Hun Sen T-Shirts Still OK, But Garbage Bags Are Right Out
By Kuch Naren
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
A top-level government investigation has been ordered and a powerful Council of Ministers directive issued to prevent the images of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his wife Bun Rany from ending up on plastic refuse bags, according to documents obtained Wednesday.
Though loyal and respectful followers have in the past scanned photos of the prime minister and his wife onto the faces of wristwatches and wall clocks, the Council of Ministers ruled on July 13 that safeguards were needed to prevent the leading couple's faces winding up on garbage bags.
"[The] Council of Ministers definitely does not allow the printing and scanning of photographs of the prime minister and his chumteav on plastic bags, or other improper surfaces," according to the directive, signed into force by Cabinet Minister Sok An.
According to the directive, the decision to regulate the replication of the first couple's image was a key point of business at the July 7 meeting of the Council of Ministers.
Prak Sokhon, CPP secretary of state at the Cabinet, said he had nothing to say about the new printing regulations, as did Hing Bunheang, deputy chief of Hun Sen's cabinet.
"Printing on T-shirts...is acceptable but plastic bags would seriously affect their reputation because he and his wife are our highly respected leaders," said Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Touch Naruth.
Nefarious elements in society could try to damage the prime minister's honor by scanning Hun Sen's face on a plastic bag which they could then fill with garbage and throw on a trash pile, Touch Naruth said.
People fighting eviction in Phnom Penh, who usually adorn their condemned dwellings with pictures of Hun Sen and Bun Rany in a bid to earn a last-minute reprieve from homelessness, will not be affected by the directive, he added.
Chea Vannath, former president of the Center for Social Development, said she wondered why the issue had become high government business.
Cambodian people have full rights to speak, act, perform and think freely, she said.
Though loyal and respectful followers have in the past scanned photos of the prime minister and his wife onto the faces of wristwatches and wall clocks, the Council of Ministers ruled on July 13 that safeguards were needed to prevent the leading couple's faces winding up on garbage bags.
"[The] Council of Ministers definitely does not allow the printing and scanning of photographs of the prime minister and his chumteav on plastic bags, or other improper surfaces," according to the directive, signed into force by Cabinet Minister Sok An.
According to the directive, the decision to regulate the replication of the first couple's image was a key point of business at the July 7 meeting of the Council of Ministers.
Prak Sokhon, CPP secretary of state at the Cabinet, said he had nothing to say about the new printing regulations, as did Hing Bunheang, deputy chief of Hun Sen's cabinet.
"Printing on T-shirts...is acceptable but plastic bags would seriously affect their reputation because he and his wife are our highly respected leaders," said Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Touch Naruth.
Nefarious elements in society could try to damage the prime minister's honor by scanning Hun Sen's face on a plastic bag which they could then fill with garbage and throw on a trash pile, Touch Naruth said.
People fighting eviction in Phnom Penh, who usually adorn their condemned dwellings with pictures of Hun Sen and Bun Rany in a bid to earn a last-minute reprieve from homelessness, will not be affected by the directive, he added.
Chea Vannath, former president of the Center for Social Development, said she wondered why the issue had become high government business.
Cambodian people have full rights to speak, act, perform and think freely, she said.
3 comments:
HIV/AIDS is synonymous of Cambodia unsafe sex trend.
How about print Hun Sen and Ranni on condom package or other sex toy as a remionder for CPP members.
Someone should place Hun Sen and Bun Ranni's ass in the garbage bag. If not there asses, it should be their brain. They have a brain the size of a lobster's brain.
Cambodian people SHOULD have full rights, we never have the right!
They (Hun Sen) do not have brain the size of a lobster, they have brain the same kind of the lobster (mix with shit)
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