By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer Phnom Penh
21 April 2008
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy described political attacks on government policy and the “meaning of his political struggle” in a speech to a class at Yale University in the US Monday, where his daughter is a student, according to an SRP statement.
“Sam Rainsy spoke of the political struggle for democracy, freedom and justice in Cambodia in raising the struggle against a political dictatorship and corruption,” Eng Chhay Ieng, SRP secretary-general, told VOA Khmer.
The government continues to suppress freedom of expression and assembly, he said, adding that Sam Rainsy also pushed for the passage of an anti-corruption law.
“The current Phnom Penh government is not making a fair thing in conformity with democracy and constitutional principles,” Sam Rainsy told the class, Eng Chhay Ieng said.
Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said the opposition had the “right and freedom to badly insult the government.”
“Sam Rainsy clearly knows the use of the rights and freedoms in Cambodia, but Sam Rainsy’s defamation against the government is just for good listening,” Khieu Kanharith said.
“If Sam Rainsy speaks of good for the government, the rain will pour to become a flood,” Khieu Kanharith said. “A good politician or good leader must look for its weaknesses, not blame others. If it blames others, it can’t find its weakness and can’t recorrect.”
Sam Rainsy has already apologized for defaming Prime Minister Hun Sen, in 2006, and is now facing an internal conflict ahead of July’s general election, the spokesman said.
“Sam Rainsy spoke of the political struggle for democracy, freedom and justice in Cambodia in raising the struggle against a political dictatorship and corruption,” Eng Chhay Ieng, SRP secretary-general, told VOA Khmer.
The government continues to suppress freedom of expression and assembly, he said, adding that Sam Rainsy also pushed for the passage of an anti-corruption law.
“The current Phnom Penh government is not making a fair thing in conformity with democracy and constitutional principles,” Sam Rainsy told the class, Eng Chhay Ieng said.
Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said the opposition had the “right and freedom to badly insult the government.”
“Sam Rainsy clearly knows the use of the rights and freedoms in Cambodia, but Sam Rainsy’s defamation against the government is just for good listening,” Khieu Kanharith said.
“If Sam Rainsy speaks of good for the government, the rain will pour to become a flood,” Khieu Kanharith said. “A good politician or good leader must look for its weaknesses, not blame others. If it blames others, it can’t find its weakness and can’t recorrect.”
Sam Rainsy has already apologized for defaming Prime Minister Hun Sen, in 2006, and is now facing an internal conflict ahead of July’s general election, the spokesman said.
16 comments:
You'll be blessed when you do the morally right thing for the oppressed! Long live the good. Down with the bad and the ugly!
There are constructive and non constructive criticisms.So be wise to look at twice rather than defensive attitude.Recorgnising the criticism leads to positive outcome.
Please be reminded that politicians are not holding license for life. And you are only representing people for their better living.So please learn to isolate yourself from personal affairs ,and power which is not belonged to you all.
Please take that sensibly.
Neang SA
HUn Xen plays defensive role 100% of the time. There's no respect with a puppetic dictator.
...oh and because someone writes the costructive critisism, it's OK for me to write the destructive ones.
ah psychopath Hun Sen plays defensive role 100% of the time. There's no respect with a puppetic dictator.
And if one writes all constructive critisism for a dictatorial puppet, one can be easily seen as one of obsequious clowns, fawning around for the left-over fortune..
Why ah Hun Sen don't go to the USA to address Yale students ?
No doubt, because ah Hun Sen don't know any english words !
ah Hun Sen is ah third-year- elementary-school - educated Prime Minister
Hey, the US is not PM country, and he doesn't have to know English.
On the other hand, Ah Xam Rainxy doesn't belong here because he doesn't know Khmer, not to mention he's not even a full citizen.
6:53 AM you dumb fuck what the fuck does that have to do with it being a citizen or not, that doesn't mean he is not Khmer you stupid bitch your the filth that is not Khmer so quit pretending that you are one of us.
Khmers overseas regardless of citizenship, always help Khmers in Cambodia, that is the only help that reaches them insteading of depending on the government who aren't even Khmer at all and who always help the Vietnamese, and surely you are one of them 6:53 AM Vietnamese filth.
What planet are you talking about, stupid? There is no such thing as Khmer-oversea helping Khmer here. They only causing trouble and instability that hinders Cambodia from growing and causing suffering all over the place.
10:23am you are completely wrong,you don't see this helping?,
you must be blind as does hun sen.
Well, it haven't help in the last hundred years, why should I think it will help now? You must be hallucinating, 11:53.
there is the food and bad of overseas Khmer.
Some go to get laid with the young girls just because they feel they are privileged to do so with their US Passport. So they benefit the girls while they are there.
However, with Khmers from the States, there are some who truly care, but that seems like few.
I meant good^
That's right 10:30, and we don't mind the good one to help, but we want to reserved the top 2 positions PM and DPM for 100% Khmer only, not half Khmer half foreigner.
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