By Suy Se (AFP)
PHNOM PENH — A Cambodian court on Thursday sentenced fugitive opposition leader Sam Rainsy to 10 years in jail for forging and publishing a false map of the border with Vietnam.
A rights group and supporters of Sam Rainsy, who lives in self-imposed exile in Europe, slammed the conviction as politically motivated -- a charged denied by the government, which said the map depicted incorrect border markings.
In January, Sam Rainsy, the main rival of Cambodian premier Hun Sen, was already sentenced in absentia to two years in prison over a related conviction for uprooting border posts and inciting racial discrimination.
Hun Sen maintains close relations with Vietnam's communist regime but Sam Rainsy, 60, whose political party shares his name, has repeatedly accused the government of ceding land to Vietnam.
His new conviction for forging public documents and disseminating false information relates to claims that he posted a "fake map" of the border on his party's website to show Vietnam was encroaching on Cambodian territory.
"The acts of the suspect harm the good relationship between Cambodia and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam," said Ke Sakhorn, president of the judges' panel.
He added that the map was "manipulating" and aimed at "discrediting the government".
Former finance minister Sam Rainsy was also filed five million riel (1,100 US dollars) and ordered to pay the government compensation of 60 million riel, the court said.
There was a heavy police presence outside the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for fear of protests by supporters of Sam Rainsy, whose party spokesman Yim Sovann said the ruling party was using the court "to slow down the popularity" of the opposition.
"It is a huge setback for democracy in Cambodia," he told AFP.
Ou Virak, chief of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights, slammed the verdict as "an obvious move by the CPP (the ruling party) to stop Sam Rainsy coming back to compete in the upcoming national elections".
The next polls are due in 2013.
Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith denied the sentence was politically motivated and said Sam Rainsy's own actions were "deeply about politics".
In the January conviction, Sam Rainsy and two villagers were found guilty of intentionally damaging temporary border posts in October last year.
No formal map has yet been agreed between the two countries.
Cambodia and Vietnam officially began demarcating their 1,270-kilometre (790-mile) border in September 2006 after decades of territorial disputes stemming from French colonial times.
A rights group and supporters of Sam Rainsy, who lives in self-imposed exile in Europe, slammed the conviction as politically motivated -- a charged denied by the government, which said the map depicted incorrect border markings.
In January, Sam Rainsy, the main rival of Cambodian premier Hun Sen, was already sentenced in absentia to two years in prison over a related conviction for uprooting border posts and inciting racial discrimination.
Hun Sen maintains close relations with Vietnam's communist regime but Sam Rainsy, 60, whose political party shares his name, has repeatedly accused the government of ceding land to Vietnam.
His new conviction for forging public documents and disseminating false information relates to claims that he posted a "fake map" of the border on his party's website to show Vietnam was encroaching on Cambodian territory.
"The acts of the suspect harm the good relationship between Cambodia and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam," said Ke Sakhorn, president of the judges' panel.
He added that the map was "manipulating" and aimed at "discrediting the government".
Former finance minister Sam Rainsy was also filed five million riel (1,100 US dollars) and ordered to pay the government compensation of 60 million riel, the court said.
There was a heavy police presence outside the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for fear of protests by supporters of Sam Rainsy, whose party spokesman Yim Sovann said the ruling party was using the court "to slow down the popularity" of the opposition.
"It is a huge setback for democracy in Cambodia," he told AFP.
Ou Virak, chief of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights, slammed the verdict as "an obvious move by the CPP (the ruling party) to stop Sam Rainsy coming back to compete in the upcoming national elections".
The next polls are due in 2013.
Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith denied the sentence was politically motivated and said Sam Rainsy's own actions were "deeply about politics".
In the January conviction, Sam Rainsy and two villagers were found guilty of intentionally damaging temporary border posts in October last year.
No formal map has yet been agreed between the two countries.
Cambodia and Vietnam officially began demarcating their 1,270-kilometre (790-mile) border in September 2006 after decades of territorial disputes stemming from French colonial times.
That's just bullshit.
ReplyDeleteIts monkeys court system!
ReplyDeleteThem monkeys listen to youn too much.
AFP is in bed with Hun Sen and Khieu Kanharit the information minister! What an orgy we have here!
ReplyDeleteJust look at its language. It made sure to point out that Mr. Sam Rainsy is a "fugitive" in the very first sentence!
Khieu Kanharith,Khmer innocent people can read your lips.Your mouth is so stink.Keep your mouth shut. You are YUON slave from head to toes.
ReplyDeleteLet take all SRP out of Cambodia they are outlaws!
ReplyDeletePoor CPP members and supporters,
ReplyDeletethe band of monkeys,
you accept that Hun Sen steals demomocracy from your children,
your descendants will live under dictatorship for ever,
dump.
sam rainsy is not respecting cambodian law, that's why people don't want him in cambodia! if you ask majority of khmer people about sam rainsy and his maverick politics, they can tell you more about him, one of unpopular for sure! he did nothing good for cambodia except scaring away reluctant foreign investors, etc, really!
ReplyDeleteHAY...! TO ALL KHMER SUPPORTERS...
ReplyDeleteWHY DON'T YOU DO THE RESERCH OR READ MORE HISTORRIES OR LESTEN NEW.... WHO DO YOU THINKS,OR WHICH LEADER, CAN BE SAFE KHMER COUNTRY IN THE FURTURE...
IF ANY ONE OF KHMER OR YOUN DOGYS KEEP SUPPORT HUN SEN AND YOUN DOGY....THAN FOR GET ABOUT KHMER.... CAUSE IN THE FUTURE THERE NO MORE KHMER...
WAKE UP ALL KHMER...
Corrupt authority, whether it be an abusive spouse or a dictator, employs secrecy to hide it’s true activities. Otherwise the subjects would have the wool pulled back from their eyes and see the authority unclothed.
ReplyDeleteCorrupt authority is understandably paranoid and threatened by the subjects it maintains control over and harvests wealth from. Corrupt authority tells nothing about itself and seeks to secretly know everything about the individual in name of “national security.” A constant state of war is necessary, and is produced to divert attention away from the true cause and to justify a police state of affairs. The cost of maintaining a police state is enormous, just ask the Ancient Romans if you could. More and more of the economy is always devoted to servicing the growing military/police state, but it cannot be sustained.
The end can turn out in different ways. Often the criminals behind the proverbial curtain will loot the treasury and escape, leaving the country burn. Or, a slow death in which the corruption saps perception of credibility from all authority, and authority is nothing without credibility. It is the people who give authority in the first place. The purpose of non-violent protests is to demonstrate this. However non-violent protests are generally isolated and for a finite time. In the end, people en-mass will walk away from the system itself, permanently, leaving it defenseless.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
ReplyDeletePol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth
Hun Sen...
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's leaders and members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth...
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.
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
"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."
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 10 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 detonate 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 Vietnam 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.