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Tuesday 31 May 2011

Cambodian opposition leader to speak in Lowell Saturday


The Lowell Sun
Updated: 31th May, 2011

LOWELL -- A Cambodian opposition leader and two other members of parliament will be in Lowell Saturday to discuss ongoing human-rights abuses in Cambodia.

Sam Rainsy (pictured), leader of the Sam Rainsy Party and generally considered the main rival to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, will appear with fellow SRP legislators Tok Vanchan and Tioulong Sumura, Rainsy's wife, on Saturday, from 5 p.m. to midnight at the Sunny Da Restaurant, 450 Chelmsford St.

Rainsy, formerly a member of the Cambodian National Assembly, has most recently been living in self-imposed exile in Australia. In March, the Cambodian Supreme Court upheld Rainsy's conviction on charges of inciting racial discrimination and uprooting border markings with neighboring Vietnam.

Shortly after the court's ruling, the National Assembly released a statement revoking Rainsy's "rights, privileges and membership as member of parliament."

The conviction upheld by the Supreme Court carries with it a two-year prison sentence and, when combined with an unrelated 10-year sentence for publishing a false map of the border with Vietnam.

Since 2009, Rainsy has maintained he was leading demonstrations on the Cambodian-Vietnamese border to protest what he believes is Vietnamese encroachment on Cambodian land.

A Rainsy Party spokesman criticized the National Assembly decree as a political move by a parliament dominated by MPs from Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party. In the past, the Rainsy Party and the NGO Cambodian Center for Human Rights have asserted that Rainsy's convictions were an attempt to keep him from participating in Cambodia's 2013 national election.

Hun Sen, 59, has held power in Cambodia for a quarter-century and, according to some, has vowed to remain in power until he is 90 years old.

Rainsy plans to discuss those issues, as well as what he calls ongoing human-rights abuses in Cambodia, suppression of the Cambodian media and the future of the country.

For more information, email Chhan Touch at chhantouch@comcast.net.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is he running for Lowell Rep. in the US ??

Or

Is he asking for donation ????

White American are not so happy to see Cambodian population expand in this area, you know !!!!!

Anonymous said...

For his own good Hun Sen has to step down in the nearest future possible. Another term maybe for him to wrap up his works and fulfill his vision?.He stills can introduce his son and daughter to higher government post according to their competency and that is OK with me. He will be remembered as Khmer statesman and could still contribute his idea to the new government. The problem for me is who is going to replace him? Definitely I don't want to see Rannarith coming back(sorry!).
Sam Rainsy is lousy but he stills want to try. Kem Sokha should be good at the Energy and Natural Resource ministry.I, myself, am good at eating peanuts with chopsticks and have no illusion of receiving and following any order from anybody even Kings.So it is up to the CPP to find new candidate to replace Hun Sen after 2017.

Anonymous said...

More news the EU have decided not give money to Cambodia this due to Hun Sen's abuse of human right records etc. This issue been raised by a UK MEP in Brussels.