Friday, 08 June 2012
By David Boyle
Phnom Penh Post
Mu
Sochua said she would strongly urge Clinton to push the Cambodian
People’s Party-dominated Cambodian government to release the “Boeung Kak
15”, who were jailed for protesting against forced evictions, before the US secretary of state arrives in Phnom Penh next month.
“I
am confident and I have high hopes that Hillary will find a solution,
and I asked that the solution be found, and that is the release of the
women and the man before she arrives in July,” she said.
Thirteen Boeung Kak women were sentenced to jail terms of up to two and a half years
on May 24 for disputing authority and illegally occupying land granted
to ruling party Senator Lao Meng Khin’s firm Shukaku in 2007.
Two
more people were arrested protesting the rushed trial on the same day
and charged with the same crimes but have yet to go to trial.
US
State Department officials and congressional staffers that she met told
her they were aware and concerned by the jail sentences, said Mu Sochua,
who is also demanding the government drop convictions against
self-exiled SRP leader Sam Rainsy.
Phay Siphan, spokesman for the Council of Ministers' Quick and Press Reaction Unit, said, as a sovereign nation, Cambodia would not allow any foreign power to interfere with its independent judiciary.
“Well,
I think that she [Mu Sochua] just has the right to tell anyone
[anything], even tell the god to do something,” he said, adding that
government balanced the rule of law with the protection of human rights.
When the Shukaku housing and commercial real estate development
in the 133-hectare area in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district is
completed, about 4,000 families will have been forcibly evicted.
To contact the reporter on this story: David Boyle at david.boyle@phnompenhpost.com
5 comments:
Khmer goes to ask foreigner to help destroying khmer each other...still?? Khmer still not waken up Yet??
"What many of Hun Sen’s critics fail to understand, particularly those who would hope to inspire an Arab-spring-like uprising, is that Cambodians remember very well what a dreadful business civil war can be. In 1998 Hun Sen achieved where UN promises had failed and ended 30 years of a conflict that had left millions dead."
For that reason many Cambodians are still prepared to overlook the bloody indiscretions and brutal tactics of the ruling party—and willing to carry Hun Sen to repeated victories. The chances of fermenting a Khmer spring are remote, and might seem plausible only to a self-imposed exile abroad."
The Economist, June 8th, 2012
For those who benefits from this regime shut their lips, close their eyes refuse to see and hear the issues that face our nation today.The questions that i want to ask for Cpp to answer are; Is that fair to confiscated people's land and destroyed their houses and put their parents in prison? Whats good come out of putting these parents in jail,don't you think that without parents these kids will face more difficulty and mentally breaks down?
please let these parents back to their kids,Cpp,you have done enough damaged for these families,these parents were not a threat to your regime.They deserve to be with their kids just like be with yours...
Many who support the CPP and Hun Sen are "like a frog in a well"(doch kongkep knong andong). They only saw and heard what Hun Sen had preached him, but did not see the reality. They must see thing from the outside in, not from the inside out because what they see and hear on TVs and radio are lies and propaganda.
Those who believe that Hun Sen had brought prosperity and stability have overlooked the role of UNTAC, the international community and the resistance fighters, like the Sihanoukists and the Son Sannians. Without these people, Cambodia would have been a colony of Vietnam and become a really poor,backward country. Hun Sen did not bring stability, he had brought instability to Cambodia by refusing to recognize the UNTAC-organized election 1993 and then staged a coup in 1997. Without the UNTAC, Cambodia would have been fighting each other, under Viet control, poor and backward. UNTAC brought peace to Cambodia and staged the most fairest election in Cambodian history in 1993 but Hun Sen refused to recognize the results. If Hun Sen accepted the results and agreed to step down, Cambodia would have peace and stability since that time and no coup and no killings until today.
Hun Sen caused all instability by refusing to recognize the 1993 election, staged a secessionist plot and staged a coup in 1993 against the election winner.
Talking about economic prosperity, if the opposition is in power, things would have improved twice better because Sam Rainsy had proven to be an able finance minister after the 1993 election. In only a few months time, he had collected a great amount of revenues which have evaded by Hun Sen's rich cronies and that's why he was sacked in 1994 because he dared to touch Hun Sen's corrupt cronies.
A greed totally with the comment above.
True Khmer
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