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Source: Radio Free Asia
Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) called opposition leader Sam Rainsy 'an unforgivable traitor' who falsified maps about Cambodian-Vietnamese borders, reports Radio Free Asia.
Speaking to students during a graduation ceremony at the Royal University of Phnom Penh on Wednesday 24th February, Mr. Hun Sen said Mr. Sam Rainsy is a traitor because he tried to stir up trouble with Vietnam with fake maps at the same time while Cambodia is having border conflicts with Thailand. "I ask all diplomats to look at the maps posted online and in the website of this (Sam Rainsy Party) group and compare it with the real maps to see what they really are. So, the government cannot forgive them, not only the leader of the opposition, but whoever dare to come out and do this will face legal action", he declared.
In the last few months, Mr. Sam Rainsy released a series of documents and maps showing encroachments by Vietnam. Mr. Sam Rainsy claimed that the documents and maps, including official maps that the Royal Government of Cambodia deposited at the United Nations in 1964, have been produced and verified by French experts as authentic documents.
Sam Rainsy is currently living in exile in Paris after he was recently sentenced to 2 years jail term. Mr. Hun Sen said Sam Rainsy will not be pardoned and allowed into the country. "This time I'm very sorry that the court has sentenced him to a jail term but there won't be a pardon. I'm sorry, this time no! There will be opposition parties participating in the next elections, but there will be no this individual (Sam Rainsy), I can say this from now on. (He) must serve his sentence first. If he thinks he is strong please return back to Cambodia and please don't set any conditions that we have release this or that person first. Don't! We know you very well", he said referring to Sam Rainsy.
Mr. Sam Rainsy said after his sentence that he would return to Cambodia if the government released the two farmers. They were sentenced along with Mr. Sam Rainsy and are currrently in jail after they joined him in uprooting 6 wooden border stakes from the Cambodian-Vietnamese borders on 25th October 2009..
Mr. Kimsour Phirith, acting spokesman for the Sam Rainsy Party, refuted Mr. Hun Sen's accusations that Mr. Sam Rainsy is a traitor. "We ask: 'have Mr. Sam Rainsy cut and given any Cambodian territories to anyone or any countries yet? Has he killed any Cambodian people or committed autogenocide against his own race yet? Committed abuses against his own people yet? And has he destroyed Khmer traditions and culture yet? The answer is none! So he cannot be accused of being a traitor because what he has done did not cause Cambodia to lose any territories, but to protect the farmlands and those farmlands were inherited by farmers from their ancestors", he said.
Mr. Hun Sen also said that new charges will be laid again Mr. Sam Rainsy for falsifying public documents.
Source: Radio Free Asia
Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) called opposition leader Sam Rainsy 'an unforgivable traitor' who falsified maps about Cambodian-Vietnamese borders, reports Radio Free Asia.
Speaking to students during a graduation ceremony at the Royal University of Phnom Penh on Wednesday 24th February, Mr. Hun Sen said Mr. Sam Rainsy is a traitor because he tried to stir up trouble with Vietnam with fake maps at the same time while Cambodia is having border conflicts with Thailand. "I ask all diplomats to look at the maps posted online and in the website of this (Sam Rainsy Party) group and compare it with the real maps to see what they really are. So, the government cannot forgive them, not only the leader of the opposition, but whoever dare to come out and do this will face legal action", he declared.
In the last few months, Mr. Sam Rainsy released a series of documents and maps showing encroachments by Vietnam. Mr. Sam Rainsy claimed that the documents and maps, including official maps that the Royal Government of Cambodia deposited at the United Nations in 1964, have been produced and verified by French experts as authentic documents.
Sam Rainsy is currently living in exile in Paris after he was recently sentenced to 2 years jail term. Mr. Hun Sen said Sam Rainsy will not be pardoned and allowed into the country. "This time I'm very sorry that the court has sentenced him to a jail term but there won't be a pardon. I'm sorry, this time no! There will be opposition parties participating in the next elections, but there will be no this individual (Sam Rainsy), I can say this from now on. (He) must serve his sentence first. If he thinks he is strong please return back to Cambodia and please don't set any conditions that we have release this or that person first. Don't! We know you very well", he said referring to Sam Rainsy.
Mr. Sam Rainsy said after his sentence that he would return to Cambodia if the government released the two farmers. They were sentenced along with Mr. Sam Rainsy and are currrently in jail after they joined him in uprooting 6 wooden border stakes from the Cambodian-Vietnamese borders on 25th October 2009..
Mr. Kimsour Phirith, acting spokesman for the Sam Rainsy Party, refuted Mr. Hun Sen's accusations that Mr. Sam Rainsy is a traitor. "We ask: 'have Mr. Sam Rainsy cut and given any Cambodian territories to anyone or any countries yet? Has he killed any Cambodian people or committed autogenocide against his own race yet? Committed abuses against his own people yet? And has he destroyed Khmer traditions and culture yet? The answer is none! So he cannot be accused of being a traitor because what he has done did not cause Cambodia to lose any territories, but to protect the farmlands and those farmlands were inherited by farmers from their ancestors", he said.
Mr. Hun Sen also said that new charges will be laid again Mr. Sam Rainsy for falsifying public documents.
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