Opposition leader Sam Rainsy during the SRP anti-inflation demonstration (Photo: SRP)
A very young gasoline street seller replenishing her stock. The current price of gasoline in Cambodia stands now at almost 5,000 riel ($1.25) per liter. (Photo: AP)Phnom Penh
14 April 2008
The opposition will hold another public demonstration in coming weeks if the government fails to check the rising cost of goods, party president Sam Rainsy said Monday.
The party held a demonstration of about 300 people April 6, but Sam Rainsy said he would lead a larger one in late April or early May through the main streets of the capital.
Cambodians have been feeling the sting of inflation in recent months, with the cost of goods, including rice, as much as doubling.
The government has sought to curb the rising prices by enacting a partial ban on the export of rice, injecting government subsidized rice into the market and lifting a ban on pig and pork from Vietnam.
Sam Rainsy said Monday he would hold a demonstration with or without permission from municipal authorities and accused the police of barring supporters from the April 6 rally.
Police have denied those allegations.
“I will inform Phnom Penh Municipality about the demonstration,” Sam Rainsy said. “Even if the Phnom Penh municipality does not permit it, [the party] will still hold that demonstration.”
Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Man Chhoeurn said decisions over demonstrations were not officially his to make, but he warned that the Sam Rainsy Party should first seek permission before demonstrating.
“If he does not do in the right way, we have difficulty understanding this,” Man Chhoeurn said. “It is better that [he] should ask for permission.”
The party held a demonstration of about 300 people April 6, but Sam Rainsy said he would lead a larger one in late April or early May through the main streets of the capital.
Cambodians have been feeling the sting of inflation in recent months, with the cost of goods, including rice, as much as doubling.
The government has sought to curb the rising prices by enacting a partial ban on the export of rice, injecting government subsidized rice into the market and lifting a ban on pig and pork from Vietnam.
Sam Rainsy said Monday he would hold a demonstration with or without permission from municipal authorities and accused the police of barring supporters from the April 6 rally.
Police have denied those allegations.
“I will inform Phnom Penh Municipality about the demonstration,” Sam Rainsy said. “Even if the Phnom Penh municipality does not permit it, [the party] will still hold that demonstration.”
Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Man Chhoeurn said decisions over demonstrations were not officially his to make, but he warned that the Sam Rainsy Party should first seek permission before demonstrating.
“If he does not do in the right way, we have difficulty understanding this,” Man Chhoeurn said. “It is better that [he] should ask for permission.”
12 comments:
Striking in current ingrained inflation in Cambodia is unavoidable, but it is double-edged sword.
SRP is the leading party to struggle with a courageous mentality, but base on principle, negotiable, non-violent, and remedy the situation.
Government led by Hun Sen would be smart enough to allow strikes in order to lobby their steadhead cronies who are monopolizing business and pressure Cambodian peoples with current ingrained hike of basic commodity price.
A leader with patriotism must do whatever he can for the sake of his people because he can see the suffering that his people have miserably endured. A ruler who is blind both physically and spiritually cannot see anything happening under his nose but his own benefits.
Ah Xam Rainxy savage and vicious Khmer killer and torturer must be stopped.
Khmer people have been suffering enough in his bloody hand.
Please Save Cambodia from the wicked ferocious demon (Ah Xam Rainxy)!
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Khmer Chnam Thmey Tevada this year is a sign of chang!
Every year, there is new face of new Tevada for Khmer New Year celebration. This year, new face of Tevada is a good sign for new capable and long-sighted vision leader for Cambodia. Importantly, it is not only New Year celebration, but it is also coinciding with the election season leading to the absolute victory for Cambodian peoples to choose their new capable leader.
Long-sighted vision leader refers to the one who projects their political leadership by changing from "power-thirsty" to "nation-building", and from "power for self-interests" to "power for Cambodian citizens", especially from "short-sighted of self-projecting" to "long-sighted of peoples-projecting".
Since the decline of tribal and feudal political system led by Khmer kings (god-kings) in Angkorean period, Cambodia has experienced only the leadership of colonialism and struggling to encounter the aura of W1, W2, and cold war.
We, Cambodians, have never experienced genuine political mechanism which can survive our nation for long term sustainability under any long-sighted political leader or political founding Father/Mothers.
Just look at few examples in America political history, how their founding Fathers/Mothers have projected for their nation for the long term strength and sustainability.
Challenge One:
The Founding Fathers believed that all men are self-centered sinners. So how can “evil” men govern themselves?
By the way, it is important to know that the belief that all men are greedy, evil creatures is a fundamental assumption underlying American government and political philosophy. It explains a lot about Americans, then and now. Since they assume the worst in everyone, they become what they assume, and so consider everyone who differs with them to be a terrorist (or a communist, or an atheist, or a European--depending on who are the popular sinners of the time).
So anyway, the first main challenge facing the American founders was how to have a government of men over men since all men are self-centered sinners.
The design solution was brilliant:
Design Solution One:
First, assume there is something called "political power." Then "separate" the power necessary for governance into three "branches". Then give specific pieces of power to each of three “independent” yet overlapping branches of government so that “selfish power will balance selfish power,” and thus create social good. An extremely clever solution to a knotty philosophical or religious problem.
Challenge Two:
How can the thirteen colonies, now newly sovereign nations and with little experience of community among themselves at all, be persuaded to join into a closer political union?
Design Solution Two:
"Divide” “power” between the states and the central government. That division of power is now called "federalism" and was another clever solution to a perplexing problem of the time.
Challenge Three:
But how could the populous newly sovereign states be convinced to share power equally with the smaller, less-populated states?
Design Solution Three:
Create a national assembly--a Congress--that is composed of two “Houses,” one in which the states have equal representation regardless of their population, and the other where the states are represented roughly according to their population size. Require that all legislation pass both houses before it can become law. Again, a great solution to a thorny problem.
Design Challenge Four:
Since there was no king, and kings were all that was known as chief executive officers of nations, what should be done?
Design Solution Four:
Since there was no such thing as a "prime minister" at that time, the American Founders invented a kingly position that they called "the president". He was to be the "best man" in the nation and would serve as head of state for four or five years unless elected again.
Design Challenge Five:
But that solution immediately brought up another problem: how can a single “president” be chosen for the entire nation? Since the colonies forming the union had no history of political unity and there were no means for creating a national political dialogue at that time (and no great faith in “the people” anyway), how could the voters in the widely separated new states possibly know who was nationally the “best man” to choose for president?
Design Solution Five:
The American founders reckoned that the people could not know who the best man nationally was, but the people would know who their local “best man” was. So the Founders stipulated that the people would choose their local best man, and these local best men from each state would go to Washington in the winter, after the crops were in, to choose, after discussion, the national “best man” for president and the second best man for vice president.
These challengings and solutions are ubiquitous occurred in every government. Each government has designed their political system and leadership solely depends on their place, tradition, wisdom and political will to sustain and strength their long term political leadership. Their founding Fathers/Mothers had clear purposes and long-sighted vision of political leadership to safeguard as well as to civilize or advance their nation.
Cambodia doesn't require to design challenging political system like America as their country is more complicate than us, we just think simply that how poverty and justice can be remedied, is it depending on the willingness to tackle rampant corruption or not? How can we solve chronic disease of corruption and injustice? We might think simply to strengthen "the rule of law"; how can we strengthen the rule of law, we have to institutionalize three main organs of national institutes (assembly, judiciary, and executive) to work independently. How can we achieve this? If the nepotism and favoritism have been widely practiced inside current government led by the same party and same leader?
Political leaders require political will; and for the genuine liberty and sustainable advancement, Cambodian peoples have to think about themselves and make a historical change.
Happy Khmer New Year!!!
KY
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Sam Rangsi has no done anything wrong,instead just to help the others live in peace.you the hun sen just disturb the khmer people only.kmeng vatt
The worl food crisis is going to touch soon all poor countries.
The governments of these countries have to face popular dissatisfaction general.
Only the parties opposition take avantage of this bad situation.
The plan of help and stabilization of food planned ,foreseen by the IMF takes its effects only next years.
The goverment is it better inspired to move the date of the general election in a month to avoid that these election come at one very bad moment for him?
There is advantage for the government to advance the date of the general election.
In 2 months the economic situation would risk to become more and more bad for the government.
Government isn't boos of the calendar of the election?
a dog xsam rainsxy go out.
Go down ! Mr Hun Sen, a third-year elementary-school-educated Prime Minister with 28 years of holding power, Criminal against humanity in Cambodia and former Khmer Rouge soldier of Khmer Rouge Regime, from CPP (Communist Pro youn Party)
I don't care what other people say about this inflation which affected in other part of the world but this inflation is way different from other inflation especially on dirt poor Cambodia! One thing is clear that dirt poor Cambodian people need to eat whether the food and the energy price is skyrocketed! For those stupid Cambodian people and leaders who continue to argue in favor that dirt poor Cambodian people must go on starving until the whole world economy improve and they deserve to die in hell!
Well, it could be a lot worse with with other westerners people leading. The country would have headed toward inflation just like the US, and caucus will laid everywhere all over Cambodia.
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