Hun Sen Warns Officials To Get Tough on Gangs
By Yun Samean and James Welsh
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
Prime Minister Hun Sen warned senior government officials Tuesday that if they are unable to combat violent youth gangs they will be replaced.
Hun Sen said that he had received many complaints about young gangs wreaking havoc and called on authorities to stem the growing problem.
"It you cannot crack down on gangsters, you should not be district governors, provincial governors or police chiefs and military chiefs," Hun Sen said in a speech in Svay Rieng province that was broadcast on Apsara radio.
"We will allow the gangsters to be district and provincial governors." he said.
"The gangsters are shaking Phnom Penh, attacking each other with samurai swords.... Hok Lundy, please look at it," he added, referring to the National Police Commissioner.
Sword-wielding gang attacks in Phnom Penh and shootings and stabbings at weddings and dance parties in the provinces have become commonplace in recent years.
Hok Lundy said by telephone that drugs were at the root of the gang problem and promised to take tough action against gang members by sending those over 18 to prison and re-educating those younger.
Hok Lundy reiterated the prime minister's threat.
"If police officers cannot control gangsters, they should give their positions to the gangsters," he said.
SRP lawmaker Son Chhay said the gang problem is becoming unmanageable for police and that broader measures like tackling drugs and gambling are needed.
The children of the rich and powerful are responsible for creating the gangs and ordinary police officers are unable to touch such people, he said.
"When you look into these gang leaders, the gangs were created by the sons of senior leaders— governors or police officials," Son Chhay said, adding that the current system is unable to deal with the children of the powerful.
"It is important for the prime minister to look at the core of the problem instead of blaming officials," he added.
Mak Sarath, coordinator of the Youth Council of Cambodia, said that prison and re-education are not the answers. Instead the government should focus on giving Cambodia's young people options for the future such as vocational training and jobs, he said.
"The youth don't want to be gangsters if they have employment," he said. "It is the government's failure because the authorities cannot decrease the amount of gangsters."
Hun Sen said that he had received many complaints about young gangs wreaking havoc and called on authorities to stem the growing problem.
"It you cannot crack down on gangsters, you should not be district governors, provincial governors or police chiefs and military chiefs," Hun Sen said in a speech in Svay Rieng province that was broadcast on Apsara radio.
"We will allow the gangsters to be district and provincial governors." he said.
"The gangsters are shaking Phnom Penh, attacking each other with samurai swords.... Hok Lundy, please look at it," he added, referring to the National Police Commissioner.
Sword-wielding gang attacks in Phnom Penh and shootings and stabbings at weddings and dance parties in the provinces have become commonplace in recent years.
Hok Lundy said by telephone that drugs were at the root of the gang problem and promised to take tough action against gang members by sending those over 18 to prison and re-educating those younger.
Hok Lundy reiterated the prime minister's threat.
"If police officers cannot control gangsters, they should give their positions to the gangsters," he said.
SRP lawmaker Son Chhay said the gang problem is becoming unmanageable for police and that broader measures like tackling drugs and gambling are needed.
The children of the rich and powerful are responsible for creating the gangs and ordinary police officers are unable to touch such people, he said.
"When you look into these gang leaders, the gangs were created by the sons of senior leaders— governors or police officials," Son Chhay said, adding that the current system is unable to deal with the children of the powerful.
"It is important for the prime minister to look at the core of the problem instead of blaming officials," he added.
Mak Sarath, coordinator of the Youth Council of Cambodia, said that prison and re-education are not the answers. Instead the government should focus on giving Cambodia's young people options for the future such as vocational training and jobs, he said.
"The youth don't want to be gangsters if they have employment," he said. "It is the government's failure because the authorities cannot decrease the amount of gangsters."
17 comments:
Hun Sen!!! you yourself act like a ganster. Your colleagues and your advisers like Hok Lundy, Om Yun Tieng, Heng Pov, Hing Bun Heang, Mol Roeub, Huy Piseth, sao sokha.... all have ganster's character and behavior. So you also have to change.
Sure ah HUN SEN. It takes one to need one. What's else new with you?
1 Hanoi-Viet-engineered killing field survivor
The young gangsters are from poor and rich and powerful families. The poor group can be dealt with giving carrot and stick policy. The rich and powerful group is the most dangerous one. Parents have to decide but it is very difficult giving Cambodian rigid mentality. This is a long standing problem since Lon Nol Government where rich and powerful kids ruled the schools and the streets.
PLEASE KI-MEDIA AND ANTI- CAMBODIA GANG!
PLEASE YOU DO NOT NEED TO WRITE LIKE THAT?????
Hun Sen: "We will allow the gangsters to be district and provincial governors" (They already are in the Hun Sen's regime)"
DO NOT TRY TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE
OF FEAR..., HATRED AND ANTI-CAM BODIA. BE MORE CONSTRUCTIVE... AND MORE EDUCATED, OK? IF NOT YOU WILL READ MORE COMMENTS FROM THE SHADOW AND THE SURVEY VERY SOON...
KI-MEDIA SS READER
Hello
Just a message to the first and second comments!
My question is : are you educated and where?
Thank you if you dare to anwser
Ki media supporter
I don't know if you are a judge and I have to answer. Sorry if you are highly/nobly educated and can read these leaders' behavior in differnt ways. If you want to know whether you are right and I am wrong, you should conduct a survey among cambodian people on how they feel. But hope you don't show frightening to responders.
ahahahahahhahahahha!
What do you know? United States had been deporting Cambodian gangsters from United States over the years and now Cambodia is owning the gang problems!
It's sign of the Falling Down's Hun Sen regime ....Cambodia will be
FREE again as a FREE NATION.
Hun Sen & its CPP ruling had created so much suffering to Khmer-People....it's soon they will pay their Karma which had against the will of Khmer-People.
Jeyo, FREE CAMBODIA !
Ar Chor YOUN Chlean Pean GO HOME !
Cheers,
Bun H.
Sacravatoons
To 10:52
whatever you do or write, make sure you never call us A PLEU or uncle SAM's slave again , ok bud.
"My question is : are you educated and where?" Your question reflects your personality, which is not different from the personalities of those current rulers. The first and second comments have not gone further to say that those people (some of their relatives) are criminals and the nation's destroyers. The reality is that there are more and more people getting offended and hate the current regime. They want to see change, for the governement fails them. If the opposite is true, we would have cheered "SEN HUN" "BAT HOEUY" Sic !!!
your excellency Samdech HUN SEN. you are the hope and dream of Cambodia. Oh! man , i better get out of here fast before shits fall on me. But hey, if you don't like it, GO TO HELL.
we all have witnessed hun sen has used the same words over and over again. Look at the results... is there any change? Gangsters? where is the root canal? why all of a sudden we have talked about gangsters? 10 years ago we have never heard any discussions (or a serious on). Is it because we have too many unemployed people on the street? few job markets? graduates student can't find jobs? everyone just gives on there's on and on. The fact is that leaders su... they rule the country via "Corruption together with their GUNS." Their mighty will be over when KARMA comes... We're all looking for that day to come.
CA
Anon@1055 AM
Say what now? What is your take on my comment? Am i not as educated as you are? Is this a threat?
To KI-MEDIA SS READER,
what does SS stand for? Secret Service on KI?
To Sacravatoons,
Well said. I am with you on that.
1 Hanoi-Viet-engineered killing field survivor
Sounds like Ah! Sen's last day is coming soon and he will pay the horrible crime against the Khmer people like the former President of Romania, Chawcheskue.
Cambodia gov't runs like a gangster.May be a Mopfia, I should said! And your relastives act like gangster too.
That man is crazy!
Pinoche is calling for Hun Sen to form another ganster team.
2:55am, it looks like your question is an order from dictators, or are you one of them??? People don't hate this government without reason. Why don't you read what Heng Pov wrote?? He used to be in the group, he must know much better than what we see from outside.
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