Sunday, April 10, 2011

Sacrava's Political Cartoon: My Father

The newly-promoted Lieutenant General Hun Manet.

By Khmerization
Source: CEN

One hundred army officers had been promoted to the ranks of generals in a ceremony in army headquarters in Phnom Penh and in Preah Vihear province on Friday 8th April.

The Phnom Penh's promotion ceremony was held at the Defence Ministry and was presided over by Gen. Pol Saroeun, Commander-in-Chief of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, at 3 p.m on Friday when 7 officers were promoted to lieutenant generals (3-star generals), 11 officers were promoted to major generals (2-star generals) and 47 officers were promoted to brigadier generals (1-star generals).

 According to military sources, Maj-Gen. Hun Manet, the eldest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, had also been promoted to a lieutenant general, but he was absent from the ceremony to receive his promotions. In the past few years, Gen. Hun Manet had enjoyed rapid rise through the army ranks, drawing rave criticism of nepotism by his father, Prime Minister Hun Sen. His last promotion was in January when he was promoted by his father to a major general.

30 comments:

Anonymous said...

We khmer people very happy for your success every 6 months. So when you reach your daddy age yOU WILL HAVE AT LEAST 60 STARS on your shoulders.

Congrads for being promoted without went to frontline and convert Cambodia to Nambodia slowly slowly

Anonymous said...

KAMPUCHEA KROM AT A GLANCE

Kampuchea Krom is composed of 68,965 square kilometers, 21 provinces and municipalities, two large islands - Koh Tral and Koh Tralach, 171 districts, 1,368 communes, 14,778 villages, more than 13 million Khmers, more than 567 Buddhist pagodas and more than 20,000 Theravada Buddhist monks.

99% of populations are Theravada Buddhists.

The Khmer kings, governments, regimes and citizens have never relinquish (give up) this part of their country to foreigners.

Kampuchea Krom has been under an ongoing colonial control since her division from motherland, Cambodia.

June 4, 1949 is the date that the Khmer Kampuchea Krom citizens grieve. The Khmer Kampuchea Krom people have organized Buddhist Service annually to honor the fallen Khmer Buddhist monks and heroes, who sacrificed their lives for Kampuchea Krom and Theravada Buddhism.

Colonial France divided, ceded and transferred Kampuchea Krom to colonial Vietnam on this date. The freedom of Khmer Kampuchea Krom has been mostly stripped by the Vietnamese ruling regimes and governments since. The French colonial administration committed injustice upon the more than 13 million Khmers of this beautiful fertile land.

Justice remains elusive for Cambodia, Kampuchea Krom and her citizens.

And...The struggle to regain freedom and human rights by the Khmers in Kampuchea Krom continues as long as injustice commits by the ruling Vietnamese regime(s) has not produced a fruitful result.

Koh Tral (Tral Island)
in Vietnamese - Phu Quoc island
circa 1939 Vietnamese encroached and conquered

Koh Tral Island has an area of 567 square kilometers; about 62 kilometers long and between 3 kilometers and 28 kilometers wide. The island physically is located closest to Cambodia's Kep seaside city. Visitors can see Koh Tral Island from the coastline of Kep. It is about a 30-minute motorized boat ride.

By Smart Khmer Girl, Ms. Rattana Keo

Anonymous said...

Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten

By Ms. Rattana Keo

Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 10,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?

Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 10,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?

Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 10,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?

The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.

Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 10,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?

Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?

Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,

Anonymous said...

im compare to his friends in Westpiont academy, he is shame for them.

Anonymous said...

Cambodia is such a small Country but it has too many Generals. Whats the purpose of promoting those Generals ? To protect Hun Sen and make sure there will be no Coup against him ? If a Prime Minister like Hun Sen didn't finish high school , I am wondering how much education those Generals have .

Anonymous said...

That is what happening to a country with an uneducated PM.
Each general is in charge for about twenty some soldiers.
Cambodia has more generals than any country in the world.
Hun Sen’s dumb reasoning is:
“Even though my military is small, but the more generals I have the more powerful is my Cambodia.”
In Cambodia the military generals are for sale.

Anonymous said...

@5:39 PM
Are you kidding me?
It's for sale openly depending on the amount of money you put in. You can either build a building or something and give it to the government and they give you a star or status proportionally to the value of your construction. Or you can contribute directly to the party. There is a time table for it in case you don't know.

Anonymous said...

Hun Manet earned his promotion, not sure about other generals.

Anonymous said...

Soon the following will happen to these new generals

1. will be shipped to a college in Vietnam,
2. will be told by their Viet professors to write up thesises about how they would defend Cambodia should an enemy invade from the East,
3. after the thesises have been studied by the Viet generals and every known hill and creek and trench is mapped, the Viet college will issue these generals with brand spanking new doctorate certificates,
4. with the newly printed certificates, the generals return to Cambodia and happily continue the oppression of the Cambodian people,
5. the pyramid scheme goes on in Cambodia.

Baay Kdaing said...

All this promotions is not free, not afford as far as I know.

When one got promoted, his salary will rise so he have to invest more in order to earn more.

I met a few former cops who gave up being the cops because they can not afford or to disgusted to pay the bride to their superior when they were supposed to be promoted.

Anonymous said...

correction:

All this promotions is not free, as far as I know.

When one got promoted, his salary will rise so he has to invest more in order to earn more.

I met a few former cops who gave up being the cops because they can not afford or to disgusted to pay the bribe to their superior when they were supposed to be promoted.

Anonymous said...

If Hun Sen did not finish High School,the rest of his officials were
the same.Million of Khmer Rouge and
Khmer Vietminh were uneducated people
.The Khmer Rouge soldiers in Pol Pot
regime,they were at the age of 13 through 16 becoming leaders.Because
they were so young kids,they were so brave to kill anyone they wanted.
So,Hun Sen picked up his officials
to work with him.

Anonymous said...

7:00 PM

At his age as a Lt. Gen. (three-star general); however, had he served in the United States Army, he would had a statue of himself next to the late Gen. Douglass at the West Point Military Academy. But then again, IT ONLY POSSIBLE IN CAMBODIA.

Anonymous said...

@9:31 PM
I have to agree with you on this one. I know someone who was unable to be corrupted to enough to make money to share with the other members, so they dropped him down.

Anonymous said...

In time of internal and external troubles and in order to ensure continued absolute power and security, the Hun Sen government needs to make their supposedly loyal and faithful commanders feel good about themselves by promoting them to the next level of their rank.

This is nothing new. This is exactly how the dictator plays his cards. Eventually his son will replace Pol Saroeun himself after Hun Manet becomes mature enough in military internal affairs in term of surrounding himself with trustworthy and reliable junior and senior officers to sway military influence in his direction.

Just watch and you will see that development soon!

Anet Khmer

Anonymous said...

To 1:02 am: Anet Khmer,

You are absolutely right to the point!!!, Gadaffi is a very good example right now! Now a day, there are more title for people longer than the name of their parents given to them.

When I was in Cambodia, I address certain people as I use to know them back in 2000, but somebody come to me and tell me now he is an excellency! That I had to address him with H.E. before his name. It was shock to me that somebody demand for respect without earning them. Inflation title. Anet Khmer, you really make me anet these Khmers.....While their language talk like a gansters, manner like a person know nothing about civilization (throw trask on the road, spit on the side walk)...they demand for respect????? Ha...Anet Khmer, what will Khmer become for younger Khmer generation???????????

Anonymous said...

Anet Khmer is right. Without giving promotions every so often, or to keep them relevant, the men with guns and soldiers can give a headache to dictatorial leaders.

The same with 'closing their eyes' and let these powerful men and women plunder national resources such as land concessions and land robery under the color of law and development.

Anonymous said...

អាចោលម្សៀត ហ៊ុនសែន វាអត់ចេះដឹងអី

វាដឹកនាំ ដូចសម័យរាប់ពាន់ឆ្នាំមុនចឹង

លើកបន្តុបគ្នា អានេះអត់ចេះខ្មាស់ពិភពលោកអស់

Anonymous said...

The newly promoted 3-star general Dr. Hun Manet will be a better man than his father, we hope he can help the millions people living in poverty in the future. YOU ARE A GOOD MAN HUN MANET AND CONGRATULATION.

Anonymous said...

2:00 Smart Khmer Girl, Ms. Rattana Keo, you are a stupid girl or the guy who write that is a stupid asshole pretending to be a girl... Kampuchea Krom was given to Vietnam in the 17 century by the Cambodian kings who liked to eated many viet pussies and thai dicks on these times. Read back our history. Btw too many stupidity posted here make me feel that we should better be shared between Vietnam and Thailand. If these f**** french did not come, it would have been easier...

Anonymous said...

He will be soon become 6 stars bigger his blind eye dad

Anonymous said...

10:42 Am Ms. Rattana Keo is a woman, We know her she used to work in khmer community some where...Fuck you being lie to khmers

Anonymous said...

10:42 Am, You are liar! Liar! Liar! CPP shit sell Cambodia out for youn only. Fuck you Bitch! stop liar about khmer history Vietcog Bitch...Bitch...Vietcog Bitch

Anonymous said...

10:42 AM, is traitor or viet. Khmers please don't listen to her. Vietnam is never ever want khmers to be better place...and no general promoted every 6 months too unless Hun sen'son only and not to all dark skin real khmers at frontline that use their body to stop the bullets

Anonymous said...

គ្រួសារ អា ហ៊ុន វាចង់ អង្គាមស៊ី កេរខ្មែរ

ម៉ាពូជវា តែម្តងហើយ នៀគ

Anonymous said...

Fuck you General Super Dr. Hun Manet. Shame on you fucker! You promote Vietcog in order gain more stars....Kill real khmers than you gain more stars for that.

Fuck you coward!

Anonymous said...

To all Khmer people...be ready to fighter this guys Hun Manet. He will killed anything that is against his fathe.....so Protest hard or get killed

Anonymous said...

My father name is Samdech Hun Sen, not AH IDIOT XACRAVA BUNHEANG UNG SHIT!

Anonymous said...

why people like to paint picture of hun manet as a baby? the man is over 30 years old and he's not a baby anymore than you are, ok! stop the age discrimination, etc, in cambodia, ok! people don't realize it, but in cambodia, people seem to have age discrimination and so forth! i thought these activists are fighting for rights or all sorts, so why are they so blind on age discrimination, etc! discrimination can come in many names and colors too, you know! wake up, people, stop being so ignorant, ok! how would you like it if young people are making fun of older looking people! you wouldn't like it either, would you? stop being so stupid, ok!

everybody is qualified in their own rights, you know! nowadays, it takes college degrees and education to meet all requirements for jobs, skills, etc, etc, ok! no more corruption, ok! and stop being so hypocritical of yourself, ok!

Anonymous said...

Ms Rattana Keo = Fuck husband + Fuck boyfriend at the same time

She is going to fuck her father in law some time too. Her mother in law know it very well and love the rattana keo treesome cultures because the mother in law love treesome too.

All Ms Rattana Keo's friends are treesome like Ms Rattana Keo too (Fuck many boys at the same time).

Vietnam will insert B-21 rocket into ms rattana keo's vagina in order to please her sex life.

Hun Sen will insert another B-21 into ms rattana keo ass hole at the same time too