PETITION TO END CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT'SHUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION IN CAMBODIA
January 4, 2010The Honorable Ann Syauta, Human Rights Officer
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations
Room DC1-640
New York, NY 10017
Dear Her Excellency Syauta:
We, as American Cambodian origin, citizens of the United States, Cambodia, and other nationalities undersigned writing to ask for your support and intervention with respect to the declining state of human rights in Cambodia.
Cambodia has no real separation of powers; only on paper and in theory. Because the executive branch has total control over the legislative and judiciary bodies, people are extremely fearful to be on the wrong side of the government. The control runs deep, through a highly sophisticated patronage system, through reward and punishment. Almost all judges and legal practitioners are members of the ruling party. Justices of the Cambodian Supreme Court come from the elite ranks of the ruling party as well. The highest court will not strike down any unlawful passage of law contravening the Constitution, particularly when it comes to placing limit on freedoms of its people.
On November 16, 2009, the National Assembly voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of Mr. Sam Rainsy, Members of Parliament (MP), without any regard for his rights or the people he represented, not to mention the integrity of the institution, itself–something which is excessively abusive and ridiculous by any democratic standard.
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