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The hallucinated threats of despair

25 Sunday Oct 2015

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My dear Kacvey,

It seems lately that the autocracy is running out of political and innovative intelligence. Winter is coming and the brain getting frozen.

The constant repetition by the nabob and his liege men of the unfounded reasoning that, if the ruling party doesn’t have the backing and support of the majority of the voters anymore, the country will plunge into war.  In their own mind, they make up imaginary and phantom war with hallucinatory and bogus protagonists. Could this also be the scheme designed by “sonny”, the new intelligence boss, who would be trying to test his own skill in imitating the “war scare of 1875” or the “war scare of 1983” à la cambodgienne? Every time they have the microphone, they go into lengthy fictional predictions of danger, disaster, disorder and calamity if the voters decide that they will not allow them to return to power anymore. Si vis pacem, para bellum?

But one can ask oneself: Why this constant repetition and premonition? Do they have now become oracles, avatars or sidewalk soothsayers? When you fall into a barrel of power for too long and get drunk with it, you become an adept of occultism!

Well, the answer is self-evident: The Khmer people in 2015 to 2018 are no longer the same as those in 2013 or earlier. Education of/in life has made them more aware of what they are able to see and to think consequently. To paraphrase Descartes: “They are, therefore they think”. They think about the time of war under the KR; they think about the KRs or the ex-KRs who killed their relatives; they think about foreign soldiers who overstay in their lands; they think that they have known and lived through enough real war in their life time. Therefore, they think that whoever is selling the idea of war in the aftermath of the elections results is a bogus man, a sham.

Plutarch reported a saying by a Spartan, Cleomenes Son of Anaxandridas, which goes: “I am not the same person that I was before, and not being the same, what I approve of is not the same either.”

Let turn the issue upside down and see what is hidden underneath. The question would be: If war happened like they have been predicting, where would they be then? Would it be themselves who would unilaterally declare the war? Would they be willing and ready to take full responsibility for the declaration of war act? On which side of the battle will they position themselves? Will they kill innocent Khmer the way the KRs and the ex-KRs had killed? Will they constitute themselves the enemies of peaceful Khmer people who would have voted? How will they justify taking up arms against democratic elections? Will they return to the “maquis” the same way the KRs and ex-KRs did under the Sangkum, the Khmer Republic or the PRK? Will they be willing to abandon their vast fortune and wealth for “underground resistance”? Guns to kill ballots?

Sensing their rhetoric hitting the rock, they are doubling up the ante by advancing the propaganda that the army honcho and the police honcho could not be removed from their post by any new government that is not of their party. But then again, could they be removed by the government of their own party if the latter is not satisfied with them for whatever reason, made-up or otherwise? Are the army honcho and the police honcho working for the country, or are they working for their party? What give them the idea that they are Ares and Mars re-incarnated with mortal’s masks? Is this a ploy by the big nabob to begin to shift the blame from his own shore to someone’s else?

Well, Kacvey, the inference that they invoke is so low and lame that to deliberate further about it is to dignify their obliviousness and incognizance.

Let them use their free will and freedom to continue to bark out their own moribund predictions. Please have some sore throats medicine ready, in case!

Chez les Gaulois – Chronique No. 4

18 Sunday Oct 2015

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Mon cher Kacvey,

Continuons …

Quand le roi Sisowath visitait la France en 1906, les trois personnalités khmères importantes de l’époque qui l’accompagnaient furent les ministres Col de Monteiro, Thiounn et Sondiep. Mais le souverain avait aussi emmené avec lui la troupe du ballet royal dont les présentations des danses khmères à Marseille et Paris, devant le public français et international, connaissaient non seulement un succès éclatant mais elles montraient à l’Occident que de l’antique et de brillante civilisation des Khmers, le Cambodge a gardé les traditions d’un art tout de grâce et de belles attitudes.

Alors, qui seraient les éminents (minjustice, par exemple?) ou les “Docteur Hahn” qui accompagneraient l’homme fort (autocrate, cleptocrate) du Cambodge à l’Elysée? Qui, de la cour cppienne, aura la rare opportunité d’être reçu dans le salon de l’Elysée ou de Matignon (à l’exception peut-être du résident plénipotentiare de la rue Adolphe Yvon lors de la présentation des voeux de Nouvel An au corps diplomatique)  et qui aura la vanité de diffuser ses selfies dans les réseaux sociaux en France ou au Cambodge?

Peu importe la composition nominative de la cour cppienne accompagnant l’homme fort, il serait certain qu’il y aurait un certain nombre des Khméro-Français qui sont parlementaires, conseillers ou écornifleurs. Il serait aussi plausible que les bios de ces invités à l’Elysée ou Matignon seraient connues d’avance du service de protocole de ces 2 Palais.

Alors Kacvey, se demanderait-t-on, comment ces messieurs “Français” à double face/nationalité (ou KCPB) se comporteraient devant leur président ou leur premier ministre? Oseraient-ils le faire avec fierté et honneur khmers comme faisaient les ministres du roi Sisowath? Il n’est pas facile pour les hypocrites farceurs de jouer les rôles des grands messieurs en présence de VRAIS GRANDS MESSIEURS!!

Entre temps, dans le match de prestige entre le chef de file de la minorité parlementaire et l’autocrate, il ne serait pas difficile d’imaginer que le premier irait encaisser un “pas agréable score” sur son propre terrain parisien!

Si le Canard Enchaîné pouvait faire des reportages sur ce sujet dans une de ses éditions de mercredi!

Ainsi se terminent les chroniques de “Chez les Gaulois”.

Chez les Gaulois – Chronique No. 3

17 Saturday Oct 2015

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Mon cher Kacvey,

Continuons …

L’honneur d’une visite d’état à l’Elysée serait que l’hôte recevrait l’invité dans la cour du Palais animée par les fanfares de la Garde Républicaine qui jouent les hymnes nationaux des 2 pays. Si tel était le cas, ce serait d’abord Nokoreach, puis La Marseillaise.

Saluons les 2 hymnes avec solennité et dignité!

Il est vrai que sur place, on n’entendrait seulement que la musique de ces 2 hymnes. Laissons le cours libre et la liberté à Hollande (juste de retour de la Grèce) ou Valls ou Fabius si chacun voulait ou non savoir ce que Nokoreach – écrit par feu Samdach Chuon Nath en 1941- signifie dans le coeur et l’âme des Khmers.

Par contre, “La Marseillaise” de Roget de Lisle qui l’écrivait en 1792, est un chant révolutionnaire, un hymne de liberté, un appel patriotique à la mobilisation de tous les citoyens ainsi qu’une exhortation à combattre la tyrannie. L’on pourrait se demander si les historiens du parti au pouvoir auraient pris soin d’informer l’homme fort du Cambodge du sens national de “La Marseillaise” quand il saluerait le drapeau français ou quand il déposerait une couronne de fleurs en l’honneur et à la mémoire des soldats inconnus à l’Arc de Triomphe. Espérons qu’il le ferait en toute connaissance de cause.

Si “La Marseillaise” a pu rester l’étendard de la France depuis 1795, c’est que les français gardent toujours, dans leur coeur, le courage des fédérés venant de Marseille et descendant sur Paris durant la révolution. La République fut dès lors créée, et elle reste jusqu’à present.

“Allons enfants de la patrie,

Le jour de gloire est arrivé!

Contre nous de la tyrannie …”

Pourrait-on, un jour, imaginer et espérer que ces courtes phrases seraient valable dans la vie politique cambodgienne à venir?

Et de continuer à notre mode khmère:

“Aux urnes, cambodgiens,

“Formez vos opinions,

“Votons, votons! …

… A suivre au prochain dans “Chez les Gaulois – Chronique No. 4”

Political Courage of a Cambodian-American in So Cal

16 Friday Oct 2015

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My dear Kacvey,

There is a noteworthy news from the town of La Crescenta in Southern California where a Cambodian-American is campaigning for a position in the town council in the next elections to be held on November 6-7, 2015.

This is the related link: http://thecvcouncil.com/2015-cvtc-candidates/sophal-ear/

Plato, once said, “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” Later on, Aristotle added: “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

How this Cambodian-American will fare in the elections depends on how his message is understood and shared with La Crescenta sovereign voters, Cambodian-Americans and/or otherwise. May he do the best he can for what he is vying for.

In 2014, in a similar situation, a Cambodian-American was elected as councilman in the city of Lowell in the State of Massachusetts.

Kacvey, there is a big lesson that Cambodian politicians in the City of Tonlé Buon Mouk can draw from the experience and effort of these two Cambodian-Americans. It is their courage – political courage – to put themselves in square and fair competition with other candidates under the constitution and laws not only of the town of La Crescenta and of the city of Lowell, but also of the States of California and Massachusetts and the United States which is their adopted country.

You may ask what relevance these instances have with Cambodia? On the surface, there is indeed none.

But if you look at the composition of the Cambodian national assembly, you might notice there are quite a number of Cambodian-French, Cambodian-American and Cambodian-Australian who are “intercontinentally parachuted” parliamentarians representing “Khmer Cambodians” in many local provinces in which they previously never had any political interactions with.

Rational and reasonable Cambodians can ask themselves a question which is: “Would these Cambodians with dual (or multiple) nationalities have the political courage, the knowledge, the intellectual integrity and honesty, the class of character, the pride and honor to put themselves in square and fair competition for any legislative position in their adopted country: France, USA and Australia, in a similar way to the two Cambodian-Americans above?”

Bookmakers in Las Vegas or London would not take any bet because the odds are negative!

How much longer can Cambodians endure to be looked down, cheated out and politically abused by these “other” Cambodians?

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Update: Congratulations Mr. Sophal Ear for your election to a 3-year term as a member of the Council of La Crescenta!

http://thecvcouncil.com/2015-cvtc-election-results/

Break a leg!!!

Chez les Gaulois – Chronique No. 2

14 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Mon cher Kacvey,

Continuons …

Un siècle et 9 ans plus tôt, si bien que le Cambodge fut sous le protectorat français, le roi Sisowath effectuait une visite d’état en France, puissance coloniale de l’époque,  sur l’invitation du Président Emile Loubet. Mais le Président Loubet quitta le pouvoir le 18 février 1906, et ce fut Armand Fallières qui lui succéda le même jour.

Après un mois de voyage par bateau, le roi Sisowath arriva à Marseille le 10 juin 1906 et entama sa visite royale en France depuis la capitale des Bouches-du-Rhône jusqu’à Paris.

L’histoire des relations entre le Cambodge et la France au moment de la visite du roi Sisowath, nous fait savoir 2 grands évènements qui, non seulement ouvraient la porte du Cambodge au monde occidental, mais aussi débutaient le mouvement de l’enseignement supérieur/universitaire dans les grands établissements français “de la métropole” en faveur des étudiants khmers ayant fini leurs études secondaires à Phnom Penh. Le Prince Monivong inaugurait ce mouvement intellectuel à St Cyr en 1906 – la suite, vous la connaissez bien, étant un produit, quelques décennies plus tard, de cette sagesse de la politique sociale et éducative pour les générations à venir. Ces 2 évènements furent, d’une part des apports que le Cambodge et son roi apportaient à la France sous forme d’une reproduction du Temple d’Angkor pour “l’Exposition Coloniale de Marseille”, et d’autre part la démonstration que le Cambodge, même sous protectorat, n’entamait ni l’aliénation du peuple, ni la majesté des souverains khmers. L’histoire d’un pays ne trahit jamais son futur, mais l’inverse n’est souvent pas vrai.

Mais Kacvey, vous pourriez vous demander pourquoi ce retour si, si loin en arrière du temps? Ne faudrait-il pas plutôt se concentrer sur le futur?

Une question simple appelle une réponse simple aussi, mais sous forme d’une interrogation sur le futur. Est-ce-que la visite d’état en France de l’home fort (autocrate/cleptocrate, avec ou sans un bol dans la main) vers la fin d’octobre 2015 aurait des éclats pour le Cambodge comme ce que faisait le roi Sisowath plus d’un siècle plus tôt, et quels résultats extraordinaires le peuple khmer pourra escompter, à part le charabia politique et diplomatique qu’on lit presque tous les jours, soit dans les média traditionnels, soit dans les réseaux sociaux. Voilà la réponse pour le futur.

La visite royale du roi Sisowath faisait la une du Numéro 815 du journal de l’époque “Le Petit Journal” en date du 1er juillet 1906 (texte reproduit en bas et en italiques) et aussi du Numéro 906 du journal “Le Petit Parisien” en date du 17 juin 1906. Ce fut l’histoire enregistrée en temps réel et fidèle. Oserait-on espérer lire le reportage de la visite de l’homme fort de Phnom Penh sur la première page de Le Monde, Le Figaro ou Libération de fin octobre 2015? Kacvey, prudence est conseillée, ne mettez même pas 1 riel en enjeu!

Kacvey, jugez-vous même de la teneur de l’article et attendez de faire bientôt la comparaison:

“Le Petit Journal

S.M. SISOWATH A PARIS

Après avoir conquis les Marseillais par la bonne grâce de ses saluts et de ses sourires, le roi Sisowath est arrivé à Paris, où il a trouvé le même accueil chaleureux.

Depuis qu’il est dans nos murs, le roi du Cambodge va de surprises en admirations. D’abord, le voyage en rapide l’a ravi et intéressé au plus haut point. A son arrivée à la gare de Lyon, il a manifesté tout son plaisir de retrouver les acclamations populaires qui l’avaient accompagné dans toutes ses promenades à Marseille.

Mais ce qui a excité tout particulièrement son enthousiasme admiratif, c’est l’escorte de cuirassiers qui entourait sa voiture.

Ces hommes bardés de fer l’ont émerveillé. Il demandait à son interprète, le docteur Hahn, comment ils pouvaient si bien tenir sur leurs grands chevaux ayant une main occupée à porter le sabre au clair, et il s’amusait de voir tous les fourreaux de tous ces sabres battre en cadence le flanc des chevaux.

Sur les grands boulevards, il fut surpris de la hauteur des maisons. Par des photographies, il connaissait déjà tous les monuments de Paris, et il reconnut tout de suite l’Opéra quand le cortège royal passa pour la première fois devant le célèbre monument de Garnier.

Le roi est fort bien installé, avec sa suite, dans un bel hôtel de l’avenue Malakoff. Il a trouvé là de superbes salons ornés de tapisseries des Gobelins; et sa chambre à coucher est garnie d’un beau mobilier Louis XVI. S.M. Sisowath couche dans un lit en cuivre massif, qui servit au tsar Nicolas II, lors de son dernier passage à Compiègne.

Si le beau temps veut bien favoriser ce souverain des pays du soleil, Sisowath pourra faire à son gré la sieste dans un jardin – dont nous donnons une vue – qui, pour être moins grands que ses jardins de Phnom Penh, ne lui sera pas moins agréable.

Les fêtes organisées pour la visite du souverain suivent leur cours. Le roi aura tout loisir d’admirer toutes les ressources de notre civilisation, car il assistera tour à tour à une réunion sportive, à une fête vénitienne, à une représentation à l’Opéra et enfin à la revue du 14 Juillet, où ses enthousiasmes ne manqueront pas de se manifester pour ces beaux soldats de France, qui ont déjà excité si vivement son intérêt.”

… A suivre au prochain dans “Chez les Gaulois – Chronique No. 3”

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(1) Mise à jour du lundi 26 octobre 2015 – A l’issue de l’entretien, le Palais de l’Elysée publie un communiqué de presse dont voici le lien:

http://www.elysee.fr/communiques-de-presse/article/entretien-avec-le-premier-ministre-cambodgien/

C’est pas lourd comme bagage à ramener à Phnom Penh!

(2) Mise à jour du mardi 27 octobre 2015: Au dernier comptage, “Le Monde” aurait la courtoisie internationale de publier aujourd’hui (mais daté du 28 octobre 2015) un article sous le titre qui est loin d’être flatteur pour cette visite d’état: “La dérive autoritaire du pouvoir de Phnom Penh, de plus en plus fragilisé.”

http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2015/10/27/la-derive-autoritaire-du-pouvoir-de-phnom-penh-de-plus-en-plus-fragilise_4797894_3216.html#ZwDkorbm4olSyiJU.99

Merci “Le Monde”!

Chez les Gaulois – Chronique No. 1

11 Sunday Oct 2015

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Mon cher Kacvey,

Si (répétons-le avec un grand “SI”) ça se confirme, l’homme fort de la Cité de Tonlé Buon Mouk ira effectuer une visite d’état chez les gaulois avant la fin d’octobre 2015.

Après l’ONU à New York et Beijing, ce sera le Palais de l’Elysée! Les choses se gâtent diplomatiquement et les ex-KRs rebouquinent l’histoire de France jadis enseignée sous la colonie comme quoi “nos ancêtres étaient des gaulois”!!!

Ah, le grand MONSIEUR touv srok barang!

Procédons par ordre, et une chose à la fois.

Pour commencer, prenons un court instant pour imager ce même homme fort (autocrate/cleptocrate) du Cambodge sur le perron de l’Elysée, honoré par la garde républicaine et en compagnie de Hollande, et à Matignon avec Valls, et ces mêmes images qui inonderont jour et nuit la chaîne TVK.

De leurs stupas/tombes/au-delà, que penseraient et diraient:

  • le roi Sisowath,
  • le roi/prince/Samdach Euv/Chef d’état Sihanouk,
  • les princes malchanceux: Yukanthor, Yutévong …
  • les négociateurs de l’indépendance: Penn Nouth, Sam Sary, Sarin Chak …
  • les anciens ministres: Sonn Sann, Mau Say, Touch Kim, Yèm Sarong, Phuong Tonn, Chau Séng …
  • l’intellectuel infortuné: Kéng Vansak,
  • et d’autres Khmers sortis d’X, Ponts, Centrale, rue d’Ulm, ENA, HEC, rue des St. Pères, Panthéon, Sorbonne, St Cyr, Conservatoires, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Dijon, Aix, Marseille …

Ah, si Fénélon était là encore pour mettre à jour son “Dialogue des morts” avec un nouveau chapitre qui s’intitulerait “Dialogue des Khmers”!

… A suivre au prochain dans “Chez les Gaulois – Chronique No. 2”

The proof of the pudding is in the eating

09 Friday Oct 2015

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My dear Kacvey,

Lately in the market place of the City of Tonlé Buon Mouk, there have been a lot of merchants who, through their microphones and loudspeakers, sell promises for victories like “les marchands qui vendent des poissons en mer.” They have their kiosks and booths managed by salesmen with only words displayed and broadcast in air as their wares.

The ruling merchants are selling their hollow promises of winning the majority of voices at the next legislative elections with more than 60 seats; they even boast that should the elections be held nowadays, they would score better than in July 2013; they sell their imaginary victory to the consumers who have no convictions and confidence to buy it; they sell their continued ambition to remain in power albeit after more than 30 years in government; they even fan the flame “après moi, le déluge” to scare the people as if they use alchemy to fight off the ghost; they instill the specter of war between Khmer or their neighbors if they are voted out – hadn’t Khmer have enough war between 1970 and 1993?

The opposing merchants, having nothing else to do in their non-working place, are also selling empty promises of victory with majority and bigger margin than in July 2013; they sell their claim for unknown victory to people to whom they never contribute anything tangible to their life and welfare; they boost their pitch of “free and fair elections” as if “free and fair elections” is god’s command; against their own inner heart, they even challenge themselves that they would quit politics if they did not win (BTW, who drafted them to be the leaders of their party or in other words didn’t they themselves self-draft and self-elect to that position?) they boast that they will reorganize or revamp the justice system, the education system, the lands reform etc … but without presenting a sketch on how to proceed and do it; they even promote an unfair competition by belittling the newly established political formations/parties; the one commodity they haven’t displayed for sale yet is a trip to Freedom Park, should 2018 dress them in 2013’s clothes.

So, Kacvey, since a coin has only 2 sides, let see one side at a time:

Head – It is a long, long time from now till 2018, with 3 Chaul Chnams, 3 Christmas, 3 springs etc … Would you or any sane mind tell your neighbor that in 2018 you will win a lottery jackpot when you haven’t even bought a single ticket yet, and you have already spent the money? Well, to put it simply, you would not, because you would not count on something before it happens, the same way as any farmer would not tell you that his 2018 harvest would be such and such tonnage! Any politician who counts the chickens before they are hatched is a false prophet; he must be living in a world of fallacy.

Tail – Why do they sell Cambodia’s future to Cambodians now for their own future? “Fear” is the word and the factor. They fear the future which will not be clement to them; the fear of losing dictates them to hide the fear behind the curtain of promises of unknown and uncertain victory; they fear the numbers that will, one day, come out of a serious and scientific polls and ghastly surprise and shock them; they fear their own actions and non-actions that betray the trust of the people; last but not least, they fear of and for themselves as they are so scared to see their natural grey and ageing hair in the mirror that they have to falsify the course of nature with application of black dye! … they can dye the hair shaft as much as they like but the shaft never betrays the root!

Kacvey, as many Cambodians and you know in advance, there can’t and won’t ever be 2 winners in 2018, therefore right after the poll closes its doors, sabers rattling – as some people already preface as war – cannot be excluded from the arena and political hurricane created by them will no doubt affect the entire Cambodian population. And please remember, as soon as your ballot is cast, you do not exist anymore in their eyes, heart and mind. Everything they will be talking about and concerning in will all be about themselves and the power they will want to grab. You grow the rice by yourself, you cook the rice for them, and you serve it on their table for them to enjoy themselves selfishly. Whatever you’ll do after that, it is your business and not theirs, even if you go to jail for having supported them.

Millions of voters will be solicited with kind words and promises of sand castles in Spain from now on towards the elections. However, the day following the elections only the 123 will be the subject of glory, success, fame and future fortune. Do the math, dear friend!

Anyhow if it pleases them to put their cart before their horses, so be it … for them!

Until then, you may wonder whether these politicians have heard about the famous Khmer tale of “A chéy chack smock.” If they haven’t, this would then be a good idea for a present for their next birthday!

As for us, let have our feet on the ground and remind ourselves with these words by Miguel de Cervantes: “freír de los huevos lo verá!“

Correspondences on Human Rights

04 Sunday Oct 2015

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My dear Kacvey,

Following the publication of the Statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia on 24 September 2015, here are for your info extracts of correspondences from the Circle dated 28 September 2015 to the Special Rapporteur and the response from her office dated 2 October 2015.

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Dear Professor Rhona Smith, UN Special Rapporteur,

We read with deep interests your statement dated 24 September 2015 and wish to wish you great success in your next 5 1/2 years of undertaking in the promotion and protection of human rights in Cambodia.
We also believe that your real experience in Cambodia prior to your appointment, unlike your predecessors, is the key to the attainment of what your predecessors were short of.
In Cambodia where Autocracy is cloaked as Democracy, or for example, where a powerful man can have another man arrested outside the limit of rules of laws, and where the same man justifies his view, decision and action as constitutional or lawful because he says so, this in any way will make your job easy but rather challenging and noble for the victims of those abuses.
Human rights without justice is justice in the jungle of men.
We, as a group of Khmer Overseas, would like to invite you and your staff, Khmer and international, to visit our blog www.khmerpac.com where we express our independent view/opinion/comment on contemporary Cambodian events and issues. To paraphrase Descartes, we think, therefore we are.
With respect and regards,
KhmerPAC
“Khmer Politics Alternatives Circle”
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Dear Sir/Madam,

In my capacity as the assistant to Professor Smith, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia and the Desk Officer for Cambodia at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, I wish to thank you for your email of 28 September. The Special Rapporteur has taken due note of the information contained therein and conveys her thanks for bringing it to her attention. Please be rest assured that the Special Rapporteur will continue to closely follow the human rights situation in
Thank you for your continued interest in the work of the Special Rapporteur and please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of further assistance.
Best regards,
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Let wish the Special Rapporteur well in her difficult job throughout her term and let also hope that Cambodia which is a member of the United Nations – and whose representative had very recently stood at the lectern of the General Assembly Hall delivering a speech in front of representatives of 193 countries/governments during the “70th Anniversary” of the Organization and the 2015 “Summit on Sustainable Development” – take her assignment seriously and responsibly for the sake of all Cambodians whose rights have been violated and still continue to be so.