19th March, 2011
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party is closer to achieving its goal of silencing dissenting voices and any oppositions in the country after it has successfully moved to expel opposition leader, Mr. Sam Rainsy, from the parliament and barring him from participating in future elections. It is also a sign that Mr. Hun Sen is closer to achieving his political supremacy after he has significantly weakened his arch-rivals within the ruling CPP, the likes of Chea Sim and Sar Kheng, by successfully purging many of their ardent loyalists such as Moek Dara and Hun Hean.
However, the expulsion of Mr. Sam Rainsy, the best finance minister Cambodia has ever had and the most effective opposition leader to date, from the parliament and his barring from participating in the election process will not bode well with the international community and certainly has not helped in promoting Cambodia’s image as being tolerant of divergences and differences of opinions in the eyes of the free world. It has in fact reinforced the belief that the Hun Sen government has been an international pariah and the elections were only used as a facade of democracy to fool the international community all along.
The conviction and the sentences of Mr. Sam Rainsy from dubious charges of spreading disinformation and destruction of public property were highly politically motivated from the start. The charges were motivated by the desire of the ruling party to demonise Mr. Sam Rainsy in a view to destroy his party and him personally because Mr. Rainsy is a thorn in the eyes of Mr. Hun Sen and the only serious challenger to his political survival.
This is not the first time Mr. Hun Sen had tried to assassinate Mr. Sam Rainsy, not only politically, but also physically. In 1994, Mr. Hun Sen had effectively engineered the sacking of Mr. Sam Rainsy as the minister of finance after he had stood up against corruption and dared to touch Mr. Hun Sen’s business associates like Teng Bunma, the owner of Thai Bunruang Construction Co, Ltd., who refused to pay taxes on imports of construction materials. On 30th March 1997, the grenade attack on Mr. Sam Rainsy-led rally, which had killed 16 people and wounded more than a hundred, had specifically targeted Mr. Rainsy. It has been investigated by the American FBI which found that the attack was orchestrated by Mr. Hun Sen bodyguard unit posted nearby. In 2005, Mr. Sam Rainsy was barred from returning to the country after he had accused Mr. Hun Sen of bribing Prince Ranariddh to secure a coalition government after the 2003 election which the opposition and Prince Ranariddh himself claimed to have been riddled with frauds and irregularities. All previous attempts to assassinate Mr. Rainsy politically have all failed, but it seemed that Mr. Hun Sen might succeed this time if political compromise is not reached any sooner. The only political compromise that can facilitate the return of Mr. Rainsy would be a written apology from Mr. Rainsy to Mr. Hun Sen personally. Mr. Rainsy has said already that that is unlikely to happen. If Rainsy is unable to return, his party is likely to be significantly weakened and the prospect of its survival as his personalised party is finished. However, the party as a political entity will survive this political turbulence, but will morph into another party and takes up a new name and new identity.
Mr. Sam Rainsy, like his father Sam Sary, who survived a number of assassinations and has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity four times in 1994, 2005, 2008 and 2009, might go down in history as a traitor in the eyes of the ruling elites and their supporters in Cambodia, but will emerge as a hero in the eyes of Cambodia’s general population. His father, Sam Sary, who was one of the authors of the 1946 constitution, Cambodia’s first ever constitution, and one of the peace negotiators of the 1954 Geneva Conference, was ignominiously dumped from the government and forced to flee into the jungle in around 1958 after a fall out with the then Prince Sihanouk and died mysteriously in 1962, presumably killed by the government or the American CIA agents whom he had worked for. His sacking and his political scandal, dubbed the Sam Sary Affairs, had been parroted and demonically repeated by the government until it has been ingrained in the mind of the population that he is a traitor. And like his father, he could disappear into the political wilderness for good if a political reconciliation with Mr. Hun Sen is not reached any time sooner.
However, the persecution of Mr. Sam Rainsy for a crime of defending his nation will make him a political martyr and would reinforce his personal standing as a Cambodian political hero. On the contrary, the persecutors, the current ruling elites and the ruling CPP will be viewed with suspicion and seen as the traitors in the eyes of the Cambodian people. For this reason, Mr. Hun Sen and his ruling CPP will not gain politically from the persecution of Mr. Rainsy, but instead will only receive national and international condemnation. And for this reason, Mr. Hun Sen could do better without the national and international backlash by seeking a political solution and acquiescing to a political compromise with Mr. Sam Rainsy.
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party is closer to achieving its goal of silencing dissenting voices and any oppositions in the country after it has successfully moved to expel opposition leader, Mr. Sam Rainsy, from the parliament and barring him from participating in future elections. It is also a sign that Mr. Hun Sen is closer to achieving his political supremacy after he has significantly weakened his arch-rivals within the ruling CPP, the likes of Chea Sim and Sar Kheng, by successfully purging many of their ardent loyalists such as Moek Dara and Hun Hean.
However, the expulsion of Mr. Sam Rainsy, the best finance minister Cambodia has ever had and the most effective opposition leader to date, from the parliament and his barring from participating in the election process will not bode well with the international community and certainly has not helped in promoting Cambodia’s image as being tolerant of divergences and differences of opinions in the eyes of the free world. It has in fact reinforced the belief that the Hun Sen government has been an international pariah and the elections were only used as a facade of democracy to fool the international community all along.
The conviction and the sentences of Mr. Sam Rainsy from dubious charges of spreading disinformation and destruction of public property were highly politically motivated from the start. The charges were motivated by the desire of the ruling party to demonise Mr. Sam Rainsy in a view to destroy his party and him personally because Mr. Rainsy is a thorn in the eyes of Mr. Hun Sen and the only serious challenger to his political survival.
This is not the first time Mr. Hun Sen had tried to assassinate Mr. Sam Rainsy, not only politically, but also physically. In 1994, Mr. Hun Sen had effectively engineered the sacking of Mr. Sam Rainsy as the minister of finance after he had stood up against corruption and dared to touch Mr. Hun Sen’s business associates like Teng Bunma, the owner of Thai Bunruang Construction Co, Ltd., who refused to pay taxes on imports of construction materials. On 30th March 1997, the grenade attack on Mr. Sam Rainsy-led rally, which had killed 16 people and wounded more than a hundred, had specifically targeted Mr. Rainsy. It has been investigated by the American FBI which found that the attack was orchestrated by Mr. Hun Sen bodyguard unit posted nearby. In 2005, Mr. Sam Rainsy was barred from returning to the country after he had accused Mr. Hun Sen of bribing Prince Ranariddh to secure a coalition government after the 2003 election which the opposition and Prince Ranariddh himself claimed to have been riddled with frauds and irregularities. All previous attempts to assassinate Mr. Rainsy politically have all failed, but it seemed that Mr. Hun Sen might succeed this time if political compromise is not reached any sooner. The only political compromise that can facilitate the return of Mr. Rainsy would be a written apology from Mr. Rainsy to Mr. Hun Sen personally. Mr. Rainsy has said already that that is unlikely to happen. If Rainsy is unable to return, his party is likely to be significantly weakened and the prospect of its survival as his personalised party is finished. However, the party as a political entity will survive this political turbulence, but will morph into another party and takes up a new name and new identity.
Mr. Sam Rainsy, like his father Sam Sary, who survived a number of assassinations and has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity four times in 1994, 2005, 2008 and 2009, might go down in history as a traitor in the eyes of the ruling elites and their supporters in Cambodia, but will emerge as a hero in the eyes of Cambodia’s general population. His father, Sam Sary, who was one of the authors of the 1946 constitution, Cambodia’s first ever constitution, and one of the peace negotiators of the 1954 Geneva Conference, was ignominiously dumped from the government and forced to flee into the jungle in around 1958 after a fall out with the then Prince Sihanouk and died mysteriously in 1962, presumably killed by the government or the American CIA agents whom he had worked for. His sacking and his political scandal, dubbed the Sam Sary Affairs, had been parroted and demonically repeated by the government until it has been ingrained in the mind of the population that he is a traitor. And like his father, he could disappear into the political wilderness for good if a political reconciliation with Mr. Hun Sen is not reached any time sooner.
However, the persecution of Mr. Sam Rainsy for a crime of defending his nation will make him a political martyr and would reinforce his personal standing as a Cambodian political hero. On the contrary, the persecutors, the current ruling elites and the ruling CPP will be viewed with suspicion and seen as the traitors in the eyes of the Cambodian people. For this reason, Mr. Hun Sen and his ruling CPP will not gain politically from the persecution of Mr. Rainsy, but instead will only receive national and international condemnation. And for this reason, Mr. Hun Sen could do better without the national and international backlash by seeking a political solution and acquiescing to a political compromise with Mr. Sam Rainsy.
9 comments:
We will deal with hun Sen such as when the time comes.
Khmerization your opt its sound fair and accepatble,but your understanding about Sam, he was the best finance minister has ever had. that completly wrong, sofar I never heard Rainsy he talking about his finance profesional at all, Rainsy he only a bank employee in franch or the mortgager that make a living by service chargs or commission, he Rainsy never ever be able to run his own business, and as I see sir, Rainsy he is a failure in any walk of life. looke at the mess in SRP, KI, and many other newpapere he runed, his characteristic are fail in any feild he touch, no one see his superior or felt any presure, for the leader to get the jobs don he must be tough and boldly. he absolutly do not have that ability, he is a very very weak, messy and madness man I ever have had seen, wasn't he?. its very dangerouse to hire a man like him, sooner or later all employee will follow his bad, and messy,and lazyness character, good that Hun sen find out bad cancer cell early and kick Rainsy out, to stope him from ruining the whole nation. we need tough, hard working and caurage leader, not a gay or lady boy like rainsy. He Rainsy do not have disciplin and cleanliness in managerment he has no human skile or capacity to lead any one including his wife, he is very weak and lazy how you see hime as a good finance minister ever had, its ignorance claim and you know that yourself right?. Mike
To all Khmer patriots,
Please beware! The Khmer Post Newspaper and Radio owner/director Meach Sovannara is Hun Sen spy. He receives his funding from the CPP Party.
Just think, Sovannara is the only newspaper writer who can critise Hun Sen and at the same time can enter Cambodia freely! Something is not right there. If he's not with the CPP Party, Sovannara would be locked in jail or dead a long time ago! He's no Sam Rainsy!
Don't worry cambodian people Dr. Hun Sen said " Close the door and beat the dogs ". Libia's leader is using the same tatic as Dr. Hun Sen ( Close the door and beat the dogs ) infact he murdered thousands of libian people but the world community like American, British, Franch...they don't let's ditatorship ruin the country and people life as he dream anymore. Coliasion force have fired many missile to destroy Libia leader.
Cambodia is soon as Mr. Sam Rainsy will lead a massive patriot again the force of evil.
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
SOON BIGGER EVIL FORCES WILL ROOT OUT THE HOONXEN THE DICTATOR LIKE ANY OTHER.
This is a fair piece of opinion. I also believe that Hun Sen hjas done more damage than good to himself and his rule in the long run. The more he tried to supress oppositions, the more enemies he has created and the more people will attempt to rise up against him.
effective opposition and best finance? really? be fair with you article, but please don't over do it.
Khmer should solve Khmers problem,So Sam RAisy, French,Americ and Vietnamese should go away . Please do not bother Khmer proplem and let Khmers solve Khmer problem!(first).
(second) If Khmers Can not or Unable to solve our Khmers proplem let international Community Help!,So USA,French and Vietnamese,....UN in for help!.
Right or Wrong?
Khmer Rouge?
Who are they?
First Khmers Rouge (Red Khmers)back Back by Vietnamese.
And than Split (1) Red Khmer,Khmer Rouge back by Vietnamese Such as Hun Sen,CPP hold power now.
(2)red khmer,Khmer Rouge Back by Chinese,such as Pol Pot in Jail now.
So Hun Sen CPP IS the Khmer rouge back by Hanoi! Still have rule our land? all are khmer red.
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