Photos from the Anti-Hun Xen demonstration in New York
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| Messages on the posters held by the protesters sum up very well the current situation in Cambodia under Mr. Hun Xen's regime (All Photos: Michael Duong) |
Seeking the Australian government to help pressure Cambodian government to respect the rights of the oppositions
24th September 2010The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP
Minister For Foreign Affairs
PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Re: Seeking the Australian government to help pressure Cambodian government to respect the rights of the oppositions.
The Honorable Minister,
I would like to bring to your attention of an alarming deterioration of the democratic system in Cambodia.
The leader of the Cambodian main opposition Mr. Sam Rainsy was sentence to 10 years by the Cambodian municipal court in Phnom Penh on Thursday 23rd September 2010.
The Cambodian government accuse Mr. Sam Rainsy of disinformation and falsifying of public documents because he displayed a map that had a different border between Cambodia and Vietnam.
The Cambodian Ruling Party uses the corrupted court system as the tool to suppress their oppositions. Political intimidations, illegal arrests of political activists and other scrupulous acts by The Cambodian Ruling Party are on the increase as the 2012 Commune Election is fast approaching. The Cambodian Ruling is undermining the principle of democracy by repeatedly abused freedom of expressions and human rights.
We Cambodian -Australian are concerned by this latest political motivated sentencing of the leader of the main opposition Mr. Sam Rainsy. We seek the Australian government to help pressure Cambodian government to respect the rights of the oppositions. We strongly believe the Australian government can play a more active engaged role in Cambodia as Australia is one of the major aids donors to Cambodia and also a regional power.
On behalf of Cambodian-Australian community I would like to thank you for your assistants regarding this political motivated sentence of the Cambodian leader of the main opposition.
