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"For the [immunity] lifting, 91 [MPs] voted [to lift the] Phnom Penh [MP], and 90 [MPs] voted to [lift the] Kampot [MP], but to return back [your immunity], it cannot be done" - Hun Sen (Photo: Khmer Sthabna)
If opposition and NGO officials who are flying in and out of the country in commercial planes are corrupt, does it mean that a PM who flies short distances inside the country in his private helicopter is an ULTRA-CORRUPT THIEF OF THE NATION? (Photo: Reuters)
22 June 2009
By Sopheak and Sopheap
Khmer Sathabna news
Translated from Khmer by KI-Media
On 22 June 2009, at Kraing Yov village, Sa’ang district, Kandal province, Prime minister Hun Sen criticized opposition and NGO officials for involvement in corruption: that is why they have money to fly in and out of the country.
Hun Sen said: “… These peasants (using derogatory “Ah Srer”) curse others for being corrupt, they fly in and out in planes. When they travel outside, they have nothing to ride, they own no company, they do not farm, they only have NGOs and political parties. Where do they get the money to take planes in and out? When they travel by plane twice, it costs one school building, they stay in 5-star hotels…”
Hun Sen added that those who point others as being corrupt, where do they get the money to go gamble everyday? Hun Sen added: “I know where they gamble, it is at 3030 Chhouk Tip 404, now they go to Street 6A, I know their gambling place,” Hun Sen warned. He said that this gambling leads to corruption, there is nothing to be puzzled about, don’t yell at others as being corrupt.
Hun Sen also used to claim that opposition officials call each others over the phone to gamble in private houses, and he said that some of these officials are also MPs.
At the same time, Hun Sen said: “Now, we lift the immunity of 2 of them: one Phnom Penh MP and one Kampot MP. They lift their immunity to push the court to sentence them. This time, we are strengthening both democracy and the rule of law, this not anarchic democracy. Democracy must go along with the rule of law.”
Hun Sen added: “As a MP, if you do wrong, the court will sentence you, to sentence you, we must lift your immunity. The Phnom Penh MP’s [Ho Vann] speech affects the army [generals], the army [generals] studied hard to receive their degrees, he said that these army [generals] only try to fill in their biography gaps so their chief respect them.”
Hun Sen said: “Let’s fight each other at the court. For the [immunity] lifting, 91 [MPs] voted [to lift the] Phnom Penh [MP], and 90 [MPs] voted to [lift the] Kampot [MP], but to return back [your immunity], it cannot be done. Now that the lawsuits are on, the foreigners and a number of other people don’t get involve with [our] law. If you get involved with the law, we also have the law to deal with those who get involved also. When we use the law, you say that we are this and that.”
Hun Sen indicated: “We use the court to avoid [any] situations, if we don’t resolve them according to the law, like [for example, when] people chase after the robbers and beat them to death, the reason the people beat them was that when they send these robbers to the court, the court release them back. So, when we use the court to strengthen the law, to strengthen the rule of law, you can say whatever you want as long as you don’t touch the rights of others, because others have the rights also, they are human, they are not animal.”
Hun Sen said: “… These peasants (using derogatory “Ah Srer”) curse others for being corrupt, they fly in and out in planes. When they travel outside, they have nothing to ride, they own no company, they do not farm, they only have NGOs and political parties. Where do they get the money to take planes in and out? When they travel by plane twice, it costs one school building, they stay in 5-star hotels…”
Hun Sen added that those who point others as being corrupt, where do they get the money to go gamble everyday? Hun Sen added: “I know where they gamble, it is at 3030 Chhouk Tip 404, now they go to Street 6A, I know their gambling place,” Hun Sen warned. He said that this gambling leads to corruption, there is nothing to be puzzled about, don’t yell at others as being corrupt.
Hun Sen also used to claim that opposition officials call each others over the phone to gamble in private houses, and he said that some of these officials are also MPs.
At the same time, Hun Sen said: “Now, we lift the immunity of 2 of them: one Phnom Penh MP and one Kampot MP. They lift their immunity to push the court to sentence them. This time, we are strengthening both democracy and the rule of law, this not anarchic democracy. Democracy must go along with the rule of law.”
Hun Sen added: “As a MP, if you do wrong, the court will sentence you, to sentence you, we must lift your immunity. The Phnom Penh MP’s [Ho Vann] speech affects the army [generals], the army [generals] studied hard to receive their degrees, he said that these army [generals] only try to fill in their biography gaps so their chief respect them.”
Hun Sen said: “Let’s fight each other at the court. For the [immunity] lifting, 91 [MPs] voted [to lift the] Phnom Penh [MP], and 90 [MPs] voted to [lift the] Kampot [MP], but to return back [your immunity], it cannot be done. Now that the lawsuits are on, the foreigners and a number of other people don’t get involve with [our] law. If you get involved with the law, we also have the law to deal with those who get involved also. When we use the law, you say that we are this and that.”
Hun Sen indicated: “We use the court to avoid [any] situations, if we don’t resolve them according to the law, like [for example, when] people chase after the robbers and beat them to death, the reason the people beat them was that when they send these robbers to the court, the court release them back. So, when we use the court to strengthen the law, to strengthen the rule of law, you can say whatever you want as long as you don’t touch the rights of others, because others have the rights also, they are human, they are not animal.”
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