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THUMBPRINT INVESTIGATION CONTINUES
The Interior Ministry created a research committee yesterday aiming to examine the more than 170,000 thumbprints on a Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) petition sent to the King earlier this week, continuing what many human rights advocates have called an open faced witch-hunt by the government and ruling party. The investigation was prompted by an unverified video leaked earlier this week allegedly showing CNRP members telling supporters to sign multiple names in different handwriting as they were preparing the petition.
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Government Kicks Damage Control Into High Gear
The Foreign Affairs Ministry on Thursday released a statement accusing foreign delegations of hypocrisy for criticizing the government’s crackdown on the opposition, even suggesting that they were pretending not to know the law. The ministry’s statement named no specific delegations but closely reflected the criticism leveled in a statement released by the E.U. on Monday.
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Police break up Christian meeting
Bakeo district police officers broke up a gathering of 50 Christians in Ratanakkiri province on Wednesday because they had not sought permission from authorities to meet. The ethic Jarai Christians hold regular and rotating monthly meetings in O’Yadav, Andong Meas and Bakeo districts to pray, discuss their faith and eat, and said they never had to ask for permission before.
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NEC TO ASSIST CHAKRYA’S BAIL REQUEST
The National Election Committee (NEC) will examine the possibility of providing legal assistance and a potential bail request for deputy secretary Ny Chakrya, as the scheduled hearing at the Court of Appeal looms for himself and four Adhoc staff arrested last month. The hearing is set to take place on June 13 as part of the snowballing case surrounding an affair between acting Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem Sokha and a hairdresser, a case the five were ensnared in when the hairdresser approached Adhoc for assistance.
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GOV’T TO INVESTIGATE THUMBPRINTS
The government has ordered Interior Minister Sar Kheng to investigate the roughly 170,000 thumbprints presented to the King by the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) after claims about irregularities in the petition surfaced on Tuesday. The CNRP delivered the petition containing 173,144 thumbprints from supporters across the country after all 68 members of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), including Prime Minister Hun Sen, voted to allow continued legal action against acting CNRP president Kem Sokha.
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Anti-Corruption Unit Arrests Lawyer; Bar Warns of Graft
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has arrested a lawyer in Phnom Penh over undisclosed allegations of graft, with the bar association issuing a notice to members on Wednesday warning them against acting as a “go-between” for court officials and clients. Pich Rattana, 40, was arrested in the Olympic Stadium compound on Tuesday, according to bar association president Bun Honn. The ACU, whose officers carried out the arrest, has declined to give any details about the case.
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Details scant in ACU's arrest of lawyer
A lawyer has been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit and is expected to face court today, though the details of his arrest and the accusations against him remained hazy yesterday. Pich Ratana, 40, was arrested on Tuesday near Olympic Stadium, and Saing Vannak, one of Ratana’s six potential lawyers, confirmed the ACU questioned Ratana and decided to detain him on Tuesday.
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GATHERING TO MOURN LOSS OF KAMPUCHEA KROM
A coalition of Kampuchea Krom community groups will celebrate the 67th anniversary of the loss of land to Vietnam on Saturday at the Bodhiyarama Buddhist Temple, according to a press release issued over the weekend. According to the press release, the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community (KKC), Khmer Krom civil society coalition and Khmer Youth Alliance for Democracy will celebrate this anniversary to acknowledge the courage of Khmer people who gave their lives for the sake of the nation, the religion and the kings.
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NEC Delegation to Visit Jailed Senior Official On Thursday
National Election Committee (NEC) vice chairman Kuoy Bunroeun will lead a delegation of election officials to visit the body’s jailed deputy secretary-general Ny Chakrya this morning, committee spokesman Hang Puthea said on Wednesday. It will be the first time the courts have allowed NEC officials to visit Mr. Chakrya since he was charged and jailed early last month.
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Sale of Kandal stream decried, and denied
Hundreds of residents in two villages in Kandal province yesterday gathered to protest the alleged sale of 10 hectares of land containing a natural stream, and demanded that it be kept for collective use. Local authorities, however, dismissed villagers’ concerns, saying they were misinformed.
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Car with BHQ logo stopped with logs in Siem Reap
The driver of a pickup truck loaded with timber and bearing the logo of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Bodyguard Unit (BHQ) was stopped and fined by Forestry Administration (FA) officers in Siem Reap on Wednesday. The truck contained seven logs from Preah Vihear when it was stopped in Prasat Bakong district. Tea Kimsoth, the provincial forestry director, said the driver was not arrested because his haul was not big enough to qualify as a serious violation.
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Government Claims King Wants CNRP Petition Investigated
The Council of Ministers has asked Interior Minister Sar Kheng to investigate possible fraud in a petition from the opposition CNRP urging King Norodom Sihamoni to intervene in the country’s political crisis, claiming the probe was the king’s own idea. The CNRP delivered the petition to the Royal Palace on Monday, asking the king to help ease political tensions, which have been on the boil amid the government’s dogged pursuit of criminal cases against several opposition activists and lawmakers. The party claimed to have collected thumbprints from some 200,000 people across the country supporting their call.
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Land dispute ‘task force’ to be established in Ratanakkiri
Senior Minister in charge of Special Missions Ly Thuch announced yesterday that a land dispute resolution task force will be created for Ratanakkiri province, although observers said the move was coming too late. In line with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s instructions to resolve land disputes related to economic land concessions (ELCs), Thuch said “citizens need land to do farming, so [we are] asking the ELC owners to share the land with villagers in favour of the villagers”.
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Where Rainsy Would Not, Sokha Stands Up
It’s easy to be the authoritarian leader of a poor agricultural nation when your chief opponent lives in an apartment near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Prime Minister Hun Sen has learned over the past decade. Though he was allowed to return to legitimize elections in 2008 and 2013, opposition leader Sam Rainsy has only lived in the country for about half of the past 10 years.
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Freedom Park 'insurrection' trial concludes
The last of three men belatedly charged over a 2014 protest that descended into violence at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park stood trial yesterday, telling the court he merely stopped at the opposition-led demonstration to film it and had in fact helped a security guard injured during the melee. Yea Thong, 44, was among three men seized by police in August of last year, just hours after the prime minister in a public speech demanded more arrests in the widely criticised case, which has already seen 11 people convicted on “insurrection” charges.
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Government and Teachers Spar Over Call to Protest
The Ministry of Education has rebuked the country’s largest teachers association over a statement it released on Sunday, sparking a war of words in which the two bodies accused one another of serving political interests over the country’s students. The statement from the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association (CITA) called for instructors across the country to engage in peaceful protests or to strike if CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha was arrested in relation to investigations into a sex scandal.
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Freedom Park Defendant Denies Fighting Back
One of three men whose arrests were ordered by Prime Minister Hun Sen last year for taking part in an opposition protest in July 2014 that turned violent said during his trial on Tuesday that he was only photographing the chaos and had even helped an injured security guard. Yea Thong, a 44-year-old motorbike salesman, was arrested in August alongside Yon Kimhour, 29, and Roen Chetra, 33, in the weeks after the Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced 11 others to between seven and 20 years in prison for the protest at Freedom Park.
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New Building, Broken Promises at Borei Keila
A decade ago, powerful businesswoman Suy Sophan promised to build 10 apartment blocks for residents of Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila neighborhood who faced eviction to make way for her real estate project. She only built eight, leaving hundreds of residents without a home. A new apartment block has now been built on the land once slated for resettlement housing, but it’s not for former residents. “Apartment/Room for Rent 250$ (Special Promotion)” says a sign on the front of the building.
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Pagoda land decision draws protest
One hundred Kandal province villagers descended on the Supreme Court in Phnom Penh yesterday to protest a decision to hand 2 hectares of land long cultivated as part of their local pagoda to a group of soldiers. Abbot Yan Vanthoeun, who has lived in the affected pagoda in Kien Svay district’s Samrong Thom commune since 1994, expressed disappointment at yesterday’s verdict.
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Local official punched me, says Preah Vihear land disputant
The deputy governor of Preah Vihear’s Tbeng Meanchey district has been accused of punching a displaced ethnic Kuoy villager during a confrontation over land being cleared by Chinese sugar company Rui Feng. Rui Feng and four sister companies that share the same registered address were granted an economic land concession over the area in 2011. Since then, residents have been protesting and obstructing clearing machines.
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