Thursday, May 20, 2010

Evictees denied vote: report

Thursday, 20 May 2010
Brooke Lewis and Kim Yuthana
The Phnom Penh Post


FEWER than half of all evictees are registered to vote in the communes to which they have been relocated, according to a report released Wednesday by an election monitoring NGO.

The report from the Committee for Free and Fair Elections draws from interviews with 244 evictees of voting age and living in three Dangkor district villages, though its authors said that the findings were likely representative of evictees nationwide.

Sok Pitou, a Comfrel investigator, said the report’s purpose was to draw attention to the hurdles evictees must overcome when registering to vote.

“We have observed that in Cambodia now, there are an increasing number of evictions, and we found that some of the evictees face difficulties registering to vote,” he said.

“For example, some did not have identification documents, and some said they were too distant from the registration offices.”

According to the report, 72 percent of evictees surveyed attempted to register to vote in their new communes, but only 58 percent of those who tried were successful, meaning that only 43 percent were registered in the correct place.

Sok Pitou said this would pose a problem for evictees, many of whom are poor, come polling time.

“Evictees are often relocated far from where they originally lived, and it is difficult for some people to go back to vote at their old communes,” he said.

He added that some might return only to find that they are unable to vote because “registration officers sometimes delete the names of residents who no longer live in the commune”.

“We recommend that commune officials visit the evictees to make it easier for them to register to vote,” Sok Pitou said. “Their right to vote should not be affected because they are victims of eviction.”

The report also called on the National Election Committee (NEC) to improve its records and to ensure that all voters have access to information concerning registration.

And it said that the Interior Ministry should ensure that all eligible voters receive identity cards by the end of 2011.

Hy Rong, director of the NEC’s Operations Department, said that the accuracy of voter rolls was dependent on commune chiefs, and that officials were making efforts to ensure that all eligible voters are registered in time for elections in 2012.

“It is impossible to avoid mistakes in election registration, and it is very complicated,” he said.

“But the NEC has been updating those voter lists since 2002, and has made corrections to mistakes for about 3 million names.”

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:21 AM

    Hun Sen is a former Khmer Rouge and he always spy peoples like Pol Pot. Nothing surprise me and also if you join CPP- Communist People Party remember you and your family will be in the black list. The only way to remove him are the people power. Look at Thailand for example. 2 or 3 millions rise up to Hun Sen's home that will work.

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  2. Anonymous2:08 AM

    LAND OF AH KWACK! ONLY AH KWACK FAMILY AND CRONNY ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE!

    aH KWACK! IT IS EASY TO TURNE FROM WHITE TO BLACK THAN FRON BLACK TO WHITE! MOTHERFUCKER!

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  3. Anonymous2:22 AM

    Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime

    Members:
    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 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. 
    Source:  Lightning, Discovery Channel

    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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