Picture of Mr. Sam Rainsy.16 December 2009
WHAT IS THE KANGAROO COURT WAITING FOR?
Mr. Pao Pheap, 40, second deputy chief of Samraong commune (Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province) from the Sam Rainsy Party has been summoned by the Svay Rieng Provincial Court to appear before a judge on 22 December 2009. The summons is in connection with the “incitement” and “public property destruction” charges that the same Court has levied against me following the 25 October incident in Samraong commune’s Koh Kban Kandal village where I uprooted six wooden poles in the middle of a rice field at the request of its owner. Those poles purported to be tentative border posts but were actually false boundary markers illegally planted on a private property.
Why hadn’t the Court summoned me first? As the main “suspect” or “accused” of an obviously political crime I should be the first person to be summoned and interrogated. Why judicial proceedings to “punish” me have come to a standstill? Why the CPP-controlled authorities were in such a hurry to remove my parliamentary immunity on 16 November without first asking me any question? Why is it so quite now? How much time do they need to continue to test the waters? Is it so embarrassing for them?
I want their kangaroo court to prosecute me now.
Sam Rainsy
Member of Parliament
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What is the meaning of Kangaroo court?
Kangaroo court means an unofficial court set up to try someone. It can be an illegal, incompetent and dishonest, unjust court set up illegally to persecute and try someone.
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