Thursday, 20 May 2010
Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
PHNOM Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday rejected a request to form a bipartisan committee to review claims of Vietnamese border encroachment, but it has agreed to order a government lawyer to provide more specific details concerning the location of contentious border posts, the lawyer for self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Wednesday.
Choung Choungy, Sam Rainsy’s lawyer, said Wednesday that the court had refused his request to establish a new committee composed of opposition parliamentarians and officials from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
“The court denied my request because the government already has an official border committee, so they did not see the need to establish another committee,” Choung Choungy said.
The lawyer had argued that a bipartisan committee was needed to investigate border claims before a government lawsuit accusing Sam Rainsy of falsifying public documents could be allowed to proceed.
He said the current border committee faces a conflict of interest because it is mandated by the government; therefore, its opinions should not be relied upon in any legal action the government brings against his client, he said.
Choung Choungy went on to say that he was pleased with the court’s decision to require that more specific information be released about four posts along the border in Svay Rieng province.
Svay Rieng provincial court in January convicted Sam Rainsy in absentia for helping villagers uproot temporary border markers in Chantrea district, and gave him a two-year prison sentence.
The villagers had said that Vietnamese authorities planted the posts in their rice fields.
The government then filed a complaint against Sam Rainsy in February, accusing him of falsifying public documents after he released what the Sam Rainsy Party called “unprecedented evidence” that the four border posts sit well inside Cambodian territory.
Government lawyer Ky Tech said Wednesday that he welcomed the Municipal Court’s most recent ruling.
“I do not oppose the decision to order my party to provide additional documents and order the committee to have additional clarification,” Ky Tech said. “This is a correct decision of the court.”
Sam Rainsy remains self-exiled in Europe. For the time being, no court date has been set for him to respond to the current charges against him, Choung Choungy said.
An Appeal Court hearing stemming from his conviction in Svay Rieng is set for July 6, he said.
Investigating Judge Oeung Sieng could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Choung Choungy, Sam Rainsy’s lawyer, said Wednesday that the court had refused his request to establish a new committee composed of opposition parliamentarians and officials from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
“The court denied my request because the government already has an official border committee, so they did not see the need to establish another committee,” Choung Choungy said.
The lawyer had argued that a bipartisan committee was needed to investigate border claims before a government lawsuit accusing Sam Rainsy of falsifying public documents could be allowed to proceed.
He said the current border committee faces a conflict of interest because it is mandated by the government; therefore, its opinions should not be relied upon in any legal action the government brings against his client, he said.
Choung Choungy went on to say that he was pleased with the court’s decision to require that more specific information be released about four posts along the border in Svay Rieng province.
Svay Rieng provincial court in January convicted Sam Rainsy in absentia for helping villagers uproot temporary border markers in Chantrea district, and gave him a two-year prison sentence.
The villagers had said that Vietnamese authorities planted the posts in their rice fields.
The government then filed a complaint against Sam Rainsy in February, accusing him of falsifying public documents after he released what the Sam Rainsy Party called “unprecedented evidence” that the four border posts sit well inside Cambodian territory.
Government lawyer Ky Tech said Wednesday that he welcomed the Municipal Court’s most recent ruling.
“I do not oppose the decision to order my party to provide additional documents and order the committee to have additional clarification,” Ky Tech said. “This is a correct decision of the court.”
Sam Rainsy remains self-exiled in Europe. For the time being, no court date has been set for him to respond to the current charges against him, Choung Choungy said.
An Appeal Court hearing stemming from his conviction in Svay Rieng is set for July 6, he said.
Investigating Judge Oeung Sieng could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
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.
ReplyDeleteXam is already a yesterday man.
ReplyDeleteAh ky ky! let be honest. Are you fighting this case to keep khmer lands or to give it to ah youn? You are a smart man. Think about it! why would you fight with your own people that try to protect the khmer land from ah youn that has been stolen from khmer. You know that for a fact if you are a smart man. So, you need to quit, man.
ReplyDeleteIt's about time for Khmers living outside Cambodia to tell your brother, sisters, cousin, and all your friends living inside Cambodia to rises up against a dictatorship regime. Wake up Cambodian if you want to have basic right and freedom of speech you MUST stand up for your self.
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 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.