Mr. Sam Rainsy in Stockton on 05/31/09 (Part 10)

Mr. Sam Rainsy delivered speech to members and supporters in Stockton, California on May 31, 2009

Run for your Life – Cambodia by Journeyman Pictures

July 1997

A historic report filmed during CPP party leader Hun Sen’s takeover of Cambodia.

Our camera follows officials of Prince Ranariddh’s Funcinpec party as they are secretly smuggled out of the country. After a dash to the airport by car, Funcinpec Head of Security Hong Dar waits nervously as his false papers are checked by airport officials. Like many others denied assistance by foreign embassies in Cambodia’s latest crisis, this is his only way out, convinced he’ll be tortured and assassinated if he stays. Another fleeing Funcinpec official, his face disguised, tells how Hun Sen’s soldiers came to his house and shot his wife. He too is smuggled out the same way. Surrounded by security guards, Hun Sen states he has “no regrets” in using force to oust rival Prince Ranariddh. Press reporters asking unpalatable questions are quickly shoved out of the crowd. Senior Funcinpec member Ung Huot admits Hun Sen approved his appointment as new First Premier. He promises free elections despite suspicions he’s merely a puppet of the CPP. Can Kim lost two children when a shell hit her home. Her youngest child, still wounded, strokes her mother’s face as she weeps. Human Rights Lawyer Brad Adams says Funcinpec fears are well founded.

Produced by ABC Australia

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Cambodia Politics by Journeyman Pictures

April 2006

Earlier this year it appeared Cambodia was sliding into an all out dictatorship. But weeks before an important donor meeting the leader has pardoned his rivals.

A few weeks ago, opposition leader Sam Rainsy was in exile after being sentenced in absentia to 18 months in jail for defaming the Prime Minister. Other government critics were slapped with lawsuits. “We had to be very careful what we said. We didn’t know the limits.” But now the two men have made up and the pressure is on Rainsy to prove he won’t become the PM’s poodle.

Produced by ABC Australia

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