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Home > Community > The Chatterbox Forum Description: This board is for discussing general issues that come to mind. This encompasses anything from simple questions about life to philosphical inquiries on Plato's Republic, and more! Post Reply Username:  (Join!)   Password:  (Lost Password) Subject: (optional) Message Icon:                             None Message: [quote][i]Originally posted by Kadin[/i] [quote]Dear Cambodian-American friends, Now that you all know how important Kem Sokha is for Cambodia, he is worth every single minute of our time and effort to be spent to help liberate him from this communist-Vietnamese-styled and deadly prison of Hun Sen. Please spread the words to your friends and do your utmost to reach out to your CONGRESSMAN IN YOUR DISTRICT and BOTH OF YOUR SENATORS IN YOUR STATE by writing them or go to meet them in their offices ( the best way), using a group of people, or an organization, if you have one, or at least your oneself. To find the names of your Congressman and Senators, use the following link: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/index.html You can write your own letter or you can use the model letter that we provide, here attached, for this very purpose. The more Congressmen and Senators we contact the better the chance to help Kem Sokha get out of jail alive. His wife, daughter, and sister called us today and are asking all Cambodian-Americans for their strong support to do the above to help their husband, father. With tears, they said "please help him. He is innocent" Dearest compatriots, how can we ignore Kem Sokha family's cries for help? We don't think you can. But, if you cannot do it yourself, for some reason, please look for another friend of yours who are Cambodian-Americans to do it for you and for the sake of Cambodia. And, if you do take action as per our request, it is important that you inform us of which state you are in and which Congressmen and Senators you have contacted. Also, It is highly recommended to write Amnesty International by going to the following web site: http://web.amnesty.org/contacts/index/eng-000 Warmest regards, Mr. Naranhkiri Tith, P.H.D. (user344111@aol.com) Mr. Kal Man (mabskl@comcast.net or mabskl@aol.com or senhuonman@yahoo.com) Miss Veronica Ngi (vn4alpha@yahoo.com) Important Notice.: If you are not in the USA, please work with your own government of your adopted country, but please also contact your friends or families in the US (US is very important). Just in case we could not reach to all of them, please send us all their email addresses for future contact messages from us or tell them to email us. If you see emails sent to you that are not the following mabskl@comcast.net, mabskl@aol.com, senghuonman@yahoo.com, user344111@aol.com, they are not from us. In case of any doubt, you can contact us any time. We welcome any input in regard to helping Cambodia. We will reply back to you in due time according to our time and availability. If anyone who do not want to be in this emailing list, please let us know and we will remove your name of the list. Thank you for your patience and constant support. [/quote] this is the attached letter: [quote]January 3, 2006 To: US Congress, US Senate, and all elected officials We write to inform you and urge your intervention to save the life of a prominent human rights activist and defender of democratic principles in Cambodia, Mr. Kem Sokha. He was arrested at the Cambodian Center of Human Rights (CCHR), where he served as chairman, on December 31, 2005 on charges of defamation against the government. This is another outrageous demonstration of the Hun Sen government’s continued oppression of the people’s fundamental rights and liberties. The United States as the most vocal advocate of democracy and human rights in the world must condemn, in the strongest terms, Cambodian dictator Hun Sen for his practice of silencing dissident voices or there will be more tragic loss of democratic proponents, including Mr. Kem Sokha. In fact, a few months ago journalist Mam Sonando and President of the Cambodian Independent Teacher’s Association, Rong Chhun, were arrested and jailed. In prior years (2003-2004), a number of leading democratic proponents were gunned down. A deteriorating and dangerous political environment such as this greatly strains Cambodia’s emerging and very fragile democracy. We firmly believe that the United States must take a more visible and forceful role to fight to stop this trend to protect democratic forces for basic freedom and real change in Cambodia. If the political environment is not conducive to real democratic progress, substantial social and economic development cannot occur. Cambodia is badly in need of structural reform at all levels, especially in governance. A government by popular consent through the use of intimidation and violence will dampen any hope for genuine and sustainable development. Your help is urgently needed! This is consistent with the U.S. administration’s highly proclaimed democracy-promotion policies to free people from terror and tyranny imposed by governments, such as Hun Sen and his government. Sincerely, [/quote] [/quote] Options: Parse URLs: turn the URLs in my post into links. Email Notification: tell me when someone replies. (not applicable for anonymous users) Disable Smilies Show Signature: include my signature. (not applicable for anonymous users)

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