The Phnom Penh Post
Translated from Khmer by Socheata for KI-Media
(Comments by Angkor Borey, the Voice of Cambodians Overseas)
Click here to read the article and comments by Angkor Borey in Khmer
The opposition leader rejected the clarification issued by the Press and Quick Reaction Unit (PQRU) of the Council of Ministers which was distributed on Wednesday. The PQRU clarification indicated that he used the forum organized by the Club of Thai Journalists in Bangkok to indicate that the Cambodian government leader, Mr. Hun Xen, was a former Khmer Rouge leader.
SRP leader Sam Rainsy, who returned from overseas in the evening of Tuesday, told The Phnom Penh Post on Thursday that he recognized that he held a press conference in Bangkok, and that he also raised the issue of a number of Cambodian government leaders who were former Khmer Rouge cadres who still maintain their old mentality. However, Sam Rainsy said that he did not name PM Hun Xen as it was indicated in the clarification issued by the Council of Ministers’ PQRU (Angkor Borey Note: This is a lesson for Hun Xen, or [it can be considered as] stuffing Hun Xen’s words back into his mouth for his rude and mocking speech against Mrs. Mu Sochua without pointing out her name in Kampot. Hun Xen’s tactics led to a dispute that reached the court recently).
Sam Rainsy said: “I said that a number of leaders in the current government were former Khmer Rouge, they were at least regional cadre leaders, and they still maintain their old mentality and they still use violence, repression to shut down all types of freedom. I was speaking in general terms, I did not name any individual at all.”
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