By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original from Phnom Penh
29 January 2008
FBI Director Robert Mueller will pay an official visit to Cambodia Wednesday, for talks on counterterrorism and other law enforcement measures with Prime Minister Hun Sen, officials said Tuesday.
Mueller is on a regional tour, with stops expected in China and Vietnam, according to the US Embassy.
The FBI was criticized by human rights groups after it established an attaché office in Phnom Penh in 2007 and invited National Police Chief Gen. Hok Lundy to Washington.
Critics said police were the perpetrators of abuse, and cooperation with them made rights work more difficult.
Part of Mueller’s visit will be to attend a ceremony to celebrate the official opening of the legal attache office, the embassy said.
Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Khieu Sopheak called the visit “a good sign in strengthening the cooperation between the FBI and the Cambodian police.”
“The Ministry of Interior, under the leadership of the government, especially the Cambodian police, have cooperated very well with the US FBI,” he said. “This cooperation focuses on cross-border crimes, including terrorism, drugs, sex, weapons trafficking and piracy.”
The FBI has trained hundreds of Cambodian police in understanding terrorist tactics and strategies, he said.
Mueller is on a regional tour, with stops expected in China and Vietnam, according to the US Embassy.
The FBI was criticized by human rights groups after it established an attaché office in Phnom Penh in 2007 and invited National Police Chief Gen. Hok Lundy to Washington.
Critics said police were the perpetrators of abuse, and cooperation with them made rights work more difficult.
Part of Mueller’s visit will be to attend a ceremony to celebrate the official opening of the legal attache office, the embassy said.
Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Khieu Sopheak called the visit “a good sign in strengthening the cooperation between the FBI and the Cambodian police.”
“The Ministry of Interior, under the leadership of the government, especially the Cambodian police, have cooperated very well with the US FBI,” he said. “This cooperation focuses on cross-border crimes, including terrorism, drugs, sex, weapons trafficking and piracy.”
The FBI has trained hundreds of Cambodian police in understanding terrorist tactics and strategies, he said.
7 comments:
Cambodia people don't understand what direction the American policy is heading. It seems like they help to strenghten Hun Sen and his regime. This regime is the repression to Cambodia people. There's no democracy in Cambodia. The Vietnamese is controlling Cambodia in the bad stage. There're many of Vietnamese agents working with Hun Sen and his government. Hun Sen takes order from Hanoi. The Cambodia National Election Committee is headed by Vietnam communist agent named Ong Teur. There're plenty of Vietnam agents imbedded in Cambodia police, arm force, and civil servants. So what is the American policy in Cambodia?
cambodia is completly dead in the water.!! hahahah!...we need to fight back..start another civil war.!!.
Oh well! Uncle SAM has long tradition of supporting dictators around the world at the same time Uncle SAM has tradition of trashing the legacy of any dictator once they died! It seems strange but this is how Uncle SAM views of the world under his influence!
It will be politic as usual and Uncle SAM will only take what he needs and the rest dirt poor Cambodian people will have to fight for it such human right, land grabbing, corruption, deforestation, dictatorship...
Perceptively, the FBI's office operation in Cambodia is to fight against the global terrorism, human trafickings, and inti-drugs trafickings that had been previously considered the santury for those suspected perpetrators by the US Department of Justice in the prevuous decades.
In retrospect, numerous Cambodain officials had involved, the investigative reports had disclosed which compelling the dead treats by involved officials.
Unprecedentedly, since the FBI's office has started its opertation cooperatively with National Police Chief Gen. Hok Lundy, situations in the country have been improved significantly as Cambodina officials were saying. The government and the FBI agents have apprehended those suspected perpetrators who operating the drug laboratory in Cambodia.
Unambiguously, Cambodia has political cancers. And it urgently needs to be prevented starting from the inside. That's what the FBI is doing this point of time.
-- Indigenous Khmer, S.T.
Understandable, Dollars in Cambodia is now growing on tree. A small peice of land can be purchased at hafl of millions, fake money inflates in number which decrease the value of US currency. Looking back to the Vietcong era, Vietcong printed so much Cambodian Reil, where they used the mosts to purchase food and war supplies from Cambodia. Literally, not many Cambodian understood the monitary system of one county, they were happy to see more fake money they had collected.
I think, FBI agents will deeply concern and investigate in this particular case. However, you think that FBI will be operated successfully in the country like Cambodia that has no governing system? The county where the gorvernment set in dictatorship rule, MAFIAISM. You think Hanoi, Vietcong will stop printing fake money to spend in Cambodia, dollars and Reils? They won the war against American, still you think that Hanoi sides American? I think Hanoi is bad to the bone, they influence their Cambodian puppet to do the same. Thus, my conclusion, successfully operated by FBI in Cambodia is to capture Hun Sen, Hok Lundy, and his Mafias, hang them high...setting up an example to alls.., then, FBI mission is very well ACCOMPLISED.
Kon Khmer
As the economy grows, by the same token, crimes will inevitably increase -- so does regional terrorists... that's why Mr. Robert Mueller paid an official visit to Cambodia. The U.S. intelligence community does not care about these Khmer extremist generals.
Yer, good idea..economic grows means people have more money to spend in cycle. Money printed by those terrorists can be used to finance the terrorist operation, FBI has to watch out for that. And who has done that before during the Lon Nol era? HANOI...,The extremists may have the factor...
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