Hun Xen, Inc.

A MAKE-BELIEVE family?

HUN SEN AND CAMBODIA

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 By Mark A. Smith, Major, USA, Retired (1998)
 Source: http://www.rossie.com/hunsen.htm

(This briefing paper was sent to a Senate Committee Chairman)

I have recently heard American diplomatic personnel describing Mr. Hun Sen of Cambodia, his wife and his "children" based on a totally bogus biography, created by Vietnamese Intelligence.

Mr. Hun Sen has been awarded honorary degrees from American Colleges, based on his position and his formal educational background. His "legend," created for him by the Vietnamese, has him being a "College student" or sometimes a "High School student leader," prior to going to the jungle, to join the Khmer Rouge. In reality he attended exactly four years of Primary School. Any further "education" he received, came from Vietnamese Political Cadre.

Three years ago, when Mr. Hun Sen's advisors were attempting to gain myself as an ally, I was presented with the United Nations Geological Survey of Cambodia, along with a map. I was dumbfounded to learn that Mr. Hun Sen and his minions "own" all the natural resources of the Kingdom of Cambodia, with the exception, at that time, of three small mineral deposits marked "FUNCINPEC" on the map.

I asked Hun Sen's men, what percentage of profits, from any joint venture with American companies, exploiting these resources, would go to the National Treasury. The answer was astounding; "NONE!" The profits would be shared fifty-fifty, with the American Company putting up the initial development costs. Even better there would be no tax on resources shipped out of the country; "The port belongs to us and so does the Customs Service."

The above should give you some insight into how Hun Sen has amassed huge wealth and continues to enjoy the support of American businessmen. In other words; "Hun Sen and business 100% - Cambodia and Cambodians 0%. I would recommend not one dime of U.S. Taxpayer money go to this Government until some of the millions stolen by Hun Sen are spent first.

How will Cambodia be when Le Duc Tho's son, Hun Manet, becomes the PM of Cambodia - Op-Ed by Cheat Moranak

https://www.box.com/s/736d881ffe4bfa0a3f06

Baby Hun sent out to do Papa Hun's chore

Hun Manet inaugurating the Dreamland park, a task usually reserved for Papa Hun

Don't let Mom know! - Political Satire by Anonymous

Nepotism in Cambodia

Dictator Hun Xen (L) standing next to Mini-me (aka 2-moon general Hun Manet)

15 January 2012
By Yun Samean
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Oss Srok

Political observers in Cambodia are concerned that high ranking government officials are transferring important government positions to their relatives and cronies.

On Saturday 14 January, the ministry of Defense nominated Hun Manit, Hun Xen’s second son, to the position of deputy intelligence director of the ministry and he was also promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel rank as well. The ministry also nominated Chea Dara, the deputy chief of staff, to the position of army intelligence director, replacing general Mol Roeup who croaked last week at the age of 60.

The nomination of Hun Manit is the second nomination of another one of Hun Xen’s sons to an important position in the army rank. In 2011, the ministry nominated Hun Manet, Hun Xen’s oldest son to the position of deputy chief of staff, in addition to his duty as director of the terrorism department and deputy commander of Hun Xen’s bodyguard unit.

Sacrava's Political Cartoon: The Hun's Dynasty

Cartoon by Sacrava (on the web at http://sacrava.blogspot.com)

A preview of Hun Manet's future after the Strongman's death?

Thousands of North Koreans participated in a memorial service for Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang on Thursday. (Korean Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

At Huge Rally, North Koreans Declare Kim Their Leader

December 29, 2011
By CHOE SANG-HUN
The New York Times

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea publicly declared the young heir Kim Jong-un its supreme leader at a huge rally on Thursday in Pyongyang that culminated with his ascent to the top of the hermetic Communist nation after nearly two weeks of national mourning for his father, Kim Jong-il.

A crowd of tens of thousands, most of them uniformed soldiers, packed the plaza — named after Mr. Kim’s grandfather, the North’s founding president, Kim Il-sung — and those gathered swore their allegiance to the dynastic transfer of power. The event, a memorial service for Kim Jong-il, who died on Dec. 17, capped 13 days of mourning and introduced the era of his son.

“Respected Comrade Kim Jong-un is now supreme leader of our party, military and people,” said Kim Yong-nam, the president of the North Korean Parliament, who is considered the ceremonial head of state. “He inherits the ideology, leadership, courage and audacity of Comrade Kim Jong-il.”

Dear Leader's son versus Strongman's son

No loss of territory from border meeting [-Hun Xen is training his cub, Hun Manet?]

26/12/2011Bangkok Post

In the end, [Cambodian] Prime Minister Hun Sen accepted our condition that a three-nation observer team be established. Hun Sen agreed there should be joint observers from Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia.

Yutthasak: Won’t leave area vacant

Defence Minister Yutthasak Sasiprapa has rejected claims the outcome of the latest General Border Committee meeting with Cambodia amounts to a loss of territory for Thailand. In an interview with WASSANA NANUAM, he insists the government will not move the border back an inch even as troops lend full cooperation in resolving the border dispute.

Looking at the outcome of the latest GBC meeting, are we at a disadvantage and do we stand to lose the 4.6 sq km of land around the Preah Vihear temple?

No. How could we? We won't withdraw the troops and then leave the area vacant. In fact, we will send police to the area in place of the soldiers. The police will go in equal numbers to the soldiers withdrawn.

The police will patrol the area 24 hours a day. We won't lose our territory, I can tell you that.

It wasn't easy negotiating the issue. Cambodia refused to yield and so did we.

Lawyers from both sides were locking horns. We did not sit back because all eyes were on us to see if everything that entered negotiation was above board. I had a four-hour meeting with [Cambodia's Defence Minister] Gen Tea Banh and after that a 17-member working group thrashed out the details for hours.

Ranks offered by Dek-cho Hun Xen - accompanied by a song from his KR comrades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnO7OpKOG1s

Sacrava's Political Cartoon: Sewer Rats

Cartoon by Sacrava (on the web at http://sacrava.blogpost.com)

Preah Vihear, A Political Conflict - Op-Ed by Khmer Guardian

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Hun Manet orders new army centres

Hun Manet (Photo: CEN)

4/07/2011
Wassana Nanuam
Bangkok Post

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's son Hun Manet inspected his country's military bases close to the Thai border last week and ordered two military command centres to be constructed, said a source.

The source in the Suranaree Task Force said Maj Gen Hun Manet visited Cambodian soldiers behind Preah Vihear temple in the disputed border area and ordered subordinates to set up the two command units in Oddar Meanchey province - one in Anlong Veng district and one opposite Thailand's Surin province where Ta Muen and Ta Kwai temples are located.

The source said Hun Manet had kept a low profile in recent months and until last week had stayed in Phnom Penh after Cambodian troops engaged in fierce border clashes with Thai troops in Si Sa Ket and Surin provinces earlier this year.

The source added that Cambodia had been concerned that the Thai military might create a situation on the border and use this as an excuse to prevent yesterday's election going ahead.

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China and Thai-Cambodia Spat

May 24, 2011
By Eddie Walsh
The Diplomat

The fighting also helps improve the political standing of his son, who reportedly led troops during part of the conflict, and likely is being groomed as a successor. Finally, the crisis certainly distracts Cambodians from other domestic issues, such as poverty, and foreign policy issues, such as the Mekong River development.

The ongoing border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia actually represents something of a strategic opportunity for China—can it use its influence with the two nations to bolster its argument that it is rising peacefully?

As a member of the UN Security Council, China has already called on the two parties to peacefully resolve the crisis, while supporting the UN view that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations should take a leading role in facilitating dialogue on the issue. China's actions so far, then, appear to support its stated policy of securing an amicable, tranquil, and prosperous ASEAN neighbourhood, as well as its interests in boosting trade and security cooperation.

Still, China may have an opportunity to play a more prominent role in the resolution of the crisis through behind the scenes bilateral diplomacy in support of ASEAN's objectives. The question is whether or not China will be able to take advantage of this chance before the current conflict is resolved—or spirals out of control.

The border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia is the result of a larger, decades-old dispute between the two neighbours over the demarcation of their 798-kilometre border. The main point of contention is the Preah Vihear Temple, and although the two agreed to submit their dispute over the temple to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and abide by its decision, Thai nationalists refuse to accept the ICJ’s 1962 ruling giving sovereignty over the temple to Cambodia. This has led to periodic violence over the lands adjacent to the temple, which fall outside of the ICJ ruling. Tensions have been particularly high since Preah Vihear was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008.

Cambodia recruiting more soldiers to fight against Thailand

BANGKOK, May 1 2011 (NNT) - Major General Hun Manet announced that he would give 1 house and 5 rai of land to anyone willing to become a soldier and fight against Thailand.

Deputy Army Commander General-Major Hun Manet the eldest son of Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced that he would give 1 house and 5 rai of land plus a few thousand baht of their normal salary to anyone who are willing to become a soldier and fight against Thailand. This announcement has been broadcast in Sam Rong Province and A-long-weng province.

Meanwhile, Army region 2 spokesman Colonel Prawit Hukaew said that currently the army could not predict when the fighting would stop as Cambodia were now recruiting more soldiers to fight against Thailand. He further said that after the ceasefire agreement there was another breakout of fighting later that night, however, he had called Cambodia and asked for their reason, they said the announcement had not yet reached all of their units and also some soldiers refused to listen to their orders.

Colonal Prawit added that after the conversation, the fighting had lessened, which was considered a good sign.

Intensity of fighting on border eases

[Thai] ARMY ENCOURAGED, BUT CLASHES CONTINUE

1/05/2011
Bangkok Post

The military believes the situation on the Thai-Cambodian border is improving despite fighting continuing on the border near Surin for a ninth day.

Second Army Region spokesman Prawit Hookaew said that although the clashes have not yet ended, encouragement can be taken from the fact that the exchanges of gunfire have lessened in intensity and heavy weapons have not been deployed in the past few days.

He said only small and mortar guns have been used since military delegations from both sides held talks on Thursday.

In the latest skirmishes, two Thai soldiers were injured yesterday afternoon near Ta Kwai temple in the border area of Surin.

Fighting on Friday night and yesterday left 11 Thai soldiers wounded, bringing the total injury toll for Thai soldiers to 97, while seven soldiers and one civilian have been killed.

According to the Second Army, two Cambodian BM21 multiple rocket launchers were destroyed and a number of their soldiers were killed during the clashes.

Domestic issues fuel Thai-Cambodian spats

Papa Xen's future dick-tator Hun Manet

Apr 30, 2011
By Nelson Rand
Asia Times Online

NONG KUN NA and BANGKOK - Fighting between Thai and Cambodian troops along their disputed border continued on Friday for an eighth consecutive day despite reports the day before that a temporary ceasefire had been reached.

Since armed hostilities resumed on April 22, at least 16 people have been killed, over 50 injured and at least 50,000 displaced on both sides of the border. Strategic and political analysts foresee sustained sporadic fighting, though the chances of the clashes escalating into full-scale war still seem slim.

"Thailand's and Cambodia's relationship is fragile and fighting will likely erupt again," said Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a Thai political scientist at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. "The dispute has been too politicized that it will take a long time before ties will be healed," he added.

"I doubt that a ceasefire will hold because the border tensions are now being driven by their own dynamic," said Marc Askew, a senior fellow at the University of Melbourne who specializes in Thai politics and security issues and who is editor of the recently published book Legitimacy Crisis in Thailand.

The latest bout of fighting is centered around a disputed hill near the ancient temples of Ta Krabey and Ta Moan, representing an expansion of previous hostilities that centered on the contested Preah Vihear temple. Although both countries have long laid claim to these ancient ruins and border territories, most analysts believe the conflict is being driven more by domestic politics in both countries.

"[The border conflict] is a function of the two states' domestic politics, and especially Thailand's civil and military relations in the midst of a major political transition," wrote Stratfor, a United States-based private intelligence firm, in a recent analysis of the conflict.

"On the Cambodian side, nationalism is always a way to boost Prime Minister Hun Sen's leadership, and Cambodia is no doubt willing and ready to exploit a neighbor consumed by intense factional politics," Stratfor wrote in a separate analysis.

Thailand, Cambodia Spat Gets Ugly

April 30, 2011
By William Lloyd-George
The Diplomat

According to Michael Montesano of the Institute of Southeast Asia Studies in Singapore, the temple dispute all came about as a result of ‘cheap politics’ by the People’s Alliance for Democracy – otherwise known as the Yellow Shirts – in 2008 to reduce support for then Prime Minister Shinawatra Thaksin.

Domestic politics could be pushing leaders of the two countries to more intense conflict as thousands flee border fighting.

PRASAT, THAILAND – It was a typical night for Wanchai Jongkot and his family. After working all day in the paddy fields, he sat down with his wife and two daughters to eat dinner – the main meal in his household. Before he could take his first bite, flashes illuminated the night sky, followed by deafening explosions.

‘We had no idea what was going on, we just ran to take cover,’ says Jongkot, a wiry man in his late 50s. ‘We were so shocked we almost fainted.’

In the midst of the bombardment the eldest daughter saw her sister rolling in agony and yelled out that she had been hit. When the fighting had subsided, they took the injured daughter to the local hospital where they discovered she had a broken arm and hip.

Jongkot and his family are some of around 80,000 civilians who have been affected on both sides of the Thai-Cambodian border by recent clashes between the two nations.

The latest conflict is the most serious fighting in decades and stems from a demarcation carried out in the 1950s by an international court, which awarded Cambodia the land. Thailand continues to disputes this ruling.

Sit down and talk this through

April 28, 2011
The Nation
Opinion

Re: "An exciting time to be a conspiracy theorist", Opinion, April 27.

I agree with Tulsathit Taptim that prime ministers Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand and Hun Sen of Cambodia must come to the negotiating table before insanity reigns on both sides.

The two have been too concerned with their domestic political image, at the expense of their peoples' lives alongside the Thai- Cambodia border.

By attempting to negotiate, they will be hailed for their courage to make peace just before an all-out and protracted war begins. As ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus said more than 3000 years ago: "In war, truth is the first casualty."

In Thailand, Abhisit must stop the defence minister and the military leaders from speaking for the Thai government in general, or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in particular.

Soldiers must stick to their duty as pertaining to the country's defence only. They must leave all important comments for the government to make.

In Cambodia, Hun Sen must also stop showcasing his son, Hun Manet, both as a potential war hero at the border and a chief diplomat at the negotiating table. He must not lead the world community to believe he made this particular war for his son.

Chavalit Van

Chiang Mai