Cambodian opposition members of parliament march along a street during a protest in support of Sam RainsyMonday, November 16, 2009
AFP
PHNOM PENH — Cambodia's parliament stripped immunity from main opposition leader Sam Rainsy Monday, clearing the way for charges against him for uprooting markings at the border with neighbouring Vietnam.
"The National Assembly has lifted the parliamentary immunity of Sam Rainsy," said a statement from the legislative body.
The statement went on to say Sam Rainsy, currently abroad, had committed acts of "uprooting border posts between Cambodia and Vietnam, and inciting (people) to commit criminal offences" in southeastern Svay Rieng province.
The move permits court action against Sam Rainsy, who removed six markers at the border during a march in Svay Rieng last month, alleging that they were illegally placed by Vietnam.
Lawmakers from his eponymous Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) boycotted Monday's closed parliamentary vote and held aloft a map of Cambodia as they marched through the capital's streets, denouncing the decision as "political intimidation".
The French-educated former finance minister is the main rival to Prime Minister Hun Sen. He touts liberal democracy and human rights, while promising to raise wages and fight corruption.
Son Chhay, chief of the party's members of parliament, called the decision a "threat or intimidation against the party leader... (with) political intention to shut up the opposition party".
Vietnam condemned Sam Rainsy for uprooting the border posts, and asked Phnom Penh to protect the two nations' sensitive demarcation process.
Sam Rainsy has said he believed the border markers were erected unilaterally by Vietnamese authorities, and that villagers had removed similar posts in the area early this year.
Cambodia and Vietnam officially began demarcating their contentious border in September 2006, in a bid to end decades of territorial disputes.
The border row has sparked virulent anti-Vietnamese sentiment in Cambodia, fuelled by resentment of Vietnam's expansion over the centuries.
The 1,270-kilometre (787-mile) border has remained essentially unmarked and vague since French colonial times, with stone markers and boundary flags having disappeared, while trees lining it were cut down.
"The National Assembly has lifted the parliamentary immunity of Sam Rainsy," said a statement from the legislative body.
The statement went on to say Sam Rainsy, currently abroad, had committed acts of "uprooting border posts between Cambodia and Vietnam, and inciting (people) to commit criminal offences" in southeastern Svay Rieng province.
The move permits court action against Sam Rainsy, who removed six markers at the border during a march in Svay Rieng last month, alleging that they were illegally placed by Vietnam.
Lawmakers from his eponymous Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) boycotted Monday's closed parliamentary vote and held aloft a map of Cambodia as they marched through the capital's streets, denouncing the decision as "political intimidation".
The French-educated former finance minister is the main rival to Prime Minister Hun Sen. He touts liberal democracy and human rights, while promising to raise wages and fight corruption.
Son Chhay, chief of the party's members of parliament, called the decision a "threat or intimidation against the party leader... (with) political intention to shut up the opposition party".
Vietnam condemned Sam Rainsy for uprooting the border posts, and asked Phnom Penh to protect the two nations' sensitive demarcation process.
Sam Rainsy has said he believed the border markers were erected unilaterally by Vietnamese authorities, and that villagers had removed similar posts in the area early this year.
Cambodia and Vietnam officially began demarcating their contentious border in September 2006, in a bid to end decades of territorial disputes.
The border row has sparked virulent anti-Vietnamese sentiment in Cambodia, fuelled by resentment of Vietnam's expansion over the centuries.
The 1,270-kilometre (787-mile) border has remained essentially unmarked and vague since French colonial times, with stone markers and boundary flags having disappeared, while trees lining it were cut down.
RFA asked Xam RainXy a simple question that "Will he come back to Cambodia to face the Court if Parliament lift his immunity?". He didn't answer the question but at the same he tried to say something which irrelevant to the question, aim to cover up his coward act. What is a funny politician?
ReplyDeleteSince he pulled off the six poles near Vietnam's border, he always says all along that he doesn't afraid at all if the government sues him, but right now, he can't even step his foot in Cambodia.
As I am often said that Xam RainXy is brave only in front of microphone but in real life, he likes a rat runs around asking other people to help him whenever his political stunt get backfire.
Xam RainXy should go to Thailand and asks his ally (Abhisit and PAD) for helping him.
Khmer in Sydney
cuz he's liar that traitor AH Sam Rainsy. he's best at defaming people and make his country look like shit
ReplyDeleteNous,député de PPC( une trentaine qui aiment le Cambodge ),vous soutiennent l'action de M. SAM RAINGSY. HUN Sen est entrain de vietnamiser le Cambodge bien aimé. Nous, PPC, obligeons de voter pour cette levée d'immunité de M.SAM RAINGSY si non nous serons exclure du PPC et aussi éliminer physiquement.
ReplyDeleteDieu nous regarde.
both of you above should move in together. you both make great gay couples!
ReplyDeleteTo Khmer in Sydney:
ReplyDeleteYou should ask why Hun Sen need thousand bodyguards in Toul krasaing first..if he is brave. :D
anyway why you run away to Sydney?
Like father likes son, sooner or later Xam RainXy's fate will be the same as his father, traitor and dead shameful in overseas
ReplyDeleteKhmer in Sydney happy to use the letter X instead S the same as Vietnamese. Oh may be you are living with Vietnam society aren't you?
ReplyDeleteA bout political I think you are a pro of CPP. But never mind because I think all Cambodian who living outside of Cambodian always think about Cambodian who live inside and the try hard to find the way to choose a good leader a good group that can lead Cambodia to the right way, and all of them never share their idias as you are.
Who are Cambodians?
ReplyDeleteThis question is being asked to everyone who are reading this message.
- Sam Rainsy Party and members are Cambodians
- CPP party and members are Cambodians
So it makes sense that these two parties have to bear Cambodian heart. But the CPP's parliamentarians who raised hand to show their vote of lifting Sam Rainsy's immunity because of his concern with border demarcation with Vietnam showed us strange and super strange thing in Cambodia politics.
SRP party and CPP party have been working to bring benefits and interests for Cambodia. But when Sam Rainsy dare to check with eyes the border point demarcation and the farm owners pulled out those simple wood-sticks, CPP has taken this issue seriously to the parliament to bully Sam Rainsy. (Note: Sam Rainsy didn't pull out those sticks but as a leader he has to protect those weak farmers by accepting his act in pulling those sticks). But the craziest thing is that parliament members didn't firstly investigate the case properly by using its most ability to respect the voice of voters (people) and minor party.
For Chheam Yeab, he is over-stated the act of Sam Rainsy as "Security Concern" of the nation. Nguyen Tan Dong accused Sam Rainsy only vandalizing public property and undermine friend relations, but CPP's court of Svay Rieng accused Sam Rainsy more than that as racism. But all those accusation is even worse, the worst is Chheam Yeap who accused Sam Rainsy of "undermining national security". This accusation is really unrealistic and not different from Pol Pot.
When Pol Pot wanted to kill someone, they would create a case and accused them as "undermining national security" or "being traitor" etc. Now, under Chheam Yeab, it has become worse than that because to try the case of Sam Rainsy and accused him in that felony verdict it means to threaten Cambodian people in the whole country. Pol Pot killed people they suspected but took firm stance to protect border land in both Vietnam and Thailand. But current government, may be under Chheam Yeab's policy, Cambodia will be easily integrated into Vietnam; or at least in the name of Cambodia but every main policies and leadership must be guided by Vietnam as same as in Lao.
Who is Chheam Yeab?
1. Since the Cambodia-Vietnam supplemental border treaty, to Khmer Monk Tim Sakhorn, to 22 Khmer military PhDs, to allying with Thaksin to slap Abhisit's cheek, and to current bullying of Sam Rainsy etc illustrates the "hell policy of CPP" which has undeniably lost its integrity, independence and self-determination. CPP can use 99% ownership of mass media to manipulate the whole Cambodian people inside this country, but CPP cannot hide themselves from frustration of its self-destruction policy and final demise.
2. The answer must come out directly from CPP's members themselves. Do they want to live longer and pursue self-reliance or not? Many CPP's members and parliament representatives are actually patriotic but how can they untie themselves from this rapid fastening of neo-imperialism approach of Vietnam? Many CPP's members are wanting to defuse the Vietnamese power from inside should start to "walk the talk". However, I don't see they are doing that plan because from day to day, they are firmly becoming strongly tied in trap.
If CPP's members think that your leaders are doing the right thing and current mechanism to handle with Sam Rainsy is correct, I think you are lost in the abyss of ignorance.
In Solidarity,
KY
to: 4:05 PM
ReplyDeleteYou are as the same as your father too your father got a small brain and he is an intestinal worm of society. I really know your father then now I just know you that's not fall away from the base (of the tree)
To solve border issue with both Thailand and Vietname, we need to follow rule number 1.
ReplyDeleteRule number one said Hun Sen Must Get Assassinated as soon as possible. This Khbot Cheat leader will be dead by a bullet into his head. Hun Sen is so studpid and his whole family too. I feel sorry for his parents that have a treason son.
May Hun Sen die of bullet soon na!!!
You have been told about my master Vietnam, we should respect them as living god, that right Sam Rainsy's people.
ReplyDelete(Signed),
Hun Xen, Chea Xim, Heng Xamrin
Khmer Young,
ReplyDeleteWhy you don't put your self-proclaimed as political analysis again? May be you are ashamed some people call you that "Political Analyshit?
Xam RainXY runs away or stay away? Coward man likes Xam RainXy, no matter where he lives, he always is coward.
KY,
ReplyDeleteStop behaving like a child because it only humiliates yourself and the opposition. If you really want to help the country, here what you and the opposition, especially Mr. Rainsy should have done.
Mr. Rainsy must remain in the country and ORDER his party members to boycott all parliamentary sessions until the CPP restore his immunity. Instead of writing the letter to the King asking his intervention, Mr. Rainsy must himself become more vocal about the Viet encroachment and incite the mass population to stand up, not against the CPP or PM Hun Sen, but against Hanoi.
You and I know that Hanoi pressures Hun Sen to remove Mr. Rainsy’s immunity. The right thing for Mr. Rainsy and people like you to do is NOT to hit back at PM Hun Sen, but to revolve against Hanoi by publicly inciting riots against yuon interests and community on Cambodia soil. Many CPP people will support you. Also, when you incite people against Hanoi, PM Hun Sen can go back and tell Hanoi that Khmer people will start a new revolution or that CPP will lose its legitimacy in parliament if Hanoi forces CPP to suppress Khmer Nationalists.
Instead of condemning PM Hun Sen, you and the opposition should lend him a helping hand to refuse Hanoi order.
Mr. Rainsey has to demonstrate his leadership now. Stay abroad and make a worldwide campaign to protest the Yuon dog let by communist CPP.
ReplyDeleteBy now, khmer people should understand. Cambodia is a communist country, let by communist indochina.
Don't wait and see.
Khmer Syney or Khmer Kidney
ReplyDeleteDemocratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
ReplyDeleteTortures
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
Assassinated over eighty members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
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.
CPP 90 members National Assembly and included present Government of Cambodia under leading by Hun Xen had served to foreign country ( Vietnam). However, all of them are former Vet-ment.
ReplyDeleteAll loser faces!
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