Editorial by Khmerization
Originally posted at: http://khmerization.blogspot.com/
"If one is escaping from a tiger’s claws into a shark’s jaw, then it is not escaping, is it? This is running into a death trap."Last time I might have been a little bit too harsh with the defectors by describing them as political prostitutes. This time (read article here) I will be a little bit more understanding with their actions to just call them political opportunists. I do sympathise with their decisions to leave the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP). They left due to the facts that they had lost the support and the confidence of the SRP leadership and hence was not able to secure a position as an MP on the electoral ballot. However, I do not, for one moment, sympathise with the reasons that they are leaving the SRP because the SRP is “dictatorial” and “the party’s leadership was against the democratic principle”. These reasons cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. If one is escaping from a tiger’s claws into a shark’s jaw, then it is not escaping, is it? This is running into a death trap. By the same token, if these defectors think that the SRP is “dictatorial” and anti-democratic then they should know that the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) must be tyrannical and communistic in nature and form. So their reasons are not to be believed. And their reasons for defecting is pure and simple: political opportunism to seek personal fortunes.
If their reasons for defections are to be believed one must ask why are they defecting from one “dictatorial” party to another “dictatorial” party? Why didn’t they defect from a “dictatorial" party to a “democratic” party like the Human Right Party or the Norodom Ranariddh Party or even the Funcinpec Party, if these parties are as democratic as they have claimed? Simple: these parties cannot provide them with any plum jobs.
On the SRP’s side, one has to ask what went wrong. We know the SRP are going through internal reforms to maximise its electoral chances by giving active, competent and popular members an opportunity to move up the political ladder and demoting inactive and incompetent members. As a result of these internal reforms some members are demoted and hence cry foul. In response to this kind of political backlash from demoted members, the SRP leadership must have a mechanism in which it can provide some comforts to dissatisfied demoted members that they are still wanted and will be rewarded later.
I still strongly believe that the SRP is still strong and will be strengthened further, even after such widespread defections. These defections will not weaken and destabilise the SRP leadership. But the continuing defections, if allowed to go on and not addressed, will pose a real threat to the party’s image- bad publicity. With election looming in the corner, the SRP cannot afford to have bad image and bad publicity. Psychology is very important. Presenting a united image of the party to the voters is imperative in attracting supports which can translate into votes.
On the other hand, the CPP knew full well that these defections will not boost their votes nor will they bring more supporters with them. The CPP knew full well that these defections are only symbolic and a psychological warfare only. The CPP’s aims in facilitating the defections are to destabilise and to crack the SRP leadership, like they have done with the Funcinpec Party and the Son Sann Party. But with the SRP, their aims will not succeed. It will only strengthen the party's resolve. I strongly believe so.
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DEFFECTION OR NOT. PEOPLE POWER WILL PUT THESE CURRUPTED GOVERNMENT AND VIETCONG MASTER WANT TO BE IN THEIR PLACE SOON.
THEY WILL RUN AND HIDE BECAUSE OF SHAME AND FEAR.
BULLY SOMETIME GET HURT OR KILLED. BULLY-ing, CHEATING, and GREED DOESN'T ALWAY PAY! SO THESE TWO FACE CAN RUN BACK AND FORTH ALL THEY CAN.
PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER, AND PRICE WILL BE PAID FOR WHAT THEY DID.
khmer love,
khmer pride
(no matter what )
please let me remind everyone here that changes take time; well hopefully it won't take that long. but anyway, if we push to hard, we can break it. remember how the KR pushed with their backward revolutionary vision, and look how they broke cambdodia. so, in a way, i see the same repeats, here with the srp party and other goo opposition parties out there. please don't commit the same mistake like the former KR regime did with cambodia when they emptied all city dwellers and force changes on the population of cambodia. look what happened then and now. please learn from their mistakes. having said that, changes do take time, i mean any change. i mean, people even take time to get used to changes themselves, let alone the entire society. i know what the opposition parties are doing is great for cambodia in the long-run. yes, i think all of cambodia deserve a better leader or leaders, etc., but, please do learn from the KR past mistake by changing too quickly, and what happened to cambodia - it snapped and broke under too much pressure. please allow sometimes for cambodia to heal and repair itself, but just help it along the way. great job to all opposition party members for your tireless services and love for your country. long live cambodia. together we can do more.
i once saw a quote somewhere saying: " we can do more for others if we don't care who gets the credit." i really like this quote, it has a deep, subtle meaning to it. thanks
The defectors have something to say about their former party.
The leader of the party would know better the effect of this unfortunate mass defection in particular just months before the election.
Supporters are still waiting for the cloud in the air to be cleared of any doubts.
5 months is not too long, something must be done now before it is too late.
Supporters will not go anywhere but their votes will if the cloud is still hang around the mass the defection.
If I were SRP, I will be happy to let this defectors go away before election. A firm party should be run by bunch of LOYAL PERSONs, who 100% commit to the party. These defectors are worms in flesh. So, let the worms go to CPP.
However, SRP should change its internal policy as soon as possible.
With all due respect, do you anybody in both CPP and SRP personally? One cannot pass judgment on people and parties if one doesn't really know all about them first-hand. What you read on this blog is pretty much tainted. That is not say, the CPP is the better choice. But back-room deals are made even in Australia, right mate?
This was meant to read 'do you know anybody...'
I am a strong supporter of the SRP. However, for the sake of the Khmer nation, I must advise the SRP to reform and attract new talents into the party.
Here is my proposal for the SRP and the HRP for the long term marriage.
- Leadership change of SRP is a must
- Democratic Reform within SRP is a must
- The marriage of SRP and HRP is imperative for the United Front of the Khmer Democrats.
- At all cost, exclude Royal Parties from this marriage, due to their past weak performance and inconsistencies. The Royal parties cannot be trusted.
- The Democrat Alliance of SRP and HRP must get rid of the opportunists and corrupt members. Let them go to the CPPs because that is where they belong.
- The Democrat Alliance must represents true democratic principle, reform, and a true voice of the people.
- Hence the name I recommend 'Khmer Democratic Alliance(KDA)to be head by Sam Rainsy as President and Mr. Kem Sokha as Vice President for four years-term.
- Prior to every National Election, a convention must be held to re-elect or elect new Alliance leader.
This is the only way I see will win over the people support and the free world. We democrats cannot criticize the dictatorial CPPs, and at the same act indifference from the CPPs. The Khmer democrats must draw the line between democracy and communist CPPs. Please help clarify the path which party is democratic and which is not.
Koun Khmer
Koun Khmer, Sound a very good plan. However, it is hard to implement. SRP used to lose its Khmer Nation Party and lost when join with FUNCIPEC. So, it had enough experience about unity. the idea of bring another big party to join may harm them so hard. HRP has nothing to win! just part of the game or a toy!
SRP should resist and hold it tight. They will win! Don't forget, when FUCIPEC defect to CPP, their votes will go to SRP. CPP should worry about this not SRP.
Shark's Jaw? How many CPP members have been eaten alive in the last 30 years or so?
The Author is definitely on crack, I say.
THE RULING PARTY WILL HAVE ENOUGH CHEMICAL BULLETS FOR THOSE DEFECTORS (TRAITORS).
DEFECTORS DO NOT DESERVE TO LIVE; THEY NEED TO BE SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD.
Pourk kum-nit chkè toeu nouv tè chkè toeu dà-dèl khaeunh na khlaing rut touv khang nuh . Puok a chkè toeu !!!
oy véa touv ang-kéam ch-aeng sès sàll choh.
Defectors are PERMANENT TRAITOR of SRP'voters.
Anonymous said: "Shark's Jaw? How many CPP members have been eaten alive in the last 30 years or so?
The Author is definitely on crack, I say."
It seemed that the writer does't understand English. The phrase "skark's jaw" and "tiger's claws" are metaphors used to compare what the defectors has claimed that they defected to join the CPP because the SRP is from "dictatorial" party. If they think that the SRP is dictatorial (tiger) and defected to the CPP, which is more dictatorial, then it is like running from a tiger into a shark's claw. It is only a political metaphor. So who is on crack?
It's time that opportunists seek to gain more strength from whatever any party has to offer. Politic in Cambodia is not easy to stay put, thus, defector or opportunist is just a word from third world county. To Cambodia, there is no ..no..so I think it is normal for a change when people see no grow in one party.
More defections more Sam Rainsy winner. I am sure Sam Rainsy will be victorious !!!
To 2:55AM
You seem to have the same mentality of AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave mother fucker because everything that he had ever done for Cambodian people can only be compared to the Khmer Rouge era and why is that?
Since AH LON NOL to the KHMER ROUGE and to AH HUN SEN VIETCONG PUPPET GOVERNEMNT stupid Cambodian leaders always use the slogan "change" to benefit and to enrich themselves and to betray Cambodian national interest!
For me personally I believe that there are two kinds of change that Cambodian population can choose to fulfill their needs and their standing in the world community! For example one of the changes that Cambodian population can choose is to have Cambodian government give all the necessary needs to the Cambodian population to make the positive change possible such good school, good housing, good healthcare, plenty of opportunities of make good living, good law and order, the right to private property, the right to free speech and assembly, the free flow of information, transparency within the government institution, and anti-corruption, anti-monopoly, anti- dictatorship…
And the second change that Cambodian population can choose is to allow their government to rob everything and to think for them and such government was possible because Cambodian population had witnessed during the Khmer Rouge government and AH HUN SEN Vietcong puppet government already! When the Cambodian government robs everything and begins to think for Cambodian population there is nothing left for Cambodian population to choose to make any kind of change because everything is up to the stupid Cambodian government to make the decision now! And soon or later the Cambodian population will realize that they continue to have the same government in year and after years and with time their government will become old and more corrupted and more dictatorial government which will pose a real threat to Cambodian democracy, the progress of Cambodia, and the Cambodian national interest abroad!
Cambodia must change quickly with the developing world for Cambodia to be considered a nation among nations! Cambodia can’t afford to choose the most backward country to be compared any longer otherwise Cambodia will die as a nation! If AH HUN SEN doesn’t have the leadership quality to make such change that is urgently needed and he needs to step down now and let someone else who can bring the kind of change for the good of Cambodia as a civilize nation!
Obviously, none of you lives in Cambodia. Because then you would know that many people are tired of Sam Rainsy. He is seen as too weak. He can't stand up to Hun Sen. Cambodia needs a better opposition party than SRP. You overseas Khmer are just dreamers. You won't change a thing.
I 100% agree, oversea people tend to underestimate the real situation in Cambodia. Most people here judge based on whatever available news on internet or person to person.
I just need 100% security in Cambodia. Then, everything else will follow. Look at the past is very scary, we never had peace more than 20 years. but this regime will secure that.
What do we expect from this poor government? Will any current party has capacity to do SO. I guess not. All of them are so weak.
There are some problem that government has, but I don't count. Wait until time ripe, then we change it.
I agree with the editorial and disagree with these last two comments. I don't see any progress the govenment have made to the country. I believe 100% if you say the rulling party makes a huge progress for their own families and associates. I can see Cambodian poeple are still very poor, but the rulling party's members and its leader are extreemly rich with corruption in all forms. Is what i say right, man?
Thanks,
To 9:35PM, 1:13AM
For $1000 any oversea Cambodian people can fly to Cambodia to check out the situation in Cambodia! If you two mother fuckers are too poor to fly anyway and I suggest you both need to shut the fuck up!
To 6:18
You are not Khmer model and behave like Youn who always say (Dou Ma). Your are a worm, which make country worst.
I respect the comment from 11.58. he give good reason to debate.
Try to make sense in real situation is a key point if we can avoid FIGHTING, KILLING...BLOODING. Who win in the last few centuries because of this behavour? Youn and Thai, of course.
Who are you then, is it someone who has no tiny use for Cambodia? I guess so.
I live in where I born, so I don't need to fly.
It does not matter who will be prime minister, it will always CORRUPT because this can not be happen alone. it is a system of corrupt which come from economic background toward future expectation.
Look at South East Asia, which country does not corrupt?
Don't be too rush to change the poor to be the rich. It has to be slowly and patient.
"He (AH CHAO PHALLY) felt that his 7-year work for the SRP is a waste of time."
Oh well! Since AH HUN SEN Vietcong puppet dictator had been in power for 30 years and some of these so called Sam Rainsy defectors want to change AH HUN SEN Vietcong dictator government in 7 years? Ahahahhahahhahhah!
I never thought that these Sam Rainsy defectors can be so individualistic in seeking personal enrichment, have so much instant gratification like little children, and have so much greed for wealth and power at the expense of dirt poor Cambodian people! The Sam Rainsy defectors' behavior of such quality is not fit to be a great leader because being a great leader one must be patient and have endurance, have the sacrifice for oneself, and continue to struggle to achieve the greater good for all Cambodian people!
I don't see this is the issue of blaming the Sam Rainsy defectors for running away from Sam Rainsy Party but this is the issue of leadership having good character! As far as I am concerned these Sam Rainsy defectors have no character whatsoever as a leader and I have no doubt when these Sam Rainsy defectors will help the CPP to stay in power longer by shortchange the Cambodian people better future and the future of next generation especially their children!
So to all Sam Rainsy leaders who want to defect to the CPP and this is a very good time to join AH HUN SEN Vietcong puppet government and all of you are welcome to ride on the train of CPP success in 2008 but please remember that once you ride the CPP train and you can’t get off and why?! It is because:
Only CPP would trust another CPP!
Only the communist would trust another communist!
So what make the CPP trusts all these Sam Rainsy defectors?
To 6:00AM
Tell me who help the Thaicong and the Vietcong over the last few centuries? It is a Cambodian leader like AH HUN SEN the traitor who help the Vietcong to occupy and to prolong the war and to kill Cambodian people for 10 years since 1979!
So for you to accuse me that I help the Thaicong or the Vietcong to kill Cambodian people are baseless without any evidence!
It seems that you are highly educated like a useless fool!
To 10:51 you should read political science. 10 years, especially K5 was good thing, other wise war is still exist not. War need people to sacrify. Without VN, we died. My parent and relative will die, i know it. VN has lost thousands of their soldiers. We acknowledged that. You go to VN, you will hear about old people tell you that they lost their sons and daughter. What did they got? NOTHING! I love Koh Trol, but how can we get it back? War with VN, no way.
What VN did worry is about the strength of Khmer Rouge(Sihanouk) who is 100% ally with China. If Khmer Rouge were stronger, it made them trouble. they don't want enemy on both sides of their country.
Hun Sen is not that stupid to sell himself to VN. That is wise he commit One China Policy in order to block VN to put too much pressure on Cambodia.
Game is to get good friend with eneny's border country like China, Burma, Laos and Malaysia. If Thai want to hit us, Burma may step in. It is useful tool that USA has current use to balance Russia and China too.
Well, Cambodia have long way to achieve her goals. Don't listen if any body said that they can make Cambodia rich in the next 10 years, even oil discovered.
I fear that any new government will drag Cambodia backward. but I do want to change the current government when there is political stability and security. However, any new political party is so weak to trust.
To 5:39AM
No thank you for your recommendation! It seems the dept of your understanding in Cambodian politic is too shallow!
I don't even know why you want to thank the Vietcong for saving Cambodia! You should thank the Russian for providing the political and military support which enable the Vietcong to come into Cambodia to claim their so called “Vietcong liberation" of Cambodian people! It costs the Russian one million dollar a day for 10 years just to support the Vietcong troop in Cambodia and after 10 years the Russian is broke and they are withdrawing the Russian troop from Afghanistan and for the Vietcong without the Russian support and they can't hold on to their hallow victory in Cambodia and they have will have to withdraw from Cambodia too!
You claimed that the Vietcong doesn't want enemy from both sides? I tell you what and as long as the Vietcong government oppressed 10 million Khmer Krom people in Khmer Kampuchea Krom and the Vietcong will continue to be surrounded by enemies! It is simple as that!
And for Thailame, the Thaicong government is the natural enemy of everybody including the Malaysian, the Burmese, the Laotian, and the Khmer people! To the South of Thailame the Thaicong government oppressed the Muslim population, to the Burmese the Thaicong are creating instability by supporting the rebel, to the Laotian the Thaicong are taking their land, and to the Khmer the Thaicong are engaging border disputes and stealing Khmer monuments! The only best friend the Thaicong can rely on is Uncle SAM and without Uncle SAM the Thaicong is nothing!
As for Cambodian government I have no fear whatsoever as long the new government must uphold democratic principal! I believe the Cambodian people of today understand much more than the Cambodian people of 30 years ago about democratic principal, the law and order, and the basic human right! And how long or how short Cambodia must develop into prosperous and stable nation will depend on the Cambodian leaders and if the Cambodian leaders are so stupid and so blind not to see Cambodia as a nation standing among civilized nations in the world and Cambodian population can expect the same old and the same old corrupted Cambodian government which will become a victim of its own making!
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