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Phnom Penh (FN), April 25 - Sam Serey, President of the Khmer National Liberation Front, was arrested in Thailand on Wednesday.
Serey, based in Denmark, has been working with his local team to advocate for regime change in Cambodia.
"Sam Serey has sent an email to Radio Free Asia (RFA) before he was arrested by Thai authorities. Serey's close person reported in the anonymity that Sam Serey is being detained in Bangkok,” announced RFA.
On April 10, 2018, Prime Minister Hun Sen took immediate action on Sam Serey's plan in plotting to bomb capital’s Wat Phnom and the tourist hub of Siem Reap during Khmer New Year.
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I wonder why he was arrested. Probably refused to pay 9850 baht for 2 beers at Nana, or something like that.
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He's the leader of KNLF which has been labeled a terrorist organization for a long time. He has lived in exile in Denmark for ages. I don't know why he thought it would be wise to return to Asia, but probably they will pin the alleged plots to bomb Wat Phnom and Angkor Wat on him.chkwoot wrote:I wonder why he was arrested.
He will be gone for a long time. Decades.
Alexandra wrote:He's the leader of KNLF which has been labeled a terrorist organization for a long time. He has lived in exile in Denmark for ages. I don't know why he thought it would be wise to return to Asia, but probably they will pin the alleged plots to bomb Wat Phnom and Angkor Wat on him.chkwoot wrote:I wonder why he was arrested.
He will be gone for a long time. Decades.
I'm guessing he was lured by something/someone in an entrapment operation. What charges the Thais have got to keep him in custody would also be interesting to see. Not sure 'Strongmen scratching each other's backs' is a legal thing (but then in Thailand....)
Pretty foolish to leave the safe haven of Denmark though. Maybe he just wanted a Tom Yum. I'd risk prison for a Big Mac, pint of Guinness and some proper cheese TBH.
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Well done on the authorities' part, I feared they might come back with a worse onslaught than their last.
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That music is terrorism. Audio terrorism. A jihad against the ears.Lucky Lucan wrote:Well done on the authorities' part, I feared they might come back with a worse onslaught than their last.
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https://kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh/article/628283.htmlA spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, Lieutenant General Khiev Sopheak, told the island hostage on April 26, 2018 that Lieutenant General Net Saroeun, the national police chief, wrote a letter to the Thai counterparts requesting the deportation of Sam Serey to Cambodia after his arrest.
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said the Thai authorities detained the suspect on April 25, 2018 inside Thailand. "Sam Serey was sentenced to nine years in prison for terrorism in Cambodia," he said. However, the sending to Cambodia at any time will be decided on the Thai side.
According to the Ministry of Interior, at about 10 am on April 25, 2018, Thai authorities arrested him, The Khmer National Liberation Front movement is present in the Thai territory. The Cambodian government's senior official confirmed that the Cambodian government was in contact with the Thai authorities to prosecute.
Radio Free Asia reported on April 25, 2018, "Mr. Serey sent an email message before the arrest, Thai authorities detained him when he was resettling in Thailand.
Serey's close friend, who asked not to be named because he was worried about security." On the phone he said that Mr. Sam Serey was in the charge of Thai authorities and has been ent to a detention facility in Bangkok.
It should be noted that on April 10, 2018, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, foiled a plot against the Royal Government of Cambodia, directed by a Danish-based "Fisher". The plans were to destroy the fun of Khmer people on the occasion of New Year Lunar New Year Cambodian national holiday.
But all these problems have already been addressed by Samdech Techo HUN SEN and has made the strictest security measures to prevent the intentions. It was noted that prior to the Khmer New Year, there were reports that the terrorist group planned to put a bomb at Wat Phnom and Siem Reap in Cambodia. But the Cambodian authorities have put the best security for the people. It has raised suspicions about Sam Serey's team who have set up this project, as they had made a failed bomb plot at the Cambodia Friendship Memorial Wat Botum in 2007.
Before the Khmer New Year this year, the US Embassy in Phnom Penh of Cambodia issued a statement that may be troubles during the upcoming Khmer New Year.
Posted by the official Facebook page of the US Embassy on April 11, 2018.
According to the above statement, there were reports that a group of activists may attempt to establish an explosive device near Wat Phnom in Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh or other locations for other gatherings of Phnom Penh or Siem Reap province of Cambodia. During the festival Rice, which will take place from 12th to 16th April 2018.
Surrounding this shocking news, all US government employees working in Cambodia were advised to increase alertness and be very careful around Wat Phnom and always be wary of their surroundings. "The action to be taken is to be more cautious in areas where people are crowded," the statement added. If suspicious objects are spotted, leave immediately. In the wake of recent developments in the local media, be cautious. Always be aware to the situation around.
A source close to the Ministry of Interior confirmed that on April 11 released evidence and a record of the members of the Khmer National Liberation Movement Fisher, who planned to put two bomb bombs in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap and link the plot to former opposition CNRP leader Sam Rainsy. To the movement that the government considers "terrorist", but Sam Rainsy and the movement's chairman have rejected this.
According to documents cited by the Ministry of Interior, Sam Serey participated in the activities with the Khmer National United Front or the Liberation Tiger Movement Led by Mr. Som, between 2005 and 2009, the leader of the Front and other members were arrested by the government after they put t explosives in the Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship memorial in 2007
Mr. Sam Sereth, who announced the creation of "Khmer National Liberation Front" in 2012, continued to "oppose the Royal Government of Cambodia, with members in Thailand taking the lead."
The Interior Ministry claimed that the Khmer National Liberation Front had 462 people in Cambodia, and on December 12, 2016, Sam Serey formulated "government Delegate Khmer ", based in Denmark, with 56 members of the shadow government. By showing Sam's relationship with various movements, including the Khmer Rouge power movement of Mr. Suon Sarath, who was imprisoned in front of the front Liberation of Khmer Krom, particularly with former President of the SRP, Sam Rainsy. Interior Ministry claims that Sam Rainsy and Sam Serey met twice, in 2015 in France and 2018 in Switzerland .
"On February 12, 2018, Sam Serey meets Mr. Rainsy in Switzerland, in which Sam Rainsy proposes to join forces to defeat the CPP, with two countries backing, providing training and finance. " On the night of April 10, 2018, the website of the local media claimed that "Superior Cabinet" released two separate recordings, from April 7 and 9, about the planned bombing on April 12, 2018 Wat Phnom Resort.
Before the Khmer New Year, Interior Minister General Khieu Sopheak told local media that the authorities had seized control of the group's activities aimed at provoking violence. This blast, we all say, is foiled. We have all the identities. We know the activities and the cops have watched the activities of the people involved in the Khmer National Liberation Front.
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Deported to Denmark. He's a very lucky terrorist...
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... xtraditionPolitical fugitive Sam Serey, long wanted by the Cambodian government for allegedly operating a “terrorist” group, was arrested in Bangkok on Wednesday for an immigration violation, with the Cambodian government submitting a formal request for his extradition on Thursday.
Serey, founder of the dissident group Khmer National Liberation Front, was detained for overstaying his visa.
He has been accused of various violent plots in Cambodia, though scant evidence has been given to support the allegations. Most recently, Prime Minister Hun Sen claimed he foiled a KNLF plot to bomb Wat Phnom and Siem Reap during Khmer New Year.
National Police’s chief, General Neth Savoeun, submitted a formal letter requesting his extradition Thursday, according to spokesman Kirth Chantharith.
“We have the arrest warrant from the court sentencing him to nine years in prison. Please, Thai government, send him back to serve his sentence,” Chantharith said.
He noted that as of Thursday evening, Thailand had not yet responded to the request.
The Thai government has recently been receptive to Cambodia’s extradition requests, including in the case of Sam Sokha, a Cambodian woman who fled the country after raising officials’ ire for shoe at a ruling party billboard. She was sent back to Cambodia to face jail time for the act despite having been recognised by the United Nations as a refugee.
A senior KNLF member based in Bangkok confirmed that Serey was arrested at a Thai immigration office while trying to renew an already expired visa. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Serey had been in Thailand since January.
He maintained that the arrest was “politically motivated” and done at the behest of the Cambodian government.
“The Hun Sen regime often slanders us, especially Sam Serey, as ‘terrorists’,” he said, insisting the KNLF operated nonviolently.
While more than 20 of Serey’s followers have been arrested over the years over purported violent plots, none have ever been found in possession of weapons. Serey, who received political asylum in Denmark, was sentenced in absentia to nine years in prison in 2016 for allegedly “plotting” an attack.
While evidence substantiating the terrorism charges has not been presented either publicly or in court, Serey has never satisfactorily explained the existence of photographs depicting him in non-Cambodian military gear, and posing with weapons in front of an altered Cambodian flag.
Serey’s colleague said if Thailand were to deport him to Cambodia, it would be a “serious violation of treaties and international law on political refugees”.
On Wednesday evening, the KNLF appealed to UN representatives in Bangkok, as well as the Danish Embassy. “We just received information that the embassy are intervening to help him now,” the source said on Thursday afternoon.
When reached for comment, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs would only confirm that “a foreign citizen with permanent residence in Denmark is detained in Thailand”.
“In individual cases, client confidentiality applies and therefore, we cannot provide further information,” the ministry said.
Serey has vehemently denied ever planning to use violence to achieve his aims. Earlier this month, he claimed to have illegally crossed into Cambodia, but confirmed to The Post on Tuesday that he was in Thailand.
Following the extradition of Sokha, the Thai and Cambodian governments recently agreed to cooperate more fully on returning political fugitives, raising fears for the safety of numerous opposition and civil society figures currently seeking refuge in Thailand.
“Cambodia’s demands for the extradition of Serey Sam should be refused outright by Thailand. Nothing has changed the fact that he is a refugee who correctly fears political persecution if he’s returned to Phnom Penh,” said Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division via email on Thursday.
Claiming Thailand doesn’t need “another black mark on its increasingly shoddy record in protecting refugees”, he called for Serey to be deported to Denmark instead.
He also dismissed the Cambodian government’s evidence against Serey as “a joke, and a pretty bad one at that”.
The Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to requests for comment.
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