(by Chou Leang Hak)
I wish the United Nations would read this essay and offer a thorough explanation.
From the Phnom Penh Post, by Jack Davies, on Monday August 22, 2016
(Twelve NGOs have issued an open letter to the UN Human Rights Council urging it to adopt a strong resolution on what
they term the grave deterioration of the human rights situation in Cambodia... the 12 signatories (including Human Rights
Watch, Lichadho and Adhoc) have requested the council to call on the government to release political prisoners; repeal
the NGO, trade union and telecommunications laws, which they say fall short of international standards; and put an end
to “serious violations” of human rights.)
In response to this drafted resolution the (Government spokesman Phay Siphan said Cambodia is unlikely to heed any
such resolution, declaring sovereignty to be more important than any rights conventions.) Click & read the link below.
My take: What resolution? Apparently it's a grandma's helping hand to the rescue of human beings from the dire violation
of the rights of the "defenseless people". But the problem is there is only so much physical strength in grandma's arms. So
what can we expect? It'll be just business as usual, months after months and years after years - business as usual. Because
one body does terrible thing in broad daylight and continues to do it for God knows how long and the other opposite body
rushes in to flag down "in hope" to stop or reduce the notorious dire violation of the rights of "defenseless people".
But apparently all efforts in this case have not worked as desired. And the gross human rights violation continues at ease.
Now what do you hear? Of course you hear a full ear of this "Mind your own business - this is my house. And I don't need
your resolution in my house. I have every right to do whatever I see fit in my family's affair, including doing things according
to my will to promote peace of my desire in my family. So, back off please". This is the true meaning of what Phay Siphan
has to explain from line above. And what would be the next reaction from the UN Human Rights Council? More complaint
and more powerless reports as usual perhaps. But this is not working. It hasn't been. You don't use the same medicine that
proves ineffective. But you have to upgrade it up to the level of necessity if you want to succeed in your mission to rescue
defenseless human beings any where. In Cambodia the real cure for the heart sickening disease has been long over due.
I think the appropriate question here at this point is can the word "sovereignty" be used to effectively repel any and all
legal actions so as to shield all criminal activities in a place where a great multitude have suffered days and nights for many
decades by the hands of their elected government? So, in the world's mind when it comes to fighting the crime against
humanity what seems to be the tough obstacles that the world power, the U.N., and all concerned civilized countries are
"no match" for this tiny tyrannical oppressive regime which is also a world dependence for its survival?
Will there be an actual and extremely effective long arm of the law from the world with true ability to recue be found
some time in the not distant future so that the real hope can be had and delivered to where it is needed?
So far I'm, like many others, unable to rest my mind knowing that the suffering continues needlessly and warm tears
continue to flow silently and hopelessly.
It is evidently a terrible shame in "human" affair. Because even up to this day, I'm talkin' about this highly advanced age,
technologically, in which we live, and where human brain cells are so unbelievably and highly sophisticated yet sad to
say the criminal activities being committed right before our eyes countless of times are still on going and nothing can be
done about it. It seems the human highly advanced knowledge is on the far side of human immediate need. It is of no
value to the countless voiceless victims of crime against humanity.
And the term of the long arm of the law at this point proves to be a miserable and a shame in human highly sophisticated
mind. Human highly advanced mind has turned a blind eye on the immediate need of a suffering great multitude. And the
undeniable fact is the ICJ or the ICC can't do a tiny thing about it either, otherwise it would have been done decades ago.
But no, no such wonderful dream has come into reality. So, the urgent question is why the disability? What are those
impassable obstacles that may never be overcome and why? Is this the sole reason a New World Order is at the moment
being organized so that the long arm of the law can be had?
NGOs urge UN action on human rights