"It's just intolerable...and if we allow these people to get away with this thuggery and the owners of the conscience of the whole world should now say look, it is unacceptable, it is uncivilised.
Victorian MP Hong Lim urges Australia to push Cambodia over garment worker crackdown
Australia News Network |
A Victorian MP born in Cambodia says Australia should
put pressure on the country of his birth over a crackdown on protesting
garment workers which left five people dead.
Hong Lim, the Member
for Clayton, says he was in Cambodia earlier this month, when five
protesting garment workers were shot dead in Phnom Penh.
Striking workers, armed with sticks, rocks and petrol bombs, clashed with police in the Veng Sreng factory district in Phnom Penh over wages and conditions.
Mr Lim has told Asia Pacific opening fire on the workers was intolerable.
"They did not need to kill those people, but they choose deliberately to use live bullets to kill people," he said.
"It's
just intolerable...and if we allow these people to get away with this
thuggery and the owners of the conscience of the whole world should now
say look, it is unacceptable, it is uncivilised.
"You can't go on
like that - the whole Australian community need to take note and need
to be conscious of that that they have a role to play, that they need to
be helping them out."
In the wake of the clashes, Australian
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the Cambodian government needed to rein
in its security forces, joining international condemnation.
Mr Lim
says Australia has a long history of involvement in Cambodia, and as a
major aid donor, it should make sure its voice heard in Phnom Penh.
"This should be very much apart of our Asian Century," he said.
"We
are right in the middle of Asia and this is our northern neighbour and
as I said, we have a long tradition of taking a very active, very
leading role in Cambodia.
"Australia has an unfinished business in Cambodia and we should step back to take the lead."
Mr Lim says the protests in Cambodia show the emergence of a new political landscape that needs global support.
"This
is much bigger than in Bangkok, much bigger than Ukraine, much bigger
than many other countries that are protesting or demonstrating," he
said.
"The world should acknowledge...the world should
recognise...the world should say, at least say they came out...and the
whole world have responsibility to respond accordingly."
Thank you Mr Lim he is an MP of Cambodian background in Australia and he care about Cambodian citizen welfare and well being more than the CPP's MPs whom focus on killing it own citizens and not resolving base request for $160 per month payrise from $80. This is nothing compare to each member of the Hun Sen family i heard now posses $1 billion each in wealth, wealth that theyr stole from the Cambodian Citizen over the last 30 years. Wealth they stole from the country natural resources and most importanty stealing people vote, blocking people from casting their votes and allow CPP minority member(s) to vote more than once and claimed they are an election winner....what a joke.
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