Sam Rainsy is right, he finally got it! The real court is in Hanoi! It is too bad that SRP and Sam Rainsy have spent all of these years fighting with the wrong enemy-- Hun Sen (and the Cambodian People's Party)--the puppet of Vietnam. One may remember that from the beginning of his political fight, Sam Rainsy said that he was not going to become an alibi to Hun Sen. I prayed that he was not going to be an alibi too long but he has been one for quite some time. >From no seat to 26 seats in the Cambodian Assembly, he has been fighting the wrong battle, the battle that has been set for him and other so-called oppositions just to become an alibi for democracy to the Hun Sen and the CPP. Regardless of what he has done and will do the result would be the same--the CPP will always win and either Hun Sen or his replacement will be the next prime minister running Cambodia for Vietnam. The chance of having the current electoral processes changed is zero. The "50% plus one" formula is written in stone, so to say. Ever since the Khmer Rouge regime was toppled by the Vietnamese armed forces, most of us know that the CPP and it members were merely the products of Vietnam. Some call them Vietnam's puppets, some name Phnom Penh's government as the Vietnam's backed regime, others name Cambodia as a Vietnam's vassal state and a few others brand members of the CPP as Vietnamese dogs. Regardless what they name Cambodia, she remains a country that is run by the CPP which has been heavily influenced-- if not fully controlled-- by Vietnam. Therefore, why are Cambodians fighting against each other for? Just to become the new puppets or to get the current puppets replaced? Now, what are the oppositions going to do? Are they going to fight on against Vietnam's puppets or are they going to take the battle directly against Vietnam? It makes sense to fight directly against the puppeteer rather than to fight against its puppets with the same blood, doesn't it? HOW can the oppositions turn the Vietnamese puppets to fight against their master? ========= 21 December 2009 THE REAL COURT IS IN HANOI >From 28 December, I will happily let the Svay Rieng provincial court, a branch of the CPP-subservient judicial system, prosecute me in absentia because its verdict is known in advance like with any kangaroo court.
It’s useless and meaningless to defend yourself before a servant. You’d better address the master. Therefore, I am willing to show up and to be prosecuted in person in Hanoi because my trial is a political one first ordered by Vietnam’s government (*). I am accused of removing a border marker with Vietnam and, following the logic of the accusation, that border marker is a property jointly owned by Vietnam and Cambodia. Furthermore, Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was the first government official from the two countries to denounce my act and to call for my punishment (*). Therefore, being now in a third country, both the Vietnamese government and the Cambodian government can prosecute me, and I can go either to Vietnam or Cambodia to be prosecuted for the alleged crime. I accept to go to Vietnam and to be tried there, before a Vietnamese court in Hanoi, any time. There, with the Cambodian people and the international community watching from some distance and with serenity, I will be able to raise the real issue and to defend Cambodia’s interest. The real issue is not with Sam Rainsy; it is between Vietnam and Cambodia and is related to border encroachments and violation of Cambodia’s territorial integrity. I will denounce the unfair 1985 border treaty signed by a Cambodian puppet regime led by the same prime minister for 25 years. I will defend countless Cambodian farmers whose rice fields and other farmland are being seized by the Vietnamese authorities with the complicity of the Hun Sen government. I will invoke the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia and its provisions on Cambodia’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. The effective implementation of the Paris Agreements will also help solve border disputes with Thailand. I was last in Hanoi in 2002 when I was received by many high-ranking government officials including… Mr. Nguyen Tan Dung, who was then deputy prime minister. Sam Rainsy Member of Parliament (*) On November 4, 2009, the state-run Voice of Vietnam radio reported, “ Regarding acts and statements made by Sam Rainsy - President of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), who recently uprooted six temporary poles for Marker 185 between Vietnam’s southern province of Long An and Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province – [Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ] proposed that the Cambodian government take due measures to deal with Rainsy’s acts of sabotage and not permit similar cases to occur, as they negatively affect the fine relations between the two nations.” See original report at _http://tinyurl.com/ykt32ah_ (http://tinyurl.com/ykt32ah) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org
