Left: Castro of Cuba giving a speech. Right: Prime Minister Hun Sen, in a military uniform, gestures during a speech to a group of military officers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in this April 12, 2006, file photo. Hun Sen said Thursday he will pay an official visit to Australia next week but warned against any attempt to stage a coup to topple him during his absence from home. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)You know you are in trouble when
the leader of your country wears a uniform!
- Anonymous Cuban Dissident
the leader of your country wears a uniform!
- Anonymous Cuban Dissident
October 5, 2006
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia Cambodia's leader Hun Sen said Thursday he will pay an official visit to Australia next week, and warned against any attempt to stage a coup to topple him during his absence from home.
Against the backdrop of a coup two weeks ago that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in neighboring Thailand, Hun Sen issued an open warning that no one in Cambodia should even think of staging a similar action.
"Let me remind everyone that it will be impossible," Hun Sen said in a speech during a tour of the countryside Thursday. The speech was broadcast on state-run radio.
The prime minister said he will leave Sunday for a six-day trip to Australia.
"Thaksin was at the United Nations while a coup against him took place in Bangkok. But do not be mistaken about the current situation in Cambodia. It is different," he said.
He recalled a Cambodian coup in 1970 that overthrew former King Norodom Sihanouk — then the country's executive leader — while he was on an overseas trip. "I will not let anyone do anything like what was done to him," he said.
Hun Sen, a former soldier in the communist Khmer Rouge, has ruled Cambodia since the 1980s. He has maintained firm control of the country's military and police forces, whose commanders are loyal members of his ruling Cambodian People's Party.
He was elected to power in 1998, one year after he staged a coup, but the result of the election was questioned by human rights groups.
He is often sensitive to any criticism challenging his rule.
Last month, he accused Cambodia's royalist party, whose president is Prince Norodom Ranariddh, of plotting to remove him after some of its members suggested that his government be dissolved and a national front be established to grant executive power to Sihanouk, Ranariddh's father.
Hun Sen has threatened to forcefully prevent such a move.
He has in the past been assailed for ignoring human rights and free speech, and for jailing critics.
On Thursday, he said what happened in Thailand was its internal affair and that it does not affect bilateral relations between the two countries.
He added that he has written to congratulate Surayud Chulanont, a former Thai army commander, on his appointment by Thailand's ruling military council as the country's interim prime minister.
Against the backdrop of a coup two weeks ago that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in neighboring Thailand, Hun Sen issued an open warning that no one in Cambodia should even think of staging a similar action.
"Let me remind everyone that it will be impossible," Hun Sen said in a speech during a tour of the countryside Thursday. The speech was broadcast on state-run radio.
The prime minister said he will leave Sunday for a six-day trip to Australia.
"Thaksin was at the United Nations while a coup against him took place in Bangkok. But do not be mistaken about the current situation in Cambodia. It is different," he said.
He recalled a Cambodian coup in 1970 that overthrew former King Norodom Sihanouk — then the country's executive leader — while he was on an overseas trip. "I will not let anyone do anything like what was done to him," he said.
Hun Sen, a former soldier in the communist Khmer Rouge, has ruled Cambodia since the 1980s. He has maintained firm control of the country's military and police forces, whose commanders are loyal members of his ruling Cambodian People's Party.
He was elected to power in 1998, one year after he staged a coup, but the result of the election was questioned by human rights groups.
He is often sensitive to any criticism challenging his rule.
Last month, he accused Cambodia's royalist party, whose president is Prince Norodom Ranariddh, of plotting to remove him after some of its members suggested that his government be dissolved and a national front be established to grant executive power to Sihanouk, Ranariddh's father.
Hun Sen has threatened to forcefully prevent such a move.
He has in the past been assailed for ignoring human rights and free speech, and for jailing critics.
On Thursday, he said what happened in Thailand was its internal affair and that it does not affect bilateral relations between the two countries.
He added that he has written to congratulate Surayud Chulanont, a former Thai army commander, on his appointment by Thailand's ruling military council as the country's interim prime minister.
5 comments:
Is this a warning from God or from AH HUN SEN? Who is going to stop the coup if there is a coup against AH HUN SEN! Of course AH HUN SEN relatives, his grandchildrens, his brothers and sisters and his daughters and sons are going to stop the coup?
I say wipe them all out with a firing quad and this way Cambodia don't have any legacy of AH HUN SEN family to remind them of all the nightmare that they had endure over the years!
Ah Chhk'aer Viet dog Hun Sen must understand that all a martyr needs is just ONE LUCK!
10/05/06
AKnijaKhmer
Let's not get too ugly here. We have just recovered a little bit from years of war. We could not afford another coup. A coup only sets us backward and sending tourists and foreign investors away. We are not ready for another coup. not rightnow.
To brother 9:42am
You are afraided of the coup? AH HUN SEN did it before and more business still come to Cambodia! So what is the different here? Do you see the different?
I say what flavors does AH HUN SEN want! Does AH HUN SEN want to see a bloody coup which involve killing many of his family members(government officials) or a bloodless coup which he compromise and step down quietly and go to live in another country!
For a long time, Cambodian people had been giving AH HUN SEN too many credit for bring peace and stability(not prosperity!). The real credit should be given to the UN ,Cambodian people and all other waring factions!
AH HUN SEN tend to forget the past because now he has the whole pie to himself and he want to eat all by himself! AH HUN SEN had stated in the past that Cambodia should be divided into two country and one for him and the other for the rest of Cambodian people! This is the time to overthrow AH HUN SEN from power and to restore Cambodia as one country!
Go & kill all of the Hun Sen family members, then he'll cracked.
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