Manekseka Sangkum: A slap in the face for the Cambodian people and democracy?
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Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga | Publication date 27 March 2018 | 12:50 ICT
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A protester is slapped by chief of the Daun Penh security guards Kim Vutha near the Appeal Court, where opposition leader Kem Sokha was challenging the extension of his pre-trial detention on Tuesday. Pann Rachana
“You have to erase it. There are no politics allowed here,”
The Appeal Court rejected a challenge from jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha on the extension of his pre-trial detention on Tuesday, and despite being summonsed, the former CNRP president did not appear in court for the hearing.
Sokha has been imprisoned at a Tbong Khmum province facility since his September arrest on “treason” charges and his bail requests have been rejected.
On Tuesday, his lawyers contested the extension earlier this month of his detention while awaiting trial. No trial date has been set.
Sam Sokong, who is part of Sokha’s legal team, said the court rejected Sokha’s appeal and upheld the decision of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to extend his detention by six months.
Court spokesman Touch Tharith on Monday said Sokha had been served a summons and was expected to attend the hearing, but on Tuesday said the opposition leader had not been brought to court. He did not explain the reason behind the decision.
“But his lawyers still participate to present his arguments in the court,” he said.
Earlier in the day, Phnom Penh police officials and security guards had barricaded all roads leading to the Appeal Court preventing journalists, CNRP supporters and rights groups from accessing the hearing.
The Daun Penh security guards continually tried to push back CNRP supporters and officials, with the guard’s head Kim Vutha slapping a man for trying to draw out a message on the street in support of Sokha.
“You have to erase it. There are no politics allowed here,” Vutha said.
Since his arrest, Sokha has seen his party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party, disbanded for attempting a so-called “colour revolution” and 118 of its senior officials, including Sokha, banned from the political arena for five years.
1 comment:
WHAT MUST KHMER PEOPLE DO IN THIS 2018 UPCOMING ELECTION ?
The evil Vietnam has selected a devil one eye monster Hun Sen to control Khmer people so that Vietnam could swallow Cambodia.
This devil Hun Sen was never afraid to kill Khmer people ( K5 project, 1997 coup d'Etat, killings on Veng Sreng Blvd, Kem Ley, etc...) and to destroy Cambodia (99 years land concession to Yuon, the influx of millions of illegal Vietnamese, put 4 provinces under Yuon's control, signing of the 2005 supplemental treaty, destruction of Khmer natural resource, etc...) to please his master Vietnam to stay in power.
Khmer people have done the right thing by planning to vote Hun Sen out in this 2018 election, but Hun Sen crushed Khmer people's hope after he has dissolved the CNRP.
TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, Khmer people need to wage a nationwide peaceful demonstration demanding the REINSTATEMENT OF THE CNRP a few days before the election day and let it go on until the election day, MAKING THE ELECTION IMPOSSIBLE. I firmly believe this is the only opportunity that Khmer people have left to fight this evil Vietnam and its slave Hun Sen effectively. The dissolution of the CNRP was unconstitutional.
Freedom is not free. We have to pay some price to get it.
If Khmer people fail to stop the July 2018 election, Hun Sen will proclaim that the CPP is the winner and he is the new Prime Minister of the new government. Any peaceful demonstration afterward will be persecuted by his new government as color revolution.
That's why the demonstration to stop the 2018 election is extremely crucial. We must help ourselves first before the international community can help us. We must exert our right to force Hun Sen to reinstate the CNRP so that it could participate in the election.
We have the right to vote for any political party we like. Hun Sen killed the party that we like. We have to fight to get that party back.
If the CNRP won the election and Hun Sen and his master Vietnam did not relinquish the power, then a nationwide peaceful demonstration demanding the loser to abide by the electoral rule will be made. The International community will spontaneously support Khmer people who stood up for their right.
Notice that we must OFFICIALLY win the election first (that means the NEC declares that the winner is the CNRP) before the international community can help us. It is imperative that Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha stay tightly united in order to win the election. Some Khmer people such as James Sok, Kem Monovithia should stop trying to elevate Kem Sokha and put Sam Rainsy down to create friction between these 2 men and their respective supporters because the winner will be Ah Kwack and Yuon. Hun Sen and Yuon wanted to destroy Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha one at a time.
It is simple: Sam Rainsy alone cannot win the election. Likewise, Kem Sokha alone cannot win the election. We need both of them to win the election.
This is the right time to sacrifice our life for our motherland. We must stop this election to force this worst Khmer traitor Hun Sen to let the CNRP in the election. Yuon and its slave Hun Sen will not give up Cambodia easily. We must fight hard to get it. To reach our ultimate goal of saving Cambodia from the evil Vietnam, we must have tolerance (stop blaming each other for no reason), perseverance (winning and advancing one step at a time), and patience.
Bun Thoeun
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