KI-Media is attacking Raoul-Marc Jennar

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15 Feb 2010
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Tola Ek
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Contrary to the claims made by a pro-opposition website, the government advisor never writes under a fictitious name on Cambodge Soir Hebdo

The “Khmer Intelligence” (KI-Media) website accused Raoul-Marc Jennar of being a “specialist in disinformation” who has been “selling his services to the Hun Sen regime for more than twenty years” in a publication dated 13 February 2010. The article was accompanied by a cartoon from the exiled cartoonist Sacrava, showing Raoul Jennar as a devil flying around Hun Xen.

The website, close to the opposition, claimed also that Raoul Marc Jennar, the government advisor over the border issue, is a “a regular contributor, under several fictitious names, to the French-language newspaper Cambodge Soir Hebdo”.

The editors of Cambodge Soir Hebdo denies these claims and informs to its readers that Raoul-Marc Jennar was never cited and never signed any article in its publications under a fictitious name.

Since its re-opening as a weekly paper on 04 October 2007, Raoul-Marc Jennar was only cited under his real name, and systematically accompanied by the mention of “advisor to the government” with the exception of the article “Y a-t-il eu génocide au Cambodge? » (Was there genocide in Cambodia?) on 07 January 2010 where he wrote under his name, as a “political scientist”.

Raoul-Marc Jennar was only interviewed 4 times since 2007: on 30 October 2008 regarding Cambodia’s wagers with respect to the US election; on 17 September 2009 regarding a controversial section in the latest edition of the tourist guide “Guide du Routard”; on 15 October 2009 regarding the summon of 6 CPP officials by the ECCC judges; on 03 December 2009 regarding Duch’s attitude on the last day of his trial.

Excerpts of his deposition at the ECCC on 14 September 2009 were also cited in Cambodge Soir Hebdo’s 17 September 2009 edition.

His name also appeared in Cambodge Soir Hebdo on 11 June 2009, in a short article citing the defeat of his election from within the “New Anti-Capitalist Party” which was listed in the southwest of France during the EU election. Furthermore, he is also cited in an article by Jean-Michel Filippi on 02 July 2009 titled “the trial in recoil, Nuremberg over the Mekong,” which defended a thesis contrary to that of Raoul-Marc Jennar.