Saturday, September 26, 2009

Return of Immunity a Matter for Assembly: [CPP] Lawmaker [Cheam Yeap]

By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Washington
25 September 2009

We just took away the raincoat to make [them] wet equally to others, and we’ll just give them back the raincoat, that’s all” - CPP Cheam Yeap
A lawmaker for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party said Thursday the National Assembly could easily return parliamentary immunity to two opposition members if the courts drop their cases and make a request.

Opposition lawmakers Mu Sochua and Ho Vann, from the Sam Rainsy Party, had their immunity suspended by the Assembly in April, at the request of the court, as both faced defamation charges.

CPP lawmaker Cheam Yiep told “Hello VOA” Thursday the Assembly could vote to restore the immunity after the cases are dropped.

“We just took away the raincoat to make [them] wet equally to others, and we’ll just give them back the raincoat, that’s all,” he said.

Mu Sochua has so far been fined $4,500 in a suit brought by Prime Minister Hun Sen, and Ho Vann was acquitted this week of defamation charges brought by 22 military officials.

The National Assembly returns to session Oct. 1, but it has so far received no request to restore immunity.

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:18 AM

    Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:

    Tortures
    Brutality
    Executions
    Massacres
    Mass Murder
    Genocide
    Atrocities
    Crimes Against Humanity
    Starvations
    Slavery
    Force Labour
    Overwork to Death
    Human Abuses
    Persecution
    Unlawful Detention


    Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:

    Attempted Murders
    Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
    Attempted Assassinations
    Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
    Assassinations
    Assassinated Journalists
    Assassinated Political Opponents
    Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
    Executions
    Executed members of FUNCINPEC Party
    Murders
    Murdered Chea Vichea
    Murdered Ros Sovannareth
    Murdered Hy Vuthy
    Murdered Khim Sambo
    Murdered Khim Sambo's son 
    Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
    Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
    Murdered Innocent Men
    Murdered Innocent Women
    Murdered Innocent Children
    Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
    Extrajudicial Execution
    Grenade Attack
    Terrorism
    Drive by Shooting
    Brutalities
    Police Brutality Against Monks
    Police Brutality Against Evictees
    Tortures
    Intimidations
    Death Threats
    Threatening
    Human Abductions
    Human Abuses
    Human Rights Abuses
    Human Trafficking
    Drugs Trafficking
    Under Age Child Sex
    Corruptions
    Bribery
    Illegal Arrest
    Illegal Mass Evictions
    Illegal Land Grabbing
    Illegal Firearms
    Illegal Logging
    Illegal Deforestation
    Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
    Illegally Sold State Properties
    Illegally Removed 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.
    Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
    Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters. 
    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
    Persecution
    Unlawful Detention
    Death in custody.

    Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice. 

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  2. Anonymous3:55 AM

    Does immunity mean anything if it can be taken away without due process? Just like a candy given to a child for good behavior, and taken awavy for disobey.

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  3. Anonymous4:52 AM

    Hey Bro PPU, let throw more stone to MP.MU SUCHUA having her fame be nominated to Nobel Peace Price Laureate.
    U.S will add more names list to stop entry visa in U.S and Europe to Bro. PPU in Human Right violation.
    Ask Tea Banh how he'd been alerted ????
    You can run you can not hide Bro. PPU...

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  4. Anonymous1:57 PM

    TALKING ABOUT RESTORE IMMUNITY TO SAMRAINSY MP, COULD IT BE THAT TEA
    BANH GOT A MASSAGE FROM U.S DEFEND MINISTER ROBERT GATE OR HIS DEPUTY
    MINISTER THAT ARE TELLING TEA BANH
    THAT THEY ARE CONCERNING ABOUT HUMMAN
    RIGHT VIOLATION IN CAMBODIA?

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  5. Anonymous2:02 PM

    COULD IT BE THAT, THE TOM LANTOS HUMAN RIGHT VIOLATION HEARING, BROUGHT ANY CONCERN TO DICTATOR? SUDDENLY WE SEE CASE DROP AGAINST SAMRAINSY MP HO VANN, AND NOW TALKING ABOUT RESTORE IMMUNITY TO MRS
    MO SUCHAU. THOSE HEARING MAY HAVE AN
    EFFECT ON THIS REGIME, IF SO WE CAN
    DECLARE THAT MRS MO SUCHAU TESTOMY WAS A SUCCESSFUL MISSION.

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  6. Anonymous11:13 PM

    Immunity cannot be restored by the Cambodian National Assembly (NA) until Hun Sen give an OK. Don't say that the NA can act independently on it own to do so. Who don't know that NA is the stooge of Hun Sen?

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