Showing posts with label Peace in Cambodia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peace in Cambodia. Show all posts
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Cambodians in France mark the 18th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords
25 October 2009
By Moeung Tum
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer
By Moeung Tum
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer
A new statement addressed to the Cambodian people was issued from France regarding the anniversary of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia.
The Paris-based Cambodia’s Border Committee (CBC) issued a statement dated 24 October 2009, indicating that Cambodia does not have true peace as stipulated in the Paris Peace Accords which was signed by 19 signatory countries on 23 October 1991.
The CBC claimed that the entire Cambodian people living in Cambodia cannot receive true peace as long as Vietnam and Thailand continue to violate on the Cambodian territories, threaten the Cambodian people, and violate Cambodian heritage.
The CBC indicated that this was the reason why numerous Cambodians living in France and various other countries continue to demand help so that Cambodia receives true peace. More than 100 Cambodians joined the commemoration held in Wat Pothivong Pagoda, near Paris, France, to pay respect to the memory of Cambodian fallen national heroes who dedicated their lives to free the country and the Khmer Nation up to the 1991 Paris Peace Accords.
Mr. Sean Pengse, President of CBC, a civil society organization overseas, and the organizer of the event, told RFA about the commemoration at Wat Pothivong pagoda that: “Because Friday was a working day for Cambodians, we cannot hold the commemoration on the 23rd, and we had to move it to Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th of October, at a Cambodian pagoda near Paris. Those who joined us in this commemoration, besides the CBC, include: HRP France, SRP France, the Cambodian Human Rights Defense League, as well as numerous Cambodian associations in France, including representatives from Australia. This is for the Saturday program.”
On Sunday 25 October 2009, citizens of Cambodian origin will gather at 2PM (France time) to hold a peaceful mass demonstration at the Human Rights Plaza (Trocadero) in Paris to demand what Mr. Sean Pengse indicated as: “The goal is for the current [Cambodian] government to fully and clearly respect the Paris Agreements. The Paris Agreements that we all know, are not just the respect of human rights, [political] pluralism, but first and foremost, it is the respect of the national integrity. For the sake of our national integrity, the government issued from the election must cancel all agreements concluded with Vietnam between 1979 and 1991. The current government not only did not cancel them, it even introduced a Supplemental treaty [with Vietnam], in other words, it turned agreements that must be cancelled into legal agreements.”
The Paris-based Cambodia’s Border Committee (CBC) issued a statement dated 24 October 2009, indicating that Cambodia does not have true peace as stipulated in the Paris Peace Accords which was signed by 19 signatory countries on 23 October 1991.
The CBC claimed that the entire Cambodian people living in Cambodia cannot receive true peace as long as Vietnam and Thailand continue to violate on the Cambodian territories, threaten the Cambodian people, and violate Cambodian heritage.
The CBC indicated that this was the reason why numerous Cambodians living in France and various other countries continue to demand help so that Cambodia receives true peace. More than 100 Cambodians joined the commemoration held in Wat Pothivong Pagoda, near Paris, France, to pay respect to the memory of Cambodian fallen national heroes who dedicated their lives to free the country and the Khmer Nation up to the 1991 Paris Peace Accords.
Mr. Sean Pengse, President of CBC, a civil society organization overseas, and the organizer of the event, told RFA about the commemoration at Wat Pothivong pagoda that: “Because Friday was a working day for Cambodians, we cannot hold the commemoration on the 23rd, and we had to move it to Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th of October, at a Cambodian pagoda near Paris. Those who joined us in this commemoration, besides the CBC, include: HRP France, SRP France, the Cambodian Human Rights Defense League, as well as numerous Cambodian associations in France, including representatives from Australia. This is for the Saturday program.”
On Sunday 25 October 2009, citizens of Cambodian origin will gather at 2PM (France time) to hold a peaceful mass demonstration at the Human Rights Plaza (Trocadero) in Paris to demand what Mr. Sean Pengse indicated as: “The goal is for the current [Cambodian] government to fully and clearly respect the Paris Agreements. The Paris Agreements that we all know, are not just the respect of human rights, [political] pluralism, but first and foremost, it is the respect of the national integrity. For the sake of our national integrity, the government issued from the election must cancel all agreements concluded with Vietnam between 1979 and 1991. The current government not only did not cancel them, it even introduced a Supplemental treaty [with Vietnam], in other words, it turned agreements that must be cancelled into legal agreements.”
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Hun Sen: UNTAC brought AIDS to Cambodia
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Prime minister Hun Sen criticized UNTAC (peacekeeping force) which came to Cambodia in 1992, and spent $2 billion, but did not resolve the peace issue for Cambodia, and instead, Cambodia has to resolve the peace issue by herself. To the contrary, UNTAC left behind the AIDS disease in Cambodia, and it stayed here until now. During a speech given at an inauguration of a building in Battambang province, on Monday, Hun Sen said: “The most UNTAC left in the Cambodia was the AIDS disease. They spent $2 billion, but when they left, the Cambodian factions were still fighting each others,” and Cambodia had to resolve the peace issue on her own.
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