Mu Sochua (Photo: AP)Sun, 18 Jul 2010
DPA
Mu Sochua said US support for military units have been implicated in human rights abuses was "a huge insult to the people of Cambodia.""So I am extremely disappointed by President Obama for allowing this to happen in Cambodia," Mu Sochua said.Phnom Penh - A senior US diplomat defended military aid to Cambodia on Sunday, following criticism from a prominent opposition parliamentarian.
She also accused the US Department of Defense of lying to the US Congress when it said Cambodian military units had not been involved in human rights abuses.
William Burns, US under secretary of state for political affairs, said military exercises in Cambodia involving troops from the US and 23 Asia-Pacific nations were part of efforts to improve regional humanitarian and peacekeeping capabilities.
"Any military relationship we conduct around the world is consistent with US law, and so we look very carefully and vet very carefully the participants," Burns said at a ceremony in Phnom Penh to return seven ancient Cambodian artefacts recovered from the US.
The two-week exercise that began July 12 is part of the 2010 Global Peace Operations Initiative, a US-run effort to train peacekeepers.
Burns spoke after opposition legislator Mu Sochua said US support for military units have been implicated in human rights abuses was "a huge insult to the people of Cambodia.""So I am extremely disappointed by President Obama for allowing this to happen in Cambodia," Mu Sochua said.
She also accused the US Department of Defense of lying to the US Congress when it said Cambodian military units had not been involved in human rights abuses.
Mu Sochua said the international community was repeatedly failing in its obligations to Cambodia. She called on donors, who pledged more than 1 billion dollars this year, to impose conditions such as respect for human rights.
Crazy woman! You really support Siam.
ReplyDeletewhat does peacekeeping training has anything to do with human rights abuse or whatever? let's not over do it! reform is more likely, her case is not human rights abuse, it's more of defamation case! i think the US defence is doing the right thing with cambodia as there are more to cambodia than ms mu sochua and her own biased view or politicized view which i can see why US no longer buy into nowadays. god bless my country cambodia.
ReplyDeletelet's agree to disagree for a change, ok!
Please don't be selfish, Mrs. Mu. I understand the conflict between you and Hun Sen, but Khmer arm force really need support from U.S.
ReplyDeletemu sochua, if you want to complain about human rights abuse, go to siem country about their les majeste law and their emergency or crisis rules, now that's real human rights abuse, really! don't try to tell america not to cooperate and do business with my country cambodia, ok! my country deserves better as there are more to cambodia than you and i, you know!
ReplyDeletePlease Ms.Sochua don't grap the tale of the snake again. This is a huge snake, not a smal snake as you grap in Cambodia. ( You and Hun Sen), huge snake is USA.
ReplyDeleteYour are not a politician, young lady. May be you are too proud of your previous award. Please do not misleading Khmers. I support you in some issues, but not all.
BP oil (Khmer living in USA)
Huge snake is USA ?
ReplyDeleteThis Snake had been chopped by Hanoi....then by Iraqis and then by Afghan.
Hillary Clinton will go the join Hanoi in a few days as an Huge snake or Puos Pralit ?
As one of Khmers abroad, I sincerely thank President Obama and administration for respecting, building frienship and relationship with Cambodia.
ReplyDeleteIt is great to have USA, China,and Russia to support Cambodia. I support PM Hun Sen to keep Cambodian foreign policy in neutral.
Please Ms. Sochua, revise your policy. Don't ran too fast.
China and USA don't care about human rights in Cambodia, the important is you are with who ?
ReplyDeleteIf you are with China you are against USA, if you are with USA you are against China.
This kind of war will continue for ever..
What's a bunch!of nincompoop!Mrs:Mu Sochua,was just expressing her opinion,It's call free speak!America's #1-Is ruling this worlds with freedom,No!nations can Resist freedom now a days...So...get used to it.
ReplyDeleteEverybody can forget MU Sochua because it is not interesting to do publicity for her.
ReplyDeleteShe is nothing for 14 millions of cambodian's people.
She don't respect Cambodia as she don't the law of this country.
Yim Sovann said it many times already. If Cambodia is moving in the right direction. If Cambodia prosper, have good relation with the west, have job for new students then the SR party is in trouble. So the SR party strategic plan is to continue to make trouble for Cambodia, and to make sure that Cambodia keep moving the wrong direction, being poor and corrupt so that they have more chance of winning the next election.
ReplyDeleteNow Mu Sochua really insults Cambodia and its people. What's wrong with this woman? Can she overcome her %@#* ?
ReplyDeleteShe continues to use her bitterness against Mr. Hun Sen to weaken the country. This military exercise provides very valuable field experience to Cambodia armed forces, and positively rises Cambodia international profile, and strengthen the cooporation and relationship between Cambodia and other countries. Yet Mu Sochua does not care about all these, she only cares about her own personal hidden interests and how to hit back at Mr. Hun Sen at any cost.
I hope people in Kampot will never vote for her again.
well, you are Ah Yuon slave or you are a YUON's Black DOG that is why you never see any thing.
ReplyDeleteSoon or later, YUON will eat you and Ah Black DOG HUN xEn.
Yes...I think this time she seems to run too fast...one thing that she need to bear it in mind all time is that the government is not going to collapse when international community stop aid...but it is the poor...that SRP want to serve. Think about it again Auntie Mua.
ReplyDeleteYou know how Cambodia could convene US to strengthen military tie though this country has abused human right? Hun Maneth, Hun Sen's son is the key lobbyist. Remember he graduated from US military school.
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ReplyDeleteThis time N. Sihanu will have held a losing card and he'll end with that card. Did he convince Hanoi to bet on the China card in his recent "private personal" visit?
The US is not like Cambodia whose ruler is an extremist in all win-win cases. Mrs Mu is also a citizen of the US, she has her right to criticize whatever act which makes her feel inappropriate for her government to do to other country. The US won't punish her, as Cambodia do, because the US is a government serving its people whereas Cambodia is a government maltreating its people for the benefit of a bunch of idiots.
ReplyDeleteAs was said earlier, domestic social and political issues are not important as compared to global and regional politics.
ReplyDeleteEconomically, politically, and militarily, the Khmers have a saying:"phnom mouiy men del meaan khla pi" The world is witnessing the rising of a second "khla" and will inevitably experience the power struggle between two "khla."
Hollywood photo stunts and social work issues will not be given the same spot light and attention. They are only good in some magazines or newspapers for a brief "feel good" moment.
i think the US is more interested in healing the wound and reestablished good relationship with cambodia than to blindly taken side with mu sochua with her personal lawsuit with hun sen. i'm sure the US is not ignorant in all of this, really! of course, there are more to cambodia than just mu sochua and other trouble makers. i guess it's ok to have these trouble makers as long as the world stop buy into them because sometimes, cambodia needs that encouragement, that strength, that something, etc to look forward to in order to reform our country and gov't. so, it's really a win-win situation for my country cambodia, despite all of this going on. god bless cambodia.
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ReplyDeleteYou don't understand what is a politician. A politician is a person who is active in party politics, or a person who holds a political office; and SRP is an opposition party politics, therefore Mu Sochua is a politician, a new leader, a replacement while Rainsy is absent.
What she criticized is right, because Cambodian military was used to confiscate land and shipped drug during Hok Lundy in power, and it may secretely still do.
Mu Sochua takes this good opportunity to criticize the US is the right thing to do. To remind the US that the Cambodian military was used to abuse the civilians and to confiscate land by the elite and powerful in CPP and more.
It is just a beginning of a new leader of SRP starts to protest to the oppressive actions of the Hun Sen regime and the political infighting between the CPP vs. SRP.
these political activists existed for the purpose of political pluralism in cambodia as cambodia can use all of them and to keep cambodia in check and balance, although in an unfavorable way. i mean a check and balance could be in another form that is better than having this political pluralism groups like reform in the judicial system by keeping it independent, etc... of course, there are better ways to run gov't in cambodia. but it will take time for the murky water to settle before someone from opposition stir it up again and again. i the important thing is to understand the whole scenerio in cambodia; yes, it's all political we know, really! please keep analyze cambodia political situation so we can share the knowledge with each other and the world for that matter. this is what makes the world goes around. but god always bless my country cambodia, despite all of this because god see the true and the reality there.
ReplyDeletemu sochua, america has interest in cambodia; try to stop it won't help because even america have law that allows that with cambodia. thanks for your criticism, but not all your criticism is interesting, though! the US is not a baby, ok! god bless cambodia.
ReplyDeletemu sochua goes report back to your boss sam rainsy that it's not working anymore, ok! the US is independent from your activitism activities, ok, meaning they don't take side by just buying into your rhetorics, etc... wake up people! cambodia and america friendship forever! i love both cambodia and america. god bless.
ReplyDeletebless your heart for crying out loud, mu sochua! but it's not your decision to establish good relationship with cambodia, really! now we expect you and opposition to criticize america too and america will feel how cambodia endure your criticism as well. i don't think anyone can please you until your political group is winning the election. however, if you stay minority, i doubt if your party can win the national election, maybe your party needs to change your no good strategy, otherwise, it is unlikely to win majority in cambodia, really! of course, for a million times, there are more to cambodia than you and i, can't deny others of that rights, you know!
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ReplyDeleteYou don't know anything but why do you pretend to know what card King Sihanouk played for China during his visit Hanoi?
mu sochua is living in la la la la land! wake up , ok!
ReplyDelete12:04AM,
ReplyDeleteif you truely know something that we don't, why don't you enlighten us ?
12;15am
ReplyDeleteI am not following an intelligence analyst Kendall Myers, a great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell, but I can try to learn Yuon's tricks from Pham Xuan An.
12:04 AM,
ReplyDeletebecause you have been saying so in all your postings????
12;31am
ReplyDeleteYes I said Buddha is a Monarchist, so Khmer Monarchy stays.
Don't belive U.S. take care about human right. This country did evey things for their own profit. Now Cambodia look like the prety girl for U.S. and China. Crezy U.S. you are one step behind China. You always talk about Democratics and Human right but you support the dictator Hun Sen. I don't belive that you not see the military that hun sen use to force the poor to grasp the land.
ReplyDeleteUSA desperately need more oil, therefore must humbly please SenVarman. I think therefore I still undoubtedly believe Ms. Mu Sochua unafraidly did the right thing to criticize USA, because once again openly supporting Communism!
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.
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
"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."
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 10 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
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Human Abductions
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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 detonate 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 Vietnam 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
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Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
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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.
This woman is a fool! Now accusing khmer solders of human rights...more defamation.
ReplyDeleteMme Mu Sochua,you're the best !
ReplyDeleteMay Lord Buddha bless you and guides you into the successful path.
I heard You called .
ReplyDeleteI knew you cry .
I see you smile , but
Still Mussel and shell
on market's street .
Mussel and shell ! .
Enough is enough, lady! Take your human rights to go somewhere else. Try not to interfere with this. You are nothing, but trouble maker! Shame on you!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletewe used to see sam rainsy protesting like this, now he delegate this duty to mu sochua. i think nobody is buying it anymore, given these people don't know to how work with others for the common purpose of cambodia. people finally lost confidence in them? maybe it is true! they are running out of funds and they become ineffective. see, i told you, it is stupid to fight with khmer people nonstop like this! these people can't be allowed to run cambodia because they don't know how. they probably just another group of corrupted people if the were to win the election. people are sick and tired with their political maverick which did nothing good for cambodia except to give bad name and try to stop the US from mending fences and helping cambodia. in a way, there people reminded cambodian people of yellow thugs in siem country! now how can khmer people support them? we never once see them try to unite cambodia and did any good for cambodia except causing trouble for a long time now; and it hasn't change cambodia a bit. instead cambodia is moving at a break neck speed into development, reforms and more. god bless my country cambodia.
ReplyDeleteI can see history repeat itself. US conduct military exercise in SE Asia to counter China. If the US wants peace in this region, why the China is not invited? Mu Sochua is right speaking out against US policy. Game of East and West in the 1960s is playing again.
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