Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Kingmaker Hun Sen: Bye, Bye, Ranariddh, Sirirath, etc... from the political arena

Hun Sen Says Royalists Should Abandon Politics

Chun Sakada
VOA Khmer
Washington
05/02/2007


Prime Minister Hun Sen calls on members of the royal family Monday, to submit a legal binding bill into law banning themselves from politics.

Prime Minister Hun Sen's latest comment followed by retired King Norodom Sihanouk's announcement last week, for royalists to not incite conflict with Prime Minister Hun Sen along with top government officials, such as CPP president Chea Sim and National Assembly president Heng Samrin. Furthermore, the former Cambodian king suggested that royals should remove themselves from politics altogether.

At Chaktokmouk Hall in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian prime minister tells reporters that he does not want to bar the royalists from politics, because the decisions should come from them. However, he says that should they agree to it, the bill of proposal should be submitted before the country's 2008 election.

Prince Sisowath Thomico, leader of Sangkum Jatiniyum Front Party (SJFP) says that if royal members were not involved in politics, then Cambodia would not have been given its independence in 1953 from France and from Vietnam in 1991.

NGO Licadho's director, Pung Chhiv Kek says that the only way to ban royal family members from doing politics in the country is to have a national referendum.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yep, if princes and princesses
cared about Cambodia as much as
their father is, they will followed
him, but only time will tell, and
the Khmer people have to patient
to see who they really are.

Anonymous said...

Jeyo Samdech Euv !
Jeyo Samdeuv Arch !
May Lord Buddha bless Cambiodia & its people
And also a very blessing to those Norodom & Sisowath of the Royaume sand frontiere !

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

smile in a heart of darkness

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Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

As an intellectual person, I strongly agreed, the Cambodian royal families shoud be out of politic. And I also strongly agreed what the royal families of other countries are doing now aday in this current world. Therefore, I do hope that faces, values, dignities, prestiges, reputations, and honours of the Cambodian royal families would be recovered and fully respected agian.

Anonymous said...

Agreed!

Anonymous said...

Agreed, too1
VN PHD

Anonymous said...

disagreed!

Anonymous said...

Why?

Anonymous said...

It is your right to say that you are disagreed this time. However, it is very logical to remind that very soon someday, ordinary of Cambodian people may stage a revolution to force the Cambodian royal families to be out of politic by law. Then, as high class people in the society, who is going to lose everything? Is it Cambodian royalty families or ordinary people?

Anonymous said...

Yeah, very possible, but I hope
they don't condemn innocent people
along with it. The right thing to
do will be to rout out the rotten
apples.