FM To Sue Sam Rainsy for Khmer Rouge Remarks
By Mean Veasna, VOA Khmer
Original re****t from Phnom Penh
18 April 2008
Foreign Minister Hor Namhong plans to sue opposition leader Sam Rainsy
over statements made Thursday linking the minister to the Khmer Rouge,
an official said Friday.
In a ceremony to commemorate the fall of Phnom Penh to Khmer Rouge
guerrillas in 1975, Sam Rainsy said Thursday at least two ministers in
the current government were cadres of the regime.
=93One of them was secretary and interpreter of Pol Pot and who is
senior minister and Minister of Economy and another current deputy
prime minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs was director of Beoung
Trabek prison,=94 Sam Rainsy said. =93The director of a prison can point
someone and this person will be disappeared.=94
Keat Chhon is currently the Economy Minister, and Hor Namhong is the
Foreign Minister.
Hor Namhong will file a suit against Sam Rainsy for the remarks, said
Foreign Ministry spokesman Sim Bunthoeurn. =93He will meet with a lawyer
this Monday.=94
Sam Rainsy could not be reached for comment, because he is abroad.
But Eng Chhay Ieng, SRP secretary-general, said Sam Rainsy had not
mentioned Hor Namhong by name, nor accused him of killing anyone.
The party will defend its leader in court, he added.
Keat Chhon could not be reached for comment Friday.
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