Rainsy is in voluntary exile in France and the court sentencing will delay his return. According to the opposition party Cambodia is ceding its territory to Vietnam, offending Khmer nationalism. Sentence seen as a way to eliminate opposition.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Phnom Penh (AsiaNews / Agencies) - Cambodian opposition leader, Sam Rainsy has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, guilty of manipulating documents and information to the public.
The government accuses Rainsy of altering topographic maps to show that Vietnam is taking over Cambodian territory. Rainsy's party say that Phnom Penh has given its powerful neighbour border territories.
Rainsy was sentenced in absentia as he fled into exile in France, to escape the pressures and violence of the party of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
For years Rainsy has been trying to challenge the politics of Hun Sen, but has always lost in elections, accusing the Prime Minister’s party of abuse, manipulation and targeted killings. In recent weeks, he was planning his return, but the sentencing is likely to keep him from returning to Cambodia for several years.
The issue of borders between Vietnam and Cambodia is a very sensitive one for Cambodians who see Vietnam as the cause of their troubles in the recent past (war, Khmer Rouge, and now economic colonization).
The boundaries between the two countries have never been very accurate. In 2006 the two governments attempted to define them at the expense of certain groups of Cambodians, who lost their land on the borders. Rainsy has tried to encourage protest, by stirring Cambodian nationalism (see photo) and has been accused of manipulating maps.
Rainsy's party accuses the Phnom Penh government of using the judicial system to silence and eliminate the opposition.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Phnom Penh (AsiaNews / Agencies) - Cambodian opposition leader, Sam Rainsy has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, guilty of manipulating documents and information to the public.
The government accuses Rainsy of altering topographic maps to show that Vietnam is taking over Cambodian territory. Rainsy's party say that Phnom Penh has given its powerful neighbour border territories.
Rainsy was sentenced in absentia as he fled into exile in France, to escape the pressures and violence of the party of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
For years Rainsy has been trying to challenge the politics of Hun Sen, but has always lost in elections, accusing the Prime Minister’s party of abuse, manipulation and targeted killings. In recent weeks, he was planning his return, but the sentencing is likely to keep him from returning to Cambodia for several years.
The issue of borders between Vietnam and Cambodia is a very sensitive one for Cambodians who see Vietnam as the cause of their troubles in the recent past (war, Khmer Rouge, and now economic colonization).
The boundaries between the two countries have never been very accurate. In 2006 the two governments attempted to define them at the expense of certain groups of Cambodians, who lost their land on the borders. Rainsy has tried to encourage protest, by stirring Cambodian nationalism (see photo) and has been accused of manipulating maps.
Rainsy's party accuses the Phnom Penh government of using the judicial system to silence and eliminate the opposition.
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.
Cambodia will exist with or without Mr. Sam Raingsy.
ReplyDeleteCPP members and supporters,
ReplyDeleteyour father, your mother, you and your children will live in the KINGDOM OF BANANA for ever.
For all of your fucking entire life, you have not khnown what is a second FREEDOM.
CPP members and supporters,
ReplyDeleteyour father, your mother, you and your children will live in the KINGDOM OF BANANA for ever.
For all of your fucking entire life, you will never feel one second of FREEDOM.
It's time to change the name of SRP
ReplyDeleteand also to invite Mrs MU Sochua as president of this party.
The next election is in 2 years ago, it isn't time enough to work for this election.
I agree with 3:08 AM, This is a good time to replace a head of SRP.
ReplyDeleteMU Sochua is better and courageous than Sam Rainsy.
I hope the new genaration will join this party after changing of leader.
ACTUALLY...SRP OR WHO..NOT IMPORTANT...MOST IMPORTANT SHOULD BE ALL KHMER YOUNG OR OLD IN CAMBODIA...STAND UP FOR GOOD CAUSE...RATHER LIVE TO BE SLAVE YUON...BUT...YOU THINK THAT ALL THOSE PEOPLE LIVING IN CAMBODIA NOW GIVE A SHIT ABOUT SRP...OR YUON TAKE HER CAMBODIA LAND...BE REAL....STAND UP...STAND UP FOR YOUR LAND BEFORE TOO LATE...AND YUON WILL TAKE OVER 110%....
ReplyDeleteLet's help Mr. Sam Rainsy back to Cambodia, first of all he did not violate any viet cong rules, WE all have to help him come back home where he can help save Cambodia and her people from being oppressed by the Viet-Hun clan. Why should we let them terrorized us? Hun Xen and Viet - Minh are TERRORISTS!! PLEASE MAKE NOTES THAT IF WE ALLOWED THOSE VIET SHIT TO ENTER CAMBODIA ILLEGALLY IS CONSIDER DANGEROUS TO OUR NATION BEC THEY CAN BE A TERRORIST AS WELL!
ReplyDeleteWELL I TRULY SUPPORT MR SAM RAINSY FOR HIS OUTSTANDING COURAGEOUS AND HONESTY AND INTEGRITY AND LOVE FOR HIS COUNTRY!! HELP HIM GO B A C K HOME!! SAFELY AND FREELY - THE VIET CONG IS SCARRED OF RAINSY RIGHT NOW BECAUSE VIETCONG CANN'T SWALLOW CAMBODIA EASILY. WE WANT TO HAVE 1000 OF RAINSY IN CAMBODIA TO MAKE CROCODILE HARD TO SWALLOW.....!!!