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Viewing cable 08PHNOMPENH495, PRIME MINISTER SECURES OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08PHNOMPENH495 2008-06-16 10:32 2011-07-11 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Phnom Penh
VZCZCXRO0156
PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM RUEHNH
DE RUEHPF #0495 1681032
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 161032Z JUN 08
FM AMEMBASSY PHNOM PENH
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
INFO RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
UNCLAS PHNOM PENH 000495 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR EAP/MLS AND DRL 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PHUM KJUS CB
SUBJECT: PRIME MINISTER SECURES OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER 
EDITOR'S RELEASE 
 
REF: PHNOM PENH 472 
 
1.  (U) Sam Rainsy Party affiliated newspaper editor-in-chief 
Dam Sith was released June 15 from pre-trial detention 
(reftel), after Prime Minister Hun Sen submitted a letter to 
the Phnom Penh Court President the previous day containing a 
personal guarantee for Dam Sith's release.  The letter, which 
is said to be "confidential" by the court and which Dam 
Sith's lawyer has not seen, was quoted in the CPP-affiliated 
Reaksmei Kampuchea newspaper.  (Note:  The term "guarantee" 
in the Khmer language is taken to be literal -- a person who 
guarantees someone else would be responsible for losses 
incurred by that person.  In this case, the letter is 
understood by a Khmer reader to mean that PM Hun Sen is 
taking personal responsibility for the temporary release of 
Dam Sith, a guarantee based on a presumed low risk of Dam 
Sith fleeing from the charges.  End note.)  No bail was paid 
for Dam Sith's release.  Reaksmei Kampuchea also reported 
that PM Hun Sen requested in his letter that the president of 
the court proceed according to legal procedures.  Since an 
investigating judge had on Friday rejected the request for 
Dam Sith to be released on bail, and Dam Sith's lawyer had 
not yet submitted an appeal for a review of the judge's 
decision, the judge had to publicly reverse his earlier 
decision.  In public remarks on Sunday, PM Hun Sen stated 
that he does not believe Dam Sith to be a flight risk and 
said that he is not acting as a result of outside pressure. 
According to The Cambodia Daily, the investigating judge said 
the release was a judicial decision.  The Ambassador June 10 
sent a letter to Hun Sen seeking Dam Sith's release, and 
Emboffs followed up with key advisors to the PM. 
 
2.  (SBU) After his release, Dam Sith publicly thanked PM Hun 
Sen for requesting his release; however, he expressed regret 
that he was detained for quoting what someone else said, 
adding that other newspapers had printed the quote but he was 
the only person arrested for it.  (Note:  Other papers 
carried Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong's denials. 
As stated in reftel, Dam Sith was arrested on Sunday, June 8 
on criminal disinformation charges related to Sam Rainsy 
statements that Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong was 
the leader of a Khmer Rouge re-education camp.  End note.) 
Sam Rainsy told The Mekong Times that Dam Sith's release was 
"no thanks to anyone" and that the arrest and release "is a 
piece of theater that should not have happened."  Sam Rainsy 
told Radio Free Asia that the incident just shows that the 
power is in the hands of one person and that Cambodia lives 
under the tyranny of one person.  In a message to Pol/Ec 
Chief, SRP Parliamentarian Son Chhay said that Dam Sith was 
in jail because of Hun Sen and therefore it is because of Hun 
Sen that he is released.  However, SRP Deputy Chief of 
Cabinet Keo Phirum speculated to Pol/Ec Chief that perhaps 
this was a case of Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong 
trying, but failing, to show his personal power. 
 
3.  (SBU)  Dam Sith told POL LE staff that he returned to 
work as editor-in-chief of opposition-affiliated Moneaksekar 
Khmer on Sunday afternoon.  He is still in the running for a 
Phnom Penh seat in the July 27 National Assembly elections. 
Keo Phirum stated that there is one thing certain -- that Dam 
Sith is not going to join the CPP.  (Note:  One rumor is that 
Dam Sith's arrest was sparked by his having spurned a CPP 
attempt to convince him to defect to the CPP.  End note.) 
Dam Sith said he asked his lawyer to negotiate with Hor 
Namhong to drop the case.  At the same time, Dam Sith and his 
lawyer continue to build their defense case against the 
disinformation and defamation charges filed by Minister Hor 
Namhong, a case that could come to trial at any time during 
the next six months, according to judicial procedure. 
 
4.  (SBU) Comment:  The Ambassador June 10 sent a letter to 
Hun Sen seeking Dam Sith's release, and Emboffs followed up 
with key advisors to the PM.  If Dam Sith's arrest was a CPP 
or Hun Sen ploy from the start, it is difficult to imagine 
the rationale given that the CPP holds a comfortable level of 
public support in the run-up to the July elections, and given 
the likely outpouring of sympathy for the detained Dam Sith. 
An arrest order by Hun Sen could be argued to have greater 
setbacks for the Prime Minister than gains.  Nonetheless, 
both Hun Sen and Sam Rainsy are working the situation to 
their political benefit as best they can now that Dam Sith 
has been released.  Hun Sen now looks like the benefactor to 
the helpless Dam Sith.  Sam Rainsy is using the strange court 
proceedings, and perceptions of affronts to press freedom, to 
lash out at the ruling party.  End comment. 
MUSSOMELI