Boeung Kak Lake Activist Savagely Beaten by Mob of Police Officers during Forced Eviction

Sam Rainsy Party to send a letter to World Bank to hold all future funding to Cambodia till solutions are found. Solutions that are acceptable to all residents of the Boeung kak Lake and not fake ones as recently proposed by the government that keeps exposing hundreds of residents to violence and forced evictions.

Mu Sochua
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The following was originally posted at:
http://www.licadho-cambodia.org/video.php?perm=25

Video: Boeung Kak Lake Activist Savagely Beaten by Mob of Police Officers during Forced Eviction

September 17, 2011 - Yesterday witnessed the most violent forced eviction of Boeung Kak lake residents to date. Early in the afternoon, a hundred “anti-riot” intervention police officers and Daun Penh district security guards positioned themselves nearby homes of lake residents. Two excavators, protected by the armed group, proceeded in destroying homes of families arbitrarily disqualified from the 12.44 hectares of land given to the remaining lake families.

Later in the afternoon, as the excavators were on the move to destroy more houses, lake resident and activist Suong Sophorn was savagely assaulted by a mob of intervention police officers who left him for dead after kicking and beating him with bricks and batons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBnuFyeeu7c

Three remedies to rid of Hun Xen: Sam Rainsy

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy

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Troops from friendly countries should also monitor Cambodia’s border with Vietnam

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy

21 July 2001

TROOPS FROM FRIENDLY COUNTRIES SHOULD ALSO MONITOR CAMBODIA’S BORDER WITH VIETNAM

In a 20 July 2011 call-in program broadcast live on Phnom Penh-based Beehive Radio FM 105 MHz, opposition leader Sam Rainsy – who is currently in Tunisia – answered from Paris questions from listeners from all parts of Cambodia related to the 18 July 2011 decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the border conflict with Thailand.

Sam Rainsy elaborated on four main points:

1. The ICJ decision is unfair because it puts the victim (Cambodia) and the aggressor (Thailand) on the same footing. “Both a legitimate house owner and a thieve illegally occupying the house are asked by the Court to simultaneously vacate the house.”
2. The Hun Sen government is incompetent in the defense of Cambodia’s territorial integrity: What it obtained in 2011 from the ICJ is a serious setback compared to what then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk government obtained in 1962 from the same ICJ on the same Preah Vihear temple issue.
3. The Hun Sen government refuses to call for the implementation of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia, as suggested by the Sam Rainsy Party, because any effective means to legally and peacefully force Thailand to vacate any illegally occupied portion of Cambodia’s territory, would also force Vietnam to do the same. As a matter of fact, Hanoi – to which Hun Sen’s CPP is subservient – has stolen more land from Cambodia than Bangkok.
4. Troops from friendly countries, such as units from the Indonesian army, should be asked to also monitor Cambodia’s border with Vietnam. Thousands of Cambodian farmers, who are losing their farmland in the ongoing secretive border demarcation process, are crying for help in the face of Vietnam’s aggression in the form of displacement of border posts, as evidenced by recent incidents in Svay Rieng, Takeo and Kampong Cham provinces.

Please listen to Sam Rainsy’s explanations in Khmer at:

http://tinyurl.com/3g4f8ay

SRP Cabinet

Cambodian General Election to Hold in July

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The number of political parties contesting Cambodia's upcoming general election is down from five years ago, officials said Wednesday, but the results are expected to be the same with a win for the longtime ruling party of Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Eleven parties will contest the July 27 polls compared to 23 parties that participated in the last general election in 2003, said Tep Nitha, secretary-general of Cambodia's National Election Committee.

"Only 11 parties have been officially endorsed for taking part in the election. This number will not change," Tep Nitha said.

Lack of financial resources was one of the main reasons that smaller parties decided against running in the upcoming election, Tep Nitha said.

Analysts say that smaller parties don't pose a serious challenge to Hun Sen, whose party has a firm grass-roots presence, easy access to state-controlled media and financial resources unmatched by its rivals.

Hun Sen's biggest challengers will be Sam Rainsy, the main opposition leader and head of the namesake Sam Rainsy Party, and Kem Sokha, head of the Human Rights Party. Kem Sokha is a former human rights activist the prime minister once had jailed in a politically motivated defamation lawsuit.

Hun Sen's party will likely add more parliamentary seats to its current 73, leaving a smaller number to be split among its opponents, said Kek Galabru, president of the Cambodian human rights group Licadho.

"I have no doubt about it. All the factors are in favor of the ruling party," she said.

Hun Sen was initially made Cambodia's prime minister in 1985 by the Vietnamese-installed government that took power after toppling the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979. He became democratically elected in 1998 when his Cambodian People's Party won a general election.

More than 8 million out of the Cambodia's 14 million people are eligible to vote in the upcoming election, the election committee said.

If Hun Sen is mocking the SRP demo why was he so afraid to authorize it? And why did he pay so much interest to what was said during the demo?

Hun Sen (L) and Sam Rainsy (R)

Hun Sen: Sam Rainsy is less popular than a simple comedian

9 April 2008
By Pen Bona
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr

During a visit to Kandal province on Tuesday 08 April, Prime minister Hun Sen mocked opposition leader Sam Rainsy for the low participation in the demonstration held last Sunday in front of the National Assembly. “He said that he would organize a huge demonstration, but at the end, he could only gather 300 people. This is pathetic,” Hun Sen declared while adding that the opposition leader is in fact much less popular than some comedians. “A simple comedian on the scene could command easily 5,000 spectators,” he said.

For Hun Sen, there are several reasons which explained this low participation. First of all, the Phnom Penh city dwellers “are fed up with the traffic jams caused by these demonstrations.” Next, following the demands made by Sam Rainsy regarding the price inflation of goods, he said that the price inflation “follows the world context and my government has put enough efforts in it.” Finally, to Hun Sen, this anti-inflation demonstration is a strategic error by Sam Rainsy, because the market sellers, the majority of whom are SRP supporters, were the objects of the criticisms raised during the demonstration.” If Sam Rainsy accused the authorities of preventing his party members from joining the demonstration, Hun Sen totally denied it. “The demonstration cannot lower the price of goods, but, on the contrary, we must produce more to take action on prices,” Hun Sen replied.

Nevertheless, Sam Rainsy plans to organize a 2nd demonstration of 01 May, during the celebration of the International Labor day.