23 May 2011
By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by KD
Click here to read the article in Khmer
The legal case involving the distribution of anti-government leaflets in 2007 has not even ended yet, now a new case of leaflet distribution is surfacing again. The authority claimed that it came from the same group.
The Phnom Penh authority is pursuing its investigation to arrest suspects involved in the distribution of more than 10 leaflets calling for an uprise against the Cambodian government led by Hun Xen.
The cops indicated that the suspects come from a single group calling themselves “Nationalist Khmer” which spread out leaflets on 3 occasions already starting since 2007.
Touch Naroth, the Phnom Penh police commissioner, said on 23 May that this group has no ability to topple the government, but it is only an opposition voice: “They are fomenting unrest. Therefore, we see that the country is developing this much and there are still dumb people believing this group which talks the same thing over and over.” (sic!)
Last week, the Phnom Penh authority collected more than 10 leaflets in front of the NatAss (aka National Assembly), calling for the Cambodian people to rise and demonstrate against the Cambodian government on issues ranging from gasoline price increase and food price inflation.
Yim Sovann, SRP spokesman and SRP MP, said that Cambodians have the right to express their opinion, but the SRP is not involved with this leaflet: “The opposition party has no need to distribute such leaflet because we can talk at the National Assembly, on the Candle Light Radio program, on VOA and RFA. We can express our opinions [through these media]. We have no need to distribute leaflets.”
In February 2011, the Cambodian national police announced that it arrested 7 suspects who were accused of distributing leaflets opposing the government and cursing Hun Xen.
4 of the suspects were sent to the Phnom Penh municipal court to stand charge, and 3 others were sent to the Takeo provincial court to stand charge on Articles 494 and 495 of the new Penal code, after they were accused of incitation to crime.
On 18 May, the government’s Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) reported that a group of democracy supporters in Long Beach, USA, led by Meach Sovannara, issued a call through the Khmer Post newspaper for the Cambodian people to rise against the Cambodian government, just like what happened in Egypt.
The legal case involving the distribution of anti-government leaflets in 2007 has not even ended yet, now a new case of leaflet distribution is surfacing again. The authority claimed that it came from the same group.
The Phnom Penh authority is pursuing its investigation to arrest suspects involved in the distribution of more than 10 leaflets calling for an uprise against the Cambodian government led by Hun Xen.
The cops indicated that the suspects come from a single group calling themselves “Nationalist Khmer” which spread out leaflets on 3 occasions already starting since 2007.
Touch Naroth, the Phnom Penh police commissioner, said on 23 May that this group has no ability to topple the government, but it is only an opposition voice: “They are fomenting unrest. Therefore, we see that the country is developing this much and there are still dumb people believing this group which talks the same thing over and over.” (sic!)
Last week, the Phnom Penh authority collected more than 10 leaflets in front of the NatAss (aka National Assembly), calling for the Cambodian people to rise and demonstrate against the Cambodian government on issues ranging from gasoline price increase and food price inflation.
Yim Sovann, SRP spokesman and SRP MP, said that Cambodians have the right to express their opinion, but the SRP is not involved with this leaflet: “The opposition party has no need to distribute such leaflet because we can talk at the National Assembly, on the Candle Light Radio program, on VOA and RFA. We can express our opinions [through these media]. We have no need to distribute leaflets.”
In February 2011, the Cambodian national police announced that it arrested 7 suspects who were accused of distributing leaflets opposing the government and cursing Hun Xen.
4 of the suspects were sent to the Phnom Penh municipal court to stand charge, and 3 others were sent to the Takeo provincial court to stand charge on Articles 494 and 495 of the new Penal code, after they were accused of incitation to crime.
On 18 May, the government’s Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) reported that a group of democracy supporters in Long Beach, USA, led by Meach Sovannara, issued a call through the Khmer Post newspaper for the Cambodian people to rise against the Cambodian government, just like what happened in Egypt.
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