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By JULIA WALLACE
The New York Time
PHNOM PENH — Ten years ago, the children of Cambodia’s ruling elite were busy cementing interfactional alliances with a dizzying blitz of marriages. Having accomplished that, they’re now working on taking over the country.
At least six sons of high-ranking members of the Cambodian People’s Party, which has had a stranglehold on the government for over a decade, have been announced as parliamentary candidates in July’s national elections, and their candidacies are being actively promoted by their famous fathers as pre-election barnstorming heats up.
“Even if there are no more angels, there are still baby angels,” Prime Minister Hun Sen reportedly said in a recent campaign speech. In a reference to the angel scattering flowers that is the longstanding symbol of the C.P.P., he was anointing his and his associates’ progenies as Cambodia’s next generation of leaders.
Hun Many, the youngest of Hun Sen’s three sons, is his deputy cabinet chief; he also heads the C.P.P.’s Youth Association, a crucial conduit for recruiting young people into the party. Now, at 30, he is also running for a seat in the National Assembly. So is the son of Interior Minister Sar Kheng. At 33, Sar Sokha has already risen through the ranks of his father’s ministry to become a senior police official, and is married to the daughter of the former chief of the army.
Other newly announced candidates include Cheam Chansophoan, son of Cheam Yeap, a prominent member of Parliament; Say Sam Al, son of the Senate’s president; Ty Dina, son of the Supreme Court president; and Dy Vichea, the son of the late, immensely powerful (and immensely feared) national police chief, Hok Lundy.
Dy Vichea, a senior police official, also happens to be married to Hun Sen’s daughter, Mana, a businesswoman with investments in nearly every sector. (This is a second marriage for both: His first wife was the daughter of Hun Sen’s brother, while her first husband was the son of the army’s procurement czar.) Mana’s brother Manith is married to Dy Vichea’s sister Chindavy.
Manith and Hun Sen’s other son, Manet, are also highly placed, with each holding multiple positions. Manith is a colonel in the army, deputy head of the Military Intelligence Unit and head of an ambitious new land-titling program staffed by student volunteers loyal to Hun Sen. Manet, a West Point graduate, is a major general, deputy chief of his father’s bodyguard unit and head of the army’s counterterrorism unit. He is widely perceived as his father’s favorite son and heir apparent.
In a nationally televised speech Thursday, Hun Sen told voters he believed Manet was the child of a neak ta, a powerful local spirit, who had been living in a tree nearby. “When he was born, there was a bright light flying around the cottage’s roof,” Hun Sen said, before turning to his son. “You should go visit that banyan tree, because you come from that tree.”
Even as it builds a dynasty of young politicians ever more closely linked through blood and business ties, the C.P.P. has denied any claims of nepotism. It argues instead that the children of the ruling elite are simply the most qualified candidates for the positions they hold or seek. This is not untrue, since these children of privilege attend the best international schools in Phnom Penh, and are often sent abroad for expensive degrees. But merit hardly seems to be the point.
The prime minister has been warning voters recently of what may happen if the C.P.P. loses power: New infrastructure projects will end; the schools and pagodas bearing Hun Sen’s name will be destroyed; civil war may break out. “Just tick the angel box and you are electing Hun Sen,” he has advised. He will probably be heard. The election’s outcome already seems inevitable, so why not tick that box and be on the side of the angels?
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I believe in angels. But there are the fallen angels and the holy angels who do the will of God. Cambodian people believe in the fallen angels who do the will of Satan. This applys to all party of Cambodian politics.
The bible tells me that a third of the angels in heaven decided to follow Satan when Satan rebelled against the Most High God.
Angels are ministering spirits created to do God's bidding. Since this is true to good angels...the fallen angels are also ministering spirits doing the will of the evil One.
From a biblical point of view and understanding, a spirit is ruling over the regime of Cambodia not just the political figure heads. Even if the CNRP party were to win this coming election... the same ruling spirit will have control of politic in Cambodia.
If we were only fighting angainst flesh and blood (human beings)we could have easily subdued that which we think is opposing true democrazy, but we are not. The prince of the air is like wind, cannot be contain only in the spirit can it be brought down.
Buddhism helps lend it strenght so it can prevail in the spirit world.
http://www.cgdev.org/article/tony-blair-supporting-good-leaders-can-help-make-%E2%80%9Cafrica%E2%80%99s-century%E2%80%9D
According to Tony Blair, about 20 countries in Africa will shine in the 21st century thanks to their new corruption-free leaders. Would Cambodia see the light at the end of the tunnel with or without her leaders with continued lip service?
Some Khmer people abandoned their highest-self or Buddha Nature for the sake of any spirits that can give them quick gain. However, the consequences are so dire as we have seen in the past decades. In short, we need to wake up and believe in ourselves first in order to do good to ourselves, neighbors, and our country.
That is Hun Sen's justice. He doesn't see how bad from his action for the country future of politicking. He is creating dynasty in politics which means one party without opposition; the same as a husband always control the wife in a married couple.
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-First CNRP is a Unifier party; however, this party will never WIN regardless. If "CNRP" WINS, Yuon new treaty with Hun Sen would be erased. Therefore, CNRP will never win.
-Second, Hun Sen is also a nationalist, but his nationalism's fate is in the hands of Yuon. Regardless how hard Hun Sen has tried to make all his family's members whom he trusts to possess high positions, it makes no difference, because after Hun Sen, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin die, the new leaders well trained from Hanoi will take over Cambodia will rule over these new fresh Hun Sen's angels or evils.
These few guys angels or evils will never have a chance to freely lead but only to take order from Hanoi.
The Yuon Expansionism has been accomplished and been written since Pham Boi Chau took his journey to Japan in 1908.
Their smooth transitions are superb planned and whatever Hun Sen does is making by Yuon.
No superpower nations want to help Cambodia to free her from Vietnam. Their interest is to colonize or influence the region only.
If Vietnam complete its goal of uniting French Indochinese states, it'd be easy for other nations to deal with 1 instead of 3.
No Nation can save and help Cambodia. Cambodia's curse and so be it.
If you all study and try to rationally debate many of you will see the cause/source of the fallen of the Khmer Empire and this small Khmer nation.
I can offer my opinions which I have studied years about why Khmers have been suffering for ~800 years. The Khmer Buddhists were/are the source of the lost of Khmer Nation.
My opinions are similar to many others' opinions who understood why the empire collapsed and why the nation is taken away by Yuon.
A STRONG, Powerful Nation based on a Strong Economy and a Strong Army (National Defense).
Khmer Empire had all of those described above. That was why the Empire was so powerful.
Until new religion "Buddhism" was adopted, while Yuon & Siem were coming.
Khmer Empire was not only lost million strong healthy men to the Buddhist Temples, but it lost a great support to strength the Empire Economy.
Those million men sought Nirvana by living so comfortable life in the Buddhist Temples waiting to be served by the people who had to work hard to feed their family and the Empire.
Monks are not to SERVE the people, but to be SERVED by the people. Monks do not work at the rice field or make any money to contribute to the nation. Monks do not serve people such as helping or washing any sick poor men. Monks have good jobs and live very comfortable. Monks refused to do those things to help the poor, but Monks can play Politics such as monk Loun Savath, claiming that Buddha taught them to do that which in fact, Buddha had no attachment with Politics but "Nirvana" only.
I cannot list all the sources of the destruct-ions upon Khmer Empire and Khmer little nation by those million Monks.
Now Khmer monks are sent to study in Hanoi. This is REAL.
These Khmer Buddhists are also Monks's accomplices destroying Khmer Nation we have left. Not only they destroy while in Cambodia, they are everywhere in develop nations making business and ripping off from others.
"The prime minister has been warning voters recently of what may happen if the C.P.P. loses power: New infrastructure projects will end; the schools and pagodas bearing Hun Sen’s name will be destroyed; civil war may break out. “Just tick the angel box and you are electing Hun Sen,” he has advised. He will probably be heard. The election’s outcome already seems inevitable, so why not tick that box and be on the side of the angels?"
I like the above statement, i could recall one Hun Sen Dictate that he will be ruling Cambodia until he age 90 year old. But why would he starting introducing his Kids into the electorate?
Is he not confident enough that he can rule until age 90? or is the NEC have gather votes for his Son already? What does it mean to the other CPP candidate, that must be a "devil" unlike Hun Sen a killing "Angel" and his kids " a suceeding killing Angels"?
When Hun Sen CPP government end there will still be LIFE and a better infratructure delevelopment that is both sustainable and benefits to the Cambodian people not to Hun Sen family as of current.
So why must we vote for the CPP, if they loose they are a soar looser as they want to trigger a war to protect the $$$ that they steal of the Cambodian peopler over the last 30 year?
Other then that the schooling, hospital as we know it ARE FUNDED BY PRIVATE individual and Hun Sen off Cause asked to put his Name as the builder when in fact he is the destroyer...take the evictions...
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