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| Protest in the Banana Kingdom |
Friday, 16 March 2012
Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
...photos or no, Ou Virak said continued demonstrations could become a source of instability for the country
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday welcomed the use of his photograph by demonstrators, a common practice among those who gather seeking the resolution of myriad problems, including landlessness.
“Whoever wants to protest, they always hold my photo or the photo of my wife,” he said in a public speech. “They never hold the opposition leader’s photo.”
Rights groups and opposition party officials, however, say the practice rarely meets with success and is an indictment of a failed court system and a government where the power is concentrated into the hands of the premier.
“Because they know that he is powerful,” said Ou Virak, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. “Regarding everything, even including fishing lots, his decision must be respected by the courts, and then people won’t go to the courts but to him.”
“It demonstrates clearly that in Cambodia, power is mostly in the hands of an individual, rather than under a state institution,” said Pol Ham, a spokesman for the minority opposition Human Rights Party.
The rights group Adhoc reported more than 500 protests in 2011, with 186 of them dispersed by security forces. Some of these demonstrations have led to violent clashes, whether protestors were carrying photos of Hun Sen or not.
“I was beaten and his photo was thrown away,” said Chum Gnan, a resident of the Phnom Penh neighborhood of Borei Keila who was forcibly evicted from her home in January and later joined a protest. “Another person holding his wife’s photo was beaten on the head.”
Government spokesman Phay Siphan conceded that some violence was the fault of the authorities, but he said all of the concerns of protesters are brought to the attention of Hun Sen.
Nevertheless, and photos or no, Ou Virak said continued demonstrations could become a source of instability for the country.
12 comments:
How dumb can this uneducated Vietminh be. He still doesnt understand why people put his pictures when they need his help. Can someone put this CPP chkae down!
Uneducated people likes to brag and wants to take credits shamelessly on every things just like small kids, it doesn't matter how stupid it looks and sounds.
Baay Kdaing
Put a red circle on these monkeys' forehead!
Haha Bay Kdaing you are always right. These uneducated monkeys sees themselves as god.
I guess these monkeys have pass the point of inhumane. They always think they are doing good at the expense of the majority for the few.
FUCKEN FUCKERS, i wish someone would put these monkeys down for good!
If ah Hun Sen is keeping silent
what the protesters want,the demonstrations become worst for
the country.
Ah Hun Sen is treating himself
pretty bad,it is his faults.
The three dumb monkey heads make themselves,Khmer people,and Cambodia to hell.
Monkeys say, monkeys do!
NO ONE DESTROY THEIR REPUTATION AND COMMIT POLITIC SUICIDE BUT THEM OWN PEOPLE.
Thank CPP for being stupids
Well...Right now AH Hun Sen is still in power and the Cambodian people use his picture and his wife to show sign who is in power! And for those who is in power or with power and Cambodian people want to see them having the quality of God that have power to intervene to bring an end to their problem!
I wouldn't be surprised if these same Cambodian people use the picture of Hun Sen and his wife for burning and defacing in public to show their displeasure if one day Hun Sen fall from power!
The way you go up is the way to you come back down!
That " someone " is YOU and ME.
We can:
1. Support and joint SRP
2. Support or joint the Lotus Revolution
Let us put our thoughts to action !
stop holding ah hun sen and mi bun heang's pictures! they will never help you.
Hun Sen is not smart at all in saying what he said about his and his wife's photos being used during the protests.
Can't he see that their actions simply indicate that Cambodia is not a democratic country based on the rules of laws, but rather a country run by a dictator?
I guess you cannot teach a man who thinks that 1 + 1 = 3 to believe that the answer should be 2!
Be careful, Mr. Premier as the day shall come when your picture is placed next to Pol Pot's.
Pissed off
I WANT TO LET ALL THE PROTESTERS KNOW THAT "HOLDING HUN SEN'S PICTURE WILL NOT HELP THEM TO BE FREE OF TRAGEDY BECAUSE THIS MAN IS BEHIND OF THE COMPANIES THAT MAKE THEM SUFFER"
THESE PROTESTERS MUST SPREAD OUT THEIR VOICES TO ALL CAMBODIANS THROUGH OUT THE COUNTRY TO WOTE AGAINST HUN SEN AND ALL KINd OF TRAGEDY WILL NO LONGER TAKE PLACE.
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