Tentative Schedule Events
For Mr. Sam Rainsy and Mrs. Tioulong Saumura
in the USA-Canada , August and September 2005
Prepared by SRP-USA/Canada Central Committee- 07/20/05
Full Page |
|
Paris, le 3 août
2005
"Sam Rainsy demande l'intervention du Roi"
"Sam Rainsy asks for King's intervention"
A LA TRES HAUTE ATTENTION
DE SA MAJESTE BAROMNEATH
NORODOM SIHAMONI ROI DU CAMBODGE
Palais Royal
Phnom Penh
Majesté,
Exactement six mois après la levée
de l’immunité parlementaire de trois députés de l’opposition – Chea Poch, Cheam
Channy et moi-même – le 3 février 2005 et l’arrestation le même jour de Cheam
Channy, je me permets de Vous écrire très respectueusement pour solliciter Votre
très haute et bienveillante intervention en Votre qualité de Garant des droits
et libertés des citoyens, Garant de l’indépendance du pouvoir judiciaire et
Président du Conseil Supérieur de la Magistrature.
Full Story
His Majesty the King's Reply |
|
PUBLIC STATEMENT
3 August 2005
ALL
CASES AGAINST OPPOSITION PARLIAMENTARIANS
MUST BE DROPPED
Opposition parliamentarians demand all pending
court cases against Opposition members of parliament be dropped immediately. The
time is up for MP Cheam Channy’s pre-trial detention and charges against MP Sam
Rainsy and MP Chea Poch.
Full Story |
|
PUBLIC STATEMENT
31 July 2005
BAN ON GLOBAL WITNESS
INDEFENSIBLE
Opposition parliamentarians insist Cambodia be
re-opened for Global Witness work unless the government has something to hide.
What Global Witness has been doing is absolutely crucial for a sustainable
development of national resources in Cambodia, and perfectly complementary to
the official monitor.
Full Story |
|
Public Statement
25 July 2005
Barbaric Forced Repatriation
Cambodian Opposition parliamentarians deplore the barbaric
measures the Cambodian authorities used to forcefully deport the 101 montagnards
back to communist Vietnam. They were absolutely not necessary.
Full Story |
|
Public Statement
July 22, 2005
SRP MPs CITIZEN'S RIGHTS
VIOLATED
The Sam Rainsy Party denounces the illogical pretext used by the
Military Court authority to deny the visit of two SRP MPs to the detained MP
Cheam Channy.
Full Story |
|
Public Statement
12 July 2005
Short Term Measures to Control Inflation
Cambodian Opposition parliamentarians urge the
Government to take the following measures to bring inflation back to a liveable
level. They will offer at least a short term relief to the majority of the
population.
Full Story |
|
PUBLIC STATEMENT
5 July 2005
Warning to Investors Against Illegitimate Deals
The Opposition parliamentarians humbly remind
investors in Cambodia that it is rather unwise to make any commitments involving
State assets that are unfair to the Khmer people.
Full Story
|
|
OPEN LETTER OF SENATOR KONG KORM 
Full Story (English) |
|
June 18, 2005
TRIBUTE TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI
|
 |
|
June 19 is Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday. The world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace
Prize winner will turn 60 tomorrow. She is probably also the world’s greatest
living woman.
I had the honor to
meet her in Rangoon in August 1996.
She received me very simply
and very warmly at her home. It was during a lull in her harsh political life,
as we can see in retrospect, since she has been moving from house arrest to jail
and back to house arrest again.
Full Story |
|
|
PUBLIC STATEMENT
14 June 2005
Opposition Finds Appeal
Court In Contempt of Justice
The Opposition parliamentarians were not surprised
that the Appeal Court yesterday withheld the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s
decision to dismiss the Opposition leader’s lawsuit against the prime Minister
for his role behind the March 1997 grenade attack that killed up to 20 people
and injured more a hundred. It has affirmed a general belief that the court is
not capable of acting impartially and independently.
Full Story
|
|
Public Statement
13 June 2005
Opposition Requests Better Draft
Sub-Decree on Land Concessions
The Cambodian Opposition
parliamentarians urge the Government to improve the draft Sub-Decree on Economic
Land Concessions as the current version contains major flaws, and fails to
uphold the pledges by government and donors to improve governance of natural
resources in Cambodia.
Full Story |
|
Press Advisory
10 June 2005
Invitation to Appeal Court Hearing
on Opposition Case
Representatives of media
and interested organisations are invited to attend the Appeal Court hearing on
Monday, 13 June 2005, at 8 am.
Full Story |
CHEAM CHANNY APPEAL

Full Story |
|
Public Statement
6 June 2005
Khmer People Can Help Fund the Khmer Rouge Trial
The Cambodian Opposition
calls on the Government to organise a national fund-raising to overcome the
local funding problem that has prevented the Khmer Rouge trial from getting off
the ground, according to a Sam Rainsy Party official.
Full Story |
|
5 June 2005
PROMINENT CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN INTERVENES
IN FAVOR
OF DEMOCRACY IN CAMBODIA
Mr. Stockwell Day, a Canadian Member of Parliament, who is the "Official
Opposition Foreign Affairs Critic" (Shadow Minister for Foreign Affair from the
Conservative Party of Canada) sent on 3 June 2005 the following message to Mr.
Soeum Kear, an Cambodian-born Canadian citizen who had asked for the
parliamentarian's intervention in favor of
democracy in Cambodia.
Full Story |
|
Decision of the Permanent
Committee
of the Sam Rainsy Party on 4 June 2005

Full Story |
|
Paris, le 1er juin 2005
CONDAMNATION DE TOUT
COMPORTEMENT
VISANT A DIVISER LA NATION
Au nom du Parti Sam Rainsy et en mon nom
personnel, je condamne avec la plus grande sévérité les propos que Monsieur Khem
Veasna, un Député du PSR, a tenus le 29 mai 2005 sur la Famille Royale dans une
réunion publique dans la province de Prey Veng. Il s’agit de propos erronés,
injustes et choquants qui sont inacceptables pour tout Cambodgien digne de ce
nom.
Full
Story |
|
Public Statement
28 May 2005
Exclusive and Unfair Senate Election Law
to Perpetuate Irresponsibility
The Opposition
Parliamentarians note with disappointment that the senate election bill that has
already been passed in the National Assembly serves nothing but the ruling
parties interests. As always, the Senate is expected to formally rubber stamp
the bill into law when it sits on Monday.
Full Story |
|
PUBLIC STATEMENT
Phnom
Penh, 26 May 2005
FOR
A SOLUTION TO CAMBODIA’S POLITICAL CRISIS
“There can be no
democracy without a functioning opposition, and political disputes must not be
solved through judicial means”: This has been the message that many friends of
Cambodia all over the world have been sending to the Cambodian government over
the last four months, more precisely since the controversial lifting on 3
February 2005 of the parliamentary immunity of opposition leader Sam Rainsy and
two of his colleagues, Chea Poch and Cheam Channy. Cheam Channy was arrested on
the same day while the two other parliamentarians had to flee the country.
"Full
text in English" |
|
COMMUNIQUÉ
Phnom Penh, le 26 mai 2005
POUR
METTRE FIN A LA CRISE POLITIQUE AU CAMBODGE
“Il ne peut y avoir
de démocratie sans une vraie opposition et les différends politiques ne doivent
pas être réglés par voie judiciaire”: c’est le message que de nombreux Amis du
Cambodge à travers le monde ont adressé au gouvernement cambodgien au cours de
ces quatre derniers mois, plus précisément depuis la levée de l’immunité
parlementaire du chef de l’opposition Sam Rainsy le 3 février 2005 et de celle
de deux de ses collègues, Chea Poch et Cheam Channy. Ce dernier a été arrêté le
jour même tandis que les deux autres parlementaires ont dû quitter le pays.
"Texte
entier en français" |
|

M. Christian Poncelet, President of the French Senate
(France's second highest ranking government official), receives Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy in his
office at the Palais du Luxembourg
(Paris, 18 May 2005)
|
.jpg)
Rally with Sam Rainsy in Paris on 22 May 2005 to defend Cambodia's territorial
integrity
|
|
Towards a normalization in the functioning of the National Assembly: Sam
Rainsy's letter to Prince Norodom Ranariddh
Please go to
letter
|
|

Sam Rainsy meets with Mr. Li Jun, Director General
of the International Department (No.2 Bureau) of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China
(Headquarters of the CPC, Beijing, 13 May 2005)
|
|

King-Father Norodom Sihanouk and Sam Rainsy at the first meeting of the Supreme
National Council on Border Affairs
(Beijing, 11 May 2005)
|
|
Public Statement
10 May 2005
IPU Backs
Democratisation in Cambodia
The Opposition Parliamentarians applaud the
Inter-Parliamentary Union Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians for
taking a stance that would put Cambodia back on the democratization process.
Full Story
|
|
A LA TRES HAUTE ATTENTION DE
PREAH KARUNA SAMDECH PREAH NORODOM SIHANOUK
DU CAMBODGE
Résidence Royale de Beijing
République Populaire de Chine
Paris, le 27 avril 2005
Preah Karuna vénéré,
Permettez-moi, au nom du Parti Sam Rainsy et en mon nom propre,
de Vous exprimer ma plus vive reconnaissance pour la nouvelle Mission que Vous
avez accepté de remplir pour la Nation en daignant présider le Conseil National
Supérieur en charge des Affaires Frontalières. Ce nouveau sacrifice de Votre
part en cette année 2005 est dans la ligne des innombrables actes d’abnégation
les plus nobles que Vous n’avez pas hésité à faire au cours des soixante
dernières années pour le salut national et la dignité du Peuple Khmer.
Full Story |
|
Letter of Senator Kong Korm supporting the King Father Norodom Sihanouk
as
President of the Supreme National Council of Border Affairs

Full Story |
|
Mu Sochua, SRP Steering Commitee Member
Speaking at Voice of America during her visit to Washington, DC.
On 25 April 2005

More
Photos |
|
Sam Rainsy's interview in Manila-based prominent political
magazine NEWSBREAK:
"Cambodia will soon have its people's power as in the Philippines"

April 27, 2005
Sam Rainsy, Cambodia’s opposition leader,
was one of three who were stripped of parliamentary
immunity in February
after exposing corruption in
government. One of his colleagues has been
detained. Rainsy has
since left Cambodia and was in Manila recently to attend the
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting. He spoke with
NEWSBREAK’S Marites Dañguilan Vitug. Excerpts:
What do you expect from the IPU? This is not the first
time that I knocked on the door of the IPU. Ten years ago, I was expelled
from Parliament in a totally illegal manner, and I asked for the support
of the IPU. They condemned my expulsion. After that,
Full Story
|
|
Public Statement
26 April 2005
National Assembly Obstructs Justice
The
Opposition Parliamentarians claim the National Assembly commits an obstruction
of justice after it refuses to release minutes of its meeting upon legal request
for an impending court case.
Full Story |
|
Public Statement
26 April 2005
Another Raw Deal for Cambodian Opposition
The
Cambodian ruling parties take another step toward marginalising whatever left of
the opposition after they move to select the senate for the second term in such
a way that it will deliver them more seats than they deserve in the legislative
branch, according to an opposition official.
Full Story |
|
Le texte ci-dessous
rédigé par Sam Rainsy a été largement reproduit dans le journal « Cambodge
Soir » en date du 26 avril 2005.
POL POT N’EST PAS TOUT
A FAIT MORT
Le monde
entier a commémoré ce mois-ci le 30ème anniversaire de la prise du pouvoir par
les Khmers Rouges. Au-delà d’un anniversaire, l’avènement puis la chute du
régime Pol Pot suivie d’autres bouleversements qui ont amené à la situation
précaire actuelle, constituent de nombreux enseignements.
Full Story |
|
CAMBODGE : ECHOS DANS LA
PRESSE FRANÇAISE
LE MONDE.
16 avril 2005. Par Jean-Claude Pomonti (Envoyé spécial à Phnom Penh).
Selon la
Banque mondiale, environ deux Cambodgiens sur cinq sont pauvres, avec un revenu
inférieur à 1 euro par jour. La moitié de la population est âgée de 15 ans et
moins. L'immense majorité des 200.000 jeunes qui se présentent chaque année sur
le marché du travail ne trouve pas d'emploi (...).
Full Story |
|
PUBLIC
STATEMENT
April 20, 2005
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
AGAINST SRP MEMBERS
The Sam
Rainsy Party sadly notes the sharp increase in the number of violence against
its members recently.
Full
Story |
|
PRESS CONFERENCE ON
CAMBODIA ORGANISED BY CALD
AND PHILIPPINE SENATE MEDIA OFFICE AT IPU

Manila,
7
April 2005
Press
Conference on Cambodia organized by CALD and the Philippine Senate Media Office
at the IPU.
From left to right: Congressman Ruffy Biazon reading the statement of
support of the Liberal Party of the Philippines, MP Sam Rainsy,
Philippine Senate Media Director Samuel Santos and Chair of the Committee
on Human Rights of the House of Representatives of the Philippines Loretta
Rosales.
Full
Story
|
|
PUBLIC
STATEMENT
April 17, 2005
OPPOSITION
MEMBER MURDERED IN SIEM REAP
The Sam
Rainsy Party strongly condemns the killing of one of its active members in Siem
Reap province.
Full
Story |
|
30th
Anniversary of the Fall of Phnom Penh
held
at Choeung Ek genocidal museum, 17 April 2005

Full Story

Acting President Kong Korm, SRP MPs and
other Buddhists holding the celebration to pray
for the memory of the KR victims.
More Photos |
|
SAM RAINSY IN MANILA

“Manila, 2 April 2005 - MP Sam Rainsy
Shaking Hand with Philippine Senate President and IPU 112th
General Assembly President Franklin Drilon”
|
|
STATEMENT
OF SAM RAINSY, MP
112th
Inter-Parliamentary Union General Assembly
April
7, 2005; Manila, Philippines
I
have come here to Manila as a guest of the Council of Asian Liberals &
Democrats and the Liberal Party of the Philippines. Both the Sam Rainsy Party
and the Liberal Party, together with six other liberal parties in Asia, are
members of CALD. And I would like to reiterate my expression of gratitude to
both CALD and Liberal Party for their support all throughout these years,
especially now that I am again politically harassed.
Full Story |
|
Statement
of Support of the Liberal Party to the Sam Rainsy Party
The
Liberal Party of the Philippines would like to express its full support to its
sister party in Cambodia, the Sam Rainsy Party, especially in times where the
very foundations of freedom and democracy are under threat.
Full Story |
|
17 February 2005
INTERVENTION FROM
A BRITISH MP
The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth
Affairs
King Charles Street
London SW1A 2AH
I had a meeting with Sam Rainsy of the Cambodian
National Assembly on 16 February, in which he briefed me on the political
situation in Cambodia and I understand he has met with one of your officials.
Full Story |
|
PUBLIC STATEMENT
5 April 2005
Opposition
Questions Move to Amend Quorum
Cambodian
Opposition complains their minority right in the National Assembly has again
been blatantly ignored after the National Assembly president announced a setting
up of a special committee to study the current quorum requirement for Assembly
meeting, according to a Sam Rainsy Party official.
Full Story
|
|
PUBLIC STATEMENT
4 April 2005
OPPOSITION ACTIVE MEMBER MURDERED
The Sam Rainsy Party
strongly condemns the fresh killing of one of its active members in Kampong Speu.
Full Story |
|
Manila, April 3, 2005
To the attention of HRH Prince Norodom Ranariddh
President of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia
Your Royal Highness,
As Members of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia, we are
disappointed that, for the 112th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union, you are leading a Delegation that includes no representatives from the
opposition (24 seats out of 123). We had not been informed of your decision to
attend the ongoing meeting in Manila and to exclude us.
Full Story |
|
PUBLIC STATEMENT
1 April 2005
Opposition Supports Retired King on Border Demand
Cambodian Opposition urges all signatories to the 1991 Paris
Peace Accord to reconvene to assess the Accord’s application and effectiveness
after the retired King demanded neighbouring countries return what Cambodia has
lost due to border encroachment, according to a Sam Rainsy Party official.
Full Story
(in
Khmer) |
|
Statement
from Mr. Lorne Craner
President
International Republican Institute
Washington, DC
March 29, 2005
Today
is the anniversary of a day to remember, a day when 20 people were killed and
more than 100 injured merely for exercising their constitutional right to
peacefully assemble. March 30, 1997 reminds us why we are committed to democracy
-- so that one day all Cambodians will have the freedom to follow their
consciences and trust that their safety is being respected and protected.
Full
Story |
|
The
Eighth Anniversary of the Day When Heroic Demonstrators were Killed by Grenade
Attack in front of the National Assembly
(30 March 1997 - 30 March 2005)

Acting President Kong Korm lights incense sticks
to pray
for the memory of the victims.
More Photos |
Senator John MCCain, MP Tioulong Saumura and MP Sam Rainsy
February 2005
 |
|
Tokyo,
29 March 2005
APPEAL
TO JAPANESE PARLIAMENTARIANS
My
name is Sam Rainsy. I am a member of Cambodia’s National Assembly. This is the
second time that I appeal to the solidarity of parliamentarians throughout the
world.
Full
Story |
Phnom Penh, 26 March , 2005
Opposition
Demands Freedom of Assembly be Respected
The
Opposition insists the authority respect the freedom of assembly, after another
one of their workshops in the province of Kompong Speu has been rudely
disrupted.
Full
Story |
|
PUBLIC
STATEMENT
23 March 2005
Opposition
Urges Authorities to Cool Down
Cambodian Opposition deplores another execution by the
authorities, and urges them to cool down after a reported killing today of
sixteen prisoners in a provincial jail, according to Sam Rainsy Party official.
Full
Story
|
|
PUBLIC STATEMENT
22 March 2005
Opposition MPs Continue to Visit Victims
of the Monday Shooting
A
delegation of Opposition parliamentarians led by Son Chhay is to visit victims
of the Monday shooting in the Province of Banteay Meanchey on Friday 25 March.
Full Story |
|
MP CHEAM CHANNY
OUTSIDE THE APPEALS COURT AFTER BEING DENIED BAIL IN A POLITICAILLY MOTIVATED
LAWSUIT
21 March 2005

|
|

17 March , 2005
Full Story |
|
Public
Satement
21 March 2005
SUPPORT TO THE KING-FATHER'S POSITION ON
BORDER ISSUE
The
Sam Rainsy Party would like to bestow its support to the King-Father's position
on the border issue as written in the BMD papers published on March 18, 2005
from Beijing. Full Story |
|
18
March 2005

Full Story |
|
Public
Statement
18 March 2005
CAMBODIAN OPPOSITION APPLAUDS THE GOVERNMENT
BUT WARNS ON TAX CUTS
Cambodian Opposition
welcomes the prime minister's statement in support of unions and his initiative
to reduce paperwork for export industry, but warns on extension of tax cuts,
according to Sam Rainsy Party official.
Full Story |
|


Full Story
|
|
Phnom
Penh, 15 March , 2005
FREEDOM
OF ASSEMBLY VIOLATED
The
Sam Rainsy Party strongly condemns the provocative act of the Samaki Meanchey
district authority, Kampong Chhnang province that violates the freedom of
assembly of the SRP supporters.
Full Story |
|
ASIAN DEMOCRATS: DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS IN ASIA
UNDER THREAT
Statement of the World Forum for Democratization in Asia
Kuala Lumpur, 12 March 2005
Asian democrats from more than 20 organizations in 12 countries attending a
workshop on “Assisting Transitions to Democracy in Asia”, have expressed grave
concerns over the threats to democracy in several countries in the region.
Full Story |
|
TALKS BETWEEN NORODOM RANARIDDH AND SON CHHAY
LETTER
FROM SAM RAINSY TO SON CHHAY
Paris, 12 March 2005
Dear Son Chhay,
Thank you and congratulations
for the good job you have recently done, on behalf of the SRP and on my behalf,
in trying to reach a settlement with Prince Norodom Ranariddh and the Hun Sen
government.
Full Story |
|
European Parliament resolution
on Cambodia
The European Parliament,
- having regard to its previous resolutions on Cambodia, and in
particular those of 13 March 2003, 12 February 2004 and 13 January 2005,
Full Story
|
|
Résolution du
Parlement européen sur le Cambodge
Le
Parlement européen,
- vu
ses précédentes résolutions sur le Cambodge, et notamment celles du 13 mars
2003, du 12 février 2004 et du 13 janvier 2005,
Full
Story
|
|
Sam Rainsy’s letter as published in the Cambodia Daily,
8 March 2005
FRIENDS OF CAMBODIA MUST HELP STOP
AUTOCRACY
The controversial removal of the parliamentary immunity of three
opposition lawmakers on Feb. 3, followed by the arrest of Cheam Channy, while
Chea Poch and I had to leave the country, are the latest signs of a continuous
slide toward a more and more authoritarian regime.
Full
Story |
Statement of Senator Kong Korm

Full
Story |
|
PARIS
– FRANCE
CONFERENCE-DEBAT
SUR LE CAMBODGE
"Le
Cambodge : de la Constitution à la réalité du pouvoir"
Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), 27, rue de la
Procession, Paris 15ème.
Mardi 8 mars 2005 à 18h 00.
Orateur invité : Sam Rainsy, Député, Chef de l’Opposition, ancien Ministre
de l'Economie et des Finances du Royaume du Cambodge.
Full
Story |
 Press Statement
Press Release
The
Alliance for Reform and Democracy in Asia mission to Cambodia strongly condemns
the recent unlawful arrests of its opposition Parliament members.
Full
Story |
|
PUBLIC STATEMENT
3 March 2005
Cambodian Court Requested to Be Less Glaringly Biased
The Cambodian Opposition asks Cambodian court not to be so biased in favour of
the ruling parties, according to Party’s officials.
“Opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday wrote to His Majesty the King pleading
for his intervention to ensure that the court would act with some decency and
reason,” said Opposition spokesperson Ung Bun-Ang.
Full Story
|
|
A
LA TRES HAUTE ATTENTION
DE
SA
MAJESTE NORODOM BAROMNEATH SIHAMONI
ROI DU CAMBODGE
Palais Royal
Phnom Penh
Full
Story |
|
PUBLIC STATEMENT
1 March 2005
Opposition Rejects Violent Solutions
SRP Parliamentarians reaffirm their stance that any solution to
any problem needs to be peaceful.
This morning an individual came to see MP Eng Chhay Eang at the
Party Headquarters, and made a suggestion that he had enough manpower to
forcefully release MP Cheam Channy from the prison.
Full Story |
|
February 27, 2005
SAM RAINSY IS WELCOMED BY THE
PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
European Parliament President Josep Borrell Fontelles welcomed opposition leader
Sam Rainsy during a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on
February 23, 2005. The following is an unofficial translation of President
Borrell Fontelles’s welcoming address as officially recorded in Spanish:
Full Story |

Full Story |
|
24 February 2005
Press Release
The
Sam Rainsy Party would like to inform the public and the press that MP Son Chhay
will visit MP Cheam Channy on Saturday 26 February 2005 at 8:30 am at the
Military Detention Center.
All interested media are welcome to accompany him.
SRP Cabinet |
|
Cambodians
in Australia protest against Hun Sen and Ranaridh’s decision to suppress the
Opposition Party
On
Monday 14th February, hundreds of Cambodians verged on Canberra, the
capital city of Australia and the home of the Australian federal government, to
voice their anger and protest against the anti-democratic stance taken by the
ruling parties in Cambodia.

More Photos |
|
Letter of SRP MPs to Prince Norodom Ranariddh

Full
Story
|
|
unofficial
translation
Phnom
Penh, February 22, 2005
For
the attention of HRH Norodom Ranariddh
President of the National Assembly
Object
: Reasons for the continuation of the SRP MPs boycott of the NA session
We , the undersigned SRP MPs would like to inform Samdech Krom Preah,
President of the NA and FUNCINPEC party, that we are not yet ready to return to
the NA session due to the following
reasons: Full
Story |
|
21 February 2005
SAM RAINSY IN STRASBOURG AND BRUSSELS
|