Hun Xen: The IRI survey said that we are moving in the right direction - one step forward, 10 steps back!Chea Xim: Wa! Ha! Ha!
IRI: Increasing support for Hun Xen’s government
Tuesday, January 12, 2009
By Ly Meng Huor
Radio France Internationale
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer
The US-based International Republican Institute (IRI) released its survey indicating that the Cambodian government led by the current ruling CPP party is moving in the right direction. Support for the popularity of the CPP government has increased up to 79%. However, the IRI survey was criticized by the SRP as being imperfect.
The IRI conducted its survey between 31 July to 26 August 2009. The results of the survey were not made available by the IRI itself, but it was publicly announced by Hun Xen in the morning of 12 January 2009 instead.
During a ceremony for the distribution of diplomas to students in Phnom Penh, Hun Xen pulled out a paper showing the results of the IRI survey to read. He indicated that the IRI’s survey question was: “Is the leadership of the Cambodian government moving in the right or wrong direction.” The results indicated 79% of the people surveyed indicated that the government is moving in the right direction.
The survey results surprised Hun Xen when the survey question was: Will you vote for the CPP in any election? Hun Xen indicated that the result indicated that 53% are certain that they will vote for the CPP. This number reflects a full 1% increase from last year’s IRI survey.
Hun Xen claimed that the IRI had already revealed its survey results to all parties that hold seats at the National Assembly, including the CPP and Funcinpec.
The current support for the government stems from the fact the government built roads, schools, healthcare centers, pagodas, bridges and the living condition has improved due to water irrigation, electricity and water, peace in the country and good business climate.
Nevertheless, the survey conducted by the IRI – which, in the past, used to be close to the SRP and human rights and democratic NGOs in Cambodia – was criticized by Yim Sovann, the SRP spokesman, of being imperfect. Yim Sovann explained that the survey was conducted under a climate of repression, of silencing the freedom of expression, of arrest made against journalists, of lifting the immunity of MPs, and the arrest and jailing citizens involved in land dispute.
The IRI conducted its survey between 31 July to 26 August 2009. The results of the survey were not made available by the IRI itself, but it was publicly announced by Hun Xen in the morning of 12 January 2009 instead.
During a ceremony for the distribution of diplomas to students in Phnom Penh, Hun Xen pulled out a paper showing the results of the IRI survey to read. He indicated that the IRI’s survey question was: “Is the leadership of the Cambodian government moving in the right or wrong direction.” The results indicated 79% of the people surveyed indicated that the government is moving in the right direction.
The survey results surprised Hun Xen when the survey question was: Will you vote for the CPP in any election? Hun Xen indicated that the result indicated that 53% are certain that they will vote for the CPP. This number reflects a full 1% increase from last year’s IRI survey.
Hun Xen claimed that the IRI had already revealed its survey results to all parties that hold seats at the National Assembly, including the CPP and Funcinpec.
The current support for the government stems from the fact the government built roads, schools, healthcare centers, pagodas, bridges and the living condition has improved due to water irrigation, electricity and water, peace in the country and good business climate.
Nevertheless, the survey conducted by the IRI – which, in the past, used to be close to the SRP and human rights and democratic NGOs in Cambodia – was criticized by Yim Sovann, the SRP spokesman, of being imperfect. Yim Sovann explained that the survey was conducted under a climate of repression, of silencing the freedom of expression, of arrest made against journalists, of lifting the immunity of MPs, and the arrest and jailing citizens involved in land dispute.
The faces of these two animals showing they are happy in the way that IRI is really stupid.
ReplyDeleteDeceive faces!
Is IRI stupid, or SRP was not smart enough to keep IRI as a friend?
ReplyDeleteKuoy Pichet
The result of IRI survey also shows the US foreign policy's direction, since everybody know IRI is a US thinktank heavily politicized by the US Administration.
ReplyDeleteOpposition parties must awake that the US is not always your close friend, so the next time you criticize the government don't take US as your benchmark.
KC
Do not be stupid, USA needs Cambodian oil, Americans are making moves to reach their goal.
ReplyDeleteCambodia's oil will be exchanged with Americans guns.
Oil will be depleated in 30-50 years at most!
ReplyDeleteAny small countries with oil field, there will be war. Big countries need them more according to their logic thinking.
Samrangsy party never accepted what is true they alway lie to themself,that why they can't learn from thier mistake and try to do better.no leadership in SRP which mean gone they gone down hill.
ReplyDeleteUS politicians are bought by the bankers to do their bidding. Even though we may go through the process of democracy of voting, but the reality is: Money answers all things.
ReplyDeleteLook at all the bail outs of failed banks-pay back from Obama for electing him as the president of Russia, not United States. He is a Communist to the core.
I bet there is not much different in Cambodian politic. Hun Sen is paid by the money man. World Bank is a crooked thief set up to rob countries of their resources. They take $200 dollars worth of goods and give back $10 dollars. That's how they rob countries that do business with them.
Hun Sen's government is in the right way? Can anyone draw a cartoon of eviction, killing, persecution and violation of Hun Sen's government to the people with the title of Government is in the right way and I will vote for it next election. I think this cartoon will be big joke.
ReplyDeleteCambodia is still a Stone Age country and dirt poor Cambodian people still live on $1 a day and majority still live below poverty line according to international standard.
ReplyDeleteHow is it possible that Cambodia experience so much economic growth and majority still remain dirt poor?
Cambodia is the land of contradiction!
The perception that IRI is part of US administration is not true.IRI is funded by and mouthpiece for Republican party outside US.
ReplyDeleteCurrent administration is much of Democratic Party,go figure.Also Opposition party of Cambodia seems to embrace US conservatism and Republican politicians like Joe Cao,a freshman US House Representative from Louisiana,who visited Hun Sen on 7 January celebration.
ហ៊ុនសែនជាមនុស្សអួតនិងក្រអើតក្រទមណាស់។
ReplyDeleteវានិយាយមុនគិតនិងមិនបំបែកធាតុរកធាតុនិងការណ៍ពិត
Even some people still poor, majority of Cambodian are now enjoy peace and prosperity than any regime in the last few hundreds year of Cambodian history.
ReplyDeleteSo those who keep rejecting the survey result that is not to their liking are denying fact and reality. When you cannot accept fact, then you cannot think logically, that is the reason that you will fail, one time after another, no matter if you have good intention or not. You need to accept the fact and then plan your action base on the fact and the reality.
Who are my friends? Not siem, not youn, not chen? How about US? Japan? Korea? Are they all against me? Is it that my international policy?
ReplyDeleteCriminal People Party is moving in the right direction at IRI survey. But what is the right direction under CPP ruler forced evictions and give land to the Vietnamese.
ReplyDeleteI WISH THE WORLD IS EXPLODING NOW SO I WILL NOT SEE KHMER PEOPLE SUFFERING AND DYING UNDER THE VIETNAMESE CONTROL. AND ALL THE VIETNAMESE WILL BE KILL WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD IS EXPLODING AND DESTROYING NO MORE LIFE ON EARTH.
The both Hanoi's dogs ,Mafia Hun Xen and the communist camarad Chea Sim.
ReplyDeleteIt is like a survey, which was focusing various countries, who se people are happy.
ReplyDeleteOne of them found to be Nigery.
Well. if Nigerian were not asked if you are having a proper medical care, social benefits, security, jobs, then the result will be YES, We are Happy
If you need the government to take care of you for everything, then you would love the communist regime. Yes, the socialist is about taking care of you, they take care of your money and freedom too.
ReplyDeleteHow we should interpret IRI survey findings? Are they biased against the opposition? I think that we can only say something about how the questions were asked? But please not questions about public opinions. There are 14M Cambodians in the country and not all of them are aware of what happened in every day life in the country. Actually not all of them are as educated as members of the opposition party (!) . Rather the opposition party (or parties) representatives should be asking them selves what wrong with them? And what they should do to correct the people’s perception of the country politics. It is like your face in the mirrors. It is up to the opposition to like it or not. If I don’t like my hair cut now, I will ask for something else next time I will go to the barber. Breaking the glass would not do anything good. Keep it cool and try to find a way to unite the oppositions and have a common and sound policy and winning platform for the next election. Three more years to go is a pretty long time in politic.
ReplyDeleteYes, Cambodian government move at the right direction by arresting critics, forbid demonstration, evicting people from their land, controlling the court system, out of control corruption. Are these IRI people blind?
ReplyDeletethe iri is a crap's survey, becuz they compared year zero(1979) till today, cambodia have been made alot progress in urbanisation in phnom penh and siem riep, plus the human right protection to the illegal immigrants. but the main problem was getting from bad the worst since last 3 years when hunsen has sold khmer lands to foreign investment. u can see in the picture ah-hun and ah-sim, they'r mocking about survey, becuz the result was completly opposited to what the reality in cambodia.
ReplyDeleteYes...these dirt poor Cambodian will have to say to everything the IRI otherwise AH HUN SEN will deport or put them in jail.
ReplyDeleteThese days dirt poor Cambodian can't say anything beside yes Sir! yes Sir! yes Sir as if their freedom of expression haven't taken away from them already!
This is just a survey! And survey can be bias as well and by taking the survey only in the heavily populated pro-CPP area and the outcome is predictable!
Having medical cares, decent paying jobs, and entitle to certain social benefits are not to say people have to give up freedom to a government, but the certain basic needs that the government should provide as people are paying taxes.
ReplyDeletewithout these basic needs, then there is no regualr and consistent social network safety to help those needs. But those needy will depend on handout occasionally by a few riches.
I wonder if all questions were asked to compare the current regime to Pol Pot's regime. So that the answer has to be 70% better then Pol Pot.
ReplyDeleteGood job IRI. We will work with your boss in DC to see if the intent of this survey was genuine otherwise your in trouble by cheating khmers.
Hun Sen said to Chea Sim, "I think we can beat Thailand in a heart beat". Don't you think?
ReplyDeleteChea Sim laughs, yes we can easy beat them. From past experiences we will survive in any kind of warfare and any situations. Let them call for it we will destroy Thailand to ashes...
Hun Sen whispered to Chea Sim. When will we ready to strike? We can strike when Kasit encroach us another step into our soil.
Chea Sim LOLs!!!!!!!!!!
DON'T BE A FOOL YOU-ALL!
ReplyDeleteTRY TO READ BETWEEN THE LINE!
IRI DO A SURVEY ON THE ANAWER OF SAMPLE (PEOPLE USE FOR SURWEY)
SO IN ANOTHER WORD BASE ON PEOPLE LOST THEIR JOB, LAND, AND RIGHT AND WAHT CCP IS DOING KNOW TO SCARE OF PEOPLE TALKING AGAINST THEIR MISS GOVERNING. THE IRI SURVEY MEAN THE CPP SUPRESSION INCREASE 79%!
THE DICTATORSHIP OF AH KWACK HUN XEN IS CLOSE TO SADAM HUSSEN AND POL POTSA, NOW!!!!
READY FOR THE ROLE CALL FROM HELL HUN XEN!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPEN TO THE FAMILY OF SADAM HUSSAN OF IRAQ
in the picture chea sim laughted becuz he told hunsen that his dick is so strong like a 18 y/o young man, since he switched from viagra to the 500 cialis.
ReplyDeleteDemocratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
ReplyDeleteMembers:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
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
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
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 80 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 over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
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.
Can we all sing along CPP corp...
ReplyDelete$am = Dashing through the bank...
$im = Laughing all the way pal...
$en = Hahaha hehehe and hohoho...
Kuoy Pichet and KC are right.
ReplyDeleteThe US's foreign policy is "Show me the money", and every politician has to switch fast, or otherwise.
KC 5:57 PM, is the same person formely known as "khmer patriotic, Ph.D from Hanoi" Viet/Yuon's slave that has been dissing, trashing, sabotageing KI-Media all these times...
ReplyDeleteDon't let this "KC" fool you or anybody else please?
as gentlemen have to have some certain of principles, IRI is the US base organization with SRP always praise them. Come on SRP! you should accept the reality that you are never ever popular in Cambodia.
ReplyDeleteAs for ah Kuoy Pichet, he is just Viet/Yuon's trash that is not worth anybody's time at all here on KI-Media. He can bark all he wants...
ReplyDeleteCome on guys don't talk about politics but talk about fishing. After working for the same company for 25 years I am now retired at age 58. I owned a property in small a town in Texas, USA. The property itself is located close to the lake where there are plenty of fishes to catch. Last night I and my brother-in-law caught about 15 fishes weight an average of 10 pounds/each. If you are Cambodian and your hobby is fishing you are welcome to join the club.
ReplyDeletethe IRI survey is biased and its stats is false; so the number used to boost cpp morale has no substance at all. Plus, no body is believing in this self-serving IRI survey.
ReplyDelete9:26 AM
ReplyDeleteExactly! How about this?
Cambodian Hunting Club vs. C........ P...... P.......
DON'T BE A FOOL YOU-ALL!
ReplyDeleteTRY TO READ BETWEEN THE LINE!
IRI DO A SURVEY ON THE ANAWER OF SAMPLE (PEOPLE USE FOR SURWEY)
SO IN ANOTHER WORD BASE ON PEOPLE LOST THEIR JOB, LAND, AND RIGHT AND WAHT CCP IS DOING KNOW TO SCARE OF PEOPLE TALKING AGAINST THEIR MISS GOVERNING. THE IRI SURVEY MEAN THE CPP SUPRESSION INCREASE 79%!
THE DICTATORSHIP OF AH KWACK HUN XEN IS CLOSE TO SADAM HUSSEN AND POL POTSA, NOW!!!!
READY FOR THE ROLE CALL FROM HELL HUN XEN!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPEN TO THE FAMILY OF SADAM HUSSAN OF IRAQ
The results of survey are just a photographic picture at the time of survey. But people change, circumstances change.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, Sihanouk had 80-90% of support, until ...
At the Khmer Rouge of Pol Pot ruling era, if there was any survey, it might have 90-99% of support.
If you survey people under life threat, you get 100% support.
So 79% of support for HS regime is very low score, indeed.