By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
21 July 2009
Cambodia’s ambassador to Britain has called on donors to stop funding the environmental watchdog Global Witness, which has been sharply critical of the government and powerful businessmen for exploiting the country’s natural resources.
Ambassador Hor Nambora said funding for the group should be cut until it adopts a more responsible attitude, and he urged other countries to refuse entry to members of the group, which has issued damning reports of Cambodia’s timber, oil and mineral trades.
Global Witness documented widespread corruption and a “kleptocracy” in the highest ranks of government and business, where vast riches from the country’s natural resources land in the pockets of an elite few, including officials close to Prime Minister Hun Sen and his family.
Its reports, “Cambodia’s Family Trees” and “Country for Sale,” are both banned in Cambodia.
The group issued a statement earlier this month urging the United Kingdom to deny entry to Hun Sen as he made an official visit to France and planned to travel to England to watch his son graduate.
Hor Nambora said Global Witness had been presenting false information as fact.
Global Witness could not be immediately reached for comment, but it has stood by its reporting, which is thoroughly documented, in the past.
Ambassador Hor Nambora said funding for the group should be cut until it adopts a more responsible attitude, and he urged other countries to refuse entry to members of the group, which has issued damning reports of Cambodia’s timber, oil and mineral trades.
Global Witness documented widespread corruption and a “kleptocracy” in the highest ranks of government and business, where vast riches from the country’s natural resources land in the pockets of an elite few, including officials close to Prime Minister Hun Sen and his family.
Its reports, “Cambodia’s Family Trees” and “Country for Sale,” are both banned in Cambodia.
The group issued a statement earlier this month urging the United Kingdom to deny entry to Hun Sen as he made an official visit to France and planned to travel to England to watch his son graduate.
Hor Nambora said Global Witness had been presenting false information as fact.
Global Witness could not be immediately reached for comment, but it has stood by its reporting, which is thoroughly documented, in the past.
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I wouldn't worry too much about this independent organization, since it does not have any credibility whatsoever. Certainly, its integrity is questionable.
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One eye hyena has spawned a brood of yelping cry babies who throw tantrums and threaten to "beat up " critics of their crimes.
ReplyDeleteWe all know truth always hurts and payback time always comes around. In his next life hun sen will be torn to pieces by a half crazed half blind hyena.
you Nam Bora son of a bitch , if you and your government are clean , what are you afraid of ? the more you bark the more you tell the world that you and your government got alot of dirty things to hide .
ReplyDeleteDemocratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
ReplyDeleteTortures
Executions
Massacres
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Overwork to Death
Slavery
Rapes
Human Abuses
Assault and Battery
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Assassinations
Assassinate Journalists
Assassinate Political Opponents
Murders
Killings
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and others military official on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Remove Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Under Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed all of these crimes above within Hun Sen Khmer Rouge government have ever been brought to justice.
11:58AM I agree with you!
ReplyDeleteHo Nam Bra and Hun Sen just paranoise! " Cow with infected back "
global witness is a politcal driven, extreme group that happened to be biased with cambodia. bias is not fair, isn't? get lost already. go back home!
ReplyDeleteGlobal Witness has 2 eyes and 2 ears and CCP has 1 eye and 1 ear. CCP, if you are clean hands, do not afraid to cover up your dirty ass.
ReplyDeleteGlobal Witness is bias? Is it not true that Cambodia lost so much forest? How about land grabbing? How much is the salary of those high rankings? Howcome they are milionairs? ??????
ReplyDeleteI know vietnam planted a bomb in his eye. If don't do he die.....You know who plant what in who's eye.....
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ReplyDeleteGlobal witness is being infiltraded by Vietnamese who has carried two IDs. This Viet spy came from Vietnam and he married to a daughter of Khmer general, a former school teacher. He is working with Global winess.
Everything that leaks to outside and to Nam Bora fast like the speed of light is that Global winess has Vietnamese spies in it.