Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The Meaning of Treason

Viet troops blocking SRP MPs from visiting a border posted located inside Cambodia (Photo: Uon Chhin, RFA)
Monday, December 20, 2010
Op-Ed by MP
Call this shameless, cowardly complicity by any other name, the act or inaction therein still amounts to Treason by any definition!
Imagine how much positive impact this regime would have exerted upon society within even the last 5 years had it devoted just a fraction of the discipline, vigilance and resources it is giving towards silencing dissidents and critics, to tackling official corruption at all strata of Cambodian society instead!

Where a dispute between neighbours over a strayed fence could take the courts 2-3 years or longer to conclude (the longer the more profitable a case becomes for the judges and other officials connected with the case, as the various courts take turn to extort exorbitant bribes and fees from both parties to the case), in many instances driving litigants into insolvency without even being awarded the justice they seek.

In a country where some judges come to work once every six months or so in between periods spent in 'ill health', we are more than slightly amused to learn of this judge - the only judge who worked on a Sunday! - sentencing a man for 'distributing anti-government material'.

In fact, every piece of public criticism of this government can be construed as 'anti-government material' in some way, or be defined as such. Therefore, to put forward any critical viewpoint of general public relevance and consequence at all would be to put oneself at risk of being labelled an enemy of the state, irrespective of the semantics of one's language used to formulate such a critique/criticism in the first place.



Would polite, diplomatic words and approaches be more effective in instilling sense into the minds of men (I assume this regime's stalwarts are mostly men!) who have not been conditioned to listen to any view other than their own blind convictions, and to kowtow only to directives and commands from their direct superiors?

The martial-military monolith that underpins and sustains the CPP regime and its administrative structure is a work of pride; built to last, for its creators who are not Khmer or Cambodian, but Vietnamese.

Specifics? How many local Cambodian officials or police officers recently turned up to even question a dozen of armed Vietnamese soldiers seen on Cambodia's side of the border to block SRP law-makers and villagers from reaching one of the nearby border markers in Memot? How freely are their Cambodian counterparts allowed to walk into Vietnam or to prevent Vietnamese farmers from tilling Khmer land?

As always, the silence that greets any instance of Vietnamese bullying or encroachment is deafening. It seemed as though the entire CPP presence is conspicuous by their decreed absence as if paralysed by a tranquiliser. Once again, where a man is swiftly punished for printing out and sharing public information, where is the urgency to punish or arrest illegal loggers of timber in Kompong Thom or Rattanakiri?

Call this shameless, cowardly complicity by any other name, the act or inaction therein still amounts to Treason by any definition!

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sooner or later, we will have another khmer rough, to get rid of the hun sen's corrupted officials, their families, hun sen's family, the corrupted rich folks and the viets in cambodia.

Anonymous said...

Khmer rouges were not Yuon dogs ??
They sent all of Yuons to Vietanam and after they started to killed Khmers accused to be Yuon.
They closed schools, killed intellectual Khmers, teachers, students.
They used dumps to lead the country.
I think Khmer rouges worked for Yuons and we don't need them anymore.

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen = Mr. 99 and the CPP are very fearful of KI that is why they want to close KI down. They know that KI is the place where we are as the KHMER people can voices our opinions and criticize them for betraying and slaving to Vietnam. They don't want people to know the truth. They scare because people power is strong and when we are together they cannot stop us. Remember the Khmer prover said, one stick is easy to break but a bundle of sticks is unbreakable.
Chhem Khmer

Anonymous said...

Dear samdach chek Toum cho HEN SUN
*Do you know why Pol pot rejected all killing field Matter before His Dead?.Do you believe in Pol pot commanders Armies in all Zone has viet-nam spies Working in his Army Troops?.Why his killed SON SEN?. Because his Trusted his partners like Ieng sary,ee chhean,Ta mok like you Trusted Va kim Hong in viet-nam Borders Posted like Now.va kim hong not a real Professional 100% about BORDER MAP. we need support by Military like second office [Deuxiem Bureax]and some khmer and international professional about the Map Group for make khmer Border Posted and Maps,because we dont Need khmer young Generation defames all you guys [Hen sun,vong kim har,chim sear,hin sam reng]when all you DIES in next 10 years more.Do you Surprise?Why viet-Nam Hanoi Troops Blocking SRP Members from visiting a Border Posted locates inside cambodia Border???.[They're a Representatives of million Khmer Peoples]too.Wake up Mr Hen sun,don't make a Big Mistakes for khmer History The same POL POT like That. Don't Trusted your unprofessional Government officials 100% like Pol Pot done in the Past or the same king Sihanouk and Mr Lon nol in 20 century. we are CHEATING By viet-nam always since year 1950.Thinking again Please, right now your Trusted and does Good with V-NAM Hanoi,Thailand and china 100 %,But that Nation Honest with you about 50% only.
LONG LIFE FOR TAKE CARE YOU MONEY WITH YOUR LUCKY TREASURES FROM JANUARY-7-1979.BUT PLEASE REMEMBER ALL MONEY YOU CAN NOT BRING WITH YOUR OLD DEAD BODY.
KHMER 1970

Anonymous said...

It is worse than a banana kingdom, since it refers to a country where the government is in shambles. But there no mention about its government allowing a neighboring country invades its territories without saying something about it. What’s a shame?

Anonymous said...

Dear Priminiter Samdach Decho Hun Sen,

Please kindly see the Viet troops in the video. They stand inside Cambodian territory to block SRP' PM from visiting Cambodian border post.

It is one of the fact evidences you should reconsider the sovereignty of Cambodia for Cambodian people, not for the Viet people.

High respect,

Anonymous said...

DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL!

>.<

Anonymous said...

Priminiter Samdach Decho Hun Sen must issue a letter to Viet Foreign Miniter to arrest Viet soldiers and their Post commander and send them to court for trepassing and creating the chaos inside Cambodian territory.

Any Cambodians whom the Viet soldirs touched should filed a complaint for phisical abuse.

Anonymous said...

6:47 am
ooph !
correction: soldiers. physical

Anonymous said...

"Priminiter Samdach Decho Hun Sen must issue a letter to Viet Foreign Miniter to arrest Viet soldiers and their Post commander and send them to court for trepassing and creating the chaos inside Cambodian territory."


Question: Where are frienship and mutual respect?

Anonymous said...

If you try to reason with Hun Sen, it is like chakk toeuk loeu kbal tia.

Anonymous said...

It proves that CPP officials are NOT on Cambodian side,helping Cambodians and Cambodia independent.

CPP is on decline for its rating in managing the government.
At this rate,CPP is having a reduced chance of forming government for the next election.
The assurance from the former king does not anyway assist the damage to the party.

European union and other country donors have counteract measures to prevent all scams and cheats that staged by NEC and CPP slogans.

Under its extreme privatisation and corruption declined the credit of RGC in the view of both national and international irreversible.

The sabotage of non nationalist CPP in border marking with Vietnam invasion send CPP to the loosing ground.

Bear in mind that very similar happened to regime of 1970-75 of marshall Lon Nol.

Gladly that Hok Lundy has been out of cambodian's agony.And hopefully,it would apply to sVar Kim Hong.

Peasant

Anonymous said...

But, where is that freaking (PD) monarchist P. from Long Beach and/or Yeay Tep (despite his assertion to the contrary) when we need him??? Or is it that all He's good at is collecting empty cans off of Annaheim St at Long Beach there???

Quel trou d'uc, alors!

Anonymous said...

All these Cock sucker have ever admitted their fault, even one time.
your all these mother fucker, your names will be written in Cambodian's history as traitors.

Anonymous said...

I think if youn take more land than that The strong man Hun Sen still keep his mouth zipppp..... and i didn't know why YOUN take that land.They'are can order Hun Sen do anything For them and they all ready send 5 millions vietnamese to make aliving in Cambodia and why they need encroach
the boarder?

Anonymous said...

Interesting insight, Peasant!

For Cambodia's sake and that of her children's future (Srok Khmer is small enough as it is!)I sincerely hope you will be proved right.

Thanks for commenting.

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen is a ghost priminister;the CPP govt members are ghosts;the CPP assembly members are ghosts;and the officials from province governors through village leaders are ghosts.
All military stars commanders and police commanders through soldiers, police officials are ghosts.
The state of Cambodia is a GHOST.
I would call them all GHOSTS;then I will call two million Khmer oversea,14 million Khmer citizens,and myself are ghosts.
Why?Because they do not organize anything to protest against Yuon and Hun Sen.

Anonymous said...

Some Khmer Rouge high ranking officials/officers pointed fingers to only Pol Pot and small inner group who were direct involved in killing field.
They said they were only carried the order from Angkar Leu. Their livelihoods and families would have been in danger if they didn't obey the order.

Now, the Cambodia's border integrity is being a hot topic and uneasy sensitive issue put into questionable. How many people in this Hun Sen administration will be responsible in the future when the evidences collected/compiled before
the new independent juridicial system. The King, Prime minster, Chea Sim, Heng Samrin, certain ministers specially Sar Kheng, and CPP senators and parliament members. Even some of them are deceased before the Court. the history will be noted. The land lost was gone but the past history remain firmly.
Remember that those people may turn around and say they don't know and not aware of the land lost. they are not responsible and they are being told to keep their mouth shut. Can they say these words!!!!
beware of these loopholes!!!!

Anonymous said...

AH YOUN IS USING THE SAME TACTIC AS THE GUATEMALAN REGIME! THE TACTIC OF "SILENCE KILLING"

Anonymous said...

5:43 AM, Your ideas is the same as me. There is only one way to get our land back.

Sihanouk and Sihamony do nothing to prevent our land. What they can do are to support Hun Xen to take our land to Youn.

Wake up Khmer, go against the traitors.

Anonymous said...

there was one Cambodian police at the scene.

Anonymous said...

MP, your opinions are worth translating into Khmer. You should include two vesion now, English and Khmer for our Cambodian netizens who cannot understand the complex english yet.

Anonymous said...

Their grand and great-grand children will also suffer the consequences of their treasonous acts in the many generations to come.

Anonymous said...

យើងត្រូវតែនាំគ្នានិយាយពីអំពើក្បត់ជាតិនឹងអំពើអាក្រក់
របស់មេដឹកនាំកម្ពុជា ទាំងយប់ ទាំងថ្ងៃ មានដូចជា ៖
ពួកអាឆ្កែកញ្ជះយួន ហ៊ុន សែន, ហេងសំ រិន, ជាស៊ីម,
សុខ អាន, ហោ ណាំហុង, ឱម យិនទៀង, ចៀម យីប,
វ៉ា គិម ហុង, ស ខេង, ងួន ញ៉ឹល ។ល។ និង ។ល។
និយាយហើយនិយាយទៀតដើម្បីអោយជាតិ និងអន្តរជាតិ
ដឹងឮ ទូទាំងពិភពលោក។
អោយពួកវាស្អុយឈ្មោះ ស្អុយត្រកូលរាប់ម៉ឺនសែន ឆ្នាំ...!

Anonymous said...

I wonder if these betraying rulers were all born out of Vietnamese pussy....

Anonymous said...

I've a suggestion to Ki Media can you make other webside for Khmer languages too so some people that can't read an English so they can understand too. Thanks inadvance.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Var, You are responsible for the Cambodian Territorial Integrity. I do not understand why you said that the Vietnameses loose some part of their land and the Cambodias loose theirs as well during the process of installing the posts. Please do not make the the Vietnameses loose their land to us while we never want to loose ours to them. Mr. Var, Transparency and Satisfaction are are the primary concerns for all Cambodians at this time. Thank you very much. Will talk to you again soon.

Anonymous said...

Dear Sir
Last night, I heard a very deep down massages from our countryside old man who was rang the radio from Prey Veng. He said:
My dear Chao
I am 90 year old; no longer will my life last. I really want to say a few words to all chao chao, the young generation. Our old ancestor was strong and famous. At present I wonder Why draw a new map.Before vietnam is diviet.They took Champa (into one map)then they took Khmer Kampuchea krom(Another map).They took koh tral(another map).Now along Cambodian border.Do they want to draw the map untill ending of Cambodia.
To all chao chao and other Cambodian everywhere, specilly all Cambodian politician. You must wake up other why you are all become slave and suffering as Khmer Kampuchea krom and champa.
Good bye CHao Chao

Anonymous said...

ខ្ញុំបាទ តេជោ ហ៊ុន​ សែន
ខ្ញុំបាទជាកូនខ្មែរ ហើយជារដ្ធមន្ត្រីដឹកនាំស្រុខទេសឲ្យបានល្អរដែលអាចធ្វើបាន
តែកូនខ្មែរនៅខេអាយដាក់រូបខ្ញុំហើយចោតថាខ្ញុំក្បត់ជាតិ លក់ដីឲ្យយួន បម្រើយួន តាមពិតខ្ញុំមិនបានក្បត់លក់ដីទេ គឺយួនវាយកទេ​ ហើយខ្ញុំធ្វើអ្វីក៍ពុំកើត
ដែរ នេះគេយកប៉ុណ្ណឺងបើគេយកច្រើនជាងណឹងក៍ខ្ញុំមិនដឹងធ្វើអីគេដែរ។
ក្នុងចិត្តខ្ញុំចង់បានដីខ្មែរក្រោមនឹងសុរិនមកវិញទាំងអស់ផង តែធ្វើម្តេច?
ចំពោះការដាក់គុកលោកសេងនោះ បើខ្ញុំមិនធ្វើតើនរណាស្តាប់ខ្ញុំ វាមិនអីទេណា
ដូចហេង ពៅ​ ជាកូនចៅខ្ញុំទេ​បើមិនឲ្យនៅក្នុងគុកទេនោះឆ្បាស់ជាពិបាកហើយ
តើរកស៊ីអីកើតបើអត់ជើងម្ខាងផងនោះ។
ម្យ៉ាងទៀតតាំងពីខ្ញុំទទួលប្រាក់ចិនមក ពួកយួនគេមិនសប្បាយចិត្តប៉ុន្មានទេ
តែខ្ញុំឲ្យប្រាក់គេតាមរយៈ CPP ដែលគេហៅថា អង្គាកា តាំងពីប៉ុលពតមកនោះ
ហើយខ្ញុំឲ្យស្តេចយើងទៅសំពះហូជីមិញ រួចហើយក៍ស្រួលបន្តិច តែគេនៅចង់ដាក់ស្វា ណាំហុង ជុំនួសខ្ញុំវិញ ព្រោះស្វាគេកាត់យួន ហើយកុំតែបានគ្មួយតូជួយកុំអីស្វាគេយកហើយ អីឡូវខ្ញុំឲ្យកូនខ្ញុំជួយការពា
យួនក៍គេមិនបង្ខំដូរដែរ តែបើគេដូរខ្ញុំនោះកូនចៅខ្ញុំមីនដឹងយ៉ាងណាទេ ។
ចំណែកសំរាំងស៊ីគេមិនចង់នៅស្រុកខ្មែរទេ គេ​ធ្លាប់នៅក្រៅស្រុក គេឲ្យខ្ញុំរករឿងគេទៅ ដើម្បីឲ្យស្រួលគេរកលុយដោយមិនបាច់ធ្វើការ ដូច្នេះគ្រាន់តែដកបង្គោលតូចមួយក៍ខ្ញុំក៍រករឿងទៅ។
តើបងប្អូននៅខឹងនឹងខ្ញុំទៀតទេ បើមិនធ្វើអញ្ចឹង ព្រោះខ្ញុំគ្មានផ្លូវជ្រើសរើស
បើឲ្យស្វា ហុងប្រហែលជាពិបាកជាងខ្ញុំទៅទៀត ព្រោះគេចង់ឲ្យកូនខ្មែររៀនភាសាយួនទៀត ខ្ញុំមិនអាចប្រឆាំងឬនិយាយបានច្រើនទេ ដីគេចង់បានត្រង់ណាគេយកត្រង់នោះ
ដូចការក៍សាងផ្លូវ សាលារឿន​ ខ្ញុំថាខ្ញុំនឹងប៊ុនរ៉ានីធ្វើ តែពិតលុយពិភពលោកគេឲ្យ
ទេ ខ្មែរយើងធ្វើអីបាន ពេលខ្លះខ្ញុំយកលុយគេទៀតផង។ហើយតាមទូរទស្សន៍
ខ្ញុំចេះតែកុហក់ខ្លះទៅ ខ្ញុំប្រាប់ហើយកុះចេខ្ញុំអី។
អរគុណ
តេជោ ហ៊ុន សែន

Anonymous said...

Sick & Tired & Heart felt. Certain poor & low education Cambodians crossed their homeland border with empty hands to Thailand by mistake or for some purpose got killed, arrested, and jailed. But the Armed Vietnamese soldiers in uniform entered the Cambodian territory were safe and sound. Please someone tell me why?

Anonymous said...

ពួកអាក្បត់ជាតិ និង ពួកអាឆ្កែកញ្ជះយួនក្បត់ជាតិ កំពុងគំរាមកំហែង បិទវែបសាយ ឃេអាយ មេឌា
ដែលជាប្រភពសេរីភាពនៃលិទ្ធិប្រជាធិបតេយ្យក្នុងលោកនេះ ។

បើពួកអាក្បត់ជាតិ និង ពួកអាឆ្កែកញ្ជះយួនក្បត់ជាតិចង់បិទ អាចបិទបានតែនៅក្នុងប្រទេសពួកអាក្បត់ជាតិ និង ពួកអាឆ្កែកញ្ជះយួនក្បត់ជាតិ តែប៉ុណ្ណោះ មិនអាចបិទសេរីភាព ទូទាំងពិភពលោកនេះបានឡើយ។
បិទ១ បង្កើត១00, បិទ១00 បង្កើត១000, បិទ១000 បង្កើត១000000 ..!

Anonymous said...

Dear Samdech Euv in Bejing, China. You had been very aggressive & determined about Cambodian territorial integrity during your ruling time. Now this issue is in its very hot point, many politicians hate each other very much, your KON & CHAU are crying, some were jailed. I do not see any good solution for this matter. I only see & hear that " LA RAISON DU PLUS FORT EST TOUJOURS LA MEILLEURE " in handling the case. This is not right. What I want is your intervention to calm everyone because " LA PAROLE DU ROI EST LA LOI " My respect.

Anonymous said...

When the traitors have been living in Cambodia peacefully and Youns have strong power in the country some high officials arise from Yuon Hanoi which suppressing on Khmer.By plan of ho chi minh, spent his posterity to every parts of Cambodia to help and destroy Cambodia, let Viet live instead of them. So, I would like all Khmer not use what belongs YUon, or products of Yuon, every product of Yuon Chemistry,eating causes stomachache typhoid..., so you all must take care of yourself.
Hun Neang

Anonymous said...

I knew ah Youn that live in Orange County, Ca. They told me that our country the Vietcong almost swallow the hole country. If Khmer stupid and don't wake up on time I bet we don't have home to call. What are you waiting for waking up ah stupid CPP don't be so dumb and so greedy about money and powers too much thinks about our people and country too asshole.

Anonymous said...

If SRP PMs have been stopped by Viet police before they reach to the border post it means , Viet police were in Khmer land . I want to see Va Kimhong or CPP supporters explain how can you get to Viet land if you havent been to border post yet .

Anonymous said...

It time we fight to get the VC out of Cambodia. Also let get ride of CCP. let fight the government.

Anonymous said...

this picture goes to show that viet/youn military and gov't care about their country's lands, territories, etc, whereas khmer gov't and military don't care much about the country lands, territories, etc... yes, if viet/youn goes so far to station their military personnel, troops, etc at the contested borders, where is the khmer counterparts? so, maybe it's a question of caring attitude with the gov't, military, etc... see the difference,here? wake up, cambodia! was that how we lost lands, territories, etc in the past as history showed? go figure! it's time to wake up and see and learn from our greedy neighbors! wake up from that hibernation, ok! be aggressive and assertive when dealing with the greedy neighbors like viet/youn and siem and even laos for that matter, really! even a rocky island, a rocky mountain, etc is precious when it comes to lands, territories, boundary, etc, ok!!!!!!! don't be so isolated and stupid and backward, ok!