Look at the cambodian peasants during the khmer rouge era. What kind of racial excitement was that? Those people are still roaming Cambodia today.
On Mar 28, 5:07 am, "Sam Rainsy Party of North America" <[email protected]> wrote: > March 27, 2010 > > “INCITEMENT TO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION”: A POLITICALLY MOTIVATED AND GROUNDLESS > ACCUSATION AGAINST SAM RAINSY > > The text below is a Letter from parliamentary opposition leader Sam Rainsy to > the Editor of The Cambodia Daily, which published it today. > > SRP Did Nothing To Provoke a Charge of Racial Discrimination > > In your article “Rainsy says ‘Definitive’ Maps Point to Innocence” (March 26, > page 23) you wrote, “In January, Mr Rainsy, who is living in France, was > sentenced in absentia to two years in prison for incitement to racial > discrimination and destruction of public property after he uprooted six > wooden stakes at a temporary border marking with Vietnam in Svay Rieng in > October.” > > I don’t need to add anything regarding the second charge (“destruction of > public property”) because there was no public property involved that could be > associated with any real and legal border line, and the legitimate owner of a > private land has the right to dispose of anything that has been put on, or > planted in, his land without his consent. In our case, we are talking about > six commercially worthless wooden stakes. > > But regarding the first charge against me of “Incitement to racial > discrimination” which Article 61 of the 1992 UNTAC Law relates to “any person > that provokes national, racial, or religious hatred that constitutes > incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence,” I can say that it is > totally groundless and politically motivated. > > All I said and did on that day (October 25) in Svay Rieng province while > meeting with villagers in the concerned border area, has been videotaped and > can be viewed athttp://tinyurl.com/yhwf289and athttp://tinyurl.com/yfmakb5. > In the first document, I essentially listened to villagers’ grievances in the > compound of a pagoda. In the second document, after following villagers to > their nearby rice fields and analyzing with them the situation on the spot, > we pulled out the “six wooden stakes at a temporary border marking with > Vietnam.” > > I challenge any government or court official to seriously prove, with > concrete evidence, that I have said or done anything that could be related to > “incitement to racial discrimination.” > > [As reflected in my March 24 statement “Decisive evidence of border > encroachment”http://tinyurl.com/y8jxq9s, I have been mainly blaming “the > current government in Phnom Penh” for its “negligence and/or incompetence > when it comes to dealing with the defense of Cambodia’s territorial integrity > as enshrined in the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements and in the Kingdom’s > Constitution.”] > > Sam Rainsy > > Member of Parliament > > Paris -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to camdisc+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
