NGOs Should Focus on AIDS, Not the Gov’t: Hun Sen
By Yun Samean
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
Prime Minister Hun Sen told rights workers and NGOs Monday that they spend too much time criticizing the government, and that they should focus on educating people about the dangers of AIDS instead.
NGOs are shying away from combating HIV-AIDS because it is easier to lambaste the government, Hun Sen said at an inauguration ceremony for three new buildings at Phnom Penh's National Pediatric Hospital.
"NGOs who are working on human rights...could inform villagers [about AIDS], but they don't do that, they like cursing the government," he said.
Hun Sen also warned that AIDS will become more of a problem if people do not discuss the disease publicly.
Hun Sen then admonished medics at an unidentified hospital in Kompong Cham province who he claimed had refused to treat patients after discovering that they supported the ruling CPP.
"You cannot ask the patients which political party they are from. You must treat all the patients well," he said.
SRP lawmaker Yim Sovann said that he had never heard of doctors and nurses refusing to treat patients who belong to the CPP.
In reality, CPP-affiliated doctors sometimes discriminate against patients who are members of the SRP, he said.
Ou Virak, spokesman for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said that if human rights workers spent all their time discussing AIDS, government policy would never change to benefit the people. Rights workers put much-needed pressure on the government, he added.
"Most of the Cambodian people understand the need for us to be the watchdogs," he said.
(Additional reporting by Elizabeth Tomei)
NGOs are shying away from combating HIV-AIDS because it is easier to lambaste the government, Hun Sen said at an inauguration ceremony for three new buildings at Phnom Penh's National Pediatric Hospital.
"NGOs who are working on human rights...could inform villagers [about AIDS], but they don't do that, they like cursing the government," he said.
Hun Sen also warned that AIDS will become more of a problem if people do not discuss the disease publicly.
Hun Sen then admonished medics at an unidentified hospital in Kompong Cham province who he claimed had refused to treat patients after discovering that they supported the ruling CPP.
"You cannot ask the patients which political party they are from. You must treat all the patients well," he said.
SRP lawmaker Yim Sovann said that he had never heard of doctors and nurses refusing to treat patients who belong to the CPP.
In reality, CPP-affiliated doctors sometimes discriminate against patients who are members of the SRP, he said.
Ou Virak, spokesman for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said that if human rights workers spent all their time discussing AIDS, government policy would never change to benefit the people. Rights workers put much-needed pressure on the government, he added.
"Most of the Cambodian people understand the need for us to be the watchdogs," he said.
(Additional reporting by Elizabeth Tomei)
11 comments:
Isn't it the government job to take care of its own people? This ignorant and spoiled prat can't understand constructive criticism. Soon, those robotic and arse-kissing officials will follow the same lead, toe the same line and take an uneducated stand against concerned NGOs. What a crying shame!
They are not government !
Don't you know Hun Sen & Its CPP are
Gansters inc. are ruling Cambodia under supervision of Youn-Hanoi.
Post3:11, do you think government
is God or something? There are
things that govenment can do for
people, and there are things that
people can do bilaterally with
government. Plus, it be nice if
they are willing to pay 25% tax
or so, or else we will need a
magic wand to take care of all
the spoil brats like you guys
oversea who suck on the system
to survive. You got the idea?
And yeah, Ethiopian 4:07, enjoy
your DVD show.
You stupid Hun Xen if you can not do the jop step down!
If you want people to help gorvernment let them organized, give them freedome, of speech and peacefull demonstration!
Do not use vietcong style to cofuse people no body that stupid like you Viet shit!
next prime minister of cambodia will be HE sok an.
sok an, a native of svay reing, and a former professor.
cambodia is emerging to be a republic of kampuchea.
thailand is going to a republic of thailand after this current thai king dies. burma, thailand, laos, malaysia, vietnam, indonesia, phillippines, brunei, and cambodia
will be used the same currency like in europe.
today the world has two greatest WARS.
1) War against the terrorists (radical muslims want the whole world to convert to be muslims, no other religions but muslim only according to its Quran).
2) USA against China. who will rule the world economy. Why gas price goes up? China has bought gas from souhteast asia, middle asia (middle east), south america, and africa.
later the US and Europe will unite and will join with a 3rd new powerful nation Indian (today indian has 1 billion and will pass China soon). indian has more intelligence people in technology, and china has more people who are good in handy.
saudi arabia will still side with the west to save their royal court, but soon the new generation who educated in the west will take over; otherwise its will fall too behind the new world evolution.
the radical muslims will be defeated after too much bloodshed.
this wars will end after 27 years beginning from 1999. we have long ways to go.
try to trash the site you fool!
Oh yeah, Post9:52, Hun Sen can't
do the job, huh? Just who do you
think can? You? If so, tell us about
it. If we give you Cambodia today,
what will it be like 5 years from
now? What is the average income
of the people? ... Can you share
with us your economic plan?
how can ah kvak do anything if he is blind? ah kvak survives becos he ha spower. without power has to dig hisown grave. he killed too many khmers for ah yuon.
Post 4:37PM is right!
Government is not God, but those filthy officials in the government think they are God to the Cambodian people. They sell state lands and assets, they grab people's lands, they cut trees, they steal tax monies, they occupy state lands, they don't pay electricity and water bills, they kill people, they traffic drugs and involve in money laundering. They drive luxury cars that their government salaries could never possibly afford. Go ahead, slap a tax on foreign aid and see who will suffer the most.
For all these years, they blame problems in Cambodia on everything else, except themselves. They are a bunch of lazy and irresponsible bums just like you!
Government need not to steal lands.
Government everywhere on this
planet own the land. If you don't
pay property tax, you can kiss your
land goodbye. Do you know what I
mean? Therefore, you are on the
wrong track.
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