October 13, 2011
I REAFFIRM THAT HOR NAM HONG IS A FORMER KHMER ROUGE PRISON CHIEF
Today the kangaroo court in Phnom Penh upheld a previous verdict in the case related to a defamation lawsuit filed against me by current Cambodian Foreign Minister and former Khmer Rouge prison chief Hor Nam Hong.
The same defamation lawsuit had been filed against me in France by the same Hor Nam Hong who denied my assertion that he is a former Khmer Rouge prison chief. But on April 27, 2011 the French Supreme Court ("Cour de Cassation") declared I was not guilty of anything and Hor Nam Hong finally and definitively lost his lawsuit before the French tribunal.
Therefore, the guilty verdict rendered by the Phnom Penh tribunal today is a blatant violation of the "Non bis in idem" principle (no one shall be twice tried for the same offence). It appears laughable when one compares the degree of independence and respectability enjoyed respectively by the French (real) court and the Cambodian (kangaroo) court.
We must remember that Hor Nam Hong, along with five other top dignitaries of the current regime, refused last year to comply with a subpoena by UN-appointed judge Marcel Lemonde to testify as witnesses before the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh dealing with perpetrators of crimes against humanity. In a democratic country with an independent justice system such an offence would send Hor Nam Hong and his CPP colleagues to jail.
Sam Rainsy
Elected Member of Parliament
6 comments:
He's going nowhere with this litigation. He tried to shoot the same target over and over. He needs a better target that Cambodian people really care about. It's useless in the giving time. Acid attacks on women is a good target. It's an issue which people want to be focused upon, and which is relating to people lives.
1;02PM,DO YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE CRIME AGAIN HAMANITY THAT COMMITTED BY THESE PEOPLE AND STOP DEFEND THEM. LOVE KHMER
1;02pm DO YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE CRIME AGAIN HUMANITY THAT HAD BEEN COMMITTED BY THESE PEOPLE AND ALSO PLEASE STOP DEFEND THEM.LOVE KHMER
I agree with 1:02PM. This is an very old story. Can SR find another bad thing about H5H.
Mr Sam Te Min Kuo Sy.
He is out of date with Khmer news. How dumb can you get to focus on Hor Nam Hong. Common man. Here are the some subject SRP should focus:
Flooding
Oil and contract deals
Employment
Land law
Education
Health
I hope he can make use of these subject that is hot potato.
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