Prime Minister Hun Sen’s sister Hun Sinath has resigned from her job as a secretary of state over what she said was her colleagues’ fear of investigating a land dispute between villagers in Kampong Speu province and tycoon Ly Yong Phat. [Hun Sinath had an argument with Men Sam An that's why Hun Sen sacked her].
Sinath revealed her resignation from the Ministry of National Assembly-Senate Relations and Inspection in a Facebook post yesterday, addressing the affected villagers in Kampong Speu’s Thpong district and apologising for her ministry “not daring” to investigate the allegations made against Yong Phat.
“In my life, I hate injustices more than anything. I will quit my job, because I think when the ministry inspects their fellow travellers, such as Ly Yong Phat, I am sure they do not dare to do anything,” she wrote.
“So I cannot continue to work in a ministry that cannot find justice for people through the complaints system. I will step down from my position and from now on become a normal citizen.”
Sinath, who is married to ruling Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker Nhim Chandara, a former ambassador to Myanmar, also said that various officials had asked her how much money it would take to keep quiet.
“Tycoon Ly Yong Phat looks down on me in every way,” she added.
The younger sister of Hun Sen previously worked at the Cambodian consulate in China’s Chongqing province before she took up her job at the ministry in December 2013.
Yong Phat, an ethnic Thai CPP senator and director of the Phnom Penh Sugar Company, declined to comment on Sinath’s resignation.
“I don’t know anything about it,” he said yesterday.
The tycoon’s sugar businesses has come under fire in recent years over what rights groups have labelled “blood sugar”, referring to his ongoing disputes with thousands of families in Thpong district’s Omlaing commune in Kampong Speu province.
Phnom Penh Sugar has been at the centre of the years-long land dispute since the forced evictions of hundreds of families from Yong Phat’s 8,343-hectare land concession in Kampong Speu started in February of 2010.
In January 2013, the Post reported that children as young as 7 years old had worked on the plantation. The company subsequently took action to end the practice, which it attributed to sub-contractors. The Post revealed in January this year that ANZ Royal Bank had been financing the sugar plantation. ANZ moved to sever ties with the firm in the ensuing months, saying simply that it had “paid out its loan” and was no longer a customer.
Pressure groups have also campaigned for companies not to buy sugar from Yong Phat. In January, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling on the bloc’s executive body to urgently act on an EU preferential trade scheme found to have carried high risks of human rights violations through land evictions for industrial sugar development.
Following the reports of abuses at the plantation, drinks giants Pepsi and Coca-Cola said that they would take a “zero tolerance” approach to land grabs.
Facebook users have largely praised Sinath’s announcement of resignation.
“We youth hope that you will come back to serve the people,” one comment read.
Minister of National Assembly-Senate Relations and Inspection Men Sam An could not be reached for comment.
Am Sam Ath, senior investigator with rights group Licadho, said he admired Sinath’s “responsibility” and said it should set an example for other officials to follow.
5 comments:
Begin of Drgunzet's comment.
The Thai Cambodian has built a power base in Koh Kong. Tea Banh's son, Tea Vinh controls all Cambodian naval force in Koh Kong. If Cambodia is not careful, they could cede away Koh Kong then asks to join Thailand.
-Drgunzet-
-Drgunzet-
Tea Vinh is Tea Banh's son?
You must be fucked in the head, fool!
Men Sam On is NOT Khmer or Cambodian, but she is a Vietnamese agent working secretly in CPP government office.
Begin of Drgunzet's comment.
Oops, I read it wrong and got confused.
In this link:
http://khmerisation.wordpress.com/2006/05/29/tea-banh%E2%80%99s-family-is-overtaking-the-dangrek-mountains-and-turning-it-into-casinos/
Tea Banh is overtaking lands....Tea Vinh’s son, Tea Soth, is a military post director and was installed as the director of the Choam border post in Anlong Veng.
I read so fast and thought Tea Vinh's son become Tea Vinh, son. Thus I thought Tea Vinh was Tea Banh's son.
Ok, I stand corrected, Tea Vinh is Tea Banh's brother. Anyway, the Tea Banh's clan is taking over the Koh Kong area. Mr. Hun Sen cannot really do much in the Koh Kong area without risking a civil war.
Mr. Hun Sen's hands are tied a lot actually. Look at him, trying to bring jobs into Cambodia and CNRP can easily attack and destroy the jobs for Cambodia. Thus Mr. Hun Sen was forced to yield before the garment industry is completely destroyed.
So far, I would think a quarter of Cambodian garment industry has already been destroyed by CNRP. Instead of growing rapidly as before, this year, Cambodian garment industry actually declined by 5 percent.
I urge Mr. Hun Sen to severely punish the responsible CNRP's culprits. Many Cambodian families will lost jobs and be forced to sell their children into slavery and prostitution. What a sick country.
I really feel sorry for Mr. Hun Sen.
-Drgunzet-
P.S. Years ago I did an experiment on an online game. I found and operated a huge online game. My generals were very greedy and evil. They would demanded me to exclude other members and reserve their rights to use the guild shops for them.
When I protect the people rights, and refused their demands, they would spread lies and fights among the people in my guild. Most people believe them and revolt. Believe me, most people are stupid.
Mr. Hun Sen must be a genius to survive the ugly politics. I could not.
1 December 2014 3:58 pm [
-Drgunzet-]
Fuck you, you are a fucking hypocrite Vietnamese bastard or gook!
Scott
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