November 19, 2009SAM RAINSY’S MESSAGE TO THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE
Prime Minister Hun Sen is currently playing a dangerous game for our country. He seems to have lost his senses while handling Cambodia’s relations with neighbouring countries.
Our present government foreign policy is totally biased when it comes to defending Cambodia’s territorial integrity. According to the prime minister the danger of Cambodia’s losing portions of her territory is looming on our western border with Thailand. But he forgets to say that this danger is already and actually materializing on a large scale on our eastern border with Vietnam.
Let’s compare:
His Majesty King Father Norodom Sihanouk has shown His concern for the situation in Cambodia’s provinces bordering Vietnam. Reacting to a report I submitted to Him earlier this month about Cambodian farmers losing their land because of border encroachments by the Vietnamese authorities in Svay Rieng province, the Retired King wrote to Prime Minister Hun Sen asking for an examination of the information and evidence I had exposed on the issue. As an insolent response to the King Father, the Hun Sen government reacted by undemocratically removing my parliamentary immunity in order to prosecute me because I dared raise a national issue that is embarrassing for the prime minister.
Mr. Hun Sen is using a classical tactic to divert the Khmer people’s attention from the real or the most serious danger, which in fact comes from our eastern side (Vietnam), by exacerbating tensions and creating unprecedented attention on our western side (Thailand).
By doing so, Mr. Hun Sen strives to:
For himself and his clan in Cambodia
While the situation is still under control along our western border, Cambodia should first try to address a number of humanitarian issues such as the fate of over 200,000 Khmer workers currently living in Thailand because unemployment in our country is a more and more acute economic and social problem that the Hun Sen government is unable to solve.
The political game Mr. Hun Sen is playing is definitely not in Cambodia’s interest. We should not allow him to go on jeopardizing our country’s security. Cambodia should remain neutral in any internal dispute in any other country. Any spillover from the current tension or unrest in Thailand could be very detrimental to Cambodia. Mr. Hun Sen’s miscalculation when throwing oil on fire in a neighbouring country will likely at best burn his fingers and at worst set Cambodia ablaze as past experiences have shown when we unnecessarily and unwisely took side in our neighbours’ internal disputes.
Sam Rainsy
Member of Parliament
Opposition leader
Our present government foreign policy is totally biased when it comes to defending Cambodia’s territorial integrity. According to the prime minister the danger of Cambodia’s losing portions of her territory is looming on our western border with Thailand. But he forgets to say that this danger is already and actually materializing on a large scale on our eastern border with Vietnam.
Let’s compare:
- Thailand has only recently started to unfairly challenge the status of a portion of Khmer territory surrounding Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province that covers an area of less than five square kilometres.
- Vietnam has been, over the last 30 years, grabbing thousands of square kilometres of Khmer territories in Kep, Kampot, Takeo, Kandal, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng, Kampong Cham, Kratie, Mondolkiri and Ratanakiri provinces. This is an ongoing painful process that Mr. Hun Sen does not want us to look at. But we can’t help seeing the tears and hearing the cries of countless Khmer farmers who are losing their rice fields and other farmland to Vietnam as I have recently witnessed in Svay Rieng province.
His Majesty King Father Norodom Sihanouk has shown His concern for the situation in Cambodia’s provinces bordering Vietnam. Reacting to a report I submitted to Him earlier this month about Cambodian farmers losing their land because of border encroachments by the Vietnamese authorities in Svay Rieng province, the Retired King wrote to Prime Minister Hun Sen asking for an examination of the information and evidence I had exposed on the issue. As an insolent response to the King Father, the Hun Sen government reacted by undemocratically removing my parliamentary immunity in order to prosecute me because I dared raise a national issue that is embarrassing for the prime minister.
Mr. Hun Sen is using a classical tactic to divert the Khmer people’s attention from the real or the most serious danger, which in fact comes from our eastern side (Vietnam), by exacerbating tensions and creating unprecedented attention on our western side (Thailand).
By doing so, Mr. Hun Sen strives to:
For himself and his clan in Cambodia
- Secure a continuous support from powerful Vietnam in order to remain in power against all democratic trends.
- Create a nationalistic fervour against Thailand which would help the Cambodian people accept harsh and deteriorating living conditions due to the persistent economic crisis and the government’s corruption and incompetence.
- Boost trade with, and economic influence on, Cambodia.
- Establish a dominating control over Cambodia’s economy through growing investments from Vietnam, whose companies enjoy unique privileges in our country, while Thailand is being marginalized because of the current Khmer-Thai tension. The current situation is reminiscent of the anti-Thai riots in Phnom Penh organized by Mr. Hun Sen’s thugs in January 2003.
While the situation is still under control along our western border, Cambodia should first try to address a number of humanitarian issues such as the fate of over 200,000 Khmer workers currently living in Thailand because unemployment in our country is a more and more acute economic and social problem that the Hun Sen government is unable to solve.
The political game Mr. Hun Sen is playing is definitely not in Cambodia’s interest. We should not allow him to go on jeopardizing our country’s security. Cambodia should remain neutral in any internal dispute in any other country. Any spillover from the current tension or unrest in Thailand could be very detrimental to Cambodia. Mr. Hun Sen’s miscalculation when throwing oil on fire in a neighbouring country will likely at best burn his fingers and at worst set Cambodia ablaze as past experiences have shown when we unnecessarily and unwisely took side in our neighbours’ internal disputes.
Sam Rainsy
Member of Parliament
Opposition leader
51 comments:
Thailand fighting for 4.6km piece of lands, while Vietnam steal 100,000. of square miles from the EAST..!! Mr. Sam Rainsy is right! Hun Sen must turns around and start looking toward the East side too..!
Our border from the EAST side with Vietnam become more concerns, Vietnam is encroaching every minute, while all khmer pay attentions with Preah Vihear only...!!
That's a right to say, Mr Sam. You must fight hard for people and country, because you are not bought off by neither Thai nor Yuon. There are a few men who are as brave as you are.
All Khmer people must read our History at:
www.khmer-heroes.blogspot.com/
www.khmer-heroes.blogspot.com/
Vietnam is the most dangerous enemy..!
Hun sen is a coward when it come to vietnam. He is mok-kras.
CPP supporters. You are supporting the oppressor youn on khmer. You are no better than hun sen or pol pot or youn.
Those who are truely khmer should support those who support khmer and khmer future interests.
Those who appreciated mr sam rainsy. Should do more to support him.
Only unity and demand for justice can help all khmer and culture.
All Khmer people must read our History at:
www.khmer-heroes.blogspot.com/
www.khmer-heroes.blogspot.com/
Vietnam is the most dangerous enemy..!
Vietnamese , Vietcong burned our ancestor alive, using people head as stove for cooking...
we must make the khmer aware of this issue....
Cambodian governments must keep an eyes on Vietnamese encroaching everyday from the East side, like i used to say, there's no suching Friendly neighbors, they just want to kills you all and take everything you owned...! Both Viet/Siamese are the same thieft...
ONE WAY OUT: ARMED UPRISING
The Khmers must organize in hit and run death SQUADS similar to the Malays' tactic in southern Thailand.
We must prepare to seize the initiative and take the fight to the viet foes everywhere:
- in the rice paddy fields
- in the Mekong and Tonle Sap
- in the offshore islands
- in the streets of Phnom-Penh
- in the National Assembly
- in the garment sweatshops
- in the School and Hospital
- in the Pagodas
- in the brothels at Sway-Pak district
We must make their life a LIVING HELL.
Lord Buddha willing, we shall prevail.
To all our cambodian brother and sister out there, it' has shown very clearly that our KOH TRAL island is sitting inside Khmer territory in the MAP, and i don't know how ta hell Vietnamese taken this island away..? This Koh Tral should be cambodian militray base, cambodian airforce base, cambodian Naval base to stay and protects our country and territory...
Very True.
Started from Ratanak Kiri, Mundol Kiri, Kompong Cham, Svay Reing, Prey Veng, KomPot, Kepp, Khet Kandal, Takeo, Vietnamese had encroaching deep deep deep inside Khmer territory! Khmers were busy fighting each other while Friendly Neighbors sneaking inside our home and stealing all our Pots/Pans...
Friendly Neighbors my ass..!
Hun Sen only remembers Cambodia was rescued by Vietnam from genocidal Pol Pot’s regime. So take as much land as you want too. Hun Sen doesn’t need that big of a land and as long as Vietnam can keep him in total power control of his country.
Speaking a bout Koh Tral island, it's not right? this island shown very clear that it's way inside cambodian territory...! We should dragg the fucken French ass to show us again, how ta hell this happening..??
Now, i knew why my father hated French..! when i started learining french in school, he hated...!
Let SRP be the PM; Hun Sen step down d/t to the incompetent maggots' brain he has.
Hun Sen is well aware of the Vietnam encroachment since he is the one allowed that to happen, why you guys keep saying Hun Sen should do this Hun Sen should do that, he will never do any shit that will not expand his/his family/his clan power and money we know all of that. That is why he lets all those Viet come and steal the country so he can stay in power and enrich himself and his clans. Sooner or later there is no more Khmer map on this planet if a HUN Sen and his clans still around. I really wish another Pol Pot will come but this time only kill A Hun Sen and his clans...
Listen to Sihanouk said:
"on 19 November 1963, Sihanouk renounced U.S. aid altogether, apparently to avoid American interference in Khmer domestic affairs".
In his reasoning, Sihanouk had said in affect:
Quite frankly, it is not in our interests to deal with the West, which represents the present but not the future. In 10, 20 or 30 years time, there will probably be in Thailand, which always responds to the dominant wind, a pro-Chinese neutralist government, and Indochina will certainly be governed by Ho Chi Minh or his successor. Our interests are served by dealing with the camp that one day will dominate the whole Asia and by coming to terns before its victory in order to
obtain the best terms possible.
The statement above proved that Sihanouk had help Vietcong to swallow Indochina and whole Asia.
Mr. Sam Rainsy do your best to defend Khmer land, and be like Sihanouk." Chuoy Yuon".
Siem took alots of Khmer why you motherfucker don't say nothing or you spyer of Abhisit?
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
Assassinated over eighty members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
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.
7:41am! your mother was rape by Vietcong and you still love Viet who fuck your sister and rape your mother..? Ah Pleu jkourt!
Thank you Mr. Sam Rainsy. Every Khmer must stand up to against all of these thugs. They selling our mother land day by day.
Stand up Khmer!!!!!!
7:41 AM,
You're an offspring of Viet Bo Doi, the invader of Cambodia in 1979.
Or you're a dandruffed Viet dog, and used to eat Viet excrements more delicious, and open your stinky mouth to bark for your Viet boss Hanoi and ah Hun Khvang Ma Khak.
Sam Rainsy is truly a Khmer hero who willing to risk his own life for his own people and to protect his own country. On the other hand, Hun Sen and his CPP are truly Vietnam pupet who punish his own people to please his boss (Viet leader). Hun Sen is not working for Khmer and not to protect Khmer land. Under Hun Sen, Khmer land will vanish piece by piece and before you know it, it is gone for good.
But Sam Rainsy won't let that happen. Thats why, is did for all Khmer. We all SHOULD JOIN SAM RAINSY to do just that.
My God bless Sam Rainsy, our hero!
Khmer in Washington state, USA
Why Sam Rainsy took the laws into his own hands? It looks so stupid for an educated leader like him to do shit like that on the border issues with Vietnam.
Sam Rainsy is not a border committee authority. why he done over head his position? Maybe he try to win election in 2013? or just to make khmer look at him as Hero?
The real Hero only the one who liberated khmer on January 7th 1979, but, not form France, Canada, Swiss, Norway or USA.
Dear all,
Starting from today on, we should never address the current CPP officials by their titles but instead we should address all them as "Ah Khbot Cheat" simple is that.
When Vietnamese invaded our country in 1979, liberating/invading the same time, of course! they didn't return all of their troops back to Vietnam, they are still roaming freely in cambodia til these days...
Cambodian Govt should keep an eyes on Vietnamese spies too...
Champa, Kampuchea Krom was 100% annexion, now beginn to annex Kampuchea step by step, till now is fast 80% and in 10 years is 100% over Cambodia. After that Thailand be annexed too. Why Khmers people don't learn their hitory in the past?? Are they stupid?? Your land will be lose near by the future by Viet. Your King and leader has made falsh policy. Cambodia will be Kampuchea Krom in the 30 years, that is the fact. Whre is pride as Khmer Angkor, Khmer Angkor has never allowed foreigner to controll their land and their spririt, your old Kings was strong for your nation, not like King today. That is very sad to see country controlled by Viet.
Where is the Khmer Spirit , why you raise conflict with Thai and forget Viet annex you land ??????. If you all are hungry with power like today you country destiny will over, no day turn back again.
obsever Khmer policy for more thane 60 years
8:21am you are stupid tosay that; 7 january was an invasion not libration.
Mi Sompoeung @ 8:21 AM is among the fking blinds that need brain surgery. Mi Lop 7 SunDan!!!!
Pi Anh - Old Phally Monkey
Do you think Ah Khmer Chaul Marseat King Sihanouk doesn't know the Viet encroached Khmer land. He knows for a long time, but tries to shut his mouth to keep his son in the palace. Do you ever hear or read his email posted on this website complaining Hanoi steals Khmer land? Never, he only criticize or wants to die that Khmer people insult him.
All of Khmer problems of today were created by Ah S'dach Norodom Sihanouk.
Ah S'dach Chaol Maseat, lourk srok
do trapok mi Yuon Kh'nich.
Ah S'dach Kheatakor Reas Khmer!!!!
Ah S'dach Preah PakRa Mouk, Preah Praos Min Ruoch.
10:46, calm down sir... we should follow the cambodia government moves, right now. You might still remember,Kem Sokha, Mem Sonando was imprisoned and many others fled the country because of the critic they made about 2005 treaty [to make 1985 treaties legal] that Hun Sen signed. This time, you will see many people imprisoned if they dare to criticize again. I listened to Var Kim Hong explanation of border demarcation works. There were a lot of suspicious. With GPS and other modern topography equipments, he said it need a lot of time to locate an exact border point, and need to find 3 reference points that takes months of research.
Wow Mr. Sam Rainsy is reading my mind! He is seeing as I am seeing and I am not even a member of his party. Currently I am neutral to all parties, but I now start to like Sam Rainsy's actions. This is a real deal from Mr. Sam Rainsy and his party.
Nobody can help Khmer, but Khmer! Hence Khmer must educate Khmer and help fight the evil Vietcongs off our land.
Khmer Angkor
it is a big mistake that the government uses 1985 treaty to redraw a map, rather then using Map of 1963 to demarcate the border with Vietnam.....and then try to silent the critic.
Even my 4-years-daughter, was born in America,can tell CCp's clan with Vietnamese brain, after I read a bed time story to her. She chooses to believes Sam Raisy is the best Khmer Representative.
Thank you Mr. Rainsy for your deep analysis and well-argued, passionate piece. It captures the sentiments and frustrations of many of us overseas as well as in Cambodia, I am certain.
To supporters of Mr. Rainsy or at minimum the sentiments of this letter -- may I humbly remind us all to make the distinction between Vietnamese Policy (Government) and the Vietnamese people. This distinction should be reflected in our language and rhetoric. Racial slurs do a disservice to not only the person making it, but generally to the larger Cambodian population. The law is on our side in this issue. However, one undermines his position (firmly imbedded in law) by personal slurs. Please keep away from racial slurs and keep to the larger injustice of mass violations of territorial integrity which are against international laws and common international norms. And VIOLENCE is NEVER justified.
So, please do not undermine your support for Mr. Rainsy's position here by violent rhetoric or emotional call to arms. The law is on your side. Exercise your right as citizen wherever you are (here in US or back in our homeland or wherever else), peacefully, forcefully, INTELLIGENTLY, by seeing the distinction between Vietnam Policy (government) from the Vietnamese peasants/villagers/citizens.
Only a humble opinion.
- Cambodian-American
Do not rest too much hope on individuals and personalities to resolve issues affecting the nation. Men and women of influence and charisma, people of great rank and honour, of worldly fame and distinction are often found to have flaws just like the rest of us. That said, if successive Khmer rulers have taken sufficient care to invest in those national institutions that embody the essence and soul of their nation and to have those values inscribed in the hearts and minds of their own people instead of seeing them as mere 'subjects', passively bound and subservient to the will and caprice of the power that be, we would not have found ourselves in this perilous state where the nation's fate is virtually sealed and its very existence hanging by a thread.
This humble writer is of the belief that territory is sacred, because it is the embodiment of a people's life and history; it is its very blood and soul. To subject territory in any amount to compromise and negotiation is tantamount to committing high treason.
Perhaps, the greatest flaw in Cambodian history since the end of the colonial era has been the inability on the part of the Khmer elite to strike the balance between nationalist aspirations and accommodating geopolitical concerns or alignment. Thus, for a pastoral country that traditionally had enough land and food to keep its population in a state of contentment; a society that was in need of reform rather than 'revolution', we have seen it subjected to the extremest and most brutal form in social experiment. Why had educated and learned minds failed to see that this brand of social engineering would prove inimical and corrosive to an ancient entity? When will Cambodian leaders learn from the painful lessons of their country's history that appeasing an expansionist state now will not prevent it from pursuing its covetous infringements in future?
The Khmer people are rightly tired of war and destruction, but they can hardly be blamed for remaining 'passive' in the face of external threats to national sovereignty given their preoccupation with their daily survival and their confined existence or world-view. Besides, they have consistently been misled and maltreated by their own rulers for whatever reason. So their disenchantment with politics in general is understandable.
However, it is still not too late to rouse them to action. There are still enough Cambodians to make foreign rule in Cambodia through its satellite structures unsustainable; to reverse all the unjust treaties and concessions of Khmer territories, islands, maritime waters etc. that have been sacrificed at the altar of personal greed and narrow political self-preservation.
The opposition as well as civil groups must proactively collide in a movement of national crusade to remove the chains of enslavement in a noble cause through civil disobedience. Everyone - farmer, vendor, cyclo-driver, factory worker, state employee, laymen and clergy alike . . . must be informed of their relevance to the nation.
MP
Post 11:19am is right! Gov't made a big mistake by using 1985 re-drawn map, instead of 1963...Those border stakes that Mr. Sam Rainsy pull out were place way deep deep inside cambodian territory, people lost farms lands, small river, brooks, this is why people very angry....! PM Hun Sen, King Sihanouk, they both knew what's going on, but they playing mute, and dumb..?
This is Vietnamese government's strategy people! they force khmer krom to take away khmer kandal lands to farms, while they "Viet" continue to spreading like Anaconda snake, Vietnamese authority kept allowing their people to built home inside khmer krom lands, took away all khmer krom lands ,and they don't even live there..? this is how Vietnamese Gov't doing? making khmer killing khmer each other..? and the same thing with Thailand? those people live along khmer/siam border, of course they'were all khmer?, once upon the time!...Thais taught khmer to hated khmer....
Those Thais/khmer in Thailand they do hated us so much! i heard on my own ears, i heard one Thai black soldier said that, they are the one are real khmer, this guy said! my house was next to the Fence, when he was saying these to us, and he's kind da drunk too..!
K.i.D camp section #23, 1980
hmm, watching abc last night, thai side is not that gud, the ecomomic activity and life is quited... people also don't like the situation. hmm, time to look around, looking both sides, hmm, east or west, its cambodians', tired of the fucking damn land stuff. people are dying of hunger mr ministers...damn...using paris accord at ur advantage, don u hav brains fkers...always be the servants of foreigners...pls wake up cambodia... from mr.k
If there are khmer fathers who sell their daughter to be a prostitute, there are also leaders who sell khmer land, who sell khmer life, who sell khmer territories to foreigners. This can happen because by complacency khmers allow it to happen. So stop wailing and crying. Now wake up and cry out to God for help and overthrow khmer current leaders, and ask God to raise up a godly ones.
It's hard for Sam Rainsy to do anything when the majority of people in Cambodia are major traitors. I'm talking to you.
Yea...they only care about fattening their pockets in the expense of our nation. traitors with a capitle T.
pravo srp please continue fight with ah youn kontop, take all our land back show franch map to the world let them help us to get our land back. thank you srp keep you head up and continue do what you do.
The yuons are everywhere in Cambodia.
If you want to fight them, come back here.
Sitting on your pretty asses abroad do nothing. Put up or shut up !!!
I am just a playboy. How can I fight the strong youns? I am happy to suck their dicks and let them fuck my mother !!
Khmer must read their history at:
www.khmer-heroes.blogspot.com/
www.khmer-heroes.blogspot.com/
ANY of u think u can run the country better come out n play, stop being a coward behind ur PC. see what the real world looks like u idiots
2:32PM. What real world? It is only Hun Xen's world in Cambodia! And everyone else is Hell! You idiot!
I am not in any political party but people must be stupid to support CPP. After they sold all this land and destroying the nation.
Anyone have heard Hun Sen speak would realize how barbaric he is, straight from the Khmer Rouge's Jungle. It is sad for Cambodian Nation to have such a nonsense leader, Hun Sen.
I you ask me I think his death is long long overdue. He should have not live this long to destroyed the nation this much.
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