CPP mouthpieces mounting virulent attacks against SRP MP Mu Sochua: Is the CPP nervous?

CPP mouthpieces: Cheam Yeap (L) and Phay Siphan (R)

Mu Sochua inflates the truth in the US –sic!–

Friday, September 04, 2009
DAP news
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Mrs. Mu Sochua, SRP deputy-Secretary general and Kampot MP from the SRP opposition party who lost the defamation lawsuit against PM Samdach Akkok Moha Xena Bat Dey Dek Cho Hun Xen in a verdict rendered by the Phnom Penh municipal court in the past, is currently creating a tempest to gather her supporters by yelling that the Cambodian court decision handed to her is an injustice.

Since she turned over her appeal to the Appeal Court, Mrs. Mu Sochua left to the USA, and up to now and until the near future, she has organized meeting and dancing events in various US states [KI-Media note: In fact, these events are organized by the US branch of the SRP]. During these occasions, she plans to provide information and comments to the participants on what she believes as being injustice in the defamation lawsuit and the decision to lift the parliamentary immunity of the two opposition MPs, i.e. those of Mrs. Mu Sochua and Phnom Penh MP Ho Vann.

Cheam Yeap, chairman of the National Assembly finance committee, told DAP news over the phone, on Friday afternoon that it is her right to organize the events above, but that these rights must be done according to the law [KI-Media note: Since when must events organized in the US abide by the Cambodian law?].

Cheam Yeap said: “She indicated that the court belongs to Samdach PM Hun Xen, but the samdach did not participate in it, and such statement is like the Cambodian old saying: ‘Ropis day, Chang-rai khluon’ (Fidgety hands bring in bad luck to oneself).”

Cheam Yeap added that such action is taken to ask for pity, but for him, he has no pity towards her whatsoever: “If the two of them were soldiers, they would surely be dead from bullets already.”

Cheam Yeap, the CPP Prey Veng province MP, indicated that Mrs. Mu Sochua’s action makes it such that the CPP can no longer tolerate, and in particular, what Hun Xen did in the past, it was all according to the law. For example, the immunity lifting of Mrs. Mu Sochua and Mr. Ho Vann was done based on the request of the ministry of Justice only, in order to open the way for the court to question her.

Phay Siphan, spokesman of the Cambodian Council of Ministers, is also of the same opinion as CPP Cheam Yeap, He said that this is Mrs. Mu Sochua’s right, and the right of those who will joint these events only. However, he claimed that the participants to the events will have the opportunity to find the truth and they will also hear the reply back from the Phnom Penh regime also.

Phay Siphan told DAP news that: “For the losers, they always yell that it is injustice, but the action taken by Mrs. Mu Sochua is a behavior that wants [to see] all Cambodians disobeying the law, disobeying the court, in particular, disobeying the National Assembly which represents the people’s will.”

Phay Siphan said that Mrs. Mu Sochua should display dignity by abiding the law of Cambodia, because this is her share of her political life.

In the invitation letter sent out by Mrs. Mu Sochua, it is stated: “The two MPs, Mrs. Mu Sochua and Mr. Ho Vann, saw their parliamentary immunity lifted by Hun Xen’s National Assembly, and Hun Xen’s tribunal unfairly sentenced them to lose in these defamation lawsuits.”

The invitation letter to meet Mrs. Mu Sochua also stated and boasted about her courage, and that she is a Cambodian woman who dares to stand up against injustice in Cambodia, in spite of the government’s threats.

A majority of people [KI-Media note: how did DAP knows that there is a majority of people? Unless it is inflating the truth] criticized that, just to meet with the two MPs, people will have to pay $25. On the issue above, DAP could not obtain any comment from the SRP, in particular from Mr. Yim Sovann, the SRP spokesman.

It should be noted that Mrs. Mu Sochua was summoned for mid-September by the Phnom Penh Appeal court for questioning related to the lawsuit brought up by PM Hun Xen, but she asked for a delay.

Regarding the actual timing of the summon, DAP could not obtain the comment from Mr. Kar Savuth, the Appeal Court judge. When he heard over the phone that we are from DAP news, he immediately turned off his phone and did not say anything. Read more!