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| Opposition leader Sam Rainsy speaking in Falls Church, Virginia, on 24 February (Photo: Yun Samean, RFA) |
By Yun Samean
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by KhmeanKlach
Click here to read the article in Khmer
During a meeting with Cambodian-Americans in the US, opposition leader Sam Rainsy discussed about the protests in the Middle East, saying that this situation could also happen in Cambodia if the Cambodian government is not able to resolve the issues of joblessness, corruption and land disputes.
In the evening of Thursday 24 February, opposition leader Sam Rainsy warned the Cambodian government leaders, telling them that a revolution could explode in Cambodia if the ruling Cambodian leaders of almost 30-year continue to hold on to power in the future.
Sam Rainsy’s prediction took place during a discussion forum with about 50 Cambodian-Americans in Falls Church, Virginia.
Sam Rainsy, who is currently living in self-exile in France, added that the revolution that will come to Cambodia is a revolution that will demand for a resolution on the issues of joblessness, land-grabbing, poverty and corruption.
He added that the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia, Egypt and the latest situation in Libya led people in the world to see that a revolution to replace dictatorial regimes is a necessity.
The people of Tunisia and Egypt won in their revolution and the leaders of these two countries had to step down from power.
Sam Rainsy added: “What are the people protesting in these countries for? What do they want? Why are these people hurt? It’s the same [in all countries]: the number 1 problem is poverty. When people talk about development in a country, for whom is the development for? For the powerful people? To make the super rich even richer? That’s not what the people want, they want development for all the people, in particular so that the poor people can benefit from the development also. If the poor remain poor, of course there will be protest…”
Sam Rainsy also told the group of Cambodian-Americans that the SRP supports the resolution of border dispute with Thailand through an international mechanism, not through the ASEAN mechanism as Thailand is a powerful country in the region and Cambodia will not benefit from it. Sam Rainsy asked that Cambodia complained once again to the UN Security Council and the International Court of Justice so that they find a resolution for Cambodia.
Sam Rainsy was sentenced by the Phnom Penh municipal court to 12-year of jail time for publication of false documents, for falsification of public document and for destroying border posts between Cambodia and Vietnam in Svay Rieng province in 2009. On 23 February, the Cambodian Supreme court held a hearing in his case, but the court delayed issuing its sentence until 01 March instead.
Sam Rainsy added that he does not regret uprooting the border stakes because Cambodia indeed lost land to Vietnam. He added that the court sentenced him because the government does not want to see his presence during the upcoming general election in 2013.
He added: “Those who serve the foreigners, those who oppress the people, they are creating problems for us. This means that we are doing right. If the bad people are supporting us, if they help us or they praise us, that would mean that we would be doing bad. If the bad people are saying we are bad, if the bad people are oppressing us, this means that we are doing right. So we are doing more, without any fear, we must help the people until the end.”
Hun Xen used to issue warning that he would use armed force to eliminate any demonstration in Cambodia: “I am telling you now, if you can gather people, then come over! If the PM does not lead to defend the Constitution, how can we leave them to create anarchy all over the country?”
Hun Xen is currently 59-year-old and he held to power for the past 26 years. He used to announce that he would remain in power until he turns 90-year old.
On Friday 25 February, Phay Siphan, mouthpiece of the Council of Ministers, rejected Sam Rainsy’s comment. He said that continuation of power by Hun Xen will be done through election, not by force. “I don’t agree with him. He only tells a story about someone else’s opinion, but Cambodia is not under the situation told by H.E. Sam Rainsy.”
Phay Siphan also announced that Sam Rainsy could face jail time without any political resolution that would pardon him.
Cambodian-Americans who listened to Sam Rainsy indicated that they are concerned about the border issue, as well the violation of human rights in Cambodia.
Mr. Tung Yap, President of the Cambodia American for Human Rights and Democracy (CAHRAD), said that Cambodian-Americans organized this discussion in order to seek for the truth in Cambodia on the border issue, on the human rights problems and on the justice system.
He added: “I want to see Cambodia respecting the law properly, not to allow the rich to do whatever they want whereas the law is only applicable to the poor.”
Concerns raised by Cambodian-Americans are similar to the concerns raised by Prof. Surya Subedi, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia. In a press conference [in Cambodia], Surya Subedi expressed his concerns over the problems of human rights, land rights and the use of criminal law to prosecute defamation and disinformation.
43 comments:
Only 50 turned up? By invitation only, or by the lack of interest in what Mr Sam Rainsy has to say?
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don't listen to the criminal.cambodia better of without him.
Come on SRP supporters. Where the bloody hell are you? There must be more of you in Virginia.
Or do you lot agree the boss is fast becoming irrelevant?
KP
Dear Mr Sam Ransy.
You must return to Cambodia to lead this revolution. We cannot wait no longer. Vietnamese shadow government is in place to take Cambodia already. All their Association chairmen in each province are their provincial governors. They have pre-arranged to take over Cambodia before opposition parties can think off. Cambodian are alway one step behind of Vietnamese. PLease make no mistake,
This bloody khmer in sydney CBD is vietmaese spy. He is not Cambodian/
Tired to hear from a hero. He wants to be great Klaing Moeung, but he is fighting on the wrong batterfield.
Knowing that there is no way he can come back to Cambodia beside the forgiveness of Samdeach Hun Sen, the convicted criminal Sam Rainsy has tried to take advantage from the fighting between Khmer and Siem troops from 4 to 7 February 2011, by sending a letter to please Cambodian PM, but unfortunately, there is no replied from the government or PM. So, all Sam Rainsy can do, is keeping insult the Cambodian government as he's normal business.
Remember, after ran away really fast to avoid spending jail time in Cambodia, he always says all along that he will come back to Cambodia soon, but there is more than one year, he still lives in France. Then, he has crying out about the so called legal action against Cambodian PM in the USA and in Europe's Court, and shameless claimed that despite, PM bends his knee to please him, Sam Rainsy will never forgive him, but in fact, is it Sam Rainsy who has bowed his head to please PM first.
In political term, Sam Rainsy is a dead man walking. Sam Rainsy's political career is dead, longlive Sam Rainsy!!
Khmer in Sydney CBD
I missed Khmer in Sydney CBD again,
where are you now? are you dead or going to hell before Hun Sen your boss? Please let me know if you are
dead.I will piss on your grave.
Me too I wanted to shits on his grave too ah Khmer Sydney CBD. If anybody know where his grave is I'll go there shit and piss on it that bastard motherfuckers.
this guy is a peace of shittt
I think, Hun Sen will beat the dogs, in side the house. Cambodian people are not like the tunisian, egyptian, or libyian... They are too scare of Hun sen to rebel. so no revolution will occure in Cambodia. Kom Sonkeum pkay Leur meak.Don't wish for the stars in the sky!
Khmer Sydney CBD, your view does not reflect ours here in Sydney. There are plenty of people here still supporting Mr Rainsy.Late last year while he was in Sydney there were about 200 plus of people from different political affiliations, young and old gathered to listen to him at a function.They encouraged him to keep fighting for justice, freedom and liberate Cambodia from the shackle of Hanoi.Definitely, revolution will happen in Cambodia one day and time will tell if Mr Hun Sen keeps clinging to power until he'll be 90's, if he survives that long. Look around you Mr Hun Sen/ supporters the wind of change is happening, even in China there is a little jasmine revolution.
He just say it's like a dream
i think it will never happen.
who want to die for you sir?
Hun Sen is scared of the revolution. That is why he loves the Viet, his protectors, than the Khmer, his own blood.
And if there is a revolution in Cambodia the Viet spies will turn it into a bloody mess.
You should read this :
ព្រះតេជព្រះគុណ អៀង សុខធឿន ត្រូវបានគេសង្ស័យថា ត្រូវបានឃាតកប្រើកាំបិតអារកសម្លាប់ នៅយប់ថ្ងៃទី២៦ ខែកុម្ភៈ ឆ្នាំ២០០៧ ក្នុងកុដិព្រះអង្គ នាវត្តទ្រនំជ្រឹង ស្ថិតនៅសង្កាត់បឹងធំ ខណ្ឌដង្កោ រាជធានីភ្នំពេញ បន្ទាប់ពីព្រះអង្គបាននិមន្តវិលត្រឡប់ពីចូលរួមធ្វើបាតុកម្មនៅ ខាងមុខស្ថានទូតវៀតណាម។
យ៉ាងណាក៏ដោយ សមត្ថកិច្ចរដ្ឋាភិបាលកម្ពុជា កាលពីឆ្នាំ២០០៧ បានសន្និដ្ឋានជំហានដំបូងរបស់ខ្លួនថា ការសុគតរបស់ព្រះតេជព្រះគុណ អៀង សុខធឿន ដោយសារតែព្រះអង្គធ្វើអត្តឃាតខ្លួនឯង។ ប៉ុន្តែការសន្និដ្ឋាននេះ ត្រូវបានមន្ត្រីអង្គការសង្គមស៊ីវិល និងប្រជាពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរច្រានចោល និងទាមទារឲ្យសមត្ថកិច្ចយកសពទៅធ្វើកោសល្យវិច័យ តែត្រូវសមត្ថកិច្ចបដិសេធន៍។
This how they stop people from protesting against them. This youn slave always kill innocence khmer people they killed even monk just to please their youn master.
May the lord Budhha bless this monk and condemn Ah Hun Sen, his family and his gangs to hell.
People revolution would come about from people's heart,and they would prepare to sacrifice their lives for the country, not for Sam Rainsy.
I think know who is
Khmer in Sydney CBD,
He think he is Ah Kit Meng owner of the ctn.
Mr Sam, please dont just talk. You show it! you begin it even outside Cambodia. You dont need to go to Cambodia to lead it.
You can do! and We can do! I see that there are Khmer outside trying to lead it, join them and lead the Asian/Cambodian jasmine revolution
http://www.facebook.com/wikileaks?sk=app_2373072738#!/home.php?sk=group_177121072314943&ap=1
Or perhaps you dont have any guts about your claim at all.
Khmer People experienced Pol Pot regime, while Sam Rainsy was living peacefully in his luxurious villa in France.
Sam Rainsy will never understand how millions of Khmer suffered in Cambodia.
Cambodian people doesn't want another revolution and suffer again of war, hunger, etc.
If there is a people revolution in Cambodia, who will take advantage to invade and grab land from Cambodia?
Think twice Mr. Xam Rainxy and KI-Media!
You will see in next election that people hates you now.
Why need that kinda violence revolution? We have our peaceful revolution already, right? We have election every 5 year. Khmer people are not stupid, now they vote for Hun Sen, coz they know that he is the right man to ensure stability of the country. Ask people in Cambodia now, they know Hun Sen is corrupt, they know he would use violence if he lose the election, they know that he is pro-Vietnamese but he can ensure political stability and economic growth.
Stability is the key of economic development. And economic development bring better life for the people. When people have enough to eat and school to study, they will know whether they should change the leadership or not. Don't provoke any violence, we just have peace for nearly 20 years. Khmer people need peace, we had enough violence.
Frankly, everybody do you think USA really need Cambodia so much? Do we have oil like Libya or Bahrain?
- Suppose that Mr. Sam Rainsy can instigate a revolution and then violence erupted in PP, Hun Sen will send his 5000 bodyguards and his loyalty to PP.
- Bloodbath is everywhere in PP, do you guys think Obama or UN care to think about us and intervene? The most they can do is issuing resolution and condemn Hun Sen but do nothing..
- and Would Mr. Sam Rainsy stay in Cambodia during that time or he just sleep in the aircon room in Paris or French Embassy in PP?
- You guys are living in a secured country, and you claim that you are patriot and call for revolution, but whatever happen in PP, there will be nothing to do with you and you might be shopping in Sydney mall or New York mall or watching porn in your room..and we are killing each other like hell..
- Do we need change? Yes! but we don't need violence.
- Opposition party like Mr Rainsy should change his political strategy to win more support.
Those of YOU trying to judge Sam Rainsy, WHAT have you done????
To judge him and compare him?
We all know the CPP is hanoi' barking dogs and crooks.
Those who against the SRP, same as supporting the CPP.
cpp hate SRP because he said against youn take Cambodian land.
What SRP Get and sold anything . Why he is so bad for CPP and other people. Did he claim that land for himself? He never lead Cambodia why
he was so wrong and bad ? Than Hun sen lead cambodia. He making billions dollars,he let millions youn come to make aliving in Cambodia and let youn take some cambodian land inside and a long the border Than Hun Sen was so right and good leader.Why is like
that?
I'm glad khmer government block KI-MEDIA. really sick of it keep screaming for blood everyday and itself sit in fron of computer and serve the brianless sam ranxy.
Why keep blaming the US and other western country for cambodia problem. Only western country allow you to talk bad about your own country. If you dont support the US go live in China or Vietnam...than let see if you are allow to express what you really want to say. People dont forget who;s give you the freedom!
Well people in Cambodia! We heard and feel you OF being tired, tired of being poor, tired of being treated as second citizen and corruption in your country.
We tried everything for peace protest and nothing work.
We give you advice and you bad mouthing US. You as the people must earn the FREEDOM! Stand up and do it for you Children. NO Other people or Other Country cant do that for you. But we stand by you when it happen.
To 2:48pm
Are you sure that all provincial governors are Vietnamese?Please Shut up your smelly mouth before i pounch!!!! My father is one of provincial governor in Cambodia,We are all Khmer, We serve all Khmer people.If you do not anything about Cambodia and only listen to crazy and foolish people from SRP, i remind u please Shut UP!!!!!
Yes, your father is a Yuon speaking Khmer, and you are also ah Yuon.
I am very pitty u 10:40 :(( what u can say is just (Youn). you alway judge all poeple as Youn whenever they support CPP.u never know what we are doing in Cambodia in order to develop our province and country.i really have nothing to say with the person who does not have a brain to think, and just know the word (Youn) in ur useless brain:(( :(( :((
Rainsy he has no leadershipe skile Sumora she does, rainsy was supported by srp or Sumara money, thise girly never work in his life, how he man enought to run the nation, he just a son of a traitor, he only know how to speak, criticise and anger, and cheating you and me. he follow his father Sam sary foot print, gave him a slape he will wake up and learn how to do something to lives, he never help khmer, some idoit said he is khmer compatriote, they are absolutly wrong, pol pot kill khmer rainsy never call on un or franch for help, wasn't it right? but after 1993 he came to cambodia and run ministry of finance, it just his business, stope believe this idiot rainsy. if you are smart you can clearly see idiot rainsy have nothing superior for you to believed in, if he cheat you, and you accepted it, then all of you are completly madness man, do YOU HEAR me KMHERIZATION, IF YOU SPEND YOUR ENERGY AND TIMEs TO HELP KHMER TO EDUCATE, UP TO NOW MILLION OF PEOPLE THEY KNOW YOU AND ALL THANK TO YOU, AND YOU MAY BE MY HERO TOO, BUT YOUR WISDOME ARE LESS THAN AN ORDINARY PEOPLE, IDOIT RAINSY COULD CHEAT YOU EASILY, WHAT YOU GOT, MAY BE An air promise, how could you blindly do business like that or may be you are belong to the cheater team too, I think most of you and Ki just stupid tools for Rainsy. you See I am not kind to any one, I need real man the man who IS well prepare for success the man who do somethings day in day out, the man who refuse to stope fighting for success on an importance work in his hands, a man who could see result in month a head, not useless man like you Khmerization and KI that are good in separeting and spreading ignorance hatreat and anger in Khmer community. let me ask you if Rainsy in power you thinks all poor rainsy team will not corrupt, and rainsy be able to claim land back from vietnam, or he strong enought to dealt with thai. will Rainsy capable of command those Hun sen general, and will rainsy not fled to france when we have war. say the truth all about Rainsy power and become millioniar himself then he retire in franch isn't right?. technicaly I shall never insult some one to convince them specialy educated people like all of you but you make a bige mistake and you use to talk low class than what I mention above, but if I did not show you this way you don't know yourself as one of those ignorance scumback, may be you are worsh than them becouse you did spread hatred and devide my people for many years and some hundreds of ignorance like you believed your fall preaching.Mike
When I look at most comments here. It seem like Cambodia must be a great place as of today! People are working and getting well paid, Sending theirs kids to school, housing is being built, road and school is built and fixed. There jobs opening for College grad. the old is taking care of. that what it sound like. 30 yrs laters to 2011? any comments?
Why blame Sam Rainsy or anyone else? Sam Rainsy is part of the solution not part of the problem? When you turn on your TV and want to know what is going on in Cambodia especially for those Cambodian people who are living inside or outside Cambodia and what do you see on Cambodian TV? Let be honest with yourself for once?
AH HUN SEN officials still passing out those rice bags, fish sauces, and dry noodles to dirt poor Cambodian people and the living condition of these Cambodian people are deplorable! I really hate to see these kind of images after almost of 30 years since AH HUN SEN regime came to power because it lack of urgency and progress! And to contradict the destitute and deplorable living condition of Cambodian people and AH HUN SEN start showing large number of Cambodian students graduated from his University? But did AH HUN SEN ever show the statistic of how many of these Cambodian graduated land a fucken job? Where is the fucken job? So these Cambodian students graduated just to be a farmer?
The crushing sad reality for most Cambodian people is that they are willing to do anything just to escape Cambodia and majority willing to risk their life just to find work in foreign countries and willing to be subjected to humiliation, cruelty and inhumane just feed their family! Is this what becoming of Cambodia? Is this what life is all about? No!
The Cambodian history show that only through war, bloody military coup, and the killing, and the destruction can bring a real change to Cambodian society! Believe it or not, Cambodian history tend to repeat itself because Cambodian leaders such as AH HUN SEN tend to forget about the past and he also forget that he is the byproduct of the past and his past will never escape far from him!
Cambodian people have every right in the world to start a new without the baggage from the past! Give the Cambodian people the freedom to do what they want to do to pursuit their happiness, liberty, and justice!
While Cambodian are busy fleeing Cambodia and the Viet are moving in...
To 11:04,
Don't pitty me, will ya. I'm alright living safe and sound in the land of the free. You should pitty your own father for working to serve a Yuon's puppetic government. There are millions of Yuons living in Cambodia. They steal a lot of jobs from Khmer workers, but people like you, your father cannot see them. What kind of a Khmer are you anyway? A kbal-Yuon- Khmer Khmer? Not just that but your father, you, and many more of your kind seems to act deaf and blind to the Yuons' encraochment of Khmer land along the eastern border. Why? Do you have pitty for some Khmer people who have been robbed of their land by Hun Xen government? May be your father too collaborated with the robbers.
To 2:15
Yeah!! you living in safe and sound in the land of the free as a low worker over there:))I still pitty you MAN:))right now i also studying in that kind of country and really see how hard the people work over there:))Anyway, i still living in a better condition than u :)Millions of Youn living in Cambodia??????They steal jobs from Khmer workers?????:)) Come and see MAN. Do not just stay outside the country and speak like u are living inside the Cambodia:))Youn in Cambodia is very cheap and No one afraid or respect them as u think.For the land grabbing???Most of the case are caused by greedy khmer farmers who want to occupy the land as big as they can.They sell the land in one province, and move to another province to occupy illegally the other land in jungle.Do you think there are many land grabbing in CAmbodia?In my province, there are only two land issue which is affect only 200families compared to more than 30,000 falimies in the province.And how big the land issue?it is just only 20hectar sqare and we are solving for them.I still pitty u MAN!!!:(:)
11:34 AM, I congratulate you for admitting that there are land problems in your province, just 200 poor families affected. The lives of these 200 families to you are just statistics. You are heartless and lack of compassion.
So, you are blaming the poor farmers squatting illegally on those land. Isn't those land are crown land, belonging to the state.why these rich and powerful people in Cambodia like yourself/ your father and friends have the right to confiscate those crown land and sell them? Please explain and don't be emotional.
ok i explain you!!!
The government have policy to give the land to disable families by giving them 1000hectar sqare for 150families.It is mean that one families can get about 5hectar sqares. But the priblem is after those people registerd their names in th list, the number of families become more than 200 families:( when we investigated, some families are from the other provinces, and they just moved to my province when they heard that the government will give the land:(Am i heartless????:(do u know what is our solution??We still give the land to them by taking more land.But we still have one more problem because there is someone who talk to them and said that the government will not give the land to them, and then they come and protest:( actually, we are preparing the land and any document for them because the governor of a province have right to sign only 1000hectar of sqare, so we have to wait for approving from the ministry.That is all man!!!but it is just only the case in my province.We work very hard for develop our province, especially the infrastructure and the business,and it is for Khmer people.i can say that there is only about 2000vietnamese who live in my province compare to nearly 300,000 khmer people in the peovince.I work with my father and i bet my life that there is no any vietnamese spy or any Vietnamese who control us or stand behind us.We really serve Khmer people!!!
We have no right for crown land that belonging to the state.Just tell u one Tip to be a rich:)Before u want to invest in a province, u have to ask the permission from the governor of that province to approve your project.Therefore, it means that the governor of province will be the person who know about that project and the location to invest. so we can buy the land near by that location at the cheap price, then next one year or two year after the project developed, the land where near by also increase the price:)then we can sell that land!!!Is it a corruption?Is it a confiscated land?
To 8:50PM Kham
So only you and the governor know about the project and know when to buy and sell the property around those development areas? What about Cambodian people and don’t they have the same right to the information and able to be invested in the same property which in turn help develop Cambodia as a whole.
This is more like inside trader! Tell me what give you more right to know inside information than the rest of Cambodian population?
To 10:05
The prvincial governor would be the first person would know the information of any development area, so they would be the person who has more opportunity to buy those properties!!! For the rest of Cambodian people they also can get this information, but they can get it later!!!So it is a chance for us to buy land as much as possible at a low price and re-sell it after the price increase:)Therefore, is it a corruption?It is a way to be a millionaire without doing any corruption right???:)SO, please do not say that my father is a Vietnamese or we are serving Vietnamese people:)As i mentioned above comment,My father is a provincial governor in Cambodia, and We are not Vietnamese, We serve our Khmer people.CPP is the best party in Cambodia who serve Khmer people!!!!! Bravo CPP, Bravo Khmer people!!!!!
Thanks Kham for revealing all the secret of getting rich in Cambodia without being corrupt.I hope you don't mind sharing your secret of success with about 50% plus of Khmer people who live below poverty line of $0.45 per person per day as well as several millions of Khmer youth that are unemployed. What your father is doing as described above does not amount to corruption. The word "corruption" from what I understand means "lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain". Note: Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of
pecuniary considerations.
So, please go back and examine your father/ family's activities and whether they fit in with that definition of corruption. Cheers
50% of khmer people live under poverty line????Million of khmer youth no jobs????I still pitty you of lacking a real information from Cambodia.I know that u only trust the KI and opposition party.I live here and i really know about it.I know that u will say there are 3million Vietnamese living in Cambodia as well:))Funny:))all provincial governors are Vietnamese:)funny:)i strongly disagree because i am the witness and i am really 100% Khmer:(IF what we did related to a curruption, it still does not damage badly to the country because we do not steal and destroy anyone.It is just a trick, and many businessman in the wrold also try to gain any advantage for their business.If we talk about corruption, i can say that all people in the world are involved in corruption and cannot avoid it.But the most important is that corruption affect badly in society or not.Is it what we did is affect strongly to the society?Do you think that Obama will promote someone he does not like?Does UN is perfect and fair?Have u ever heard UN blame USA?I mention agian, the most important is the damage of corruption.
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