Cambodia’s Supreme Court on March 1 rejected an appeal by opposition leader Sam Rainsy against a two year sentence for pulling up boundary markers on the Cambodia-Vietnam border.
Earlier, the appeal court also maintained the sentence given to Sam Rainsy made by the Svay Rieng Provincial Court in January 2010 on the charge of inciting ethnic discrimination and destroying national property.
In addition, the chairman of Sam Rainsy Party was also sentenced 10 years in prison in September last year for falsifying documents and maps to deter the Cambodian Government’s border demarcation and marker planting along the shared borderline with Vietnam.
Sam Rainsy, 62 years old, is in self-exile in France . However, with the two imprisonment sentences, he has almost no chance to return to Cambodia to lead his party and run for elections at wards level in 2012 and national level in 2013./.
