By South East Asia correspondent Karen Percy
ABC News (Australia)
Cambodia's opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, has been stripped of parliamentary immunity in a move his supporters say reflects political intimidation by the ruling party.
MPs from the ruling Cambodian People's Party have voted overwhelming to proceed with the action, rejecting attempts to delay the vote.
It means Mr Sam can be investigated by police and the courts for an incident at the Vietnam border last month where he is accused of illegally moving markers.
Opposition members from the Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party boycotted the session.
They say an investigative committee would be a more appropriate.
Mr Sam is travelling in Europe and it is not known when he will return to Cambodia.
He has lived in exile before when the government stripped him of immunity in 2005.
Human Rights Watch accuses the country's prime minister, Hun Sen, of using the legal system to harass his critics.
Last week, Mr Hun criticised Thailand's judicial system for pursuing former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra for political, not criminal reasons.
MPs from the ruling Cambodian People's Party have voted overwhelming to proceed with the action, rejecting attempts to delay the vote.
It means Mr Sam can be investigated by police and the courts for an incident at the Vietnam border last month where he is accused of illegally moving markers.
Opposition members from the Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party boycotted the session.
They say an investigative committee would be a more appropriate.
Mr Sam is travelling in Europe and it is not known when he will return to Cambodia.
He has lived in exile before when the government stripped him of immunity in 2005.
Human Rights Watch accuses the country's prime minister, Hun Sen, of using the legal system to harass his critics.
Last week, Mr Hun criticised Thailand's judicial system for pursuing former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra for political, not criminal reasons.
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
ReplyDeleteSam Rainsy, has been stripped of parliamentary immunity... it is done on order of Vietnamese Prime Minister.
ReplyDelete3:16pm Ah nguyen tan dung will cut off ur mom'pussy for his dog hunsen sooon ok
ReplyDeleteWhy Khmer in Sydney 3:12PM has so poor brain?
ReplyDeleteMr. Sam Rainsy no needs to stay in France, please come to Thailand, our PM will appoint him as economic adviser likes Hun Sen has done to fugitive Thaksin.
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ReplyDeleteI do not believe he (Mr. Rainsy) is a low-life, as opposed to those are worth less than animals.
CPP Traitor
Democratic 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.