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4 January 2010





OTHER BORDER MARKERS SURREPTITIOUSLY REMOVED



We have just learnt from local authorities and villagers in Svay Rieng province 
that several wooden poles supposed to be temporary border markers similar to 
the ones opposition leader Sam Rainsy removed on 25 October 2009 in Samraong 
commune, have been surreptitiously removed by the Vietnamese authorities 
assisted by Cambodian officials.



Sam Rainsy pulled out six wooden poles at border marker # 185. But 
subsequently, similar wooden poles at nearby border markers # 184, # 186 and # 
187 have also been removed by the authorities themselves. At marker # 184 even 
the concrete foundations under the wooden poles have been dug out, put onto a 
tractor and taken back to Vietnam.



As Sam Rainsy has exposed, the poles he pulled out were planted on Cambodian 
farmers’ rice fields that are private properties with the farmers holding legal 
land titles to justify ownership of their land. Therefore, since the wooden 
poles were planted on their private properties without their consent, the 
farmers were entitled to remove them (the poles) or to ask somebody else to do 
it for them, which Sam Rainsy did at marker # 185.



Now realizing they are on weak legal ground in the prosecution of Sam Rainsy 
and the concerned farmers, the authorities have surreptitiously resorted to do 
the same thing as Sam Rainsy did, i.e. removing illegally imposed border 
markers, which is leading to a judicial imbroglio illustrating the political 
nature of the charges levied against Sam Rainsy.



SRP Cabinet          





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