(Photo: Ly Meng Huor, RFI)March 27, 2010
“INCITEMENT TO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION”: A POLITICALLY MOTIVATED AND GROUNDLESS ACCUSATION AGAINST SAM RAINSY
The text below is a Letter from parliamentary opposition leader Sam Rainsy to the Editor of The Cambodia Daily, which published it today.
In your article “Rainsy says ‘Definitive’ Maps Point to Innocence” (March 26, page 23) you wrote, “In January, Mr Rainsy, who is living in France, was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison for incitement to racial discrimination and destruction of public property after he uprooted six wooden stakes at a temporary border marking with Vietnam in Svay Rieng in October.”
I don’t need to add anything regarding the second charge (“destruction of public property”) because there was no public property involved that could be associated with any real and legal border line, and the legitimate owner of a private land has the right to dispose of anything that has been put on, or planted in, his land without his consent. In our case, we are talking about six commercially worthless wooden stakes.
But regarding the first charge against me of “Incitement to racial discrimination” which Article 61 of the 1992 UNTAC Law relates to “any person that provokes national, racial, or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence,” I can say that it is totally groundless and politically motivated.
All I said and did on that day (October 25) in Svay Rieng province while meeting with villagers in the concerned border area, has been videotaped and can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/yhwf289 and at http://tinyurl.com/yfmakb5. In the first document, I essentially listened to villagers’ grievances in the compound of a pagoda. In the second document, after following villagers to their nearby rice fields and analyzing with them the situation on the spot, we pulled out the “six wooden stakes at a temporary border marking with Vietnam.”
I challenge any government or court official to seriously prove, with concrete evidence, that I have said or done anything that could be related to “incitement to racial discrimination.”
[As reflected in my March 24 statement “Decisive evidence of border encroachment” http://tinyurl.com/y8jxq9s, I have been mainly blaming “the current government in Phnom Penh” for its “negligence and/or incompetence when it comes to dealing with the defense of Cambodia’s territorial integrity as enshrined in the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements and in the Kingdom’s Constitution.”]
Sam Rainsy
Member of Parliament
Paris
SRP Did Nothing To Provoke a Charge of Racial Discrimination
In your article “Rainsy says ‘Definitive’ Maps Point to Innocence” (March 26, page 23) you wrote, “In January, Mr Rainsy, who is living in France, was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison for incitement to racial discrimination and destruction of public property after he uprooted six wooden stakes at a temporary border marking with Vietnam in Svay Rieng in October.”
I don’t need to add anything regarding the second charge (“destruction of public property”) because there was no public property involved that could be associated with any real and legal border line, and the legitimate owner of a private land has the right to dispose of anything that has been put on, or planted in, his land without his consent. In our case, we are talking about six commercially worthless wooden stakes.
But regarding the first charge against me of “Incitement to racial discrimination” which Article 61 of the 1992 UNTAC Law relates to “any person that provokes national, racial, or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence,” I can say that it is totally groundless and politically motivated.
All I said and did on that day (October 25) in Svay Rieng province while meeting with villagers in the concerned border area, has been videotaped and can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/yhwf289 and at http://tinyurl.com/yfmakb5. In the first document, I essentially listened to villagers’ grievances in the compound of a pagoda. In the second document, after following villagers to their nearby rice fields and analyzing with them the situation on the spot, we pulled out the “six wooden stakes at a temporary border marking with Vietnam.”
I challenge any government or court official to seriously prove, with concrete evidence, that I have said or done anything that could be related to “incitement to racial discrimination.”
[As reflected in my March 24 statement “Decisive evidence of border encroachment” http://tinyurl.com/y8jxq9s, I have been mainly blaming “the current government in Phnom Penh” for its “negligence and/or incompetence when it comes to dealing with the defense of Cambodia’s territorial integrity as enshrined in the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements and in the Kingdom’s Constitution.”]
Sam Rainsy
Member of Parliament
Paris
Bravo Mr. Sam Rainsy for defending yourself. It is completely baseless for the CPP to make charges against Mr. Sam Rainsy. Mr. Sam Rainsy did not ever need to do this on his own behalf. He was protecting Cambodian farmer's grievances.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mr. Sam Rainsy. Justice will Prevail to you and to our Khmer people in the near future.
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Thank you Mr Sam Rainsy for your clarification over accusations by provincial court regarding racial incitement.
ReplyDeleteNow it is clear that the incident took place inside Svay Rieng province, cambodia.If that had happened in Vietnam,vietnamese government would sue Mr Sam, possibly arrested Mr Sam Rainsy and the villagers,then refers matter to cambodian government.
In regarding being accused of destruction to public properties, on pulling out the wooden stakes
is GROUNDLESS.Quite obvious that land is belonged to the villagers, which is PRIVATE property.
These leave the argument that those ill intended posts belonged to Cambodia,or Vietnam?.
If these erected by cambodian authority,then this authority needs to explain that to cambodian government and the people.
But in the case of those posts are ercted by Vietnam, thus Vietnamese government has obligation to varify to the cambodian government and her people.
Regardless,the Authority is compelled to clarify to cambodians if it is competent or incompetent in adressing this sensitive issue.
Having used all power means to jail own citizens is blatant in cambodian's rights abuse.
And it is clearly indicates that the court,border authority and the RGC committed to an unjust act,to oppress its own people.
I believe that this case can be brought to the UN and the international human right body, if our KING cannot resolve that in the name of his kingdom.
Kaun Khmer
SR was trying to protect our people from being robbed by our neighboring country but he unfortunately did not go through the process of the "diplomatic approaches" which in turn led into the political conflicts. This situation however no needs to condemn our own citizen for his wrong doing but should at least discuss about the issue and come up with an agreement to what need to be done as a "khmer gov't" to prevent situation like this to ever happen again. In this case however, if you want something done, you need to talk to the "Master" that is Viet "PM". or otherwise if khmer gov't had a secret deal with the viet, they should at least let the whole nation know what they, So, that they don't have to pay the price for gov't's action. Again, Viets and khmer have always had a good relationship with each other for thousand of years until the white colonial and into the 21st century where Viets have helped to rescue khmer from Pol Pot regime unlike Thai people helped to kill us by dumping us on the foot of the mountain full of mines. Wisdom
ReplyDeleteCPP government members use laws to harm Khmers exactely like Pol Pot's did it with the word ANGKAR. These criminals are touching their ends. They already forget how they felt while they were under other regimes in the past. Oppression will not last brothers...
ReplyDeleteSam Rainsy and Sam Rainsy supporters, don't be so stupid. The Viet do not need to steal a few hundred meters of land. If they want, they can swallow the whole country slowly, by just sending more and more of their people to live in Cambodia. After a few generations, they just take over the government and slowly turning Cambodia into Vietnam. Intelligent wise, the Vietnamese are much smarter than Khmer, they are cool headed and they can think and plan long term, Khmer only think short term, hot temper, make a lot of noise but accomplish nothing.
ReplyDeletei think it is true to some degree to say that sam rainsy was creating racial incitement. it's stupid to say it's not, really! that say, that goes to show that cambodia is not very fond of viet/youn, however, politician like sam rainsy have use racial incitement as on of their campaign in khmer politics which i thinkis so outdated as cambodia has move beyond that. i mean, nowadays, there's no reason to incite racial slur, either, whether viet/youn, siem, and so forth. we all know when we hear racial slur of any kind to mean politics, really! i think in cambodia most people moved beyond that already. there are more concern issues like healthcare, education, trade, businesses, reforms in lands ownerships, justice, the creation of the rule of law, than just some racial slur often used by some overseas politician to incitement hatred, disturb peace, all in the name of political campaign and so on. it's getting old after a while and people like me are sick and tired to hear politics using it as a pretext based on groundless accusation, etc... i mean, of course khmer people will stand up if there are overwhelming evident that viet/youn and siem continue to steal or claim lands from cambodia, given that khmer land were much bigger a few hundred years ago, let alone during the khmer empire era and so forth. well, that was a historical lesson that khmer leaders of the olden time were weak and ineffective and perhaps were ignorant and stupid as well for them to not able to do anything about it. i think it was all about attitude and mentality that contributed in a way to cambodia's past shrinking of lands to particularly viet/youn and siem and to some degree lao too, i mean khmer lost lands and territories to all three neighboring countries of cambodia, really! why? i think it was partly due to the frog in the well mentality, the ignorance, the weak, ineffective leadership of that time, the lame attitude, etc... wake up people, get good education and learn from everyone, ok! move on and from now on teach our people and encourage them to be more competitive with neighboring countries, to think and act aggressively when it comes to lands, territories, business, and don't be laziness again, ok! be industrious, this way, it is called competitive, smart, and do reform that outdated mentality of the frog in the well, ok! no more ignorant and abuse!
ReplyDeleteXam is a lonely guy only confesses what he thinks over the Internet or online chatting, sound pathetic to me. On the next year, people will ask: "Who is Xam Rainsy?? A publisher of Khmer News in Paris??"
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trust me the people's vote will say a lot about who they want and what they want. nobody in the should and could dictate that to people to change their mind, really! people are encouraged to think for themselves and to be educated as much as they can get, really! god bless cambodia.
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Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
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Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
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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.
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Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
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Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
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Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
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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.
This is case about "it's damn if you do and damn if you don't" CPP and the whole Royal government knew who's at fault and who's right or wrong!
ReplyDeleteThere is no need to justify as the current entire CPP government is Yuon's slave.
What Raingsy and the free Khmers should do or should focus on how to replace the current government?
To the thieves or Khmer imposters. I should call you ah Youn thieves, when you thieves get caught, you accused the vitims of racist.
ReplyDeleteWhen the world kicked your ass out of Cambodia in 1991, you had signed and agreed not to robbed Khmers any more then you LIARS TO THE WORLD.
You Thieves will pay from this day on and through HELL.
To all ah CPP Youn kisser. I fucking hates all the fucking dog Youn. Around world even girl or guy I'm fucking hates them all. Unless they're give our Kampuchea Krom back then I respect them.
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