Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Vietnam's hidden hand in Cambodia's impasse






Power flows from...The CPP regime, being a barely disguised instrument of Hanoi is under no illusion or qualms over the merit and paramount priority in first, carving up its political stake through violent military means, and second, entrenching and preserving that stake and presence by the same means. It is an age old cut-throat dogma and instinct that subordinates everything else - including international protocols, democratic choice, human rights and diverse cultural values etc. within its controlled remit - to and before this all-consuming alter of sacrifice and hegemonic Demon embedded in the red flag with the gold star at its heart - School of Vice

NB: This is an excellent read and well researched, well informed piece that deserves to be widely read and consulted by anyone wishing to get a summary on the impasse confronting Cambodia and the historical underlying dynamics leading to it. Well done, Mr Kasem - School of Vice

'Many CPP leaders and high-ranking officials would not have their prestigious positions and titles without Vietnamese backing: they know it, and Hanoi knows it.'


By Hassan A Kasem


Cambodia, for all its pretensions towards sovereignty and democracy, has yet to free itself from neighboring Vietnam's political and strategic grip 20 years after United Nations-organized elections ended its debilitating civil war. The international community has since invested over US$2 billion on peace initiatives to repair the damage done by Vietnam's 1979 invasion and seizure of power. Yet Hanoi continues to exercise covert power over the country through its proxy ruling Cambodia People's Party (CPP).

Most Khmer citizens fail to fathom the depths of the ongoing subterfuge. Many have conveniently chosen ignorance over truth, as is common among traumatized populations in post-conflict societies. Western audiences, including the international donor community that continues to bankroll the CPP's corrupt and compromised tenure, should be less easily forgiven for turning a blind eye to Vietnam's still strong command over the country.

Some in the West saw Vietnam as a magnanimous liberator in 1979, an occupying army that rescued Cambodia from the radical Khmer Rouge regime's massacre of its own people. But Hanoi's use of force turned a difficult situation to its geopolitical advantage, putting an end to the Khmer Rouge regime's nationalistic stance vis-a-vis Vietnam, including its combative insistence on resolutions to border disputes held over from the French colonial era.

Hanoi's invasion and occupation with over 200,000 troops under the direction of communist revolutionary, politician and diplomat Le Duc Tho further weakened a nation reeling from the anti-communist war and Khmer-on-Khmer death and destruction. A number of brave revolutionary leaders who fell from grace at Hanoi's behest, including ex-prime minister Pen Sovann, have claimed Vietnamese troops deliberately looted and plundered national treasures and wealth during the invasion. Those installed into power by Hanoi, including incumbent prime minister Hun Sen, subsequently brushed off the theft as a mere war casualty.


To some Khmers, including many opposition politicians attached to the aptly named Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), Hanoi is able to maintain its grip on Cambodia through its historical ties to Hun Sen and the CPP. CNRP members have not spoken without substantiation, feeling it would be morally wrong to exchange denial of truth for peace and power-sharing. The late King Norodom Sihanouk, for instance, said pointedly at a Paris meeting with his compatriots in early 1990 that, "it's meaningless to accept peace without independence, sovereignty and dignity".

After occupying Cambodia for more than a decade from 1979-89, Hanoi developed an elaborate, behind-the-scenes network of control that is in many ways still in place today. It first installed a proxy administration in 1979 known as the People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) run by the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP), which morphed into the CPP in the early 1990's after Vietnamese troops ostensibly withdrew from the country.

The KPRP was a direct offshoot of the Indochina communist Party formed in the 1930s with Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh as its head. Following its unilateral and unmonitored symbolic withdrawal of troops in 1989, hundreds, if not thousands, of Vietnamese "experts" stayed behind, adopted Khmer names and continued to assist their comrades at every important government ministry and department. Nowadays, only locals can tell who is really Vietnamese and who is Khmer.

Hanoi created a perfect ally in the CPP to defend and protect its substantial interests in Cambodia, ranging from land border areas, to maritime concessions, to allowances for illegal Vietnamese immigrants to settle unperturbed throughout the country. Many CPP leaders and high-ranking officials would not have their prestigious positions and titles without Vietnamese backing: they know it, and Hanoi knows it.

Foreign academics have corroborated in detail the ongoing special relationship. Michael Benge, a former American prisoner of war in Vietnam who speaks fluent Vietnamese and many ethnic minority dialects, wrote in 2007 that "Hanoi maintains a contingent of 3,000 troops, a mixture of special forces and intelligence agents, with tanks and helicopters, in a huge compound about two kilometers outside Phnom Penh right next to Hun Sen's Tuol Krassaing fortress near Takhmau".

Extending that analysis, local intelligence sources have said when border clashes between Thai and Cambodian troops first erupted in 2008, at least one battalion of Vietnamese elite units was put on standby to assist their Cambodian comrades.

Dr Markus Karbaum, a German academic, revealed in an April Southeast Asia Globe article that Vietnamese officials shared dossiers kept on Cambodia's current ruling elite with the former East Germany's Stasi soon after their defection from the Khmer Rouge in 1977. A young Hun Sen, whose real name according to his dossier was "Hun Bonal", referred to himself as "Hai Phuc", a Vietnamese name, apparently to ingratiate himself with Hanoi. He had served as a Khmer Rouge battalion commander but downplayed his role in commanding over 2,000 soldiers along their shared border at a time the Khmer Rouge had launched many violent cross-border assaults into Vietnam.

The Stasi archive reveals that Hun Sen and other current CPP leaders were first placed in a detention camp and ordered by Vietnamese authorities to write their own biographies. Vietnam's own assessments of those who sought to shift their allegiance to Hanoi were often unforgiving. Current CPP stalwart and president of the Cambodian Senate Chea Sim, for instance, was characterized as "conciliatory, craven and undecided". Heng Samrin, CPP honorary president and a National Assembly chairman, is referred to in the Stasi archive as of "a low education .. [He] does not talk a lot and sometimes he has an inferiority complex ... his political understanding is limited".

While Vietnamese-backed CPP politicians have unquestionably grown into their roles over the years, these intelligence assessments are noteworthy considering Cambodia has been ruled or co-ruled uninterrupted by the CPP ever since it was first installed into power after Vietnam's 1979 invasion. While younger CPP rank and file members are known to have grown weary of the same old names and faces of their party leaders, any generational transition is complicated by Vietnam's continued influence over the party and its historical ties to the old guard.

Puppet masters
The CNRP's repeated reference to CPP leaders as "puppets" of Vietnam is thus not without historical validity. The examples of kowtowing to Hanoi during Hun Sen's 28 consecutive years in power are multiple. On February 26, 1986, while Cambodia was still under direct Vietnamese occupation, Hun Sen signed a directive ordering local authorities to facilitate the settlement of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese immigrants all over the county, particularly in and around the Tonle Sap Lake region.

Four previous treaties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries (1979, 1982, 1983, 1985), and a 2005 supplemental treaty resulted in territorial loss to Vietnam both on land and at sea. The most glaring recent loss was Koh Tral, an island larger than Singapore located directly opposite the Cambodian coastal town of Sihanoukville known as Phu Quoc in Vietnam. The CNRP has said it still considers the island Cambodian territory because its handover came while the country was under Vietnamese occupation.

In 2010, Hun Sen responded to Vietnamese prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung's concern over ongoing, politicized border disputes by having his controlled courts sentence opposition leader Sam Rainsy to 10 years in prison for uprooting a few contested wooden border posts in Svay Rieng province. Meanwhile, Hun Sen and his CPP party have relied every election cycle on at least three million Vietnamese immigrants who unfailingly vote for the CPP to guarantee victory.

In July 28 elections, however, the Hun Sen-led CPP failed to win its usual landslide. Politically conscious and emboldened voters challenged through exposes over social media the CPP's use of illegal voters, vote-buying and voter intimidation to tilt the result in its favor. The CPP nonetheless rigged the result, officially winning 68 seats to the opposition's 55. Sam Rainsy has claimed his CNRP was robbed of a slim parliamentary majority and in protest has ordered his party members to boycott parliament and staged popular street demonstrations.

The result as it stands means Cambodia will still be subservient to Vietnam's interests for at least another five years. Under Hun Sen's CPP-led government, Vietnamese companies have secured large swathes of Cambodian land in concessions to develop rubber plantations in north and northeast Cambodia. These Vietnamese companies have engaged in massive logging of luxury timber across the country, an unsustainable process that has brought little or no benefit to local Khmer.

In the capital of Phnom Penh, more and more Vietnamese immigrants rent or own new residential buildings, including new luxury apartments and condominiums, with the financial help of Vietnamese government subsidized bank loans. With those state subsidies, part of Hanoi's policy to maintain grassroots control of the local economy, their community and businesses are growing briskly.

Tellingly, Hen Sen and his CPP party seldom use the word "Khmer" in their official addresses. Instead, they use "prajia jun Kampuchea", which means "the people of Kampuchea". Additionally Khmer citizens risk being penalized for referring to their eastern neighbor as "yuon", which merely means "Vietnamese" in the local language; the word "yuon" carries no negative racial overtone towards ethnic Vietnamese. For political correctness, Khmers have been officially encouraged to follow the pro-Hanoi line in referring to Vietnamese as "junjiat Vietnam", which in the Khmer language literally means "Vietnam ethnic or tribe."

During the People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-1989) and the State of Cambodia (1989-1992) regimes, the majority Khmer used to refer to ethnic Vietnamese as "bang pa-aun Vietnam," which literally means "elder-younger (siblings) Vietnam." There are other words considered to be pejorative, offending, or racial slurs for ethnic Vietnamese, but "yuon" is not one of them. Yuon became a hypersensitive word only after 1979. In 1993, Westerners played into Vietnam's hands by regarding the term without foundation as a racial slur.

When the CNRP claims that Khmer citizens have been systematically victimized while Vietnamese have been protected, some Cambodian government officials and Western donors have raised concerns about the future security of Vietnamese immigrants. When the opposition called for a nationwide mass protest against election irregularities and fraud, many feared pro-CNRP demonstrators may exploit the situation to target ethnic Vietnamese for revenge.

In apparent response, on August 15 Vietnamese troop convoys were reportedly ferried across the Bassac River near Cambodian territory and Vietnam's naval gunboats traveled up the Mekong River toward Phnom Penh in a show of force. Meanwhile, Khmer protesters, most of them disenfranchised and dispossessed members of the impoverished population, faced off with heavily armed security forces backed with high-caliber guns, tanks and armored personnel carriers. Many pro-CNRP protestors and even foreign journalists have been violently assaulted by CPP forces in recent weeks.

As grass roots people protest against the rigged election, many Western commentators have focused narrowly on the impact of the political impasse and rising political instability on economic growth rather than the CPP's illegitimate claim to power. In the final analysis, the opposition CNRP will likely eventually join the CPP-led government because no country in the free world is willing to support its democratic claim to legitimacy in the same way that Vietnam backs Hun Sen and his CPP. The CNRP, meanwhile, risks losing the support of the millions of Cambodians who voted for political change and genuine sovereignty if it joins the CPP-led government.

What is happening now in Cambodia warrants international monitoring since the political impasse is not solely a Khmer versus Khmer issue. To achieve lasting peace and stability, the signatory states to the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement should, as stipulated in Article 5, "undertake to consult immediately with a view to adopting all appropriate steps to ensure respect for these commitments". The international community promised peace, independence, sovereignty and democracy for Cambodia in that agreement. Vietnam's ongoing interventions in Cambodian politics is inconsistent with that vision and in violation of its core principles.


Hassan A Kasem has lived in the United States for 33 years. He previously worked for Radio Free Asia for 14 years in Washington DC and is now the US representative for Khmer M'Chas Srok (KMS), a non-profit, non-partisan NGO advocating the legitimate rights of the Khmer people and preserving the 1991 Paris Peace Accords on Cambodia. Hassan served in the Cambodian air force as a helicopter pilot toward the end of the war. He survived a Khmer Rouge detention camp and challenged the Vietnamese occupation before leaving Cambodia in 1979.

47 comments:

Jendhamuni said...


Dear School of Vice,

I do not understand why you and I are posting the same exact stuff. I deleted my post just for you. Cham is willing to sacrifice for Khmers :)

~Jendhamuni

Jendhamuni said...


And of course, your post is better than mine because you dressed it up so beautifully with this eye catching photo. Mine is just plain. I removed mine, although it's a little painful :)

~Jendhamuni

School of Vice said...


I am about to do the same to 'Khmerican' [Khmerization].

I have to live up to School of Vice's reputation as a 'tyrant' somehow!

Sorry, I hadn't seen your post, and even if I had I would still have to post it for my own reasons.

Any further objections?

Just kidding.

Be good.

Jendhamuni said...


Dear School of Vice,

No objection at this moment. You rule! Cham has no kingdom anyway. If I argue with Khmer, I might have to move to heaven or somewhere better.

In fact this is the first time I read lengthy history lesson because its headline caught my attention. You know, catchy headlines, cute photos, short paragraphs, accent colors, neat typeface, etc.. I'm that kind of person :) Like me or hate me. I will always be me :)

Okay, okay, please do not ban me.
PS: You said you are about to do the same thing to Khmerican, meaning force him to delete his post like I just did? Oh well!

~Jendhamuni

School of Vice said...


No, no, nothing like that, and you should have kept your own post regardless. Even though the same material or item get posted by different persons, it will have carried its own flavour and texture as you have correctly noted owing to the imperceptible personal input of the person who does the posting. Who is to say that some readers would not rather follow your posts instead of mine?

My brother Khmerican/Khmerization is a gentleman and a liberal. He won't delete his own post or mine [I hope!]. Besides, unlike you he knows and reads my mind only too well!

More importantly though he puts up with all my idiosyncrasies!! [Unlike some..]

Anonymous said...

This is a well expos so fare on the history of the modern Nam-Tien in Cambodia.

I hope the international community understand more on our destiny.

Jendhamuni said...


Dear School of Vice,

My case here is totally different. It calls, "RESPECT" which is my true color and culture. I would never ever keep that same post you have now, no matter how good I think mine is. Otherwise, I would have to change my name to something else :)

Yes, School of Vice and Khmerican have earned my respect automatically :) I respect those who respect others and willing to respect others.

~Jendhamuni

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the insightful article. I hope this helps educating those foreigners who keep on accusing the CNRP leadership racist against the Vietnamese. Khmer try to defend our nationhood and dignity such as Mr. Sam Rainsy, leader of the CNRP, and got accused for being racist against the aggressor Vietnamese?

Anonymous said...

ខ្មែរមាន​តែទឹក ជោរជន់លិងលង់
អស់ហើយសព្វសត្វ អនុផលជុំវិញផ្ទះក៏បង់
មណ្ឌុលគីរីខេត្តកើតឆៀងជើង មាន​ព្រឹលធ្លាក់ទៀត
នយោបាយស្រអ័ព្ទ អភ័ព្វជីវិត្តខ្មែរ
នេះហើយឬថាគ្មានយួនទេ ម្ដេចក៏មិនរេគយគន់ឡើយវិញ?
តើថ្ងៃខែឆ្នាំងរដ្ឋាបានគិត​ អព្យាក្រិត្យខេមរភូមិន្ទមានដែរឬទេ?
ខ្មែរជួយខ្មែរពិតមានន័យ លះបង់អ្វីៗជួយដោះលំបាក
មានតែស៊ូររស់កុំស្លាប់កំសាក មានថ្ងៃមកដល់នាំជោគវាសនា!

Jendhamuni said...


Dear School of Vice,

I forgot to mention one thing. I respect Mr. Hassan A Kasem very much. I believe he's from where I came from, according to our conversations we had years ago. I respect him, not because of this reason, though. ~Jendhamuni

Anonymous said...

THE CNRP DEMANDS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY's PRESIDENT BECAUSE IT WANTS TO ENSURE THAT HUN SEN CANNOT ASSUME UNLIMITED POWER EVER AGAIN.

WITHOUT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY' CONTROL CNRP IS POWERLESS TO STOP HUN SEN'S FUTURE ACTIONS, HENCE IT WILL BE HOPELESS FOR CNRP SUPPORTERS WHO DEMAND CHANGE NOW!

KHMER ANGKOR!

Anonymous said...

Mr. San Sowith, since he met Mom Sonando recently, he become crazy toward Sam Rainsy. He has been fooled by Mom Sonando who looks all the time to attack Sam Rainsy to serve Youn Strategy. Believe me all My fellow Cambodian, AH MOM SONANDO IS A YOUN SPY. LOOK HIS ACTION WITH SOURN SEREY ROTHA. HE CREATES A DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT IN ORDER TO DISTURB SAM RAINSY. WATCH HIM VERY CLOSELY. HE WAS IN THE PRISON WAS FOR THE YOUN TRICK. THEY RELEASED AH MOM SONANDO RIGHT BEFORE THE ELCTION TO DISTURB SAM RAINSY, BUT HE AN'T BECAUSE THE UNDERSTANDING OF KHMER POLITIC IS TOO STRONG WHICH GAVE HIM NO POSSIBILITY TO STOP SAM RAINSY. ANYWHERE WE HAVE AN IMPORTANT ACTIVITY HE WAS/WILL BE THERE TO HAVE CREDIT, BUT HE WAS NOT A PERSON WHO HAD THE IDEA OR THE CREATOR FOR THE EVEN. IF YOU WATCH HIS INTERVIEW HE LOOKS TO AVOID GIVING SAM RAINY CREDIT. WHEN PEOPLE CONTRIBUTE A LOT OF MONEY TO CNRP HE TRIED TO COMPETE TO ASKING FOR FUND BY TELLING PEOPLE THAT HIS RADIO STATION HAS FINANCIAL PROBLEM. THIS RADIO STATION WILL NEVER CLOSE BECAUSE YOUN WANT TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT IT IS A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY. SAM RAINSY AND CNRP HAVE PROBLEM TO HAVE A RADIO STATION, WHY MOM SONANDO HAS HAD IT SINCE MANY DECADES?

DOES KHMER PEOPLE NEED HIM TO UNDERSTAND OR TO FIGHT FOR THE DEMOCRATIC? CNRP IS ALREADY THE ONE WHO FIGHTING FOR THE DEMOCRATIC. HIS MOVEMENT IS TO TRY TO BREAK KHMER VOICE.

Jendhamuni said...


Hmmmmm.....After reading this article for several times, I am so proud of my culture, my color. Do not ask me which one :)

Anonymous said...

Mr.SAN SOWITH NEED TO REVIEW AND ANALYZE YOUR CONVERSATION WITH MOM SANANDO APART FROM THE BROADCASTING.

Anonymous said...

Mam Sonando is mentally ill.
Even before the election, he wanted Kouk Prey Sar named after him and attacked other Khmer nationalists without reason.
Mam Sonando is a sick puppy.

School of Vice said...


Hmmmmm... I need Mr Kalohn Chuck to help me out here... Where are you Mr KC?

Have you stopped hanging out with Ms Jendha already? Poor soul...

Jendhamuni said...


I have not heard from Mr. KC for a while, maybe because I refuse to learn Khmer Unicode. He wanted me to type Khmer, but I don't know how :)

Jendhamuni said...


Dear School of Vice,

The best way to get a hold of Mr. KC, is to stick his name somewhere in the post, like I did or you did to that so-called handsome man from other country sometimes back. But do not use a spider monkey like I did. What a terrible thing I did to KC :)

Anonymous said...

why r people accusing MAM SONANDO of wrong doing .grow up people !! in a democracy every one has a right to make decisions and have his opinion.just because mam sonando doesn't agree with sam rainsy doesn't mean he is youn and he works for CPP. personally i think its a good move since sam rainsy failed to politically overthrow hun sen like he promised.and how many years should we wait for sam rainsy to win ?? already 30 years have passed and sam rainsy cant do nothing accept for crying and complaining. so let us find new ways and find new and good leaders to lead khmer...

Anonymous said...

good analytical article by mr kasem. youn once tried to control and influence cambodia, especially during the weakest point in cambodia's history like after the brutal, destructive KR regime. anyway, i have hope that cambodia will soon flourish once again in its own way. nothing bad can last forever. it's time for something good for cambodia to take place. remember, civilization comes and goes, people born and die constantly. what happen is brief compare to the long existence of earth and the universe out there. i look at it as another blipse in of the long history of existence of cambodia. remember koh tral island was once a cambodian island, now vietnam's, and soon back to cambodia. yes, the cycle of civilization and cycle of history. nothing is stronger than the force of nature. people will die of old age and then reborn anew. nature takes over, then man will rebuild again and again. nothing last forever. we all die of old age eventually.

Anonymous said...

សូមសរសើចំពោះលោក​ Hassan ម្ចាស់អត្ថបទ
ខាងលើ ដែលថ្ងៃនេះព្រមសរសេរការពិតចេញមក
ឲសាធារណៈ​ ទាំងជាតិ និង អន្តរៈជាតិបានដឹងឮ
ថែមទៀត ។ តាមពិត ជាតិ និង អន្តរៈជាតិភាគ
ច្រើនបានដឹងទាំងអស់ ប៉ុន្តែមិនដឹងថាមូលហេតុអ្វី
ដែលពួកគេតែងធ្វើមិនដឹង មិនឮ ជាពិសេសស
ហគមអន្តរៈជាតិ ដែលជាហត្ថលេខីនៃកិច្ចព្រម
ព្រៀងទីក្រុងប៉ារិស ។

ខ្ញុំមិនដឹងថា តើពួកគេទទួលបានផលប្រយោជន៍
អ្វីខ្លះពីពួកយួនកុម្មុយនិស្ត​ និង ពួករដ្ឋាភិបាល
អាយ៉ងយួនសព្វថ្ងៃនេះ បានជាសុខចិត្តនៅស្ងៀម
បែបនេះ ? ។​ ​ បើពួកធានាគារពិភពលោក ធានាគារអភិវឌ្ឃអាសីុ និង ​ស្ថាប័នផ្តល់ឥណទាន ខ្លះទៀតចុះ មកពីពួកគេអាចបានផលប្រយោជន៍
ខ្លះ នៅពេលពួកគេផ្តល់ឥណទានម្តង ៗ ។ តែចំ
ណែក ប្រទេសផ្តល់ជំនួយ និង ប្រទេសម្ចាស់ហត្ថ
លេខីវិញ តើទទួលបានផលប្រយោជន៍អ្វីខ្លះពីពួក
គណៈបក្សកាន់អំណាចអាយ៉ងយួនដែរ បានជា
ចេះតែព្រមផ្តល់ជំនួយបន្តបន្ទាប់ ទោះដឹងថាពួក
វាជាអ្វី ជានរណា ធ្វើអ្វីខ្លះ ល្មើសច្បាប់ធ្ងន់ធ្ងរយ៉ាង
ម៉េចខ្លះក៍ដោយ ? ។​

មិនតែប៉ុណ្ណោះ ថែមទាំងមានអ្នកខ្លះធ្វើជារកលេស
ចោទទាំងបំពានទៅលើគណ៖បក្សជំទាស់ ថាជា
អ្នកប្រកាន់ពូជសាសទៀតផង ។ ចម្លើយគឺលោក
Hassan បានឆ្លើយបំភ្លឺរួចហើយ តាមពិតអ្នក
ដែលចោទនោះ មិនមែនមិនយល់ពីអ្វីដែលគណៈ
ជំទាស់ និង ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋនិយាយនោះឡើយ តែ
ចោទទាំងបំពានដើម្បីផលប្រយោជន៍ផ្ទាល់ខ្លួនប៉ុណ្ណោះ ។

ដូចអ្នកខ្លះ មិនមែនមិនដឹងថា និតិបញ័ត្តិ និង និតិប្រតិបត្តិ ត្រូវចែកដាច់ពីគ្នា មិនអាចខ្លួនឯងជា
ប៉ូលិសផង ជាចោរផងនោះឯណា ។ តែ​និយាយ
ចោទទាំងបំពានដើម្បីបានផលប្រយោជន៍ពីពួក
ដែលខ្លួនកំពុងបំរើ ។ អរគុណចំពោះអត្ថបទ
ដ៏ក្បោះក្បាយនេះ ។ ​

Anonymous said...

the whole struggle thing is boiled down to politics. whether the cnrp, cpp, the west, youn, china, or any political affiliation out there, all about politics. politics science is interesting, isn't it? understand politics, one will understand the whole picture.

politics is about getting credit, getting recognition, control and about political competition.

Anonymous said...

WHAT GOES AROUND.....COMES AROUND !!
(Kang Trach ..... Kang Tnoung)

The CNRP has a gathering on Saturday October 6thn 2013 to survey people’s views about Cambodia’s current situation, especially the issue pertaining to the fraudulent election.

The big battle for the CNRP is ahead. This is going to be a tough one. The margin for error is minimal.
The CNRP must eliminate any unforced errors if it wanted to win. The mistake that the CNRP can control, it should not make it.
For example, the CNRP’s decision to follow Preah Reach Damress Preah Maha Ksath Ting Moung Sihamoni has surprisingly shocked and alienated manyKhmer people. People were just wondering where the CNRP’s leaders have been in the last few years (in hell or heaven) for not knowing that Sihamoni has been a tool for Hun Sen to use to solidify his power and strengthen his master Vietnam‘s policy of Vietnamization of Cambodia.

For its betterment, the CNRP must stop touting these 2 Kings: Sihanouk and Sihamoni.
In effect, in 1970, Sihanouk was in the same position as Hun Sen today. Sihanouk was perceived by Khmer people, especially the people who lived in the Capital and the big cities, as traitor.
While Sihamoni is simply a Hun Sen’s puppet. Sihamoni would ratify and promulgate whatever Hun Sen told him to.

Moreover, right after the election, the CNRP sent a letter to Sihamoni asking him to intervene to resolve the electoral fraud, and what did the CNRP get? Nothing.
When Hun Sen asked that dumb king, he got every thing.

Khmer people don’t want to dwell on something in the past but we don’t want to see the same mistake reoccur.

Besides, if some of the CNRPs leaders are very close to the King Norodumb family, they should keep that closeness to themselves. Their stupid closeness with the King has screwed the CNRP up and lessened Khmer people’s chance to save Cambodia.

What will happen in the near future?

After the gathering on October 6th 2013, the CNRP must go back to do the right thing by mounting a peaceful nationwide demonstration, firmly demanding the inquiry about the election’s irregularities – nothing else.

If the CNRP refused, that would be the starting point of the fight for justice. The CNRP must know that its back is against the wall, the only way to survive is to fight through it. The CNRP will do or die. And the time for Khmer people to sacrifice to save Cambodia is right here. Only when the killings committed by Hun Sen and his master Vietnam were so huge that the international community would intervene and punish the neo colonialist Vietnam and its puppet Hun Sen.

The hypocrite Vietnam did not win the wars by itself. It got tremendous help from China and the Soviet Union. One factor that made Vietnam the winner was the sacrifice of its people.

And if Cambodia wanted to survive, its people must sacrifice NOW too. This is the right time, and maybe the only time that Khmer people’s sacrifice can save Cambodia. To defeat this pest Vietnam and its puppet Hun Sen, Cambodia needs at least 100,000 Khmer people who are ready to make their ultimate sacrifice. And 100,000 is the psychological winning number over this neocolonialist Vietnam. The time to sacrifice is NOW or NEVER.

The CNRP is the winner of the election. It must take the necessary steps to get it. Hun Sen will not hand the victory to the CNRP. The CNRP must fiercely fight to get it.

Decades later, Khmer people’s sacrifice will produce fruitless result because Vietnam’s grip is getting tighter and tighter as time goes by.

Vietnam said it fought the colonialists France and the US, and now it is Cambodia’s turn to fight the neocolonialist Vietnam.

Khmer people will prevail at last and Cambodia will live forever because people have been well aware of the danger posed by Vietnam and the future leader will go to the top through popular vote, not inherited the power like Sdach Lob Sihanouk.

Bun Thoeun

PS: That's why the word EVIL is fitted nicely wit this pest Vietnam.

Anonymous said...

Bun Thoeun,

When you sadi,"The hypocrite Vietnam did not win the wars by itself. It got tremendous help from China and the Soviet Union. One factor that made Vietnam the winner was the sacrifice of its people," to which war are you referring? The Vietnam War or the invasion of Cambodia?

MTPO

Anonymous said...

Great job Mr. Hassan A Kasem! As per the power of your writng, you deserved to be the Head of RFA Khmer Service. it would be great if you could write up on what RFA executives and some Khmer staff people cooked up to get rid of you. You are such a valuable man!

I suspected all along that Ho and Co have some strange and powerful psychological warfare to completely brainwash and hypnotize some Khmer Vietminh and kidnapped children. Those people are still under the spell that means still in zombie state so that their former trainers and now bosses behind the scene can remotely pull the string when needed. I heard that this method was commonly used by the Russians as well.

Anonymous said...

The article was written by Hassan was 100% true, Vietnam has a long plan to swallow Cambodia, Vietnam is backing and standing behind HUN XEN, Vietnam will never allow HN XEN to step down or to let HUN XEN to have free and fair election. Vietnam is the worst friend of Cambodian people, trying to kill Cambodian as much as they can and trying to reduce Cambodian people by many tricks. I appeal all Cambodian must stand up now to join the big mass protest if you all want to liberate our country from the Vietnamese aggressor and want to live with freedom, justice and democracy, this is time for all of us to kick HUN XEN out from the power now, otherwise it will be too late

Anonymous said...

My closed friend is working as HUN XEN body guards he said the special forces are protecting HUN XEN now are Vietnamese, and the top Army and Polices in Cambodian are Vietnamese, the Cambodian one just show the public that he is Cambodian working at the top army, but the reality is,any top Cambodian should ask Vietnamese agent or special force before they do something, HUN XEN does not trust any Cambodian police and army even Mr Sor Kheng.

Anonymous said...

Its seems like Scamafia=Nambodia is going back to the time before France protectors while yuon and Siam wanting to eliminate Khmers people and stealing khner's land ,yuon got the EASTER ZONE,while Siam took the WESTER ZONE.We are seeing this scenario played out before our eyes after in 21st century with the help of Cpp Hun sen Hanoi's dog! Who are we going to ask for help this time? UN,UE,Or US? Can't trust China...

Kmenhwatt

Anonymous said...


Believing some of the commentators here experienced seeing my basis formula of how the CPP's was holding in power since The Han Noi got a good plan on Khmer ever since.

Here I did once again as:
The NEC is under < Justice is within injustice<Constitutional Council< the thugs of Hun Sen< the scare crow King's father&mother&son< Khmer yiek minh + Hun Sen< Han Noi orchestrated.

Remember! Han Noi is using all means in either directly and indirectly way to swallow Khmer.

We, citizens, must fight with this yiek cong hard and harder in order to get our country back from Han Noi. Now it's the only time and change of that communist regime of CPP and we do with whatever it will cost to protect our motherland back from the tyrant of communist Han Noi since the world watchdog as U.S, E.U, U.N of world body plus and international of NGO and the Paris Peace Accord might as well as our proven task force to do so.

Wherever the water shallow, all Khmer citizen can see the Han Noi's fish pawn easily.

As a result the action must ever be taken and spoken into in once voice as long as the justice can be found for all of us based upon we voted for the CNRP.

Reas Khmer.

Anonymous said...

MTPO

12:46 AM

I referred to the Vietnam War.

I think Khmer people are now ready to make such sacrifice because they have witnessed with their own eyes the danger posed by Vietnam.

But the CNRP's actions were not clear and very perplexed causing concerns and angers amongst Khmer people.

To me, I don't see any other way beside the full scale demonstration to make the loser CPP accept its defeat or give this loser a new election.

If the CNRP knew Vietnam very well, it would understand that Vietnam would not leave Cambodia without a big fight and 100,000 sacrifices is a realistic psychological winning number over the evil Vietnam.

Bun Thoeun

Anonymous said...

Vietnam was the root of Khmer suffering. ho Chi Minh was the master.

Anonymous said...


"Tit for Tat" that is not the term that we, as the supporters of the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) are looking for while the mass population gathered together and voted for them, recently.
And then, we do not want to put a kind of pressure so much on our leadership or make them of under estimated by the public eying either, but the reality one is the CNRP all alone must listen and deliver on of their promises to citizens before and after the 5th of election campaign, otherwise!

To me the post of election as to serve citizens interest and public will, are very basic need for nation who love to keep as their own identities as their own country, Cambodia.

Hoping the CNRP do not make a false hope on the all the supporters who have been voting for them.
The aim we must encourage our people to stand firm as this time we have to be strongly fought for our freedom, nation, and for our power of an individual of each citizen,etc.
It's always possible when we push it in the right time and the manner. So, can we live on our dream? With all of that it doesn't hurt for people to think optimistically about country.
“Change or does not Change of the CPP," Said reas Khmer." Phdo or no Phdo."

In my previous comment said as Yiek cong has been using all their means to obfuscate in societal Khmer.
e.g.; money buy-off, offered a high ranking, positioning, and breeding mixed...among Khmer and Viet.

Reas Khmer

Anonymous said...

As of the savagery cruel living colonized by the Vietnamese gov. history.
I am wondering why some Khmer still do not take serious of the present and future generation, on how lives are and shall be, accordingly?

នៅពេលជា​មួយគ្នានេះ ខ្ញុំកំពុងតែស្ដាប់ លោក សាន សូវិត និយាយគ្នាជាមួយនឹង លោក នួន សារ៉ាយ បងប្អូនប្រាកដជាបានឮដែរហើយ! ត្រង់នេះ ខ្ញុំយល់ថា៖ ប្រធាន គណៈបក្សសង្គ្រោះជាតិ គួរតែយកចិត្តទុកដាក់ឲ្យបានដល់កម្រិតផង!
ខ្ញុំសុំមាន​សំណួរខ្លះ៖

តើវាមានដែរឬទេ ដែលថាក្នុងប្រព័ន្ធ គណៈបក្ស គេមាន​រាបជារបៀប ដូចជា បើចង់ជួបមេដឹកនាំកំពូល ទាល់តែមានការអនុញ្ញាតិ ទៅតាមលំដាប់លំដោយទើបបាន? បើមានវិញ តើអាចដែរឬទេដែលថា មនុស្សគ្រ័គ្គៗក្នុងប្រព័ន្ធនិមួយៗ របៀបជាឃុំគ្រងមេដឹកនាំកំពូល ឲ្យស្ដាប់តែពួកគ្នាឯង? ខ្ញុំតែឮជារឿយៗ​ថា "បើចង់ជួបផ្ទាល់នឹងអ្នកធំ នុះវាមិនងាយទេហ្អើយ!"
ជឿដែរឬទេដែលថា​ ក្នុងប្រព័ន្ធនិមួយៗគ្មានមនុស្ស
ព្យាយាមកាត់ខ្សែរយៈពីអ្នកដទៃ រវាងអ្នកធំ ហើយទុកយកគុណសម្បត្តិសម្រាប់តែខ្លួនឯង?

លោក នួន សារ៉ាយ ថា "ត្រូវតែ លោក មេ បក្សសង្គ្រោះជាតិស៊ីញ្ញ៉េកុងត្រា ទើបបានជួយទៀត" តើកុងត្រានោះមានអ្វីខ្លះទៅ?

សួរថាកន្លងមក តិចឬច្រើនពួកយើង សុទ្ធតែពឹង ដង្ហើមមនុស្សខូនខ្លះដក បានវាទៅជាអញ្ចឹង?

តើអស់លោកក្នុងប្រព័ន្ធនិមួយៗ គោរពក្រមសីលធ៌ម បក្សប្រាកដប្រជាទេ?
ថែមពីលើនេះទៀត តើ លោក នួន សារ៉ាយ មានដែលឮដែរទេពាក្យថា "អ្នកធំមើលរំលងអ្នកក្រ ស្រវារកតែអ្នកមាន រីឯអ្នក្រវិញតូចទាបវិញ ហ៊ានបានត្រឹមតែប្រាពលូន នឹងទ្រនាប់"
យើងក៏មិនដឹងច្បាស់ថា អ្នកក្រោមបង្គាប់គ្រប់មេដឹកនាំសុទ្ធតែស្មោះ?

យើងបានឃើញហើយ កាលបោះឆ្នោតមុនៗ អស់លោកគ្រ័គ្គៗខ្លះ រត់ប្រសាច ចេញនឹងចូល បក្សនេះបក្សនោះ ដូចតួរល្ខោន! ខ្ញុំយល់ថាកាលណោះ ប្រហែលជាពលរដ្ឋ មិនទាន់ហ៊ានធ្វើម្ចាស់ខ្លួនឯងប៉ុន្មាននូវឡើយ បានពួកអស់លោកទាំងនោះ គិតតែពីលាភសការៈអញ្ចុងទៅ?
បើប្រជាពលរដ្ឋមិនកម្រើក រឿងចាស់នូវតែមាន លោក សម​ រង្ស៊ី នឹង លោក កឹម​ សុខា អត់មានឥទ្ធិពលលើរឿងត្រូវតែធ្វើអ្វី ឬ មិនត្រូវធ្វើអ្វីនោះទេ បើពួកគាត់ត្រូវតែជៀស មិនឲ្យបាត់បង់ជីវិត្តមនុស្សដែលក្លាហានមានតិចនូវឡើយផង! អ្នកណាជួយមិនជួយ អ្នកណាស៊ីញ្ញ៉េមិនស៊ីញ្ញេវាដូចតែគ្នា​ ទេដឹង?

ម្ដងនេះខុសពីមុន៖
ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋហ៊ានស៊ីញ្ញ៉េប្ដិតមេដៃ ប្ដឹង លោក ហ៊ុន​ សែន ហើយក៏ហ៊ានធ្វើម្ចាស់របស់ខ្លួន ពេញលេញថែមទៀត រួចមើលទៅឯធនធានមនុស្សខ្មែរ ក៏ខុសមុនឆ្ងាយមិនតិច!
ខ្មែរឥឡូវនេះអាចជ្រើសរើសយក គោលនយោយបក្សមួយ ហើយអាចឈនទៅធ្វើជាម្ចាស់បក្សមួយនោះទាំងស្រុងបាន ដោយផ្អែកទៅនឹងធនធានរបស់ពួកគាត់
មានន័យថា៖ បើថ្នាក់ដឹកនាំណាម្នាក់ ប្រព្រឹតប្រាស់ចាក់ពីក្រមសីធ៌មបក្ស អ្នករងអាចជំនួសបានគ្រប់ពេល! ហើយបើបុគ្គលតំណាងរាស្ដ្រណាម្នាក់​ ចេញដើរតួរល្ខោនទៀត បុគ្គលនោះក៏មិនអាចនាំយកសន្លឹកឆ្នោត របស់ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋទៅជាមួយខ្លួនបាន ព្រោះប្រជាពលរដ្ឋបានបោះឆ្នោតអោយគោលនយោបាយបក្ស មិនមែនសម្រាប់បុគ្គលណាទាល់តែសោះ!
បើ​ លោក នួន សារ៉ាយ ពិតជាមានគោលដៅដាច់ខាតត្រូវតែជួយខ្មែរមែន លោក ត្រូវតែរកលទ្ធភាពប្រើជំនួយរបស់លោក ទៅពង្រឹងជំហរអ្នកគាំទ្រ គណៈបក្សសង្គ្រោះជាតិ ក្នុងប្រទេស ទើបមានប្រសិទ្ធិភាព?
ធ្វើបដិវត្តន៍ អហ៊ឹង្សា មានតែពឹងលើកម្លាំងប្រជាពលរដ្ឋជាគោល!
"លួចអត់បាន ទិញអត់លក់" ការស្រេកឃ្លាន លោក នួន​ សារ៉ាយ ត្រូវតែជួយហើយ មែនទេ!

Anonymous said...

HUN XEN is trying to use very trick to oppose Cambodian people not to join the mass protest, not to involved with Sam Rain Sy party HUN XEN knows that if he lost his power, Vietcong will hang him or shot his head because there are many Vietcong special forces working around him now, and also is he step down he will no where to live and to go because he has committed a lot of crime in Cambodian selling his country to Vietcong let 4 million Vietcong refugee living in Cambodia, so he will not to compromise with any opposition members unless HUN XEN know that he can control the power than he can let the opposition in the government.

Anonymous said...

Vietcong is the top master mine standing behind HUN XEN and designed their plan let HUN XEN to destroy Cambodia, using HUN XEN hand to kill Cambodian people and inject a medicine to HUN XEN brain making HUN XEN serving their interest and let HUN XEN do whatever they wanted to do for serving their interest, this time all Cambodian must understand and stand up together otherwise it will be too late.

Anonymous said...

Vietcong control Cambodia from the village level up to the provincial governor level, and the most important is Police, and Army most top Police and Army are Vietnamese they can speak khmer well wearing Cambodian army and police uniform. So for next 5 years if HUN XEN will stay on the power, they will control Internet, Facebook and every level of Cambodian students and market and everywhere

Anonymous said...

All Vietcong companies got Cambodian Land concession from HUN XEN not from the Cambodian ministry of Agriculture. Vietcong had got a map drawing the place where they wanted to get then HUN XEN sign it, that is why most forestry has been destroyed by Vietcong companies in Cambodia

Anonymous said...

Vietcong has not completed their task yet they need more time at least 2 years to complete their border post making along Cambodian and Vietnam border and they need another 2 years to draw a official map to take Cambodian land and Cambodian sea, that is why Vietcong will not allow HUN XEN to step down, because they need HUN XEN to protect their interest

Anonymous said...

"I am wondering why some Khmer still do not take serious of the present and future generation, on how lives are and shall be, accordingly?"

6:54 AM,

Why some Khmers doesn't care about futher generation lives, because they're EVIL gold digger and mostly are from CRIMINAL CPP.

Their concerned is not about Cambodia but MONEY&POWER. Their brain can only think in short term, but not long term.

Their short memories are: whenever Cambodia is at war, those EVIL gold digger will run to other country for their safty and let the poors fight for freedom. They're careless about Cambodia as long as they have MONEY&POER.


Anonymous said...

After more than 30 years of Hun Sen Vietcong slave rule, God just delivered Mr.Hassan A Kasem to Cambodian people! Why so late? Cambodian people have been waiting for Mr. Hassan Kasem for so many years to speak the truth nothing but the truth of the injustice, the suffering, and the hostage of Cambodian political process by the Vietcong government and their slave which is a violation of international law and order!

Thank you Mr. Hassan Kasem!

Anonymous said...

During the Pol Pot regime Cambodian people faced the horror of dying and 30 years later under Hun Sen regime and Cambodian people still face the horror!

Please make the horror go away by respecting life, liberty, and the happiness of Cambodian people!

Anonymous said...

Now all Khmers have known the true intention of Vietnam over Cambodia.
It is now the best time and save our country from Youns' invasion. Now or Never.

Anonymous said...

All Khmers,

Elizabeth Baker had written very clear about Vietnam's colonization of Cambodia in her book: When the War was over", published around 1980 or a little late date.

How many Khmers had read this book?

Sithan

Anonymous said...

But for my own view, all of today Khmer sufferings, Cambodian mess, had been caused by the betrayal of Norodom Sihanouk, and him alone.

He did tied Khmer hands, then handed to Hanoi to finishing as of today.

Sithan

Anonymous said...

◘◘◘YOUR ARE TOLD BULLSHIT MORONS!!DON'T BE TO DEMEAN OURS PEOPLE BAND THE DEMENTED BITCH,MAY I CAN BE DIE BUT DON'T LET YOUR DEMEAN ME OKAY◘◘◘◘◘◘!!WE CAN NOT CARELESSNESS***!!

Anonymous said...

Laos and Cambodia are sending delegations to Vo Nguyen Giap funeral on Saturday

Anonymous said...

a video about vn-cambodia relation and how cambodia help vn to protect the south china sea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ETqXNjK-A