"Whatever [Ghai] said about Cambodia is his country's problem, not Cambodia's problem" - Hun SenOriginal report from Phnom Penh
03 January 2008
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday slammed UN human rights envoy Yash Ghai and his homeland, Kenya, which has undergone political turmoil in recent weeks.
In the latest round of verbal attacks against the UN secretary-general's rights representative to Cambodia, who has been critical of the prime minister and his government, Hun Sen said Ghai should be sent "to work in his own country." "This is the New Year message I want to send to the secretary-general: Whatever [Ghai] said about Cambodia is his country's problem, not Cambodia's problem," Hun Sen said in a public address in Phnom Penh.
In December, Ghai, who is from Kenya, reported that Cambodians could rise up against the government, which has failed to provide them with security, as more and more land is stolen from Cambodia's poor.
Ghai was shunned on his visit by government officials and met only with human rights workers and the displaced rural poor.
"Everything that happened in his country, he compares it to Cambodia. The systematic violation of human rights happens in his country," Hun Sen said. "The president [of Kenya] ordered the shootings, so the soldiers have to carry out the order. Now, the death toll is over 300. There is no rule of law in the country. Even on New Year's Day there is killing. Even people who were trying to hide in a church were killed. So, Yash Ghai, who is the UN secretary-general's special rights representative to Cambodia, tries to come to Cambodia to teach us."
Hun Sen also compared the post-election rioting to Cambodia's killing fields.
"There is killing and bloody violence there. Kenya is almost becoming a killing field," the Associated Press quoted Hun Sen saying Thursday.
In the latest round of verbal attacks against the UN secretary-general's rights representative to Cambodia, who has been critical of the prime minister and his government, Hun Sen said Ghai should be sent "to work in his own country." "This is the New Year message I want to send to the secretary-general: Whatever [Ghai] said about Cambodia is his country's problem, not Cambodia's problem," Hun Sen said in a public address in Phnom Penh.
In December, Ghai, who is from Kenya, reported that Cambodians could rise up against the government, which has failed to provide them with security, as more and more land is stolen from Cambodia's poor.
Ghai was shunned on his visit by government officials and met only with human rights workers and the displaced rural poor.
"Everything that happened in his country, he compares it to Cambodia. The systematic violation of human rights happens in his country," Hun Sen said. "The president [of Kenya] ordered the shootings, so the soldiers have to carry out the order. Now, the death toll is over 300. There is no rule of law in the country. Even on New Year's Day there is killing. Even people who were trying to hide in a church were killed. So, Yash Ghai, who is the UN secretary-general's special rights representative to Cambodia, tries to come to Cambodia to teach us."
Hun Sen also compared the post-election rioting to Cambodia's killing fields.
"There is killing and bloody violence there. Kenya is almost becoming a killing field," the Associated Press quoted Hun Sen saying Thursday.
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Yash Gai, although he is a Kenyan, didn't represent his Country the Kenya when he wrote the report about human right abuse in Cambodia. He represent the UN.
What Hun Sen pretented to take revenge on Yash Gai by launching an attack against him for what happening in Kenya,was very CHILDISH.
Hun Sen shows he is a dictator, a hooligan, a Khmer Rouge with hands tainted with blood.
Hun Sen= Than Shwe= President of Kenya.
The situation in Kenya has nothing to do with what is going on in Cambodia, and the fact that Yash Ghai is from Kenya has nothing to do with his job in Cambodia or how he performs in it. As usual Hun Sen is trying to muddle the issue of Human Rights in Cambodia which is what Yash Ghais job is to assess.
Hun Sen is just showing off because he knows he can get away with these comments, and basically being a rascist calling Yash Ghai a savage, which is unbelievably outrageous that a head of a nation would do that. The real question is why is Hun Sen getting away with it? Why do the UN and Human Rights organisations tolerate this type of behaviour, with making a comment? It's beacuse they know that there are larger geo-political issues at work. Namely the fact that China is gaining stronger influence over SE Asia nations, and the fact that the USA are still trying to court the same SE Asian nations to their side. This is why they tolerate this type of crap, so as to curry favour with the corrupt politicians so they can do business in those countries by gaining exclusive rights over oilfields, mines, forests etc.
Meanwhile it is the ordinary people who suffer under Hun Sens style of rule
Hun Sen knows all this, he is having the same interesting reaction that all monsters have when confronted with their crimes by people that they can't squish. They flip out. That has always perplexed me...if you are so far down on the scale of lifeforms to be pretty much a worm, as is Hun Sen, and you KNOW damn well you are being a cancer on your country, why deny it? I guess everybody, even a parasite wants to be thought of as a decent person. How irritating.
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