Mr Ang Vong Vathana
Minister of Justice
Samdech Sothearos Road
Sangkat Chaktomouk
Daun Penh
16th February 2015
Dear Minister
I am an Australian filmmaker. I am producing
a film about the very poor families who work in the Phnom Penh rubbish tip.
David Fletcher worked with these same poor
families before he was arrested and convicted in absentia for the crime of
rape. Mr Fletcher could not have committed this crime as his ‘victim’ remained
a virgin after the alleged rapes.
It is through his work with poor families that
I came to meet Mr Fletcher.
As I mentioned in my last letter to you, some
of these families receive just $250 in rice assistance from a foreign NGO (the
Cambodian Children’s Fund) whilst the NGO receives $20,000 in sponsorships and
donations for this same family.
This is not right.
Why does the Cambodian government allow
foreign NGOs to make massive profits exploiting the poverty of the Cambodian
people?
Why does the Cambodian government allow NGOs like the Cambodian Children’s Fund to beak up families by removing
children and placing them in institutions?
Why doesn’t the Cambodian government ask NGOs
like the Cambodian Children’s Fund to assist poor disadvantaged children within
their families and communities?
Finally, why does the Cambodian government
outsource some of its policing to NGOs such as Action Pour les Enfants? This
NGO acts like a private police force and its Country Director, Mr Samleang
Seila raises money by telling donors and sponsors that Cambodia is a corrupt
country and a haven for pedophiles; that the police cannot be relied upon and
need a foreign NGO to do their job.
Just as I believe that the best people to
bring up children are the parents and families of the children, so too do I
believe that the best people to investigate crimes are the Cambodian police and
not a foreign NGO that makes a lot of money for every conviction it obtains –
whether the person charged is guilty or innocent.
It is Action Pour les Enfants that is
responsible for Mr David Fletcher having spent 5 years in a jail for a crime
that he could not have committed. This is made clear in the doctor’s report for
the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
I trust that you will give David Fletcher’s
request for a fair trial due consideration and that your government will make
moves to get rid of NGOs that are in your beautiful country to exploit poor
Cambodians.
yours sincerely
James Ricketson
The fucking moron strikes again with more of his insane ranting. The Minister for Justice wouldn't wipe his bum with one of your letters you looser. Your pathetic.
ReplyDeleteThe first 'laughable' comment of the day! You must have set cambodia440.blogspot.com as your homepage!
DeleteAnyways, congratulations for being the first to place a 'valuable' comment under this very interesting blog article!
The letter to Minster of Justice Ang Vong Vathana includes some very interesting questions:
1. Why does the Cambodian government allow foreign NGOs to make massive profits exploiting the poverty of the Cambodian people?
2. Why does the Cambodian government allow NGOs like the Cambodian Children's Fund to break up families by removing children and placing them in institutions?
3. Why doesn't the Cambodian government ask NGOs like Cambodian Children's Fund to assist poor disadvantaged children within their families and communities?
These are very important questions, Scott.
Why is it that your NGO, the Cambodian CHILDREN's Fund, is only focusing on children? Wouldn't you agree that empowering the parents of your sweet 'orphans' would offer a way more sustainable solution to the problem of poverty?
Why is it that Cambodia has free-of-charge hospitals for children, but a free-of-charge hospital for adults cannot be found? Wouldn't you agree that keeping the parents healthy as a first priority will enable those parents to maintain a job and take care of their own children?
What stops you from opening a free-of-charge clinic for children AND their parents? Is there perhaps a shortage of funds?
Ccf runs a free of charge medical clininc treating 3000 people of all ages every month, you muppet. Do some fucking research.
DeleteAnonymous 5.10
DeleteDear Scott
This is clearly you writing anonymously or someone writing on your behalf. The point is taken. The person making the observation re 'opening a free-of-charge clinic' is clearly wrong. Could you please let us know more?
Given that you (either Scott or someone speaking on CCF's behalf) are quite prepared to point out this error, why not point out other errors of fact that are contained in blog entry # 96 concerning CCF's US Tax return?
Are the conclusion arrived at in this blog correct or incorrect? Does CCF generate roughly $4,000 per annum to house and educate one child in CCF's residential care programme? Isd the amount of rice support given to a family with kids in care roughly $5 - $6 per week, or $250 to $300 a year? If so, how, in the case of one mother with 5 kids in CCF's residential care, justify taking in $20,000 a year in donations and sponsorships to take care of her kids and only give her and the rest of the family $300 a year in rice support maximum?
You will not, of course, answer this or any of the other questions raised by myself and others on this blog. Instead, you will wait until there is some small error of fact (as with the clinic mentioned above) and then use this, along with a smattering of personal abuse, to select attention away from the more serious and substantial questions.
James keep up your good work. Obviously Scott is not happy about it. Is the fact that he doesn't have a high school education showing through in his vocabulary? Obviously he has to do something with his $10.6M, though last year (2013) he didn't know how to use
Delete$4.5M of it! Where is the press on this???
Well said anonymous 12.51. Ricketson is a muppet who only conducts research that suits his own agenda. Ricketson is like a dose of diarrhoea - annoying at first but after a day or so it just gets flushed down the toilet.
DeleteAs for APLE team - thank Buddha that you are not an NGO that has any credibility or any status in the community. Your rants are complete rubbish and it is very clear that you also have an agenda - discrediting other NGO's so you can get more funding perhaps. It must be sad and lonely at the bottom of the dung hill.
Anonymous 12.24
DeleteWelcome back. I thought you had deserted us! Have you nothing better to do than read the rubbish you find on this blog! Get a life, man!
Firstly, it was not me who made the comment about health care for parents of children! It is great if CCF has such an initiative. No complaints from me on that score.
Your 'dose of diarrhoea' comment is of a kind that most people grow out of by the time they hit about 16! I wonder if you believe, in making such comments, that I will be cut to the quick! If I will feel devastated? What am I supposed to feel? Offended? Fact is, you do provide a bit of comic relief - which is always appreciated.
I doubt that you, Anonymous 12.24, are in fact Scott Neeson. I doubt that Scott would stoop as low as you do. However, you are clearly a supporter so why not answer some of the questions that have ben raised here rather than simply dismiss them as rants?
On the other hand, perhaps you are just a troll who gets his rocks off being a pain the the butt online and hoping that people will bite! No-one's biting but please do keep it up. The comic relief is much appreciated.
What a pitiful response to my comments Ricketson. I can picture you crying in the corner of the school playground sucking your thumb and telling everyone to go away. You are pathetic.
DeleteThe only comic relief needed is for you to get hit by a bus and killed. No-ones bitting? Thats strange seeing that have responded you fucking moron.
Have you targeted and exploited any more families with young daughters lately?
And to make your day Ricketson - I hear on the grapevine that the family of the young girl who you forced to give you an interview has made a compliant to police. I can't wait to see what explanation you give to the courts when they ask you why you bullied and threatened them to get your answers.
A dog that goes around pissing on car tyres is the best description for you.
Anonymous 12.44
DeleteYou are in fine form this afternoon.
What a strange sense of humour you have! Someone being hit and killed by a bus would make you laugh?
The 'grapevine' has been suggesting for some time that Yang Dany has 'made a complaint to police' but, to date, no police have come to talk with me about it.
It would be interesting to see what crime I have supposedly committed, as a journalist/filmmaker, in conducting an interview with this young woman - who is now in China, incidentally.
And I wonder if her 'complaint' includes the two other journalists present?
Well done Ricketson - your ethical and moralistic qualities coming out again. Telling everyone where this young girl is situated. Perhaps she didn't want anyone knowing where she is currently in the world.
DeleteThe fact is - you are a blatant lier. You manipulate the truth to suit your agenda. Barging into the house of a poor uneducated Khmer family is firstly unacceptable, secondly it is evident in your video that you ask the same questions with slightly different twists numerous times until the poor girl gives you a forced answer that is to your liking.
Journalist? Really? You have the gaul to call yourself a credible journalist. Pathetic!
Dear Anonymous 1.23
DeleteYang Dany was spirited off to China by APLE so that she would not be able to tell the truth to any inquisitive journalists who might be in search of the truth.
China is quite a big place sop I doubt that this clue as to her whereabouts is going to place her in any kind of danger.
As for my being a 'blatant liar' please point out to me one lie I have told. Just one.
If I have manipulated the truth to suit my agenda, point to one example of when I have done this.
Yang Dany and her mother, Sekun, came to my hotel to conduct the interviews in question - on the roof of the hotel. No barging into their home.
No, I asked the same questions more than once (and did not turn the camera off) so that Yang Dany and her mother had ample opportunity to tell their story in whichever way they wished. SOme versions of their story do not reflect well on Mr Fletcher but I did not edit these out. It is up to viewers to see the interviews in their entirety and make up their own minds as to the veracity of what is being said.
Whether I am a 'credible journalist' or not is not for me to decide. You have clearly determined that I am not. Your prerogative. Others may agree. Again, their prerogative.
I think the word you were looking for was 'gall', not 'gaul' - a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age that was inhabited by Celtic tribes.
@AnonymousFebruary 16, 2015 at 5:10 PM:
DeleteSo CCF has a clinic? That's great! And it also treating adults? That's fantastic! Keep up the great work!
Next step is to put all the children living in your orphanage back with their families. That would be amazing!
@Anonymous February 17, 2015 at 12:24 AM:
DeleteIt might sound strange to you, but there're also people that're not involved in the Orphanage Industry, the Child Protection Industry or any other NGO.
It might also sound strange to you that some people have other priorities in life than to look good in order to get more funds from donors. Running a genuine business for example.
The concept of a good NGO is a that's not designed to grow. A good NGO is only temporarily involved.
NGOs that grow create dependency, as the community is depending on the NGO and the NGO is depending on donors.
$10M is a lot of money! Enough to setup a business that can employ all parents of the 700 children living at CCF and pay them all decent salary so they can take care of their own children, pay for their children's education and pay for their medical costs.
It's the abundance of NGOs that create and maintain the donor dependency and corruption in Cambodia.
It's a sickening industry!
I understand the Cambodian government register and therefore give licence for these organisations to operate yet what do they have in place to monitor them? If the organisation is registered in another country concerns must be raised there as well. This would include fund raising branches.
ReplyDeleteI believe there were attempts some years ago to set up accountability of NGO's in Cambodia but it was resisted by the NGOs and never made it into practice.
Huge problems are building for the country if something isn't done to 'police' these organisations. The Cambodian National Police are complaining about APLE and funds are being taken that should be directed to the establishment of a well-trained and well supported National Police force who themselves would become publicly accountable - unlike APLE!
Allowing private enterprise to exploit children and vigilante groups to openly operate in place of the police is squarely in the hands of the Cambodian government. I would like to ask the Cambodian government to provide copies of accounts relating to these organisations and to set out exactly how they monitor and supervise their work?
If these organisations are operating legally they would have no fear of being totally transparent and open to questions.
I can't believe that there are no investigative journalists in the local media, either Khmer or English language, who are reporting on the corrupt activities by NGOs in Cambodia. They could play a big part in improving the lives of people in Cambodia. I don't know whether they are uncaring, unqualified or they, too, are a part of the corruption through payoffs or fear. I just wish that someone in the media would have the decency to report the facts.
ReplyDeleteThe problem here in Cambodia is that there is no-one monitoring the work done by non government organisation to determine if they are effective in achieving their goals or if they are simply scams designed to maximise profits through exploiting poor Cambodians. The NGO community has no desire to regulate or monitor individual NGOs which means that scammers can thrive. Poor Cambodia. The country barely survived the invasion of the Khmer Rouge from within but can it survive the invasion of NGOs from without?
ReplyDeleteIn April 2013 I wrote, yet again, to Naly Pilorge (LICADHO) and Helen Sworn (CHAB DAI) regarding their turning a blind eye to the illegal removal of the children of materially poor Cambodian parents from their families. Neither of them responded to this or any other letter I wrote to them regarding the human rights abuses being practiced by many NGOs.
Delete“Dear Helen Sworn and Naly Pilorge
Your refusal to acknowledge receipt of my correspondence, let alone respond to it, answer questions, makes it abundantly clear where you both stand on questions relating to transparency and accountability. You expect transparency and accountability from the Cambodian government, adopting in public the high moral ground, but when it comes to Chab Dai and LICAHDO and the relationship of both organizations with NGOs, such precepts go out the window. NGOs are free to engage in human rights abuses and neither Chab Dai nor LICADHO will say or do anything to prevent these from occurring. Your silence, your turning a blind eye, has made it possible for NGOs running illegal ‘orphanages’ to do so for years – with the very same kind of impunity that your organizations criticize the Cambodian government for!
It is a wonderful step forward that the Cambodian government has finally stepped in to do something about sham orphanages and, hopefully, other NGOs that are equally guilty of feeding off, exploiting, poor Cambodians all the while presenting themselves to the world as engaged in ‘alleviating poverty’, ‘capacity building’ and other such fine and noble sentiments to be found on their websites.
...to be continued...
Through an intermediary the Cambodian police have made it known that they wish to talk with me about my ‘version’ of the events that led to Citipointe church removing Rosa and Chita from the care of their parents, Chanti and Chhork in June 2008. I do not know the names of the police who wish to speak with me or which branch of the police force they work for. Nor have the police themselves made direct contact with me with a formal request that I speak with them. They have done so only through an intermediary.
DeleteIt is difficult not to view this request by anonymous police to interview me in the context of Pastor Brian Mulheran’s thinly veiled threats to have me ‘forcibly removed’.
“We sincerely do not want to have to go down a legal pathway of seeing you forcibly removed…”
I do not take Pastor Mulheran’s ‘sincere’ desire not to have me ‘forcibly removed’ too seriously. I suspect (though I can’t be 100% sure) that it is the bluff and bluster of a bully intent on intimidating me into stopping asking, in a public forum, (my blog) the sorts of questions that I believe it would have been appropriate for LICADHO and Chab Dai to have asked close to five years ago. Questions like:
“Do you, Pastors Leigh Ramsay and Brian Mulheran, have a legal right (in mid 2008) to remove Rosa and Chita from the care of their parents, Chanti and Chhork?”
LICADHO and Chab Dai could also have asked a question or two of Ruth Golder, whose illegally run Love In Action orphanage, “with links to the Christian Outreach Centre in Australia, ha(s) operated illegally for years with Australian donations.”:
“Is your orphanage properly registered and are you operating it in accordance with Cambodian law?”
LICADHO and Chab Dai not ask such basic questions, however, preferring to turn a blind eye to what appear, from all reports, to be blatant human rights abuses. If either LICADHO or Chab Dai had bothered to ask Ruth Golder questions a few years ago about the legality of her actions the children in her care might have been spared the human rights abuses that she is allegedly guilty of. The same applies for Hagar. Would it be too much for LICADHO and Chab Dai to ask Hagar if the NGO limits visits between parents and children to two hours a year? To ask if it is true that Hagar ‘clients’ (as they are known) have no choice but to attend Citipointe church services? Is it appropriate that Hagar forcibly converts of Cambodian Buddhists into Christians in the Citipointe mold? Is it appropriate that parents and children have their visitation rights limited to two hours per annum? Or do both LICADHO and Chab Dai believe that Buddhist Cambodian children are better off being alienated from their families, their religion and their culture? This is not a rhetorical question, though I feel sure that neither of you will answer it.
NOTE
Citipointe church did, eventually, make good on Pastor Mulheran’s threat – suing me for “threatening to dishonour Citipointe church.” The court case was held in secret an I only learned of the verdict later in the day when a journalist called to tell me that I had received a 2 year suspended jail sentence and a $1,500 fine.
After over 40 years of interference in the affairs of South East Asia, you would have thought that Cambodia would now be left alone to determine its own future. Not so. You have probably read about the temples of Angkor Wat ,Pedophiles and trafficking. The country survives thanks to the Prime minister, Hun Sen, the new King Norodom Sihamoni and Lord Buddha. At least there is now peace. The fighting has stopped. The main industry is tourism. America and it's allies now give a grant of 600 million dollars a year, which is just enough to keep the country afloat. With this grant come a million strings. The country is swarming with NGO's from the western nations, all giving help. Or are they? They do this and that. Some of it good, like providing some free hospital treatment. There is now a sort of game of cops and robbers in which all foreigners are targeted as pedophiles or traffickers. The author has been advised not to write this article. There is a climate of fear. There are stories of people being arrested, handcuffed and taken away, while the poor Cambodian families who are supposed to be the victims are intimidated or bribed as are the police and judges. These stories come from a number of different sources so there must be some truth in them. This is after all Cambodia and only ten years ago there was fighting.
ReplyDeleteMr Ricketson, I think your blog is being hacked into. I have tried three times to post a comment and each time it disappears in less tan a minute!
ReplyDeleteYes, I am aware of this. Three times! The comment popped up in my INBOX but, when I checked my blog, it was gone!
DeleteAnonymous 4.28. It isn't appearing on Ricketson's blog because you are a retard. Hacked? If someone was going to hack this pathetic site, why would they just delete your comment? They wouldnt, they would take the whole site down. Another one of Ricketson's conspiracy theorists who sleeps with light on wondering if the CIA is following them!
DeleteYou might be right, Anonymous 5.37. I just tried to post my comment a 6th time and this time it went up. Maybe just one of those internetty things that happen from time to time.
DeleteWhy do you keep posting here if its such a pathetic site?
I keep posting so I can keep reminding you of what pathetic, insignificant fools you are!
DeleteAnonymous 5.37
DeleteI agree with you. Why would anyone who could have into this blog to remove one comment not delete the whole blog!? A mystery. Several comments have disappeared and two entire blogs have disappeared and I have no idea why. Perhaps it falls into the internet category of 'shit happens'!
Dear Anonymous 10.25
DeleteIt is so kind of you to remind me of what a pathetic insignificant fool I am. I forget this at times. Early onset Alzheimer’s perhaps!?
@Anonymous February 17, 2015 at 4:28 PM:
DeleteIt has to do with the fact that you're probably logged in with your Google account at some other Google Application, such as Gmail.
STEVE MORRISH
ReplyDeleteDid you know that Steve Morrish used to work for the equal to APLE NGO, (american IJM or International Justice Mission which was featured also on inqusition21.com) before going into his own business that now covers everything from Road Safety, Gun Safety, Health Safety,Risk Safety, Firesafety and Tech Safety ?
Steve worked as a consultant for the human rights organization ‘International Justice Mission’ between 2005 and 2007, in the capacity of police training specialist and investigation specialist. Steve’s work with IJM saw him operate in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and India.
http://azisafe.com/about/our-team-2/steve-morrish-founder-ceo/
What a versatile man Steve Morrish is can be seen here at his SMCS:Risk private company that offers security solutions to COMPANIES in Cambodia , Laos and Myanmar.
http://www.smcs-risk.com/team/
One wonders where he draws all his energy from, celebrating himself as the saviour of the poor and vulnerable and of course the affluent and wealthy business people in these countries.
Closer to home (Cambodia) Steve Morrish reached for a questionable stardom when he and some of his bully boys attacked a group of critics (Khmer440 bloggers) at the Garage Bar in Phnom Penh. The Phnom Penh Post's author called him SISHA's attack dog !
Read the full story here:
http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2013/08/cash-and-bully-boy-scandals-threaten.html
2013 was'nt a particular good year for Steve Morrish when he showed his true character:
A well-know expat bar on the riverfront (Garage Bar) was visited by a group associated with SISHA (including, it is understood, Morrish himself) around a month ago and the patrons quizzed as to whether they were responsible for postings on the forum. According to witnesses, one patron was reported held by the throat against a wall as he was interrogated. This apparently went on for an hour and a half, with one patron describing Morrish as appearing to be in a steroid-driven rage.
Apart from the stupidity of this, it was also a huge tactical error. Bullying seldom endears people to your cause.
In fact, some have likened it to the NGO equivalent of Blackwater, the private security contractor that played a key if controversial role in the early days of the Iraq War.
http://penhpal.com/2013/05/shisha-the-anti-trafficking-org-implodes/
Interestingly enough the CNRP features him on it's official website:
http://cnrp-media.blogspot.com/2012/03/ex-footscray-cop-hunts-cambodian-human.html#links
Fantastic post there anonymous 6.49. What absolute dribble! Khmer440 and Penhpal references. jesus it must be true because Peter Hogan was a rhode scholar who never told lies and Robert Jamieson from Penhpal is a blow fly that creeps around town trying to beg for a free meal because he has $1 in his pocket. The lowlife scabbed free beer from me and a few friends one day when we were watching the rugby. Walks around and pretends to be your mate and helps himself to your jugs of beers. What a fucking creep!
DeleteAnonymous - Sounds like you are a jealous cretin. The fact that you have singled Morrish out gives clear indication that you are one of the losers on his shitlist.
Ricketson - you gob off about being a friend of Steve's - well if you are you would remove posts like the one above as allowing them to stay there means you are nothing better than a Khmer440.
@ Anonymous 10.31
DeleteSo you are saying the Garage Bar with Steve Morrish bullying never happened ?
Re: Andrew Drummond
The Media made Andrew Drummond an his Photographer Andrew Chant reach the Media Reporter Summit when they stalked Gary Glitter throughout Asia and finally got him nailed in Vietnam in order to sell their Story to the now defunct "News of the World" Murdoch Press in the UK. Most people believed every word he wrote but Glitter aswell as many other Rock Stars of his time was simply one example of his time when Teenies would do everything to get laid by a rockstar. Those that got married to such a celebrity never spoke out that they had sex as an underaged but those that did not have that luck had their big day 45+ years later when they, as an old woman complained how disgusting it was to get themself on the UK Press Frontpages. Andrew Drummond deserves to be locked up since he used his job to bend truth any way to made it fit his wallet.. That however sounds like Somaly Mam & Co, does'nt it ? Many NGO in Cambodia are no better when it comes to face the truth because their main objective is to keep their "Business" running.
I have no doubt what a leech Andrew Drummond is but give him the credit about writing a pretty accurate report on the Garage Bar Assault of Steve Morrish and his Bullies.
I still try to figure out where i place YOU with your never ending creation of abusive vocabulary. You sound like one of these Economic Refugees or are you simply a NGO leech ? You also seem to spend an enormous time in front of your computer.
cheers
Anonymous 10.31
DeleteDoes Steve have a 'shit list'? If so, would he be happy that you are announcing the fact?
As for removing posts, I am sure that Steve is more than capable of asking me himself to remove the post if he believed it to be inaccurate or defamatory. And if he presented a good case I would do so.
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DeleteThe business concept of Cambodia's Child Protection Industry was first invented by the Cambodian Women's Crisis Center (CWCC). They were also the first to use the practice of promising compensation for those willing to file a complaint.
DeleteIJM later copied the idea of promising compensation to victims. In the case of Giuseppe Nicolosi for example, the mother of a 5 year old rape 'victim' told the court that it was her husband who pushed her into making a false accusation against the Australian national, because her husband wanted the $5000 compensation offered by the NGO
The concept of promising money has now been fully adopted by APLE as well. It's no secret that APLE promises $5000 compensation per child to poor families if they complain their targeted suspect. However, there have been no reports that these promised amounts have ever been received by the families.
An update for all the Andrew Drummond lovers: http://casewatchasia.blogspot.com/2015/02/pattaya-provincial-court-issues-arrest.html
ReplyDeleteFantastic. Slowly but surely bloggers who defame people with no base get their right whacks.
DeleteDrummond is another spineless dog who is full of bravado behind his computer.
Pattaya Provincial Court this morning issued a fugitive arrest warrant for fugitive journalist Andrew Drummond.
DeleteThe arrest warrant comes just two weeks after another warrant was issued by the Supreme Court of Thailand on January 29th last month.
The Court issued the arrest warrant in a case filed by Drew Noyes when Drummond failed to appear. The Court also seized the bail bond.
Drummond was convicted in two cases last year in February and October - the latter by the Supreme Court, Thailand's highest court of appeal, in a case filed by James Lumsden.
Drummond faces five more criminal trials, the first three on April 20th in cases filed by Brian Goudie and David Hanks.
Drummond is now a wanted fugitive and an ASEAN border alert is expected to be issued.
Dear Mr Ricketson
ReplyDeleteRe: APLE
This is a post from the PPP in 2011 when they interviewed Dun Vibol a Defense Lawyer that has experienced many cases of alledged Child Abuse by foreigners in Cambodia. His assessment was that most of APLE's cases back than were a result of Entrapment. For that APLE sued him for defamation. The same statement of Dun Vibol was made also by the Head of the Cambodian Bar Association in the same Year.
http://khmernz.blogspot.com/2011/05/defending-paedophiles.html
The problem with all fundraising NGO is that they have to come up with new horrorstories day by day to stay alive. Some, like this one don't even bother to go to work at all:
http://www.10news.com/news/investigations/team-10-questions-woman-formerly-known-as-countess-about-fundraising-money-071714
I hope that eventhough these contributions are already history they may hold some value to our joint cause to bring down aple and it's ally's.
cheers
The article is quite old, but still relevant because nothing has changed since then.
DeleteIt's interesting that a lawyer makes such statements. He was not speaking on behalf of just one client, but making his accusations based on 35 APLE cases he'd worked on since 2005.
Dun Vibol is calling APLE's modus operandi a form of entrapment. Not sure if that's correct in many cases, because entrapment would mean that APLE actually has children working for them that lure foreigners into having sex with them.
How can one be lured into having sex with a child? The only people that could get 'lured' into sex with a child are the ones that had this intention already, correct?
However, a Lt. Col. from police has revealed that APLE works with families to target new suspects. Families around well known tourist spots are encouraged by APLE to have their children interact with foreigners in order to create 'evidence'. There are stories of children following a foreigner to his apartment or guesthouse, asking if they could use the toilet or begging for some food or drink,while followed by APLE spies. Once the foreigner has been alone with the children, there is reason for APLE to start a case. The local police copies whatever APLE dictates, children are being detained and prepared to give consistent statements at Hagar International and while the foreigner is in jail APLE fabricates the rest of the evidence.
This is indeed pure entrapment!
In other cases APLE follows the children and waits until a crime actually happens. Best example and proof of this can be found here:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sickening-moment-suspected-british-paedophile-4349558
This is actually a worse crime than entrapment!
But of course APLE is a good NGO because they 'protect' children and catch 'pedophiles', Just like CCF is a good NGO because they take care of poor 'orphans'.
NGOs, such as APLE, CCF, CPU and SISHA do not accept any criticism. They're good, period!
This is the same court that denied David Fletcher a trial 3 weeks after it had promised him one!
ReplyDeletePhnom Penh Municipal Court director Ang Mealaktei was removed from his position on Tuesday pending an investigation into rampant corruption at the court since he became its chief judge less than a year ago, government spokesman Phay Siphan said.
The decision was made public hours after Prime Minister Hun Sen criticized the court for releasing the parents of fugitive general Thong Sarath, who stands accused of coordinating the murder of businessman Ung Meng Chue in November.
“He’s been removed for an investigation,” Mr. Siphan said of Judge Mealaktei. “A number of people have joined to celebrate after hearing about the removal of the chief of the Phnom Penh court, and those people told me there was too much corruption there.”
Mr. Siphan said Judge Mealaktei’s removal had been a long time coming due to the judge’s unique style of jurisprudence.
“What he does—what he did—was according to his discretion, not according to due process and not according to the law, or what we call the spirit of the law. Everybody is so happy now,” he said.
“I wish all the cases under his leadership will be reviewed again, because I heard there were irregularities there. Quote me on that.”
Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay, who represents Phnom Penh in parliament, said it was troubling that it seemed to take an executive decision by Mr. Hun Sen to oust Judge Mealaktei, when formal institutions exist to investigate corruption in the judiciary.
“We need to look into the Supreme Council of the Magistracy, which is not operating,” Mr. Chhay said. “They should have removed him a long, long time ago, and he should have been punished a long time ago.”
“He is a very corrupt man, but we are not going to make it work by the prime minister ordering the Supreme Magistracy to do it, and then they do a dance so quickly,” he added.
“There should be procedures—they should meet, investigate the guy, and make a report.”
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penhs-top-judge-ousted-amid-graft-claims-78159/
Deletehttp://www.phnompenhpost.com/hun-sen-slams-top-judge
“I wish all the cases under his leadership will be reviewed again, because I heard there were irregularities there. Quote me on that.”
This is a great opportunity for David Fletcher to get a fair re-trial ! ! !
WOW, what great news!!
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