(Photo: Cambodge Soir Hebdo)By Leang Delux
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
During the gathering initiated by the SRP, a five-point measure was made to the government to confront the price inflation.
“Increase our salary,” one could read on the banners near the National Assembly (NA). As he announced, Sam Rainsy, the principal opposition leader to the powerful CPP, was leading the demonstration on Sunday 06 April.
At a time when the country is confronted with a substantial increase in the price of goods, the political leader wanted to make this issue heard while the general election is close by. Sam Rainsy read in front of the demonstrators the five measures that he wishes the government to undertake in order to tame the inflation. Among these measures are: the reduction of gasoline taxes, the end of some commercial monopolies, the ending of the currency devaluation, the reasonable use of the currency printing, and the distribution of lands to the poor people so they can plant their crops.
One after another, the SRP MPs gave their speech on the podium, as well the representatives of each district. Kandal SRP MP Chan Cheng recalled: “Even though the demonstration was organized by the SRP, we are asking this lowering of the price of goods for all the Cambodian people, including the civil servants, police officers and soldiers who receive very low salary and are affected by the inflation.” He added: “The police should understand this and stop bothering us.”
According to some sources, the demonstration gathered between 300 to 500 persons. The SRP which expected a stronger participation, blamed the authorities. Trucks carrying the demonstrators were stopped along the entrance to the city. This corroborates with the observations made by NGOs which also noted that the police force was almost as large as the demonstrators, and they intentionally limited the perimeter of the demonstration. The gathering ended without any confrontation with the police.
“Increase our salary,” one could read on the banners near the National Assembly (NA). As he announced, Sam Rainsy, the principal opposition leader to the powerful CPP, was leading the demonstration on Sunday 06 April.
At a time when the country is confronted with a substantial increase in the price of goods, the political leader wanted to make this issue heard while the general election is close by. Sam Rainsy read in front of the demonstrators the five measures that he wishes the government to undertake in order to tame the inflation. Among these measures are: the reduction of gasoline taxes, the end of some commercial monopolies, the ending of the currency devaluation, the reasonable use of the currency printing, and the distribution of lands to the poor people so they can plant their crops.
One after another, the SRP MPs gave their speech on the podium, as well the representatives of each district. Kandal SRP MP Chan Cheng recalled: “Even though the demonstration was organized by the SRP, we are asking this lowering of the price of goods for all the Cambodian people, including the civil servants, police officers and soldiers who receive very low salary and are affected by the inflation.” He added: “The police should understand this and stop bothering us.”
According to some sources, the demonstration gathered between 300 to 500 persons. The SRP which expected a stronger participation, blamed the authorities. Trucks carrying the demonstrators were stopped along the entrance to the city. This corroborates with the observations made by NGOs which also noted that the police force was almost as large as the demonstrators, and they intentionally limited the perimeter of the demonstration. The gathering ended without any confrontation with the police.
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All Khmers sralanh cheart should dare make the demonstration if necessary.
United we survive
Divided we die as the Champa kingdom
The hero Sam rainsy is our last hope to save Khmer from the extinction.
Listen to the
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Rainsy’s autobiography: Rooted in stone
La version française se trouve à la fin du texte anglais
Rooted in Stone - My struggle for the revival of Cambodia
By Sam Rainsy
Ravaged by genocide, coveted by powerful and predatory neighbors, submitted to a corrupt nomenklatura, choked by a neo-feudal regime, Cambodia is a martyr country, and no one knows this better than Sam Rainsy. Born into a patrician family in Phnom Penh, close to King Norodom Sihanouk, young Rainsy lived an opulent life but then also lived through decline, when his father, a major politician, was brutally dismissed and had to live in hiding before being assassinated.
Taking refuge in Paris, the Sam family resigned themselves to live as poor immigrants. However, they never lost their hope or dignity. A gifted student, Rainsy undertook brilliant studies that led him to become a high level finance expert, specializing in mergers and acquisitions for the luxury industry…
But, how could he be happy earning money and making money for others, when his country was sinking into cruelty in the hands of a regime practicing mass murder? From humanitarian action in Paris for the victims of the Khmer Rouge regime to election campaigns in the field following the fall of the communists, Rainsy and Saumura, his wife, launch themselves into political action, taking over the torch from their respective fathers, both of whom were signatories of the 1954 Geneva agreements on Indochina.
However, for these two westernized Cambodians, their return home was rough. Facing with difficulties, aggressions, and even assassination attempts, Rainsy countered them with Buddhist-like pacifism, while constantly seeking for calm and compromise. Becoming the Minister of Economy in the first post-war mandate government, he was able to bring order to the State finances which earned him more hostilities. It was in the opposition that he found his calling when he founded a democratic and liberal party involved in the defense of freedom. Facing the unleashing of violence prompted by such provocation, Rainsy stays the course, unperturbed and smiling, unshakable and frugal, just like the trees deeply rooted in the stones of the Angkor temples.
In May 2008, Sam Rainsy’s 300-page long autobiography detailing his struggle for the revival of Cambodia, “Rooted in stone,” will be published in France by Calmann-Lévy. This book can be pre-ordered through SRP-France at a cost of 20 euros, or 22.97 euros including shipping.
The Khmer and English version of the book will be published in the following months.
For additional information, please contact munysara@aol.com
or call the following telephone numbers in France: +33 6 19 31 42 98 or +33 6 13 06 77 00
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Des racines dans la pierre - Mon combat pour la renaissance du Cambodge
Sam Rainsy
Des racines dans la pierre
Ravagé par un génocide, convoité par des voisins puissants et prédateurs, mis en coupe réglée par une nomenklatura corrompue, asphyxié par un régime néo-féodal, le Cambodge est un pays martyr. Nul ne le sait mieux que Sam Rainsy. Né dans une famille patricienne de Phnom Penh proche du roi Norodom Sihanouk, le jeune Rainsy connaît l’opulence, puis la déchéance lorsque son père, un homme politique de premier plan, est brutalement limogé et doit passer dans la clandestinité avant de finir assassiné.
Réfugiés à Paris, les Sam vont se résigner à une vie d’immigrés pauvres. Mais jamais ils ne perdront l’espoir ni la dignité. Elève surdoué, Rainsy fera des études brillantes qui lui permettront de devenir un financier de haut vol, spécialiste des fusions-acquisitions dans l’industrie du luxe…
Mais comment se contenter de gagner de l’argent et d’en faire gagner, quand son pays s’enfonce dans la barbarie aux mains d’un régime qui pratique le meurtre en masse ? De l’action humanitaire à Paris en faveur des victimes des Khmers rouges aux campagnes électorales sur le terrain après la chute du régime communiste, Rainsy et sa femme Saumura se lancent dans l’action politique, reprenant le flambeau de leurs pères respectifs : ceux-ci n’étaient-ils pas co-signataires des accords de Genève sur l’Indochine en 1954 ?
Mais pour ces deux Cambodgiens occidentalisés, le retour au pays est rude. Aux difficultés, aux agressions, aux attentats, même, Rainsy oppose un pacifisme d’essence bouddhique, cherchant avec constance l’apaisement et le compromis. Ministre de l’Economie du premier gouvernement de l’après-guerre, il parvient à mettre de l’ordre dans les finances de l’Etat, ce qui lui vaut de nouvelles inimitiés. Mais c’est dans l’opposition qu’il trouvera sa voie, en créant un parti démocrate, libéral et attaché à la défense des libertés. Devant le déchaînement de violence que déclenche une telle provocation, Rainsy maintient le cap, impavide et souriant, inébranlable et frugal, à l’image de ces arbres qui poussent dans la pierre des temples d’Angkor.
hahaha, that looks like Ah Khmer-Yuon political monks in the background. Wherever they go, destruction will soon to follow. Ah Xam Rainxy notorious and vicious killer is full of deception.
Hey Viet troller/pimp/parasite/plunderer @10:40 PM,
You Viet troller/intruder admitted yourself to be a Viet-born and national here on KI-Media.
You Viet troller/intruder has been dumping tons of trashes here on KI-Media over God knows how long.
You Viet troller/intruder pretends to be Cambodian/Khmer speaking up for Cambodian/Khmer and giving Cambodian/Khmer a bad name.
You Viet troller/intruder trashes everybody here on KI-Media calling Cambodian/Khmer all sort of names to boast, to sabotage and to destroy Cambodian/Khmer for the benefit of you Viet intruder/plunderer....
Now, you Viet trash/troller/intruder wants to have some real debates?
Does history and now a live example of you Viet trash/troller here on KI-Media tell Cambodian/Khmer anything about the Viet's trustworthiness?
Cambodian/Khmer and the whole world know the true colors of you Viet troller/intruder/invader/plunderer full well already.
In plain and simple English, now, and again what part of you "getting the fuck out of KI-Media" don't you fucking Viet troller/intruder/pimp/plunderer understand huh?
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Does anyone here believed Pay Raised should be based on Productivity, Performance, and Merit?
This is what all business enterprises support, and this is what move Cambodia forward.
10:40 PM
The hero Sam rainsy is our last hope to save Khmer from the extinction.
Surely! Why extinction?
For a better look at Sam Rainsy's demonstration visit
www.about-cambodia.blogspot.com
No way KJE, not when you alleged that Khmer is racist when you debut your blog awhile back...Nope!
I am joining 6:27 AM saying "NO" to this so-called KJE or liberal free-thinker. Change the blog name from about.cambodia to About-KJE. It serves KJE's political stance better, agreed?
someone got to do it in order to bring attention to gov't to help with inflation.
Fuck the liberal free thinker!
Dirt poor Cambodian people hardship is real and there are no country on Earth that withstand the great destruction through 30 years of war and the genocide which the Khmer Rouge coined the word the year of zero for Cambodia!
Dirt poor Cambodian people desperately need 10 times as much help than those countries such as Thailane, Vietname, Egypt... because those countries never been through such destruction as Cambodia!
I always believe that it is the Cambodian people who can make the change! It is the Cambodian people who can make Cambodia into a great country! It is the Cambodian people who can bring peace, prosperity, and stability to Cambodia! And for AH HUN SEN government, the fucken government should be more friendly and make life for all Cambodian just little easier and help them succeed in their quest for a better life! AH HUN SEN government doesn’t need to put more road block and creating more obstacles for Cambodian people to create a better society! Cambodian people have the right to public demonstration whether it is big or small to show their grievances!
Cambodian people are not an animal that can be left with Mother Nature to take care of and the fact that Cambodian people are human and AH HUN SEN government must find a way to help them! If AH HUN SEN can’t help the Cambodian people and why need AH HUN SEN government!
That's correct 12:27pm similar to your line of thought, if the Ah Yuon government cannot take care of the indigenous Khmer Krom people why do we need it to make us poorer everyday. We can make ourselves poor and we don't need the Yuon's government just to do that.
For some reason these Yuon people think that Khmer Krom people need them. What a backward thinker they are. Piece of Shit!
My brother and sister, help Free Khmer Krom and current Khmer will also be free because the Yuon no longer share a common border with Kampuchea.
Err...the poster that Sam Rainsy is holding? Is it correct?
It says "We want pay raises in life with inflation"
Shouldn't it be "We want pay raises in line with inflation"
To 5:43PM!
Oh come on! Don't you know by now that English is their second language! By the way, Mr. Sam Rainsy knows French, English, and Khmer languages and how many languages do you know?
The word "inflation" should give people attention already!
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