All the News Without Fear or Favor The daily Volume 61 Issue 69 Friday, June 26, 2015 2,000 riel/50 cents Says CPP Will ‘Prosper’ Under By alex WilleMyns the cambodIa daIly Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has written to prime Minister Hun Sen to express his “enormous satisfac- tion and happiness” that Mr. Hun Sen was appointed Cpp president last weekend, telling the premier he believes the ruling party will grow stronger under his presidency. Mr. Rainsy, a longtime antagonist of the prime minister who has in the past spent years in exile to avoid criminal charges he attributed to pol- itics, wrote to Mr. Hun Sen on Tues- day to applaud the ruling party’s decision to select him as late Cpp president Chea Sim’s successor. “On behalf of the CnRp and my- self, i would like to express enor- mous satisfaction and happiness and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at a news conference in Naypyidaw yesterday after proposed changes to a section of Burma's constitution that bars her from becoming president were rejected warmest congratulations to Sam - by parliament. dech [Mr. Hun Sen], who has been elected as president of the Cpp by the 38th congress of the Cpp’s cen- Changes to Burma Charter on Presidency, Veto Fail tral committee,” Mr. Rainsy said. ReuteRs “i have a strong belief that, under aimed to trim the share of house election by a landslide in 1990—a re- the leadership of prime Minister naypyidaw - a move to amend Bur - votes needed to amend the constitu- sult ignored by the junta—cannot Hun Sen, the Cpp will continue to ma’s constitution to remove the mil- tion to 70 percent. become president because her two prosper and progressively streng - itary’s legislative veto on key de- another vote on a clause that ef- children are British citizens, as was then, and that relations and cooper- cisions fell short of the required 75 fectively bars nobel laureate aung her late husband. ation in every aspect of the culture of percent support in parliament yester- San Suu Kyi from becoming presi- The nLd suffered persecution dialogue between the Cpp and day, preserving the armed forces’ dent also failed. The motion voted on under the former junta and says the CnRp will take a deeper root,” he powerful political role in the asian would have only partially amended military’s ability to shoot down wrote. nation. that article, however, meaning the changes to the constitution puts a On wednesday, Mr. Hun Sen re - The result was no surprise given 70-year-old democracy icon would limit on democratic reforms in Bur - plied to Mr. Rainsy thanking him for that a quarter of the seats in the still have been ineligible had it been ma, where a general election is ex- his letter, and expressing his hope house are, by law, held by the mili- passed. pected in november. that their new “culture of dialogue” tary, which ruled Burma for half a Suu Kyi, whose national League Critics see it as an enshrined Continued on page 2 century until 2011. The proposal for democracy won the last free Continued on page 2 Racism on Display in Scrapyard Immigration Raid

By Mech Dara ampov district at about 10 a.m. be- Of the rest, “some of them had res- anD Matt BloMBerg fore scouring the location for alien la- idency books, some showed birth cer- the cambodIa daIly borers. By 2 p.m., 109 men had been tificates or family books and another police from the interior Ministry’s loaded into the immigration depart- group had Khmer identity cards,” he general department of immigration ment’s vans and transported to a said. The national police would de- yesterday detained more than 100 holding compound near phnom cide the fate of those 98, he said. Vietnamese men working at a metal penh international airport, where Major General Hei sela said his scrapyard in phnom penh to assess the legality of their presence and em- department has deported 2,423 for- the legitimacy of their employment ployment in Cambodia was checked. eigners found to be living illegally in Environmental Activists, Rights in Cambodia. what the officers left “we found that there were 11 peo- Cambodia since it was formed in ap - Worker Held Before March behind was a community of con- ple who did not have any documents ril 2014—2,122 of them Vietnamese. Page 3 fused and frightened families. and face deportation,” Uk Heisela, The department’s raids are car- More than 40 immigration police the department’s chief of investiga- ried out seemingly at random, and cambodiadaily.com surrounded the scrapyard in Chbar tions, said yesterday evening. Continued on page 6

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