Khmer Krom asylum seekers, recently deported from Thailand, at their temporary shelter in a Phnom Penh pagoda on Thursday. (Photo by: Sovan Philong)Khmer Krom plead for citizenship
Friday, 25 December 2009
Cameron Wells and Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
A group of 24 deportees from Thailand have arrived in Phnom Penh to seek government assistance.
A GROUP of 24 Khmer Krom asylum seekers recently deported from Thailand arrived in Phnom Penh on Wednesday in a desperate bid to have their Cambodian citizenship confirmed by the government.
The group, part of an ethnic minority from the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam, were deported from Thailand on December 5 after fleeing Vietnam. They had been sheltered by the Independent Democratic Association of Non-Formal Economy in Banteay Meachey’s Poipet town.
Members of the group – which is currently staying at Wat Angtaminh near Phnom Penh International Airport – say they fear severe repercussions from the Vietnamese government if they are deported.
Members of the group say that when they fled Vietnam, they lost their homes and many possessions. Huynh Ut, 33, said his father is now disabled as a result of abuse by Vietnamese authorities. “They broke his skull and beat his body, and shocked him” with a stun device, he said. “After three months, the starvation made him disabled.”
Another member of the group, 56-year-old Choav Heng, said: “Yesterday, we went in to meet the UNHCR to fill in forms and register with the government so they can start to help us,” referring to the UN refugee agency. “We have sent many letters to the Ministry of Interior so they could see this case and try to help us, but we have not received a response. We have also written to the National Assembly, many NGOs and human rights organisations because we are in great difficulty. We don’t have any food. We don’t have any money. We don’t have anything for our daily lives.”
Though hungry, poor and with no place to live, the biggest worry for his group, said Choav Heng, is the constant fear of being sent back to Vietnam.
“The Vietnamese government still wants to catch us,” he said.
“We need protection. Because we are Khmer Krom, we would like the government to give us some security and confidence.”
He added: “We need the government and UNHCR to accept us as Cambodian people. We would like the government to help find us a place to stay near schools and markets. We also need land for agriculture.”
He said the group needed “help from the government with identification cards or any documents we need” to become Cambodian citizens. “For me, I would just like a place. A good place, any place that they can give us. We find it hard to be understood, [but] I hope in Cambodia we will be more accepted and better off.”
Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak has said that if they are in Cambodia and ar Khmers, they have an automatic right to citizenship, but also, earlier this month, that the arrivals had not yet been clearly identified as ethnic Khmers.
He did not detail exactly what the identification process involved.
“The asylum seekers must realise that the right for asylum is no longer under the authorisation of the UNHCR,” he said.
The UNHCR could not be reached for comment on Thursday, but Kitty McKinsey, UNHCR spokeswoman in Bangkok, said on December 15 that the deportees had been at various stages of their asylum applications at the time of their deportation from Thailand.
She said the UNHCR regarded their deportation as a “serious matter” and had taken up the issue with the government in Bangkok.
“Our position is that no asylum seekers should be deported from Thailand unless their appeals have been processed and it has been properly established that they do not require international protection,” she said at the time.
She went on to add that there are “orderly procedures” for returning unsuccessful applicants to their countries of origin.
Striking similarities
The plight of the recent arrivals to Phnom Penh follows the deportation of 54 Khmer Krom, also by Thai police, in June.
Ang Chanrith, executive director of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights Organisation, said the 54 were subsequently smuggled back into Thailand to make another bid for asylum. He said “more than 10” of the current deportees were also deported in June.
A GROUP of 24 Khmer Krom asylum seekers recently deported from Thailand arrived in Phnom Penh on Wednesday in a desperate bid to have their Cambodian citizenship confirmed by the government.
The group, part of an ethnic minority from the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam, were deported from Thailand on December 5 after fleeing Vietnam. They had been sheltered by the Independent Democratic Association of Non-Formal Economy in Banteay Meachey’s Poipet town.
Members of the group – which is currently staying at Wat Angtaminh near Phnom Penh International Airport – say they fear severe repercussions from the Vietnamese government if they are deported.
Members of the group say that when they fled Vietnam, they lost their homes and many possessions. Huynh Ut, 33, said his father is now disabled as a result of abuse by Vietnamese authorities. “They broke his skull and beat his body, and shocked him” with a stun device, he said. “After three months, the starvation made him disabled.”
Another member of the group, 56-year-old Choav Heng, said: “Yesterday, we went in to meet the UNHCR to fill in forms and register with the government so they can start to help us,” referring to the UN refugee agency. “We have sent many letters to the Ministry of Interior so they could see this case and try to help us, but we have not received a response. We have also written to the National Assembly, many NGOs and human rights organisations because we are in great difficulty. We don’t have any food. We don’t have any money. We don’t have anything for our daily lives.”
Though hungry, poor and with no place to live, the biggest worry for his group, said Choav Heng, is the constant fear of being sent back to Vietnam.
“The Vietnamese government still wants to catch us,” he said.
“We need protection. Because we are Khmer Krom, we would like the government to give us some security and confidence.”
He added: “We need the government and UNHCR to accept us as Cambodian people. We would like the government to help find us a place to stay near schools and markets. We also need land for agriculture.”
He said the group needed “help from the government with identification cards or any documents we need” to become Cambodian citizens. “For me, I would just like a place. A good place, any place that they can give us. We find it hard to be understood, [but] I hope in Cambodia we will be more accepted and better off.”
Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak has said that if they are in Cambodia and ar Khmers, they have an automatic right to citizenship, but also, earlier this month, that the arrivals had not yet been clearly identified as ethnic Khmers.
He did not detail exactly what the identification process involved.
“The asylum seekers must realise that the right for asylum is no longer under the authorisation of the UNHCR,” he said.
The UNHCR could not be reached for comment on Thursday, but Kitty McKinsey, UNHCR spokeswoman in Bangkok, said on December 15 that the deportees had been at various stages of their asylum applications at the time of their deportation from Thailand.
She said the UNHCR regarded their deportation as a “serious matter” and had taken up the issue with the government in Bangkok.
“Our position is that no asylum seekers should be deported from Thailand unless their appeals have been processed and it has been properly established that they do not require international protection,” she said at the time.
She went on to add that there are “orderly procedures” for returning unsuccessful applicants to their countries of origin.
Striking similarities
The plight of the recent arrivals to Phnom Penh follows the deportation of 54 Khmer Krom, also by Thai police, in June.
Ang Chanrith, executive director of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights Organisation, said the 54 were subsequently smuggled back into Thailand to make another bid for asylum. He said “more than 10” of the current deportees were also deported in June.
34 comments:
COWARDS! COWARDS! COWARDS! INCOMPETENCE! These useless, destructive, selfish, uneducated people need to move over for Sam Rainsy and other more courageous and competent people to lead Cambodia! They cannot even take care of their own people. They think Cambodia is their private property, to be inherited by their children who are so immoral and AMORAL (like animals which cannot distinguish right from wrong!). And the silent CPP supporters - you are complicit in this disgrace of your own country and people. Silence/inaction is agreement.
We are khmers,we are the owner of Angkor Wat,not you vietcong Ho+Mao who killed innocent khmer since 1970.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrOddarMeanChey#p/u/4/rZP7eSDTT3g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIbO_EWrphg
Just take a look at these faces, they are pure Khmer 100%! why called them YOUNs????? why Phnon Penh Gov't refuse to help them??? i luv Khmer Krom lands, if i have to chose where to live for my retirement, Khmer Krom lands is my choice...
Khmer in Norway,
This is how Vietnamese government trying to do, they will do whatever it take to get rid of our people from their homeland, so they can replace their own kind instead...
Any ethnic Khmer Krom can live in Cambodia, period. Don't any of you know that Kampuchea Krom was once part of Cambodia and then one day they woke up, the French granted that land to the greedy YOUNs, and now they must be under the YOUN laws and sh*t. Khmer Krom and Khmer Kandal (Cambodia) and Khmer in Thailand/Laos/Malaysia are all of the former Khmer Empire. So any of them should have the right to live in Cambodia, period. Khmer Krom were simply Khmer people under King Sihanouk, so why does the Hun Sen government not accept this self-evidence??? The Hun Sen government must not deport the people of the Khmer blood and flesh.
To all Khmer compatriots, ladies and gentlemen,
Dear Khmer Kandal and Khmer Krom fighters,
Mr. Sam Rainsy and his party non-violence policy towards Hun Sen/CPP will not and never be able to work and Vietnam does not want to understand what is democracy, what is human rights and what is oppressed, colonized, occupied Cambodia who once upon a time fed, sheltered and supported the Crocodile Vietnam to win over United States Arm forces in Vietnam War.
On 16th December, 2009 Mr. Hun Sen said in Cambodian public that Mr. Sam Rainsy will not be tolerated again this time, he must come into Cambodia and go to Prey Sar prison (sic), or he should ask Thai government to let him form a Khmer Exile Government at the Khmer-Thai territory along the Western border.
What Mr. Sam Rainsy ought to do is neither go to Prey Sar prison nor go to Vietnamese court in Hanoi. If, I were Mr. Sam Rainsy I would negotiate with Mr. Abbhisit Vejjajiva the Thai prime minister to follow Mr. Hun Sen’s suggestion of forming a Khmer Exile Government at the Thai-Cambodia border. I can assure you there will be 100 of thousands Khmers inside Cambodia will come to join the new Khmer Exile Government like in 1979’s.
Khmer King Norodom Sihamoni appointed Thaksin Shinawatra as Hun Sen’s adviser. Therefore, Mr. Sam Rainsy can form a Khmer Exile Government along Khmer-Thai border too. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY WHICH CAN bring Vietnam and their slave Mr. Hun Sen/CPP to respect the 23rd October, 1991 Paris Peace Agreement by convening another international conference on Cambodia.
Regards,
Kulen Monorom
(The rice farmer’s son)
This is why we need Thailand to remove HUN SEN. We can't let unjust happens everyday toward our poor Khmer Krom or the Savannabhumi's people.
We welcome Thailand to get rid HUN SEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Thailand won't do it now the YOUN's border will be next to Thailand soon. Don't hesitate!! Lets the Thai stage a war to remove Thailand. HUN SEN is a threat to Thailand.
Khmer Surin,
3:21pm both thum up for you, you are 1000% right.even tho they live in youn's land but they are pure khmer so they got the right to live in cambodia.
Why Khmers always involved other nations when they want to solve a problem mongst themselves. if they are good fighters then they fight each other to death.
Would Sihanouk have an answer?
Thanks
I feel so sorry for the plight of thses Khmer lrom family. I wish them luck
Khmer in Australia
Now I can understand why the Jewish people for trying to create their new homeland in Palestine after the genocide under Hitler so that the Jewish people have a place to go to! What about Cambodia that had been through genocide and already has a homeland and the Khmer people have nowhere to go? ahhahahhahah
Cambodia is the land of contradiction!
The fake Cambodian government only honor Xmer not Khmer.
Reject and evict Khmer to make room for Xmer.
Khmer can not vote but Xmer are welcome.
Khmer Krom live in Cambodia are elligal. They sent backt to Youn and in most case they never be heard again, disappear.
But all Youns are legally to live and have the right to vote in Cambodia. Their are over 5,000,000 Youn currently living in Cambodia today. By the next election in 2013there will be more Youn then Kher population. Khmer people keep getting poorer and poorer. The government left them for dead or kill them. Youn keep pooring in daily. This is all Hun Xen conspiracty with Youn. Hun Xen is destroying our people and nation.
ALL REAL KHMER IN CAMBODIA NEED TO "SOMLAP AH KWAK KBOT CHEAT" AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BEFORE ALL KHMER DIE AND YOUNS TOOK OVER OUR NATION.
ah Hun Sen can allow millions of illegal Yuons to live freely in Cambodia, but he cann't accept a few KHmer Kampuchea Krom to be citizens of Cambodia. What ah kwack is he!
Khmers, Khmer krom, cham people, montagnard people are people who yuons want to eliminate and exterminate from the surface of the world. So dont expect a government/tool topped by yuons to serves yuon exterminated expansionist policy to help these people.
Remember cpp as the rest of Khmer rouge are yuon political tools. Please stop to call these yuon killing tools as Khmers or Khmer leaders, they are just yuon killing instruments, created and handled by yuons to serve yuon interests and criminal policy.
Try to get rid of these yuon elements if you want to live free one day and to end genocide in Cambodia. Otherwise you will live miserable until the last of you getting killed
Khmer krom too, stop to call these yuon killing tools khmers and run mad against the rest of khmers because of wrong acts of these yuon slaves.
Khmers (the real ) always with you and support you and feel your sufferings as their own
I have said again and again for a million times and I will say it again...this Hun Sen CPP-Viet installed govenment ONLY favor and recognize Vietcong who enter Cambodia illegally, not Khmer Krom who has Khmer own blood. Hun Sen only works for Vietcongs, not Khmer. Why....? because his big brother is Vietnam, not Khmer Krom.
To all Khmer that loves Khmer including Khmer Krom, and Khmer Cham and former Khmer Rouge solders. Go to the jungle asking support from current Thai government for wapon and guns to fight this HUN SEN-CPP VIETNAM out from power.
ខ្មែរមិនស្គាល់ខ្មែរ ព្រោះខ្មែរខ្មៅ
គេទទួលស្គាល់យួន គេបើកចំហទ្វារ
ឲ្យចូលតាមចិត្ត ព្រោះយួនបោះ
ឆ្នោតឲ្យ ។
now, i'm wondering, can this family speak khmer fluently? maybe that's another story! they have to at least speak khmer and know khmer literature and language, history, etc. hey this is not the dark ages, ok, learn to read and write in khmer, ok! it's your fault if you don't make an afford to learn your own language, really!
there's no good excuse for being ignorant, really! everyone can learn one way or another, it's called perserverance and making person sacrafice and making time and afford to do so, really! don't be so lazy unless you are brain-dead, ok!wake up, people! get educated for a change, ok!
get rid of that outdated traditionof blaming the gov't, how about be smart and get educated for a change, ok! this is not the 18th century or dark ages, you know!
To 2:20AM
Fuck you! You are an SOB! You wandering too much mother fucker! Your Khmer race will die out soon just like the Dinosaur! You talk as if you are Khmer and you have more freedom in Vietnam or Thailand! In fact in Vietnam and in Thailand these countries banned all form of Khmer language and good luck try to learn to speak Khmer!
It is so easy for your mother fucker to get a good education because your fucken standard of living is different from these Khmer Krom! Why don't you take a close look at these Khmer Krom and what do they have? Since AH HUN SEN government denied them the asylum status and now they don't even a country!
With a cloth on their back and no country to go to and want to have a good education? ahahhahah
By the way you are not Khmer in your logical reasoning! You know who you are? You are a stupid bastard!
When Hun Sen dies of lung cancer, we will give his body along with $1 & a pack of cigarettes to a Vietnamese peasant near the Cambodian-Vietnamese border to be dumped into a Vietnamese garbage landfill. That's the type of burial Hun Sen deserves.
because khmer don't love khmer, they love yaun!
The day Ah kwak die, i will paint my balls red/blue and dance naked...
Khet Kandal, and Khmer KampuChea Krom lands are the most beautiful lands in the Kingdom of cambodia....
This is for 2:20, 2:24, 2;27
Find out the truth first before you go making judgements about these poor Khmer Krom people being lazy and not wanting to learn how to read and write Khmer. Do you realize that in Kampuchea Krom, the Viet-Cong/Youns make it so difficult for these people to maintain their Khmer Identity! They are forced to assimilate to the Vietnamese culture, speak Vietnamese, and banned from practicing Theravada Buddhism. They have even banned the importing of Khmer Literature,if you are caught smuggling it to Kampuchea Krom, they take it from you and burn it.
Khmer Krom people are forced to take on Youn names, speak Youn and practice Youn sect of Buddhism. The only way that they can learn to read Khmer Scrip is to secretly learn from the monks, who teach at the temple. The Viet Government is cracking down on this and they constantly harass the monks and try to intimidate the monks and all Khmer Krom people from trying to learn Khmer Language, culture and religion. Their lands are also being threatened and stolen from them, which is their only livili-hood. They are discriminated against by the government and the Youn people, so they are unable to get jobs. Due to the oppression and discrimination, they are the poorest group of people living in the Mekong Delta.
So find a way to help these people instead of blaming them for their circumstances!
For those of you who would like to help, please do so. I am in the process of getting more information about this temple and trying to find someone dependable/trustworthy enough, so that I may send these families some money so that they can buy food. I want to encourage everyone to please take a moment and see what kind of contribution you can make to help our people who are suffering. Contact your family members who are living in Cambodia and see if they can act as the middle man and send some money to these Khmer people who are in a really tough situation right now.
This is a very very GOOD guesture & GENEROUS ACTION I appreciate 1:21pm, I want to say MORE good words but my English is so poor. I pitty the Khmer Krom too much, I want to help them ... but how...??? If Hun Sen is a real Khmer, he also would feel the same. If Hun Sen will send them home that is really the order from his BOSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
South Vietnam was granted to Vietnam
in 1940's, by the French frys. Any
one else have better info on this?
Another word, South Vietnam was once
part of the greater Cambodia.
Thanks to those sharp-nose French people--they like to stick their
nose in other peoples business.
Thank you 3:36AM and 12:54PM both of you are real Khmers and 2:20AM,2:24 and 2:27 Please use your KBAL LEU don't use KBAL KDOR to express your ideas.........
Though very few with the exceptions of Achar and Monks can read Khmer script, everyone above the age of 30 in Kampuchea Krom can speak Khmer fluently - of course this should not be mistaken to say they can understand higher Khmer language like Palinize or sankritize loanwords (this require close nit relation between sangha community and local villages, which are lacking and dying in Khmer community in Kampuchea Krom for obvious reasons).
Children who are younger who are in primary school though are geared towards Vietnamization at very fast rate. They speak more Youn then Khmer.
Books imported from Kampuchea are screened for historical references or any book for example, that can provoke Khmer pride or knowledge of their true identity and history in Kampuchea Krom. Those books will be confiscated and label as political agenda book, even if they're legitimate Khmer history books.
Every Phum and srok which the Vietnamese have newly iniated or flooded their citizens too must bear the stupid blaring megaphone announcement every morning, just like a Big Brother state!
This is their process of Vietnamization or "civilizing" of Khmer people. Their messages ranges from useful practical announcement about new farming methods to political indoctrination and vietnamization indoctrination.
Temples felt obliged though not forced, to also play Vietnamese music and Vietnamese programs when they play chants and religious messages or samod etc. That is the mentality that these people live under. They are afraid to be Khmer in their own land!
Those who can speak can speculate, including above. But I am a Khmer Kampuchea Krom person, and this is the truth I want to let you all know to keep in mind about the burden of maintaining our culture in Kampuchea Krom.
If you love us and don't want to end up under colonization, vote Mr. Hun Xen away. Vote for whoever you want but do not vote for Vietnam to control your head any further. Only when Khmer are Free in Kampuchea can we Khmer in Kampuchea Krom see our hardship lift, because only a free Cambodian nation could afford to help their people outside of Cambodia.
Good luck Cambodia! We Khmer Krom have hope for you to make right choices.
Kon Khmer
In relation to Cambodia, CHINA is Zero achievement, every time Chinese start to move their men or policies to influence Cambodia, the Vietcong/NVA punch in the Chinese nose first all of the time.
Now the ECCC in Cambodia is indirectly controlled by Vietnamese government through their puppet Mr. Hun Sen/CPP government. The ECCC is charging former CHINA clients Mr. Khieu Samphan, Mr. Nuon Chea, Mr. Ieng Sary and his wife Mrs. Leng Thirith for GENOCIDE crimes against the ethnic Vietnamese and the Cham in Cambodia. What is CHINA GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT?
BESIDES BRINGING MORE MONEY TO BUY Mr. Hun Sen/CPP government and perhaps to rob the whole of Cambodia through land development, ripening the benefit for Vietnam to take over again and again. CHINA can not do anything to save Cambodia from Vietnamese colonization.
CHINA WAS THE MAIN SUPPORTER OF KHMER ROUGE and whoever are their clients are now being charged for genocide. Whereas the Vietnamese clients such as Hun Sen, Chea Sim, Heng Samrin, Hor Nam Hoang, Keat Chhon, Sam Kar, Sar Kheng, Men Sam An and much more who also GENOCIDED millions of Khmers are laughing at CHINA, USA, UN, EU, ECCC all the way to their own individual’s banks.
At this stage USA does not want to save Cambodia from Vietnamese swallowing, so what CHINA must do is to wake up quickly by allying themselves with USA the same way as Mr. Deng Xao Ping did with Mr. Ronald Reagan in 1980’s and rearmed the ex- Khmer Rouge soldiers again to save Cambodia from extinction.
The condition must be attached onto those ex-Khmer Rouge troops, that those troops must be controlled and lead by ex-anti Vietnamese guerrilla’s leaders similar to the recipient of American Silver Cross Medal, Major Sergeant SARUN SAR of the American Special Force and many more of that type who are waiting around the world and inside Cambodia to bring Vietnam and Hun Sen/CPP government to respect the 23rd October 1991 Paris Peace Agreement one more time.
Vietnamese government through their puppet HUN SEN cheated the CHINESE GOVERNMENT, the UNTAC, the USA administrative and the whole Khmer Rouge organization by urging the Khmer Rouge to lay down their arms before 1993 and now control them like slave and master.
Nowadays what CHINA is hoping is to buy out HUN SEN and the whole CPP government with their money, so CHINA can have influence in Cambodia.
Vietnamese will not let HUN SEN go off their hooks so easily like CHINA wants, if HUN SEN does want to escape from Vietnamese jaws, he will receive the same fate as his in-law former police crook-murderer Gen. HOK LUNDY.
Vietnam only allows Hun Sen as a bait to attract investment funds from China, so Vietnam who is Hun Sen’s master, can spare their own funds to buy 6 Sub-Marines and 12 Russian Airplanes to defeat CHINA once more time like in February 1979.
Vietnam at this moment will never let Chinese put a hand on Cambodian cake again, for inside Cambodia they have 100,000 NVA plus 5 million of Vietnamese illegal immigrants, and for arguments sake who knows how many Vietnamese militia in disguise among those 5 million illegal Vietnamese in Cambodia?
Therefore, the USA and the CHINA were manipulated by Vietnamese government again and again until they took all the South East Asian markets. Recently they took Laos, Cambodia and perhaps Thailand soon when the opportunity arises.
Vietnam smartly took Laos, Cambodia from CHINA and from the USA, and CHINA never dares to challenge Vietnam for CHINA and USA are always incapable to defeat Vietnamese hypocrisy in war or in politics, so CHINA and USA have no choice, but to unite like in 1980’s to stop Vietnam from swallowing Cambodia and to stop Vietnam expansionist strategy toward Thailand too.
CHINA CAN NOT BUY VIETNAMESE OR HUN SEN/CPP GOVERNMENT OUTRIGHT. CHINA and USA ARE THE LOOSERS TO VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST’S GOVERNMENT WITHOUT KNOWING IT, WHAT A SHAME!!!
Kulen Monorom
(The rice farmer’s son)
the thing is to never ever forget khmer language even if people are bilingual in khmer and youn, really. don't be ashame to be khmer, and definitely don't be afraid to express and speak in khmer as much as you can, just like youn are doing with their language, khmer people should do the same, really. be competitive when it comes to khmer language, way, etc. of course, it is smart and wise to learn from everybody e.g. friends, enemies, strangers, family, acquaintainces, teachers, professors, mentors, khmer pagoda or temple or churches, etc, etc... make cambodia and our khmer identity like food, language, arts, dances, language, etc well known in the world, ok!
come study in khmer schools in cambodia, then return home to teach and correct people with khmer language, etc. if there is a will, there is always a way, really! wake up and be smart and wise, really! remember just because we are separated by political boundaries, doesn't mean we are not khmers, yes be proud of who you are, your origin as khmer that is! encourage and teach others to speak khmer correctly, really. don't be selfish and teach and help make a difference for all khmer people, please!
I'm very disappointed with you guys. All of this is biased. Now don't say I'm stupid or something. I have studied Cambodian history a lot and have understood much of its politics. Hun Sen has done a lot for Cambodia, bringing it back to its knees after a deadly civil war. He lifted Cambodia from a poor level country to an lower middle income country. That my friends is impressive achievements. CNRP on the other hand is the real cancer. People like Rainsy are shouting lies in Cambodia. I can list many however I fear some of you might growl at me. Plus he is quite different from what you think. I remember during elections he would ask for donations. After that he would be seen eating in expensive French restaurants with his colleges. Suspicious? I understand that the CPP has it's flaws but right now I am seeing changes and reform. Hun Sen is literally changing the government slowly. Remember "slowly."
Example, he is purging any general who bought their way there. He will remove nay corrupted and scandalous officials and is slowly transforming it back. Yes I understand that their are flaws however to call him and his supporters traitors are very wrong and biased. It seems you are the one now with your biased views and points.
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