Thierry Darnaudet
Action pour les Enfants (APLE
Cambodia),
4th Dec 2014
Dear Thierry
You are corrupt NGO with no respect for Cambodian law or for the legal and human rights of innocent men you pursue, persecute and prosecute. You should be in jail.
These facts are known to the
entire NGO and diplomatic community in Cambodia. However, just as was the case
with Somaly Mam’s lies, the entire NGO and diplomatic community, along with human
rights organizations such as LICADHO and ADHOC, turn a blind eye.
In the case of LICADHO the
turning of a blind eye is necessary since this human rights organization works
with APLE in the pursuit and prosecution of sex offenders. Whether these sex
offenders are innocent or guilty seems to be of as little concern to LICADHO as
it is to your self and your criminal associate, Samleang Seila.
The same applies with the British
government. It provides funding to APLE – likewise unconcerned as to whether
the men you place behind bars are guilty or innocent of sex crimes. The arrest
and conviction rates on your website look very impressive and this is what
counts for those whose job it is (be they diplomats or NGO’s dependent on
donors and sponsors) to ‘get results’. You have developed a very clever
business model and it certainly gets you results.
APLE has been putting innocent
men behind bars for some time now and can do so because, with the money you
raise as a result of your impressive arrest and conviction rate, you can buy
judges to deliver the verdicts you want and keep up this impressive arrest and
conviction rate. The facts, the evidence, the truth pertaining to these crimes are
irrelevant when APLE arrives on the scene, pockets bulging with cash, and buys
judges and courts.
Why LICADHO and ADHOC turn a
blind eye to your corrupt operation is a mystery to me. Is it because, in the
case of LICADHO, that Dr Kek Pung’s daughter Naly Pilorge is one of the
founders of APLE? Is APLE making financial contributions to LICADHO and ADHOC of
the kind (of the size!?) that guarantee the human rights NGOs will turn a blind eye to (remain silent
about) APLE’s blatantly obvious breaches of the legal and human rights of men
like David Fletcher. Or is it because
LICADHO and ADHOC are not too much concerned that innocent men go to jail –
just as long as some guilty men get jailed as well?
APLE’s corrupt modus operandi is
an open secret in Cambodia but for the most part people speak of it in hushed
tones. The main reason for this is that the same judges who have no qualms
about jailing innocent men if the price is right, will also jail journalists
who go public with what they know about APLE. And believe me, Thierry, much is
known and will eventually come out. It is to be hoped that you will be exposed
before any more innocent men are jailed.
You will not be in Cambodia when
this expose occurs. You will be able to retire to a villa in the south of
France with your ill-gotten gains. Samleang Seila may not be so lucky. If the rule
of law should ever arrives in Cambodia he will wind up in jail for his crimes.
One of these will be the crude manufacturing of a case against David Fletcher.
As you know, Thierry, a woman’s hymen does not grow back. David Fletcher did
not rape Yang Dany. An 18 year old Cambodia virgin does not use the expression
‘reached his passion’ to describe the male orgasm. This is the kind of
expression used by a Frenchman such as yourself. Did you write Yang Dany’s
statement and get her to place her thumb print on it? Did you manufacture the
entire case against David Fletcher?
On 27th Oct it seemed
to me (and others in court that day) that the judges were going to abide by the
Cambodian Code of Criminal Procedure; that David Fletcher was going to be able
to call witnesses, present evidence, run a proper case in his defense. Over the
next few weeks, however, APLE paid the judges to reverse their decision and
instructed Yang Dany (through its lawyers) to leave the country. Did you also
give her money to leave?
If what I have been told is true,
Yang Dany will never return to Cambodia and so never be in a position to repeat
to others what she told me and my camera – namely that David Fletcher did not
rape her.
You did not respond to my letter
of 22nd Oct. Nor have you responded in any way to any other communications
I have sent to Actions Pour les Enfants. You will not respond to this letter
either – other, perhaps, than to begin legal proceedings against me for
defamation. Please go ahead and sue me, Thierry. I would welcome the
opportunity to meet you in court – even in a Cambodian court whose judges you
have paid in advance to find me guilty.
best wishes
James Ricketson
About APLE paying court officials . . . Unless you have evidence that they do, according to my information they don't.
ReplyDeleteWhen APLE would start paying the courts, it would make them vulnerable. The price would go up every case and at the end APLE would not be able to win any.
APLE has other ways to influence the court. They have strong diplomatic connections with some of the embassies, especially the British, Australian and US embassies.
APLE turns to them when a case cannot be won based on evidence. They tell the embassies a case might be lost and a dangerous sex offender is about to walk free as a result of corruption (the accused bribed the court or paid the victim). APLE presents the embassies with their own fabricated 'evidence' and asks the embassies to help prevent the dangerous sex offender to walk free.
The embassies get involved and contact the Cambodian Ministry of Interior, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Cambodian Ministry of Justice, pressuring them by saying that a lot of foreign aid programs will be frozen when this sex offender is to walk free.
For judges in Cambodia it's not uncommon to receive phone calls from higher up, ordering the judge to hand out a guilty verdict and a high sentence, as we've seen in the case of Giuseppe Nicolosi and many anti-government protesters.
APLE loves Australian, US & British 'Sex Offenders', because there's a 100% guilty guarantee. I don't know any case where an accused Australian, US or UK citizen was NOT found guilty.
These 3 countries are also actively involved in assisting APLE in the process of 'collecting evidence'. The mysterious disappearance of David's passport is just one example on how well the CEOPS assists in 'collecting evidence'. All this is a result of the mass hysteria when it comes to child sexual abuse that dominates especially these 3 native English speaking cultures. It satisfies the false felling of safety when sex offenders (guilty or innocent) are put behind bars. For all those involved in this task it's only the results that counts, not the truth!
Other embassies, such as the Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, German and French Embassy (North European in general), have a different approach. Those countries only assist in investigation when the local government (not APLE, but the Cambodian Goverment) officially request police assistance. The Cambodian Government rarely asks for assistance.
My reading of this comment is that it has been made by someone who knows what s/he is talking about.
DeleteNonetheless, I find it hard to believe what advantage there would be, for the Australian, British or US Embassies, in conspiring to see innocent citizens of their respective countries jailed.
Having said that, I really don’t understand what advantage has accrued to the British Embassies in Thailand and Cambodia in conspiring to have David Fletcher jailed for an offense they know he could not have committed.
If Yang Dany had not been declared a virgin after the alleged rapes it could be argued that I (or someone else) paid her to do the interview she and her mother did on the condition that she denied that the rape occurred. This is a difficult (nay, impossible) argument to run with given Yang Dany’s intact hymen.
The writer of this comment is, of course, spot on with his/her observations about anti-government protestors. There can be no doubt that in many instances phone calls are made and sentences handed down in accordance with instructions given and with no reference at all to the evidence. I can see the advantages here to a government trying to quell unrest or silence critics. I just don’t see, to use the Australian man Giuseppe Nicolosi as an example, why the Australian Embassy would wish to see an innocent man jailed! If someone can explain this to me I would appreciate it.
If indeed David Fletcher’s promised trial was cancelled as a result of a request made by the British Embassy (or Foreign Secretary!) to the Cambodian Minister of Justice this is even more frightening in its implications than a direct payment to the judges. For this scenario to work someone from APLE would have to make contact with someone within the FCO at a fairly high level (as high as the Foreign Secretary!?) to request that David Fletcher’s trial be cancelled. This highly placed official would then have to call his counter-part in Cambodia (in this case the Minister of Justice, presumably) and say, “We do not want this trial to proceed.”
The question arises: “Why would the relevant Cambodian Minister, 100% of the time, accede to such a request?”
I will not attempt to answer this question as the only answers that occur to me take us into John le Carre territory; into the kinds of plots within plots we are accustomed to in thrillers of the kind that le Carre, Jeffrey Archer and others write.
The plot thickens!
"My reading of this comment is that it has been made by someone who knows what s/he is talking about." But did you verify this? Did you verify whether the person was telling the truth or are you not the type of journalist who wants to find out the truth? Because if you do, find some real evidence and bring that up. But you have none... And if there is no evidence... Maybe they are not bribing the court. Did this thought even cross your mind?
DeleteDer Anonymous 7.40
DeleteYou are one of many on this site who cherry pick statement by me and others looking for evidence to back up your own preconceptions. Here are the two paragraphs that come after this sentence:
"Nonetheless, I find it hard to believe what advantage there would be, for the Australian, British or US Embassies, in conspiring to see innocent citizens of their respective countries jailed.
Having said that, I really don’t understand what advantage has accrued to the British Embassies in Thailand and Cambodia in conspiring to have David Fletcher jailed for an offense they know he could not have committed. "