Thursday, November 21, 2013

Vietnam's hidden hand in Cambodia's impasse

Vietnam's hidden hand in Cambodia's impasse

By Hassan A Kasem| Asia Times Online | 9 October 2013

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.

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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



44 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you Mr.Hassan A Kasem,you know very well a bout politic in Cambodia.I'm a one of Khmer people say thank you to you that you can see and you tell the true.

Anonymous said...

Keep exposing Vietnam interfering in Cambodia affair to the world. This is what causing us all the suffering... We must understand that...

Anonymous said...

Veitnam is trying to buy American nuclear technology to produce electricity. They will need a lot of help from the US. In addition, they are also seeking American help with the Island that China is claiming to be their. So, Khmer American need to push American politicians amd demand that Veitnam takes this hidden hand out of Cambodia or no help from the US.

Khmer Inquirer.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Kassem, would you write a book in khmer that include this message.

i will buy one book.

Anonymous said...

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ជំនួញ ឬ នយោបាយជាមួយសហរដ្ឋអាមេរិក
យ៉ាងណាក៍ដោយ ក៍ក្នុងនាមជាប្រទេសមហា
អំណាច បីតាលទ្ធិប្រជាធិបតិយ្យ គោរពសិទ្ធិ
មនុស្សយ៉ាងតឹងរឹង ។​ គោរពច្បាប់ អំពើយុត្តិ
ធម៌ និង ឆ័ន្ទៈប្រជាពលរដ្ឋយ៉ាងមធ្យ័ត គួរតែ
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សេសប្រទេសកម្ពុជា សហរដ្ឋអាមេរិក សហគម
អន្តរៈជាតិ និង អង្គការសហប្រជាជាតិ កាលពីឆ្នាំ១៩៨០ ដល់ ១៩៩១​ បាននាំគ្នាខំរិះរកគ្រប់
មធ្យោបាយ និង ចំណាយប្រាក់ វាល់កោដដុល្លារ៍
ទៅលើប្រទេសមួយនេះ ដើម្បីធ្វើឲប្រទេសនេះ
ក្លាយទៅជាប្រទេសប្រកាន់លទ្ធិប្រជាធិបតិយ្យ
មួយនៅក្នុងដំបន់ ។ ព្រមទាំងឲអ្នកដឹកនាំប្រ
ទេសនេះចេះគោរពសិទ្ធមនុស្ស​ ឲប្រជាពលរដ្ឋ
មានសិទ្ធិសេរីភាពគ្រប់យ៉ាង ឲប្រទេសជិតខាង
ចេះគោរពបូរណៈភាពទឹកដី និង ធិបតិយ្យភាព
នៃប្រទេសនេះ ។ល។

ដូច្នេះ កុំដើម្បីផលប្រយោជន៍ផ្ទាល់ខ្លួន សហរដ្ឋ
អាមេរិក ប្រទេសប្រជាធិបតិយ្យក្នុងសហគម
អន្តរៈជាតិទាំងអស់ និង អង្គការសហប្រជាជាតិ
នាំគ្នាសំងំនៅស្ងៀម ស្ទាក់ស្ទើ មិនអើពើក្នុងការរំ
លោភបំពានរបស់ប្រទេសជិតខាងទៅលើទឹកដី
កម្ពុជា​ ។ ការត្រួតត្រាប្រទេស ការកាប់សម្លាប់
ការធ្វើបាប ជិះជាន់ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរតាមរយៈអា
យ៉ងដែលពួកគេបានបន្តុបតាំងពី ១៩៧៩ មក នោះ​ ។ ទោះអស់លោកមានការទំនាក់ទំនង មានមនោសញ្ចេតនាជាមួយប្រទេសអស់ទាំង
ហ្នឹងក៍ដោយ ក៍ត្រូវតែគិតដល់សុខទុក្ខរបស់ប្រជា
ពលរដ្ឋស្លូតត្រង់នៃប្រទេសនេះផងដែរ ។ មិន
ត្រូវទុកបណ្តោយឲពួកឈ្លានពានទឹកដីមកលេបត្របាក់ទឹកដីប្រទេសនេះ និង ខ្ចីដៃខ្មែរសម្លាប់ខ្មែរ
ជារៀងរហូតនោះទេ ។

សូមអស់លោកពិចារណាផងថា​ តើត្រូវធ្វើយ៉ាង
ណាដើម្បីបំបាត់ពួកឈ្លានពាន និង ឃាតករ
ស្រេកឈាមទាំងអស់ហ្នឹងឲអស់ពីទឹកដីកម្ពុជា
បានឆាប់រហ័ស ។ បើពុំនោះទេ អស់លោកនឹង
ចាញ់ប្រៀបពួកកុម្មយនិស្តដូចកាលពីឆ្នាំ ១៩៧៥
ដល់ ១៩៩១ ទៀត ។​​ អស់លោកនឹងមិនអាច
ឈរជើងនៅក្នុងដំបន់អាសីុ អាគ្នេយ៍បានតាម
ការប៉ុនប៉ង និង គ្រោងទុករបស់អស់លោក
ឡើយ បើទុកឲប្រទេសកម្ពុជានៅក្រោមការត្រួត
ត្រារបស់ពូកកុមុ្មយនិស្តនោះ ។

អស់លោកក៍គួរពីចារណាផងដែរថា តើសព្វថ្ងៃ
មានចំនួនប្រជាពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរដែលរស់នៅក្នុងប្រទេសសេរីក្នុងពិភពលោកនេះប៉ុន្មានដែរ ? ។ តើ
អ្នកទាំងអស់ហ្នុង បង់ពន្ធជូនរដ្ឋ និង បោះឆ្នោត
គាំទ្រអស់លោកប៉ុន្មាននាក់ដែរ ? ។ អ្នកទាំង
អស់ហ្នុងសុទ្ធតែមានបងប្អូន ញាតិសន្តាននៅក្នុង
ប្រទេសកម្ពុជាទាំងអស់ បើមិនច្រើនក៍តិចដែរ ។ ដូច្នេះ សូមអស់លោកជួយក្រឡេកមើលប្រ
ជាពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរស្លូតត្រង់នៅក្នុងប្រទេសកម្ពុជាផង
កុំទុកឲពួកគេទទួលរងទុក្ខដោយសារស្នាដៃរបស់ពួកឃាតករឈ្លានពានយួន ចិន តទៅទៀត ។
ល្មមដល់ពេលជួយចាត់វិធានការកំចាត់ពួកវាឲ
អស់ពីដែនដីខ្មែរហើយ ៕



Anonymous said...




CPP nerver lose...CPP nerver go...

GO WHERE??? GO WHERE??? WHAT AN IDIOT. YOU ALONE CANNOT DO IT ( FORCE HUN SEN OUT OF HIS POSITION).
AND WHO TA HELL YOU THINK YOU ARE? SOME KHMER'S PIM WHO TRY TO IMPRESS YOUR WHORE??? WHAT A JOKE. YOU AND ALL KHMER IDIOT WHO SUPPORT YOUR SORRY ASS ARE SO STUPID. MAN WHY THESE IDIOT THINK YOU CAN DO THAT.?

SORRY ASS

Anonymous said...

1:59 PM
SORRY ASS,

By the way, you sound like Ms. Soap.
If you are, go ahead brainstorm with me, a stupid Khmer you had referred to. I've been looking for you for the last two years.
Go ahead make my day !!!


Ms. Water

Anonymous said...

CPP nerver lose...CPP nerver go...
GO WHERE??? GO WHERE??? WHAT AN IDIOT. YOU ALONE CANNOT DO IT ( FORCE HUN SEN OUT OF HIS POSITION).
AND WHO TA HELL YOU THINK YOU ARE? SOME KHMER'S PIM WHO TRY TO IMPRESS YOUR WHORE??? WHAT A JOKE. YOU AND ALL KHMER IDIOT WHO SUPPORT YOUR SORRY ASS ARE SO STUPID. MAN WHY THESE IDIOT THINK YOU CAN DO THAT.?

SORRY ASS

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much for your kind presentation about this sensitive issue in Cambodia. Please keep exposing to the whole world that Vietnam has been interfering in Cambodia such a long time a go and it will never end.

Please help us to cut the Vietnam's hidden hand out of Cambodia as soon as possible other wise Khmer land will soon finish from the world's map like Champa (Cham).

Tx

Anonymous said...

I appeal all Cambodian must join the big mass demonstration to overthrow HUN SEN from the power and we must join together to liberate our country from Vietnamese communist, we have to do it now, otherwise it will be too late and our country will be controlled by Vietnamese communist.

Anonymous said...


( I just would like to repost my comment )

Suggestion to the CNRP:

While working to find justice for Khmer people, the CNRP should inform the international community about Vietnam's dominance over Cambodia.

One analysis recently written by Hassan Kasem is a very helpful tool for the CNRP to use to inform the international community about Vietnam's involvement in Cambodia.

The international community might be weary about Cambodia, raising the question why does Cambodia always have problems ?

We, as Khmer, knew that Vietnam has been the root of our problems, starting from Vietnam creating and brainwashing the Khmer Vietminh to execute its plan, resulting in millions of Khmer people were brutally killed by these Khmer Vietminh during the Pol Pot era.

Here is the link from KI to that Hassan Kasem:

http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2013/10/vietnams-hidden-hand-in-cambodias.html#more

The CNRP should distribute this analysis to the international community. It would greatly help the CNRP to justify its cause to fight the current Vietnam’s puppet regime of Hun Sen about that fraudulent election.

Bun Thoeun

Anonymous said...

This article is a must-read for all Cambodian.
Thank you Mr. Kasem for your article.
This will wake up some of the younger generations that is nothing but fact.
Also, KI-media should keep this article on top for a long while.

Anonymous said...


ya teary seng wrode diz commen hersef cuz she wan 2 put diz pos on top ki media

Anonymous said...

Mr. Hassan A Kasem is very concerned about the Khmer people. However, watch out for the proud racist white devils on K440 website who will collude and plot with the Vietnamese settlers inside Cambodia to destroy the Khmer nation and people because they demand the Vietnamese territorial right over the Khmer nation and people. Allah bless Cambodia for at least there is a Mr. Hassan A Kasem to stand up for the Khmer people. The Vietnamese-loving, pho-addicted white devils on K440 want to secretly plant all over Cambodia at least 5 millions Vietnamese to start the infiltration mission.

Anonymous said...

If HUN SEN lost, YOUN HEAD will be chopped off from their head, and they will run back to live their country, I know some YOUNS are writing with KI Media, I warn you, you better prepare your belongs, and go back to your country, you will be chopped the head off one day if you continue to support HUN SEN ?

Anonymous said...

I just wondering if this is truth, then Khmer pple are brainless?

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Hassan A Kasem,

Thank you for sharing your concrete knowledge with our younger Khmer generation.
I would like to know if you are a member of CNRP or CNRP independent committee. It would be nice if you are. And also have you ever offered any help to CNRP in writing petition letters to signatory countries of 1991 Paris peace Accords about the latest situation in Cambodia?

Sincerely,

Curious reader.


Anonymous said...

This article is well written but Theary Seng is still hi-jacking KI Media.

Anonymous said...

"Cambodia, for all its pretensions towards sovereignty and democracy, has yet to free itself from neighboring Vietnam's political and strategic grip.." Really? so why did Hun Sen sided with China against Vietnam over the Spratly's? go back to reading tea leaves mate, you might be a bit more convincing..

Anonymous said...

Must go to North Korea or Muddle East seeking to buy a hand bag Nuclear or Chemical weapons sending to Tang Kra Sang compound where there are 3000 special Vietnamese force and HUN SEN strong man staying there if all Cambodian wish to live with peace, freedom, justice, democracy and good living and want to liberate our country from Vietnamese communist

Anonymous said...

5:32 AM
STUPID SORRY ASS YUON,

Meet me in a dark alley of your choice, and I'll show you how your SORRY ASS is going to feel like !!!

You got that SORRY ASS ?

Anonymous said...

Vietnam should maintain a continuing and constant presence in Cambodia to support its friend, the CPP, and to help thwart and dismantle all terrorist groups, including the exiled Cambodians, should they ever post a threat to Vietnam's security. Long live the CPP, long live Vietnam, Vietnam muon nam!

keo phoumy said...

Good document for all khmer for defending our motherland kmher for ever living in prosperity on our khmer territory.Thank you Mr kasem.From Montréal, quebec Canada on 19 11 2013.

Anonymous said...

CPP nerver lose...CPP nerver go...
GO WHERE??? GO WHERE??? WHAT AN IDIOT. YOU ALONE CANNOT DO IT ( FORCE HUN SEN OUT OF HIS POSITION).
AND WHO TA HELL YOU THINK YOU ARE? SOME KHMER'S PIM WHO TRY TO IMPRESS YOUR WHORE??? WHAT A JOKE. YOU AND ALL KHMER IDIOT WHO SUPPORT YOUR SORRY ASS ARE SO STUPID. MAN WHY THESE IDIOT THINK YOU CAN DO THAT.?

SORRY ASS

Anonymous said...

12:37 AM
STUPID YUON,

You SORRY ASS cannot even write proper English, let alone your barkings.
How pathetic you are SORRY ASS ?

Anonymous said...

I just wondering if this is truth, then Khmer pple are brainless?

11:35 AM

Yes, it is you so dumb like shit.

Anonymous said...

CPP nerver lose...CPP nerver go...
GO WHERE??? GO WHERE??? WHAT AN IDIOT. YOU ALONE CANNOT DO IT ( FORCE HUN SEN OUT OF HIS POSITION).
AND WHO TA HELL YOU THINK YOU ARE? SOME KHMER'S PIM WHO TRY TO IMPRESS YOUR WHORE??? WHAT A JOKE. YOU AND ALL KHMER IDIOT WHO SUPPORT YOUR SORRY ASS ARE SO STUPID. MAN WHY THESE IDIOT THINK YOU CAN DO THAT.?

SORRY ASS

Anonymous said...

HUN SEN must be taken to the International Criminal Court to answer why Did he kill alot of Cambodian people ? and Vietnamese leaders must be taken to the World Court to answer why Did Vietnam killed Cambodian people ? HUN SEN must also why HUN SEN tried to block the Khmer Rough Court ?

Anonymous said...

10:08 AM
SORRY ASS,

Did you finish your basic ESL classes ?
Appearently not !
We are extremely sorry for you, SORRY ASS !!!!

Anonymous said...

To Ki media team please translate to khmer

Anonymous said...

I wonder who's the sorry ass that you mention here? Is it the large percentage of the Khmer young who join gangs in the States compares to Vietnamese? Or the amount of money Khmer send home compare to Vietnamese expats? Or the generations after generations of extract from Thai kidnapping all the intellectuals or Pol Pot killing all educated people.. even just with an eyes glasses?

Anonymous said...

CPP nerver lose...CPP nerver go...
GO WHERE??? GO WHERE??? WHAT AN IDIOT. YOU ALONE CANNOT DO IT ( FORCE HUN SEN OUT OF HIS POSITION).
AND WHO TA HELL YOU THINK YOU ARE? SOME KHMER'S PIM WHO TRY TO IMPRESS YOUR WHORE??? WHAT A JOKE. YOU AND ALL KHMER IDIOT WHO SUPPORT YOUR SORRY ASS ARE SO STUPID. MAN WHY THESE IDIOT THINK YOU CAN DO THAT.?

SORRY ASS

Anonymous said...

So, now all Khmer people had known the ROOT CAUSES of Khmer problems that
Hanoi's hands are controlling Yuon
puppet's regime, Hun Sen and cronies, to continue holding power to FACILITATE THE CREATION OF YUON INDOCHINA FEDERATION.
How Khmer people are going to do, or stubbornly choose the lone single way, the Peaceful Demonstration ???
Please look on the Tibet as example.
If no equal or superior strenght against Hanoi and Yuon puppet, we, Khmers, won't LIBERATE Cambodia from Hanoi's COLONIZATION.

Sithan

Anonymous said...

Not only Vietnam is interfering the Khmer politics, it controls it.
Until and unless Khmers stop and destroy Viet expansionism on Cambodia, Cambodia will be nothing but a vessel state of Vietnam.



A Khmer Patriot

Anonymous said...

11:50 PM

So soooo sorry for SORRY ASS !!!!!!

Anonymous said...

This is a good article to read and learn a few more things that the Vietcong do to Cambodia.

Still some Khmer people in the US love Hun Sen and agree with Hun Sen regime. Either they have their relatives or friends working for Hun Sen or they don't have brain to think what CPP really stands for. Especially people who live around Washington DC.

What do their relatives or friends give them in return? None, but still they have their brain shut.

I consider them as a retarded person.


Anonymous said...

Dear KI-Media team:

Please move this article to the top. This is very important so that Khmer and foreign (Westerner and International Community) readers continue to read and understand the current situation in Cambodian starting from the Killing Fields, after the Killing Fields and then today's regime of secret Vietnaemse CPP (Cambodian People Party).

Thank you, Mr. Hassan A Kasem, the author of this article of Asia Times Online dated 9 October 2013.

We are very much happier to have this great article posted and shared with the readers worldwide.

Best Regards,

Khmer Yeurng

Anonymous said...

11:26 PM

SORRY ASS is an individual or a group thereof who is either a Yuon (s ) or Yuon's dogs.
Their main purpose is to push Cambodia into Viet colonization.


Concerned Khmer

Anonymous said...

I agree this article is important for the world to know especially from a foreigner perspective. But the problem here is that Theary Seng is forcing the reader to read this article over and over again without communicating with other KI media team. Theary Seng is abusing this site for her personal gain.

Anonymous said...

4:23 AM


We agree.
Thanks

Anonymous said...

So many sorry ass stupid khmer, gangs members, poor, lazy, uneducated, racists, rapists in KI media. You guys are nobody compare to Vietnam! You are too stupid to be responsible for your actions & blaming others. Grow up! So many idiots sons of farmer. Ask any barang living in Cambodia to hear what they think of the problem w/Cambodian. Education!!!

Anonymous said...

I'm shock to read so many negative comments here about Vietnam. I come from Spain. Even with CPP is in charge, all levels of people in the government are Cambodian. And most of the people in the country are Cambodian. It's your fault to be where you are after the war. You need to pick things up faster, work harder not laid-back. A Cambodian friend had told me that it's not in Cambodian culture. Cambodian are laid-back people. People talk a lot without any true actions. Well, it's your life. Outsiders are looking at this posts & laugh so hard.

Anonymous said...

A nation is a group of people who share a misunderstanding about their collective history and a sense of animosity towards their neighbours especially since there's a lack of historical documents to pass down from generations to generations having to depend on words from parents with half true facts. Myth is deeply planted in the mind of Cambodia. And they still waiting for that special man, walking out of the forest.

Anonymous said...

http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2013/11/dangerous-minds-what-deeply-sick-sick.html

This is a proof that a lot of Khmer are sons & daughters of a bastards & bitches. Just as in Khmer folk story of the Indian Brahman Kaundinya forcefully the princess into marriage. Today, sons & daughters of the bitches are half spring of Vietnamese, Chen & Thai. Add Taiwanese & Koreans to the mix. What's a country! So sooo sorry ass, yo bastards!