No Pardon for Rainsy: PM

[geovalin]

Prime Minister Hun Sen declared yesterday that he will not pardon opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who is now named in three defamation cases against senior officials from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) – including the prime minister – and is now in self-imposed exile in France. Speaking at an environmental protection forum at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh yesterday, Mr. Hun Sen stressed he would not consider or discuss any request from foreign diplomats to pardon Mr. Rainsy, saying that he and his family had suffered enough insults from him already.
 

“I would like to send a message to all diplomats. Please do not talk with Hun Sen about this issue. A person who was sentenced by the court, that person must be imprisoned,” he said, adding that even if members of the CPP commit crimes – for which he said many are now in prison – they will also not receive pardons. Acknowledging that it is within his legal powers to help issue pardons, Mr. Hun Sen said that for Mr. Rainsy, he would not.
 

“For this case, I would not, under any conditions,” he said. Mr. Rainsy, the leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), has been living outside Cambodia since November when a warrant for his arrest was issued while he was abroad over historic claims of defamation by then Foreign Minister Hor Namhong.

 

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[soalbundy]

well then Rainsy's visa to stay is certain now.

[Baerboxer]

Didn't the dictator Hun Sen have a special friend who also liked to try and silence opposition with defamation suits? Wonder who taught who or if they both learned from the late Mr. Lee of Singapore?

[xineohp]

With the passing of each day the voices get louder and louder to see Cambodia's murderous despot Hun Sen indicted at the ICJ in The Hague for crimes against humanity.