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| Sam Rainsy at Radio Free Asia. (RFA) |
2011-03-01
Radio Free Asia
Sam Rainsy calls his convictions an attempt to exclude him from Cambodian elections.
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy today blasted as “political” a Cambodian Supreme Court decision rejecting his appeal of a conviction for inciting racial tensions with Vietnam.
Rainsy, who lives in exile in France, was sentenced in absentia to a two-year prison term in January 2010 for removing border marking posts between the two countries in a protest the previous year.
He has frequently spoken out against what he has described as Vietnamese encroachment on Cambodian territory.
In a separate case, Sam Rainsy received an additional ten-year term for publishing what the Cambodian government called a false map of the border.
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