Sam Rainsy will highlight human rights issues in the country to the European Union

National party leader Sam Rainsy will highlight the issue of human rights in Cambodia to the European Union.Presenting the issue of human rights in Cambodia to the European Union was held as political problems in the country is tense and the situation of human rights and freedom of emissions are also deteriorated.

Sam Rainsy, president of the National Salvation Party today confirmed that the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgique, he met with European MPs Josef Weidenholzer. Sam Rainsy said that tomorrow he will go to introduce the political situation in the country and answer questions before the Sub-Committee on Human Rights of the Foreign Affairs Committee of European parliament.

Recently, civil society organizations and political situation watchers reckon that the democratic process and respect for human rights in the country will not progress if the international community decided to cut off or reduce aid Yes. The source stressed that foreign aid, particularly from the United States and the European Union's capital in building democracy and a strong rule of law in the country, so the government should work reform how to lead the country and reform its own sake and the Khmer people.

Last May, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope that the government, the CPP will ensure full respect for human rights including freedom of expression freedom of association and freedom of assembly, which is a principle of democracy. Mr. Ban called on the CPP and the rescue party to continue the cultural conversation anymore.

Mr. Ban Ki-moon UN Secretary-General stressed that the United Nations is concerned about reports of intimidation, abuse and arrests of officials, civil society organizations, media Committee member of the National election Commission and members of the opposition, which is widespread in the country.

National and international community to push for an investigation case shot Ley as quickly and transparently

Kissinger Ashley Boyd suggested that, in the context of history, culture and Intercontinental or innocence of Cambodia allegedly linked to political murders, even if the suspect was jailed, the authorities are continuing to investigate a transparent and accurate method to all efficiency and capacity. International Commission of Jurists recommended that while the lack of investigative capacity should seek technical assistance from foreign experts analyze video camera Security and data communication systems and physical examination Ley ground and the car, which is essential to help determine the identity and activities of criminals to see whether they act alone or was part of others.

International Commission of Jurists has called on the Cambodian authorities to ensure that all investigators and judges must be independent, impartial without being influenced by anything and have full freedom of inquiry without threatening to harm lid derail or interference. Moreover, the investigation and the results must be transparent and open to the families of the victims and the public to examine. In particular, the International Commission of Jurists said that the authorities must protect the rights of victims' families by ensuring that families Ley informed regularly about the progress of the investigation and get all Help and support.

Case related to shooting Dr. Ley, opposition lawmakers ngkroh on 13 July 2016 proposed a fair and independent experts Investigating the murder case Ley. Opposition lawmakers ngkroh also called on the international community to pay attention to the political situation in the country and for the United Nations to investigate the truth murder Ley to guarantee not to assassinate a political criteria escape to end the brutality persists anymore. Opposition considers murder Ley as a very serious situation.

To the future of the country and the next generation of Khmer National Party continues to struggle peacefully

During the meeting with the monks and citizens in Koh Thom district, Kandal national party headquarters recently Kem Sokha, acting president of the party ngkroh said party National salvation and the Khmer people must continue peaceful struggle goes to the nation's future and the future of our children.

Kem Sokha, acting president of the party ngkroh confirmed that Khmer citizens expressed strong determination to win elections 2017-2018, but even you, Koh Thom district on the border between Cambodia and Vietnam. You believe that if free elections and justice party District win favor.

Around this problem, Kem Sokha told the Khmer citizens trainers National Salvation Party, the party's main characters ngkroh should agree to attract the support of the people vote, we must: 1. make people know us: his party before we recognize we need to know ourselves more clearly who we are? We were blameless? 2. make people believe in us: to believe in us, we must believe in yourself, believe in the party and its leaders believe in and (3) asks people to help us: When people know us, trust us, and we have asked him to help us, help to make identity cards to register to vote and to vote for us.

The party continues to struggle peacefully in all circumstances, although opponents of the party tried to use all means prevention strategies and the popularity of the party gradually. National party leaders stressed that the main goal of the rescue party is moving towards the elections to make a positive change.

M.r Yim Sovann said Dr.Kem Ley always urged peaceful political discussion

CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said recently, Dr. Kem Ley is not only a political analyst and social independence and recognition National and international public opinion, but Dr. Kem Ley, the main character who participated maintain peace and political stability in the country, too Dr. Kem Ley always urged politicians Khmer discuss peacefully.

M.r Yim Sovann, explained that, as an independent analyst, Dr. Ley offers many good recommendations for economic development and democracy in the country. CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said the position that he has always supported his recommendations doctor Ley ago that prompted politicians discussed by peaceful means to solve problems, and to respect the principles of democracy and human rights law. Yim Sovann, emphasized that the loss of Dr. Ley is the loss of great intellectuals and the country's main HR.

Yim Sovann, recalled that he remembered many memories had with Dr. Ley to exchange views on social, economic and political issues. Yim Sovann said that as an independent analyst, Dr. Ley offers many good recommendations for democratic and economic development in the country.

It should be noted that about a month before shooting was Dr. Ley with his wife to visit Kem Sokha, acting president of the party ngkroh at the headquarters of the National Salvation Party on 03 June 2016. Dr. Ley always give ideas to the party to help organize political party. Meanwhile, Dr. Ley also aims meets with Hun Sen, president of CPP, but his intention was defeated by a killer shot brutality on 10 July 2016.

By: Kang Thav

Clinton’s Visit an Upswing in a Sometimes Turbulent Relationship

"We have many issues to discuss that are of importance to our two nations and regional and global interest as well," Clinton told journalists in Washington recently

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to the Asean Regional Forum in Phnom Penh next week will mark her second visit to Cambodia in eighteen months, marking a positive development in a diplomatic relationship with a history of ups and downs.

The United States and Cambodia first established bilateral relations in 1950, in a defensive effort by the United States, then in the throes of the Cold War. But more than six decades of conflicting diplomatic ideals, domestic conflicts and a fluctuating global political climate have meant an unsteady, on-again off-again association between the two nations.

The past 20 years have proven particularly turbulent, with the establishment of the first US mission in Phnom Penh in 1991 and the suspension of bilateral support six years later in response to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s coup against royalists led by Prince Norodom Rannaridh.

Recent history has proven more positive, however. The United States lifted its 10-year moratorium on aid to the Cambodian government in 2007; in the years since, political and economic relations between the two states have regained traction, coinciding with Cambodia’s nascent role as a key player in the Southeast Asian arena. This year, Cambodia serves as the chair of Asean, a body with which Clinton has rekindled strong ties after relations after they were neglected under the Bush administration.

“It seems to me that the relationship has leveled out,” Kenton Clymer, a professor of history at Northern Illinois University, told VOA Khmer. “While there continue to be problems from time to time, generally speaking, I think relations between the United States and Cambodia have become really quite normal.”

John Ciorciari, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, told VOA Khmer that the United States’ recent interest in Cambodia is more a means than an end and mirrors current American foreign policy in Southeast Asia on whole, structured with the influence of China in mind. In the subtly contentious relationship between the United States and China, the states and resources of Southeast Asia are inevitable points of consideration.

Cambodia, he said, “is located in a region where the United States has already largely increased its economic, strategic, military, and diplomatic interests, and in the context of a rising China that has close ties with Cambodia, I think the US government sees an incentive to engage a little more robustly. The Sino-US relationship has some elements of competition, and part of that competition is for economic, political, and military influence in Southeast Asia.”

To that end, US military officials have begun discussions of strengthening a military presence in the region, which American forces all but abandoned in the years following the Vietnam War.

Ciorciari argued, however, that in spite of increased attention from both China and the United States, Cambodia has no plans to pick sides.

“Every country in Southeast Asia without exception wants to avoid being caught in the crosshairs of a Sino-American war,” he said. “Part of what Asean countries are trying to do now, including Cambodia, is to set up economically and politically friendly relations with the US and China, without aligning themselves too decisively in one camp or the other, precisely because doing that would obligate them to take sides in the event of the conflict.”

These “friendly relations” have revealed themselves in recent months. Clinton pledged to “broaden and deepen the partnership” between the United States and Cambodia on her trip to Phnom Penh in November 2010, and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong urged American investment in Cambodian resources while meeting with Clinton in Washington last month.

Clinton will return to Phnom Penh next week for the Asean Regional Forum and bilateral negotiations with Cambodian officials. She has stressed the emerging role of Asean as a global player, politically and economically. As chair, Cambodia will bear the responsibility for spearheading conversations on topics of international interest, particularly the South China Sea dispute, which pits China against several Asean states.

“There’s no reason why Cambodia cannot be reasonably effective,” Ciorciari said. “Cambodia’s senior diplomats are capable of exercising effective leadership if they have the will to be a constructive player in Asean.”

It is unclear how the relationship between the United States and Cambodia will progress after Cambodia’s chairmanship expires. Though revamped foreign policy has thrust Cambodia into the current diplomatic arena, the country’s relationship with the United States beyond the State Department remains limited.

“I don’t want to overplay Cambodia’s strategic importance on a global level, but it is located in a neighborhood where most of the world’s commerce flows, and that makes it a place where the United States has some natural strategic interest,” Ciorciari said.

Souce : VOA