http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-19/c ... ts/7853610
Cambodia's Government threatens to crush protests as acting Opposition leader Kem Sokha vows to stay
'Hit the snake': Cambodia's Government threatens to crush Opposition protests
Acting president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) and human rights activist, Kem Sokha remains holed up in the party headquarters where he plans to stay while the Prime Minister ramps up attacks against him.
'Hit the snake': Cambodia's Government threatens to crush Opposition protests
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The west should donate more millions of $$ to Cambodia. Over 20 years and billions wasted on time and money. The UN was a miserable failure. Just send money we can work out our own problems.
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HE's policy: Hit the Snake
Kem Sokha's policy: Hide the Snake
Kem Sokha's policy: Hide the Snake
Rainman's policy: Snake you later
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Kem Sokha pardoned. HE saves the day - is there no limit to his benevolence?
I thought you were joking.Khmerhamster wrote:Kem Sokha pardoned. HE saves the day - is there no limit to his benevolence?
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/breakingn ... st-121388/King Norodom Sihamoni pardoned deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha at the request of Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday, absolving him of a conviction for refusing to appear in court for questioning over a related “prostitution” case involving his alleged mistress.
Mr. Sokha was sentenced in September to five months in jail for refusing to appear at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court as a witness in a case widely derided as a politically motivated effort by the government to muzzle the opposition.
However, on Friday the king issued a royal decree pardoning Mr. Sokha.
The decree declares “a pardon for inmate Kem Sokha, male, 63 year-old, who was sentenced by the court to imprisonment for refusing to appear under the power of criminal judgment of the Court of Appeal dated November 4, 2016.”
Mr. Sokha wrote to the prime minister on Thursday requesting he intervene by requesting a pardon from the king.
“We all are Khmer who have suffered and lost many things we love,” Mr. Sokha wrote in the letter, posted online on Friday by Khmer-language news website Fresh News.
“I also understand that Cambodia’s past internal disputes, we have settled through national reconciliation and unity between Khmer and Khmer despite having different political agendas,” he wrote.
Mr. Hun Sen penned a letter to the king on Friday asking him “to grant a royal decree to pardon inmate Kem Sokha, who was sentenced by the court.”
The case stemmed from recorded telephone conversations, allegedly of Mr. Sokha engaging in conversations of a sexual nature with a woman who was later identified as 25-year-old manicurist Khom Chandaraty.
Under questioning in court over prostitution charges recommended by the anti-terrorism police, Ms. Chandaraty admitted to having an affair with Mr. Sokha, who refused to appear as a witness in the case. As a result, the deputy opposition leader was prosecuted and sentenced to five months in jail in September.
An appeal was rejected last month by the Court of Appeal, and Mr. Sokha’s lawyers said they would wait until this month to appeal to the Supreme Court. The prime minister has previously said that he was helpless to offer any help to Mr. Sokha until the case was settled by the top court.
Mr. Sokha has been holed up in the CNRP headquarters in Phnom Penh since May, leaving only once to register to vote in next year’s commune elections.
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Pretty standard operating procedure for HE, just curious why he even bothers with CNRP leaders when it's obvious they're bloody clueless. HE should just get a big tub of K440 and watch the Rainsy/Sokha clown show press the CNRP self-destruct button, they're the best advertisement to vote CPP surely?!
It is a pity, after the last election CNRP should have kicked on to become a serious party - not a bunch of infighting morons just spouting whatever is fashionable (building a Vietnam wall for instance..). I still reckon Mu Sochea should just take Sokha/Rainsy out and give it a proper shot - no idea if she's capable, but I don't recall seeing her put her foot in her mouth, and she also has the benefit of being in the country for starters! Plus she probably could play the ASSK card much better and garner international sympathy ... get in power ... and THEN build a wall and start 'relocating' those Chams!
It is a pity, after the last election CNRP should have kicked on to become a serious party - not a bunch of infighting morons just spouting whatever is fashionable (building a Vietnam wall for instance..). I still reckon Mu Sochea should just take Sokha/Rainsy out and give it a proper shot - no idea if she's capable, but I don't recall seeing her put her foot in her mouth, and she also has the benefit of being in the country for starters! Plus she probably could play the ASSK card much better and garner international sympathy ... get in power ... and THEN build a wall and start 'relocating' those Chams!
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
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