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Source: RFA
A senior minister in charge of border affairs has hinted that the government may lay new charges against opposition leader Sam Rainsy for falsifying documents on borders with Vietnam, reports Radio Free Asia.
Mr. Var Kimhong (pictured), Minister of Border Affairs, said in a press conference on Monday that the government has lost patience with Mr. Sam Rainsy who continues to attack the government on border issues with Vietnam. "This is a serious accusation against the government. He (Mr. Sam Rainsy) still insist that what he had publicised was still the truth. We said it is not true. We have told our friends to tell His Excellency Sam Rainsy, but he (Rainsy) is still recalcitrant and still continue to accuse the government again and again, so we have no other option but to take legal action against him", he said.
In the last few months Mr. Sam Rainsy had published and released a series of documents showing border encroachments by Vietnam resulting from border demarcation works. He was sentenced to 2 years jail term and fined 8 million riels ($2000) for his role in the uprooting of 6 temporary wooden border stakes on 25th October 2009.
Mrs. Ke Sovannaroth, Secretary General of the Sam Rainsy Party, said what her president and party did was for the cause of defending Cambodian territorial integrity. "If the government still think that the information presented by the opposition in order to protect Cambodia and its people is wrong then I don't know where we are leading the country to, because even our own lands we dare not to defend it. If so, we must re-plant the border markers (removed by the Vietnamese authority) and create a border commission to re-plant those border markers again", she said.
In a report by Khmer Express News, Mr. Rainsy was quoted as saying that the government's attacks on him will keep the border issues alive. "It is good if they (the government) keep talking more about this issue because the documents I presented are true documents that can be verified by international institutions and experts as true", he said via a telephone from France.
Mr. Kimsour Phirith, acting spokesman for the Sam Rainsy Party, suggested that the government and the opposition should take this matter to a truly independent court to clear the issue once and for all.
Source: RFA
A senior minister in charge of border affairs has hinted that the government may lay new charges against opposition leader Sam Rainsy for falsifying documents on borders with Vietnam, reports Radio Free Asia.
Mr. Var Kimhong (pictured), Minister of Border Affairs, said in a press conference on Monday that the government has lost patience with Mr. Sam Rainsy who continues to attack the government on border issues with Vietnam. "This is a serious accusation against the government. He (Mr. Sam Rainsy) still insist that what he had publicised was still the truth. We said it is not true. We have told our friends to tell His Excellency Sam Rainsy, but he (Rainsy) is still recalcitrant and still continue to accuse the government again and again, so we have no other option but to take legal action against him", he said.
In the last few months Mr. Sam Rainsy had published and released a series of documents showing border encroachments by Vietnam resulting from border demarcation works. He was sentenced to 2 years jail term and fined 8 million riels ($2000) for his role in the uprooting of 6 temporary wooden border stakes on 25th October 2009.
Mrs. Ke Sovannaroth, Secretary General of the Sam Rainsy Party, said what her president and party did was for the cause of defending Cambodian territorial integrity. "If the government still think that the information presented by the opposition in order to protect Cambodia and its people is wrong then I don't know where we are leading the country to, because even our own lands we dare not to defend it. If so, we must re-plant the border markers (removed by the Vietnamese authority) and create a border commission to re-plant those border markers again", she said.
In a report by Khmer Express News, Mr. Rainsy was quoted as saying that the government's attacks on him will keep the border issues alive. "It is good if they (the government) keep talking more about this issue because the documents I presented are true documents that can be verified by international institutions and experts as true", he said via a telephone from France.
Mr. Kimsour Phirith, acting spokesman for the Sam Rainsy Party, suggested that the government and the opposition should take this matter to a truly independent court to clear the issue once and for all.
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