Op-Ed by Khmerization
Saturday 12th December, 2009
“The arrest and the release of Siwarak Chotipong is Mr. Hun Sen’s political and diplomatic game, set up to canvass political supports back home and to use as a diplomatic weapon to fight against the Thai Prime Minister Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva.”
The Thai spy’s case, the arrest and the release of Mr. Siwarak Chotipong, has been played out like a soap opera on prime time television. In fact, it is a drama with the script written by Mr. Hun Sen and the soap opera being directed by Mr. Hun Sen alone and the hero being the Pheu Thai Party of Thailand which is claiming credit for his release for its domestic political consumption to satisfy its Thai electoral constituents back home. And the victims of all this political game are Siwarak Chotipong and his poor mother who has to endure the pain and the suffering of seeing her son being handcuffed, incarcerated and used as a political pawn.
The arrest and the release of Siwarak Chotipong is Mr. Hun Sen’s political and diplomatic game, set up to canvass political supports back home and to use as a diplomatic weapon to fight against the Thai Prime Minister Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva who has vowed to punish Mr. Hun Sen’s government for appointing fugitive ex-Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra as its economic advisor.
Mr. Hun Sen’s political and diplomatic childishness has cost Cambodia dearly, both in term of financial costs- the costs of protecting and housing Mr. Thaksin and the cost of jailing and court proceedings against Siwarak- and the deepening diplomatic problems with Thailand which will eventually cause further delays in future border negotiations between the two countries.
Mr. Hun Sen’s political game has ruined the life of an innocent man and ruined the political chances of another man- his eternal friend Thaksin Shinawatra. While his political manoeuvres seemed to have aimed at helping to revive the political comeback of his eternal friend, Mr. Hun Sen’s real motives for all the political drama in the last two months were aimed at the political assassination of Mr. Abhisit. Sadly, both Mr. Hun Sen’s goals had the opposite political effect and failed miserably. First, Mr. Thaksin’s political fortunes had suffered irreparably after he toyed with Mr. Hun Sen’s game by visiting Cambodia in mid November which upset many of his supporters. Secondly, not only that Mr. Abhisit had not been assassinated politically, he has thrived politically from Mr. Hun Sen’s political theatre. While Mr. Thaksin’s popularity had plunged abysmally, Mr. Abhisit’s popularity, on the contrary, had skyrocketed.
While many Cambodians would welcome the release of Mr. Siwarak Chotipong, due to enormous helps from Mr. Hun Sen, many more Cambodians would resent the fact that Mr. Hun Sen did not make good efforts to help release many Cambodians who were incarcerated in Thai prisons for forgivable crimes such as crossing the borders illegally. It would be very humanitarian of Mr. Hun Sen to work with the Thai authority to release the 16 Cambodian prisoners imprisoned in Chonburi province for allegedly logging illegally in Thai territories a few months ago. Many more Khmer migrant workers had been killed by Thai soldiers every months in the border areas. With the efforts and the resources he had put into working for the release of the alleged Thai spy Siwarak Chotipong, many Cambodians would have expected Mr. Hun Sen to put the same efforts and resources, if not more, to help working for the release of many, it not all, Khmer prisoners in Thailand.
The latest news coming out of Cambodia is that, on Monday Mr. Hun Sen will hold a big ceremony to transfer Mr. Siwarak Chotipong into the care of his mother and Pheu Thai Party President Chavalit Yongchaiyudh- another political exercise with enormous costs to the Cambodian state coffers.
Mr. Siwarak is a simple and ordinary prisoner and the fanfare and extravagant honour accorded to him can only be described as a political drama played out by Mr. Hun Sen for his domestic political consumption and to help reviving the political chances of the Pheu Thai Party. And this is not in the best interests of Cambodia.
Saturday 12th December, 2009
“The arrest and the release of Siwarak Chotipong is Mr. Hun Sen’s political and diplomatic game, set up to canvass political supports back home and to use as a diplomatic weapon to fight against the Thai Prime Minister Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva.”
The Thai spy’s case, the arrest and the release of Mr. Siwarak Chotipong, has been played out like a soap opera on prime time television. In fact, it is a drama with the script written by Mr. Hun Sen and the soap opera being directed by Mr. Hun Sen alone and the hero being the Pheu Thai Party of Thailand which is claiming credit for his release for its domestic political consumption to satisfy its Thai electoral constituents back home. And the victims of all this political game are Siwarak Chotipong and his poor mother who has to endure the pain and the suffering of seeing her son being handcuffed, incarcerated and used as a political pawn.
The arrest and the release of Siwarak Chotipong is Mr. Hun Sen’s political and diplomatic game, set up to canvass political supports back home and to use as a diplomatic weapon to fight against the Thai Prime Minister Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva who has vowed to punish Mr. Hun Sen’s government for appointing fugitive ex-Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra as its economic advisor.
Mr. Hun Sen’s political and diplomatic childishness has cost Cambodia dearly, both in term of financial costs- the costs of protecting and housing Mr. Thaksin and the cost of jailing and court proceedings against Siwarak- and the deepening diplomatic problems with Thailand which will eventually cause further delays in future border negotiations between the two countries.
Mr. Hun Sen’s political game has ruined the life of an innocent man and ruined the political chances of another man- his eternal friend Thaksin Shinawatra. While his political manoeuvres seemed to have aimed at helping to revive the political comeback of his eternal friend, Mr. Hun Sen’s real motives for all the political drama in the last two months were aimed at the political assassination of Mr. Abhisit. Sadly, both Mr. Hun Sen’s goals had the opposite political effect and failed miserably. First, Mr. Thaksin’s political fortunes had suffered irreparably after he toyed with Mr. Hun Sen’s game by visiting Cambodia in mid November which upset many of his supporters. Secondly, not only that Mr. Abhisit had not been assassinated politically, he has thrived politically from Mr. Hun Sen’s political theatre. While Mr. Thaksin’s popularity had plunged abysmally, Mr. Abhisit’s popularity, on the contrary, had skyrocketed.
While many Cambodians would welcome the release of Mr. Siwarak Chotipong, due to enormous helps from Mr. Hun Sen, many more Cambodians would resent the fact that Mr. Hun Sen did not make good efforts to help release many Cambodians who were incarcerated in Thai prisons for forgivable crimes such as crossing the borders illegally. It would be very humanitarian of Mr. Hun Sen to work with the Thai authority to release the 16 Cambodian prisoners imprisoned in Chonburi province for allegedly logging illegally in Thai territories a few months ago. Many more Khmer migrant workers had been killed by Thai soldiers every months in the border areas. With the efforts and the resources he had put into working for the release of the alleged Thai spy Siwarak Chotipong, many Cambodians would have expected Mr. Hun Sen to put the same efforts and resources, if not more, to help working for the release of many, it not all, Khmer prisoners in Thailand.
The latest news coming out of Cambodia is that, on Monday Mr. Hun Sen will hold a big ceremony to transfer Mr. Siwarak Chotipong into the care of his mother and Pheu Thai Party President Chavalit Yongchaiyudh- another political exercise with enormous costs to the Cambodian state coffers.
Mr. Siwarak is a simple and ordinary prisoner and the fanfare and extravagant honour accorded to him can only be described as a political drama played out by Mr. Hun Sen for his domestic political consumption and to help reviving the political chances of the Pheu Thai Party. And this is not in the best interests of Cambodia.
16 comments:
Good analysis, Khmerization. Hun Sen had miscalculated the whole recent Khmer-Thai conflict. First, when Thai troops invaded Preah Vihear on 17th July 2008, Hun Sen opted for bilateral talks rather than seek outside help. Now the bilateral talks put Cambodia on a severe disadvantage position.
Later, he appointed Thaksin and brought Thaksin to Cambodia in the hope that he can use the "divide and conquer" strategy to stir up the Thai people to fight each other. But the Thai united behind Abhisit and rejected Thaiskin because he connived with foreigners- Hun Sen- against his own Thai people.
Hun Sen used Cambodia as his personal fiefdom. He can do whatever he wanted, but Cambodia and the poor Cambodians are the ones who lost the benefits, not him.
Now his game with Thaksin and Siwarak look very childish and make the Thai people hate Khmers more.
Just watch, who will win at the end.
HS still in power, Thaksin or his party will win the next election, Abhisit will be unemploy soon.
Ah pleu - who is this Khmerization anyway? Has he any political experience. Give me a break.
Hun Sen is out of his way.
He is the Prime Minister of Cambodia and he belives that his is playing chess.
Instead of create job to eliminate everyday increased crimes, he kisses criminal Thai ass.
He hopes to earn something from this Thai, after Viet dog, Thai dog ?
The economic equation is simple, Thailand imports from Cambodia less than it exports into Cambodia. Cambodia has nothing to loose.
All decent people know who ah Hun Sen is. What he does, he does for personal gains. If this sob Hun Sen had done anything for the national interests, we Khmers wouldn't have lost an inch of our land, and been looked down by our neighboring from all sides like such. Khmers must remember that ah Hun Sen is the one, and only one who's destroyed Cambodia after King Sihanouk. The magnitude of his destruction of Cambodia is so severe that he, his families, and cronies must be punished at last.
King Father pardom Enemy vietcong invaded Cambodia, and King son pardon Enemy Siem Spy in cambodia and Jail Khmer Sneha Cheat.
Looks at Siem shooting khmer at the border? Both King Father and King Son no hear, no see and no know.
Looks at yuon posted new border and entered free into Cambodia King Father and King Son Hear nothing, see nothing and know nothing.
If all AH KBORT CHEAT Pardon to the ENEMY yuon and Siem, We Khmer call and demand to all AH KBORT CHEAT to Pardon all khmer in Prey Sar and else where in Cambodia the same and Free them Immediately!
Before you all become "AH KBORT CHEAT KHMER DEEPER and DEEPER".
Easier to lead KI, than to lead Cambodia.
I have not seen any King in the world as STUPTD as this PD round head Hairless robotic dummy. May be he can be author in "How to be an Idiot King"for dummies book.
Is there a release latter by the king? please post it if anyone have.
3:26 the letter is written on the toilet tissue with Ah Trah ngoal oat sel stamped as PD.
Yes, Hun Sen used Cambodia as his personal property. He is playing with fire and at the end it is Cambodia and the Cambodian people who will lose the benefits, not him.
Hun Sen is very childish to play game with Thaksin and Thailand by using Siwarak as a pawn.
There are plenty of issues, create jobs, solve border problems, stop corruption etc. rather than playing this stupid and childish game.
I think Hun Sen's childishness and madness will cost Cambodia and the Cambodian people dearly.
4:01AM
The samthing as Sihanouk was playing with fire of Vietcong to burn his country to ground zero.
Those anti-Hun Sen comments are very similar to Yellow-Shirt Siem who iniatiate Khmer invation. Without them, we should have been in peace. Without them, with Thaksin DEMOCRATICALLY in power, Khmer and Thai should have been in cooperation to develope the Preah Vihear and both Khmer and former Khmer (Sisaket) people should be enjoying the fruit of tourist in that area.
Are your blind or trying not to look at the reality?
8 am, how dumb you are ! without hun sen cambodia adn thailand would be at peace, u should have said. this idiot makes trouble everywhere. i used to think young generations would grow up to change cambodia and see it dfferently, but no way, as they were indoctrinated by hun sen and cpp too long. the post-pop pot kids are jst as hopeless. they are bounded by tunnel vision, badly educated as hun sen and other cpp gangs.
I'm still waiting to see the benefits of Hun Sen political game.
The boader issue between Thailand has not been settle, Plus if the Thai put so much emphasis to helping it citizen in Cambodia. Are the same effort been made by Hun Sen and the CPP government for those Khmer prisioner in Thailand?
Khmers are so passive people and uneducated especially in the rural country side cuz they are poor. Most of them don't even aware what is going on in the country. They are so easy to persuade by government about everything. They rather suffered then fighting back. So when the time they start to realise it...it will be too late for them. And for the rich that lives in the city, they got sucked in by greed and power so they forgot about homeland security. Oh well we just like being tver knyom kay for the foreigners. That's how I see it. Most Khmers are not aggressive people therefore, the neighbours are taking advantage of them. I hate to say that but that's the reality.
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