Cambodia tells donors to quit lecturing on fiscal transparency
May 26, 2010
DPA
'Global Witness is a group of thieves, they cooperate with foreign agencies' - Hun Xen, leader of Cambodia's family of the thieves of the nationPhnom Penh - Prime Minister Hun Sen told a conference on good mining practices Wednesday that foreign organisations must stop giving advice on how to manage expected revenues.
'This is not the hour to talk about spending the money,' Hun Sen told several hundred business executives, diplomats and civil society members in a speech opening the two-day meeting.
'And don't talk too much looking on Cambodia as a child; the (government) is not a child,' he said. 'So do not advise too much.'
In recent years, foreign companies have signed dozens of exploration deals in industries from oil and gas to bauxite and gold.
Critics charge that the deals are opaque, with revenues failing to reach the national budget.
Hun Sen also lashed out at Britain-based Global Witness, which has published highly critical reports on the government's handling of state assets, including forestry and mining.
'Global Witness is a group of thieves, they cooperate with foreign agencies,' he charged. 'We have no money (from extractive industries) but they teach us about how to spend the money, and even blame us for stealing it.'
Global Witness spokesman George Boden last month urged donors to pressure Phnom Penh to account for millions of dollars in contract bonuses from French oil firm Total SA and Australian mining company BHP Billiton Ltd.
Boden said there was no sign that the bulk of the money had reached the budget.
'Donors must use the upcoming round of donor-government meetings to ask some tough questions and get some answers,' Boden said.
The government has said the money from Total and BHP Billiton went into a social fund, although details of that fund remain unclear.
BHP Billiton is currently under investigation by US and British regulatory authorities for possible violations of anti-graft legislation reportedly committed in Cambodia.
Hun Sen's speech came ahead of next week's donor conference at which pledges are made. In 2009, Cambodia received about 950 million dollars from foreign governments, roughly half its annual budget.
Cambodia is ranked as one of the world's most corrupt countries. It was listed last year in 158th place by graft watchdog Transparency International, with 1st place going to the least-corrupt country. Only 19 nations were ranked worse.
28 comments:
A sva kom khlaing pèk. som niyeay phorng.
You are very strong today, but tomorrow you will become a monkey.
The khmer people will overcome.
This government is certainly not a child.
No child could steal like this.
GW has hit where it really hurt, the CPP Government is not a child because it has manage to go under the radar for 18 years? Now some one put pressure on transparency, it not received well....
In the past Hun Sen use others to negotiate himself out of getting what he wanted example Oppositions, the Journalists etc.. to divert the real issues. Every times it comes closed to Donors meeting He would do something spectacular, not different this year except this time he only got Sam Rainsy who are not interested in negotiation?
Donors nation must pressure the CPP Government hard or risk being seem as criminal colaborators.
Like the words that Hor5Bora said "Chrouk chhkuot"
Hun Xen sometime can speak for long nearly one hour, but if you pay attention to listen to him he use a routine words and all his sentences were hard to understand like khmer words said "chab chong proyung doeum"
and most of his speak were slang and swear words
He is the most corrupted leader in the world.
He is the leader of the poorest country in the world.
You don't need to mind about him.
This is the natural characteristic of one of the dictators.
with all the curruption from head to toes who gonna trust you MR PM? so far just look at our forest for example.
What do you expect from monsieur hun zen? he's not fit to be a primier of cambodia, let alone having a constructive discussion on corruption issue with him. I would rather have a boxing match with this guy and knock his teeth out so that he won't keep flapping his chins. this son of a bitch has no diplomatic etiquette at all.
Hun Sen think when he shut opposition mouth up, his corruption acts would go smoothly. Nobody know? God knows everything. People will find out. Then he will be hung someday like other dictators in the world.
I think it is time donor governments seriously reviewed their approach to dealing with this regime instead of pretending that they have been engaged in a 'constructive dialogue' with it for the benefit of the Cambodian people.
If, for example, Singapore, Hong Kong and other predatory nations have a hand in the illicit trade in the country's mineral assets, the donors could better serve the interest of the Cambodian people in the long run by exploring means by which to curb or deprive the regime's reliance on that trade. After all, nation states like Singapore are heavily dependent on international capital and confidence.
Most developing countries suffer from corrupt, incompetent governance, but a small nation like Cambodia has had to bleed its limited natural resources to feed the insatiable, rapacious appetite of a tiny ruling clique, and on top of that, acquiescing to patron states like Vietnam for their demands for endless payments in tribute.
Only with genuine political independence and transparent internal political process will the Khmer people be finally empowered to rebuild their shattered country through peaceful sustainable development in all the relevant spheres, including the economic, political and cultural ones.
The signatories to the Paris Peace Accords have succeeded in bringing relative peace and stability to Cambodia, but they have not done more than leaving behind a formal guiding framework and a loosely welded set of principles in the stewardship of someone who evidently neither takes to heart their visions nor has cause to live by them.
While I agree that ultimately Cambodians must be agents in their country's change, I have struggled to detect any scope for fundamental change beside that mentioned above. In deed, the signatories' hands-off approach has effectively given assurance to the regime to deal ruthlessly with individuals and groups who actively sought - and are seeking - to open up that scope.
If and when that change is finally allowed without concerted international precipitation and effort to that end, it will be - as they say - too little, too late.
School of Vice
What Cambodians need to ask themselves is, who is Global Witness? What is their agenda? Cambodians should be very leary of these types of foreign organizations. They usually have an agenda that wants to fundamentally transform you and your culture. "Global" should be the first hint. How can you be global when you are having such a difficult time being Cambodia. A lot of nations around the world are going through the same thing. I find it ironic that an organization from a former colonizer of the world, UK, would even be aloud in the door. Imagine a bunch of foreigners sitting around their well furnished offices drinking chardonay wine discussing what is best for Cambodia. Where is your voice in that room? Self determination is the only way. I know there are problems with the government but you must be the agent of change, not foreign entities with hidden agendas. Let Cambodia be detremined by Cambodians.
Wrong, 7:33
Global is trying to help their British citizens about how their government using their money to help poor nations like Cambodia, and making sure money is going to the poor and not the dictators.
Leader with education and/or fair mind would not have to the gut to say this... Again and again, Hun Sen surprises me in his creativity for what he has to say in.
I am not proud of him to be my leader and he does not represent nor my many of my educated friends.
i hope the world leader should help cambodians ppl to remove this this tyranny.
maybe mr. hun sen is right to some degree about how global witness, which is a private organization with no creditial in diplomacy, cultural sensitivity, etc is telling or to put it bluntly bossing cambodia gov't around as though they own cambodia. now in this scenerio, hun sen is right. global witness is an extreme environmentalist group that goes around the world and harrass third world countries about their sustainable development and so forth which by american definition, sustainable development is like no develepment at all, you know! this group called global witness knows nothing about cambodia from the way they lecture carelessly to cambodia. they now use excuses to arouse ignorant people who knows nothing about cambodia about corruption on the prospect of oil discovery in cambodia and other mineral prospect and so forth when the real money hasn't even running yet from these deals. you see, gw is full of bullshit! to quote khmer wise saying, gw is doing kron te leou pkor chak teuk chol pang! maybe gw has nothing better to do but to harrass country like cambodia! go home already!
I CAN'T STAND AH KWACK KBOT CHEAT HUN XEN. THIS MOTHERFUCKER NEED TO DIE ASAP SO CAMBODIA AND CAMBODIANS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE.
9:40PM,
Fuck You! Yes GW goes around harrass others. Otherwise those others like Hun Xen would have done much much worst without being watch.
I would say this motherfucker Hun Xen and you, motherfuckers are right. Open your eyes and ears motherfucker! Hun Xen and his Scambodia desserves to be harrass and procescutes. Ah Kwak Hun Xen need more then harrass after what he done and continues to suffers our people and destroying our nation. This motherfucker and his motherfucking corrupted officials need to be slaughter!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Hey KI,
This is one of the funniest captions of Mr. H. with a fitting title I'v seen yet.
I couldn't stop laughing.
OMG Ar Quak Hun Sen u better calm the fuck down a little bit bitch.
This blind mad dog will end up like Noriega or Saddam Hussein. Being intoxicated with pride, money and stolen power, a base person arrogantly barks at everyone who criticizes him. It's his PhDs that make him get more and more cruel and disrepectable, because, with those PhD degrees, he thinks he's also well educated. Actually he's a dumbest fool among the other fools. In a child's point of view, he's great, but in the decent adults' point of view, he's no better than a blind mad dog!
That is the word of former Khmer waiting for whether Hun Sen will be strong for ever or only a small of Chess of Viet. In the world history, no one will be stronger for their life, one day will be down.
just waiting
khmers should get they have paid for.
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.
Hun Sen says: Don't tell me how to manage revenue because because all were stollen aready.
You act like a child, you get treated like a child
too Funny for me. GW done a good job, so you will get more paid for your job, your wage will be increase mans. if you guys stop, you will lose your job.
now how many people can stand scam rainsy? so bias view, really!
only God takes hun sen's blindness away then Cambodian will have no more sufferings from vietnam territory expension.
GLOBAL WITNESS CANN'T TELL HUN XEN TO STOP STEALING BECAUSE THAT THE ONLY HUN XEN'S TRADE, SKILLED THAT HE HAD EARNED, SO DON'T TELL THIS THUG ABOUT MANER, OR GOOD GOVERNMENT.
AFTER ALL HUN XEN IS NOT A GENTLEMENT HE IS A THUG, HE CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT MANER IS. What a thugs.
KHER UNITED
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