Wednesday, 21 May 2008By Neth Pheaktra
The Mekong Times
In a brazen display of confidence in the Cambodian People’s Party(CPP)’s election prospects, Prime Minister Hun Sen sarcastically advised people to vote for one of the Kingdom’s three opposition parties yesterday.
“People opposing the government and the CPP should choose one out of the three Cambodian opposition parties,” he said before listing the parties’ relative merits.
“One opposition party, which has taken part in many previous elections, has done nothing, while the other which used to lead the government has now become the opposition party. The last party was formed as a result of a merger of small parties,” Hun Sen said in a veiled reference to the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) and the Human Rights Party (HRP) respectively.
NRP spokesman Muth Channtha said that his party “does not need Hun Sen to ask people to vote for our party.”
HRP President Kem Sokha called Hun Sen’s “statement meaningless for the opposition parties.”
SRP secretary general Eng Chhay Eang called Hun Sen’s appeal “strange.”
“We wait to see the election results, which will be determined by the people,” he said.
However, data suggests that even the prime minister’s support cannot help Cambodia’s opposition, with some figures putting CPP approval ratings at 75 percent.
Opposition leaders vowed to fight on.
Kem Sokha noted that only 3.1 million of over 7.5 million eligible voters cast ballots for the CPP in the 2003 election, less than half.
Kek Galabru, president of the local rights group Licadho, advised the divided opposition to use electoral tactics to combat CPP popularity.
“Opposition parties … should not field parliamentary candidates in the same districts and should send them where they think that they can garner more votes,” she said. “The parties which know they cannot garner votes should withdraw from the election.”
A fractured opposition heralds an easy electoral victory for the ruling CPP, with the situation further undermined by frequent opposition defections to the CPP. Hun Sen has repeatedly stressed he will find positions in the CPP for any opposition politicians who wish to join, with one notable exception.
“Sam Rainsy won’t join [the CPP] because his party carries his name and he will be the opposition until he no longer has strength,” the premier predicted. “Even if he comes, I won’t welcome him because he is too big and plays games. If I welcome him, it will damage the CPP.”
22 comments:
i agree with Dr. Kekalabru
I urge Hun Sen to stand in front of the mirror and look at himself and check with my following valuation of the following leadership.
1-With China recent earthquake, Chinese Leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jia Bao and shoulder and shoulder responsed very impressively to save their citizen lives and their citizen wellfare. Wen Jia bao has arrived to the scene 4 hours after the strike. They both have shown the world how Chinese leaders are really cared about their people and treated them with full respect. THe whole world have impressed with these leaders and offered help every where.
2- IN Burma, after cyclone storm, thousand of death bodies have flooded in the drinking wanter, millions of people have lost shelters and foods, their leaders are still thinking of cheeting international aids by banning all assistance and urge only cashes aids. THe people are suffering like second classes human specy.
3-In Cambodia, 90% of land have been given aways to your families and freinds families as land concessions and plus land grab by only a group of 10% of the country population. They used armies and national police to enforce their land grab and to evict people from their lands. Ten of thousand of ha have been fenced off for no production and keep for speculation in which have push price of foods to skyrocketing. Hundred of thousand of families have cried for help and intervention. Your government have kept quiet and have blamed the medias, opposition parties, NGO for misleading etc.. and etc..
I just want to ask you what kind of Government you are for ruling a country like that?
Please open your eyes and look at China leadership !!!! Areak Prey
May I remind you Mr. Hun Sen and your family members, esp. those in the next generation like your kids that Humans are still human. We all have feeling and can be hurt like anyone else. No such persons are immune from any sufferings just like our Lord Buddha foreseen. So, please don't show off too much of your immunity.
You and your family were once like me and the rest of the millions Cambodians, let's not forget that. The world is revolving my friend, the law of gravity will not change, so thus your fortune will come sooner.
Chan,
Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister, for your kind advice. I will keep it in mind.
Frankly, i never cast my vote for your CPP since the election in 1998. I, surely, will continue not to vote for you in this upcoming election.
I still keep my positive idea and constantly hope that one day, sooner or later, the strenght of democratic people will break your communist party from our beloved country. I don't believe that you are invincible. One proverb says, "A high mountain is still lower than the grass "
Mr. Prime Minister, please kindly apologize me if what i said is against your will. This is because i cannot stand seeing you damange the country with incompetent leadership, wide-spread corruption, land grabing, forest destruction, inflation, your family cronyism and so on....
I would like to reasure you that i won't vote for you.
Lots of thanks,
One voter.
That's right. Those who suffered from Ah Spam Rainxy can vote for the SRP.
Good advice from prime minister!!!!
what do you mean? 12.50pm. do u know how to put words together to make sense? if not, start from elementary again, it might help you know?
Well one day Ah Kwak will go to hell and has the same fate like his best friend, Sadam Hussen or Heng Pov. One day Ah Kwak's colleague will kill you (especially, Hok Lundy, Sar Kheng, Ke Kimyan...and Youn).
Neay Kwang
no one will vote for Ah Sam Rainsy
khmers will vote for Mr. Raingsy Yuon disguise as khmers &All Ah Kbot cheat will vote for Ho chi min 's sper party.
no one will vote for Ah psychopath Hun Sen youn servant
khmers will vote for H.E. Sam Rainsy Khmer servant.
បោះឆ្នោត ថ្ងៃ ២៧ កក្កដា ២០០៨ មានតែ ពីរ ជំរើស ៖
- បោះឆ្នោត អោយជនក្បត់ជាតិ (អាក្បត់ជាតិហ៊ុន សែន បំរើផលប្រយោជយួន)
ឬ
- បោះឆ្នោត ជូនអ្នកស្នេហាជាតិ (ឯកឧត្តមសម រង្ស៊ី បំរើផលប្រយោជខ្មែរ)
Two sides of the Cambodian vote on July 27, 2008, vote for the :
- Traitor (ah Hun Sen youn servant, CPP: Communist Pro youn Party)
or
- Patriot (H.E. Sam Rainsy khmer servant, SRP: Sam Rainsy Party)
Khmer farmer
no one will vote for Ah savage Hun Sen
For Khmer being servant to Khmer is much better than being servant to a foreigner. I rather vote for SRP. 100% will vote for SRP. HUN SEN will be like Mr. Mugube. Get out HUN SEN , you are done!!!!!!!!!!!
Down and Out ! ah Hun Sen, a third-year- elementary-school- educated Prime Minister with 28 years of holding power, is the Criminal against humanity in Cambodia and is a former Khmer Rouge soldier in Khmer Rouge Regime, from CPP (Communist Pro youn Party)
Here is a nice post by Details are Sketchy on worldpress:
Name that year
The country is Cambodia. About which election year is the author referring?
The ruling party used intimidation, violence, even murder to guarantee its victory in the polls. And the tactics worked. Voters who might have supported the opposition stayed home rather than vote. And the ruling party held onto power.
Multiple choice answer
* 1955
* 1966
* 1993
* 1998
Answer below the fold.
If you haven’t guessed already, the answer is 1955. The story is from the New York Times, about the 1993 elections.
IN 1955, there was an election in Cambodia. The ruling party used intimidation, violence, even murder to guarantee its victory in the polls. And the tactics worked. Voters who might have supported the opposition stayed home rather than vote. And the ruling party held onto power.
Four decades later, the leader of that ruling party, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, is back in Cambodia, this time in the role of beloved senior statesman — the only hope, many Cambodians believe, for a peaceful Cambodia after a generation of civil war and genocide.
Cambodia’s modern history is built on paradoxes, few more striking than that of the mercurial 70-year-old prince rushing home to Phnom Penh this weekend to try to hold together his shattered homeland in the midst of an election that United Nations officials predict will be marred by intimidation and violence.
Hun Sen! we know that you are stupid bud don't be a JUG!
Care about your fucking self leave our freedome of choice alone, You who cursed by yourown death mother!
Eh1 Hun Sen let make a deal I will vote for SRP only but you have to let every one fuck Bonary!
Khmer people in Cambodia request to see as soon as possible
the DEBATE between ah HUN SEN and H.E. SAM RAINSY on TV
My beloved 10:02PM!
Forgive me for intentionally adding a few unsignificant sentences.
" I... Norodom Sihanouk Varman..., king of Cambodia, an independent and sovereign state, grant to Our people this constitution..."
I think therefore I am strongly believing that the failure of democracy in Srok Khmer is disastriously caused by the blunderers whom the king had unconscientiously and selfishly confidential in himself writing of our constitution.
Injuries to individuals aren't serious, but he repeatedly injured the constitution, because we unconsciously permitted a hungried man cooking a rice.
The young tree of democracy was finally dead during 1955, Chhean Van had retired, Prince Youtevong was dead, Ieu Koeus had been murdered, Huy Kanthoul was in business, and Thonn Ouk was in France. Who else could be won election from Sihanouk and not entirely different from the past and now present, from Hun Sen?
to : ah fake son of a farmer
Today and Sihanouk era are very different, there are many medias (NGOs, EU, USA, ...) who will oppose the dictator like ah Hun sen, traitor.
Khmer people don't vote for ah hun sen, youn servant!
Khmer people will vote for H.E. Sam rainsy, Khmer servant!
Bullshit, no one will want to go back to year-zero with Ah Savage Spam Rainxy.
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