Cambodia's weekend elections will be the 'least fair' in history
ABC (Australia) | 26 July 2013
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Thousands of government and opposition supporters have
hit the streets in Cambodia to drum up last minute support ahead of this
Sunday's election.
Election monitors are fanning out across the country to ensure a free and fair vote.
Koul Panha, Director of Comfrel Cambodia's Committee for Free and Fair Elections has told Newsline, the election to be held at the weekend, will be the least fair election if compared to previous ones.
"This time the Cambodian election is not yet free and fair election according to the international standard," he said.
He
says, however, so far it has also been the least violent election and
there has been far more youth participation than in previous years.
Koul
Panha says there are three main problems with the elections being free
and fair - media access, police and military officials being controlled
by the ruling party and "ghost" voters.
He says the return of
Opposition Leader Sam Rainsy is a positive step but this time the
opposition leader has not registered as a contesting candidate.
"This is a new challenge that has not been settled by the government.
"It is the first at time in Cambodia that the opposition leader has no name as a contesting candidate."
This election has bought more people out on to the streets than before.
Koul Panha puts it down to youth involvement that has been sparked by them having access to information on social media.
"Most
of them got information about political parties though Facebook and
they communicate, themselves, through Facebook and telephones, so they
are able to share that information and they encourage among themselves
to participate in the election campaign," he said.
He also attributes the increase in political interest to the merging of the Sam Rainsy Party with the Human Rights Party.
"This
encouraged many voters who were unhappy with the divide of the
opposition party, this time they merged together - it encouraged them to
show up in support of the opposition."
Thousands of elections
observers will be monitoring the vote on Sunday, however there still
aren't enough to cover every one of the 19,000 polling stations.
Koul Panha says that the focus will be on the 10,000 larger polling station and areas of possible conflict.
Even with the observers in place Koul Panha is cautious when commenting on how the election results will be treated.
"We
have to get the full picture, information, during election day and the
counting to see what happens -whether they are going smoothly without
manipulation," he said.
"This is a big concern - we need to be
careful to make rash judgments on this election whether we call for
people to accept [it] as a legitimate election or not
"However we hope that everything will go peacefully and smoothly."
3 comments:
Yes, Hun sen knew from day one of his Vietnamese appointment that Khmer do not like him that's why he kills, threatens and bribes just so he can stay in his position of power. That's why he has blood on his hands and shit on his feet.
It's a shame he does not have the intelligence to implement genuine change in his behaviour to a more favourable one.
Real shame that no one close to him cares and dedicate enough to give him advise with any wisdom in it.
It's additional shame that his communist ideology makes him lose his religious believes, because, any good monks would advise him that when you cause suffering to others this will not bring peace to your life (karma).
In the end he has to go as Mr. Rohrabacher has said, if he is stupid enough to fight this he will go the same way as other dictators
You all heard what Congressman Rohrabacher said :
'Hun Sen has to go, he has been in power too long!, if he still holds on to his position of power after this election, he will be under close scrutiny'.
You know what that means 'under close scrutiny'?
It means America will investigate everything about the Hun sen's empire, including his associations (no matter where they are), all his money -how much he has, where he got it from, who he killed, who he slept with - yes the lot!
America can do this, we know what happened when they investigated the 911 terrorist attacks, the whole world knew everything about those terrorists - how, where, what, when, who and why.
We remember when America froze assets of those suspected association of these terrorists? Some of Hun sen's cronies had their assets frozen too at that time.
The aid money from America, Australia and EU came from their tax payers -their people. I'm sure they'd like to know what Hun sen did with all their money because Cambodia is not a developed country and the general population are still suffering.
So go ahead Hun sen, cheat all you want and continue to be greedy for power. I for one would like to know how much you and your cronies have in all your bank accounts, how you got it, what you use it for, what you've been up to, who and how you've killed. It would be interesting.
You see!, under Sam Rainsy's competent leadership- even a dictator (vicious human being) has a choice of how he can go.....
Hun sen's smart way to go:
-Accept your errors and take accountability.
-Accept the people's choice as who their leader should be and support that leader by giving your co-operation.
(This is the Khmer love Khmer way to go).
Hun sen's stupid way to go...:
- continue to be arrogant, deceitful, bribe, threaten and kill. Then you will go .... Just like other dictators ... Gadafi, Saddam (just to name a few).
(Of course, you should know that this is what yuens want -division so that they can sabotage, the damage is Khmer kill Khmer ). You have intelligence then don't fall for Hanoi's primitive dirty trick.
CNRP knew exactly what they are doing when they announced 'we won't take any Khmer as our enemy' and they meant it!!!
Khmer love Khmer
In memory of Lok Tar Sen Koy
Hun sen & bun rany think they can trust the Thai with their diamonds and money or anything else - they must be real fools!, it makes me laugh.
To all those serving CCP, you now see your masters are making exit plans. Don't stay with them and serve them anymore. In the end they leave you to suffer - they will not look after you!! Don't be a fool.
Don't threaten or hurt Khmer at the command of your CPP masters anymore. You remember what happened to those who murdered others because Hun sen hired them to do it. They were fed to Hun sen's crocodiles so he can get rid of evidence of the murderous act Hun sen or his cronies committed. What's the money for if you can't take it with you when you die?
Save your country and other Khmers from suffering, give them a chance to prosper.
NIGHTMARE FINALLY OVER FOLKS!!!
Long Live Viet Nam and Long Live Hun Sen and CPP...
We will killed all of you useless human.. we prepared 3 billion dollars after the election if you not joint the government... We prepared snipers forces to kills all of you and we prepared secret forces if you protest after election ... at the end we will kills all of you..
You will not get free and fair election ... because we deleted more then 1millions voters and we have more then 1 millions ghost voters and other.. so lost just with this ... CPP already won 25% just from this .. This election we will win 90 seats or more ...
Long live Viet Nam and CPP and Hun Sen...
U will never see Khmer Prime Minister only Viet Nam approved one or Vietnamese bloods ... You are all useless khmer and should never live .. soon your country will be our NEW PROVINCE ....
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