Fringe Party President to Sue Minister for Half a Billion Riel
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18854/ ... lion-riel/The president of fringe party held a press conference today to announce again that he will file a defamation lawsuit against Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong seeking half a billion riel (about $123,000) in damages for comments Mr. Namhong allegedly made about the Khmer Power Party to recently appointed US Ambassador William A. Heidt.
The planned lawsuit will also allege that Mr. Namhong had incited discrimination against the fringe party, its president Sourn Serey Ratha said.
Mr. Ratha told the handful of reporters who gathered at his party’s office for the 9am press conference, which had been announced on his Facebook page on Wednesday, that Mr. Namhong had defamed him by allegedly linking the Khmer People Power Movement to terrorist activity.
The Khmer Power Party is an offshoot of the movement, which calls for foreign assistance, as well as donations from overseas Cambodians, to “liberate” Cambodia from “Communist rule.”
Mr. Ratha previously announced that the planned to sue Mr. Namhong on Wednesday but did not mention the amount he would seek for compensation.
Mr. Ratha said he will file a complaint on Monday over the comments allegedly made by Mr. Namhong to US Ambassador William A. Heidt during their December 7 meeting. After the meeting Mr. Namhong told reporters that he had told Washington’s envoy that “the government allows many political parties in Cambodia, especially the party of Mr. Sourn Serey Ratha who had lived in America until he and members of his movement were pardoned for terrorist-related charges.” Mr. Namhong was referring to the Royal pardons granted in July.
“This means that I am a leader of a terrorist group, but our policy is not terrorism. We have clear policies to help the people. [Before] we were the Khmer People Power Movement, a civil politic movement, not a terrorist group,” Mr. Ratha said.
Mr. Namhong did not respond to a request for comment.
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The Khmer People Power Movement also says Phú Quốc, an island in Vietnam, is part of Cambodia (which had been part of Cambodia before the French colonial era) and that it would make an ideal military base for Washington.
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“We the Khmer People Power Movement (KPPM) call for foreign assistance to liberate a political change in Cambodia and to form a new leadership and new regime which will be the second Khmer Republic, with a presidential form of government. This Government would serve as an alliance of progress with the United Stated of America, with a true commitment to the people of Cambodia”.
Since Hanoi invaded Cambodia and deposed the Pol Pot’s regime means that the Communists took over the Communist and the country is still under Communist rule. The United Nations had condemned the Hanoi’s Occupation in Cambodian Land, and has set up the Cambodian People Party (CPP) to run the Government. It was the government control by Hanoi economic, politic and military, and Hanoi intended to put Cambodia into Indochina’s federation through leadership of centralized economic system.
Oh yeah, and the CD wrote something about it too
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hor- ... nt-103500/
Interesting bit about the Cambodian Ambassador to Switzerland using CPP letterheads for invites to HE's son's CPP decorated meetings.
Also at the press conference, Mr. Serey Ratha said he wrote to the Foreign Ministry this month to ask why Cambodia’s ambassador to Switzerland, Ney Samol, had used government letterhead to invite Cambodians living in the country to a dinner in early December to meet the prime minister’s son, Hun Manet.
Mr. Serey Ratha provided copies of the invitation letter to journalists at the press conference, and displayed pictures that he said showed Mr. Manet meeting with Cambodians in Switzerland in a room bedecked with CPP flags.
“Are [Cambodian] ambassadors in that area representatives of the Cambodian government or representatives of the Cambodian People’s Party?” said Mr. Serey Ratha, arguing the meeting had violated principles of diplomacy and fair play.
“If the Cambodian People’s Party travels to join the meeting abroad and has the right to use ambassadors to issue the invitation letter to invite the people to meet with their party, that means that other parties —the Khmer Power Party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party and other parties—when we have a meeting abroad, ambassadors also need to issue the same kind of invitation letter. It is only fair,” he said.