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Opposition leader Sam Rainsy (Photo: Ayuthyea, RFA)By Mao Sotheany
Source: Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata for KI-Media
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Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said that he is not worried about the lawsuit brought up by the Chantrea district authority, accusing him of criminal conduct for destroying public properties on 25 October.
Sam Rainsy, who is currently in France after attending a conference in Egypt, told RFA over the phone that he is not alarmed about the lawsuit brought up by the Chantrea district authority accusing him of committing a crime by destroying public properties after he pulled out 6 wooden posts from a rice field belonging to [Cambodian] villagers on 25 October. The event took place when the SRP led a Kathen procession to Wat Ang Romdenh Pagoda, located about 200-300 meters from the Vietnamese border.
Sam Rainsy said that, regarding the accusation leveled against him, he would like to get the International court to resolve this case where Cambodian farmers lose their rice fields and he accused Vietnam of planting posts by encroaching on Cambodian farmers’ lands.
Sam Rainsy said: “I am not scared, if the Vietnamese government sues me, let them, if the current Phnom Penh regime sues me, let them, but I will sue to the International community, asking them to help protect Cambodian territories. I want the International [Paris Peace] conference on Cambodia to be reconvened, I will ask the 18 signatory countries in the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements to meet because the Cambodian territories are being violated right now. The Paris Agreements guarantee that all the signatory countries will help Cambodia when Cambodian territories are being violated. Now, the Cambodian territories are being violated, and we have sufficient proofs to that effect.”
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