CAMBODIAN JUDICIARY'S DOUBLE STANDARD

[Sam Rainsy Party of North America]

January 28, 2010 

CAMBODIAN JUDICIARY'S DOUBLE STANDARD 

 

After the first set of documents (15 sheets) presented at 
http://tinyurl.com/y9d7qho the following is a second set of maps and data (6 
sheets) http://tinyurl.com/ycmw48z giving additional evidence of land grabbing 
associated with border encroachment in Svay Rieng province. 

Whichever map is used (French 1952 1/100,000 map, US Army 1966 1/50,000 map or 
most recent Google Earth satellite picture) the conclusion is the same : The 
so-called border post (#185) opposition leader Sam Rainsy pulled out last 
October was well inside Cambodia and was not a real and legal border 
demarcation marker. All the so-called border posts in the area (from #184 to 
#187) are located in fact between 300 meters and 500 meters from the 
international border as defined on the maps. 

The only legally binding map is the French 1952 1/100,000 map which was 
deposited at the United Nations by the Royal Cambodian Government under 
then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1964. But this map says the same thing as the 
other maps. 

Therefore, Sam Rainsy did not commit any crime last October because he did not 
pull out any “border post” or destroy any “public property” as the Hun Sen 
government claims. He just pulled out a few commercially worthless wooden poles 
on a private land at the request of the local land's owner fearing land grab 
associated with border encroachment. 

Those who have actually destroyed public property are Hun Sen government 
officials who are involved in the destruction, through illegal but lucrative 
logging, of hundreds of thousands of hectares of Cambodia 's invaluable forest. 
But those powerful and wealthy people walk free while powerless and poor 
farmers protesting land grabbing are put in jail.. 

The above story is another illustration of the Cambodian judiciary's double 
standard. 

SRP Members of Parliament 

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