Nicholas Griffin sent me a copy of
the email he wrote to Simon Henderson regarding the articles Simon and Ben
Sokhean have had published in the Cambodia Daily this past week. I have been
encouraging Nick to write for this blog but he is flat out right now and has
given me permission to publish his email.
Whilst I hope that the broader
question of orphanages is not forgotten, there is clearly interest just now in
the controversy surrounding the closure of Hang Vibol’s orphanage.
Dear Simon
I am writing to you as a concerned
member of the public but also someone who has a lot of experience of the
actions and motivations behind APLE.
I am very grateful you have
reported on this but must say that I am left confused because your article does
not go far enough in explaining exactly what happened with this allegation.
There are many unanswered questions. I am sure you will be aware that APLE has
become an extremely controversial organisation and it is therefore very
important that details are looked at when they are involved in a case so that
they can be held to account for their actions.
At one point in your article you
say that the reason Vibol was arrested was because a child’s guardian made a
complaint, but then later a comment is made that it was a French national who
made the complaint. Was the guardian a French national? This seems improbable,
you would expect the guardian to be Khmer would you not? Or am I misreading
this?
It appears there was only one
allegation and I assume this is recent. As Vibol has been working with children
for over 20 years were there no previous allegations? If this is a man with a
long clear record the present actions appear to not fit the circumstances and
be somewhat heavy handed or motivated by other reasons. My experience is that
APLE are usually the one who instigate investigations and through their high up
contacts force the police and ministry of social Affairs to become involved
even when they ( the CNP and Ministry) feel there is no case to answer. In the
article it says the police asked APLE to investigate. This is the total
opposite to what experience shows. Did you manage to speak to the police at a
lower level to check if this was in fact true or did you just rely on an
official statement?
As you will no doubt be aware the
official line is often different to what actually happened.
The other point with APLE is to
keep an eye on the allegations made. It is their normal practice to constantly
change allegations and is a tell-tale sign that things are not above board.
They have been known to make a public statement of what someone is alleged to
have done effectively discrediting that person and then once the damage is done
changing the claim.
There also seems to be quite a
French connection with this story. I note children have been moved to several
other NGO’s two which have French names. Has anyone checked out the background
and funding methods of these organisations. i.e. do they share directors, staff
or funders between themselves or APLE? Could there be advantageous reasons for
APLE to favour these organisations? What will happen to the children? As the
investigation had been conducted over many months at what point did they draw
up the closure plan and what are the details? How were the children’s best
interests incorporated? Can we see a copy of this plan? I would be surprised if
it exists.
Surely on the basis of law that a
person is innocent until proven guilty one would expect that the orphanage
would remain open until Vibol has either been acquitted of the charges or found
guilty by a court! Suspicions must be raised into why they rushed to close it
as there was apparently only one, so far unproven, allegation. Surely they must
be accountable to the public for explaining in detail all the reasons and the
law under which this was carried out. Bearing in mind that such a rapid closure
would also have been extremely traumatic for the children, staff and
volunteers. This is not the first time they have done this.
You would be doing the general
public and society a great service if you could investigate more deeply what’s
going on here.
Many thanks.
Nicholas Griffin
APLE's founder is not dead as many suspected after keeping hidden away from public and the media since 2011.
ReplyDeleteNow we learn that he still lives in India and as we already know exports his witch hunt, stalking and vigilante program to other equally empoverished nations around the world.
Darnaudet's media explanation is as teflon coated as ever:
Even though Hang Vibol filed a complaint against Thierry Darnaudet in 2013 to the Ministry of the Interior, Social Affairs and Foreign Affairs all three ministries concluded that the accusations were unfounded!
Hang Vibol was not the first to accuse Darnaudet. Similar allegations had been on the web since 2010 and even before.
Interesting, too is the fact that former Our Home staff members (of which one is a Spaniard) channeled their complaint via Sebastien Marot's (French national) Friends Intl. Org.
One could argue that this was planned by Darnaudet himself so he would not get into the limelight and explain himsef as he has to now.
It's unlikely that the truth in this case will ever come out as long as the Cambodian Government plays along with Darnaudet and his aplecambodia.org .
Justice is something special in Cambodia as you can read in the January 2015 No 221 issue of the Bayonpearnik.com Magazine in which Kingsley Abbott, intl. advisor on SEA and senior legal officer with the UN at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
His Report: Scenes from a Kangaroo Court says everything.
It is 2011.
ReplyDeleteI have been detained on false charges for eight months, in which time I have been exposed to never-ending karaoke, continual repeat showings of “now that’s what I call pornography volume 56” and the unbearable stench of living in a super-heated concrete box with some of Cambodia’s finest VIP criminals – none of whom knows how to use a toilet.
I have been the target of a professional hit by the Mafia style director, only to repay my debt as a man-whore in an ex United Nations “brothpital”.
If all this isn’t bad enough, I now have to deal with one of the most corrupt justice systems in the world, which had the outward appearance of being totally incompetent – but actually, it is a well organized, unethical, criminal enterprise, with a 100% conviction rate.
After three delays, four lawyers, two interpreters but no plaintiffs, I am now due to stand trial. The most recent attempt at a trial was delayed as, five years after the alleged crime, which happened the year before I ever set foot in Cambodia, the Deputy Chief of the Anti Human Trafficking Police, has finally testified in court that he hasn’t actually investigated anything.
The trial was delayed for another month and the Deputy Chief was told to go away and investigate something – but what? In an impossible crime, with no physical or forensic evidence, no witnesses and no plaintiffs – there is no case!
In fact the case seems to be driven only by a corrupt NGO named after a piece of fruit and the British Embassy - which has provided financial encouragement to said corrupt fruity NGO.
The problem with this, is a conviction will benefit everyone’s agenda and bring in donor funding – at the cost of my freedom and my future.
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The journey to the First Court is quite like the normal life and death experience you get on a GST bus, except for three things. The first is that the 30 detainees are crammed into a mini-van driven by Cambodia’s answer to OJ Simpson. The second is that we are handcuffed together and, third, if we crash into a ditch filled with muddy water (as I expect we will) nobody will rescue a bunch of criminals and police from certain drowning.
One thing is absolutely certain. In the event of a crash our OJ Simpson driver will run away, only to reappear in the Cambodia Daily running away from another wreck.
We arrive at the court building to the expected chaos of the planned 30 hearings – in four court rooms in only 3 hours!
This is a pantomime, a show to claim a meager wage, for a decision which was paid for and decided well in advance.
A bell rings and everybody stands as the three judges, dressed in black robes, take their seats, and immediately start talking on their mobile phones.
The Clerk of the Court reads a long…well, something…which my latest translator - who is moonlighting from the Khmer Rouge tribunal, in the hope that someone might actually pay her – totally fails to translate.
Now, having had eight months to prepare a defense based on “I was never in Cambodia in 2005”, the judges first question actually stumps me – completely.
“Are you John?”
Uhmm, briefly thinking of all my preparation, “No”.
The judge then continues to question me about the alleged, but quite impossible, crimes, starting each question with “Mr John”. This continues until I finally decide that I am talking to a complete retard, and I am forced to shout: “STOP! Listen to me. I am not John! I am not Mr John – do you understand?”
My Khmer Rouge interpreter looks shocked and even the prosecutor briefly pauses his telephone conversation while I try, hopelessly, to persuade the translator that she needs to explain to the judge that my name most certainly is not John or Mr John.
I suddenly sense that everyone has gone into face protection mode, with nobody on either side willing to state the now obvious fact that after five years of investigation, the only fact that police, NGOs and the court have managed to record is that the name of the accused is John – which, after 38 years of personal experience, it is not. The uncomfortable silence is eventually broken by a court official shaking a Tipex error correction pen.
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ReplyDeleteThe tense hearing continues, with nobody quite sure who everybody else is, or who, if anyone, has actually investigated anything. The judge speaks into his mobile, while the only hostile witness takes the stand.
In a previous appearance the Deputy Chief of Police had admitted that there had been no investigation and that the case had been brought only by the fruity NGO.
So this time, the Chief of Police has been forced to take time off from collecting tea money on street 63, to give the following evidence, which is a potential bombshell for the defense, “These foreigners always say they are innocent.”
The tension has reached boiling point and there is stunned silence from the public gallery, which is totally empty. The “trial” as someone dared call it, is going the same way as Tower 42.
Next, my latest and most expensive lawyer swings into action offering a fair version of my defense which included “the mistaken of the identity”, the contradiction of statements, making the stories impossible and that “nobody touched his pianist” – who I never met, but I guess his name is John.
Finally I am offered the final word, which I waste on asking the presiding judge the question, “Would you like me to wait until you have finished your phone call?”
I am dragged backwards from the court, while I attempt to present my well-prepared final statement to a room full of judges booking their karaoke lunch.
Two years after this “hearing’, I obtained the British embassy observer notes through a freedom of information request. This revealed that the judge had manipulated the interpreter, through “language tricks”, that the judge didn’t allow the accused to present his evidence and that the conduct of the court officials was “unprofessional”.
Yet, years later, British authorities still will not support my right to a fair trial, to meet my adult accusers (who have never appeared in any court) and be judged on the evidence.
I am as disgusted as anyone regarding the statements against me and agree with the general view that I should be tried before a court – in an attempt to clear my name.
The sad fact of the entire experience is that there is no justice in Cambodia, and every conviction must be called into question when the accused is denied even the minimum rights that define the international standard of a “fair trial” – which, five years later, I am still fighting for.
It is amazing, but no wonder, that the governments of the “civilized” Western world have had to donate tens of millions, so a few can receive a “fair trial” at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal – where even the staff aren’t paid. The rest of us have no hope and no such support from our government.
My lawyer informs me that the verdict will be announced next month as I am escorted back to Prey Sar
Over the past decade there's been a lot of bad stories about APLE, but this story is by far the most bizarre one. Matt Harland is being accused of crimes he could never have committed because he wasn't even in the country at the time of the alleged crimes. And only because the British government mixed up passport numbers, Matt is now accused of being John! APLE damn well knows that Matt is not the John they're looking for, but they still pursue with the case. APLE has proven not to respect human rights and takes advantage of the fact that there's no such thing as a fair trial in Cambodia. APLE is anxiously keeping the alleged victims away from court hearings, because the victims might otherwise find out that Matt is not their John. For APLE all that counts is a conviction to add to the statistics in their reports.
DeleteThis man's story is very similar to David Fletcher's situation. If the British Embassy cannot or more likely will not help British citizens receive justice in such obviously fraudulent accusations, they should just close their doors and go home. Their operation costs are a waste of British taxpayers' money. If the British Embassy or the British Government is providing funds to the corrupt NGOs in Cambodia, as reported, someone needs to inform the British people of this wasteful spending.
ReplyDeleteNGOs Doing Police Work: a Good Idea?
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8 March 2015
The former country director of the high profile child-protection NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE) was arrested last week based on complaints from nine children living at an orphanage he subsequently set up after leaving APLE.
Hang Vibol, who was APLE’s first country director in 2003 and 2004, has since claimed the allegations were fabricated by APLE founder Thierry Darnaudet in revenge for Vibol having reported similar allegations against his ex-boss to authorities in 2013.
“Thierry Darnaudet was angry with me because I sent a report to the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Interior in 2013 asking them to ban the APLE president from running an organisation in Cambodia,” The Cambodia Daily reports Vibol as saying.
APLE’s current director, Samleang Seila corroborated that Vibol had filed a report with the government against Darnaudet in 2013. As a result, the Frenchman had flown from India to Cambodia to repudiate these accusations before representatives of the Interior Ministry, the Social Affairs Ministry and the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Apparently he convinced them.
Later Darnaudet filed a defamation suit against Vibol — a case that remains unresolved — but which resulted in deferral of the renewal of APLE’s MoU with the ministry.
Vibol also repeated allegations that Darnaudet had previously committed sexual assaults against children while working with Mother Theresa’s organisation in Calcutta (and where the local The Telegraph newspaper reported that he tried to commit suicide in July 28, 2007).
Such tales of Darnaudet’s past have circulated on the Internet for years.
Vibol’s legal team also claim Darnaudet tried to force their client to forge documents accounting for $US450,000 from the Spanish NGO Global Humanitaria after an attack on a child at a separate NGO Darnaudet operated in India (which now runs two residential homes and a school for 80 children, operating under the auspices of the local Indian NGO BSSK).
They say Vibol had refused to cooperate.
A court will have to decide on the veracity of these claims and counterclaims, although Vibol didn’t help his case by saying, “In the cases I am accused of, I was bathing them normally like any father would bathe a child.”
Umm.
This case once again raises questions about NGOs in effect doing the work of the police here in Cambodia. This strange aberration has arisen no doubt because of the weakness of the enforcement by the local constabulary, combined with ongoing issues around corruption that undermine confidence in the Rule of Law in the kingdom.
However, the same forces also apply to NGOs that appear to have a vested interested in perpetuating the idea that Cambodia remains a haven for paedophiles.
The police could do a better job of law enforcement but this is unlikely to develop if there are private, well-funded NGOs offering to do the work for them.
Moreover, there are international agencies, such as the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime, which are in a much better position to help coordinated such efforts.
http://penhpal.com/2015/03/ngos-doing-police-work-a-good-idea/
Another dribble post based on your relentless hatred for NGO’s and people who are trying to do some good work to help others. Contrary to your comment, Cambodia is a haven for pedophiles and has become a destination point for individuals who have a shady past or reputation, and unfortunately the number of loser westerners who contribute nothing to society is increasing.
ReplyDeleteWouldn’t it be great if Cambodia could bring in a ‘no contribution clause’ into its immigration policy. Any westerner who doesn’t have a valid visa, a valid work permit, who doesn’t bring any economic value to the country or has minimal funds in their bank account (i.e. has to go around grabbing free beers from unsuspecting patrons or using free internet in coffee shops), would be considered ‘non-contributing’ and refused long term stay.
Thailand has done a magnificent job in tightening its immigration rules and many westerners who once grovelled in Thailand have now been forced to leave. Unfortunately a good percentage have ended up in Cambodia!
@Rachel Matters March 12, 2015 at 3:07 AM
DeleteThe troll has a new name and hides behind a female avatar ?
Your comment shows (yet again) that you as a member of the NGO World in Cambodia see yourself on the elevated moral high ground above everybody else.
If Cambodia would indeed introduce "a no contribution clause" it should add people like you on that list, too.
As a first step it should prevent Backpackers and everyone without a degree in Childcare to set up or work in a child care institution. The next step would be to prevent Tourists having a "hug a Cambodian" orphan holiday/tour or volunteer at a Orphanage-NOT or Shelter-NOT because it destroys the childrens culture and freedom of movement.
What are you contributing except labeling the country as a horror destination, melting pot of the western worlds scum and a haven for paedophiles and thereby hurting Khmer and western people (those that in your eyes don't contribute) and Cambodia as a whole.
Just yesterday the Prime Minister Hun Sen said that NGO are a arrogant bunch acting like prima donnas. Quote: (Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday lashed out at a group of NGOs that boycotted this week’s consultation on two election-related draft laws at the National Assembly, characterising them as prima donnas that consider their presence more important than other interested groups.“Because of [their] obsession with stardom.) He hit the nail right on the head.
You are a pest riding an expensive SUV and living a luxury lifestyle on the back of donor funds donated from people that are utterly unaware of where their money ends up. You run Orphanages-NOT that keep children in questionable Shelters-NOT (CCF comes into mind). You boycot every attempt to regulate the Aid Sector (NGO Law) which for too long had a free ride without any transparency.
So what do you think makes you different from the beer consuming expat living off his well earned pension here ?
cheers
Rachel, it's not fare to attack random foreigners, just because you've been sexually abused by your father when you were a child.
DeleteAlso, it's not healthy to get involved with Child Protection NGOs in order to solve the mental issues you're dealing with.
Please get professional help before it's to late.
ANOTHER CASE IN WHICH A MAN WAS CONVICTED ON THE BASIS OF AN APLE INVESTIGATION THAT PRODUCED NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE
ReplyDeleteDr. James D’Agostino has had his New York medical license suspended for his conviction in Cambodia of a crime his prosecutors admit there is no credible evidence even occurred.
Dr. D’Agostino was an associate professor and a pediatric emergency doctor at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York when took a leave of absence in January 2009, and traveled to Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh to volunteer at at the National Pediatric Hospital. His trip was arranged by Projects Abroad and he was there for seven months. While in Cambodia he wrote a blog, Dr. D’s Escape To Adventure, that described his volunteer work even extended to helping build a gravel road in a rural village.
Dr. D’Agostino took another leave of absence and returned to Cambodia to volunteer at the children’s hospital. He was arrested on February 16, 2011 based on the statement of the 14-year-old son of the man he was sharing a house with, that Dr. D’Agostino had paid him for sex. He was charged two days later with “purchase of child prostitution” in violation of Cambodia’s Criminal Code Article 34. He denied any sexual conduct occurred and pled not guilty but he was jailed without bail.
On March 3, 2011 UMC placed him on unpaid leave without pay because that was his scheduled date to return to work.
During Dr. D’Agostino’s trial in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court the alleged victim testified his statements incriminating the doctor were coerced, and that there had never been any sexual contact. The prosecutor told the court that based on the alleged victim’s sworn testimony recanting his unsworn out of court statements as false and coerced, there was insufficient evidence to prove the charge against Dr. D’Agostino.
In spite of the prosecution’s admission there was no credible evidence he committed any crime, on November 4, 2011 Dr. D’Agostino was convicted of one count of Child Prostitution and Exploitation. He was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered deported when his sentence was completed.
After Dr. D’Agostino’s conviction and sentencing he told a reporter with the AFP News Agency, “I am innocent.” His lawyer Dun Vibol told reporters, “This verdict is very unjust for my client because even in the prosecutor’s conclusion before the end of his trial there was not enough of evidence or the substances of crimes in order to charge my client.”
Dr. D’Agostino was licensed in New York, so the State Board For Professional Medical Conduct held a hearing on September 12, 2012 to determine if Dr. D’Agostino should be disciplined for his conviction in Cambodia.
The Board’s “Decision and Order” determined it had jurisdiction because “if the conduct occurred in New York State it would constitute a crime.”
The Board suspended Dr. D’Agostino’s licence to practice medicine in New York, but ruled that upon his return to New York “he shall appear before the Board and offer any mitigating evidence.” The Board took the extraordinary step of conditionally suspending his license because it “could not ignore the face of the Cambodian Court transcript where alleged victims denied the conduct and the prosecution “concluded” that there was “not sufficient evidence to show that defendant committed the offense as accused,” and for these reasons the Committee determined that justice requires Respondent be afforded an opportunity to appear before the State Board for Professional Medical Conduct should he seek to practice medicine in New York State.”
The Board’s ruling leaves the door open that Dr. D’Agostino’s medical license may be reinstated upon his return to New York under the circumstance that “the Committee’s review of the record lead them to seriously question the validity of the conviction.”
Am I missing something ? It seems beyond belief that as ONLY one person Hang Vibol was alleged to be involved in child molestation why was he not removed from the orphanage and a a manager /administrator appointed ? Until the investigation was completed , this would have prevented the disastrous outcome of the children having to suddenly uprooted from the place that was their home and the staff who cared for them , plus the loss of employment and heartbreak of the staff . The answer it seems this does not fit in with APLES modus operandi !
DeleteThe well-being of children has never been a priority for APLE. The Hang Vibol case is APLE's revenge for exposing the child abuse committed by their founder Darnaudet.
DeleteAPLE needs to be shut down. Do we know who the major funders are? Perhaps some might discontinue their support if they knew the real story of what APLE does.
ReplyDeleteRicketon - looks like you and your crony fools have been trumped again. Scott Neeson just announced that he was given Cambodian citizenship and assisted by the next Prime Minister of Cambodia. I started laughing because it just proves how insignificant your piss-ant rants are and how much Neeson and any other person you try to attack, cares about you. Keep up your pathetic blog and continue believing that you actually make a difference on this earth!
ReplyDelete@AnonymousMarch 18, 2015 at 6:22 PM
DeleteInteresting:
Scott Neeson's Anonymous Avatar claims he will get a Cambodian Passport (which he hopes makes him Khmer and perhaps above the law).
I encountered a similar case a month ago when a Canadian Speculator told me that he was getting a Cambodian Passport signed and stamped not only by the current Prime Minister but even the King of Cambodia. No need for him to do good deeds for the country and it´s people when he was willing to hand over 70.000 USD and wait a few month so the circus would not be too obvious. According to his last statement he has already handed over the cash to some people that claim to be close to the power source.
I don`t know if Neeson went down the same path and if he did how much he had to cough up in cash, but am sure, with the money he has made from his charity business, he could probably pay the bribe out of his petty cash box. His main contact that got the camel through the eye of the needle was a Bar Owner (Barang) from one of Phnom Penh's Riverside Businesses.
These people are obviously not aware that such a passport is against the law and could even bring them behind bars.
Re: Hang Vibol Case
When will people and the media ask questions about Thierry Darnaudet beating young Malik Katoon (or Khatoon) red and blue in one of his childcare shelters in Calcutta India ? Is Child Abuse in India less relevant than the one in Cambodia ?
Dear Scott
ReplyDeleteWhy do you insist on making anonymous comments? Why don't you put your name to them?
You have wonderful powers of prophesy, knowing just who the next Prime Minister of Cambodia will be.!
As for bursting out laughing at your sudden acquisition of Cambodian citizenship all I can say, yet again, is that you have a strange sense of humour!
Unlike yourself, I do not have illusions as to my illustrious status on this earth. I am merely a filmmaker, journalist and blogger doing what all in the media do, or should do - ask questions, speak truth to power etc. Journalists don't change the world but, perhaps, they provide readers/viewers with information that they can use to make up their own minds about issues of importance.
If this blog was making no difference at all to how people perceive you and the Camhodian Children's Fund, why do you bother to make your anonymous comments?
It may well be, with the assistance of Cambodia's next Prime Minister, that you are able to continue to break up families and to declare to the IRS that you spend $4,000 per year per child. On the other hand it may well be that one day Cambodia's next Prime Minister will wonder why it is that CCF has 700+ kids in institutional care when pretty well all of these kids have families. Perhaps he will do his sums and realise that CCF is reaping huge financial rewards from its institutionalised kids. As you know, Cambodian Prime Ministers can be a fickle lot.
I have little doubt but that you'll write back to me (as you have before) weith something along the lines of, "Why would Scott Neeson waste his time reading, let alone responding to, the garbage you write on your blog etc."
I look forward to your response, Scott.
Please do share with us Scott the name of Cambodia's next Prime Minister. Hes going to be a very useful friend to have as you grow your empire
ReplyDeleteNo surprises here. Neeson has been courting CPP for years; owns land with a senior CPP military figure. He'll become an Okhna next, en route to being nominated for some United Nations prize for all the good work he has done rescuing children from their families! Onwards and upwards, Scott. Nothing to stop you now, tho it might be a good idea to remember Icarus and what happened to him when he flew too close to the sun.
ReplyDeleteLook at the rants of the insignificant rodents - stale piss and wind from jealous people living in Cambodia who will never amount to anything significant in life.
ReplyDeleteRicketson - keep telling yourself that you are a benefit to the Cambodian community!
Great job Scott - there are winners and losers in life. Its clear which side you are on!
If any of you knew Scott at all you'd know that the post above is definitely not him!
ReplyDeleteIf any of them knew any of the people that Ricketson has targeted, not just Neeson, then they would know that none of them have bothered to read or even write a post on the blog. Why would they lower themselves to the low life commentary - they are to busy being successful.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 11.16
DeleteYou seem to have an obsession with 'success'! With the notion that some people are winner and some losers; that some people are 'significant' and some 'insignificant'.
I am curious to know what, in your mind,constitutes 'success' in the context being discussed here?
Does the fact thatScott has 700+ kids in institutional care constitute 'success'? If he had double this number, would be he more 'successful'?
The 'success' of CCF or of any other NGO does not reside in their public relations spin but in their results. Please point out to me what, in CCF's removal of children from their families, constitutes 'success'? Is it the number of kids who complete school? Is it the number of kinds who, on leaving school, have jobs? Is it the number who go on to higher education?
Without knowing what an NGO's goals are (and CCF is but one of many examples) it is not possible to know whether or not they have been successful in achieving their goals.
So, what are CCF's goals?
@ Anonymous March 18, 2015 at 6:22 PM
ReplyDeleteNow that Neeson in a Cambodian citizen there will be no stopping the growth of his fantasy land, especially not with cronies in the CPP and the future Prime Minister of Cambodia watching his back.
Anonymous March 18, 2015 at 6:22 PM is wrong about this blog having no influence. It has forced Neeson to lift his game a bit, or maybe just to become more cunning pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes.
I have been following Cambodia440 and CCF’s Facebook page the past few months and it is obvious that Neeson follows this blog very closely.
When Ricketson wrote about McCabe being a convicted criminal, Neeson started an all out media campaign about CCF saving children.
Then when Ricketson wrote about education asking questions Neeson puts up endless pictures and posts about how CCF is educating tomorrow’s leaders.
Then when Ricketson writes about the 700 and more children Neeson has living in dormitories, three and four to a bed Neeson starts a campaign about keeping families together. This is bullshit and the 700 kids and their families know it it. One day one of them or more than one will blow the whistle and expose Neeson for the fraud he is. He has removed more children from their families than any other NGO and no one says ‘boo’ to him. Hey, the American Embassy even congratulates him! WTF. And the Cambodian media looks the other way. What problem? Does Neeson have some kind of arrangement with newspapers not to ask him any questions?
Then there’s CCF’s declaring that Neeson doesn’t own any land after Ricketson asks him about his land holdings. More bullshit. Now he is a citizen he will be able to own as much land as he wants and no-one is going to ask him where the money came from to buy property registered in his name. Neeson’s empire is going to keep growing and growing and growing and growing and the more money has he the more money he will be able to spend to make sure no-one asks questions.
The only bright spot on the horizon is that Somaly Mam was invincible too and look how far she fell. All it takes is a good journalist not prepared to put up with bullshit answers and the Neeson Empire will come crashing down just like Somaly Mam’s.
More bullsit from the Ricjetson kiddie fidler brigade. Crawl under a rocl and die you useless piece of ezcetra
Delete@Anynomonymous March 22, 2015 at 11:52 PM
DeleteBacardi or Jack Daniels? How many bottles have you finished already today?