Where is Sam Rainsy when all of these are happening? That's right. Sam Rainsy sent his cronies to fight for him while he lives comfortably in his own heated home in France. What kind of leader is that? Anyway, did it really happened?
On Apr 19, 5:15 am, "Sam Rainsy Party of North America" <[email protected]> wrote: > April 18, 2010 > > SAM RAINSY’S LAWYER TO CLARIFY GROUNDLESS ACCUSATIONS WITH THE JUDGE > > On April 20, MP Sam Rainsy’s lawyer will meet with an investigating judge to > clarify a number of groundless accusations made against the opposition leader > by the government Border Committee led by Mr. Var Kim Hong. > > The accusations are the following: > > 1- SGI [1/100,000] map deposited at the United Nations in 1964 and map > annexed to the 2005 Additional [Border] Treaty, have no grid on them, unlike > the map shown and disseminated by Mr. Sam Rainsy, [who therefore is accused > of forging a public document]. > > Clarification: This is a really strange accusation. All maps have a “grid” on > them, which is called “graticule”. Graticule is a network of parallels and > meridians for equal intervals of latitude and longitude on the earth's > surface. Both the official 1952 French-era SGI 1/100,000 map and the 1966 US > Army 1/50,000 map have a similar graticule on them (see March 23, 2010 Report > by Professor Régis Caloz, page 7 showing a “coincidence of graticules”). Each > square of the graticules on the two maps corresponds to a 1-km side square on > the ground. > > 2- Mr. Sam Rainsy has produced a new map on which he has determined the > locations of border posts which are different from the locations of border > posts determined by the joint [Cambodia-Vietnam] expert committee on border > affairs. > > Clarification: Mr. Sam Rainsy has not “produced” any “new map” at all. He has > only exposed the two above-mentioned existing maps. He has neither determined > any “locations of border posts” at all. On October 25, 2009, he was led by a > group of local villagers to the so-called temporary border post # 185, which > he pulled out because the land owner had complained that that so-called > temporary border post infringed on her ancestral rice field. As for the > locations of the three nearby “temporary border posts” # 184, 186 and 187, > they were also indicated to opposition parliamentarians by local farmers who > feared losing their land because of alleged border encroachment. After > collecting on the spot the GPS locations of the four so-called temporary > border posts as identified with the help of local farmers, Mr. Sam Rainsy > asked a professional cartographer to spot on the two above-mentioned maps the > precise locations of the four so-called temporary border posts according to > their geographical coordinates (see Report by Professor Régis Caloz, page 10, > figure 12 showing the “localization of the four sites in the border area”). > > We are now happy to learn that the “real” locations of the corresponding > border posts # 184, 185, 186 and 187 as determined by the joint > [Cambodia-Vietnam] expert committee on border affairs, are actually situated > at a distance of respectively 570 m, 516 m, 720 m and 510 m to the East > (toward Vietnam) from the “border posts [wrongly] determined by Mr. Sam > Rainsy” (see explanation given with the map most recently presented by the > government Border Committee to the Court). > > 3- Mr. Sam Rainsy has not used the appropriate mapping techniques > because he has not made the required conversion of datum when taking > geographic coordinates of border posts as collected with a GPS device under > WGS 84 datum and entering those data onto a map under Indian 1960 datum. > > Clarification: It was a theoretical mistake but it had, in this specific > case, no incidence whatsoever in the final result. This is clearly explained > in the Report by Professor Régis Caloz, page 10: “The GPS locations under WGS > 84, directly converted into UTM 48 without change in the ellipsoid and > entered onto the digitalized Duc Hue map in UTM 48 under Everest (India) 60, > coincide with the points obtained by following the procedure used for the > first assumption which logically includes a datum conversion.” > > 4- Mr. Sam Rainsy has exposed the geographic coordinates for border post > # 186 at a time when the joint [Cambodia-Vietnam] expert committee on border > affairs has yet to determine the location of the concerned border post on the > ground. > > Clarification: As stated above, the locations of the four so-called temporary > border posts # 184, 185, 186 and 187 in Svay Rieng province’s Chantrea > district have been indicated to SRP elected parliamentarians and councilors > by local villagers and farmers who are victims of land grabbing associated > with border encroachment. The corresponding geographic coordinates were > obtained on the ground with a GPS device. > > The government Border Committee should make public the geographic coordinates > of all the "real and legal" border posts so as to allow public scrutiny. > > See related documents in Khmer, English and French > athttp://tinyurl.com/yyoqa2n > > SRP Cabinet > > -- > The articles and commentaries on this forum reflect only the personal > opinion(s) of the poster(s) and not that of any organization or group with > which the moderator(s) is (are) affiliated. A forwarded message or event may > be posted for informational/ educational purposes. Unless specifically > stated, no endorsement of the posted opinions/events should be implied. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) -www.cambodia.org" group. > This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. > Thank you for your understanding. 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