Mu Sochua in Geneva, Switzerland. (William Dowell/GlobalPost)The Cambodian activist and politician sees a jail sentence as the next step in her struggle.
March 6, 2010
By William Dowell
GlobalPost
GENEVA, Switzerland — Mu Sochua, one of the more impressive speakers at “Courage to Lead,” a recent gathering here of more than 40 women involved in human rights, is not a woman to be taken lightly.
After spending the last 20 years fighting for women's rights and against both human trafficking and general corruption in Cambodia, the deputy in Cambodia's leading opposition party has embroiled herself in a head-on clash with the country's perennial Prime Minister Hun Sen. The spat now seems likely to land her in jail.
At a superficial glance, the furor seems slightly silly. It began last spring when local tensions began to mount after Cambodian army soldiers burned several villages in an apparent land grab.
The army was not exactly popular in Mu Sochua's district, which includes Kampot, about two hours drive south of Phnom Penh. When Mu Sochua protested against a Cambodian army officer using official government vehicles during a political campaign, a scuffle ensued and Mu Sochua's blouse was accidentally ripped open. Hun Sen mentioned the incident in a speech, casually dismissing Mu Sochua as a hustler, who liked to expose herself and had a tendency to grab at men.
Mu Sochua has also accused the prime minister of calling her "cheung klang," which means "strong legs," in Khmer and is considered an insult.
If Hun Sen expected Mu Sochua to roll over, he was wrong. Mu Sochua promptly sued him for defamation in a Phnom Penh municipal court, demanding 500 Cambodian rials, or roughly 12 cents in damages along with an apology. Instead of apologizing, Hun Sen, who likes to go by the rather ungainly honorific “Samdach Akkak Moha Sena Padey Dekjo” promptly countersued.
Not surprisingly Mu Sochua's case was thrown out of court, while Hun Sen's stuck. Repeating his earlier slurs, Hun Sen went on to challenge Mu Sochua to take her case to international courts if she wanted, and to see how far that was likely to get her. Mu Sochua's parliamentary immunity was stripped away. An appeals court confirmed a lower court's verdict against her for libel, and the case is now headed for the Cambodia's Supreme Court, which Mu Sochua also expects to rule in favor of the “Samdach.” The penalty for losing the suit is a fine of roughly $4,100, but Mu Sochua refuses to pay it, and insists that she will go to jail for six months instead.
It may all seem like much ado about not very much, but Mu Sochua insists that there is a lot more at stake. Hun Sen, who was propelled into his current position after Vietnam ousted Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in 1979, has held onto power ever since by making sure that his party hand picks Cambodia's 13,000 village chiefs.
“This nation has to be built on the rule of law and not just one man,” says Mu Sochua. “These people are afraid of democracy. The way they maintain control is by not allowing the people to elect their village chiefs. The Cambodian people live in fear of the village chiefs. At the same time the country has opened itself up to a market economy, which brings in a lot of money that is not managed well, which is why there is so much corruption.”
Hun Sen, who at 57 shows no signs of planning an early retirement, has plenty of reason for wanting to take on Mu Sochua's party. In November 2009, he had Sam Rainsy, who leads the opposition, stripped of parliamentary immunity for the second time that year because Sam Rainsy had removed several posts marking the border with Vietnam. Rainsy contends that the Vietnamese, who were responsible for Hun Sen's rise to power in Cambodia, have been engaged in a land grab for themselves based on questionable treaty arrangements.
Mu Sochua insists that her spat focuses on Hun Sen's vulgar use of language and the corruption of Cambodia's legal system. “What is at stake,” she said, “is democracy. The space for democracy is narrowed by the power of the ruling party, and mainly by the power of Hun Sen, who has his hands in every institution, including the parliament and the courts. He didn't just insult me as a woman. He insulted the parliament as an institution. I am actually taking the justice system itself to court.”
The story gets a bit more complicated since Mu Sochua received a 2005 leadership award from the Vital Voices Global Partnership, a Washington, D.C.-based foundation.
“This is also a challenge for the international community,” Mu Sochua says. “They invest $1 billion a year in Cambodia, but they never fulfilled their responsibilities by making it a condition that the government fulfills its obligations towards human rights.” Hillary Clinton delivered a brief address via satellite at the end of the Geneva meeting, but it was not clear what her take as Secretary of State would be on Mu Sochua's case.
Even more potentially troublesome for Hun Sen is the fact that Mu Sochua, who earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology at San Francisco State University and a masters in Social Work at the University of California, Berkely, is married to an American who runs a major project on decentralization for the United Nations in Cambodia. “My husband is completely separate from my political life,” she explains. Her three children now live abroad, but both her husband and children are emotionally supportive. “I told my family that I am going to jail. Please don't talk me out of it. It has come to that point, Mom is going to jail,” she says. “It gives me peace in heart.” Whether it gives Hun Sen or his supporters peace of mind is another matter.
March 6, 2010
By William Dowell
GlobalPost
GENEVA, Switzerland — Mu Sochua, one of the more impressive speakers at “Courage to Lead,” a recent gathering here of more than 40 women involved in human rights, is not a woman to be taken lightly.
After spending the last 20 years fighting for women's rights and against both human trafficking and general corruption in Cambodia, the deputy in Cambodia's leading opposition party has embroiled herself in a head-on clash with the country's perennial Prime Minister Hun Sen. The spat now seems likely to land her in jail.
At a superficial glance, the furor seems slightly silly. It began last spring when local tensions began to mount after Cambodian army soldiers burned several villages in an apparent land grab.
The army was not exactly popular in Mu Sochua's district, which includes Kampot, about two hours drive south of Phnom Penh. When Mu Sochua protested against a Cambodian army officer using official government vehicles during a political campaign, a scuffle ensued and Mu Sochua's blouse was accidentally ripped open. Hun Sen mentioned the incident in a speech, casually dismissing Mu Sochua as a hustler, who liked to expose herself and had a tendency to grab at men.
Mu Sochua has also accused the prime minister of calling her "cheung klang," which means "strong legs," in Khmer and is considered an insult.
If Hun Sen expected Mu Sochua to roll over, he was wrong. Mu Sochua promptly sued him for defamation in a Phnom Penh municipal court, demanding 500 Cambodian rials, or roughly 12 cents in damages along with an apology. Instead of apologizing, Hun Sen, who likes to go by the rather ungainly honorific “Samdach Akkak Moha Sena Padey Dekjo” promptly countersued.
Not surprisingly Mu Sochua's case was thrown out of court, while Hun Sen's stuck. Repeating his earlier slurs, Hun Sen went on to challenge Mu Sochua to take her case to international courts if she wanted, and to see how far that was likely to get her. Mu Sochua's parliamentary immunity was stripped away. An appeals court confirmed a lower court's verdict against her for libel, and the case is now headed for the Cambodia's Supreme Court, which Mu Sochua also expects to rule in favor of the “Samdach.” The penalty for losing the suit is a fine of roughly $4,100, but Mu Sochua refuses to pay it, and insists that she will go to jail for six months instead.
It may all seem like much ado about not very much, but Mu Sochua insists that there is a lot more at stake. Hun Sen, who was propelled into his current position after Vietnam ousted Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in 1979, has held onto power ever since by making sure that his party hand picks Cambodia's 13,000 village chiefs.
“This nation has to be built on the rule of law and not just one man,” says Mu Sochua. “These people are afraid of democracy. The way they maintain control is by not allowing the people to elect their village chiefs. The Cambodian people live in fear of the village chiefs. At the same time the country has opened itself up to a market economy, which brings in a lot of money that is not managed well, which is why there is so much corruption.”
Hun Sen, who at 57 shows no signs of planning an early retirement, has plenty of reason for wanting to take on Mu Sochua's party. In November 2009, he had Sam Rainsy, who leads the opposition, stripped of parliamentary immunity for the second time that year because Sam Rainsy had removed several posts marking the border with Vietnam. Rainsy contends that the Vietnamese, who were responsible for Hun Sen's rise to power in Cambodia, have been engaged in a land grab for themselves based on questionable treaty arrangements.
Mu Sochua insists that her spat focuses on Hun Sen's vulgar use of language and the corruption of Cambodia's legal system. “What is at stake,” she said, “is democracy. The space for democracy is narrowed by the power of the ruling party, and mainly by the power of Hun Sen, who has his hands in every institution, including the parliament and the courts. He didn't just insult me as a woman. He insulted the parliament as an institution. I am actually taking the justice system itself to court.”
The story gets a bit more complicated since Mu Sochua received a 2005 leadership award from the Vital Voices Global Partnership, a Washington, D.C.-based foundation.
“This is also a challenge for the international community,” Mu Sochua says. “They invest $1 billion a year in Cambodia, but they never fulfilled their responsibilities by making it a condition that the government fulfills its obligations towards human rights.” Hillary Clinton delivered a brief address via satellite at the end of the Geneva meeting, but it was not clear what her take as Secretary of State would be on Mu Sochua's case.
Even more potentially troublesome for Hun Sen is the fact that Mu Sochua, who earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology at San Francisco State University and a masters in Social Work at the University of California, Berkely, is married to an American who runs a major project on decentralization for the United Nations in Cambodia. “My husband is completely separate from my political life,” she explains. Her three children now live abroad, but both her husband and children are emotionally supportive. “I told my family that I am going to jail. Please don't talk me out of it. It has come to that point, Mom is going to jail,” she says. “It gives me peace in heart.” Whether it gives Hun Sen or his supporters peace of mind is another matter.
40 comments:
Well, well, well Ms. Mu, don't you get enough of that aggravation from these men? They have been bullied you and insulted you, and you still want to get involved. Don't you get it, Cambodia is not ready to accept any women in power, at least not yet. Ms. Mu, you rather be in jail!
If I were you, stay in U.S and do normal things like us women do. Forget the politics. It's not worth it!
Vas-y à l’enfer, 1:41 AM.
Words are nice and beautiful but important is what people do in Life.
Lets see if Mu Sochua really will go to jail or if its just the usual propaganda of a female politician.
people forgot that there are more to cambodia than their personal political ambition, really!
What is the purpose of life for being a human?
I agree with Mu Sochua and her ambition to turn Cambodia into democratic country! She has to start somewhere and if she choose not to do something for the next 10 years or 20 years or even 30 years and nothing will be achieved and if she do something right now and at least something is achieved and that will be her legacy.
Do you want to live like fly and die like fly and leave nothing behind as a legacy for the next generation follow.
1:41,
and what do normal woman do?
I believed they have achieved more success in politic then you achieved anything in life.
Normal women in American can run for presidents, become secretary of states, governors, mayors and executive directors.
Maybe that is too far from home, what about Sri Lanka? A normal woman was a prime minister and presidet over 40 years ago!
Where is Cambodia now on the map of normalcy? Is Cambodia still a baby? After claiming pride of two thousands years of history we have not evolved 25% in mindset as a country that just came to existence in the last 400 years, the United States!
Isn't that something to be ashame of? I mean if you are a proud Cambodian of course.
2:58 am & 3:23
Hello 2:58 & 3:23?
You misunderstood what I said. When I said " do what normal things women do" I meant, go to work, spend time with family/friends, take vacation, eat out at restaurant, movies, etc... OMG!!! shopping? Aren't we women like to shop? Hello? Women that I'm surrounded do these things! They take care of themselves.
Women can be as powerful as men. However, in Ms. Mu's case, she has zero chance. She's very educated lady. And I don't want her to waste her time on the country that doesn't really accept her, yet. If she wants her name to be heard, she can wait.
Where was she when Vietnamese deliberate Cambodia in 1975? She and others should have been there to free Khmer people. In my opinion, you can't come to the country and try to reclaim the country that you didn't fight for.
I know PM Hun Sen has done so many illegal things. Everybody knows that! I don't think Ms. Mu and Mr. SAm Ransy would do better. They will be as corrupted as Hun Sen. This is human nature.
4:50 AM,
You have condemned a person before they even have a chance to act or perform anything thinking that the end result will be the same as the status quo.
Even if the end result could be the same as the status quo, it would still be better off to change the leadership; after all, the worst that happens is the status quo, but you could get better result with the new leadership.
Dear Mu Sochua,
I am overwhelming with your courage and determination to help our beloved people and nation.
You and Sam Rainsy are our living heroes.
I still think Hun Sen had came from animal mother.
Australia
Khmer gov't needs to include all khmer interlactuals to help running the country because they are the foundation for our nation succession, "when a nation sins it will have one ruler after another. but a nation will be strong and endure when it has intelligent, sensible leaders" (Proverbs 28:2). If you put another person down, you are doing it to yourself "you do yourself a favour when you are kind but if you are cruel, you only hurt yourself" (11:17). It is good to have the skills of morality, integrety and professionalism and that is never to use and abuse its power because it will not last forever. It will be short live. "when evil people are in power, crime increases but the righteous will live to see the downfall of such people...a good person knows the rights of the poor but wicked can not understand such a thing...people with no regard for others can throw the whole lives into turmoil those who are wise keep things calm" (ibid 29:7. Therefore please help each other out, if khmer don't love khmer, no one in the world will. It is important the we have a common to protect "everyone equally". Let collect tax from richer people and give it to the poor, just like what Aust doing right now, we must adopt their policy for it is the right thing to do as well as providing free education for all. Educated people can see the light and no one can abuse them or take advantage of them. Againt 95% of Aust are educated, Just do what they do, everything will be alright (use the ten commandment and make it into laws). Aust
5:10 am
What a hell you saying? Look at U.S for instance! People voted Obama the first black to be the President of U.S hoping that Obama and his team would seriously help the country. Instead of helping the main street, Obama and his team billed out banks, ceo wall street, and so on. And you know where the money goes! OMG, messy health care? don't want to go there!
Till this day, does Obama and his attempt to help home owners, create more jobs, building more bridges, recruit new teachers, education, open up head start, pre school after school for youth, summer school etc.. The list goes on! Not to mention, the unemployment is on the rise, folk!
All in all, it doesn't matter who's in or who's out. They all will corrupt ( Politic people are always lie ). That was my point!
5:24 am
stop quoting from the bible. Bible is not welcomed in this forum. Express your idea! Leave your bible some where else.
Mu Suchua is more of a man than Hun Sen will ever be. Which says quite a lot about ah pleur Hun Sen.
5:33,
Actually Obama has helped a lot of home owner as he promised. His tax credit to new homeowners did wonders for me, it made the buying process much cheaper and more pleasant.
He also has made the automobile industry more American focused emphasizing American product. For the first time American also join the world conference on global warming and America at the same time had a mental face lift in the eyes of the world. European countries began to respect American authority again.
So I would not say Obama did not change anything. Sometimes the biggest changes comes from the inner views and perspective of mankind. Obama also represented a breakthrough in the culture of post segregation America. His symbolic election led many Africans to feel free and finally understood that no barrier is impossible and that mostly these barriers are mentality. It is an awakening.
You asked where were Sam Rainsy and Mu Sochua when Vietnam "deliberate" or liberated Cambodia? To which you imply on those who liberate Cambodia can participate in rebuilding Cambodia, and this would mean the Viets and the former Khmer Rough inclusive club only.
Because many normal Khmer were just busy trying to survive the victimization and double aggression by their own leader and foreign aggression.
Your comments are unthoughtful and nonconstructive in the rebuilding of a new modern Cambodia. How longer are you willing to wait for a better Cambodia?
Obama certainly did not wait for his chance. The time for change is the time when someone brave step up to change and awaken the mentality of self-oppressed minded people like yourselves.
may the tevada awake you from your nightmare of inferior and non-inclusive mentality so you can be empowered to help Cambodia also and not stand by and watch the "deliberator" do their work.
Does "Teveda" really exist?
Mrs. MU SOCHUA. You are the only ONE. Mornouss Ke York Toeung Voeur Doem Chhoer Ke York Kh-Lem. I'm proud and support you for your courage and decision. Our Motherland always depend on you also jati KHMER. We can't compare American's life to Khmer's life at these day. I had a strong beleive that you can make a different one day for jati KHMER. May GOD bless and protect you every second.
6:46 am
Where do you live? I know, in U.S, but what state? What did Obama give you? Or what did you do to Obama? Hope his wife was ok with it. LOL
Look at the big picture! This is his second year in office, what did he accomplishe? Other than "bail out the big banks, wall street, and the auto company. You mentioned, he makes it easy for first time home buyers. It's not happening here. All I see more and more people are being laid off from work. If you want to know more infor. on Obama second year in office, you need to watch Fox News more often. you will be amazed!
Whoever you are, cut a crap! Remember, you need to love yourself first. By the way, look in the mirrow lately! you must be one of those UGGGGGGLY person in this world. Your fact must be filled with zits and other unwanted stuffs. So, help yourself first! Oh! may the bad spirit wakes you up from your deep sleep and remind you this is 2010. Wake up and smell the coffee! Stop blaming others for their opinion! This is a freedom of speech!
CHILL, CHILL, Relax,
7:02,
Tevada is your spirit and consciousness. Your intelligence. If it does not exist for you, I am sorry.
Dang! Are you inventing the new word Teveda, here?
Politics is generally regarded as an amoral and unforgiving terrain, traditionally the vocation of choice for men thirsty for the trappings of worldly fame – failing that, notoriety - beside being playthings of powerful aristocrats and their offspring, in particular, when they found out to their dismay, the taxing rigour of military life. Yet there are a few exceptions that opt to go into politics out of a sense of civic duty; an obligation imposed upon them by a combination of events and circumstances unforeseen rather than an inherited choice. Among this latter category, we have Mohandas K. Ghandi (later bestowed the title of ‘Mahatma’ – Great Soul – by the Indian people. Mahatma is the father of modern India, but his moral influence extends well beyond that great country. I once came across his statue in a public space in the middle of Phnom Penh. Hopefully, it has not been dislodged to make way for another development scheme, for in truth and practise, he was a friend to all mankind whose love of justice, practised simplicity and life-long struggle against political and social oppression, which in India, as in Khmer society today, also encompasses the inequities of the caste system which Cambodia inherited through imported Indian religious systems, particularly, in the form of Brahmanism.
Economically and socially, the caste system proves to be a most stubborn and irrational force, enslaving millions in its grip, of whom the vast majority are the rural poor as well as women and minors. In Khmer society, this is an on-going affliction, a silent agony endured daily by virtue of not merely being poor per se, but more specifically of being excluded socially from legal, political protection mechanisms.
The plight of human trafficking is probably not new, but the sheer scale and number of vulnerable young women (some are known to be very young, not yet old enough to discern whether the first man walking into her room is there to play with her or to rape her violently) who have been forced to service the sex ‘industry’ have been an alarming feature of post-war Cambodia.
This is a complex, global issue that requires urgent input from all parties and not just lip-service at press conferences. Ms Mu Sochua and many other Khmer women who have been at the forefront of the campaign to better the lot of Khmer women are much better qualified than this humble observer, and certainly, given the nature and magnitude of the malaise just mentioned, these exceptional women, whether they happen to be in politics or humanitarian bodies, deserve far better tribute through recognition and influence than what they have been given so far, not least owing to the public character of their labour, which in Cambodia is saturated with risks; to the fact that in Cambodia today women outnumber men, and last but not least, to the personal sacrifice that they have to make in juggling professional roles with family responsibilities; for being public figures aside, they also have to live their ‘normal’ lives as wife, daughter, mother to their respective folk.
Despite the existence of many powerful women in business and commerce in Khmer society today, the majority of their sisters remain powerless. This is largely not a defect of Khmer society in general –certainly not of Khmer women – but instead, it is a tragic outgrowth or vestige of a male-led universe with unreformed feudalism at the base of its pyramid.
Finally, it should not matter from where a ‘leader’ of men and women emerges. Just as a single lighted candle vanishes the darkness in a space many times its size, so a person with humanity and the love of justice in his/her heart shall be a godsend to all.
Let me leave a quote written by King Jayavarman vii’s wife as an epithet to this greatest of Khmer rulers:
“It is not private afflictions, but public sorrows, that make grief of Kings”
MP
Cambodia needs more women like Mu Sochua and more men like Sam Rainsy! They are the true leaders who will bring real Democracy to Cambodia! I second the that Mu Sochua is more of a man than Hun Sen will ever be!
Someone questioned where were Mu Sochua and Sam Rainsy, when Pol Pot regime took over and where were they when the Viets invaded and stated they should not have any rights to reclaim Cambodia! So you are saying, since I was 2 years old at the time and fled with my family to the U.S., I don't have the right to go back and help my people and my country?! That is the most ridiculous reasoning that I've ever heard! If that's the case, then, the only ones that have a chance to rebuild Cambodia would be the KHmer Rouge and the Viets?!
Sochua different from Hun Sen's wife, Bun Rany Hun Sen. She fucked the head of monk in Cham Pou Ka Ek pagoda. Sochua is stupid, she doesn't know how to fuck monk like Bun Rany
I think "YOUN" is a common language can't be used to compare to "Nigger" cause "YUON" means "thief" or "stealer".
WHICH IS TRUE CAUSE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE ARE "YUON" or "THIEF" STOLE MY FAMILY FORTUNE AND LIVES. DAM STEALER KEEP WEARING YOUR DUON^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^CAUSE I KNOW YOUR JUST A THIEF!
A common appeal TO "YANKEE" MEANING "COWARD" FOR NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS.
SO AS "DOU PAI" EASTERN FOLKS OR "JAPANESE" SOME TIMES IS RACIST ALSO? CHINESE STILL USED IT.
SO SORRY FOR UNEDUCATED HUN SEN REGIME PLEASE READ MORE BOOKS!
TELL HUN SEN TO READ MORE BOOKS CAUSE HE PRETTY DAM DUMB TO BE PM.
WHY DO YOU THINK ALL VIETNAMESE ALSO SAY HUN IS MY SLAVE AND I AM HIS SHEPARD.
FAT BAT CAT OR CHAT. READ DUMBO.
7:14 AM (8:15 on Tevada see below):
7:14
oh wow, now I know why you are so pessimistic and outright anti-obama, you listen to Fox News!
Wow!Wow!Wow! I did not know a Khmer listen to Fox News! What Fox News is to America is like what CTN is to Cambodia.
If you want to get your news, you will not listen to fox news. If you want to get jokes and your intelligence mocked and trampled on, then you listen to Fox News. The people at Fox News "dumb" down their topics and straight out manipulate their news to serve a "conservative" agenda.
They have been brought court for distorting news information and has even admitted to lying. You know how they defend themselves? Yeah, free speech allows them to make up news! Watching Fox News is like walking around with Feces hanging over your head.
Even a Comedy Central show the Daily Shows can do a better job then Fox when it comes to informing Americans.
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For 8:15:
No, I am not re-inventing the word Tevada, I am putting into context for a non-religious person yourself. Obviously by your first response, you do not believe in Buddhism/Hinduism or any forms of goddess and/or Devies (Tevoda). So I made it personal for you, because in terms of spirituality for an atheist tevodas and personal aspirations and awakenings is the same idea- gods and goddess are beings that have powers, wisdoms, and intellect beyond our means. By calling to them we hope for safety, harmony, and personal gains.
If you don't believe in such beings, then you would have to substitute these beings be your own thought process, mind, understanding, intelligence and evolution.
I don't think the analogy- the accommodation I made for you, is too hard to understand.
Is it? I sure hope you and the gentlemen/women are not the same individual who gains their news off Fox. If you are, you may have a bit of time understanding the concept - very alien to what you would generally hear from Fox you know.
Here ye O my people
A car company always supply a manual for the make of that car, so the owner have a reference on how to fix that car or take care of that car when it is in need of fixing.
Well, let put it this way - everything that you buy come with a owner manual. Likewise, God, who created man and he also gave us a life's manual we call the Bible, the word of God. The world is in the shape that it is in because man have not follow the instructions that God had given to us via his word.
Do you know that this world exists because of the word of God, the Creator of all things? Without his words nothing would exist as we see it. If God were to remove his word from this universe, everything will collapse and become void and dark without life as we know it.
And this world will be rule by the law of God out of Zion, which is Jerusalem. Do you know that Israel has God's name on them as an individual? God's name is imprinted by the landscape in Jerusalem. The Jews are hated because they bear God's name on them.
Do you know that God has set men to be the leaders not women? Men and women have different role in a society - they are not suppose to usurp authority over men. When this happens, it is not of God but is of the false understanding in the people and is of the Adversary the devil. The devil will contradict everything that God had pronounced good. So the political wrangling that is happening in Cambodia or anywhere else are of the demonic influence of Satan's foot soldiers working to bring diabolical opposition to the truth of God - until God put away Satan and his soldiers (demons) then will men not be easily influence by the demonic realm.
Jesus is the ONLY answer for the world today. Demons believes in who he is and they trembled 'cause they know that they will be punish for rebelling against him and for leading men to rebel also.
America is revolving into neo-socialist state. Thanks to Barack Obama and his predecessors.
Obama is a pure Communist. He is anti-America. He is working for the elitists to bring the good old USA to her knees. He is evil and he is a Muslim in heart & soul. But yet, he is doing the will of God that all the prophets had spoken of long ago maybe come to pass in our time.
9:52 you are just a Fox Automata machine. They program you well. Mindless.
I don't own a TV but I do listen to talk radio - which Obama loves to band and they are working to band Christian talk radio at the present.
Beside, as a believer I understand the conspiracy of the evil one. For many will be deceive by the anti-christ. If I'm mindless I would not able to communicate on this platform.
11:08, "If I am mindless I would not be able to communicate on this platform", I would challenge that proposition with reference to the multiple bots that has already done the same thing which you are doing.
Good luck Mu Sochua! Hope everything goes well.
9:36 AM,
Re: Tevada
It was my sincere and honest question. I appreciate you taking the time to elaborate and I am not Anon @7:14 AM. Thanks again.
12:07 PM,
I see. I apologize for jumping to conclusion on your identity. I did not know if you were the same individual and if your question was sarcasm. It is hard to deal with so many people and negativity, one feels a bit jumpy and agitated.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
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
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
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.
JOM REAB SURE ....!
Dear Mu Sockhua and SAm raIngsy I am just turn to 21 y old i was listen to the new watching TV both of you the best I neet to learn from you ,DON'T GIVE UP and AS LONG AS MY EDUCATION COMPLET i'll do any thing to get Mr hun sen out believe me we love you all
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A best WOMAN MU SOCHUA
I would choose Theary Seng for a position of govt job over Mu Sochua. Theary Seng, though much younger than Sochua, is someone I see as having the right stuff to lead a country. She is highly educated and outspoken on issues that matter to khmer people. Mu Sochua is also highly educated, but she does not have much support from her party.
Remember Jesse Jackson? He tried running for president back in the 90s, but his candidacy was never serously considered by majority of Americans. He did not have the majority of support, nor did he have the resources to spend on campaigning. Jesse Jackson's motto "You only lose when you stop running." Mu Sochua is another case of Jesse Jackson. The game of politics requires that you play all your cards available. Even then, the success is hard to come by.
We all can see that Madame Mu's case is a very politically sensitive one. This is a "profile in courage" more than any statement made. True courage for both Madame Mu, her leader, Mr. SR, and other oppositions, is to continue to challenge the system/regime. By going to jail, not just saying it, is one of the least expensive way (price paid)to do so. At least the age old political assassination had effectively ended, thus far, that's a good news.
Ronnie Yimsut, Author and Activist
it's not a bad political tactic, really. nowadays, people don't like killing each other anymore, instead they protest, demonstrate, etc in a way to win attention and bring changes. this jail, if legal at all, it brief and will probably win them more supporters and sympathizers for they show they will not relent to old, undesired ways. maybe people will see the justice in all of this. plus, they have their supports, not just locally but the world as well. of course, everyone will keep an eye on everything going on in cambodia, be it politics, development, growth, etc, etc... god bless all.
Mrs.Mu Sochua, just do it! In the honor of poor Khmer people.
I respect your bravery and your sacrifice for our country. I want to go to jail to support your virtuous and honorable cause.
Pou Sovachana, Pagoda Unnalum
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