2007
To: Samdech Heng Samrin, President of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia
Subject: Request for a plenary session meeting of the National Assembly to remove the immunity of the former Monarch, and to annul Article 7 of the Cambodian Constitution during the period of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal session.
Based on the request subject above, the Cambodian Action Committee for justice and Equity believes that the maintenance of the immunity for former Monarch, Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk, and the enforcement of Article 7 of the Cambodian Constitution during the progress of the joint UN-Cambodian Tribunal to judge former Khmer Rouge leaders and those responsible in the Khmer Rouge regime, constitutes an obstacle preventing the ECCC investigation judges from performing their work according to justice standards, and also, this action does not provide equity to all leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime.
Article 31 of the Cambodian Constitution stipulates: “… Every Khmer citizen shall be equal before the law, enjoying the same rights, freedom and fulfilling the same obligations regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religious belief, political tendency, birth origin, social status, wealth or other status.” Therefore, in their names as Cambodian citizens who are equal before the law, regardless of their social status, or other status, numerous documents and studies written by independent researchers have shown that Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk, the former President of the GRUNK, and later the President of the Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge), was an important individual among the public and secret individuals who were involved in the formation of the Khmer rouge movement, and the Khmer Rouge regime known all over the world as a genocide regime that unfairly killed more than 2 million Cambodian people.
In order to allow the freedom for the national and international co-judges to have sufficient rights, and they can use their own impartial judgments to issue warrants for suspects, witnesses, and victims to come and provide clarifications in front of the tribunal, and in order to guarantee the equity of the respective roles of the former Khmer rouge elders and those responsible, and especially, to apply the international law standards in the search for justice for the Cambodian people who were victims of the cruelty and inhuman actions (perpetrated against them), CACJE requests that the Cambodian National Assembly presided by you, Samdech President, consider the request above, and bring it up to the agenda of a plenary session of the National Assembly to discuss and approve.
I hope and trust that the importance of the provision of justice, allowing the victims to know the identity of the leaders involved in the killing of million of Cambodian people, will make the international community recognize the independence of the Cambodian National Assembly in its cooperation with the joint tribunal between the UN and Cambodia to successfully sentence the former Khmer Rouge leaders and those who bear high responsibility of this regime.
Please accept, Samdech, my respect.
(Signed) Serey Ratha Suon
CACJE Mission President
CC:
The King’s cabinet
Members of the Constitutional Council
Office of the Senate President
Office of the Prime Minister
Members of the National Assembly
National and International Media
Office of the spokesperson and representative of CACJE in Cambodia.
Subject: Request for a plenary session meeting of the National Assembly to remove the immunity of the former Monarch, and to annul Article 7 of the Cambodian Constitution during the period of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal session.
Based on the request subject above, the Cambodian Action Committee for justice and Equity believes that the maintenance of the immunity for former Monarch, Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk, and the enforcement of Article 7 of the Cambodian Constitution during the progress of the joint UN-Cambodian Tribunal to judge former Khmer Rouge leaders and those responsible in the Khmer Rouge regime, constitutes an obstacle preventing the ECCC investigation judges from performing their work according to justice standards, and also, this action does not provide equity to all leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime.
Article 31 of the Cambodian Constitution stipulates: “… Every Khmer citizen shall be equal before the law, enjoying the same rights, freedom and fulfilling the same obligations regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religious belief, political tendency, birth origin, social status, wealth or other status.” Therefore, in their names as Cambodian citizens who are equal before the law, regardless of their social status, or other status, numerous documents and studies written by independent researchers have shown that Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk, the former President of the GRUNK, and later the President of the Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge), was an important individual among the public and secret individuals who were involved in the formation of the Khmer rouge movement, and the Khmer Rouge regime known all over the world as a genocide regime that unfairly killed more than 2 million Cambodian people.
In order to allow the freedom for the national and international co-judges to have sufficient rights, and they can use their own impartial judgments to issue warrants for suspects, witnesses, and victims to come and provide clarifications in front of the tribunal, and in order to guarantee the equity of the respective roles of the former Khmer rouge elders and those responsible, and especially, to apply the international law standards in the search for justice for the Cambodian people who were victims of the cruelty and inhuman actions (perpetrated against them), CACJE requests that the Cambodian National Assembly presided by you, Samdech President, consider the request above, and bring it up to the agenda of a plenary session of the National Assembly to discuss and approve.
I hope and trust that the importance of the provision of justice, allowing the victims to know the identity of the leaders involved in the killing of million of Cambodian people, will make the international community recognize the independence of the Cambodian National Assembly in its cooperation with the joint tribunal between the UN and Cambodia to successfully sentence the former Khmer Rouge leaders and those who bear high responsibility of this regime.
Please accept, Samdech, my respect.
(Signed) Serey Ratha Suon
CACJE Mission President
CC:
The King’s cabinet
Members of the Constitutional Council
Office of the Senate President
Office of the Prime Minister
Members of the National Assembly
National and International Media
Office of the spokesperson and representative of CACJE in Cambodia.
39 comments:
With the love of justice fair and balance comment.This is the shadow of the justice.
Respectful khmer pheas khloun
As a peace and justice loving person, I strongly support the request of the Cambodian Action Committee for Justice & Equity (CACJE) directed to the National Assembly for the removal of the immunity of the former Monarch, and the annulment of Article 7 of the Cambodian Constitution during the period of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal session.
My support is based on the following:
1- Without numerous appeals launched in the 1970s by then Prince Norodom Sihanouk from Beijing, China, the Khmer Rouge would not have enjoyed the overwhelming support coming from peasants, farmers, factory workers, students, teachers and middle class public servants. Journalists, scholars and historians alike know that without that massive support, the Khmer Rouge would not have won over Lon Nol's Khmer Republic. Therefore, King-Father Norodom Sihanouk was the key player in the Khmer Rouge victory in April 1975.
2- King-Father Norodom Sihanouk has said time and again that soon after the ECCC opens its door for the Khmer Rouge trial, he would volunteer to go and stand trial without any hesitation at all, just to clear his name.
Therefore, please let King-Father Norodom Sihanouk be himself. To stop him from standing trial as he has always wished for by not lifting his immunity is tantamount to:
1- Keeping his name unduly tarnished forever,
2- Allowing the ECCC to be tagged as seeking only selective justice.
Folks, please join us in sharing your views and raising your concerns about this historic debate. Thanks,
I have no personal revenge with form king, but I support this letter 100%. This letter is very normal and clear and just want to prove to the world that Cambodian people is a mature people among all old nationalities of the world. If we cannot bring our leader who has committed the worst crime of the history, the world will think Cambodians are still a tribal and are not mature. therefore, justice is from the lop of their leaders. Areak Prey
NO, if (Sihanouk) found guilty, hang him and hang him high just like the rest (the Viets) of them.
[NON, s'il (Sihanouk) est trouve coupable, le pendre et le pendre aussi haut comme le reste (des Viets) d'entre eux.]
Kaiak
US-Based CACJE? Its funny. This org has a big name with two people. One who is just an opportunist ran away to live there while he was in Cambodia his mouth always tied up and fought against the democrats. He created that and appointed himself to be a Commission representative(President), hired a friend in Cambodia, released a statement outside the BORDER OF KR Tribunal legal boundary.
ITS FUNNY!!!
08:10PM ITS FUNNY BUT IT is right and perfect .
Am not against the old king and Cambodia government but these little brains of the organization
CACJE make a lot senses,leading the world to support it idea ,way better than monkeys in Phnom Penh,stated it comment ,and made everyone laugh their butt off.
Thanks 08:10PM keep yours at home,that shame on you
The letter from CACJE is likes the big bell that rings all the people in the world pay attention to the law of justice anyone has to be khsvvoajudged for his or her responsible. Why the government in Phnom Penh band of removing the immunity of the former Monarch? so do like kaiak's comment.
DON'T FORGET TO HANG AH HUN SEN TO KR TRIBUNAL TOO BECAUSE AH HUN SEN IS AH CRIMINAL AGAINST HUMANITY IN CAMBODIA
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It is good to see people react to every leader(s) who abused power, but it is bad to the person named Sourn RATHA who lacks of diplomacy skill. He has been followed for he has written very insolent words and why does he think those Yuon Puppets like Heng Sam Rin would be on his side, since they already knew this person Sourn RATHA is anti-Sihanouk?
The reasons why this current government refused to lift the immunity from the old monarch because they too are afraid of being dragged to be prosecuted, they too were parts of the killing and so were/are Yuon.
When the criminals are in power then they always WIN. A wise person will choose other avenue.
It was not a wise decision to beg Enemy A(Yuon Hengsamrin) to punish enemy B(King Sihanouk) while both enemy A and B are in power. It was only to look good for whoever wrote this junk, but it gains more enemy, so which route the anti-Sihanouk will choose next? How can the FBI cath the drug dealers if the FBI do not disguise themselves as ones of the drug dealers?
Since when that the Cambodian knew how to play smart politics?
Too many knee jerks like this were born all over in Cambodia with little brain caused more harm than good to Cambodia.
Now you know why Sihanouk killed some of those knee jerks. In the US these trouble makers would have been missing already.
I can't imagine how Sihanouk had to put up all crabs with these troubles makers, who do not have the foggiest idea how powerful the communisr army back then.
The old guy Sihanouk may no be genius but he sure tried his very best to play games with communist. Every war people died and what do these knee jerks think? Lost nearly 2 million lives or lost all?
I won't mind if Cambodia be wiped out from the map, because of their unproductive activities.
I support the statementof 3:33PM 100%. He/she is a truly live witness to what was happening in the 70th.What was said in his or her statement is surely the fact.Without Sihanouk's willingness to participate and full cooperation by luring all his followers to join the khmer rouge, khmer rouges will never be a powerful force to reckon with.
Now, i like to add, DO THE CRIME DO THE TIME.
To 4:40AM,
In wishing Cambodia being wiped out of the world's map, you must be either a Cambodian person of Vietnamese origin or a Vietnamese valet of Cambodian origin like Heng Samrin, Chea Sim, Hun Sen, Sar Kheng, Hok Lundy, etc... Another possibility is that you are a schizophrenic who needs to be kept, sedated and watched 24/7 in a psychiatric hospital. Nevertheless, the best option in dealing with people like you is CULLING.
In your paragraph before last, you've said "he sure tried his very best to play games with communist". I wonder which school taught you this. How can anybody play game with a communist? A communist is always serious about what he/she does since the day he/she was born until the day he/she dies. In any game, you need 2 players who just want to play. If one is serious and doesn't want to play and another is not and just wants to play, there will be no game, period.
King Sihanouk is not as stupid as you are. He's got the attitude of calculating each and every step he is going to make. Therefore, to say that King Sihanouk played game in the 1970s with the communists so that he could save Cambodia from the brink of total destruction is absolutely ludicrous.
4:40AM, my sincere advice to you is this:
NOBODY WOULD SAY THAT YOU ARE DEAF IF YOU JUST SHUT UP!
hey Anon @ 4:40AM; come and kiss my arse!
The question for all Cambodians, their government, their parliament and their courts (be they ordinary or extraordinary)is whether they are governed by the rule of law or the rule of men.
Under the rule of law, no one is above the law. In Britain which is a country governed by the rule of law, there is a sancrosanct slogan: "Be you ever so high, the law is above you."
But, the tragic irony is that the Khmer Rouge are tried by an "extraoridnary" chamber, while the rest of us by ordinary chamber. The killers are "extraordinary" people. Perhaps our August King is an extraordinary person, a "demi-god", who can be above the law.
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
Une fois appele "fatalist", moi je me demande simplement pourquoi je suis ne "Cambodgien"???
And I am not so sure whether the word "sacrosanct" has any meaning at all in real life on this planet earth!!!
King Sihanouk is the same as other monarch in the world who is immune from prosecution. King of Thailand, Queen Elizabeth II of England... are all immune from prosecution.
HM Sihanouk is a brave man I must say, he has already offered himself to face KRT and even be willing to give up his royal and constitution immunity, and he even accepted the prison term if found guilty. In spite of that, this current government blocked it, and the person who blocked the royal immunity is the same man named(Heng Sam Rin) that the Anti-Sihanouk knelt before him for help.
Why the Yuon's puppets blocked?
Don't blame King Sihanouk.
Why are they afraid of the truth?
Who're those people behind the killings?
If the Yuon are roaming all over in Cambodia today with Hun Sen, why not they're with Pol Pot, if Pol Pot was created by Ho Chi Minh since 1930's?
If the Yuon don't have intentions to take Cambodia so why did they create Indochinese Communist Party and created Khmer rouge? Today these arrogant, racist, facist Yuon using Angkor Wat as their trademark all over the world.
http://www.indochinavacation.com/vnguide.htm
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/images/2007/08/22/phone-card200.jpg
I have my reasons to believe that Yuon were there in Cambodia with Pol Pot and killed Khmer people.
That is why I defend King Sihanouk.
It is a sign of desperation of the anti_Sihanouk to kiss the Yuon's puppet, Heng Sam Rin for a help.
Was not Heng Sam Rin the one who conspired with Yuon and then defrocked Khmer Monk?
I have always said may time in the past that this KRT trial is just an entertainment by the thugs in Phnom Penh for ~60 million USD that's it. This ~ $60 million should just have spent for the poor people better, because there will never have any justice. How could if almost the criminals are in power?
This KRT is just like a big slab on every Khmer's face. It is a mockery, and while Cambodia is in a state of disorder like it is now, Yuon pretend to be quiet then enjoy using Angkor Wat as their.
To moi28 If Seihaknouk doesn't know how to play the game why he did? On common senses of the game you win and you lose. Now Seihaknouk take us in the tremendious losing game, is he the victim of the game or of his stupidity? When the Indochina war went on ,there were Lao,Viet and Cambodia why those two didn't kill too many citizen like our? Why just Seihaknouk Country ? Please do not bring him back , I personally afraid he might finish your parent,and you are the last,there were not enough for Seihaknouk with the two million Khmer beloved ? to sacrifice with his stupid game. Seihaknouk has to go to trial!
The King has to go to trial or not is not under your command, it is the CPP' who rule the country.
Did you read and think before you reply?
I am not the leader so I cannot know what other leaders think or do.
Lao Mong Hay,
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain is immune from prosecution; but her royal family members are not.
Sad to see Cambodia is in a big mess. The Vietnamese keep watching the sufferings of the Cambodian people and smiling.
Hean KONG,
Your guys never like anything any leader do. Why don't you pop on that chair and lead the country to see how you can do, huh?
Are you out of your mind threatening freedom of speech?
Yes right Sihanouk tried his very best shot, but there're too many knee jerks like to mess around and cause more troubles.
The truth hurts, and if you are a psychiatrist, you need to check up your mental imbalance before you can diagnose others.
Cambodia went to too many war, because too many knee jerks like this opportunist who is the guy that writes this crap?
How much do you know what was rotten inside? I'm so sicken tired to see many knee jerks like this keep causing only troubles.
Right I don't care anymore if Cambodia will be wiped out from the map.
The Cambodian government has recently vowed, although, believed to be very dangerous, but yet a bold political strategy called to reject the proposal requested by the CACJE to lift the immunity from prosecution for former king Norodom Sihanouk.
Former King Norodom Sihanouk had been the ONLY NUMBER ONE PERSON that Yuon Hanoi would wanted to be killed from the very beginning.
Before his death, Ho Chi Minh had clearly strategized his political scheme on how to eventually conquer Cambodia. [HE] had informed his political intellectuals/scholars and as well as HIS younger generations that, "as long as Sihanouk still alive, there will not be any chance that Vietnam can swallow Kampuchea."
In the mid 1980's, there was a meeting held in Santa Ana, California. Vietnamese intellectuals had informed their people not to raise any political issue regarding Vietnam on the verge of taking control of Cambodia. THEY WANTED THEIR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE POLITICAL ADVANTAGE AND THE POSITION THAT THEY NOW IN CONTROL OVER OF THE PNOM PENH GOVERNMENT.
"The Journey to the West," written by our Khmer scholar, Noun Khoeun. We were too busy bickering at one another and did not even have a chance to stop and think at any moment that DANGER IS COMING!
Ho Chi Minh had put a price tag on the head of our former King Norodom Sihanouk. WHAT HAS BEEN VERY DANGEROUS IS THAT "THEY ARE NOT THE ONE IS GOING TO KILL FORMER KING NORODOM SIHANOUK. INSTEAD, THEY WANT US [KHMER or KHMER KAMPUCHEA KROM] TO KILL HIM. AND THAT HAS BEEN THEIR POLITICAL STRATEGY OUTLINED BY HO CHI MINH!"
For those Khmer individuals and intellectuals, which have been wishing to have former King Norodom Sihanouk be killed, you are making a dream come true for the YUON!
I am personally anticipating to see, within weeks or so, if Hanoi is going to summon PM Hun Sen to have a discussion over on this political issues.
2L
An average Joe can find out so much about King Sihanouk if he really want to because there are ton and ton of information out there within reach of the public on King Sihanouk including the documentaries and personal interviews of King Sihanouk!
So what are they trying to achieve by making King Sihanouk go to court? Do they want to hear the same bullshit over and over again or what? King Sihanouk had said many times before on the record about any involvement with the Khmer Rouge and the Vietcong!
It is so easy for any fool to look back into the past and began making all kinds of accusation for their righteousness and these same fools would be fuck up the same as King Sihanouk if given the same chance to do politic! Remember! King Sihanouk always demands neutrality for Cambodia since day one!!!!
Base on geography, Cambodia is next to Vietname! And Vietname is to China! So who can exert the most influence on Vietname? Now base on this logic and this is always been the nature Cambodian politic for many years! Even now! Every fucken Cambodian politic always deal with Vietname and China! As long as Cambodian leaders continue to use this model of engagement with Vietname and China and Cambodian people will continue to suffer!
It is about time that Cambodian leaders must come up with a new model of engagement in dealing with Vietname and China because the old model ain't working for Cambodian people!
Bad luck to be born Khmer. This must be a plan from Hanoi. I think Sun Serey Ratha is youn agent. A lot of khmers work for youn free this day.
Youn know how to make khmer kill khmer.
2L don't make any wrong story, according to your comment you know nothing. Monique, Sihanouk's wife received order from the Viet and directed Sihanouk to act and later on directed Hun Sen too. Do you know who got killed first and next and next?li When you can answer this question you understand why there were killing field in Kampuchea.
hold it, hold it right there.
where are your documents?
stop making up story that his wife took order from viet communist to kill cambodian people. are you out of your mind? i just read someone who said enuf is enuf let us destroy and exterminate each others for the last time.
a group who stir the cambodian community is doing a job for comi-viet.
Cambodian never stop killing each others. Why not let Thai or Vietnamese take over?
May be it is the last hour of Cambodians to all die.
Good then Thailand will have border share with only with Vietnam as predicted.
Oh khmer euy khmer, why don't you all go to hell. I blame nobody but yuons for invading Cambodia.If polpot's regime remain in power until today, we probably won't have Sihanouk to discuss anymore.He may have gone a long time ago.Damned yuons.
And your Cambodia will certainly look like north korea.
2:11 PM. May be we won't have a country to call home anymore.
Yes let us kab_khmer not kab-youn. let's kill each others for the last time.
HAUNTING OF THE KHMER ROUGE
Respectful All Khmer Compatriots:
Mr. Soun Serey Rattha Sourn's letter to lift up King Norodom Sihanouk's immunity for the Trial in Cambodia is likely reflecting the Cambodian characteristic of favoring to fight with each other. And critically this letter has been issued in a wrong circumstance.
* All Khmers have already been aware that KR Trial will never deliver justice for them; and this Trial is absolutely politically oriented, so why do you still want the court to try King Norodom Sihanouk?
Mr. Rattha has already known that this letter is in vain and no hope at all the government will take in action, so why he still send this letter to them? If I am not wrong, this letter benefits only:
* The war and controversial opinion in Cambodia is gradually ignited in a large scale that can lead to the incurable division in current Cambodian society.
* Only serving the success strategy of Indochina Federation Policy of Yeaknam that they are secretly working inside CPP. This letter can benefit CPP's politics, psychology and win-win strategy.
* We can clearly notice that Hun Sen promptly responded with this letter because doing so Hun Sen can gain huge popularity among Cambodian people to vote for him.
* Damning activities towards Khmer monarchy and Pol Pot actually serve the tremendous interests to the strategy of Indochina Federation of Yeaknam that this strategy is secretly working inside CPP. Especially, the day of 7 January 1979 becomes more invaluable day in Cambodia present political movement; we have to understand that this day is currently occupying Cambodian people physically, psychologically, militarily and Yeaknamization in Cambodia.
* We have to know that KR Trial is ironically controlled and directed by CPP
* CPP is the actor of Yeaknam's play that is entertaining Cambodian people not to see the reality with new vision of fake democratic and economic development but the real agenda and administration mechanism are strictly controlled.
* CPP has never thought of releasing themselves from Yeaknam at all. The structure of the party and the prominent members of the party appointed by Hanoi such as Heng Samrin, Chea Sim, Hun Sen and including Somdech Tep Vong who is vice president of national assembly are still firmly in positions.
* Only one excuse of the KR regime, Yeaknam can take tremendous advantages to eliminate Khmer Kampuchea Krom and extend their total occupation of Cambodia.
KY
Sourn serey ratha is the guy has no education in the US, but he is a self promoter. This guy is a con artist looking to promote himself such as PUBLICITY. Come to RI to see this self promoter.
Watch out Rainsy Party. This guy will tell ah Hun Xen everything.
He is Viet Cong's agent sent to making a mess in KRT to make KHmwers to FOCUS only Sihanouk but forget Hun Xen and his killing activities during KR, while Yieknam are all ruling our motherland. This is the time that Yiek Nam do the strike.
I hope the US deport this Viet's agent Sourn Serey Ratha back to where he belongs. When he goes back to Cambodia you will see he won't be punished by Hun Xen, know why he uses his real name because of the PUBLICITY and he has big guys behind to protect him.
Hi everybody,
Here, you are pretty safe to say whatever you have in mind. However, please do not forget the key word, RESPONSIBILITY.
In such an international court as the ECCC, the whole world expects to firstly know who is actually responsible for such an unspeakable crime, and secondly, prevent it from happening again in the future. The world community is not much interested in how many years of prison terms Duch, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary or Nuon Chea would be handed down by the courts.
For crime against humanity or crime of genocide, in my opinion, the punishment per say is less important than pointing out to the perpetrators their responsibility which will resonate through space and time for eternity. And this is obviously what the whole world expects to see hammered out by the ECCC.
Oh my God !! those who think Sihanouk should be above the law, just bring your beautifull daughter and your younger wife for his sexual pleasure that is your normal expectation. I think your own parents have given you birth with wrong medecine !!!
I wonder why, Rannarith dare to have sexed with his minister wife and his minister 'daughter because after Siharmony, Rannarith will be the King. All of you will use his shit for all kind of medecine. La grande poisson a de droit de manger tous les petites poissons car elle a la force naturelle.
did u sleep at the wrong side of the bed? no one said sihanouk is above the law, they don't trust the KRT run by the viek cong.
Cambodian proverb has said" Khmer minchorl kbuon and youn minchrol put. Each of you has always think Sihanouk is a Godking. But from my understanding he was a most foulish man.
-He has been cheeted by Vietcong
-He has been cheeted by Pol Pot
-He has been cheeted by Hun Sen many times
Now what he wants his longtime unemployed son to be king of Cambodia for US$ 5 millions a year in budget. Sooner or later, he will transfer his monarchy to Rannarith because he has no crown king.
2:11pm please open your eyes and read the letter from CPP to Sihanouk and from Sihanouk to CPP when your works well you know who is who, don't just blame any body.
Dear Khmer Patriots at all levels,
Thank you for all Sides of the parties. All of your inputs are most important, but at this time please do turn your inputs and your intelligences focusing on about Vietnamisation in Cambodia.
Please let Court works its own duties, then JUSTIC will be served.
Otherwise, Khmers are killing Khmers again. Remember, Vietnamese always encourage us to fight and to kill each other then Vietnamese will have opportunity to take our country.
Sincerely,
From Khmer-Waking-Up Movement
Folks, a short extract right below from NOUTH Chhoeurm's "Mémoire d'un coup d'Etat" will certainly open wide millions of eyes of people who dare to believe that King Norodom Sihanouk was innocent, not involved in the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge atrocities and should not be prosecuted by the ECCC. Unfortunately for some folks, the text is in French:
Presque trente ans déjà ont passé depuis le génocide commis par les sanguinaires Khmers rouges, un génocide qui a causé la mort de plus de deux millions de Cambodgiens innocents et notre histoire n’a jamais vu un tel crime contre l’humanité depuis la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale. Malgré trente ans passés, la question demeure et on se demande toujours si ce crime contre l’humanité pouvait-il être évité ou non? Les réponses étaient diverses, mais la majorité avait répondu “oui” si Samdech Norodom Sihanouk, en tant que Chef de l’Etat du Kampuchea Démocratique des Khmers rouges pendant la période du génocide, avait cessé de penser à ses intérêts personnels, oubliait ses functions de Chef de l’Etat “fantoche” au service des Khmers rouges et pensait au malheur et à la souffrance de son people. Tout le monde sait très bien que Samdech Norodom Sihanouk est un grand “documentaliste” des évènements de son pays et que, tous les jours, il ne cesse de suivre les évènements par la presse étrangère, les câbles d’informations internationales tels que ceux de l’AFP, Reuters, UPI et… Donc Samdech était très au courant des bonnes et des mauvaises nouvelles provenant du pays et mieux informé que les autres Cambodgiens. Mais parce qu’il avait peur de perdre son fauteuil de Chef de l’Etat, il a préféré abandonner complètement son peuple à son sort au profit des Khmers rouges, ses amis “qu’il a juré de ne jamais trahir jusqu’à la fin de sa vie”.
[par NOUTH Chhoeurm,
Neuvième partie,
Le génocide pouvait-il être évité?
Mémoire d’un coup d’Etat]
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