By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer Original report from Washington
12 May 2008
Arizona senator John McCain is no stranger to Cambodians. But will they know him as president? His reputation and experience have earned the senator a lot of attention from American voters, and many are convinced he will be next in the White House.
“Don’t tell me we cannot make our country stronger and the world safer,” he said recently, having secured the nomination of the Republican party to run for president. “We can. We must. And when I am president, we will.”
McCain’s messages of democracy hit home for many, and Cambodians remember his strong stance against the regime of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy called McCain a good man, and said he could push for the FBI to release a report on the 1997 grenade attack on opposition supporters, a report that has been mired in secrecy.
McCain was also likely to push for human rights, Sam Rainsy said.
“Mr. John McCain is a candidate who understands well the democratic process in Cambodia and always supports democrats in Cambodia,” Sam Rainsy said. “I understand that if Mr. John McCain becomes president, the US really will pay more attention to Cambodia than ever.”
Cambodians recognize him above the other two candidates, senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, said Nhiek Bun Chhay, Funcinpec’s secretary-general.
“He knows Cambodia very well and has a good connection with Cambodian leaders,” Nhiek Bun Chhay said.
Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker Cheam Yiep applauded McCain’s reputation and said he was the most likely to help people in Southeast Asia.
Chanly Kuch, a Cambodian voter in Maryland, said McCain may know about Cambodia, but he has not shown yet how his policies differ from the current president, George W. Bush.
Dr. Samuel Nuon, a Cambodian voter in Virginia, called McCain a hero of the nation.
“I believe he will continue to help protect Cambodian freedom,” Nuon said. “Frankly speaking,” said Koul Panha, executive director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections, “in foreign policy, in intervening to help countries achieve democracy, freedom, to get out of dictatorships and communism, he has done a lot.”
“Don’t tell me we cannot make our country stronger and the world safer,” he said recently, having secured the nomination of the Republican party to run for president. “We can. We must. And when I am president, we will.”
McCain’s messages of democracy hit home for many, and Cambodians remember his strong stance against the regime of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy called McCain a good man, and said he could push for the FBI to release a report on the 1997 grenade attack on opposition supporters, a report that has been mired in secrecy.
McCain was also likely to push for human rights, Sam Rainsy said.
“Mr. John McCain is a candidate who understands well the democratic process in Cambodia and always supports democrats in Cambodia,” Sam Rainsy said. “I understand that if Mr. John McCain becomes president, the US really will pay more attention to Cambodia than ever.”
Cambodians recognize him above the other two candidates, senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, said Nhiek Bun Chhay, Funcinpec’s secretary-general.
“He knows Cambodia very well and has a good connection with Cambodian leaders,” Nhiek Bun Chhay said.
Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker Cheam Yiep applauded McCain’s reputation and said he was the most likely to help people in Southeast Asia.
Chanly Kuch, a Cambodian voter in Maryland, said McCain may know about Cambodia, but he has not shown yet how his policies differ from the current president, George W. Bush.
Dr. Samuel Nuon, a Cambodian voter in Virginia, called McCain a hero of the nation.
“I believe he will continue to help protect Cambodian freedom,” Nuon said. “Frankly speaking,” said Koul Panha, executive director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections, “in foreign policy, in intervening to help countries achieve democracy, freedom, to get out of dictatorships and communism, he has done a lot.”
23 comments:
Khmer people always support H.E. Sam RainSy who serves Khmers,
Khmer people are always against ah psychopath Hun Sen who is ah youn servant. Ah psychopath Hun Sen, CPP (Communist Pro youn Party) member, is ah criminal against humanity in Cambodia .
ah Hun Sen massacred Khmer people on Sunday 30 march 1997
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Nonsense, it is all lies. What else is new with Ah liar Sam Rainsy? If McCaine wants the FBI to release the report, he could do it now. His party is in control of the US. He could raised supports easily for such a cause.
Ah Sam Rainsy is evil. He's here to demoralized the Khmer culture by promoting lie, greed, anti-buddha ...
You can stop him in the coming election, and send him back west. Say "No" to evil, and Say "No" to Ah liar Sam Rainsy.
Oh No,not McCain. No way in hell bird of same feathers will fly away from the flock.
Dream on,
Bush dad ,a lips rerader or Bush son a decider either can't be seriously taken since either would support dictators in China,Pakistan, Indonesia, Singapore and militarist fanatics,Thai coup plotters...
FBI is in Cambodia now,so had been Hoc Lon Di in DC
Go ahead, Mr Sam! Most decent people will support you. Ignore the igorant.
Go ahead to what? The Liar will not make it to the election.
The CPP and the it Master Yuon are good at playing with people mind. And it doens't work they use intimidation.
I have to admit it does work in the past and it won't work now or in the future.
Every person I have spoken to in person said that it is helpless to try to help Cambodia. To me it is just another propaganda from the crony CPP and it Master. And they are doing it in here day in and day out.
So next time when all of you run into that person who say it is too late to save our motherland, just tell them how much money they got from the CPP?
Folk these people are bought! I know that this is nothing new but we need to confront them when we run into them.
216am,
Hun Sen lives in Takhmao,Kandal.
Heng Samrin,Tea Banh,Ke Kim Yan and Chea Sim live in Tuol Kok,Phnom Penh
Sihanouk lives in Downtown Siem Reap,Ranridh in Kuala Loumpur, Malaysia
Don't wait for them to run into you,set an example for the rest,OK?
Vote Sam Ransey and John McCain
Good, let's make Sam Rainsy the US president and McCain Vice president.
Recent pole show if OBAMA is nominated,Hilary's supporters will vote for McCain .McCain will be the next president for sure.
In that case, maybe Ah liar Sam Rainsy can go for the US Vice President instead.
if for sure that happens like you wish 4.38, hun sen's residence is going to be like the chinese embassy in Kosovo, got the message my idiot?
Chan,
let me clarify this, only ah yuon and his gangsters/killers support ah nhunkvak.
12:36am Ak Kdor Thom,Ah Pler sound bitch...
1:29AM,
Go ahead to the presidency and kick a ditator out.
Where Sam will go is not business. A worm like you don't need to know. Go back into the gound.
Well then, why don't you make it happen, Ah Jkout (5:12). I can't wait to see it.
If John McCain win Vietnam and HUN SEN will be done. They will be cooked. SRP will adopt good democracy in Cambodia. This is what American wants Cambodia done long time ago. Go John McCain and SR!
Yeah, on planet of the ape.
Khmers know McCain better that Clinton? She was the wife of the president for 8 years. I don't believe it. Article should have mentioned McCain's many years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi also
Anyone hangs out with Ah Xam Rainxy is loser.
2.55pm, scared? i would be too if I were you and Hun Sen. modern technology can make that happen, you know.
Canh
2:16 I just ran into one..... it's 12:36. Although he's not bought out, he is coerced and under Ah Kwack"s duress. Ah C'gair!!
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