"I, me and myself"?Alternatives Watch – 10v09
Op-Ed by Ung Bun Ang
So, according to prime minister Hun Sen, as long as he remains at the top job there will be political stability in Cambodia. He makes this claim at the recent Second Mekong-Japan Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Siem Reap. And Hun Sen is probably right about the stability, considering the fact that oppositions are weak, disorganised, and unable to mount any credible challenges to him.
However, if it is true that the motive behind the claim is to impress new Japanese foreign minister Katsuya Okada for substantial Japanese investments in Cambodia, Hun Sen may be disappointed. His kind of stability that depends on him being there can, of course, attract certain businessmen who are seeking a quick profit with opportunities to move their capital in and out at short notice. It is a business operation that most suits fly-by-night or vulture companies that know who to bribe.
But serious foreign investors – the ones whom Council for Development of Cambodia secretary-general Sok Chenda says want to grow with the host country – may not share Hun Sen’s enthusiasm for his brand of stability the way he hopes they will. To them, the prime minister’s claim rings an alarm bell flagging a huge country risk, instead of a welcoming sign, when political stability of a country depends on an individual rather than institutions. They know there is a limit to how long a person can live, or can perform at optimum; only a strong institution can offer a lasting political stability that is conducive to long term business prosperity.
With his previous statement that without him there will be war, prime minister Hun Sen effectively makes those investors cringe. The Japanese government has been supportive of Cambodia from day one since the peace settlement; it funds, in one form or another, about fifty percent of the Cambodian national budget every year. But in contrast, Japanese businessmen generally have not been further away from what salesman par excellent Sok Chenda claims to be a unique money-making opportunity in Cambodia. There is a reason for them to stay away in droves.
If Hun Sen were to attract long term investors whom Sok Chenda cherishes, he would have to start working on building a strong government institution for Cambodia – the one that does not depend on him, and will last long after he is gone. He would need to believe that, no matter how comfortably he can walk all over his political opponents, he will neither last nor live forever. Like others, he is mortal and vulnerable to unpredictable future. He may be in charge,but not everything under the sun is under his control. Some X factor could abruptly put him out of commission, which will drown everything that depends on him.
With a strong institution, besides securing those beneficial foreign investments, Cambodia would not be thrown into chaos every time there is a leader changeover. The people would likely be spared from sufferings in between regimes they have frequently experienced since the heyday of Angkor.
Ung Bun Ang
Quotable Quote:
“A week is a long time in politics.” - Attributed to: Harold Wilson (1916–1995), British prime minister. First said in 1965 or 1966, and repeated on several occasions.
However, if it is true that the motive behind the claim is to impress new Japanese foreign minister Katsuya Okada for substantial Japanese investments in Cambodia, Hun Sen may be disappointed. His kind of stability that depends on him being there can, of course, attract certain businessmen who are seeking a quick profit with opportunities to move their capital in and out at short notice. It is a business operation that most suits fly-by-night or vulture companies that know who to bribe.
But serious foreign investors – the ones whom Council for Development of Cambodia secretary-general Sok Chenda says want to grow with the host country – may not share Hun Sen’s enthusiasm for his brand of stability the way he hopes they will. To them, the prime minister’s claim rings an alarm bell flagging a huge country risk, instead of a welcoming sign, when political stability of a country depends on an individual rather than institutions. They know there is a limit to how long a person can live, or can perform at optimum; only a strong institution can offer a lasting political stability that is conducive to long term business prosperity.
With his previous statement that without him there will be war, prime minister Hun Sen effectively makes those investors cringe. The Japanese government has been supportive of Cambodia from day one since the peace settlement; it funds, in one form or another, about fifty percent of the Cambodian national budget every year. But in contrast, Japanese businessmen generally have not been further away from what salesman par excellent Sok Chenda claims to be a unique money-making opportunity in Cambodia. There is a reason for them to stay away in droves.
If Hun Sen were to attract long term investors whom Sok Chenda cherishes, he would have to start working on building a strong government institution for Cambodia – the one that does not depend on him, and will last long after he is gone. He would need to believe that, no matter how comfortably he can walk all over his political opponents, he will neither last nor live forever. Like others, he is mortal and vulnerable to unpredictable future. He may be in charge,but not everything under the sun is under his control. Some X factor could abruptly put him out of commission, which will drown everything that depends on him.
With a strong institution, besides securing those beneficial foreign investments, Cambodia would not be thrown into chaos every time there is a leader changeover. The people would likely be spared from sufferings in between regimes they have frequently experienced since the heyday of Angkor.
Ung Bun Ang
Quotable Quote:
“A week is a long time in politics.” - Attributed to: Harold Wilson (1916–1995), British prime minister. First said in 1965 or 1966, and repeated on several occasions.
18 comments:
Ah third grade,if You are not put Cambodia to be Viet Nam slave you are the piece of shit
"He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind."-Buddha
Saravann Khmer Song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoCzx1rsDnY&feature=related
Certainly seems that their is a difference in opinion about what 'political stability' means. For Mr. Hun Sen, it literally means not changing.
For others it means that the government functions, collects revenue and develops the country all according to the law, the wishes of the electorate, and the constitution in a transparent way. This situation also allows for fluid handovers of power during the election process.
Unfortunately, the PM is right about the threat to stability. However, this is a situation of his own making. By ensuring that power in Cambodia rests on your position's ability to make money, the government has created the spectre of extreme instability and uncertainty at times of political flux.
The government's focus on selfish aggrandizement has left the country weak and unable to be flexible at times of crisis. As a result, one can easily imagine that with the death of the PM, there could be armed conflict as a result of the race by powerful interests to secure their own powerbases and expand into other areas. Think the port in KS, the mines in the north, the oil off the coast,the border areas and those casinos. Important resources that will make the lucky ones amazingly rich. (Watch out for those personal helicopters to beat the PP traffic in the future. Signs that Cambodia's resources are being stolen.)
This is the reason for a lack of investment.
Every country need a stron man!
In Cambodia it is Huns Sen,
in Thailand it is the king.
If the king of Thailand dies (hopefully he will live a very long life)
than People will see there is no stability in Thailand.
Do not wait to get something from your Government.
Start to work hard and do something for yourself and your Family.
Hun sen uses curruptions to keep in power. That is not stability.
The day he is out of power, he will hang himself for he doesn't want to be prosecuted.
He is stable, but not the country.
There seems to be confusion between foreign government assistance and foreign private business investment. The first generally comes with conditions that the donors want the recipient country to improve. Those conditions including strengthening of rules of law, improve freedom of expression, …etc.
Foreign private investors or businessmen, on the other hand, don’t really care about the long term social environment of the host country. Their primary goal is to make profit as quickly as they can. Their return of investment time frame is two to three years. These businessmen often prefer to invest in countries where the social justice or activism is less visible because they can lobby the officials and exploit workers to maximize their profit.
5:24PM,
Hun Sen is not a strong man as you claim. How can a man be strong if he has 4,000 bodyguards to protect him? And in addition there are thousands of armed Yuons mixing with his guards. What are they for? Hun Sen without Yuons and his own guards is a dandruffed dumb and scary dog.
KHmer people know that they cannot get anything good from this government but maltreament and oppression. A ruler with no compassion, sympathy, and kindness will never make his people happy.
"In Buddhism, we are taught not only to love, but our love need to arise from a mind of serenity, purity, and equality. We call this kind of love compassion. Compassion is rational love. We also need to use true wisdom. Wisdon is the true mind and emotion is the illusory mind. Love that arises from emotions will change while love arises from wisdom will never change." Does your Hun Sen possess the slightest bit of these qualities? Perhaps none. In contrast, he possesses tons of hatred, revenge, arrogance, ignorance, and cockiness which forms as a big mold of immorality inside him.
According to what Hun Sen said , if the opposition party win the next general election the civil war will start again ? he is the one who got all forces and he can start it anytime .
to avoid the war and the political problem , people have to vote for him to keep peace in the country .
he is a moron isnt he ?
You know what. After he told FM Japan about the stability of Cambodia depends on him. He walked out and couple of foreign advisors as well as Khmer pulled him over and brief him that he could make this comment only with Khmer people.
Hun Sen was not in good mood on that day. He has sent a letter to Japan Embassador to clarify what he had said to Japanese FM.
shake your tongue for 100 times before you speak.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Executions
Executed members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
Hun Sen used to lie to his own people because most of them are not very well educated but at that time he forgot that he was talking to Japanese FM that's why he lied .
Engage your brain before you engage your mouth.
hunsen commits alot of crimes we[khmers oversea,never forget what hun sen has done to cambodia]
11:02Am Sorry, we Khmer Overseas are not bias, please don't say that because a lot of us would love to come to visit our beloved homeland one day and don't want to be generalised as to be the enemies of the country. At the same time we want to be seen as the mediators not the prosecutors. Thank you, Aust
No Khmers want to be the enemy of his/her country, where they were born, you bonehead 11:57AM, but decent Khmers overseas, excluding you, won't allow a dictator
to suppress Khmers living inside of the country any further. Hus Sen is the enemy of Khmer people, because, from the start, he didn't get his power by Khmer people's votes, but by being installed in power by Yuons in the exchange of a big concession he made to Yuon, the concession that benefits only Hun Sen, his families, and his cronies, but hurts and harms Khmer people for many generations to come.
8:26pm
thank you for your respone to hunsen shit oversea.if i know them live close to me ,i 'll kick them back to live with hunsen regime under Youn control.why why why why ? hunsen shit live in free country and still bragging about evil communist regime.
Mole
8:26PM yes you are right no khmer want to be the enemy of his/her country, but you were generalising us by say "Khmer overseas don't appoved of Hun sen gov't" which is not true, all I'm saying is we khmer overseas are not bias. So, I believe you must be the mole from other race who like to stir you people lives. Becareful or bad "karma" will come your way", No gov't is perfect but you have to know how to say things. Don't use such a language to affect other people like that! Stop using "We Khmer overseas". So, get out of this site if you are a mole.
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