Supporters
of Mam Sonando, a 71-year-old radio broadcaster and land-rights
campaigner for 20 years, hold a protest calling for his release near
Phnom Penh Municipal Court, October 1, 2012.
Published on Monday 1 October 2012
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders and the Cambodian Centre for
Independent Media are appalled by the 20-year jail sentence that a Phnom
Penh court passed today on Radio Beehive owner Mam Sonando for allegedly inciting unrest in the southeastern province of Kratie in mid-May.
Aged 71, the independent radio station’s owner will be 91 when he completes the sentence.
"Freedom of expression and media freedom are in danger
in Cambodia," the two organizations said. "We call on the authorities to
release Mam Sonando at once and to quash this conviction on charges for
which there is no evidence."
Sonando, who was previously arrested
in 2003 and 2005 for allegedly defaming Prime Minister Hun Sen, was
found guilty of "insurrection" and "inciting the use of arms against the
state" in connection with a supposed uprising in Kratie with the aim of
creating "a state within the state."
A Kratie provincial court issued a warrant for Sonando’s
arrest on 2 July, six days after the prime minister called for his
arrest in a speech. Sonando was out of the country during the unrest
because he had gone to meet with Cambodian activists who had filed a
complaint before the International Criminal Court accusing Hun Sen of
human rights violations.
Hun Sen’s public call for his arrest came the day after Radio Beehive broadcast a report about the ICC complaint.
Reporters Without Borders and the Cambodian Centre for
Independent Media are very concerned for the future of journalists and
human rights defenders in Cambodia, especially in the wake of other
incidents in the past month.
The journalist Hang Serei Oudom was found murdered in mid-September after implicating local officials in illegal trafficking in timber, while the journalist Ek Sokunthy and his wife told the Phnom Penh Post on 26 September that they had been attacked by a former police officer and two other men for no apparent reason.
Cambodia is ranked 117th out of 179 countries in the 2011-2012 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.
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Madam Secretary of States, Ms. Hillary Clinton and her undersecretaries of States should know that Vietnamese masters in Hanoi who have involved the crisis in Cambodian for more than 3 decades in the dirty political games and played the major roles to destroy Cambodia/Khmer Nation in order to erase the lies of their bad and disgusted Yuon behaviors and ill-intentions to slowly replace Yuon/Vietnamese folks (illegal Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia in every corners) and done the trick in the blind eyes of gullible innocent Khmer/Cambodian people, foreigners and International Communities in the world.
Hun Sen has been living in fear because of his Yuon/Vietnamese masters and now Hun Sen is a very wealthy because of the stolen properties, lands for sales, Yuon/Vietnamese business deals with corrupted CPP clans (Yuon-Khmer, Dumb leaders of CPP) and including Yuon-Chinese mixed thieves like Var Kim Hong, Yeay Phu, Lao Meng, and beyond. How much longer those Yuon thieves under the Hanoi Masters and Hanoi masters will continue to do this until the blames and pressures coming from the UN, EU leaders, the U.S., International Communities and innocent Khmer/Cambodian people.
Time will come to destroy Hanoi Masters before their Yuon Hanoi puppet Hun Sen who will be arrested and put him on trial both at the UN and Cambodian People Courts because of more than 3 decades of losses of international donors' money, assistance, and more.
Yes, Vietnamese masters will return everything that have been stolen from Cambodia and Cambodian/Khmer people to Hanoi or Vietnam to make their country become developed and economically successfully to compete with ASEAN countries and other countries like Japan, S. Korea, China during their control over their Yuon puppet Hun Sen.
Cambodia has everything and is a very rich with natural resources that is why the evil Vietnamese/Yuon masters in Hanoi saw the big opportunities to make big wealth and profit by getting rid of Mr. Penn Sovan (former PM) and installed Yuon Puppet/Slave Hun Sen be illegally unrecognized PM among Cambodian people and the world. They (Hanoi masters and Yuon/Vietnamese slave Hun Sen) are just the thieves.
What they want from Cambodia are the following:
1. Angkor Wat (Tourists pouring money in)
2. Forests/Trees (giants trees - 500 to more than 1000 years olds)
3. Fish productions
4. Oil and gas
5. Rubber plants
6. Rich soils for plants
7. and beyond.
That is why Cambodia country is not poor because of very rich natural resources comparing to Taiwan, S. Korea, Thailand, Malay, and so on.
Those f**kng Hanoi masters have oversaw things and want to steal everything from Cambodia by having Yuon/Vietnamese slave Hun Sen. You have seen the terrible situations in Cambodia. Yes, uneducated Khmer leaders (no High School diplomas or not done with High School) have been very easily targeted by Hanoi masters including evil Ho Chi Minh in order to brainwash those blind and uneducated Khmer peasants like Hun Sen and others to be manipulated and influenced before hurting his or their own Khmer people.
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