On the Campaign Trail of the Cambodia 2008 Elections
30 June, 2008 Kampot province. Southwestern region of Cambodia and last stronghold of the Khmer Rouges
REPEATED VIOLENCE AGAINST AN OPPOSITION WOMAN CANDIDATE: WHO AM I TO DEFEND THE PRINCIPLES OF FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS?
30 June, 2008 Kampot province. Southwestern region of Cambodia and last stronghold of the Khmer Rouges
REPEATED VIOLENCE AGAINST AN OPPOSITION WOMAN CANDIDATE: WHO AM I TO DEFEND THE PRINCIPLES OF FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS?
Today on the 5th day of the election campaign, I faced the brutal aggression of an army general.
While on the campaign trail in Kampot province, I observed a vehicle of the Cambodian Armed Forces being used in the election campaign of the Cambodian People's Party, the ruling party since 1980. The Electoral Laws and Procedures clearly stipulate that the use of state-owned vehicles, facilities and funds are prohibited in election campaigns. But the military license plate juxtaposed against the large CPP stickers on the side of the car was in plain view. I immediately asked my fellow campaigners to take a photograph of the vehicle while I explained the issue to the vehicle's owner, a general of the Cambodian Armed Forces and the chief of the border control unit in Kompong Trach district.
The army general hurriedly ordered his driver to remove the car from the premises, away from cameras and witnesses. Knowing that the only chance of successfully filing an official complaint in court would be to have a picture of the car, I attempted to stop the car by holding on to its front bumper. It was at this point that the army general assaulted me, grabbing on to my arm and painfully twisting it so that I would be forced to let go of his car.
Meanwhile, the car was dragging me almost three meters onto the busy highway road I shouted, "Look at my shirt! I am a political candidate - what are you doing?" but his reply was that he did not care. He was in full control of the situation and he continued to tighten his grip on my arm.
I noticed my shirt had become unbuttoned in the confrontation, and I was becoming more and more exposed in front of the crowd of men that surrounded us. Half-naked, arm throbbing, and feet dragging, I finally released my hold of the car. Had I not let go at this point. I surely would have suffered serious injury.
All of this occurred only two days after I narrowly escaped physical harm from a deputy village chief of Prey Khmom village It was a similar incident, where I had stopped the motorcycle carrying the deputy village.
By Mu Sochua
While on the campaign trail in Kampot province, I observed a vehicle of the Cambodian Armed Forces being used in the election campaign of the Cambodian People's Party, the ruling party since 1980. The Electoral Laws and Procedures clearly stipulate that the use of state-owned vehicles, facilities and funds are prohibited in election campaigns. But the military license plate juxtaposed against the large CPP stickers on the side of the car was in plain view. I immediately asked my fellow campaigners to take a photograph of the vehicle while I explained the issue to the vehicle's owner, a general of the Cambodian Armed Forces and the chief of the border control unit in Kompong Trach district.
The army general hurriedly ordered his driver to remove the car from the premises, away from cameras and witnesses. Knowing that the only chance of successfully filing an official complaint in court would be to have a picture of the car, I attempted to stop the car by holding on to its front bumper. It was at this point that the army general assaulted me, grabbing on to my arm and painfully twisting it so that I would be forced to let go of his car.
Meanwhile, the car was dragging me almost three meters onto the busy highway road I shouted, "Look at my shirt! I am a political candidate - what are you doing?" but his reply was that he did not care. He was in full control of the situation and he continued to tighten his grip on my arm.
I noticed my shirt had become unbuttoned in the confrontation, and I was becoming more and more exposed in front of the crowd of men that surrounded us. Half-naked, arm throbbing, and feet dragging, I finally released my hold of the car. Had I not let go at this point. I surely would have suffered serious injury.
All of this occurred only two days after I narrowly escaped physical harm from a deputy village chief of Prey Khmom village It was a similar incident, where I had stopped the motorcycle carrying the deputy village.
By Mu Sochua
I am very proud of you and very thankful for your courage to do this hardwork!
ReplyDeleteKeep courageous and continue the fight until we win!
Hok
Dumb bitch, stop repeating annoying lied and propaganda, and there wont be any repeating violent. Better yet, just pack up and go do it in Zimbabwe or Kenya with your dog friend (Ghai).
ReplyDeleteBe warned. With your leader resorting to attacking the physical disability of your opponent, you may just deserve whatever coming to you.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck.
Kuoy Pichet
mrs Mu Sochua I am very proud of your action a gaint those CPP monsters , these monster are the CRIMINAL againt our peoples , they will try to harm anybody that smarter talent then them.
ReplyDeleteYou are one of the KHMER women that build( BRA SAT BOUN TEAV SREY ) reborn...soon you will build CAMBODIA with free of DICTATOR and free of corruption.
thank you for your BRAVERY againt the EVIL in CAMBODIA.
GOOD LUCK and LORD BUDHA WILL PROTECT YOU.
KHMER toronto,canada
5:27am ah son of Zimbabwian why don't you just shut the fuck up and go to your country that son of the bitch born hoh ? This site belong to khmer people discus the Khmer matter you are not welcome ,Go Home or you do not have your own home ,ah viet cong will accept you and feed you with all dog meat you can have ,what a Bizarr person like you ah koun mee srei som peunng Svai Paak
ReplyDeleteHonestly, Cambodians are pretty savage people when it comes to disputing and fighting amongst ourselves. When it comes to our Vietnamese neighbors, we let things go and walk away risking getting injured another day and another time, but with our own people, we try so hard to get at each other's throat and will do anything to get the upper hand.
ReplyDeleteWhen you look at the CPP leadership and many of those high ranking officers in the military and the police, they are nothing but a bunch of thugs and uneducated, ignorant and greedy imbeciles and clowns who power trip over their own fellow Cambodians. However, they shit their pants at the sound of their Viet masters barking orders at them.
No this is not Khmer's site, Ah Pleu(6:04). This is Ah Khmer-Yuon's site, and Yuon own Ah Khmer-Yuon. Get the picture?
ReplyDelete6:32 AM...wow, I just love your immense intelligence and methods of deciphering things. You are just as thmil as ah kvak hun sen. You can't even represent ah kvak hun sen correctly. Ah kvak hun sen should bitch slap you. Attempt to make your CPP monkey comrades be proud of you, you water buffalo.
ReplyDeleteI said it before and I say it again: I consider Hun Sen, Heng Samrin, and Chea Sim as monkeys who traded our coutry with power given by Vietnam. Monkey are naturally smarter than dogs. And 5:27AM who advocates these three monkeys is one of the dogs. He's a monkeys'dog.
ReplyDeleteThat means your brain has been damaged beyond any repair, asshole.
ReplyDelete6:32 AM
ReplyDeleteHey Vietdung, out of arguments???
Overwhelm, just go resource yourself at Ho Chi Min grave.
And bring you sidekick 5:27AM with you his limited capacity brain is about to blow of overheat.
8:10AM
ReplyDeleteIf you read 7:39AM comment carefully, he just referring to you.
I think you are the dog and 6:32AM is the monkey.
These so called khmers are so rude.Just reading their comments,ones would feel that this race is not better than animal.They are so cruel,wild,primitive, blood thirsty to the max.No wonder at one time their leader by the name SALOT SAR was trying to eradicate them.
ReplyDeleteOf coursr we are. We are the reasonably thinking animals.
ReplyDelete9:28AM, you're one of the rude, too.
ReplyDeleteIf you are not, you mihgt have come out preaching with Dahhma, the Buddha's words.
it is so sad to see violent in cambodia during election time.It destroy all the good effort that cambodia had been trying to democracise the country.But don't you fellows worry,these type of power lover people will disappear with their own greediness and stupidity,then cambodia will have the real democracy and justice system.KEEP ON THE GOOD WORK MY KHMER COMPATRIOTS.
ReplyDeleteThe CPP clan will do anything to win the election including attacking a woman! This is too low!
ReplyDeleteI am one of the CPP's children. I am pissed off to see my country where men would abuse great Khmer women like that. This so sick in the stomach. I want Opposition Rainsy to win, may be thing goes better. Damn all pourk J'kourt in CPP. This time I will vote for opposition Rainsy.
ReplyDeleteStudent of Huazhong University (China)
Yes, when she's nagging endlessly.
ReplyDelete11:39AM
ReplyDeleteThat's called politic, illiterate!!!
11:31 AM, not only you alone to state like this. A lot of CPP´s children whom I met they state like you too. The mainpoint is that if we allow them to lead the country, Cambodia will be completely soon the 2. Kampuchea Krom because the VN wanted and wants to control all in our homeland, no one know than we Khmer. If you are in Cambodia you don´t know more and think all situation is normally but if we look carefully then we are slowly under VN-control. If you are Khmer? Do you want the foreigner control our motherland? NO! Khmer farmer
ReplyDeleteThe bitch is retarded, after all these violences, she doesn't remembered a single evidence, hahahaha... Who's she's trying to fool?
ReplyDeleteAh J'kourt 9;21pm. There was now licence plate but a fake funny one. How can she recognize with a licence plate that has ah kvack kdet and k'douy mee bunrani on the licence plate?
ReplyDeletefool your parent ah lob9:21pm ,your brain about time to replace because the fall of corrupt CPP and also ah Zimbabwian son of the BI**6:32 ah Zimbabwian son=CPP son=Viet slave son===>>Hell
ReplyDeletethese three are the same power greed ,just do not want to walk out of the power it doesn't matter that they do not do good for those countries,these power greed will fall down ,as I can see from far far away.
Go down CPP
11:02, stop embarrassing yourself here. Even fake license plate should be reported as is.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how a person can look out for 14 millions people when they can't even look out for themselves.
ReplyDeleteEveryone know the election period can be frustrated for some people and become violent. Doesn't these so called wannabe leader knows how to prepare for such condition?
11:31am! Don't lie ,you're not a student at China nor CPP'S KIDS.You are an addicted drug at WAT PHNOM.
ReplyDelete12 34 am. The one that lies is you. You are in a delusion thinking that all CPP's children who are educated at ouside are pli pleu? Addict drug is you. I never joined CPP but my parents did to survive. Stop lying to Khmer people. I'll fly to Cambodia and I will vote for SRP.
ReplyDeleteStudent of Huazhong University (China)
Damned, there go another victim of Chinese food poisoning.
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