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From: Bouawat Sithi <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Mar 28, 2010 10:04 am
Subject: FW: “Incit ement to r acial disc rimination ”: A polit ically mot
ivated and groundles =?Window
Dear Compatriots,
I would like to ask all of our readers to read these texts below and go to each
link in the texts, and then you will witness that our land is either robbed in
plain eyes or stolen by Yuon piece by piece.
Bouawat
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 at http://tinyurl.com/yhwf289 and at http://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
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