By Sar Botum
Moneakseka Khmer
Translated from Khmer
Running out of bushes behind which to hide and seeing only darkness all around him, last Thursday Prince Ranariddh, the eminent royal son usually higher than clouds stooped so low as to beg the Khmer Front Party to take him in. He also declared that he categorically stopped recognizing his legitimate wife Princess Marie.
Because of this development, Suth Dina's Khmer Front Party frantically announced the holding of an extraordinary congress to dissolve its own identity and replace itself with the Norodom Ranariddh Party or NR in brief.
At the same time, this congress elected Prince Ranariddh as its president with widespread managing powers under the motto: Freedom, Sovereignty, and Territorial Integrity.
Prince Ranariddh's decision and his incontrollable jubilation at being the president of the new party took place after the Nhiek Bun Chhay group staged a party coup to drive him out of the post of executive president of the FUNCINPEC [National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia] Party on 18 October and following his fruitless attempt to set up a new party of his own. This, to some observers, was like a man desperately looking for fuel wood stumbling on a dead tree.
Through this forum, Prince Ranariddh also stridently announced that he no longer recognized as his legitimate wife Princess Marie with whom he had many children.
Prince Ranariddh told the public, "Princess Marie is on the other side. I told you to stop calling her Marie Ranariddh. I do not permit her to use my name because she has gone to the traitors' side."
This remark by Prince Ranariddh appeared to be his way of showing his firm determination regarding the wife with whom he has had long experiences together.
However, not many people at the meeting supported this stance. On the contrary, the majority of participants whispered, "The prince was incapable of bringing happiness and peace to his own family; how then can he control the party and the country?"
Prince Ranariddh was the victim of a party coup staged by the group of Nhiek Bun Chhau, Lu Laysreng, and Keo Puth Rasmy who, with the support of Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party, expelled him as executive president of the FUNCINPEC Party on 18 October 2006.
What gave this group a chance to seize the power to control the FUNCINPEC Party, according to the explanation of some FUNCINPEC officials, was the fact that Prince Ranariddh had betrayed the original ideal of FUNCINPEC, immersing himself in vices and corrupt practices, constantly womanizing, and not giving a hoot about the misery of his supporters.
Nevertheless, yesterday was the prince's happiest day at this latest stage of his despair as he was appointed president of the Norodom Ranariddh Party in the guise of the Khmer Front Party.
The prince declared that he would take the spirit of this congress to the Interior Ministry and pull back the application for the establishment of the Norodom Ranariddh Party. The prince was aware that from now on he would automatically lose everything he once had in the FUNCINPEC Party, including his title as the party's historic leader and his status as the People's Representative for the Kampong Cham constituency.
No FUNCINPEC Party officials in the government, national assembly, or senate was seen joining the prince at yesterday's meeting, except three or four persons who had already been expelled from the government and the FUNCINPEC Party, such as Serei Kosal, Sao Rani, and Prince Chakrapong, who no longer had any choice and were betting their last card on the prince.
In front of the microphone, although Prince Ranariddh made a few mentions of the problems concerning the country's territory and the planting of the border markers, he did not make a single reference to Hun Sen. This shows to the public that the prince did not even dare to stand up against Hun Sen. Then, how could he defend the country's territory and oppose the negative acts of the Hun Sen group to save the fatherland?
At the same time, it became publicly obvious that it was Prince Ranariddh who personally signed the supplemental convention recognizing the 1985 Cambodian-Vietnamese treaty on land border, which is seen by most as the act of portioning off a big chunk of Cambodian territory and legally handing it over to Vietnam.
Therefore, whatever Prince Ranariddh tried to say by raising the territorial issue was just a lie, a populist statement aimed at fooling the public opinion, and nothing more. As a matter of fact, people ask him this: During the time you associated yourself with Hun Sen in the past three terms what good did you do for the Cambodian people and nation besides cooperating like hand and glove with Hun Sen to destroy the country and maltreat the people?
In this situation, it is obvious that although Prince Ranariddh was so glad that he almost could not close his mouth for having a party trusted into his lap it is just meaningless, because aside from the Khmer Front Party the prince now has nothing else that would give him some hope.
Because of this development, Suth Dina's Khmer Front Party frantically announced the holding of an extraordinary congress to dissolve its own identity and replace itself with the Norodom Ranariddh Party or NR in brief.
At the same time, this congress elected Prince Ranariddh as its president with widespread managing powers under the motto: Freedom, Sovereignty, and Territorial Integrity.
Prince Ranariddh's decision and his incontrollable jubilation at being the president of the new party took place after the Nhiek Bun Chhay group staged a party coup to drive him out of the post of executive president of the FUNCINPEC [National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia] Party on 18 October and following his fruitless attempt to set up a new party of his own. This, to some observers, was like a man desperately looking for fuel wood stumbling on a dead tree.
Through this forum, Prince Ranariddh also stridently announced that he no longer recognized as his legitimate wife Princess Marie with whom he had many children.
Prince Ranariddh told the public, "Princess Marie is on the other side. I told you to stop calling her Marie Ranariddh. I do not permit her to use my name because she has gone to the traitors' side."
This remark by Prince Ranariddh appeared to be his way of showing his firm determination regarding the wife with whom he has had long experiences together.
However, not many people at the meeting supported this stance. On the contrary, the majority of participants whispered, "The prince was incapable of bringing happiness and peace to his own family; how then can he control the party and the country?"
Prince Ranariddh was the victim of a party coup staged by the group of Nhiek Bun Chhau, Lu Laysreng, and Keo Puth Rasmy who, with the support of Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party, expelled him as executive president of the FUNCINPEC Party on 18 October 2006.
What gave this group a chance to seize the power to control the FUNCINPEC Party, according to the explanation of some FUNCINPEC officials, was the fact that Prince Ranariddh had betrayed the original ideal of FUNCINPEC, immersing himself in vices and corrupt practices, constantly womanizing, and not giving a hoot about the misery of his supporters.
Nevertheless, yesterday was the prince's happiest day at this latest stage of his despair as he was appointed president of the Norodom Ranariddh Party in the guise of the Khmer Front Party.
The prince declared that he would take the spirit of this congress to the Interior Ministry and pull back the application for the establishment of the Norodom Ranariddh Party. The prince was aware that from now on he would automatically lose everything he once had in the FUNCINPEC Party, including his title as the party's historic leader and his status as the People's Representative for the Kampong Cham constituency.
No FUNCINPEC Party officials in the government, national assembly, or senate was seen joining the prince at yesterday's meeting, except three or four persons who had already been expelled from the government and the FUNCINPEC Party, such as Serei Kosal, Sao Rani, and Prince Chakrapong, who no longer had any choice and were betting their last card on the prince.
In front of the microphone, although Prince Ranariddh made a few mentions of the problems concerning the country's territory and the planting of the border markers, he did not make a single reference to Hun Sen. This shows to the public that the prince did not even dare to stand up against Hun Sen. Then, how could he defend the country's territory and oppose the negative acts of the Hun Sen group to save the fatherland?
At the same time, it became publicly obvious that it was Prince Ranariddh who personally signed the supplemental convention recognizing the 1985 Cambodian-Vietnamese treaty on land border, which is seen by most as the act of portioning off a big chunk of Cambodian territory and legally handing it over to Vietnam.
Therefore, whatever Prince Ranariddh tried to say by raising the territorial issue was just a lie, a populist statement aimed at fooling the public opinion, and nothing more. As a matter of fact, people ask him this: During the time you associated yourself with Hun Sen in the past three terms what good did you do for the Cambodian people and nation besides cooperating like hand and glove with Hun Sen to destroy the country and maltreat the people?
In this situation, it is obvious that although Prince Ranariddh was so glad that he almost could not close his mouth for having a party trusted into his lap it is just meaningless, because aside from the Khmer Front Party the prince now has nothing else that would give him some hope.
3 comments:
congratulation Cambodia for recognizing this prince's hopelessnes.
victory is not your but viet and cpp...khmer will lose all things...even fish not just land..you must be srp and you the one that create and make 50 plus one victory...you the one that help viet who else ...cpp can make any law without srp or rn...but kon khmer was suffered daily and more next five year....it may be time for all of you proclaim nationalist hate viet to join together before 2008 or else....open your eye and be in the reallity...stop dreaming srp and others nationalist...
50 plus 1 is way to go! You prick prince have coorp with Hun Sen too long to suck cambodian blood led face the true!
Take responsible dude!
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