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Tuesday 7 April 2015

Gov’t Airs Film Accusing Kem Sokha of Coup Conspiracy [Hun Sen, please stop victimizing the opposition]

Ahead of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha’s scheduled court questioning on Wednesday, a television station controlled by the daughter of Prime Minister Hun Sen aired on Sunday night a film produced by the government that builds a case that Mr. Sokha plotted a coup d’etat.
The 30-minute film, televised on Hun Mana’s BTV station three weeks after her father publicly accused Mr. Sokha of plotting a coup, was intended to encourage the courts “to open an investigation” into the deputy leader, an official responsible for the film said.
Produced by the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit, the documentary-style piece begins with a few bars from John Lennon’s iconic song “Imagine” before asking viewers to consider Mr. Sokha’s fate.
“What legal action will the courts take against His Excellency Kem Sokha’s words that he failed to change the government, and, moreover, what should the government do to protect the democratic process and rule of law?” it says.
Footage of a speech Mr. Sokha delivered to supporters in the U.S. on March 13 is then shown, with Mr. Sokha apologizing for the CNRP’s failure to change the government following the disputed July 2013 national election.
“I apologize to brothers and sisters that I could not lead change 100 percent,” Mr. Sokha says in the video clip.

Further footage of the CNRP’s demonstrations calling for Mr. Hun Sen to stand down in late 2013 is also shown, along with video of the government’s repression of the nationwide strike of garment workers in January 2014.
“The political organizing of Kem Sokha intended to change the government,” the documentary’s presenter says. “His Excellency Kem Sokha used words of incitement, encouraged a public movement, and joined together with the workers movement of Vorn Pao.”
Mr. Pao, a prominent union leader close to the opposition, spent five months in prison last year after being beaten and arrested in January for his role in leading worker strikes and protests during the same time that CNRP demonstrations were peaking.
“The violent demonstrations led by His Exellency Kem Sokha proves a close relationship, [with he and Mr. Pao acting] as one to lead a people-power revolution. Such acts can be considered dangerous to society and to government institutions, adversely affecting social and public order,” the film says.
“These acts are equivalent to leading forces to carry out a coup d’etat to overthrow the legitimate government, and equivalent to an attempt to topple the government led by Hun Sen, the prime minister of Cambodia.”
The film does not mention opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who along with Mr. Sokha led the 2013 protests calling for the prime minister to step down.
Press and Quick Reaction Unit deputy director Tith Sothea said Monday that the documentary was produced to push the courts to prosecute the case against Mr. Sokha.
“His Excellency Kem Sokha made a confession…and the chanting of ‘Hun Sen, step down,’ and the other violent incidents proves that he attempted a coup d’etat against the legitimate government,” Mr. Sothea said.
“This report is to encourage the court institutions to consider legal methods and to take measures, because we need to respect the rule of law. So the court should open an investigation into this case,” he added.
Mr. Sothea’s comments mirrored a speech by Mr. Hun Sen on March 18, in which the prime minister attacked Mr. Sokha for the comments he made in the U.S.
“There’s a person coming to confess that they tried to topple the government and the CPP but failed, and are now apologizing to people in the U.S.,” Mr. Hun Sen said at the time.
“What legal action should we take?” he asked.
Both Mr. Sokha, who has immunity from prosecution as the vice-president of the National Assembly, and his cabinet chief, Muth Chantha, declined to comment on the film Monday.
Mr. Sokha’s lawyer, Chan Chen, noted that his client had already been questioned by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in January last year over accusations of incitement connected to postelection protests that ended in violence.
“I do not see a need to question my client further, because he was already questioned in great detail when he appeared before the court last year,” he added.
CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said the government’s focus on Mr. Sokha was an attempt to divide the two opposition leaders, who often fought publicly before the merger of their respective parties in 2012.
“The CPP are now at a crossroads and they have no choice,” Mr. Sovann said. “They know that less and less people are supporting the CPP, and maybe they think that this is a good idea to improve the power of the CPP.”
Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said the government has been targeting Mr. Sokha and not Mr. Rainsy due to the deputy leader’s recent intransigence.
“They entered the National Assembly as dialogue partners, but since then Kem Sokha has never respected the culture of dialogue. He continues to use the same language as before the election, and says he does not like compromise,” Mr. Siphan said.
“Let the courts decide on him if he does not like to work together and facilitate stability as well as peace.”

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

អាខ្វាក់លេងមែនទែនហើយ អ្វីក៏វាហ៊ានធ្វើដែរ ?????????????

Anonymous said...

Whatever Ah Kbot Cheat Hun Sen does will only help Kem Sokha and the CNRP. There is no need to worry about Ah Doggy Hun Sen's action against Kem Sokha.

Besides, there is no hero/heroine in the world that can liberate a country without spending his/her time in jail.

Ho Chi Shit

Anonymous said...

Kem Sokha is currently CNRP party MP & First vice president of NA. He had immunity from prosecution. Prime minister Hun Sen wanted to cut up CNRP but I think it is the wrong moves because this only make Kem Sokha more popular among Khmer populations.

Don't worry too much about arrest of high level CNRP because there will be political disaster for CPP if they are arresting top leaderships of CNRP. Beside PM Hun Sen's daughter can shows those faked evidences 7 days a week 24 hours a day will not make any differences. CNRP as a party is not like FAILCINPEC. CNRP are not a sitting duck either, CNRP party still got a lots of cards to play too. CNRP will win 2017 & 2018 General election. That T.V station will have to be professional or be shut down after CNRP took powers following 2018 election.

Anonymous said...

Kem Sokha deliberately try to toppled government. You know it yourself.right. Aren't you. ? Pulling boldly idiots gangster Kem Sokha out of our streets is the right things to do.right...Mike

Anonymous said...

Dear Khmers,

Let's stop wasting our time and resources dealing with Hun Sen.

To solve Khmer problems, prosecute
Han4997oi key leaders.

Anonymous said...

Look Hun Sen make the war every day with cnrp especially with the poor Khmer . He killed and Jail by what he want. It isn't a war what's that??? But He said will be war is he lost election and He know he been lost that why ? Isn't a war what's that ?

Anonymous said...


7 April 2015 5:41 pm

Mike, go back into your shit-hole where you belong, you maggot!

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

When the Cambodian court withheld the woman who crashed the car into Mr. Hun Sen's wall to appease Mr. Hun Sen, he humbly said "Release her, treat her like any other case under the law. Let her make bail."

You guys accuse him as interfering with the law, seeking favor from then young woman to get her kill from the jealous wife.

So, clearly you see two very opposing views, one from a super smart Asian, me; and one from a bunch of stupid angry Khmer extremists.

-Drgunzet-

P.S. I hold in my heads many incredible, simple-does-it, free-for-use ideas in my head. And you folks clearly don't want to learn from me.

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I tutored Khmer students and figured out a method to get the Khmer students to self-learn. You folks accused me to be fraud.

I will go to the Germany forum and ask them to verify my supreme intelligence. Then I will make you guys realize how much mis-opportunity you have. I will not teach you crazy race.

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3. I also know a way to influence the outcome of girl or boy at the conception. I won't tell you folks or Cambodia will have so many baby boys.