A large portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il looms over a crowd of 1 million people in Pyongyang's main plaza on Saturday Jan. 11, 2003. (Gong Yidong - AP)
By Khmer Democrat, Phnom Penh
Dictators are Wimps (and WEIRD) Series
Sins of the Son: Kim Jong Il's North Korea Is in Ruins, But Why Should That Spoil His Fun?
(By Peter Carlson, May 11, 2003, Washington Post) - abridged
That's the official North Korean version of the birth of Kim Jong Il, the brutal dictator who rules a nation that now taunts the world with its nuclear weapons.
The Great Leader [Hun Sen] had an insatiable craving for adulation. By the late '80s he had erected more than 34,000 monuments to himself. His photograph was displayed in every building and pinned to the clothing of every citizen, right over the heart. Benches where he'd once sat were sealed in glass and turned into relics.
Like a king or a Mafia don, the Great Leader groomed his eldest son to succeed him. He dubbed Kim Jong Il "the Dear Leader" and called him "a genius of 10,000 talents." [Sounds familiar, Cambodians?? Hun Sen --> Hun Manet]
Read more about the wimpy, weird, sick psychology of autocrats - the full article, www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40505-2003May10
14 comments:
As I said before, Hun Xem has a deadly desire to pass down his dictatorship to his offsprings, one of whom is Hun Maneth. We, as decent people, do not need to doubt about the way Hun Xen has played his politcal game; a game that pave the way towards holding a permanent absolute power. Looking at the number of his bodyguards, we can simply tell his motive. The newly bought tanks and armor vehicles is also a part of his plan to protect his power. A fool's thirst for power is immeasurable!
9:50 PM
u may be right "Like father like son" Now read this:
The Sam Sary Affair:
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Sary
In January 1958 Sam Sary was appointed by Norodom Sihanouk as Cambodia's ambassador to London, thus extricating him from a scandal involving smuggling of large quantities of high grade Cambodian pepper.[2] According to Time Magazine he brought an entourage of four woman who were his official wife, with their five children, including Sam Rainsy and three mistresses. Six months later Sam Sary was involved in another scandal when one of his female servants--Iv Eng Seng, who bore him a child went to the London police accusing him of severely beating her for "minor mistakes".[2] By other accounts her name was Soeung Son Maly and she used to date Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) later dumping him for more prosperous Sam Sary.[3] Sam Sary was recalled back to Phnom Penh, but not before he had put his side of the story to the British press. He admitted beating his servant,saying:
I corrected her by hitting her with a Cambodian string whip. I never hit her on the face, always across the back and the thighs—-a common sort of punishment in my country.
He argued his right to do so because
the embassy is "Cambodia in London."
After coming back to Cambodia Sam Sary became more and more anti-Sihanouk. Despite the risk of incurring Sihanouk's displeasure Sam Sary started a newspaper, openly critical of the Prince's policies. He tried to start his own political party but without success. His anti-Sihanouk activities were dubbed the Sam Sary Affairs.
Some commentators agree that Sam Sary worked with US Intelligence services, which he might have contacted in 1956 while visiting the US. On 13 January 1959 in speech delivered in Kampong Cham Sihanouk told his listeners that he knew about US intelligence plots to overthrow him. While this speech had not clearly implicated Sam Sary, a week after the speech was delivered he fled to Thailand. After a shadowy existence in exile he disappeared in 1962, probably put to death by his foreign paymasters.
9:50 PM
u may be right "Like father like son" Now read this:
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Sary
Sam Sary was a Cambodian politician who participated in the so-called Bangkok Plot against Prince Norodom Sihanouk[1]. He was a son of Sam Nhean, a prominent politician in the 1940s and father of Sam Rainsy, presently a leader of the main Cambodia's opposition party. He was a close confidant of the then Prince Norodom Sihanouk but had a fall-out with the Prince when he was exposed in corruption, selling import licenses and a second time during his tenure as a Cambodian ambassador to London in 1958, for beating his impregnated female housemate. He was alleged to have beaten her so badly that she escaped to the protection of the London police. The scandal made headlines in the London tabloids and he was recalled to Cambodia and stripped of all of his duties. [2]He disappeared mysteriously in 1962, presumably killed by the government or CIA agents, whom he was working for.
9:50 PM
u may be right "Like father like son" Now read this:
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Sary
Political life
Sam Sary was Deputy Prime Minister in Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Government in the 1950s. He made important role in seeking full independence for Cambodia, in helping the newly independent Cambodia avoid partition at the Geneva conference (1954), and in helping the King Norodom Sihanouk found the Sangkum Reastr Niyum (1955 onwards).
He was involved in election fraud and intimidations, Keng Vannsak recalled:
The evil genius behind the repression was Sam Sary--a bestial man. As an investigating magistrate in the 1940s, he had beaten suspects to death with his own hands. Then he went study in France. In 1955, he joined the Sangkum and became Sihanouk's closest aide ... After Sihanouk decided to use strong-arm tactics, Sary handed out money and arms to hire ruffians to come and break our meetings.
Your account of Sam Sary does not relate to this article.
10:03 PM
U didn't read properly.
The Sam Sary account was to respond to the 9:50 PM guy, not the article.
Ah rorleay,
Does Hun Manet become the PM of Cambodia yet? Stupid comparison!
10:13PM ah pleu,
Short-sighted as you are, you will never see a game of a foxy dictator.
អាហ៊ុន សែន អាក្បត់ជាតិ។
Yes, I agreed with 10:16 pm...politic is not for you 10:13pm, because your eyes is incapable to see beyon your nose! Stay out from politics!
I THOUGHT THAT WAS HUN XEN FATHER!
10:16 pm Ah rorleay,
Far-sighted as you are only predict shit which is not even true.
Ah pler wait and see, you ass will see the result fucker. AS long they have CPP in power Khmer gonna be homeless and minority people like in Champa and Kampuchea Krom pretty soon.
Never mind ah pleu 3:50AM. He was born dumb and serving himself as ah Hun Xen asskisser.
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