A secret telephone conversati​on between Mr. Hun Sen and Mr. Kem Sokha on 25th July 2007 about the creation of the HRP

Thursday, June 02, 2011
Op-Ed by P. Ma

This is my humble opinion on that conversation aspect of that political joint venture, HUN-KEM.

Without any reservation, doubt or whatsoever, Mr. Kem Sokha did it in a way he believed in his gut that by destroying Sam Rainsy Party, his beloved country would be best served by both his political party and Hun Sen, a new alliance for the future. Since Sam Rainsy can not be bought, intimidated or what else, and by his rapid gain in seats and popularity it would be an end to Mr. Kem's long term dream of ever becoming a future prime minister or at least be a second leading man, a position he is now desperately trying to fight for. While the country was facing with so many pressing issues, democracy, human rights, land evictions, corruptions of the court system, influx of Vietnamese immigrants so on and so forth, that was not his priority, but to do as he told Hun Sen on the phone, to fight against what he perceived as a danger to Hun Sen's current policy or regime.

I am deeply amazed how decent, somewhat educated Khmers could not see further than their nose, prefer to watch the country and their people bleeding everyday under the current regime. I understood their compassion for the love of the country, but where is common sense? Accusing us as a divider when their leader, himself, starting out with such conviction and aspiration to ensure Hun Sen's victory so a new partnership can be formed, profits can be shared, play along to the tune of nationalists while doing their utmost to defend and protect the interests of Vietnam. The Khmer rouge were able to bring people to the slaughter house from France because of nationalism without question or reasoning. Look at where the country and our people are being lead into once again, by both, well trained communists, to do what? Destroying a well-educated, dedicated French-Khmer economist who refused to sell his conscience, gave up successful luxurious life style in Paris, but to be condemned by his own patriots who could not understood a need for the country to survive first, democratically or to have a real system of check-and-balance, and independent justice system that is not just. Mr. Kem Sokha said it himself that he did not believe in the court of the country. By all mean, he went out of his way to ensure that court system is where it is today. Priority of the country is all fucked up under this sickening mentality, short-sighted. There is a phrase,"Better to have one smart friend than a whole lots of dumb ones." I am sure he is intelligent enough to know what kind of mess the country was in, and the need to keep Hun Sen in check to improve people's life, defending their claims or interests as they were being threatened every day, villages and towns. He should be smart enough to understand there illegal influx of immigrants from the east subsidized and encouraged d in large part by both governments will eventually threaten the existence of Khmer, a colour of the skin he himself seem to share. I don't want to come across as a racist,no. I just wanted to have in place, in time to protect what constitute Cambodia, with Khmer remains the majority of its own land. We need to institute and implement immigration policy, education that will ensure Khmer learning, not Vietnamese, the same way Quebec has done so far. There are issues that we care, but, we prefer to waste our moment of opportunity to divide, and now turning around and pretend to be a uniter while insisting on ill-intended conditions hoping to gain at the expense of SRP, once again. God has eyes, you know.

I don't see how any decent nationalists could accept this kind of deception, deceiving to them. Sure, many will not even care reading line by line what the meaning of each phrase of the conversation while continue to follow blindly in Mr. Kem's leadership. But, there will be a big price to pay because Mr. Kem is right, people are enough intelligence to see how his process of party creation, his flip-flop character and decision has cost the country and the people of Cambodia up until now. The country lost one of the finest opportunities to have a balance of power, ensure justice, listening and effectively coming to the aid of the victims across the country as their land and villages are being gobbled up in day light. Yes, corruption law would have been better drafted before getting into law, better economic policies would probably have been better designed to serve the people of the entire country, not just the rich and the corrupted ones. All of those opportunity lost are due mainly to the patriotism of Mr. Kem in his joint collaboration with Mr. Hun Sen.

I think it would be a decent thing to do for Mr. Kem to resign from his position before respectable, decent loving people are either defecting or forcing him out. He should accept his short-sighteness and his colossal miscalculation of the master of divider, Hun Sen. It was then a mutual benefit of the two, but not anymore. Hun Sen has decided to bring him to the slaughter house. Old communist strategy and it has been an effective one up until now. If people really want SRP and HRP to merge, removing Mr. Kem Sokha as leadership now, will certainly make that a true possibility. Until then, we will never allow Mr. Kem to divide us from within as happened to other political parties in the past. He has lost all credibility to negotiate or even claimed to be a patriot, at least, not on my account.

Good luck to all of those who continue to follow that man. However, if you are looking for an opportunity to unite and win one for your country do take the opportunity to clean your house and that should begin from the top, starting with Mr. Kem Sokha. He had no intention of merging and all of those talking are more or less cosmetic. There are good people who really wanted to see the two parties merge, including SRP supporters, but Mr. Kem Sokha was the ultimate opponent to that possibility. The truth speaks for itself, and that conversation did played out exactly the way we saw it from the beginning of his party inception. Where is your priority? Your country or yourself? He chose his over the nation. Now come not a sweeten reward, but a final ax to his ultimate ambitious political career. I guess it's always time for us to get another job. Politics is suck and being a politician, I can't see it pay my bills. At least, not in my case. That's alright, I'll get by with my daily ration.