Cambodian 'elections' a rout
Jonathan Manthorpe,
Vancouver Sun (Canada)
Cambodia has been a theoretical democracy since the United Nations imposed a system of free elections in 1992. But Cambodian elections are always fought against the backdrop of understanding that prime minister Hun Sen and his Cambodian People's Party must be elected, otherwise there will be civil war. Hun Sen does not accept defeat calmly. So it was no surprise last week when the CPP won 98 per cent of the 11,353 seats contested in local elections for the country's 1,621 communes and urban sub-districts known as sangkats.
5 comments:
Yes, this is no wonder for ambitous and conceited leader like HX
THIS IS THE WAY THAT CPP(Communist Pro youn Party) LEAD BY HUN SEN (THE COMMUNIST CRIMINAL AGAINST HUMANITY IN CAMBODIA), TO DO PRATICALLY DICTATOR REGIME IN CAMBODIA
WE, CAMBODIA PEOPLE DON'T LIKE CPP (Communist Pro youn Party) BUT NO CHOICE BECAUSE OF FEARS CAUSED BY HUN SEN (CRIMINAL, ASSASSINATION, ...)
Totally idiotic article by gringo,
the 98% winning are strickly from
superior ability of the ruling party, not magic trick. Just look
at opposition ability, what do
they have? nothing but lipservice,
lipservice, and lipservice, who
in their right mind will offered
their vote for that, not to mention
their leader can even get visa to
to Brunei... . So how many votes
are you expecting from your
capability?
98% voted for the CPP in 2007, 97% voted for the Sangkum R. of our most respected King back in the mid 1960s, yet by 1970 our King and his party found themselve deposed.
What does this tell readers about election in Cambodia?
It tells readers that elections were established and conducted for foreign consumptions only...The result was already known prior to any election... Election is just a formality.
What is interesting is why are the various smaller parties refusing to quit knowing that they would not win elections...yet day in and day out...they toiled..
Take the SRP for example...they've gotten 28 commune chiefs out of the nearly 17 hundred chiefs. The SRP activitists were beatened, killed, intimidated, yet they just bounced right back and in the CPP face again and again...what it is about Cambodia that drives these guys to put their lives on the line...for?
Demomcratic principals? Nationalism? Back in the 1960s, it was the Khmer student groups pitting themselves against the might of our revel King. Later, these fellows became the Khmer Rouge. In the late 1979, it was the eastern zone commanders rising up against the might of the Khmer Rouge. Now, history seems to repeat iself, but with different players.
How shall Cambodia prevent its history from being repeated in the negative light?...Should Mr. Hun Sen contemplate his legacy....and goes down in Cambodian history books or literature as the one man who have brung Cambodia back from the jaws of hell, unified it and and helped develop Cambodia infrastures? Or will he be known as a man whose thirst for power, which resulted in the destruction of Cambodia.
In the United States, back in 1776, the was a general by the name of George Washington. The fellow could have became king of the 13 colonies with the arm force at his disposal, yet he chose to hand over power to congress. He became the founding father of America. He was remembered fondly and was well attributed for his good deed...
How about stepping down Mr. Hun Sen and become a prive Citizen ? Can you imagine the immotalization of your name? Can you imagine your name being associate with the Like of Washington, Lincoln or Ho Chin Minh or Churchill?
What does this tell readers about election in Cambodia?
You don't have to be a rocket
scientist to answer this stupid
question. What this tell the
average readers is Cambodia was
stabbed in the back by Ah Khmer-
Yuons. However, in the end, they
all lost and punished for their
crime against society.
And no, winners can't stepped down.
They must served the people as
they elected to do. Losers, on
the other hand, should step down
and allowed someone else to try
win the election. You can't win
with losers, as simple as that.
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