Opposition leader Sam Rainsy (Photo: SRP)By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
07 July 2008
Cambodian-Americans from Virginia and Maryland gathered over the weekend to show support for the opposition Sam Rainsy Party.
Attendants of a meeting held by the group Cambodian Americans for Human Rights and Democracy were hopeful that voters living in Cambodia would chose the opposition "to change society and the leader."
"Our country cannot lead with the same leader....so democracy is in our hands to choose good leaders for our children's future," one participant told VOA Khmer.
"Let's vote for any party that is not under any foreign pressure like [the Vietnamese]," said another participant.
Several participants said that those who remain in power too long become dictators, corrupt and prone to nepotism.
Virginia resident Mok Yorn appealed to the opposition to seek national unification.
"Vote for the opposition," said another participant. "They have new ideas to make the country progress.
Attendants of a meeting held by the group Cambodian Americans for Human Rights and Democracy were hopeful that voters living in Cambodia would chose the opposition "to change society and the leader."
"Our country cannot lead with the same leader....so democracy is in our hands to choose good leaders for our children's future," one participant told VOA Khmer.
"Let's vote for any party that is not under any foreign pressure like [the Vietnamese]," said another participant.
Several participants said that those who remain in power too long become dictators, corrupt and prone to nepotism.
Virginia resident Mok Yorn appealed to the opposition to seek national unification.
"Vote for the opposition," said another participant. "They have new ideas to make the country progress.
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I'm not the supporter of the SRP, but I fully spport him who is trying to pursuit freedom and social justice for the Cambodian people who have been living uder the oppression of Vietnam's puppets for so long.
coretion: not supporter=not member
What is a bunch of fool? Hahahaha, they think Cambodia is the US, and that we have as much qualified people to swap anytime we wishes, hahahaha!!! Right now, if we were to do that with singers in Cambodia, we'll be in deep shit.
I can't read squares blocks like comment in this page. My guess this newly created letters/alphabets appears to me they are words from MAR (red planet). I should refer these words to any best experts on MAR language literatures
UNITED WE SURVIVE, DIVIDED WE DIE
A message from Justin C. Sok: Please Support the SRP National General Election Fund Drive
July 01, 2008
Dear Friends,
The three terms office that Mr. Hun Sen has been in power have given us the bird’s eye view of the pattern of political activities in the Hun Sen Government. He and his government officials have been continuously silencing the dissident voices of our Cambodian people and their fundamental rights to freedom of expression, press, assembly, association, and religions are being violated and suppressed. The gap between the rich and poor is wider. The social issues such as land grabbing, illegal evictions, illegal logging, lack of health care and treatment, unemployment, inflation, and poverty are unresolved. On May 29, 2008, we learned that a man’s wife had to sell two of their 7 children to bail her husband out from [police] jail. While the Senate had shoveled off the corruption law proposals and buried them under their desks, the corruption activities are being fully conducted by government officials. Irrefutably, there has been no sign of any intervention from Samdach Akkak Moha Sena Bat Dey Dek Cho Hun Sen.
The political campaign for the fourth National General Election has begun and so did the illegal political maneuvering made by the Hun Sen government: vote buying, threats made against innocent citizens, political activists, and journalists. The elected officials from the opposition parties are being intimidated, extorted, ransomed, and blackmailed, and others have been threatened by lawsuits and jail. On June 28, 2008, while Deputy Secretary General, Mu Sochau and her SRP supporters were actively campaigning in Kampot province, the CPP Deputy Village Chief rode his motorcycle at full speed toward her in an attempt to run her over.
To our Khmer compatriots, when you consider the threat we face from the Hun Sen government who are hoping to not only use any means possible to strengthen their grip on power but also flooded our country with the illegal Vietnamese immigrants and has allowed the neighboring countries to encroach into our land and draw a new borders, this is clearly one of the most important elections of our lifetime. Each and every one of us, as a Khmer people, has a moral and ethical responsibility to contribute what is in the best interest for our Khmer people and Khmer nation.
The Sam Rainsy Party is appealing to our compatriots that are living abroad for help. The SRP is conducting its National General Election Fund Drive, and your participation is urgently needed more than ever. Over the next several days, many of your friends and neighbors in your area will be asking you to make contribution to SRP. Your donations will help support the SRP candidates to save the Cambodian people and the Khmer nation from the totalitarian CPP government in this rapidly approaching election. Mr. Sam Rainsy, if elected as Prime Minister, would vow to defend our Khmer people and Khmer nation, and would offer our Khmer people a vision of change, which means opportunity and hope. Therefore, your support today is urgently needed if our SRP candidates have any hope of winning. Remember, if Mr. Hun Sen gets reelected to the Prime Minister for another term, it would truly be a disaster for Cambodia. So, please use the website provided to send in your contribution as soon as possible. Thank you and May Lord Buddha Blesses us, Blesses Khmer nation. http://www.samrainsyparty.org
Sincerely,
Justin C. Sok, Volunteer
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Vote or financially support Sam Rainsy Party = fight for the survival of our beloved country and expel yuon and siam from our country = restore Cambodia to prosperity.
VOTE FOR THE TRAITOR HUN XEN = SUPPORT THE IMPERIALIST YUON, SIAM TO SWALLOW and ENCROACH OUR COUNTRY = SOON WE WILL BE KAMPUCHEA KROM AND CHAM = WE WILL BE YUON SLAVE.
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As a Cambodian people, I will never buy Thai products, I will never use Thai service or even visit Thai.
Thai is GREEDY to get Khmer Territory.
Me too , I live in canada right now , when i go shopping , i allway check product sticker , if i see ( MADE IN SIAM ) product i would't buy that product event i like that product so much , I also tell my family member and friend to do the same thing.
SCREW ASIAM .
I'm pretty sure SRP doing really good now!!
Wow go SRP!!!
Cambodia is like a wheel with the bearings rusted, corroded and seized. Cambodians never have peaceful transition of power. They have never wanted or may be have no courage to face the uncertainty of the future, but rather accept the comfort of the present system afforded them. As a consequence, their livelyhood is half dead.
Cambodian society will see a better day if people have courage to change. Once there is a peaceful transition of power, the wheele of democracy will start to roll, and people will inevitably select a good leader, if not the next one.
So go ahead make a change and keep on changing. Cambodian society as a whole can only gain from changes.
And let do it in the spirit of brotherhood that will nto create animosity and hatred.
As a Cambodian people, I will never buy Thai products, I will never use Thai service or even visit Thai.
Thai is GREEDY to get Khmer Territory.
I hope that this word will spread to every Cambodian mind. GREEDY Thai is trying to steal more Khmer land.
No, that is not the case here. It is the Khmer in Cambodia who is greedy and used the French to steal and temples from the Khmer in Thailand.
Halaluyah to Cambodian in the US!
Close the borders as sihanouk did in 1962. We have nothing to do with AH SIAM AT TRAKOL, AT POUCH!
Support the Malay revolt against ah chor siam!
Call for boycott of ah chor at pouch Siam products, close the border!
To Khmer oversea,
Financially support Sam Rainsy means support the fight against the thieves SIAM, YUON
UNITED WE SURVIVE, DIVIDED WE DIE
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Vote or financially support Sam Rainsy Party = fight for the survival of our beloved country and expel yuon and siam from our country = restore Cambodia to prosperity
“VOTE FOR THE TRAITOR HUN XEN = SUPPORT THE IMPERIALIST YUON, SIAM TO SWALLOW and
ENCROACH OUR COUNTRY = SOON WE WILL BE KAMPUCHEA KROM AND CHAM = WE WILL BE
YUON SLAVE”
Oh well! HUN SEN CPP will continue to win Cambodian election for many more years to come because majority of Cambodian people, leaders, and businessmen are choosing the corruption as their profession! And beside HUN SEN CPP has all the money in the world to corrupt any Cambodian people and leaders, NGOs, and businessmen many times over!
It is amazing to me that many Cambodian people and leaders, NGOs, and businessmen choose corruption as their profession and yet they claim that they want Cambodia to be modern, democratic and civilized! So tell me how that is possible!
This is what I can say that Cambodian will be the most backward country in Southeast Asia as long as Cambodian people don't take the corruption issue seriously because of corruption and Cambodia will have so many unsolved domestic issues and let alone in trying to solve international issues such as land, border, and sovereignty issues!
Cambodia use to be a communist country but isn’t communist like China that can produce virtually any products for the world consumer! Cambodia can claim to be the world freest market place by joining WTO but Cambodia isn’t free market place like Singapore that can manufacture many high tech products for the world consumer!
When the longest serving Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore in power from 1959 to 1990 and he encouraged Singaporean to own home and take ownership and oversee Singapore outstanding economic progress! Now compare that to Cambodian longest serving prime minister HUN SEN from 1985 to 2008 and he encourage Cambodian to be worker and take low paying job and he dispossessed them of their land and economic opportunity and gave it to big businesses! As it had predicted that there are more Cambodian people became homless under Hun Sen dictatorship!
Let hope that HUN SEN legacy will not be a curse that can pass on to the next generation of Cambodian children! I believe Cambodian people and leaders can do way better than this!
not necessarily true for all. i'm one of those overseas cambodian who supports only what i see right as fair and balance. i don't like to hear just one side of the story. i'm sure others have something to say that i can probably learn from, even if i don't like the other side. i way i see it is whoever can unite, can bring together all together to work together after the election is what cambodia really need, not a leader that wanted to divide, or wanted to be the mr. know-all, and so on. a good leader is one who is fair and balance and see what is good for the country, not just for his or her own self-interest. i mean it is ok to differ in election time, however, to continue the fight even after defeated is something else to think about. that said, let's encourage and support the cambodian people's choice of their liking. of course, there are still a lot of works to be done, but keep in mind the wish and preference of the majority of the cambodian people as well, not just your own. god bless all.
Khmer people!
If you vote for CPP that mean you are for corruption,corrupted court,land grabbing,you help HUN SEN and all his entourages to become millionairs,deforestation, yuons infiltration etc......
Why do you still want HUN SEN's family to dominate your way of life.They are benefit tremendously from all of your stupidity ,they are super super rich.It's time to clean up the house ,your cambodia. Have a courage to change ,and the time to change is NOW.
No one will want to followed Infidels SRP back to Year-Zero. They will vote for CPP to move to 21st century and beyond, no turn back.
All of us in PP, Cambodia voting for SRP only!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, they are not. People still remember what happened to them in the 70 when they voted for Lon Nol, and they are not going to repeat the same mistake by voting for Lon Nol II (Ah Scam Rainxy) again.
Dude 2:11AM,
Are you retarded??????
Since when did Sam Rainsy preach communist??
You got to wake up and keep yourself up to date.
SRP will win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah Scam Rainxy is a commie. He needn't preach it. Just look at how he grip on to PM nomination in his party with his iron claws.
3:50am! you can talk to phnong and they may or may not listen, but to us here is jusy disgusting.IT'S STINK.
The battle is already end when SRP and others (supposed) democratic's parties refused to make an alliance.
I never saw anyone win a losing's battle.
SAM RAINSY is a real democratic's man?
Maybe he's a God for some people. Well i hope these peoples wake up...
Take time to analyse Sam Rainsy...
Sam Rainsy is one of the puppets of CPP... Chea Sim
This guy sacrifice everything to annihilate royal families. Well don't forget actually without the monarchy's constitution, we're already in the hand of Youns. Most of the Funcinpec want to kick Nhiek Buncchay's out of the party. And Sam Rainsy and Hun Sen are the 2 peoples who supported Nhiek Bunchhay... Are they the same peoples? In the october 18th 2006, they have sent the letter to support the Funcinpec's change. Even if the congress has not end. Something strange???
Khmer Canadian
Oh well, I guess we would have to turn our vote to HRP then.
Khmer Canadian,
You are wrong about Rainsy. But since you are Rainsy's hater supporting HRP just to take votes from SRP is one of CPP's strategies, you know the answer yourself.
vivre le cambodge! long lives cambodia! god bless cambodia.
If you don't vote for Funcinpec... then vote for HRP
Forget this PD sam rainsy
Oh dear! Cambodians are not able to mange their own country. They are fighting all the time. They are pouch neak chbang knea.
Agreed, 8:16!
One doesn't need to look far to know the reason why HUN SEN CPP keep winning the election! One of the reasons is corruption! Hasn’t anybody notice that Cambodia still doesn’t have anti-corruption law as long as HUN SEN remain in power!
The CPP is feeding on corruption to maintain their power and that is the fact! Otherwise the CPP would have passed anti-corruption law long time ago!
I believe one day when Cambodia has anti-corruption law and it will be the day that HUN SEN CPP cease to exist!
Because dictator Hun Xen is the rubber,the murder!!!!
Vote CPP to end all deadlocks and disputes so that we can get more done for the country.
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