By Meas Sokchea
Phnom Penh Post
POLICE say a motorbike-taxi driver arrested in connection with the scattering of antigovernment leaflets in Phnom Penh on Wednesday has linked a second suspect to the Sam Rainsy Party, drawing denials from opposition officials.
Phnom Penh Municipal police chief Touch Naruth said yesterday that the man, arrested on Wednesday morning, told police that he gave a lift to a woman who scattered the leaflets near Wat Phnom at around 4am. Afterwards, the man reportedly gave her a ride to the SRP’s headquarters on Sothearos Boulevard.
“He confessed that he drove the scatterer to the Sam Rainsy Party. This is his answer, and we are continuing the investigation to find out about this suspicion,” Touch Naruth said.
He also said police were sceptical about the man’s claims that he did not know the woman when he gave her a lift.
“If they do not know each other why did they have appointment at 4:30am to scatter leaflets,” he said.
The leaflets, around 100 of which were distributed around Wat Phnom, contained strong anti-Vietnamese rhetoric, accusing the ruling Cambodian People’s Party of “selling the nation” to Vietnam.
Touch Naruth said the leaflets should be outlawed because they did not offer constructive criticism but instead “defamed” senior officials including Prime Minister Hun Sen.
SRP spokesman Yim Sovann said the allegation that his party was involved in the leafletting was “laughable”, since the SRP had plenty of legal platforms for criticising the government.
“There is no reason for the SRP to create leaflets like this. It is laughable that they accused us, and it is not reasonable,” Yim Sovann said.
“Do not be interested in this. If the government has acted wrong, throw it away.”
Chan Soveth, a senior monitor at the local rights group Adhoc, said that since the leaflets had not affected the King’s reputation or otherwise incited unrest, the authorities should educate the suspect and release him. “If this scattering of leaflets has not seriously affected the prime minister’s reputation and not damaged national security, they should release him,” Chan Soveth said.
POLICE say a motorbike-taxi driver arrested in connection with the scattering of antigovernment leaflets in Phnom Penh on Wednesday has linked a second suspect to the Sam Rainsy Party, drawing denials from opposition officials.
Phnom Penh Municipal police chief Touch Naruth said yesterday that the man, arrested on Wednesday morning, told police that he gave a lift to a woman who scattered the leaflets near Wat Phnom at around 4am. Afterwards, the man reportedly gave her a ride to the SRP’s headquarters on Sothearos Boulevard.
“He confessed that he drove the scatterer to the Sam Rainsy Party. This is his answer, and we are continuing the investigation to find out about this suspicion,” Touch Naruth said.
He also said police were sceptical about the man’s claims that he did not know the woman when he gave her a lift.
“If they do not know each other why did they have appointment at 4:30am to scatter leaflets,” he said.
The leaflets, around 100 of which were distributed around Wat Phnom, contained strong anti-Vietnamese rhetoric, accusing the ruling Cambodian People’s Party of “selling the nation” to Vietnam.
Touch Naruth said the leaflets should be outlawed because they did not offer constructive criticism but instead “defamed” senior officials including Prime Minister Hun Sen.
SRP spokesman Yim Sovann said the allegation that his party was involved in the leafletting was “laughable”, since the SRP had plenty of legal platforms for criticising the government.
“There is no reason for the SRP to create leaflets like this. It is laughable that they accused us, and it is not reasonable,” Yim Sovann said.
“Do not be interested in this. If the government has acted wrong, throw it away.”
Chan Soveth, a senior monitor at the local rights group Adhoc, said that since the leaflets had not affected the King’s reputation or otherwise incited unrest, the authorities should educate the suspect and release him. “If this scattering of leaflets has not seriously affected the prime minister’s reputation and not damaged national security, they should release him,” Chan Soveth said.
3 comments:
This is appalling that our government officials always relentlessly pursue against its own citizen for any criticism that related or linked to the Vietnamese, every incident whether or not the criticism is significant. Why the Vietnamese issues is so sensitive to our government officials?, Why is our government continued to be muted, when the issues that involving the Vietnamese government and its people?.
The reality that faces our country today, and potentially put our Cambodian People and Country in a VERY dangerous circumstances that could lead to a devastating result, the POLICIES OF THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT TOWARD OUR COUNTRY EITHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT ACTIONS that they implemented will led to that devastation to our country and our people.
Real Cambodian people and real nationalists must continue to be patriotic toward our country and to continue exposing any and all information possible to our fellow Cambodian, to keep them constantly aware of the potential devastation to them and their country by the Vietnamese and its government.
REMEMBER, THE HISTORY HAVE SHOWN US THAT THE VIETNAMESE NEVER HAVE GOOD AND HONEST INTENTION TOWARD US, CAMBODIAN.
It should not be a crime. In western society,it is regarded as people freedom of speech.
In Cambodia Hun Noi and his clans remove people's right and freedom. They behave like they own this country.
Hun noi even bend the justice system upside down. Look at the case of two Khmer farmers in Svay Reang. They lost their farmland to Hanoi and on top of that they have been put in jail, because they protested against the injustice of the tyrant Hun Noi.
I wonder, who can sleep,eat well under this upside-down world of Hun Noi. The only people who can do that must be subhuman.
Freedom and justice is the soul and spirit of human being, without it we simply not human.
True Khmer
It should not be a crime. In western society,it is regarded as people freedom of speech.
In Cambodia Hun Noi and his clans remove people's right and freedom. They behave like they own this country.
Hun noi even bend the justice system upside down. Look at the case of two Khmer farmers in Svay Reang. They lost their farmland to Hanoi and on top of that they have been put in jail, because they protested against the injustice of the tyrant Hun Noi.
I wonder, who can sleep,eat well under this upside-down world of Hun Noi. The only people who can do that must be subhuman.
Freedom and justice is the soul and spirit of human being, without it we simply not human.
True Khmer
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