Stark images of Boeung Kak’s changing landscape

Jean-Francois Perigois’s photos depict Boeung Kak lake’s lingering residents against a rapidly changing landscape. Photograph: Jean-Francois Perigois

Thursday, 07 June 2012
Sean Gleeson
The Phnom Penh Post

The contentious dispute over the residents displaced from Phnom Penh’s lakeside district has been captured in a photography exhibition now on display at Meta House.

French photographer Jean-Francois Perigois, a resident of Cambodia for the past five years, has spent the past 18 months compiling the works, in the process repeatedly raising the ire of police officers stationed to keep the Boeung Kak development site away from prying eyes.

Attempts by authorities to prevent documentation of the dramatic changes in the neighbourhood’s landscape are what Perigois has sought to remedy with his latest collection, Boeung Kak Was A Lake.

“Of course, it’s a controversial issue,” he says. “But I’m a witness. I’m just providing a picture, and hopefully discussion comes from there. People should be able to talk, to explain and to say why this is happening.“

The elegantly framed exhibition highlights the dichotomy between Boeung Kak’s lingering residents and the machinery of development that has drained the lake and flattened surrounding buildings.

In Watchers, two moto drivers with their backs to the lens gaze out from an overpass into the barren gulf of what was once a thriving community, while Death by the Mud depicts a lone man staring balefully into the distance while perched on a drainage pipe being used to clear the lake’s water.

In 2007, Shukaku Inc, a development consortium with ties to the Cambodian People’s Party, was granted a 99-year lease for land around the Boeung Kak area.

More than 4,000 residents have been moved from the site as a result of subsequent development works.

The issue of the remaining families flared up again late last month, with the arrest of 13 Boeung Kak women who were supporting a family trying to build a new home on land they were evicted from two years earlier.

The women were sentenced to two-and-a-half-year jail terms.

Before their trial, monk and rights activist Loun Savath was briefly detained for leading a protest rally against the arrests.

For the photographer, the story of Boeung Kak epitomises the fraught and uncertain path of Cambodia’s recent economic development.

“It’s so sad to see the destruction of an area that should be a public space,” Perigois says. “The country has evolved a great deal in the past 10 years, but sometimes in the wrong way.

“Even though it has become less poor in that time, the social distortion between rich and poor has in many respects become larger.”

Boeung Kak Was A Lake will be on display at Meta House until Sunday, June 24.

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Dengue vaccine in sight

A child suffering from dengue fever lies on a bed at the Kantha Bopha hospital in Phnom Penh. Dengue causes fever, headaches and agonising muscle and joint pains. Photograph: Reuters

Thursday, 07 June 2012
Ben Hirschler/Reuters

One of the grimmest legacies of the war in the Pacific is still being fought 70 years on, but a victory over dengue, the intensely painful “breakbone fever” that conflict helped spread around the world, may be in sight.

Paris-based drug company Sanofi hopes for positive results in September from a key trial among children in Thailand that would set it on course to market a shot in 2015 that would prevent an estimated 100 million cases of dengue infection each year. Of the 20,000 who die annually, many are children.

For Sanofi, which has invested 350 million euros (about US$438 million) in a new French factory to make the three-dose vaccine, it could mean a billion euros in yearly sales, as half the world is exposed to the disease, notably in tropical cities from Rio and Mexico City to Manila and Phnom Penh.

World Health Organization epidemiologist Steven Bjorge told the Post yesterday that a medicinal measure to prevent the spread of dengue would be instrumental in countries like Cambodia.

“If the trials prove that it is effective, then it would be a real step forward, because the control of dengue is very difficult. There is no medical treatment and there is no vaccine, so we have to fall back on mosquito control, which is very imperfect,” Bjorge said.

“I’m sure the trial would be run well, but it would be another year before we have usable data. [I] don’t see that there would be any results anytime soon, to ensure safety as well as effectiveness,” he said, adding that the Thailand trial was the furthest progressed of any drug-development trials in the world.

It has been long wait. Identified in local outbreaks in Asia, the Americas and Africa since the 18th century – and noted as a serious military hindrance by US generals in their 1898 war against Spain in Cuba and the Philippines – dengue was spread to global pandemic proportions in part due to the mass movements of armies through the Pacific in World War II.

In the past 50 years, there has been a 30-fold jump in cases. The World Health Organization officially puts infections at 50 million to 100 million a year, although many experts think this assessment from the 1990s badly under-estimates the disease. Most patients survive, but it is estimated to kill about 20,000 every year, many of them children less able to fight it off.

WHO’s Bjorge emphasised the urgency of a vaccine for dengue.

“The vaccine’s been needed for 30 to 40 years. We’ve just been waiting and waiting and waiting. The technical problem is that there are four different viruses that produce the same disease,” he said. “It’s been necessary to produce four separate vaccines and make a cocktail. Complicating the problem is that the second or third time you get dengue, you can get complications.”

The good news for countries like Cambodia, is that like competitor GlaxoSmithKline, whose new malaria shot has shown promise, Sanofi is preparing for pressure to make its drug accessible to billions too poor to pay the market price.

“Everyone is aware of the fact that the vaccine has to be cheap enough for ordinary people to purchase, for the government to vaccinate large numbers,” Bjorge said.

“If you don’t vaccinate large numbers, you’re going to have outbreaks and epidemics.”

Its estimate of more than a billion euros (about US$1.25 billion) in annual sales assumes that it is added to routine immunisation schedules in Asia and Latin America and is also adopted by travellers from farther afield as well as military medics in the US and Europe.

Meeting that sales potential – while getting the vaccine to hundreds of millions who need it across the tropics – will require a careful balancing act on pricing and supply of a product that has yet to be given a commercial brand name.

Orin Levine, executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says the new vaccine is a potential breakthrough, but warned its rollout may not be straightforward.

First, the vaccine needs to be given in three installments over the course of a year in order to counter the threat from four different types of dengue virus, none of which confers immunity for the others.

“There are going to be some challenges,” said Levine. “There’s really good economic potential from this vaccine, but I think it may take a ramp-up of three to five years.”

In an ideal world, healthcare experts would like a single-dose or, at most, a two-dose vaccine for mass immunisation.

A simpler regimen would also be better for travellers, although Pascal Barollier of Sanofi Pasteur, Sanofi’s vaccine arm, says many users will be people making regular trips to see families in Asia or Latin America who have time to plan ahead. The military, too, often has lead time for troop movements.

In any case, Sanofi is putting its money where its mouth is by spending 350 million euros on a new dengue vaccine factory near Lyon, which is already in test production.

It is a substantial gamble, since Sanofi will only learn whether the vaccine really works when it analyses data from a first study of its efficacy on 4,000 Thai children.

Results from that clinical study, in what is known as the Phase IIb of the international standard three-stage process of assessment, are expected in the third quarter – most likely September. They will also be presented for scientific scrutiny at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Atlanta in November.

If the data is good, Sanofi will file for market approval in countries where dengue is endemic like Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Mexico in 2013, suggesting a regulatory green light in 2014 and commercial launch in early 2015.

Early tests have shown a balanced immune response against all four dengue types, and Duane Gubler of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, who has researched dengue for four decades, is optimistic.

“Everything they’ve done so far looks very good,” he says. “I think it will be a much better vaccine than [the one created for] malaria.”

He expects Sanofi’s vaccine will show an efficacy rate of at least 75 to 80 per cent, well above the 50 per cent or so seen with GSK’s malaria shot, which faces the added technical problem of fighting a complex parasite rather than a virus.

In Cambodia, there were 2,579 dengue cases, with 14 deaths, in the first 18 weeks of the year – an increase of 353 per cent when compared to the same period last year.

Char Meng Chuor, director of the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, pointed out that the similarity of the dengue and CHIKIV viruses and the rise in CHIKIV cases had partly contributed to the fourfold increase in reported dengue numbers.

Boeung Kak Lake update – Posted by Sprit Danger

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ហេតុ ​អ្វី​ក៏​គ្មាន​ស្ថាប័ន​ណា ​មើល​ឃើញ​ពី​ទុក្ខ​សោ​​កក្មេង​បឹង​កក់​? [– Why n o one wants to look at the suffering of Boeung Kak Lake children?]

ក្មេង​ៗ​កូន​អ្នក​ភូមិ​បឹង​កក់​​ស្រែក​យំ​នៅ​មុខ​ក្រសួង​យុត្តិ​ធម៌​។ រូបថត គីម​ឡុង​

Thursday, 07 June 2012 13:22
កាន់ វិរៈ
The Phnom Penh Post

សូម​បញ្ឈប់​ធ្វើ​បាប​ អ្នក​ទន់​ខ្សោយ​ទៀត​ទៅ ហើយ​សូម​ធ្វើ​អ្វីៗ​ទៅ​តាម​ច្បាប់​ ដើម្បី​ភាព​រីក​ចម្រើន​រុង​រឿង​ទាំង​អស់​គ្នា ទាំង​រដ្ឋ ទាំង​ប្រជា​ពលរដ្ឋ និង​ទាំង​ក្រុម​ហ៊ុន និង​ក៏​ដើម្បី​កេរ្តិ៍​ឈ្មោះ និង​មុខ​មាត់​របស់​ប្រទេស​យើង​ផង​ដែរ

គោរ​ពជូន លោក​ចាង​ហ្វាង

យោង​តាម​រដ្ឋ​ធម្ម​នុញ្ញ ទោះ​ជា​គ្មាន​អំណាច ក៏​ព្រះ​មហាក្ស​ត្រ​អាច​ព្រះ​រាជ​ទាន​ការ​លើក​លែង​ទោស​បាន​ដែរ។

តើ​សម្តេច ហ៊ុន សែន នៅ​មាន​ឥទ្ធិ​ពល​ដូច​មុនដែរឬ​ទេ?

ជំពូក ២ មាត្រា ៧ វាក្យ​ខណ្ខ​ទី ១ នៃ​រដ្ឋ​ធម្ម​នុញ្ញចែង​ថា ព្រះ​មហា​ក្សត្រ​ទ្រង់​គ្រង​រាជ្យ​សម្បត្តិ តែមិន​កាន់​អំណាច​ទេ​ ប៉ុន្តែ​មាត្រា ២៧ នៃ​រដ្ឋ​ធម្មនុញ្ញ​ដដែល​នេះ ​ចែង​ថា​ព្រះ​ មហាក្សត្រ​ មាន​ព្រះ​រាជ​សិទ្ធិ​បន្ធូរ​បន្ថយទោស​ និង​លើក​លែង​ទោស​ អត់​មាន​ចែង​ថា ទាល់​តែ​មាន​ការ​ស្នើ​សុំ​ពី​នាយក​រដ្ឋ​មន្ត្រី​ពីតុ​លា​ការ ឬ​ពី​នាយក​ពន្ធ​នាគារ​នោះ​ឡើយ។ យោង​តាម​រដ្ឋ​ធម្មនុញ្ញ​ដែល​ជា​ច្បាប់​កំពូល​នេះ ព្រះ​មហាក្ស ​ត្រ ធ្លាប់​បាន​ព្រះ​រាជ​ទាន​ការ​លើក​លែង​ទោសឲ្យ​ទណ្ឌិត​រាប់​រយ​នាក់​មក​ហើយ នា​ពេល​កន្លង​មក​នេះ ហើយ​ទណ្ឌិត​ទាំង​នោះ សុទ្ធ​តែ​មាន​ទោស​ដោយ​សារ ការ​ប្រព្រឹត្ត​បទ​ល្មើស​ជាក់​ស្តែងដូច​ជា លួច ឆក់ ប្លន់ សម្លាប់​៘ ទណ្ឌិត​ខ្លះ​ជាប់​គុក​មិន​ទាំង​គ្រប់ ២​ ភាគ ៣ នៃ​ទោស​ផង​ ឯជន​ល្មើស​ខ្លះ​ ជាប់​គុក​មិន​ទាន់​បាន ១០ ​ថ្ងៃ​ផង ក៏​ត្រូវ​បាន​ព្រះ​ មហាក្សត្រ​ ព្រះ​រាជ​ទាន​លើក​លែង​ទោស​ដែរ ដូច​ជា ជន​ជាតិ​ថៃ ពាក់​ពន្ធ័​នឹង​ការ​ធ្វើ​ចារ​កម្ម​នៅ​ព្រលាន​យន្ត​ហោះ​ពោធិ​ចិន​តុង និង​ជន​ល្មើស​ម្នាក់ទៀត ​ជា​ជន​ជាតិ រុស្ស៊ី ឈ្មោះ ត្រូហ្វី​ម៉ូវ ដែល​ត្រូវ​បាន​ដោះលែង​ពី​ពន្ធនាគារ​កាល​ពី​ឆ្នាំ ២០១១ ជា​ដើម។

អ្នក​ទាំ​ងអស់​នោះ​ សុទ្ធ​តែ​ជា​អ្នក​បាន​ប្រព្រឹត្ត​បទ​ល្មើស​ជាក់​ស្តែង សុទ្ធតែ​ត្រូវ​បាន​ព្រះ​រាជ​ទាន​ការ​លើក​លែង​ទោស​ពី​ព្រះ​មហាក្ស​ត្រ ដោយ​ មិន​ដែល​ឃើញ​កូនៗ​នៃ​ជន​ល្មើស​ទាំង​នោះ​ មក​ស្រែក​យំ លុត​ជង្គង់ លន់​តួ សុំ​អង្វរ​ករឲ្យ​លើក​លែង​ទោស​ ដូច​កូនៗ​អាយុ​ក្រោម ១៥ ឆ្នាំ​ ដែល​ជាកូនៗ​នៃ​ស្ត្រី​បឹង​កក់​នោះ​ទេ។

យោង​តាម​រដ្ឋ​ធម្មនុញ្ញ​ដដែល មាត្រា ៣៥ វាក្យ​ខណ្ឌទី ២ ​ចែង​ថា សេច ​ក្តី​ស្នើ​ទាំង​ឡាយ​របស់​ប្រជាជន​ត្រូវ​បាន​ទទួល​ការ​ពិនិត្យ និង​ដោះ​ស្រាយ​ហ្មត់​ចត់​ពី​អង្គការ​រដ្ឋ ប៉ុន្តែចំពោះកូនៗអ្នកបឹងកក់វិញ​មាន​ទេ? ពុំ​ត្រឹម​តែ​ស្នើ​សុំ​ទេ គឺ​លុត​ជង្គង់​បង្ហូរ​ទឹក​ភ្នែក ស្រែក​យំ​ដង្ហោយ ស្នើ​សុំទៅ​ស្ថា​ប័ន​ពាក់​ព័ន្ធ ដែល​ស្ថិត​នៅ​ក្រោម​អំណាច​រដ្ឋ​ធម្មនុញ្ញ​ឲ្យ​ជួយ​ដោះ​ស្រាយ​…តើ​មាន​បាន ​ទទួល​ដោះ​ស្រាយ​ហ្មត់​ចត់ ឲ្យ​ពល​រដ្ឋ​រង​គ្រោះ​នៅ​បឹង​កក់​ជា​ពិសេស​កូន​តូច​ៗ​ របស់​ពួក​គេ​ដែល​ស្រែក​ទ្រហោយំ​រក​យុត្តិធម៌​រាល់​ថ្ងៃ​នេះ​ ទាំង​ក្រសួង​យុត្តិ​ធម៌ ទាំង​រដ្ឋ​សភា ទាំង​នាយក​រដ្ឋ​មន្ត្រី ទាំង​ព្រះមហា​ក្សត្រ? ចម្លើយគឺ ឆ្លើយ​ថា​អត់​មាន​ទេ សូម្បីតែញត្តិក៏មិនទទួលយកផង។

មា​ត្រា ៣៨ នៃ​ច្បាប់​កំពូល​នេះ​ក៏​បាន​ចែង​ដែរ​ថា ច្បាប់​រ៉ាប់ ​រង​មិន​ឲ្យ​មាន​ការ​រំលោភ​បំពាន​លើ​រូប​រាង​កាយ…តែ​ធាតុពិត ​ជាក់​ស្តែង​អត់​ទេ ពុំ​មែន​ត្រឹម​តែ​រំលោភ​លើ​រូប​រាង​កាយ​តែ​ប៉ុណ្ណោះ​ទេ គឺ​ត្រូវ​អាជ្ញា​ធរវាយ​បែក​ក្បាល ឆក់​សន្លប់ និងថែម​ទាំង​ប្រើ​កម្លាំង​មក​ចាប់​រាស្ត្រ​ដាក់​គុក​ទាំង​បំពាន​ច្បាប់​លើ​ គោក​ដ៏​គួរ​ឲ្យ​អា​ក្រក់​មើល​បំផុត​ថែម​ទៀត។

តើ​ស្ត្រី​អ្នក​ភូមិ​បឹង​កក់​ទាំង​អស់​នោះ​ខុស​ស្អី? ការពារ​ដី​ ខ្លួន​ឯង​ត្រូវ​តែ​ជាប់​គុកអ៊ីចឹង​ឬ? ​វាក្យ​ខណ្ឌទី ២ នៃ​មាត្រា​នេះ​ ចែង​ទៀត​ថា (ច្បាប់​ការ​ពារ​ជីវិត កិត្តិ​យស និង​សេច​ក្តី​ថ្លៃ​ថ្នូរ​របស់​ប្រជា​រាស្ត្រ)​ តើ​មាន​ទេ ? កិត្តិយស​របស់​ប្រជារាស្ត្រ​នៅ​ត្រង់​កន្លែង​ណា បើ​ចាប់​សែង​បោះ​ដាក់​ឡាន​ ដូចជ្រូក ឬក៏​ថ្លៃ​ថ្នូរ​ នៅ​ត្រង់​កន្លែង​ក្មេងៗ លុត​ជង្គង់​ដង្ហោយ​យំ​ស្រែក​រក​ម៉ែ នៅ​តាម​ចិញ្ចើម​ផ្លូវ​សាធារណៈ​នោះ?

មាត្រា ៤៤ នៃ​រដ្ឋ​ធម្មនុ​ញ្ញចែង​ថា កម្ម​សិទ្ធិ​ឯក​ជន​ស្រប​ច្បាប់ ស្ថិត​នៅ​ក្រោម​ការ​គាំ​ពារ​នៃ​ច្បាប់ និង ចែង​ទៀត​ថា​ ការ ​ដក​ហូត​សិទ្ធិ​ពី​ជន​ណា​ម្នាក់​ លុះ​ត្រា​តែ​ប្រយោ​ជន៍​សា​ធា​រណៈ​តម្រូវ​ឲ្យ​ធ្វើ​ ក្នុង​ករណី​ដែល​ច្បាប់ បាន​បញ្ញតិ្ត តែ​ត្រូវ​ផ្តល់​សំណង​ជា​មុនដោយ​សម​រម្យ និង​យុត្តិ​ធម៌។

មាត្រា​នេះ​ចែង​ច្បាស់​ណាស់​ថា លុះ​ត្រា តែ​ដើម្បី​ប្រយោ​ជន៍​សាធារណៈ តម្រូវ​ឲ្យ​ធ្វើ​តាម​ច្បាប់ និង​ផ្តល់​សំណង​ជា​មុន​សម​រម្យ និង​យុត្តិ​ធម៌ តែ​ករណី​បឹង​កក់​នេះ​តើ​មាន​ទេ? តើ​ច្បាប់​ណា មាត្រា​ប៉ុន្មាន មាន​បាន​ឆ្លង​កាត់​ការ​យល់​ព្រម​ពី​សភា​ឬទេ​ មុន​នឹងផ្តល់​បឹង​កក់​ទៅ​ឲ្យ​នីតិ​បុគ្គល​សា​ធារ​ណៈ​នោះ? មាន ​បាន​ផ្តល់​សំណង​សមរម្យ និង​យុត្តិ​ធម៌​តាម​ផ្លូវ​ច្បាប់​ឬទេ? ដី​តាម​តម្លៃ​ទីផ្សារ ១ ​ម៉ែត្រ​ការ៉េ ៥០០​ ដុល្លារ តែ​ឲ្យ​ប្រជា​ជន ២០០​ ដុល្លារ បើ​មិន​ព្រម​បូម​ខ្សាច់លុប និង​ចាប់​ដាក់​គុក តើ​នោះ​ឬជា​យុត្តិ​ធម៌?

មាត្រា​ ៤៨ នៃ​រដ្ឋ​ធម្មនុ​ញ្ញ​ចែង​ថា រដ្ឋ​ធានា​ការ​ពារ​សិទ្ធិ ​កុមារ សិទ្ធិ​មាន​ជីវិត​រស់​នៅ សិទ្ធិ​ទទួល បាន​ការ​អប់រំ រៀន​សូត្រ និង​ប្រឆាំង​ការ​ងារ​ទាំង​ឡាយ ដែល​អាច​ធ្វើ​ឲ្យ​ខូច​ដល់​ការ​អប់រំ ការ​រៀន​សូត្រ ឬ​ដែល​នាំ​ឲ្យ​អន្ត​រាយ- ដល់​សុខ​ភាព និង​សុខុមាល​ភាព។ តែ​ផ្ទុយ​ទាំង​អស់ ការ​ពារ​តាំង​ពី​មាន​ផ្ទះ​រហូត​ដល់អស់​ផ្ទះ ការ​ពារ​ការ​អប់​រំរៀន​សូត្រ តែ​សព្វ​ថ្ងៃ​ក្មេងៗ​ដែល​មាន​ម្តាយ​កំពុង​ជាប់​ពន្ធនា​គារ​ទាំង​អស់​នោះ​ បាន​រៀន​សូត្រ​ទេ? មាន​សុខ​ភាព និង​មាន​សុខុមាល​ភាព​ល្អ​ឬ​ទេ ក្នុង​ពេល​ដែល​ពួក​គេ​កំពុង​យំ​រាល់​ថ្ងៃ លុត​ជង្គង់​រាល់​ថ្ងៃ នឹក​ម៉ែ​រាល់​ថ្ងៃ​នោះ? ខ្លះ​មាន​បង​ប្អូន ៣ នាក់ បង​អាយុ ១១ ​ឆ្នាំ និង​ប្អូនៗ ម្នាក់​មានអាយុ​ត្រឹម៩​ ឆ្នាំនិង​ម្នាក់​ទៀត​មាន​អាយុ​ត្រឹម៦​ឆ្នាំ។ តើ​នេះ​ជា​របប​អី សង្គម​ប្រជា​ធិបតេ​យ្យ និង​ជា​ប្រទេស​នីតិរដ្ឋ​អី​?

ឯ​សម្តេច​នាយក​រដ្ឋ​មន្ត្រី​ហ៊ុន សែន ក៏​ដូច្នោះ​ដែរ តើ​អំណាច ភាព​ឈ្លាស​វៃ និង​សេច​ក្តី​មេត្តា​កុរណា​ ដែល​សម្តេចមាន​សព្វ​ថ្ងៃ​នោះ​ទៅ​ណា​អស់​ហើយ? ក្នុង​នាម​ជា​នាយក​រដ្ឋ​មន្ត្រី និង​ជា​មេធាវី ដែល​មាន​អត្ត​លេខ ៣៥០ និង​ធ្វើ​សច្ចា​ប្រណិ​ធាន​កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ ១៥ ខែ កញ្ញា ឆ្នាំ ២០០៤ សម្តេច​ដឹង​ច្បាស់​ណាស់​ថា​ រឿង​នេះ ​វា យុត្តិ​ធម៌ ឬ​មិន​យុត្តិ​ធម៌ ទោះ​បីជា​សម្តេច​ មិន​អាច​លូក​លាន់​កិច្ច​ការ​តុលា​ការក្តី​ តែ​សម្តេច​ក៏​អាច​ធានា​យុត្តិ​ធម៌​ឲ្យ​ស្ត្រី ទាំង​អស់​នោះ​បាន​ដែរ។ ការ​ដែល​តុលា​ការ​យក​មា​ត្រា​៣៤​និង​២៥៩​មក​កាត់​ទោស​ម្ចាស់​ដី​ដែល​ត្រូវ​ គេរំលោភ​បំពាន​នោះ តើ​ត្រឹម​ត្រូវ​ទេ?ចុះ​កាល​ពី​ក្រុម​ហ៊ុន​បូម​ខ្សាច់​លុប​ផ្ទះ​របស់​ ប្រជា​ជន​ហេតុ​អ្វី​ក៏​គ្មាន​កំហុស​?

បើ​អស់​លោក លោក​ស្រី ត្រូវ​គេ​បូម​ដី​លុប​ផ្ទះ ហើយ​ចាប់​ដាក់​គុក​ទាំង​អយុត្តិ​ធម៌​ទុក​ឲ្យ​កូនៗ​ នៅ​ដើរ​តត្រុក​លុត​ជង្គង់​ ស្រែក​យំ​តាម​ចិញ្ចើម​ផ្លូវ​ជា​រៀង​រាល់​ថ្ងៃ តើ​អស់​លោក​ឈឺ​ចាប់​ទេ​? សូម​បញ្ឈប់​ធ្វើ​បាប​អ្នក​ទន់​ខ្សោយ​ទៀត​ ទៅ ហើយ​សូម​ធ្វើ​អ្វីៗ​ទៅ​តាម​ច្បាប់​ ដើម្បី​ភាព​រីក​ចម្រើន​រុង​រឿង​ទាំង​អស់​គ្នា ទាំង​រដ្ឋ ទាំង​ប្រជា​ពលរដ្ឋ និង​ទាំង​ក្រុម​ហ៊ុន និង​ក៏​ដើម្បី​កេរ្តិ៍​ឈ្មោះ និង​មុខ​មាត់​របស់​ប្រទេស​យើង​ផង​ដែរ៕

ដោយកាន់ វិរៈ ពល​រដ្ឋ​ម្នាក់​

Dengue Fever Kills 21 Cambodian Children

PHNOM PENH, June 7 (Bernama) -- Some 4,434 dengue fever cases and 21 deaths involving children were reported in Cambodia in the first five months of the year, according to the health ministry.

Ngan Chantha, director of the health ministry's dengue control programme, said the latest figures reveal an increase of 1,007 dengue cases and 8 deaths from the same period last year.

"The disease happens in a large scale in every five years -- this year can be one of those outbreaks," he said, Xinhua news agency reported.

A dengue fever outbreak happened in 2007 which recorded 40,000 cases and 407 deaths involving children.

Ngan said in order to prevent the outbreak this year, abate (chemical substance used to kill larvae in water pots) has been distributed free of charge to households.

In Cambodia, the outbreak of dengue fever usually begins at the onset of the rainy season in May and lasts until October.

Last year, the country reported 15,980 dengue fever cases which killed 73 children.

CAMBODIA: Malaria gains fragile

Blood screenings in what is considered the epicentre of drug-resistant malaria in Cambodia (Pailin Province) (Photo: Brendan Brady/IRIN)

PHNOM PENH, 7 June 2012 (IRIN) – Two years after some US$22 million in donor funds were pumped into malaria control along the Cambodia-Thailand border to fight off suspected resistance to treatment, health workers say the battle is not over.

“If you take your foot off the… [accelerator] we can lose everything we have done in the past two to three years,” Steven Bjorge, anti-malaria team leader in Cambodia for the World Health Organization (WHO), told IRIN in February 2012.

The government reported 103,000 malaria infections and 151 deaths nationwide in 2010. A year later, 85,000 reported infections led to 93 deaths – a 38-percent decline in mortality.

When health workers screened more than 3,600 people for malaria in Pailin Province, near the Thai-Cambodia border, in May 2010, only two out of every 1,000 people tested positive for the fatal strain of malaria (falciparum) that had shown resistance to the recommended treatment, based on the drug artemisinin.

Villages in this province are in the zone hit by artemisinin resistance in earlier years.

Resurgence risk

Bjorge warned that any decline in vigilance could lead to resurgence. A recent analysis of “historical failures to maintain gains against [malaria]” identified 75 significant returns of the disease in 61 countries from the 1930s to the 2000s.

The authors of the analysis concluded that nine out of 10 such returns were due to weaker malaria control programmes, brought about by funding problems in 54 percent of cases. Other causes included “purposeful cessation”, war, administrative problems, community non-cooperation, vector and drug resistance, population movements among humans as well as mosquitoes, and climate changes.

Elimination

The government has announced a goal of zero malaria cases by 2025, but is struggling to hang on to donor funds.

The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria pledged almost $80 million in two current grants to fight malaria in Cambodia, but government agencies were unable to collect some $20 million – 35 percent of one grant – due to “performance below the expectations”, said Andrew Hurst, a Global Fund spokesman.

“Grant signed amounts represent available fund ceilings and are not an entitlement,” he wrote in response to a query by IRIN about the undisbursed amount, which is still available but must be requested again.

Aid analysts warn that the Global Fund’s stricter reporting requirements after a funding squeeze may hobble emergency responses.

“There is also a danger that some risk-reduction measures primarily intended for high-risk countries will be applied to all countries, thereby increasing the administrative burden and slowing down the work in low-risk countries,” wrote Angela Kageni, a senior programme officer at Aidspan, the Kenya-based not-for-profit Global Fund watchdog.

The director of Cambodia’s Centre for Malaria Control said the centre cannot comment without a “final decision” from the Global Fund on an upcoming review of the country’s grant, scheduled to end in 2015. The next phase begins on 1 January 2013.

One challenge in reaching zero cases will be detecting asymptomatic incidents – when people have built up enough resistance to the parasite not to display symptoms but still carry the disease – said Didier Menard, chief of the molecular epidemiology unit at the Pasteur Institute in the capital, Phnom Penh.

Such people constitute a “hidden malaria parasite reservoir”, so when a mosquito bites them, and then bites someone else, the disease can be transmitted. But the test and the laboratory equipment required to detect such low parasite levels – polymerase chain reaction (PCR) – is expensive and not widely available or fool-proof, Menard noted.

Another challenge will be migrant workers infected with malaria – either domestic seasonal workers or those coming from a neighbouring country – Bjorge pointed out. “A comprehensive intervention is hard with people who do not even live under a tent… [Our efforts] are trial and error right now.”

Some 35 percent of Cambodia’s population is constantly on the move, according to the most recent government estimate.

As a result, in recent decades malaria hotspots have shifted from rural areas to forested areas that attract seasonal migrants, Bjorge said. “Those will be the hardest to reach.”

Desperate Boeung Kak Protesters Turn to the Spirit World

Around 200 evictees from two Phnom Penh developments gathered in front of the National Assembly, demanding that 15 of their representatives be released from jail, file photo. Photo: VOA Khmer

Thursday, 07 June 2012
Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh

“Mu Sochua has said in the past the US should stop military aid to Cambodia until it improves its rights record, especially in the use of force against civilians by state security.”

With no result from a series of demonstrations urging the release of 15 women from the Boeung Kak community in Phnom Penh, distraught protesters turned to the spirit world on Wednesday.

They prayed to the spirits of Yay Mao and Ta Prak, who they believe have the power to bring about the release 15 women seized in a series of protests in May.

Thirteen of the women were hastily convicted on charges related to their building a house at the Boeung Kak site in protest of a forced eviction there earlier this year. Two more who were arrested at a subsequent demonstration have yet to be released.

Thursday’s spirit prayers, attended by some 50 community members of Boeung Kak, were an indicator the protesters have run out of options as they seek to remain living at a site slated for a massive commercial and residential development.

“We have submitted letters everywhere, and there is no response—even to the king—no one came to receive our letter,” said Yaum Bopha, a representative of the Boeung Kak residents.

More than 4,000 families have been forced to leave the Boeung Kak area, which was once a lake, to make room for the 133-hectare development. Many families were unhappy with compensation packages and relocation to inferior sites outside the city, and the holdouts have continued sustained demonstrations against the evictions. Some of those demonstrations have ended in violence, others in arrests, in what has become a nettling problem for the city and national government.

Under pressure from the World Bank, Prime Minister Hun Sen last year ordered the developer, Shukaku, Inc., to set aside more than 12 hectares for families. But some families said the allotment itself was derailed by underhanded deals, and they began appealing to City Hall, the National Assembly, Hun Sen’s office, the Ministry of Justice and the Royal Palace.

On Thursday, they saw the spirits of Yay Mao and Ta Prak as their last resort, as residents burned chili peppers with salt and chanted. “Our only hope is the spirits,” said Duong Kea, another resident.

“When citizens run to abstract beliefs, such as this case, it means people have lost all confidence and belief in state institutions, such as the judicial system and the authorities, to solve their problems,” said Moeun Tola, a labor rights activist for the Community Legal Education Center.

Meanwhile, Mu Sochua, an opposition parliamentarian for the Sam Rainsy Party, is currently in Washington seeking help from the US government to pressure for the release of 15 women.

In a TV interview with VOA Khmer, she said she met with Melanne Verveer, the US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, suggesting the protesters be released before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Phnom Penh for a visit next month.

Mu Sochua has said in the past the US should stop military aid to Cambodia until it improves its rights record, especially in the use of force against civilians by state security.

បក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​ពីរ​បោះ​ដៃ​រក​កា រ​រួប​រួម​គ្នា​ជា​ថ្មី

លោក​ កឹម សុខា ប្រធាន​គណ​បក្ស​សិទ្ធិ​មនុស្ស​ក្នុង​សន្និ​សីទ​ពី​ម្សិល​មិញ​។ រូបថត ចរិយា

លោក សម រង្ស៊ី ដែល​កំពុង​រស់​នៅ​និរទេស​នៅ​ប្រទេស​បា​រាំង​​​។ រូបថត Bloomberg

Tuesday, 05 June 2012 14:03
ឃុត សុ​ភ​ច​រិ​យា និង Stuart White
The Phnom Penh Post

ភ្នំពេញៈ គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​ពីរ ដែល​មាន​អាសនៈ​ក្នុង​រដ្ឋ​សភា បាន​បោះ​ដៃ​រក​គ្នា​ជា​ថ្មី​ទៀត ក្នុង​ការ​ច្របាច់​បញ្ចូល​គ្នា ឲ្យ​ក្លាយ​ទៅ​ជា​គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​ធំ​មួយ​ ខណៈ​ដែល​លទ្ធផល​នៃ​ការ​បោះឆ្នោត​ឃុំ សង្កាត់ បាន​បង្ហាញ​ថា គណ​បក្ស​ប្រជា​ជន​កម្ពុជា​កាន់​អំណាច បាន​ឈ្នះ​ឆ្នោត​ភ្លូក​ទឹក​ភ្លូក​ដី ហើយ​ការ​បែក​ខ្ញែក​គ្នា បាន​ធ្វើ​ឲ្យ​គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​ខាត​បង់​។​

លោក ​កឹម​ សុខា ប្រធាន​គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិ​មនុស្ស បាន​ថ្លែង​នៅ​ក្នុង​សន្និសីទ​កាសែត​មួយ​ កាល​ពី​ម្សិលមិញ​ថា​ ការ​ច្របាច់​បញ្ចូល​គ្នា​រវាង​គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​ទាំង​ពីរ គឺ​ជា​ការ​ចាំបាច់​ ដើម្បី​ប្រជែង​យក​អាសនៈ​សភា ពី​គណបក្ស​ប្រជាជន​ នៅ​ក្នុង​ការ​បោះ​ឆ្នោត​ជាតិ អាណត្តិទី ៥ ដែល​នឹង​ប្រព្រឹត្ត​ទៅ​នៅ​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​ ២៨ ខែ​កក្កដា ​ឆ្នាំ​២០១៣​ ខាង​មុខ​នេះ។ លោក​ កឹម សុខា ​ដែល​គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិ​មនុស្ស​របស់​លោក អាច​នឹង​ទទួល​បាន​ជ័យជម្នះ នៅ​ក្នុង​ឃុំ​ ចំនួន​ ១៨ នោះ​បាន​មាន​ប្រសាសន៍​ថា៖ «ក្រោយ​ពី​លទ្ធផល​បោះឆ្នោត​ឃុំ​សង្កាត់​អាណត្តិ​ទី ៣ ត្រូវ​បាន ​[គ.ជ.ប]​ ប្រកាស​ជា​ផ្លូវ​ការ ខ្ញុំ​នឹង​បោះ​ដៃ​ទៅ​រក​គណបក្ស សម រង្ស៊ី មុន ដើម្បី​ចរចា​បង្រួប​បង្រួម​គ្នា»។ លោក​បាន​បន្ត​ទៀត​ថា៖ «​កន្លង​មក​គណបក្ស​ សម រង្ស៊ី​ តែង​តែ​មើល​ស្រាល​ថា គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិ​មនុស្ស មិន​អាច​ទៅ​មុខ​រួច​ មិន​អាច​មាន​ការ​គាំទ្រ​ច្រើន​ទេ ដែល​ជាលេស​ មិន​ចង់​រួប​រួម​ជាមួយ​យើង ប៉ុន្តែ​ឥឡូវ​នេះ​ យើង​ឃើញ​ហើយ ​សំឡេង​ប្រហាក់​ប្រហែល​គ្នា»។

ការ​ច្របាច់​គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​ទាំង​ពីរ​បញ្ចូល​គ្នា គឺ​ជា​បំណង​ប្រា​ថ្នា ​របស់​ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋ​ខ្មែរ​ភាគ​ច្រើន​ ដែល​មាន​និន្នាការ​មិន​ស្រប​នឹង​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​។

គណ​បក្ស​សម ​រង្ស៊ី ហាក់​ដូច​ជា​បាន​ដើរ​មួយ​ជំហាន​ហើយ ក្នុង​ការ​ឆ្ពោះ​ទៅ​រក​ការ​បង្រួប​បង្រួម​គណ​បក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​ទាំង​ពីរ ដែល​បាន​ជាប់​គាំង បន្ទាប់​ពី​មាន​ការ​ជួប​ចរចា​គ្នា​ជាច្រើន​លើក ចាប់​តាំង​ពី​ក្រោយ​ការ​បោះឆ្នោត​ជាតិ​ឆ្នាំ ២០០៨ មក​នោះ។

នៅ​ក្នុង​សេចក្តី​អំពាវនាវ​មួយ ​កាល​ពីម្សិលមិញ គណបក្ស​សមរង្ស៊ី សូម​ឲ្យ​សមាជិក​ក្រុម​ប្រឹក្សា​ឃុំ​សង្កាត់ របស់​គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិ​មនុស្ស រួប​រួម​ជាមួយ​សមាជិក​សមាជិការ ក្រុម​ប្រឹក្សា​ឃុំ សង្កាត់ គណបក្ស​សមរង្ស៊ី ក្នុង​ការ​ធ្វើ​សេចក្តី​សម្រេច​កម្រិត​មូលដ្ឋាន​មួយ​ចំនួន។ សេចក្តី​អំពាវ​នាវ ដែល​ចុះ​ហត្ថលេខា ដោយ​លោក​ គង់ គាំ ប្រធាន​ស្តីទី​គណបក្ស​នេះ ​បាន​លើក​ឡើង​ថា ការ​រួប​រួម​គ្នា​នេះ គឺ​ដើម្បី​«ប្តូរ​មេ​ភូមិ​មួយ​ចំនួន តាម​ឆន្ទៈ​ប្រជា​ពលរដ្ឋ ទប់ស្កាត់​ការ​រឹប​អូស​យក​ដី​ធ្លី​របស់​ប្រជា​ពលរដ្ឋ​ដោយ​ខុស​ច្បាប់​ ការ​លុប​បំបាត់​អំពើ​ពុករលួយ ​នៅ​ថ្នាក់​មូលដ្ឋាន ការ​ ការពារ​ទ្រព្យ​សម្បត្តិ​សាធារណៈ និង​ទប់​ស្កាត់​អំពើ​អយុត្តិធម៌ ដែល​អ្នក​មាន​អំណាច​មួយ​ចំនួន កំពុង​ប្រព្រឹត្ត​លើ​ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋ​។ល។»

នៅ​ពេល​ត្រូវ​បាន​ទាក់​ទង​ តាម​ទូរស័ព្ទ​ ពី​ទីកន្លែង​ដែល​កំពុង​រស់​នៅ​និរទេស​ ក្នុង​ប្រទេស​បារាំង លោក​សម រង្ស៊ី ​បាន​ថ្លែង​ថា លោក​នឹង​មិន​ប្រឆាំង​ទៅ​នឹង​អ្វី​ក៏​ដោយ នៃ​បំណង​ដែល​ចង់​ឲ្យ​អ្នក​ប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ​រួប​រួម​គ្នា​នេះ​ទេ ប៉ុន្តែ​ត្រូវ​តែ​ធ្វើ​ការ​ពិភាក្សា​គ្នា រិះ​រក​វិធី​ល្អ​បំផុត ដើម្បី​សម្រេច​គោលដៅ​នេះ។ ​លោក​ ​បាន​ថ្លែង​ថា៖ «ខ្ញុំ​បាន​វិភាគ​ លទ្ធផល​នៃការ​បោះឆ្នោត ហើយ​វា​មិន​អាក្រក់​ដូច​អ្នក​ខ្លះ​និយាយ​នោះ​ទេ​។ ​ពិត​ណាស់​ តុល្យភាព​នៃ​អំណាច​ ​បាន​ផ្លាស់​ប្តូរ​ទៅ​រក​ក្រុម​ប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ​។ ​វា​មិន​មែន​គ្រាន់​តែ​ថា​ ​គណបក្ស​សម រង្ស៊ី​ឈ្នះ ២២ ឃុំ និង​គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិ​មនុស្ស​ឈ្នះ​ ១៨​ ឃុំ​ នោះ​ទេ ​វា​គឺថា គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​មាន​សំឡេង​ភាគ​ច្រើន​បំផុត​ ​នៅ​ក្នុង​ឃុំ​ចំនួន​ ១០០»។ លោក​បាន​បន្ត​ថា ​តុល្យភាព​នៃ​អំណាច​ គឺ​ឆ្លុះ​បញ្ចាំង​នៅ​ក្នុង​សំឡេង​ភាគ​ច្រើន​បំផុត ហើយ​សំឡេង​ភាគ​ច្រើន​បំផុត គឺជា​អ្វី​ដែល​អាច​ត្រូវ​បាន​បង្កើត​ឡើង​បាន​។

មេបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​រូប​នេះ​ បាន​ថ្លែង​កាល​ពី​ម្សិលមិញ​ថា៖ «យើង​ ត្រូវ​តែ​មាន​និតិវិធី​រឹងមំា​មួយ សម្រាប់​គណបក្ស​​ប្រឆាំង​ធ្វើ​ការ​រួម​គ្នា​។ ​មិន​មែន​រួម​កម្លាំង​គ្នា​ តែ​ជា​មួយ​សម្តី​នោះ​ទេ ប៉ុន្តែ​ត្រូវ​រួម​កម្លាំង​គ្នា ជា​មួយ​នឹង​ឯក​សារ​»។

លោក សម រង្ស៊ី បាន​លើក​ឡើង​ នូវ​ជំហាន​យុទ្ធសាស្ត្រ​ដំបូង​របស់​លោក​ថា​ នៅ ​ក្នុង​ប្រទេស​កម្ពុជា ​មេ​ភូមិ គឺ​ដូច​នឹង​ស្តេច​ត្រាញ់​តូច​មួយ នៅ​ក្នុង​ឃុំ​របស់​ពួក​គេ ​ហើយ​ពួក​គេ​ បាន​ទទួល​រង​ឥទ្ធិពល​យ៉ាង​អាក្រក់ ដើម្បី​បម្រើ​គណបក្ស​ប្រជាជន​កម្ពុជា​ ដែល​នេះ ក្រុម​ប្រឹក្សា​ឃុំ សង្កាត់ គណបក្ស​សម រង្ស៊ី និង​គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិ​មនុស្ស ត្រូវ​តែ​រួម​សហការ​គ្នា ដើម្បី​ប្តូរ​មេ​ភូមិ​ទាំង​នេះ​ចេញ​។

លោក​ សម រង្ស៊ី បាន​បន្ត​ទៀត​ថា នេះ​គឺ​ជា​ពេល​វេលា​ត្រឹមត្រូវ ក្នុង​ការ ​ចាប់​ផ្តើម​ធ្វើ​ការងារ​ជាមួយ​គ្នា ​ចាប់​ពី​ថ្នាក់​មូលដ្ឋាន ហើយ​ប្រសិន​បើ​គណបក្ស​ទាំង​ពីរ ​ធ្វើ​ការ​ល្អ​ជា​មួយ​គ្នា​ នៅមូលដ្ឋាន ​នោះ​នឹង​មាន​ជំហាន​ដទៃ​ផ្សេង​ទៀត ​ដែល​នឹង​អាច​ឆ្ពោះ​ទៅ​រក​ការ​រួប​រួម​គ្នា​។

លោក​ សម​ រង្ស៊ី ​ក៏​បាន​ថ្លែង​ផង​ដែរ​ថា លោក​មាន​សេចក្តី​រីករាយ ​ដែល​ឃើញ គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិមនុស្ស ​បាន​កៅអី​ជំនួស​គណបក្ស​ហ៊្វុនស៊ិនប៉ិច និង​គណបក្ស​នរោត្តម រណឫទ្ធិ ដែល​មាន​សម្ព័ន្ធ​ភាព​ស្អិត​ល្មួត ​ជា​មួយ​គណបក្ស​ប្រជាជន​កម្ពុជា​។ ប៉ុន្តែ​យ៉ាង​ណា​ក៏​ដោយ លោក​ សម រង្ស៊ី បាន​បញ្ជាក់​ថា ការ​និយាយ​ពី​ការ​ច្របាច់​បញ្ចូល​គ្នា​រវាង​គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​ទាំង​ពីរ នៅ​ពេល​នេះ​វា​ហាក់​បី​ដូច​ជា​លឿន​ពេក​។

លោក ​ជាម​ យៀប តំណាង​រាស្ត្រ​មក​ពី​គណបក្ស​ប្រជាជន​កម្ពុជា បាន​ថ្លែង​ថា លទ្ធផល​បោះ​ឆ្នោត​ឃុំ សង្កាត់​អាណត្តិ​ទីបី​នេះ គណបក្ស​ប្រជាជន​កម្ពុជា​ឈ្នះ​បាន​ ១៥៩១​ លើ ​១៦៣៣​ ឃុំ​ សង្កាត់​ទូទាំង​ប្រទេស។ លោក​បាន​បន្ថែម​ថា លទ្ធផល​នេះ​ បង្ហាញ​ថា​ ពលរដ្ឋ​កម្ពុជា​ បាន​យល់​ច្បាស់ ​ពី​កិច្ច​ខិតខំ​ប្រឹងប្រែង​របស់​គណបក្ស​ប្រជាជន​យ៉ាង​ពិត​ប្រាកដ ក្នុងការ​​អភិវឌ្ឍ សេដ្ឋកិច្ច សង្គម និង​ប្រឆាំង​ការ​វិល​ត្រឡប់​ជាថ្មី នៃ​របប​ប្រល័យ​ពូជសាសន៍​ប៉ុល​ពត។ លោក​ថ្លែង​ថា៖«យើង​មាន​គ្រឹះ​តាំង​ពី​មូលដ្ឋាន​ ដ៏​រឹង​មាំ ដូច្នេះ​យើង​មិន​ខ្លាច​រអា គណបក្ស​ណាមួយ​ឡើយ បើទោះ​ជា​គណបក្ស​ទាំង​នោះ ​រួបរួម​គ្នា​តែ​មួយ ហើយ​នៅ​កម្ពុជា​សល់​តែ​គណបក្ស​ពីរ ដូច​នៅ​អាមេរិក​ក្ដី»។

ប៉ុន្តែ​ លោក សម រង្ស៊ី បាន​បញ្ជាក់​ថា អ្នក​ចាញ់​ពិត​ប្រាកដ​នៅ ​ក្នុង​ការ​បោះឆ្នោត​នេះ ​គឺ​គណបក្ស​ប្រជា​ជន​ ដោយ​សម្អាង​ថា​៖​«ពី​ព្រោះ​នៅ​ពេល​គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិ​មនុស្ស និង​គណបក្ស​ សម រង្ស៊ី ​រួម​បញ្ចូល​ជា​មួយ​គ្នា ​នឹង​មាន​សំឡេង​ប្រឆាំង​ទៅ​នឹង​មេឃុំ​របស់​គណបក្ស​ប្រជាជន ដោយ​សារ​យើង​នឹង​អាច​ធ្វើ​ឲ្យ​ពួក​គេ​ជាប់​គាំង​បាន​»។

អ្នក​វិភាគ​ឯករាជ្យ បាន​និយាយ​ដោយ​មិន​ចំពោះ​ តែ​គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​ទាំង​ពីរ​នេះ​ទេ ដែល​ត្រូវ​តែ​ពិចារណា ពីការ​ច្របាច់​បញ្ចូល​គ្នា​នោះ ​គឺ​សំដៅ​ទៅ​គ្រប់​គណបក្ស​នយោបាយ​ទាំង​អស់ ដែល​មាន​និន្នា​ការ​មិន​ស្រប​នឹង​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​ផង​ដែរ ដែល​ចាំបាច់​ត្រូវ​តែ​ច្របាច់​បញ្ចូល​គ្នា​ ឲ្យ​ក្លាយ​ទៅ​ជា​គណបក្ស​ធំ​មួយ។

លោក​បណ្ឌិត សុខ ​ទូច ​អ្នក​វិភាគ​ឯករាជ្យ បាន​មានប្រសាសន៍​ថា លទ្ធផល​បោះឆ្នោត​ឃុំ សង្កាត់ អាណត្តិទី ៣​ នេះ បាន​បង្ហាញ​យ៉ាង​ច្បាស់​ហើយ​ថា គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​ទាំង​អស់​ បាន​ចាញ់ ដែល​ការ​ចាញ់​នេះ មាន​កត្តា​មួយ​ចំនួន ដូច​ជា អ្នក​គាំទ្រ មាន​ការ​ពិបាក​ ក្នុង​ការ​សម្រេច​ចិត្ត ថា​តើ​ត្រូវ​​បោះ​ឆ្នោត​ឲ្យ​គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​មួយ​ណា​ ចោល​មួយ​ណា? កង្វះ​ធនធាន​ក្នុង​ពេល​ឃោសនា ការ​វាយ​ប្រហារ​ពាក្យ​សម្ដី​លើ​បក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​ដូច​គ្នា…ជាដើម។

លោក​បាន​ថ្លែង​ថា៖ «បើ​សិន​ជា​គណបក្ស​ទាំង​នោះ មាន​គោល​ដៅ​រួម​តែ​មួយ ដើម្បី​ភាព​រីកចម្រើន​របស់​ប្រទេស​ជាតិ និង​ប្រជាជន គឺវា​ល្មម​ដល់​ពេល​ដែល​គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង​តូច​ធំ​ទាំង​អស់​ត្រូវ​រួប​រួម​ គ្នា​ហើយ។ តែបើ​ពុំ​នោះ​ទេ គណ​បក្ស​ទាំង​នេះ គ្រាន់​តែ​ជា​អ្នក​ដែល​ជួយ​កំដរ​លទ្ធិ​ប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ​នៅ​កម្ពុជា​ប៉ុណ្ណោះ »៕ PS

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អ្នក​ភូមិ​ប្រមា ឃុំ​កំពង់​ដំរី ស្រុក​ឆ្លូង ​នាំគ្នា​​ជម្លៀស​ចេញ​ ពី​​ការ​បង្ក្រាប​របស់​អាជ្ញាធរ​កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ ១៦ ឧសភា​​​។ រូបថត ហេង ជីវ័ន​

Tuesday, 05 June 2012 12:00
ម៉ៃ​ ទិត្យ​ថារ៉ា និង​ David Boyle
The Phnom Penh Post

ក្រចេះ – ប្រជាជន​នៅ​ភូមិ​ប្រមា បាន​នាំ​គ្នា​រត់​គេច​យក​តែ​ប្រាស​អាយុ​កាល​ពី​៣​សប្តាហ៍​កន្លង​ទៅ​ពេល​កង​ កម្លាំង​អាជ្ញាធរ​បើក​ការ​បាញ់​ប្រហារ​ទៅ​លើ​កាល​ពី​ខែ​មុន​រហូត​បណ្តាល​ឲ្យ ​ស្លាប់​ក្មេង​ស្រី​អាយុ​១៤​ឆ្នាំ​ម្នាក់​មាន​ការ​សោក​ស្តាយ​ដែល​ពួក​គាត់​ មិន​បាន​បោះ​ឆ្នោត​ឃុំ​នឹង​គេ និង​អំពាវ​នាវ​សុំ​សិទ្ធិ​បោះ​ឆ្នោត ដើម្បី​បាន​ការ​ទទួល​ស្គាល់​ជា​ប្រជា​ពលរដ្ឋ​ផ្លូវ​ការ​នៅ​ក្នុង​តំបន់​នេះ។

កម្លាំង​នគរ​បាល រាជ​អាវុធ​ហត្ថ និង​ទាហាន​ប្រមាណ​១ពាន់​នាក់​ដែល​បាន​ចូល​ទៅ​ភូមិ​នោះ​កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​១៦ ឧសភា ហើយ​បាន​ប្រើ​កាំ​ភ្លើង​យន្ត​បាញ់​ទៅ​លើ​ប្រជា​ពលរដ្ឋ​និង​បណ្តេញ​ពួក​គាត់​ រាប់​រយ​គ្រួសារ និង​បន្ត​រក្សា​កម្លាំង​ទុក​ប្រចាំ​ការ​ក្នុង​ភូមិ​ប្រមា​នេះ​តាំង​ពី​ពេល​ នោះ​មក។

ប្រជា​ជន ដែល​រង​គ្រោះ​ចុង​ក្រោយ​ពី​ការ​បង្រ្កាប​ដោយ​ហិង្សា​ជា​បន្ត​បន្ទាប់​ទៅ​លើ​ សហ​គមន៍​ដែល​តវ៉ា​អំពី​ការ​រំលោភ​យក​ដីធ្លី​ក្នុង​ខេត្ត​ក្រចេះ​ឆ្នាំ​នេះ ពល​រដ្ឋ​ចំនួន​១៨០ គ្រួសារ រស់​នៅ​ក្នុង​ភូមិ​ប្រមា ក្នុង​ឃុំ​កំពង់​ដំរី ស្រុក​ឆ្លូង មិន​ត្រូវ​បាន​ចាត់​ទុក​ថា ជា​ប្រជា​ពលរដ្ឋ​ពេញ​សិទ្ធិ​ទេ មូល​ហេតុ​នេះ ដែល​ពួក​គេ​ពុំ​មាន​សិទិ្ធ​បោះ​ឆ្នោត។

លោក ឌុច គន្ធា អាយុ​៦០​ឆ្នាំ​ដែល​ធ្វើ​ចំណាក​ស្រុក​ពី​ខេត្ត​តាកែវ មក​រស់​នៅ​ក្នុង​ភូមិ​ប្រមា​នេះ​តាំង​ពី​ឆ្នាំ​២០០៦ បាន​ថ្លែង​ប្រាប់​ថា លោក​កំពុង​ទន្ទឹង​រង់​ចាំ​ការ​ទទួល​ស្គាល់​គ្រួសារ​លោក​ជា​ប្រជា​ពលរដ្ឋ​នៅ​ ទី​នេះ​ជា​ផ្លូវ​ការ​ពី​មេ​ភូមិ។ លោក​បន្ត​ថា៖«ខ្ញុំ​មិន​ចង់​ឲ្យ​ គេ​មើល​ងាយ​យើង​ទៀត​ទេ ព្រោះ​យើង​រស់​នៅ​ទីនេះ​ជា​យូរ​មក​ហើយ។ អាជ្ញា​ធរ​គេ​គួរ​តែ​អនុ​ញ្ញាត​ឲ្យ​យើង​បាន​បោះ​ឆ្នោត»។

ជន​ចំណាក​ស្រុក​ដែល​ទៅ​រស់​នៅ​ភូមិ​ប្រមា បាន​បង្កើត​ភូមិ​រណប​តូច​ៗ​ដូច​ជា ភូមិ​ចំណុច​ច្រក​ដំបង អណ្តូង​ជ្រៅ និង​ភូមិ ស្រែ​ជិន​ផឹង​ជា​ដើម។

គ្មាន​ប្រជាជន​ណា​នៅ​ក្នុង​ភូមិ​រណប​តូច​ៗ​ទាំង​នេះ មាន​ការ​ទទួល​ស្គាល់​ជា​ផ្លូវ​ការ​ទេ ដែល​ជា​ការ​បង្កើត​ឲ្យ​មាន​ការ​បារម្ភ​ថា ពួក​គេ​នឹង​ត្រូវ​បណ្តេញ​ចេញ​យ៉ាង​ព្រៃ​ផ្សៃ​នា​ពេល​ខាង​មុខ ខណៈ​មាន​ប្រជា​ពលរដ្ឋ​ប្រហែល​២០០​គ្រួសារ​ទៀត ត្រូវ​ចាត់​ទុក​ថា ជា​«អ្នក​ចំណូល​ថ្មី» កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ​ទី ១៦ ខែ​ឧសភា កន្លង​ទៅ។

ប្រតិ​បត្តិ​ការ​មួយ​ធ្វើ​ឡើង​ដោយ​ក្រុម​ប្រដាប់​អាវុធ ដែល​អ្នក​ភូមិ​និង​ក្រុម​សិទ្ធិ​មនុស្ស ហៅ​ថា​«ជា​ការ​បណ្តេញ​ចេញ​ទាំង​បង្ខំ»​ក្រោម​បញ្ជា​ពី​រដ្ឋា​ភិបាល ជំនួស​ឲ្យ​ក្រុម​ហ៊ុន​កាប់​ឈើ កាសូទីម​។ កង​រាជ​អាវុធ​ហត្ថ​នៅ​តែ​រក្សា​វត្ត​មាន​រឹង​មាំ​នៅ​តំបន់​នោះ ហើយ​ប្រជាជន​ជា​ច្រើន រួម​ទាំង មឿន រិន អាយុ​១៩​ឆ្នាំ កំពុង​ភ័យ​ខ្លាច​ថា​ប្រសិន​បើ​ពួក​គេ​នៅ​តែ​គ្មាន​ការ​ទទួល​ស្គាល់់​ជា​ ផ្លូវ​ការ​នោះ​នឹង​គ្មាន​សិទ្ធិ​បោះ​ឆ្នោត​ទេ។ គាត់​បាន និយាយ​ថា ៖ «ខ្ញុំ​បាន​មក​រស់​នៅ​ទីនេះ​តាំង​ពី​ខ្ញុំ​អាយុ​១២​ឆ្នាំ ប៉ុន្តែ​មេឃុំ​មិន​ទទួល​ស្គាល់​ខ្ញុំ​ទេ ហើយ​ហេតុ​ដែល​ខ្ញុំ​ចង់​បោះ​ឆ្នោត គឺ​ខ្ញុំ​ចង់​បង្ហាញ​ថា ខ្ញុំ​មាន​សុវត្ថិ​ភាព ខ្ញុំ​នឹង​មិន​ត្រូវ​បណ្តេញ​ចេញ​ទាំង​បង្ខំ​ពី​ភូមិ ដូច​ពេល​មុន​ឡើយ»។

លោក ឆេង ឆាត ជំទប់​ឃុំ​កំពង់​ដំរី បាន​ប្រាប់​ថា មាន​គ្រួសារ​២៦៤ គ្រួសារ​បាន​ចុះ​បញ្ជី​នៅ​ភូមិ​ប្រមា ហើយ​១៨០​គ្រួសារ​មិន​ទាន់​បាន​ចុះ​ឈ្មោះ​នៅ​ឡើយ។

លោក​បន្ត​ថា៖«​ខ្ញុំ​បាន​ស្នើ​សុំ​ឲ្យ​គ្រួសារ​ទាំង​នោះ​ទៅ​អភិ​បាល​ ខេត្ត​រួច​ហើយ ហើយ​ខ្ញុំ​សង្ឃឹម​ថា នៅ​លើក​ក្រោយ​ពួក​គេ​នឹង​អាច​បោះ​ឆ្នោត​បាន»។

លោក អ៊ីម ម៉ានី អ្នក​សង្កេត​ការណ៍​របស់​អង្គការ​ឃ្លាំ​មើល​ការ​បោះ​ឆ្នោត​ហៅ ខុម ហ្វ្រែល បាន​ថ្លែង​ថា៖ «​បើ​អ្នក​ភូមិ​ប្រមា​ដើម​កំណើត​ដំបូង ដែល​គេ​ហៅ​ថា ភូមិ​ប្រមា​ចាស់ ត្រូវ​បាន​អនុញ្ញាត​ឲ្យ​បោះ​ឆ្នោត អ្នក​ទាំង​នេះ​ក៏​មិន​រង​ការ​បង្ក្រាប​ពី​ថ្ងៃ​ទី១៦ ឧសភា​ដែរ»។ លោក​ថា អ្នក​ចំណូល​ថ្មី​គ្មាន​អត្ត​សញ្ញាណ​ប័ណ្ណ និង​មិន​បាន​ចុះ​ឈ្មោះ​បោះ​ឆ្នោត មិន​បាន​បោះ​ឆ្នោត​លើក​នេះ​ទេ៕

Cambodia PM’s party claims victory in election test run

06 June 2012
Reuters

Critics say Hun Sen is a ruthless leader who has intimidated his opponents into submission or frightened them out of the country.

PHNOM PENH — Cambodia’s ruling party looks to have won a landslide win in local elections, putting authoritarian Prime Minister Hun Sen on course to remain one of the world’s longest-serving leaders after parliamentary elections next year.

Official results from Sunday’s elections for the chiefs of areas known as communes are not expected for several weeks but the major parties were in agreement that Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) had swept the polls, as it has in all national ballots in the past decade.

The CPP claimed 72 percent of the seats in what it sees as a test of support ahead of the 2013 election. General elections take place every five years.

“These results show a landslide victory,” top CPP member of parliament Cheam Yeap told Reuters. “This is a basic projection for the parliamentary election in the middle of next year.”

Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rogue soldier who defected to eventual invaders Vietnam during the Khmer Rouge’s 1975-1979 reign of terror, has been in power for 27 of his 59 years and has said he plans to remain there until he dies.

A shrewd political tactician with an image as a tough-talking strongman, Hun Sen’s supporters say he is popular among the millions of rural poor, having overseen unprecedented growth, stability and development since the decades of war that turned the former French colony into a failed state.

Critics say Hun Sen is a ruthless leader who has intimidated his opponents into submission or frightened them out of the country.

The latest polls did throw up some signs of discontent, with the CPP’s notable loss of seats in areas that have seen long-running land disputes and forced evictions from land leased to foreign companies. The government suspended new land concessions to foreign firms in May.

The main opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) said early indications from monitors showed it took just 21 percent of the seats but it said there were irregularities in Sunday’s vote.

Its self-exiled leader, Sam Rainsy, who fled Cambodia after being sentenced to 12 years for forgery and destruction of property, among other crimes, says the 2013 vote will be a sham unless he is allowed to take part without serving jail time.

If the king and his parents cannot see the plight of these BKL children, they no longer deserve their royal titles!

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With Votes In, High Expectations for New Commune Councils

5 June, 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
 

With their fingers freshly inked from Sunday’s polls, voters said Tuesday they were looking for security and good governance from their local commune councils, while Cambodia’s main opposition parties began to look ahead to national elections next year.
“I want a good commune council,” said Has Tak, 22, who is married and lives in Sambor commune, Kampong Speu province, some 40 kilometers west of the capital. Out here, many fields have yet to be plowed, and they remain dry, despite the onset of the rainy season last month.
For Has Tak and other voters like him, day-to-day needs are the most pressing, like the red-earth road, which the rain has washed away in some sections. “The road is mostly broken down, and it’s hard to ride a motorcycle on it,” Has Tak said Tuesday. “The commune council must consider this, and help the poor people.”
“I want security,” said a 49-year-old woman, who takes care of 2 hectares of rice fields and raises chickens to support six family members. “We need electricity in every commune and in every province,” she added.
What most voters want out of local leadership will be up to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, which won a sweeping majority of commune chief seats—an unofficial estimated 1,592 of 1,633.
Despite the ruling party’s landslide, however, opposition leaders say they made gains with members on lower council seats, which will help them in their bid for parliamentary seats next year.
Both the Sam Rainsy and Human Rights parties have said they would consider joining together for the national election, hoping to leverage their grass roots popularity in next year’s national election. Each party won about 20 commune chief positions each.
Speaking to VOA Khmer by phone from Paris, Sam Rainsy said the change in local leadership will allow a change of village chiefs, and that will bring “big changes” in the national election next year. “We will bring absolute change,” he said, though he remains in exile and faces a number of criminal charges he maintains are politically motivated.
Kem Sokha, who leads the smaller Human Rights Party, said the local victories will be a key to political change, but that will require collaboration by the opposition.
“The main foundation of communists and dictators is at the grass roots,” he said. “So in this step we can change a lot of village chiefs, if the Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party work together.
In Kampong Cham, for example, the two opposition parties won some 300,000 votes in this election, he said. That could mean a big difference in national parliamentary elections if the parties join, he said.
Cheam Yiep, a lawmaker for the ruling party, said he was not concerned with the political strategy of the opposition. “This depends on the voters and their will,” he said.

Children trafficked to sell flowers and beg in Thailand

A young beggar sleeps near a market on Patpong Steet in Bangkok

06 June 2012
IRIN/Pak Kred

In an impoverished town in Thailand near the border with Myanmar, a trafficker offered a desperate Burmese widow 5,000 baht (US$160) on the spot, followed by an additional 4,000 baht ($120) per month for two of her 10 children to sell flowers in the Thai capital, Bangkok.

The rent-a-child deal was to last three months, after which the boys would return home.

But the deadline passed and the monthly payments stopped. After another three months the older brother, 10-year-old Ongsi, ran away and managed to make his way home to tell his mother they had to return to the capital to rescue eight-year-old Siyathon from a life of late-night flower selling and beatings.

Their case is not unusual. Across the city of more than 10mn, little Burmese vendors sell flowers and Cambodian children beg money from motorists, tourists and bar crawlers.

“Most of these children are not Thai,” said Witanapat Rutanavaleepong, who manages the Stop Child Begging project for the Mirror Foundation, a leading Thai NGO that has become a focal point for child trafficking.

He estimates there are at least 1,000 child beggars and flower sellers working in cities and tourist spots around the country. Since he began working with the Mirror Foundation two years ago, Witanapat has come across only one case involving three Thai children, although he handles up to 30 cases a month. The problem remains intractable in the capital.

“Thailand has a problem with child begging that is hard to solve because the authorities do not see it as a problem that affects their (the children’s) future or society,” Witanapat said. “They see them as only child beggars, but the girls and some boys often go on to become sex workers, and the boys often become traffickers themselves.“

The initial journey from their village to Bangkok was harrowing, said Siyathon, who speaks Thai fluently although he is Burmese. “I spent the night in the forest, walked for a day, and then a truck took me to a gas station where a taxi brought me to the house (where I stayed),” he said at a boys’ shelter in Pak Kred in Nonthaburi Province, a northern suburb of Bangkok. His brother joined him soon afterwards. “If we sold well, we were not beaten, but even if we sold 2,000 or 3,000 baht ($60 or $95) worth, it still wasn’t enough.”

One day, Ongsi, his older brother, managed to escape with some friends, and eventually made his way home to Mae Sot Province, several hundred kilometres away. Ongsi returned to Bangkok with his mother, but they were unable to find Siyathon on their own and sought help from the Mirror Foundation and the police, who sent plainclothes officers to an area known for trafficking children. In late April they spotted a child who fitted the description.

“One female officer called out his name, ‘Siyathon!’ and he turned to face her. We found him,” said Lt Col Choosak Apaipakdi, of the police anti-human trafficking division. “When the owner of the home followed the boy out, we assumed she was the trafficker. Police confronted and arrested her.”

The UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP), said the number of children begging and selling flowers remains unclear, but the problem is significant. Lisa Rende Taylor, chief technical advisor for UNIAP for Southeast Asia, said children are being rented or sold by their families or guardians, and then controlled in order to make money for someone, and whether or not permission was granted, these children are victims of trafficking.

“The definition of child trafficking is essentially the act of recruiting, harbouring, or receiving a child for the purpose of exploitation. The child could go along with it, the parents at home could go along with it – it doesn’t matter – there does not need to be deception or force. If it is a child, if someone receives and controls them, it is trafficking,” Rende Taylor said. “You just have to walk the streets of Bangkok or Pattaya (a resort town) to know that this is still an issue.”

The typical payment for a rented child is reportedly around $25 a month, she said. However, it is hard to crack down on the trade when there is a “revolving door at the border”, and a focus on the children rather than on the criminal perpetrators.

According to the US State Department, Thailand remains a source, destination, and transit country for trafficking men, women and children. Most of the trafficked victims identified in Thailand are from neighbouring countries like Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, and have been forced, coerced, or defrauded into labour or commercial sexual exploitation.

$1,000 in pennies for Cambodian kids

June 5, 2012
By Matt Law
Surrey Now (Canada)

The last penny may have been minted on May 4 but the little copper coin is still making a big impact.

Students at Woodward Hill Elementary in Surrey spent the month of May turning over couch cushions and emptying their parents’ pockets to raise approximately $1,000 in pennies to help children in Cambodia.

Over the past three years, students at Woodward Hill have raised close to $4,000 to help fund a free school 30 kilometres outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital.

The school, called Krang Thmey, was started in 2005 with the help of Woodward Hill’s principal Anne Mackie.

While teaching in Cambodia, Mackie was struck by the severe poverty and the impact of sex slavery on Cambodian children.

“I’d never seen such abject poverty in my life. People who have absolutely nothing live on maybe $40 a month,” Mackie said.

“The terrible sex trade in Cambodia is because they have no money. Terrible things happen to children because their families can’t look after them,” she added.

By offering children a chance to learn English for free, Mackie hopes this will enable them to find jobs and look after their families.

But the school has become much more than a learning centre thanks to funding efforts like Woodward Hill’s penny drive. The school now offers something to the whole community and people in surrounding villages. “The school has almost become a community centre, so we get services to the poorest people in the village,” Mackie said.

The money raised will go directly to funding the school. It will help buy school supplies and pay the salaries of three teachers working there.

For the kids at Woodward Hill, the experience of helping children in another country has been invaluable.

“It is just really inspirational to see that it doesn’t really matter how old you are you can always make a difference in the world,” said Savannah Dhaliwal, a Grade 7 student involved in the fundraising.

Additional fundraising events, including a pancake breakfast and another coin drive, will be held in June. Those interested in contributing to the fundraising effort can contact Woodward Hill Elementary at 604-594-2408.

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Japanese crown prince to visit Cambodia

Crown prince to visit 3 S.E. Asian nations
Jun. 6, 2012
Jiji Press

Crown Prince Naruhito will leave for a weeklong tour of Thailand, Cambodia and Laos on June 25.

The schedule was reported Tuesday to a Cabinet meeting.

The crown prince last visited Thailand in 1994. He has never visited Cambodia or Laos.

His first destination is Bangkok, and he will return home after visiting five cities, including Laos’ capital Vientiane.

During the tour, the crown prince is scheduled to meet leaders of the three countries. In Cambodia, he will visit Angkor Wat.

He will also lay flowers at memorial monuments for the Japanese police officer Haruyuki Takata, who was in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Cambodia, and Atsuhito Nakata, a Japanese volunteer who was working for a U.N. election-monitoring program in the country. Both were killed in armed attacks in Cambodia in 1993.

North Korea increasing South East Asia ties

Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong speaks at the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh in April 2012.[Reuters]

Tue, 5 Jun 2012
ABC Radio Australia

Cambodia’s Foreign Minister, Hor Namhong is believed to have extended an invitation to the North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum in Phnom Penh next month.

The two have met in Pyongyang.

Hor Namhong, whose country currently chairs the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is also thought to have offered to facilitate talks between North and South Korea on the sidelines of the regional security meeting.

It is believed this will involve examining ways to resume six party talks on ending Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions.

The six party talks involve North Korea, South Korea, China, the United States, Russia and Japan and have been stalled since December 2008.

The two Foreign Ministers are also believed to have discussed ways of improving relations between North Korea and ASEAN.

North Korea has been increasing exchanges with ASEAN member states recently.

A delegation led by Kim Yong Il, a secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea has left for a trip to Laos, Vietnam and Burma.

Last month, No. 2 leader, Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, North Korea’s parliament, visited Singapore and Indonesia.

Boeung Kak disgrace prompts renewed lobbying of World Bank

Children protest the jailing of the their mothers outside the Justice Ministry last week. Thirteen of 15 women were arrested during a protest over a long-running land dispute. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh Post

Tuesday, 05 June 2012
The Phnom Penh Post Staff

Following the imprisonment of 15 land activists, more than 100 Cambodian and international NGOs, unions and community groups have cautioned the World Bank that any resumption in new lending to the Cambodian government would send a dangerous signal. Their letter to its president, Robert Zoellick, and its president-elect, Kim Yong-jim, is reprinted in its entirety below.

It has recently come to our attention that the World Bank is considering ending its suspension of new loans to the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) and preparing an Interim Strategy Note to facilitate new lending. We, the undersigned organisations, write to express our deeply held view that, despite some positive developments regarding the Boeung Kak Lake case, now is the wrong time to end the suspension. Doing so would not only risk undoing gains made, but would also send a dangerous message to the RGC in light of the spate of recent killings and unwarranted jailing of activists, including Boeung Kak community leaders. We believe that these appalling events call not for reward and the injection of more funds, but rather a coordinated and public condemnation by the international community, including the World Bank.

The past month has seen a series of shocking and inexcusable events in Cambodia. On April 26, Chut Wutty, a tireless environmental activist was shot dead by armed forces after taking two journalists to a logging area in Koh Kong province. On May 16, Heng Chantha, a 14-year-old girl was killed by a soldier during a brutal forced eviction of a village in Kratie province.

On May 22 female residents of Boeung Kak staged a peaceful demonstration on the sand dunes that cover what was once a village on the shores of the lake. The demonstration followed thwarted efforts by one family to demarcate the boundary of their home, which had been submerged in sand during the filling of the lake. While singing about their plight, the protesters were surrounded by a mixed force of military police, anti-riot police and district guards, who used violence to break up the demonstration and then arrested 13 women, including a 72-year-old. A video clip of these events is available at this link: www.licadho-cambodia.org

On May 24th the women were convicted by the Phnom Penh court on baseless charges of inciting others to take land illegally and obtaining land illegally. Seven of the women were sentenced to two years and six months in prison, five were sentenced to two years and the 72-year-old woman, Nget Khun, was sentenced to a term of one year. During the trial, the police arrested two more Boeung Kak community representatives who were prepared to testify as witnesses for the 13 women on trial.

We respectfully appeal to you not to authorise re-engagement by the bank with the RGC under these circumstances and to continue the suspension until a more strategic and judicious moment for engagement arises.

We regard the issuance of land titles to 631 Boeung Kak families earlier this year following the Prime Minister’s sub decree granting the remaining residents 12.44 hectares of land around the former lake as a significant human-rights victory. We understand that the principled stand taken by the World Bank following the Inspection Panel’s findings of non-compliance with operational policies during the design and implementation of the Land Management and Administration Project played an integral part in achieving this outcome. We applaud the bold leadership of the president in this situation and consider this wise decision-making to have contributed in no small part to the legal security and piece of mind that these 631 Cambodian families now enjoy.

Yet, we remain deeply concerned about the 3,500 Boeung Kak families, who had already reluctantly accepted the inadequate compensation package and left their lakeside homes under extreme duress, and who now suffer severe hardship trying to make ends meet each day. We are also concerned about the 94 families that have been excluded from the benefits of the Prime Minister’s sub decree and remain under the threat of forced eviction. Together these families represent an estimated 85 percent of all Boeung Kak residents who submitted the Request to the World Bank Inspection Panel.

We are aware that there may be some entry points for UN-HABITAT to support these displaced and excluded families. We urge the World Bank to take all possible action to facilitate this support, including through high-level dialogue with relevant agencies and provision of financing for remedial action. We also note that there may be other organisations in a position to operationalise aspects of the Bank Management’s January 2011 Action Plan, including financing measures that respond to the needs of tenure insecure and resettled communities from the Boeung Kak area.

The bank should not passively accept the lack of progress in supporting displaced and excluded groups to date as a fait accompli. Rather, it should proactively work to identify possible interlocutors to remedy harm done, and as bank Management itself commits to do, “make every effort to implement the Action Plan”. If necessary, this should entail the provision of unilateral Bank support to displaced families through a trust fund and administered through an NGO or other agency.

The community itself has appealed to president Zoellick to ensure a fair resolution for the displaced and excluded families before the bank provides any further financing to the RGC. The public statements made by bank representatives in August 2011 have led the community to believe that this would be the case. We note that country director Annette Dixon stated at the time: “Until an agreement is reached with the residents of Boeung Kak Lake, we do not expect to provide any new lending to Cambodia.”

The World Bank lending freeze provided a powerful boost to the community’s five-year struggle, which has become an inspiration to marginalised communities throughout Cambodia facing dislocation from their homes, land and the natural resources that they depend upon for survival.

We believe that re-engaging now, particularly following the unlawful arrest and imprisonment of Boeung Kak community leaders, would send a dangerous message of approval to the RGC and undermine the community’s hope that they will not be left alone in their stand against the powerful forces of injustice. Commitments made by the World Bank, either privately or publicly, should not be reneged upon, or else the credibility of the bank and its commitment to its safeguard policies and contractual requirements on borrowers to respect them will be seriously undermined. Conversely, we believe that if the bank maintains the freeze until a comprehensive agreement is reached with the requesters, and the brave human rights defenders of Boeung Kak Lake are released from prison, it will contribute immeasurably to the twin long-term goals of a more just and equitable Cambodian society and a more accountable World Bank.

Alcohol ban? Cheers to that

Monday, 04 June 2012
Joseph Freeman and Mom Kunthear
The Phnom Penh Post

Kampong Cham town
On Saturday night, cans of Cambodia beer stood next to Styrofoam plates of chicken skewers on a table outside the riverside hotel where Ngoun Theang, 26, and his friends were hanging out.

The scene would not have been out of a place any other night, but in the wake of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s two-day alcohol ban ahead of the elections, the shared brews could have spelled trouble.

Not that Ngoun Thean was concerned. “I support and agree with the banning from the government … but I think for us to drink in a small setting like this, it’s okay.”

He added that he planned to vote the following morning and that knocking back a few would help him get a good night’s sleep.

That attitude seemed prevalent across Kampong Cham town, where the good times kept rolling at bars and markets.

The prime minister banned the sale and consumption of alcohol over June 2 and 3 to prevent unrest during the commune elections. According to a copy of the directive, the two days of enforced sobriety applied to both Cambodians and foreigners. But neither group seemed to have gotten the message.

“Almost 100 per cent of my guests are foreigners, and they drink a little, but [not enough to] cause them to get drunk or crazy,” Tang Kimsa, manager of a riverside restaurant said.

Chaem Pichet, the Kampong Cham provincial deputy military police chief, acknowledged that fully enforcing the ban was difficult.

“There are some drinking in quiet places or hiding from the authorities,” he said, adding that the authorities could not look everywhere.

On Saturday, though, police only had to look at the night market here, which sits directly next to the headquarters of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.

Music boomed from speakers while groups of young men ate dinner and washed their meals down with cans of Angkor.

A 24-year-old cassava farmer, Soeung Sopheak, was sitting with friends. They had not seen each other in a while and wanted to have a good time, he said. But he insisted he would not get too tipsy – he did not want to forget to vote.

Ruling party wins big

A woman casts her vote yesterday in Kampong Cham province during nationwide commune elections. Photograph: Pha Lina/Phnom Penh Post

Monday, 04 June 2012
Post Staff

Battambang, Kampong Cham, Kandal, Phnom Penh, Prey Veng
Preliminary results in Cambodia’s third commune elections yesterday point to another overwhelming victory for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.

According to preliminary polls for 14 provinces released by the party itself last night, the CPP had won control in every commune in nine of the provinces, including in Phnom Penh and had only lost one commune in three others.

The National Election Committee was broadcasting results one commune at a time throughout the night on state television.

At a press conference early yesterday evening, NEC president Im Suosdey said there had been information delays in gathering the results.

“We wait for the result from the provinces; we cannot release the result as fast as we wanted, it needs to take some time,” he said.

At the time of printing, results for Kampong Thom and Kampot showed CPP domination.

Pailin province, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold, proved itself a CPP stronghold as well with the ruling party taking 73 per cent of the vote, up from 59 per cent of the vote in 2007, the director of the provincial information office there told the Post.

SRP spokesman Yim Sovann last night said preliminary results indicated there had been some improvement for his party, which won 28 commune chief seats in 2007.

With counting still ongoing, the SRP claimed it had already won 22 commune chief seats in six provinces.

However, Yim Sovann was quick to say the party did not accept the results.

“We reject the results and we want a re-election. There have been too many irregularities,” Yim Sovann said, adding that the opposition party had evidence of voter names being deliberately deleted off lists, of commune chiefs distributing fake identification to minors and rampant vote-buying.

Despite claiming at least 21 commune chief seats, Human Rights Party spokesman Pol Ham was a a bit deflated about his party’s performance in its first commune election.

“We aren’t really happy with the result, we had expected more than that,” he said.

“A lot of our supporters are the poor who have difficult coming in to vote,” Pol Ham said. He said he believed the party had also been thwarted by CPP vote-buying and negative opposition party propaganda calling the HRP a puppet of the CPP.

Funcinpec spokesman Tom Sambol said the party was ready to officially declare victory in only one seat in Banteay Meanchey, but was awaiting more results.

NRP spokesman Muth Channtha said he had no information about election results.

Earlier in the day, SRP MP Son Chhay told the Post the opposition party was hoping to boost the number of commune council chiefs from 28 to 150 with yesterday’s vote.

He highlighted the near doubling of success for the party between the 2002 and 2007 elections, when they secured 23 per cent of the vote.

Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who cast his vote yesterday morning in Phnom Penh’s Tonle Basaac commune, said the announcement of the re-integration of the royalist parties had buoyed support for his party.

He emphasised that his eponymous Norodom Ranariddh Party had implemented a central policy aimed at working closely with the ruling CPP.

“Funcinpec was . . . a very long partner working with the Cambodian People’s Party. And I have also co-operated well and worked with Samdech Hun Sen to resolve problems in our country,” he said.

The prince also called on the NEC, provincial and commune election committees to perform their duties well, as they had a reputation for not being independent.

NEC’s Im Suosdey said about 60 per cent of the roughly 9.2 million registered voters had cast their vote in choosing councils to administer Cambodia’s 1,633 communes and urban sub-districts, known as sangkats.

But the election monitoring group Comfrel reported that voting rates at observed sites had decreased from 71 per cent in 2007 to 61 per cent this year.

“A possible reason for the decrease is because the people get tired of voting and not seeing any change,” board member Thun Saray said.

Post reporters on the ground in Kampong Cham and Prey Veng reported particularly low turnout in the communes visited in those provinces.

In Prey Veng, some polling officials estimated there was only a 50 per cent turnout yesterday, down from more than 70 per cent in previous elections.

In Kampong Cham, early unofficial head counts from Comfrel stood at an average 63 per cent voter turnout, down roughly 20 per cent on 2007, Comfrel monitor Nhek Sophy said.

He said reasons for the significant decrease in turnout include an uninterested populace, voters lacking proper documents at polling stations and the expense of travelling to voting sites.

Neang Sovath, an Adhoc co-ordinator, said that while the elections were more peaceful than those in 2007, some villagers were not interested in voting because they could not see what change candidates will bring.

Predictions of victory for the CPP came early and often in Kampong Cham town, where the provincial governor, Hun Neng, is Prime Minister Hun Sen’s older brother and where National Assembly president Heng Samrin goes to vote.

“I can say the CPP will win, but I don’t know by how much we will win,” Heng Samrin told the Post. According to preliminary CPP polls last night, the long-standing ruling party had won 161 out of a total 173 communes in the province.

In Kandal, Hun Sen was already in a celebratory mood as he cast his vote near his residence in Takhmao district.

All smiles as he entered the polling station, he held his folded voting slip to his lips and kissed it before slipping it into the ballot box.

In response to reporters’ shouted questions, he jokingly said the law forbade him from commenting. “I am sorry, in accordance with the laws [on elections], they [NEC] do not allow me to make a statement in the surroundings of the polling station,” he said to laughter.

Kandal province, long a CPP stronghold, provided good reason for the prime minister’s happy mood, if the reactions of voters were anything to go by.

Chheang Ratanak, 59, who cast his ballot at the same polling station as Hun Sen, declined to say which party he supported but said he believed the CPP would win.

“I speculate that the CPP is going to win this election, because my CPP commune chief has built road and drainage infrastructure according to the promise,” he said.

Charges of election irregularities abound

Monday, 04 June 2012
Post Staff
Battambang, Phnom Penh
Allegations of intimidation, ghost voting and electoral-roll sabotage marred yesterday’s commune election as citizens flocked to schools, pagodas and tent-filled streets to cast their vote.

It wasn’t yet 9am when SRP legislator Son Chhay, preparing to vote at the capital’s Neakavoan Pagoda, claimed voters across Phnom Penh had arrived at polling stations to find their names missing from the electoral roll.

“I think their names have been deleted,” he said. “At each station, you’re talking about 40 or 50 people.

“[Some] have just walked back [home] – they just don’t bother. It is a concern that a lot of people cannot display their political decision.”

The SRP was also looking into allegations of vote-buying and intimidation in the capital, Son Chhay said.

Allegations of crookedness, however, weren’t confined to Phnom Penh.

In Battambang town, SRP lawmaker Mu Sochua and 25-year-old O’Char commune candidate Sin Chan Pov Rozeth accused Cambodian People’s Party officials of intimidation, accepting improper identification documents and planning to use ghost voters.

“CPP party agents are checking to see that all their voters have voted,” she said, adding she had seen a party operative at the polling station tallying CPP votes. “If some don’t [vote], they bring in ghost voters.”

According to Sin Chan Pov Rozeth, the CPP had pushed back hard as she attempted to unseat long-time CPP incumbent Kem Chhorng. She accused CPP commune council member Meun Vibol of intimidating residents on the eve of the election by patrolling with police chief In Ratha while wearing military fatigues and carrying an AK-47.

“A commune council member doesn’t wear a uniform like that,” she said.  “It looks threatening to the people.”

Both In Ratha and Meun Vibol denied the incident.

“If the SRP found me doing that, then they have to show proof,” Meun Vibol said.

Mu Sochua posted a photograph on her website yesterday that shows a man she claims is Meun Vibol in fatigues.

Sok Khen, Battambang secretary for the election-monitoring group Comfrel, received reports of the secretary of a polling station in Tuol Ta Ek district failing to distribute instructional leaflets, then throwing out votes on the grounds the thumbprints were unclear.

She added that if Meun Vibol had indeed been wearing military garb on election eve as described, it would be a violation of campaign laws.

Chhorm Anupheap, a National Election Committee monitor at the O’Char polling station, said the only complaints he had received were about the long queue leading to the polls.

Comfrel, which observed 800 polling stations, said some “minor” irregularities had surfaced – involving both the CPP and the SRP, which had violated election rules by campaigning in a number of provinces on Saturday, board member Thun Saray said.

“They spoke on loudspeakers, gave out money and gifts and displayed party banners,” he said.

Other “irregularities” included political officials loitering near voting centres, a lack of “well-trained” voting officials and observers being denied access to polling places.

Thun Saray also said the ink used to identify a person who had voted was removable.

“We are worried about this, because we tested the ink and saw that it could be removed,” he said.

NEC chairman Im Suosdey said some voters were unaware of what identification they had needed to show, while others had turned up too late to vote.

Tep Nytha, secretariat-general of NEC, and government officials could not be reached to respond to the SRP’s claims. 

‘Outsiders’ denied right to vote

Monday, 04 June 2012
May Titthara and David Boyle
The Phnom Penh Post
Kratie
Just under three weeks ago, residents in Pro Ma village were running for their lives as security forces opened fire on them with automatic weapons, killing a 14-year-old girl.

About 1,000 police, military pol-ice and soldiers stormed their vill-age, fired at them indiscriminately, evicted hundreds of families and has maintained a significant presence ever since.

As the most recent victims in a ser-ies of violent crackdowns against communities protesting against land encroachments in Kratie province, their vote in yesterday’s commune elections could have been telling.

But about 180 families in Pro Ma village, which lies inside Chhlong district’s Kampong Damrei commune in an area that has been deforested as far as the eye can see, are not even considered residents and thus do not have the right to vote.

Duch Kunthear, 60, who came to Pro Ma in 2006 from Takeo province during a wave of migration to the remote village, said yesterday he had been waiting ever since for the acting village chief to formally recognise him as a resident.

“I don’t want anybody looking down on us any more, because we have lived here since a long time ago. They should allow us to vote,” he said.

The migrants to Pro Ma established three sub-villages: Chrak Dambang point, Andong Chrov and Sre Chin Phoeng. None of these villages have been officially recognised, stoking anxiety that they will be brutally evicted, just as about 200 other families, deemed “newcomers”, were on May 16.

The operation was conducted on the pretext of foiling a secessionist plot, but villagers and rights groups alleged it was a forced eviction ordered by the government on behalf of the logging and agro-business firm Casotim.

Military police have maintained a heavy presence in the area since the operation and many, such as 19-year-old Moeun Rin, are nervous that having migrated, they still have no formal recognition as voting citizens.

“I’ve lived here since I was 12, but my commune chief did not recognise me. The reason I want to vote is because I want to show other people I am safe and I will not be forcibly evicted from my village as [others were] the previous time,” he said.

Chheng Chhat, the deputy chief of Kampong Damrei commune, said there were 264 families registered in Pro Ma village and 180 who had yet to be recognised.

“I have requested for those families to the provincial governor already, and I hope that next election they can vote,” he said.

Im Many, Kratie observer for the election monitoring group Comfrel, said about 40 per cent of registered voters in the province had forfeited their right, largely because they were migrants who had no identity card, were confused about voting or simply had no will to.

In Pro Ma, the only people who were allowed to vote were the families that originally settled there after the Khmer Rouge in what is known as Old Pro Ma village, which was not attacked during the May 16 crackdown.

Lai Hit comes from one of those families. Like everyone else in the area, he had no intention of revealing which party he voted for, but said he was well equipped to make a good choice.

“If they do not do what they promised – they said they would reduce corruption – I will not support them any more, because it is my right,” Lai Hit said.

Unofficial results yesterday suggested the ruling Cambodian People’s Party had won all 46 positions as commune chief in Kratie province.

Cambodia’s main opposition, the Sam Raisy Party, picked up 70 council seats, while the royalist Norodom Ran-ariddh Party won just two.

Top officials eyed in KRT probe: report

Cambodian People’s Party top leader Heng Samrin (right) Chea Sim (left) Photograph: Phnom Penh Post

Monday, 04 June 2012
Bridget Di Certo
The Phnom Penh Post

Cambodian People’s Party heavyweights Chea Sim and Heng Samrin are named along with Cambodian Army chief Pol Sareoun and another senator as “persons of interest” in an investigation into government opposed Case 003 at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, Australian newspaper The Age reported yesterday.

International reserve co-investigating judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet named the four as potentially having information about “atrocities committed against ethnic Vietnamese civilians living on the border with Cambodia”, the paper reported.

Additionally, documents obtained by the Post over the weekend show that Brother No 2 Nuon Chea’s defence team has filed a motion for public disclosure of the “forwarding order” by the now-resigned Swiss judge.

“In a forwarding order issued shortly before his departure  (the ‘Forwarding  Order’),  Judge  Kasper-Ansermet made it known to the [Office of the Co-Prosecutors] that – in his considered judicial opinion – Heng Samrin, Chea Sim, Ouk Bunchhoeun and Pol Sareoun may fall within the ECCC’s personal jurisdiction,” the request, filed on Friday, reads.

Under court rules, a “forwarding order” is issued by investigating judges to prosecutors when the judges have found new information that was not included in the original prosecutorial submissions. Prosecutors then must decide whether to file additional submissions directing investigations into these new facts.

According to The Age, “new facts” discovered by Kasper-Ansermet include “a premeditated attack on an undefended civilian Vietnamese village and a supposition that other similar attacks occurred, along with evidence of repeated incursions into Vietnamese territory”.

The confidential court document alleges the four are likely to have crucial information due to their positions of authority in the areas where the attacks, termed “brutal and illegal”, occurred, the paper reported.

If prosecutors decide to include the “new facts” in the investigations into Case 003 against air commander Sou Met and navy commander Meas Mut, it would mean more victims of the regime are entitled to apply for civil party status.

However, tribunal pre-trial chamber judges have previously taken a narrow approach to public information pertaining to cases 003 and 004.

When international co-prosecutor Andrew Cayley last year attempted to give information to the public about the crime sites in Case 003, he was slapped with a gagging order by judges.

Cambodian co-prosecutor Chea Leang has registered her disagreement over even the prospect of a Case 003 and said she is of the view that the ECCC “will fulfil its mandate” with Case 002, which is now being heard at the tribunal.

Additionally, even if the prosecutors, together or acting independently, decide to extend the parameters of Case 003 to include the “new facts” and consequently require investigations including investigations into the four named CPP officials, there is no guarantee this will actually occur.

Kasper-Ansermet’s Cambodian counterpart You Bunleng yesterday again affirmed that he did not recognise the legality of any of the Swiss national’s acts.

“As I already stated, I did not do any joint investigation with LKA, because he is not a legal international investigating judge. I only work with legal investigating judge,” said You Bunleng, who himself was on the committee that refused to endorse the UN’s appointment of Kasper-Ansermet.

You Bunleng said he is not conducting any investigative acts “as there is no international co-investigating judge, which means I am not allowed to do any investigation”.

Heng Samrin, Chea Sim and senator Ouk Buncchoeun were summonsed by the tribunal in September 2009 to give evidence during the investigation stage of Case 002 but did not comply with the order.

The Post reported that shortly after these senior politicians were summonsed, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said that while politicians “could appear in court voluntarily, the government’s position was that they should not give testimony”.  He said that “foreign officials involved in the court” could “pack their clothes and return home” if they were not satisfied with the decision.

When contacted yesterday, Khieu Kanharith said he would not answer questions relating to the tribunal because he was busy monitoring the commune elections.

Cheam Yeap, spokesman for the CPP, and Pol Sareoun could not be reached for comment.

លោក កឹម សុខា ​នឹង​យក​សំឡេងឆ្នោត​ទៅ​តថ្លៃ​ជាមួយលោក ​សម រង្ស៊ី

04-06-2012
ដោយ កញ្ញា បូរមី
Thmey Thmey

ភ្នំពេញ៖ ភ្លាមៗក្រោយ ​ការ​ពី​ការប្រកាស​លទ្ធផល​បណ្តោះ​អាសន្ន លោក​កឹម សុខា ប្រធាន​គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិមនុស្ស​បាន​អះអាងថា លោក​នឹង​ទូរ​សព្ទ័​ទៅ​លោក​សម រង្ស៊ី​ដើម្បី​និយាយ​ឡើងវិញ​ពីស​ម្ព​ន្ធ័​ភាព​ពីព្រោះ​ពេលនេះ គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិមនុស្ស​របស់លោក​បាន​ទទួល​សំឡេងគាំទ្រ​ប្រហាក់ប្រហែល​គណបក្ស​សម រង្ស៊ី​ដែរ។ 

នៅក្នុង​សន្និសីទកាសែត​នៅ​ព្រឹក​ថ្ងៃ​ចន្ទ​នេះ លោក​កឹម សុខា បានប្រកាសថា លោក​នឹង​ទូរ​សព្ទ័​ទៅ​លោក​សម រង្ស៊ី​នៅ​ប្រទេស​បារាំង​ដើម្បី​និយាយ​ឡើងវិញ​អំពី​ការចង​សម្ព​ន្ធ័​ភាព​ ជាមួយគ្នា។ ហេតុផល​ដែល​លោក​កឹម សុខា លើកឡើង​គឺ ពេលនេះ គណបក្ស​របស់លោក​បាន​ទទួល​សំឡេងគាំទ្រ​ប្រហាក់ប្រហែលគ្នា​ជាមួយ​គណបក្ស​សម រង្ស៊ី​ដែរ។ ដូច្នេះ គណបក្ស​ទាំងពីរ​អាច​និយាយ​ពី​ការចង​សម្ព​ន្ធ័​ជាមួយគ្នា​បាន។ បើ​យោងតាម​លោក កឹម សុខា កាលពីមុន គណបក្ស​សម រង្ស៊ី​មើលងាយ​គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិមនុស្ស​ដោយសារតែ​គ​ណ​បក្ស​របស់លោក​មាន​សំឡេង​ តិចជាង តែ​ឥឡូវនេះ គេ​មិនអាច​និយាយ​ពី​បញ្ហា​នេះ​ទៀត​បានទេ។

កាលពីមុន​បោះឆ្នោត លោក​កឹម សុខា​ក៏​ធ្លាប់បាន​ព្រមាន​គណបក្ស​សម រង្ស៊ី​ជាស្រេច​ថា គណបក្ស​នេះ​នឹង​វិល​មក​រួមជាមួយ​គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិមនុស្ស​វិញ​នៅពេលដែល​សំឡេង​ របស់ខ្លួន​ថយចុះ។ លទ្ធផល​បោះឆ្នោត​ពិតជា​បង្ហាញ​ដូច​ការរំពឹងទុក​រប​ស់លោក​កឹម សុខា​មែន។ នេះ​ជាត​ម្លៃ​ដែល​លោក​កឹម សុខា​ត្រូវ​តថ្លៃ​ជាថ្មី​ជាមួយ​លោក​សម រង្ស៊ី​ក្នុងឋានៈ​គណបក្ស​ពីរ​ដែលមាន​មាឌ​ប្រហាក់ប្រហែលគ្នា​ក្រោយពី​ ការបោះឆ្នោត​ក្រុមប្រឹក្សាឃុំ​សង្កាត់។ ការបោះឆ្នោត​កាលពី​ថ្ងៃអាទិត្យ​បង្ហាញថា គណបក្ស​សិទ្ធិមនុស្ស​ឈ្នះ​ក្នុង​ឃុំ​យ៉ាងហោចណាស់​ក៏​ចំនួន១៨ដែរ​ខណៈដែល​ គណបក្ស​សម រង្ស៊ី​បាន​ថយចុះ​ពី២៨ឃុំ​កាលពី​ឆ្នាំ២០០៧ មក​នៅត្រឹម២២ឃុំ​នៅ​ឆ្នាំ២០១២នេះ៕