Traitor sVar Kim Hong doing his Yuon Boss’ dirty work bidding by threatening Khmer People
13 Nov 2010
By Den Ayuthyea
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Bay Cyclo
sVar Kim Hong, the chairman of the government border committee, threatened to take legal measures against civil society officials and opposition officials who would disturb the border post planting operation along the Cambodia-Viet border.
The stakes for border post no. 109 located in Dar commune, Memot district, Kampong Cham province, was planted by officials from the government border committee on 27 October 2010. However, local villagers charged that these border stakes led to the loss of their fruit-bearing farmland.
On 12 November, representatives of the villagers distributed their complaint bearing the thumbprints of more than 200 villagers at the SRP headquarters. The Dar commune villagers’ complaint, dated 29 October, was sent to sVar Kim Hong to protest this border post planting.
In response to this complaint, sVar Kim Hong told RFA on 13 November that the planting of the border stakes for post no. 109 does not affect the more than 200 villagers’ rice field or farmland, it affected 5-square-meter of land belonging to one family only.
sVar Kim Hong considered the villagers’ complaint as incitation initiated by the Sam Rainsy Party in that region because during the planting of border post 109, officials from the government border committee invited provincial leaders, the local authority and the local villagers to come to visit.
Nevertheless, sVar Kim Hong stressed that he will take legal measures against any actions that are deemed slowing the planting of border posts between Cambodia and Vietnam.
sVar Kim Hong said: “What we said, they don’t listen. Therefore, we have to use the court to defend the government’s position, this is not a country without law. Don’t disturb us, as for Mr. Rong Chhun, what expertise does he have?”
sVar Kim Hong’s threat came at a time when border activists and opposition officials plan to lead a delegation to visit the border planting operation in Kampong Cham province at the end of November.
Rong Chhun, a representative of the Cambodia Watchdog Council (CWC), declared that on 23-24 November, he will lead a delegation to visit the border stakes for post no. 109 in order to see how far it encroaches into Cambodian territories. Following that visit, he will then send a report to the National Assembly and to Hun Xen.
Rong Chhun added: “If the authority prevents the visit to the border, then it shows that something irregular is happening in the planting of the border stakes.”
SRP Kampong Cham MP Mao Monyvann said that there is no reason for officials at the government border committee to prevent the visit to the location of border post 109 if the border planting does not affect the villagers’ land.
Mao Monyvann said: “He (sVar Kim Hong) responded to the villagers, and he also threatened the civil society. If there is transparency, the public, the civil society and the MPs can go visit freely, that is if the planting of this border post does not lead to any loss.”
sVar Kim Hong considered that the action [taken by the civil society and the SRP officials] as a disturbance to the work by officials in charge of planting border post, and that such work is the prerogative of the governments from the two countries only, not that of any civil society or opposition officials. sVar Kim Hong said that he will order local cops to prevent any disturbance from the civil society and opposition officials.
