Following the CPP lawsuits, Moneaksekar Khmer is now accused of defamation by King Sihamoni’s personal supreme advisor: Bravo!?!?

Moneaksekar Khmer newspaper (Photo: RFA)

Moneaksekar Khmer accused of defamation article

21 Dec 2008
By Mayariddh Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

The office of the supreme advisor of the king accused the Moneaksekar Khmer newspaper of publishing a defamation article and it threatened to bring the newspaper to court.

The accusation was brought up by the office of the spokesman of Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the president of the personal supreme advisor of the king, last Thursday because the newspaper wrote an article in which it stated that the prince begged Prime minister Hun Sen to return back his house located in front Veal Meru (Veal Men) park, and the newspaper also accused the prince of requesting the nomination of about 200 useless people to positions in the king’s cabinet.

The office of the spokesman of the supreme personal advisor to the king wrote and told Moneaksekar Khmer to show proper proof and provide a correction to its article, otherwise, the prince will bring the newspaper to court.

Ranariddh tried to save face by telling fibs about his decision to quit politics, in fact his nomination is another bribe from Hun Sen to him

Ranariddh (L) and Hun Sen (R)

Ranariddh talked about his reason to quit politics

Thursday, December 11, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

In the morning of 10 December, during a meeting with a group of his supporters in Siem Reap city, Prince Ranariddh said that his decision to quit politics was made long ago, even before he was nominated as supreme advisor to the king. The prince said that the reason leading him to decide to quit politics was because he accepted to recognize the results of the 27 July 2008 general election: “I accepted the decision of the people, but the selection of the country leader is not for Norodom Ranariddh to make. Therefore, as a democrat who served the people for 27 years already, I am not in the opposition like Mr. Sam Rainsy. I have to respect the people’s choice, they are the only life of the nation. If I do not oppose the “people,” I can only pull myself out (of politics).” He added that the king, with Hun Sen’s prodding, had decided to nominate the prince as the supreme advisor with a rank equivalent to that of a prime minister, and this was already signed in a royal decree.