juansweetpotato wrote:

kiwiincambodia wrote:Yeah it was a very public "fuck you" to a few certain people.

Anybody that was in the famous grenade attack on the SRP, the CIA guy that got injured and the ensuing miscarriage of justice for political reasons, all the SR supporters and anyone who would dare confront the powers that be..
Let's just hope the opposition suporters don't start making home-made bombs. Plenty of weedkiller and sugar about.

IRI, not CIA.

LTO wrote:

juansweetpotato wrote:

kiwiincambodia wrote:Yeah it was a very public "fuck you" to a few certain people.

Anybody that was in the famous grenade attack on the SRP, the CIA guy that got injured and the ensuing miscarriage of justice for political reasons, all the SR supporters and anyone who would dare confront the powers that be..
Let's just hope the opposition suporters don't start making home-made bombs. Plenty of weedkiller and sugar about.

IRI, not CIA.

The IRI? That explains everything. Bingham's mob.


No, def not CIA. , He was American Ron Abney, country director of the International Republican Institute.

Here's the PPP link from Fri, 4 April 1997 (attack happened on March 30, 1997)
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/s ... ch-30-1997

Deaths included two 13 yo kids and a 17 yo.

“The Cambodian authorities have never conducted a serious investigation into this attack, either despite or because of substantial evidence of government involvement,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “This attack was intended to destroy serious political pluralism in Cambodia, and it partially succeeded. Politics in Cambodia has never fully recovered.”

It has never fully recovered because they keep threatening to do the same.

Human Rights Watch conclusion MARCH 29, 2012

https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/03/29/cam ... ade-attack

Yes, I know. I saw.

LTO wrote:Yes, I know. I saw.

Ex CIA ?

Those links obviously weren't meant for you. I was posting them for any new arrivals that might want to know a bit more. Also as a kind of momento- mori
I see SR wrote to the PM yesterday or the day before apologizing maybe. He obviously thinks the CPP are capable of storming the place.

Meanwhile back to the thumb prints

Prime Minister HE told the opposition not to worry and that a transparent and fair review [of the thumb print authenticity) would be conducted by competent authorities before announcing the Interior Ministry would oversee the investigation.

Good old KT lol
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26181/ ... o-to-jail/

I think that event, and the subsequent 'factional fighting', in which acquaintances of the HRW director were injured and killed has tainted HRW assessments of the Cambodian political situation ever since.

The IRI could be kind of spooky, but not CIA...I think.

juansweetpotato wrote:I see SR wrote to the PM yesterday or the day before apologizing maybe. He obviously thinks the CPP are capable of storming the place.

You may be alone in thinking otherwise.

(Can and will/would at the time of their choosing, I would say).

Arrest threatened over CNRP petition 'irregularities'

Fri, 17 June 2016
Mech Dara

The Ministry of Interior yesterday threatened legal action against CNRP lawmaker Yem Ponhearith after a National Police investigation found irregularities in a 170,000-thumbprint petition the party had sent to King Norodom Sihamoni.

Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said the petition, which requested the King’s intervention following a slew of legal cases against CNRP activists and lawmakers, had some CNRP supporter names but no corresponding thumbprints, and vice versa, and given that Ponhearith was the CNRP’s signatory on the document he could face legal action.

“If there is a complaint, this case will be serious for Yem Ponhearith,” he said. “In Vietnam, Ponhearith could be beheaded [for this].”

Sopheak added that the government would continue to investigate the alleged forgery of what he classified as a “public document”, and would not back down from taking action against Ponhearith.

The government has been accused of using the Kingdom’s courts to target opposition parliamentarians and activists, having already jailed 11 CNRP activists for “insurrection”, as well as Sam Rainsy Party Senator Hong Sok Hour and National Assembly member Um Sam An for alleged incitement relating to posts on Facebook about the Vietnamese border. Court cases are currently in progress against both self-exiled party president Sam Rainsy and acting president Kem Sokha.

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/a ... gularities

^ You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

‘Jail will find you,’ PM tells embattled Sokha

Thu, 30 June 2016
Meas Sokchea

Prime Minister HE yesterday warned CNRP acting president Kem Sokha that he could be arrested at any time and that there should be no attempt to pressure the government in regard to its handling of the ongoing case against him.

Speaking at the Customs and Excise Department’s 65th anniversary, a visibly angry premier, who at times used words considered rude to refer to Sokha, said the opposition leader was attempting to avoid jail time by using his supporters as a shield, but that he would be arrested when the time was right.

“Don’t be too daring! It is not the time for that,” HE said, in a veiled reference to Sokha. “If you do not go to jail, then the jail will find you.”

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/j ... tled-sokha