Sam Rainsy in Indonesia and Italy

November 3, 2011

SAM RAINSY IN INDONESIA AND ITALY

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy arrived today in Bali for a 5-day visit in Indonesia where he will attend 

a Conference of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) on the theme ”Pluralism 

and Development ​in Asia.”

Members of Parliament Son Chhay, Mu Sochua and Tioulong Saumura will also attend the Conference

 and actively take part in it. The Conference program and the list of participants  are attached to this

statement.

After Indonesia, Sam Rainsy will travel to Italy where he will be a guest of the Alliance of Democrats

(a grouping of 11 political parties from different European countries) to deliver  a speech in Rome on

November 11, on the theme ”Democracy Promotion and Human Rights.”

Eighty-seven Italian Members of Parliament from practically all political parties have signed 

Sam Rainsy-initiated “Appeal from Parliamentarians for the Reactivation of the 1991 Paris Agreements on
Cambodia.” In a meeting in 2010 at Italy’s Chamber of Deputies, Sam Rainsy highlighted the strong 

similarities between the current regime in Cambodia and the fascist regime in Italy before World War II
(autocratic dictator, police state, political violence, state capitalism, crackdown on trade unions, social 

injustice, a weak King, a complacent religious clergy). The meeting took place in the historical room 

where a group of courageous democracy-inspired Deputies dared to confront Mussolini in the 1920s and 

where the Italian Republic was proclaimed in 1946.

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