Kingdom of Cambodia

Light of Justice

Sam Rainsy Party

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Front cover (A)
Sam Rainsy's biography (B)
Table of contents (page 1)
01 Message of Monk Sam Rainsy to the Cambodian people (page 3)
02 The 10-point political platform of the Sam Rainsy Party (page 7)
03 We must save our nation (page 9)
04 Khmer women future (page 13)
05 Do the people need petty and occasional donations or do they need land and jobs ? (page 15)
06 Why do all the schools in this country bear the name of a corrupt person ? (page 29)
07 Questions and answers related to floods, deforestation, corruption, poverty and unfair distribution of international assistance to flood victims (page 35)
08 Gift or handcuffs (page 39)
09 Three groundless accusations (page 42)
10 Our dream will come true (page 43)
Sam Rainsy Party' s motto and logo (C)
Back cover (D)
 
 
  
Why do all the schools in this country bear the name of a corrupt person ? The author denounces a system of parallel State and parallel
Budget associated with "donations" from a political leader who resorts to demagogy. He condemns the lack of transparency in this practice of fake donations, which actually rests on irregularities (such as public fund embezzlements) and reflects the absence of the rule of law and bad governance that can only aggravate poverty in our country. 
Page 30
• TOP : Sam Rainsy arrives at a factory to express his support to workers on strike at Mithona garment factory (Phnom Penh, 2000). In a lawless country plagued by corruption like Cambodia, workers are often victim of abuses on the part of their employers who behave like capitalists in 19th century’s Europe as described by Charles Dickens: miserable salaries, forced and unpaid overtime, repression on any attempt to get workers organized, massive dismissals. In December 1996, Sam Rainsy helped workers found Cambodia’s first free trade union and organize the first strike in the country to protest appalling working conditions, while leading himself several workers demonstrations often violently crackdowned by the police. - BELOW : At the gate of the Mithona factory heavily guarded by the police, Sam Rainsy, with hundreds of workers behind him, enquires about the fate of some workers on strike who have been arrested and beaten by the police (Phnom Penh, 2000).
• HAUT : Sam Rainsy arrive à une usine pour apporter son soutien aux ouvriers en grève à l’usine de confection textile Mithona (Phnom Penh, 2000). Dans un pays sans loi et miné par la corruption comme le Cambodge, les ouvriers sont souvent victimes d’abus de la part de leurs employeurs qui se comportent comme les capitalistes du 19ème siècle dans l’Europe de Charles Dickens: salaires de misère, heures supplémentaires obligatoires et non payées, écrasement de toute tentative de syndicalisation, licenciements à la pelle. En décembre 1996, Sam Rainsy a aidé les ouvriers à fonder le premier syndicat libre au Cambodge et à organiser la première grève ouvrière dans ce pays pour protester contre des conditions de travail inhumaines. Il a aussi mené lui-même plusieurs manifestations ouvrières violemment réprimées par la police - BAS : Devant la grille de l’usine Mithona fortement gardée par la police, Sam Rainsy, avec des centaines d’ouvriers derrière lui, cherche à connaître le sort de plusieurs ouvriers grévistes arrêtés et battus par la police (Phnom Penh, 2000).
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