Sam Rainsy with SRP Youth Members11 Dec 07
"This Issue's Comment" by Sralanh Khmer
Hun Sen recently introduced the new generation of Cambodian People's Party [CPP] offspring and declared that they are going to succeed their parents in the future. This declaration has led millions of Cambodian youth who currently are unemployed to think that this is a succession that the corrupt and dictatorial elite plan to have their children take over to perpetuate their colonialist yoke on the Cambodian nation and people from fathers to sons and beyond.
The Cambodian youth in general, especially the children of the poor are launching a campaign to join their forces in order to stop the dictatorial and corrupt stratum of this new CPP generation from continuing to lay waste to the country. This campaign is to establish youth movements.
The CPP officials installed in power by the Vietnamese aggressors since 1979 have destroyed, devastated, and wreaked havoc to the interests of the nation and people in a most extensive manner. Cambodia's assets, such as forests, fish stocks, historical constructions, national treasure, and ancient temples have been sold, bartered, or traded by the CPP officials, the out-and-out pawns of the Hanoi Vietnamese. Now these CPP officials, lackeys of Vietnam, are making plans to have their children succeed them in looting and destroying the country now that they (the CPP officials) are nearing their end. Hun Sen loudly announced two weeks ago that the CPP officials would soon launch a big team of their children to take over and carry on their work as their successors. This announcement was made after the "Khmer Intelligence" Website posted a report claiming that Hun Sen's son Hun Manet, who graduated from US Military Academy at West Point, would be pushed by his father to run as MP in the Siemreab constituency during the upcoming fourth term. Although Hun Sen denied this report he haughtily claimed that the CPP officials are not as stupid as not to know how to prepare their children to succeed them. He said: Just wait and see; the CPP will launch this new generation soon.
Almost all the children of the CPP officials have been sent by their parents to further their studies abroad. The money the CPP officials have made through corruption is used to sponsor their children's studies to prepare them as their successors.
On the contrary, the children of the poor people in both the rural and urban areas have to live in miserable living conditions under the pressure of Hun Sen's win-win policy, which consists of winning in his scheme to keep Cambodians hungry, frightened, and ignorant. The parents of the overwhelming majority of the Cambodian youth have lived in the hellish flames of the policy that has held the people hostage under the thumb of the CPP. The parents of the poor youth have to eke out an existence amid the acts of robbery and land-grabbing committed by the bandits sheltered under the CPP label all day and night for months and years. They have had to live in pain and misery like animals. The parents of these unfortunate youth have had not means to send their children to get high education like the children of the treacherous officials who have betrayed the nation and the people.
For this reason, the Cambodian youth who are the sons and daughters of the poor have remained in the state of servitude under the thumbs of these extremely contemptible strippers of the national assets. The garment factories are the only important source of employment for the children of the poor. Even this employment is the nest or site of serious human rights abuses. As a matter of fact, the workers are forced to work overtime under trying conditions month after month, year after year, but are paid a pittance that is not enough for them to have a decent livelihood. The factory owners protected by corrupt officials have maltreated the workers with impunity. When the workers stage demonstrations or strikes to demand respect for human rights and adherence to Labor Law, they are beaten up by the factory owners and their stooges. Sometimes, the government forces are sent in by the corrupt officials to suppress, shoot to kill, arrest, and imprison the workers in the most unjust and savage manner.
Although Cambodia has pledged to follow the road to multipartite democracy since 1993, the officials in power who are former Khmer Rouge cadres have continued to implement the jungle law of the Khmer Rouge, meaning that the present powers that be consider the people only as hostages of their despotic and corrupt authority. This method was put on display even more blatantly when the great Hun Sen of the CPP wildly gesticulated and vociferously announced that he would soon launch groups or teams of children of the CPP officials to succeed their parents in leading the country.
Hun Sen's announcement anyway constitutes an alarm bell to wake up the Cambodian youth in the whole country to the truth that this new generation made up of the children of the CPP officials constitutes a new stratum of colonialists who will impose their yoke on the motherland and the Cambodian people, men and women, young and old like. In particular, these new forces of the CPP are going to be launched in order to take over and carry on their parents' policy of stripping bare and destroying the motherland. This is why lately youth movements have been seen being formed all over the country, including the youth movements of all pro-democracy political parties, particularly the Sam Rainsy Youth Movement [SRYM], which would mobilize and unify the youth forces to support the democrats and prevent the succession of those who want to continue ripping the country to pieces.
Now, although all the non-CPP youth movements have not completed the mobilization of their joint forces, it is expected that until the July 2008 election the youth movements led by the SRYM will be able to attract the support of the young men and young women in the country to vote for the Sam Rainsy Party [SRP] so that this patriotic and democratic party can lead the government for the salvation of the country, which is sinking under the iron heels and evil claws of the corrupt CPP officials. The youth as a whole have pledged to bring victory to their drive to change the country's leadership. The youth say that only the SRP is their hope; only the SRP can transform the lives of the poor people and bring them a decent and dignified existence; and only with the SRP can the young men and young women have decent jobs allowing them to live as the masters of the country, liberated from the extremely evil colonialist yoke of the CPP, the most subservient lackey of the Hanoi Vietnamese.
The Cambodian youth in general, especially the children of the poor are launching a campaign to join their forces in order to stop the dictatorial and corrupt stratum of this new CPP generation from continuing to lay waste to the country. This campaign is to establish youth movements.
The CPP officials installed in power by the Vietnamese aggressors since 1979 have destroyed, devastated, and wreaked havoc to the interests of the nation and people in a most extensive manner. Cambodia's assets, such as forests, fish stocks, historical constructions, national treasure, and ancient temples have been sold, bartered, or traded by the CPP officials, the out-and-out pawns of the Hanoi Vietnamese. Now these CPP officials, lackeys of Vietnam, are making plans to have their children succeed them in looting and destroying the country now that they (the CPP officials) are nearing their end. Hun Sen loudly announced two weeks ago that the CPP officials would soon launch a big team of their children to take over and carry on their work as their successors. This announcement was made after the "Khmer Intelligence" Website posted a report claiming that Hun Sen's son Hun Manet, who graduated from US Military Academy at West Point, would be pushed by his father to run as MP in the Siemreab constituency during the upcoming fourth term. Although Hun Sen denied this report he haughtily claimed that the CPP officials are not as stupid as not to know how to prepare their children to succeed them. He said: Just wait and see; the CPP will launch this new generation soon.
Almost all the children of the CPP officials have been sent by their parents to further their studies abroad. The money the CPP officials have made through corruption is used to sponsor their children's studies to prepare them as their successors.
On the contrary, the children of the poor people in both the rural and urban areas have to live in miserable living conditions under the pressure of Hun Sen's win-win policy, which consists of winning in his scheme to keep Cambodians hungry, frightened, and ignorant. The parents of the overwhelming majority of the Cambodian youth have lived in the hellish flames of the policy that has held the people hostage under the thumb of the CPP. The parents of the poor youth have to eke out an existence amid the acts of robbery and land-grabbing committed by the bandits sheltered under the CPP label all day and night for months and years. They have had to live in pain and misery like animals. The parents of these unfortunate youth have had not means to send their children to get high education like the children of the treacherous officials who have betrayed the nation and the people.
For this reason, the Cambodian youth who are the sons and daughters of the poor have remained in the state of servitude under the thumbs of these extremely contemptible strippers of the national assets. The garment factories are the only important source of employment for the children of the poor. Even this employment is the nest or site of serious human rights abuses. As a matter of fact, the workers are forced to work overtime under trying conditions month after month, year after year, but are paid a pittance that is not enough for them to have a decent livelihood. The factory owners protected by corrupt officials have maltreated the workers with impunity. When the workers stage demonstrations or strikes to demand respect for human rights and adherence to Labor Law, they are beaten up by the factory owners and their stooges. Sometimes, the government forces are sent in by the corrupt officials to suppress, shoot to kill, arrest, and imprison the workers in the most unjust and savage manner.
Although Cambodia has pledged to follow the road to multipartite democracy since 1993, the officials in power who are former Khmer Rouge cadres have continued to implement the jungle law of the Khmer Rouge, meaning that the present powers that be consider the people only as hostages of their despotic and corrupt authority. This method was put on display even more blatantly when the great Hun Sen of the CPP wildly gesticulated and vociferously announced that he would soon launch groups or teams of children of the CPP officials to succeed their parents in leading the country.
Hun Sen's announcement anyway constitutes an alarm bell to wake up the Cambodian youth in the whole country to the truth that this new generation made up of the children of the CPP officials constitutes a new stratum of colonialists who will impose their yoke on the motherland and the Cambodian people, men and women, young and old like. In particular, these new forces of the CPP are going to be launched in order to take over and carry on their parents' policy of stripping bare and destroying the motherland. This is why lately youth movements have been seen being formed all over the country, including the youth movements of all pro-democracy political parties, particularly the Sam Rainsy Youth Movement [SRYM], which would mobilize and unify the youth forces to support the democrats and prevent the succession of those who want to continue ripping the country to pieces.
Now, although all the non-CPP youth movements have not completed the mobilization of their joint forces, it is expected that until the July 2008 election the youth movements led by the SRYM will be able to attract the support of the young men and young women in the country to vote for the Sam Rainsy Party [SRP] so that this patriotic and democratic party can lead the government for the salvation of the country, which is sinking under the iron heels and evil claws of the corrupt CPP officials. The youth as a whole have pledged to bring victory to their drive to change the country's leadership. The youth say that only the SRP is their hope; only the SRP can transform the lives of the poor people and bring them a decent and dignified existence; and only with the SRP can the young men and young women have decent jobs allowing them to live as the masters of the country, liberated from the extremely evil colonialist yoke of the CPP, the most subservient lackey of the Hanoi Vietnamese.
