The Cambodian government has filed a fresh lawsuit against the country's fugitive opposition leader, Sam Rainsy (pictured), over claims he forged and published a false map of the border with neighbouring Vietnam.26/02/2010
AFP
The Cambodian government Friday filed a fresh lawsuit against the country's fugitive opposition leader over claims he forged and published a false map of the border with neighbouring Vietnam.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who lives in self-imposed exile in France, was sentenced in absentia last month to two years in prison over a related conviction for uprooting border posts and inciting racial discrimination.
The new lawsuit was filed with Phnom Penh Municipal Court, government lawyer Ky Tech told AFP.
"The lawsuit involves forging public documents and publicising disinformation related to the forgery of a map in order to manipulate the public over the border issue with Vietnam," Ky Tech said.
In his January conviction, Sam Rainsy and two villagers were found guilty of intentionally damaging temporary border posts last October.
In the new case he is accused of posting a "fake map" of the border on his party's website, which the government says depicts incorrect border markings with Vietnam.
No formal map has yet been agreed between the two countries.
Sam Rainsy could face up to 15 years in prison for forging public documents and up to three years in jail for disseminating false information if convicted, the lawyer said.
Neither he nor his party spokesman could be reached for comment.
Cambodia and Vietnam officially began demarcating their contentious border in September 2006 after decades of territorial disputes.
Anti-Vietnamese sentiment in Cambodia in rife, fuelled by resentment at Vietnam's expansion over the centuries and the feeling that Cambodia is losing some of its territory.
But Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen maintains close relations with the Vietnamese regime and Sam Rainsy, whose party shares his name, has repeatedly accused the government of ceding land to Vietnam.
Vietnam and Cambodia share a 1,270-kilometre (790-mile) border, which has remained vague since French colonial times.
French-educated former finance minister Sam Rainsy is the main rival to Hun Sen. He has promised to promote liberal democracy and human rights, raise wages and fight corruption if elected.
Hun Sen this week accused Sam Rainsy of treachery for trying to stir up problems at the Vietnamese border while Cambodia is already embroiled in a bitter border dispute with Thailand.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who lives in self-imposed exile in France, was sentenced in absentia last month to two years in prison over a related conviction for uprooting border posts and inciting racial discrimination.
The new lawsuit was filed with Phnom Penh Municipal Court, government lawyer Ky Tech told AFP.
"The lawsuit involves forging public documents and publicising disinformation related to the forgery of a map in order to manipulate the public over the border issue with Vietnam," Ky Tech said.
In his January conviction, Sam Rainsy and two villagers were found guilty of intentionally damaging temporary border posts last October.
In the new case he is accused of posting a "fake map" of the border on his party's website, which the government says depicts incorrect border markings with Vietnam.
No formal map has yet been agreed between the two countries.
Sam Rainsy could face up to 15 years in prison for forging public documents and up to three years in jail for disseminating false information if convicted, the lawyer said.
Neither he nor his party spokesman could be reached for comment.
Cambodia and Vietnam officially began demarcating their contentious border in September 2006 after decades of territorial disputes.
Anti-Vietnamese sentiment in Cambodia in rife, fuelled by resentment at Vietnam's expansion over the centuries and the feeling that Cambodia is losing some of its territory.
But Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen maintains close relations with the Vietnamese regime and Sam Rainsy, whose party shares his name, has repeatedly accused the government of ceding land to Vietnam.
Vietnam and Cambodia share a 1,270-kilometre (790-mile) border, which has remained vague since French colonial times.
French-educated former finance minister Sam Rainsy is the main rival to Hun Sen. He has promised to promote liberal democracy and human rights, raise wages and fight corruption if elected.
Hun Sen this week accused Sam Rainsy of treachery for trying to stir up problems at the Vietnamese border while Cambodia is already embroiled in a bitter border dispute with Thailand.
How can the CPP betrays the Cambodian people and nation like this????
ReplyDeleteThis report is totally false that the border between Vietnam and Cambodia is vague. We have a finite border with all our neighbors left behind by the French era and our map is deposited at the UN.
As King-Father Sihanouk puts it, "a country that does not have a finite boundary is a mortal country."
One must be blind if one thinks that Vietnam has good intentions toward Cambodia, when for the past600 years, has been annexing Khmer territory all along. We lost Kampuchea Krom 'lower Cambodia' as recent as 1949 and we continue to claim it as our land which was ceded by France to Vietnam till this day.
If Khmer people have any conscience at all, the CPP must go and be put on trial for its betrayal of Cambodian interests...
Khmer Krom
In the history since the fall of Ankor - Khmer Impire, Khmer leaders have never given up the idea that "Fight with the WEST get support from the EAST and vice versa" every time they (Khmer Leaders) have to give some land in return. In Hun Sen's regyme ... I dare not say yet...!!!
ReplyDeleteKhmer gov't should stand up and be a good role model for the whole nation to follow, e.g. include all khmer intellectual people to help running the country. "A nation will fall if it has no guidance...many advisors mean security" proverbs chp11:14 We need to be more smarter by now, we must avoid personal conflicts at all cost because we don't want the outsiders to take advantage of our downfall. If khmer don't love khmer, no one in the world will. Please, try to follow with the Aust way of life by having a common law to protect everyone equally doesn't matter who they are or where they come from. Majority of the population in Aust are educated. So, let us too give a free education to our people and let us migrate more skilled to come into our country so that we can improve our way of life in term of security and prosperity. Life is too short so don't be too critical on each other Ok. At the end of the day we belong to the earth and the earth does not belong to us, so be kind to one another and treat each other with respect "you do yourself a favour when you are kind, if you are cruel, you only hurt yourself" (ibid chp11:17. Try to do the right thing for the righteous will live forever and the wicked will be terminated as said that " the wicked meet their downfall and leaves no descendants, bu the families of the righteous live on" 12:7. Therefore we need to learn to respect and act on behalf of the poor as they unable to speak for themselves and what we do is based on our morality and integrity as a human being "if you oppress poor people, you insult the lord who made them, but kindness shown to the poor is enact of worship" chp14:31. In addition the "righteous people will always have security by the wicked will not survive in the land" (ibid 10:30. So, all the best brothers and sisters, I shall miss you heaps. Aust
ReplyDelete"No formal map has yet been agreed between the two countries."
ReplyDeleteThis reporter need to check his or her fact again. Cambodia always has its legal map with any countries that joint borders with.
You can look down at the current idiot leader but not Khmer people or Sihanouk!
Sydney
To 5:42PM,
ReplyDeleteStop lecture us with your religion. I can see that your brain is very limited. Life too short, so keep learning and be wise.
For the good of our Kingdom, all represents of the Khmer people (politic parties) should be discusing and clear all this matter at the Cambodian Parliament.
ReplyDeleteWe Oversea's Khmer and of course the young generation of Khmer are very confusing of all informations from the blogspot.
It sound to me, we Khmer have another war again each other on the internet.
Ah Hun Sen only sues Mr. Sam Rainsy, but won't sue Ah Youn Vietcong, foreign invader and foreign encroacher.
ReplyDeleteThis is an idiot and asshole person who is uneducated and Youn agent.
He pretends to be Khmer, but his soul and mind are working for Youn 100%.
This is a huge virus for Cambodia people and her country.
We need to wipe out this virus before it spreads further to damage our motherboard or motherland.
Very currupted, very twisted, Very backward, very khmer rouge, and very vietcong likeness evil regime.
ReplyDeleteMay the CPP regime falls/Hanoi and be judged by the almighty God above.
The cpp regime is a traitor to cambodia and all khmer. May Hun Sen follow the foot steps of saddam hussien this year.
Farmers are alive witnesses. Their farm land were taken by Viet. How can Mr. Hun Sen say it is false or not correct?
ReplyDeleteThis is culture of khmer. Those who have power is always wins and can say whatever.
Mr. Sam Ransy, you are our hero. You have done correctly. Keep doing good job. we are behind you. Let's send Hun Sen, his family and Kim Hong to live on the land they are trying to give to Viet when they are out of power.
I believe oneday when Khmer people have enough, they will put Hun Sen and his people off. Hope Khmer will have better life and live peacefully with our neighbors with respect.
Code of Private Party!
ReplyDeleteCourt of Private Party!
Conduct of Private Party!
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LIVE BY THE RULE, DIE BY THE RULE
ល្អមែនទែន យើងនាំគ្នាប្រកាប់ប្រចាក់ព្រោះតែធ្វើ
ReplyDeleteរបងខ្លួនឯង,ឯអ្នកជិតខាងឈរសើចចំអក៕
តើហ៊ុនសែនសមជាអ្នកដឺកខាំស្រុកឬទេ?,ឬមួយ
ស្រុកខ្មែរដ៏កំសត់,អ្នកដឺកនាំចេះតែគំរាមយកដីពលរដ្ឋស្លូតត្រង់,ចេះតែអនុញ្ញាតឲ្យនិគមយួនហូចូលមករស់នៅ
ដោយស្របច្បាប់,ជួលដី៩៩ឆ្នាំដាំកៅស៊ូ?
គួឲយខ្មាសអាស្រកីមែន?
ពីខ្មែរឆ្នេរជលសាវែង
Hun Sen shows his real color,
ReplyDeletehe shows also what CPP must become: DICTATORSHIP.
Khmers want that for their children and grand children.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS MAN,
HE MOVE BACKWARDS OUR COUNTRY.
Even you are a CPP memeber, dictator will not be good for you and yours..
MP SAMRAINSY IS THE ONLY BRAVE KHMER WHO CAN STAND UP TO HANOI AND DEFENSE
ReplyDeleteOUR MOTHERLAND,CAN SIHANOUK, SIHAMONY, HUN SEN, CHEA SIM, HENG SAMRIN AND THE REST CPP OFFICAIALS DO THAT? HOW COME THEY ARE SO QUITE FIGHTING AND PUNISHING THE GOOD MEN (SAMRAINSY)WHO ARE PROTECTING KHMER INTEREST. ISN'T IT OBVIOUS THAT HUN ,CHEA SIM,HENG SAMRIN ARE WORKING FOR HANOI INTEREST, ISN'T THAT OBVIOUS THAT THESE CPP PEOPLE ARE TRAITORS.
HUN XEN HAS ALSO WARNED MP SAMRAINSY NOT TO RUN FOR NEXT ELECTION IT OBVIOUS THAT HUN XEN CAN NOT EXCEPT FACT AND CANNOT PLAY BY THE RULE, BECAUSE HE ALREADY KNOW THAT OBVIOUSLY HE WILL LOSE BIG IN NEXT ELECTION. THIS MAN CANNOT EXCEPT THE TRUTH AND FAIR. WHAT AN EVILS.
KHMER SRP
KHMER UNITED
KHMER REPUBLIC
KHMER LOVE KHMER
Hun Sen is commiting treason, he is destroying Khmer hero who is defending Khmer lands.
ReplyDeleteKhmer people must sue Hun Sen and Youns instead.
ReplyDeleteIf Hun Sen could, he would sue God.
ReplyDeleteToday, we Khmer do not have a hero.
ReplyDeletePlease don't throw me into the brier Patch!!
ReplyDeleteDemocratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
ReplyDeleteMembers:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
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
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
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 80 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 over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
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
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
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.
"Today, we Khmer do not have a hero.
ReplyDelete1:19 AM"
No body claimed to be a hero when they are alive except the fucking communist! and the foos!
Most people forgot who is HUN SEN. Where was he come from?
ReplyDeleteHow was he become today femous?
Who was appoint him? If you can recall his past then you may knew who is hiding behind him.
Hun Sen is a devil,
ReplyDeletehe is born to haunt Khmers, to destroy Khmers,
he, his family members, his supporters are selling Khmer lands to Yuons for their personal pockets.
They disapprove UNTAC because they want dictatorship for Cambodia.