Sam Rainsy continues to gather evidences, Hor Namhong not concerned

Hor Namhong vs. Sam Rainsy

Reported in English By Khmerization

Mr. Sam Rainsy, the leader of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), continues to defend a defamation lawsuit brought against him by Foreign Minister Hor Namhong by continuing to gather further evidences of Mr. Hor Namhong's involvements in the Khmer Rouge crimes, reports Radio Free Asia.

Mr. Rainsy said he and his lawyers will continue to gather more evidences against Mr. Namhong for the appeal hearing scheduled for March, 2010.

Mr. Sam Rainsy was found guilty of defaming Mr. Namhong by the French court earlier this year, but he lodged an appeal against the verdict. The appeal hearing was scheduled to be held on 8th October, but Mr. Rainsy requested for a delay.

He said the delay gives him ample opportunity to gather more evidences against Mr. Namhong. "The (Appeal) Court was still considering about the delay and suddenly there is information from Phnom Penh that an international judge (at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal) summoned 6 leaders of the current regime. Mr. Namhong was among the 6 people summoned because he knew a lot in relations to the Khmer Rouge leadership", Mr. Rainsy said.

Mr. Hor Namhong told reporters on 17th that Mr. Sam Rainsy had used fake medical certificate to request a judge for the hearing delay. "Mr. Sam Rainsy had requested a judge to delay the hearing by presenting a fake medical certificate. This shows that he is afraid (of losing). For the new evidences, I am not concerned one iota because there is none. I wish to say that freedom of speech is different from defamation. He had accused me of being a criminal", he said.

Mr. Hor Namhong told Radio Free Asia that Sam Rainsy knew full well that he was not a Khmer Rouge leader. "I never knew (the Khmer Rouge), never heard and was never involved at all with the Khmer Rouge. Mr. Sam Rainsy knew full well that I was a diplomat", he said.

The defamation lawsuit stemmed from Mr. Sam Rainsy's public speech made on 17th March 2008 in which he accused an unnamed "current foreign minister" of being a chief of the Boeng Trabek Re-Education Camp where hundreds of inmates were later brought to be executed at Tuol Sleng Torture Centre from 1975-1979.

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Mam Sonando's Poem

I, a Khmer
I, a Khmer eating Trakuon(1), grateful to Yuon(2), wearing Duon(3), Like to sing the Vietnamese language;Lack of lesson, dare not argue with Viet, Then, accept to lose land, nation, religion, and ancestors’ heritage;Like to show off, get drunk in the bars, buy poor young girls to satisfy sexual desire;Swindle with court, rob someone’s property, create problems in society.
Making cake without flour, boiling water without making fire(4), Suck the blood of the poor like leeches, Thick face(5) like locomotive no brain for good or bad, merits or sin. Grow mango trees reap mangoes, grow Sleng(6) reap sleng, Lord Buddha taught good deeds produce good merits, do bad get bad in return.Whether people are rich or poor, ill will or wholesome, or hermits, they will all die.
I, a Khmer, scared of enemies, strong with Khmer people, Cutting trees, eating dog meat,Have big liver like a gecko, grasp whatever is in sight even if it is my mother’s, Rough skin, sticky toes like caramel, like to relax in Hue (7) city
Rice fields lost in Daung village, Romeas Hek, Prasaut, Svay Teab, Kompong Roh, Khmer suffer along the border in Rotanak Kiri, Mondol Kiri, Kratie, Kompong Cham, Prey Veng, Takeo, Kompot, and Svay Rieng.Nothing left Khmers suffer lack of food, water, land, nostalgic for Kampuchea Krom.Khmer suffer, killing each other,
With long term suffering, no compassion left, Khmers are divided. They kill, attack, oppress, and deceive one another, and take revenge, but, they bow before their enemies.
I, a Khmer eating frog, with a black heart as a crow, hard head like iron, like to argue. Without thinking of tomorrow, praise the strong in order to fill my stomach. A strange species, poisonous as scorpion, divides his own nation to favor others. I, a Khmer riding a water buffalo’s back, who wants to be rich, Have only empty words and an evil heart, Fear of other race, with no conscience, willing to shrink down the territory. To expand own authority, even in a cage.

Poem by: Mam Sonando

Translation by: Ieng Mala

(1) Watercress

(2) Vietnamese

(3) Vietnamese conical hat

(4) A colloquial metaphor for cheating or tricking someone. i.e., obtaining something without effort by exploiting others.

(5) Shameless, Careless of criticism

(6) Fruits to make Strychnine, poisonous fruits.

(7) Vietnam city

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