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Phnom Penh , April 8, 2008

SRP PARLIAMENTARIANS REFUSE MEDALS AND DECORATIONS

A grandiose ceremony is being organized this afternoon at the National Assembly to award "prestigious" medals and decorations to the 123 Assembly Members (73 from the former communist Cambodian People's Party, 26 from the royalist FUNCINPEC party, 24 from the opposition Sam Rainsy Party).
See program of the ceremony at http://tinyurl.com/4rpf8h

The 24 SRP Parliamentarians will not attend the ceremony because they consider those medals and decorations as dishonorable and degrading for those who wear them.

In Cambodia , as a matter of fact, under the current Mafia State , only traitors to the nation, criminals, corrupt government officials, Mafiosi, members of the organized crime and other predators (drug or human traffickers, land grabbers, smugglers, illegal loggers, casino operators, unscrupulous businessmen and other exploiters of the Cambodian people) wear such silly medals and decorations.

See list of those medals and decorations at http://tinyurl.com/4rpf8h
Had we taken those infamous medals and decorations we would have immediately thrown them into the dustbin.  

SRP Members of Parliament