Click here to listen to "Sam Rainsy on Hello VOA" on 28 January 2010 (in Khmer)
Mr. Rainsy was asked what the future hold for his party and himself in view of a court conviction and sentence.
Rainsy said "what is important is not the future of Sam Rainsy and the Sam rainsy Party. We are talking about the future of Cambodia because Cambodia belong to all Cambodians so we all must unite to defend the lands of our ancestors."
"Whoever said that this is Sam Rainsy's issue is trying to confuse the public opinions."
"They accused me of uprooting the border pillars. They are not the border pillars, they are just temporary stakes planted inside Khmer territory. I have measured their locations very thoroughly and that they were planted 280 metres deep inside Khmer territory. Those who said that those are border pillars/markers are not Khmer, those who are serving foreigners because foreigners have always wanted to move borderlines deeper into Khmer territory. Now they have moved borderlines 280 metres deeper inside Khmer territory. So, those wooden stakes are not real border markers, but the illegal, fake and encroached border markers. Those who said that they are real border markers are serving foreigners because I, Sam Rainsy, I serve Khmers, I serve my nation, our Motherland. I protect Khmer territory".
On the question of his promise to take this border matter to international community and international, Mr. Rainsy said the 19 signatories to the 1991 Paris Peace Accords, including Vietnam and Thailand, have undertaken to guaranttee the territorial integrity of Cambodia. He said it is time to invoke these international agreements and all signatories must repspect and implement these agreements.
Rainsy said "If they think that my action of uprooting the wooden stake number 185 is wrong, why then after I pulled out border wooden stake #185, why the Vietnamese authority came and removed border markers # 184, #186 and #187? This means that my actions were right, my actions made them scared because I have exposed the truth and they removed those border markers because they are afraid that the truth will be exposed. They are afraid of their wrongdoings, so they have removed them by themselves before everybody knows. Why then Sam Rainsy is prosecuted because the Vietnamese themselves acknowledged that they have done something wrong".
Mr. Rainsy proposed that if the government is sincere and has nothing to hide, it should allow all the people interested in border demarcation works to monitor and paticipate in these works by allowing them, without restrictions, to visit the border demarcation sites so they can independently verify the locations of the border markers.
Mr. Rainsy was asked what the future hold for his party and himself in view of a court conviction and sentence.
Rainsy said "what is important is not the future of Sam Rainsy and the Sam rainsy Party. We are talking about the future of Cambodia because Cambodia belong to all Cambodians so we all must unite to defend the lands of our ancestors."
"Whoever said that this is Sam Rainsy's issue is trying to confuse the public opinions."
"They accused me of uprooting the border pillars. They are not the border pillars, they are just temporary stakes planted inside Khmer territory. I have measured their locations very thoroughly and that they were planted 280 metres deep inside Khmer territory. Those who said that those are border pillars/markers are not Khmer, those who are serving foreigners because foreigners have always wanted to move borderlines deeper into Khmer territory. Now they have moved borderlines 280 metres deeper inside Khmer territory. So, those wooden stakes are not real border markers, but the illegal, fake and encroached border markers. Those who said that they are real border markers are serving foreigners because I, Sam Rainsy, I serve Khmers, I serve my nation, our Motherland. I protect Khmer territory".
On the question of his promise to take this border matter to international community and international, Mr. Rainsy said the 19 signatories to the 1991 Paris Peace Accords, including Vietnam and Thailand, have undertaken to guaranttee the territorial integrity of Cambodia. He said it is time to invoke these international agreements and all signatories must repspect and implement these agreements.
Rainsy said "If they think that my action of uprooting the wooden stake number 185 is wrong, why then after I pulled out border wooden stake #185, why the Vietnamese authority came and removed border markers # 184, #186 and #187? This means that my actions were right, my actions made them scared because I have exposed the truth and they removed those border markers because they are afraid that the truth will be exposed. They are afraid of their wrongdoings, so they have removed them by themselves before everybody knows. Why then Sam Rainsy is prosecuted because the Vietnamese themselves acknowledged that they have done something wrong".
Mr. Rainsy proposed that if the government is sincere and has nothing to hide, it should allow all the people interested in border demarcation works to monitor and paticipate in these works by allowing them, without restrictions, to visit the border demarcation sites so they can independently verify the locations of the border markers.
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