Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Soch
Up to now, the public wants to know opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s action to serve the Cambodian people during his absence from Cambodia.
During the past 6 months, opposition leader Sam Rainsy, President of the Sam Rainsy party, fled overseas after the Svay Rieng provincial court sentenced him in absentia at the beginning of August 2010 to 2-year of jail time and fined him close to 60 million riels (~$15,000) after charging him with uprooting of border stakes between Cambodia and Vietnam in October 2009.
Later on, the Phnom Penh municipal court added an additional 10-year jail sentence on Sam Rainsy after accusing him of falsification of documents when he produced Cambodia’s border maps displayed by Google. However, Sam Rainsy, as well as civil society organizations consider the court sentences as a political bias by the ruling party.
The following is the interview by Mrs. Meoung Tum from Washington DC with opposition leader Sam Rainsy on the above topic:
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