Authority tried to prevent border visit by SRP MPs
14 Dec 2009
By Ly Meng Huor
Radio France Internationale
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
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As previously planned, on Monday 14 December, 21 SRP MPs went to visit Cambodian-Vietnamese border posts in Svay Rieng province. However, when the opposition MPs walked over to border post no. 185 – the one that Mr. Sam Rainsy led villagers to uproot on 25 October – 20 to 30 cops prevented them from approaching it.
A melee and pushing match between the cops and the local villagers took place on Monday afternoon when the Svay Rieng provincial police authority set up a barrage along rice fields to prevent SRP MPs and opposition activists from approaching this disputed border post. However, the incident did not cause any injury. At the end, the group of local villagers and SRP MPs succeeded in reaching the border zone at the rice field location where Mr. Sam Rainsy led a group of villagers to uproot the border stakes 2 months ago.
During the one-day trip to the Svay Rieng border, the group of 21 SRP MPs visited border post no. 152, located in Romduol district, and the border stakes for post no. 185 located in Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province. Yim Sovann, SRP MP and SRP spokesman who also traveled with the other 20 SRP MPs, indicated that the villagers all complained about the loss of their rice fields due to the planting of border posts with Vietnam. At Wat Ang Romdenh Pagoda, located about 300-meter from border post 185, the Cambodian authority also prevented the monks from building anything there as well.
The complaints made by local villagers led Mr. Sam Rainsy to lead a group of local villagers to uproot 6 border stakes out of their rice fields on 25 October. However, the Svay Rieng authority sued Sam Rainsy immediately. Regarding the complaints by local Cambodian farmers about the loss of their rice field lands, Cheang Am, the Svay Rieng provincial governor, indicated that according to the border delimitation work between Cambodia and Vietnam based on maps, there are some regions that encroached into Cambodian territories and some regions that encroached into the Vietnamese territories as well.
A melee and pushing match between the cops and the local villagers took place on Monday afternoon when the Svay Rieng provincial police authority set up a barrage along rice fields to prevent SRP MPs and opposition activists from approaching this disputed border post. However, the incident did not cause any injury. At the end, the group of local villagers and SRP MPs succeeded in reaching the border zone at the rice field location where Mr. Sam Rainsy led a group of villagers to uproot the border stakes 2 months ago.
During the one-day trip to the Svay Rieng border, the group of 21 SRP MPs visited border post no. 152, located in Romduol district, and the border stakes for post no. 185 located in Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province. Yim Sovann, SRP MP and SRP spokesman who also traveled with the other 20 SRP MPs, indicated that the villagers all complained about the loss of their rice fields due to the planting of border posts with Vietnam. At Wat Ang Romdenh Pagoda, located about 300-meter from border post 185, the Cambodian authority also prevented the monks from building anything there as well.
The complaints made by local villagers led Mr. Sam Rainsy to lead a group of local villagers to uproot 6 border stakes out of their rice fields on 25 October. However, the Svay Rieng authority sued Sam Rainsy immediately. Regarding the complaints by local Cambodian farmers about the loss of their rice field lands, Cheang Am, the Svay Rieng provincial governor, indicated that according to the border delimitation work between Cambodia and Vietnam based on maps, there are some regions that encroached into Cambodian territories and some regions that encroached into the Vietnamese territories as well.
16 comments:
F*ck ah Svay Shit Reang monkey governor. So it is true then that ah YOUNs encroach into the Khmer territory...so this means Mr. Sam Rainsy's warning and removal of the unlawful border posts planned by ah Svar ler ker and ah YOUN fend jumpers is right. Just stick to the map, ah ler ker Svar kress governorshit. How do you get the job in the first place, ah ler ker. Do you get the job or appointment through ah SLAVE-Master system of ah Hun Shit? F*ck this Hun Sh*t patronage system, ah ler ker. Stop letting ah YOUNs encroaching on the Khmer territory, ah pler. How much more Khmer do you want to give to ah YOUNs. Ah YOUNs alreay take over the entire Khmer Kampuchea Krom and islands and now you want to give them some more lands. YOU Must grow some spine and Say NO to ah YOUNs bad behavior, ah pler! Ot barn kar ey mong ah pler SvayPromess Gook nis veuy. If ah SvayPromess wants to serve ah YOUNs that much just move out of Cambodia and go live in srok ah YOUN tuv, ah pler!
Cambodian government are pathethic! Punishing it's own people for trying to protect their nation.
Cambodian government do not have to do that to their people. Cambodia is not a communist country. It is their rights to learn the truth about their land being taken by Vietnam. Cambodian government must stop being the Vietnamese puppet. They have already been the puppet for 30 years and that means 30 years of Vietnamese exploiting Cambodia sovereignty. Please enough is enough....It is time for Cambodia to take Cambodia back from Vietnam.
This is showing CLEARLY that ah kwack's gov. is working for ah youn, not for khmer people. Khmer people need to weak up!
They are the Viet dogs and how long they the land to live?
They should let people go and seeing their lands freely, it's their lands..? our lands all of us lands and country..?
Pork ah pler Svay Reang monkey governor os neung dael vear kah pear Youn koung tae tngai nah mouy anh neung tov banh jaol pork ah os aeng. Pork ah kbort jeat khmer doan tah.
good gracous, the authority prevent it OWN people from checking where our boarder line.
What is the CPP government got to hide, about our own board line with Vietnam?
If the CPP government are sure that it doing the right thing by Cambodia, then there is no need to hide the truth.
If Cambodian posts are in Vietnam soil it need to be corrected. That is why we need UN board specialist to audit each post using GPRS. So that there is no doubt and this is the approach the CPP government should take to be fair to all parties.
i wonder, those soilders who tried to block villagers and srp mps from visiting border post
what kind of blood is in their heart? A HUMAN or a dog?
Get the UN Boarder specialist to audit the posts. we want to know how many posts are been encroached on each side and my how many meters or Kilometer??? please provide with the result of the audit. So to see who Vietnam or Cambodia is gaining from this encroachment.?
Comment on this site doesn't help much.Send your ideas to UN,USA congress will benefit Khmer.
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Territorially speaking, Cambodia is in exactly the same predicament as she had been under Vietnamese military occupation in 1980’s with the only notable difference being the absence of any viable political military challenge to the evident assault being staged upon her integrity by means of these incurring territorial losses.
After everything that the KR had wrought upon the Khmer people and mankind, Cambodians with any nuances of genuine nationalist tendency and aspirations have all far too readily been frowned upon as overzealous, ‘fixated’ or worse, vilified as ultra-nationalists or extremists. There is no shortage of evidence to back up this dread of Khmer nationalism where and whenever it is engendered to rear its ugly head, as shown by sporadic outbreaks of violence against ethnic Vietnamese residents throughout the country in recent decades, and of course, the atrocities committed against the native Khmers themselves by DK’s brief but rapacious rule.
The Vietnamese for their part, have not allowed, what appears before them, a golden opportunity to compound and dramatise the Khmer tragedy to pass off into the annals of one of history’s bleakest chapters unexploited either, as is illustrated by their rewriting of Khmer history and the propaganda value they place upon the innate and raw force of Cambodian nationalism itself (see, e.g. the high column of human skulls displayed in the ‘stupa’ of Choeung Ek). As Karl Marx once observed, in every era the prevailing ideas are those of the dominant, prevailing classes.
By and large, therefore, blame is placed upon the Cambodians themselves for their inability to work together for national and collective purposes, as is the case with their Thais or Vietnamese counterparts - or realistically, adversaries - from whom the greater part of Cambodia’s misfortunes and sources of strife, dissension have historically emanated, and to which unified resolve and discipline in political will have suitably been found wanting.
Yet, the new dawn of peace and unity had seemed at last a real possibility when non-SOC elements contested and won - even if by a slim margin – the first relatively free and fair national election. To some observers, who had won that election was technically less important than who had lost it, for the defeated party then had - and still has - the far greater balance of power in administrative and military terms. But in the rush to end the suffering of the Khmer people and perhaps also in response to powerful internal prodding, fatal miscalculations had been committed by SOC’s erstwhile opponents, and these errors were committed by men who have stood at the heart of Cambodian politics since the fifties, and it must be added, should have known better.
• As we know a tree by what it bears, so we can accurately grasp the intentions and stratagems of the Vietnamese through what is or has been achieved on their behalf by their Khmer protégés. With a large body of Cambodian peasants and some townspeople still retained emotional attachment to the Monarchy, as well as their disdain for communist rules, the CPP leadership has lost nothing in having made good their pledge to re-instate this institution even as it was being effectively ostracised by constitutional constraints and overt threats.
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Part 2/2 (cont.)
• In practice, the monarchy has manoeuvred the nation into the jaws of the Crocodile once more by hastily accepting the terms of a political settlement that leave its subjects and the nation defenceless in the face of the Beast’s insatiable appetite for ever more territorial sacrifices, without having in place concrete plans or conditions by which to curb this appetite, just as it had done over the Ho Chi Minh Trial that gave the US the pretext it sought to destroy Cambodia’s neutrality, and over the fatal decision to join forces with Pol Pot’s KR, who also pledged to restore the Monarchy.
• The other critical error was the failure to preserve the separation of military factions as these were in the first part of the 1990s. It is not clear why, Funcinpec, for instance, chose Tang Krasang as their forward military base, and, just as perplexing, their most senior commander, Nek Bunchay, was posted there. Funcinpec should have known the risk it had taken to have maintained a military base in the heart of its enemy’s backyard. With the CPP enjoying overwhelming superiority in military power, it did not take them long to liquidate Funcinpec as a military threat, starting with the systematic execution of Funcinpec military officers. Nek Bunchay himself survived by the skin of his teeth. Other less co-operating former KPNLF and Funcinpec military commanders who had been integrated into RCAF had subsequently either been forced into retirement or demoted to subordinate rank.
The first rule in military exercise is to avoid engagement where victory is uncertain. On the other hand, even a symbolic presence of armed opposition to external threat, as is being posed by the currently reported encroachments on Khmer sovereignty, would have exerted considerable weight upon the enemy’s calculations. As it is, Khmer nationalists and opposition MPs could only watch the intruders from afar.
• Perhaps, the most decisive advantage the CPP regime has over its opponents has been the economic resources it has had at its disposal, which it has used to finance its patronage system that encompasses virtually all elements and aspects of Khmer society. Although, the Monarchy has compromised its duty towards its subjects and sovereignty, which constitutes its foremost sacred obligation and its raison d’être, it has nonetheless, secured for its immediate clan members a firm foothold in that system. That many of the paid royal ‘advisors’ opt to stay out of sight whenever there is a crisis of political and national implications, does suggest, like everyone else tied to this patronage economy, that they have too much to lose by exercising their due public functions. Further, by keeping the judiciary, the legislature and the executive subordinate to the will of the ruling Party and unreformed, individuals, groups and businesses have even more reason to ingratiate their selves into that system.
What is to be done? The Khmer people will have to answer this question by themselves.
Can a nation live in peace without security, or have security without peace? Well, in the longer run, one cannot be without the other.
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Didn't you guys know? The Svay Rieng governor is Vietnamese. Why else would he be so quick to punish Khmer nationalists? Im sure that he is also protected by Vietnamese soldiers.
To solve these issues...unless there is no CPP. CPP and Vietnam are best friends or brothers 10000 years,but Vietnam is older borther and they are smarter than CPP,younger brother.
Also, we need to have smart leader and smart king, then our poor country, Cambodia and her people will be safe and glorious...
Also, Khmers out and inside of Cambodia who are care about these issues...must stand up and fight together...specially,HRP and SRP both need to work together and fight together... and this is the only last weapon to be successful and bring the Cambodia and her people what they want...
I am not belong to any political party, but I'm a Khmer who left my poor and beloved country...It really hurts me when I see like this...
Khoun Khmers1967,USA.
cpp should replace to Youn pussy party[ypp]and srp to cpp.
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