If Hun Xen is so strong, why does he resort to SPYing on the SRP?

Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks yesterday in Phnom Penh at the inauguration of National Road 3. Photo by: Mai Vireak

Hun Sen blasts SRP in speech

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post

“You [SRP] want the international community to put pressure on me, but it is not easy, and if international diplomats are not clear [about the SRP’s manoeuvring], please come to pick up [recorded conservations of SRP members] at my Cabinet”- Hun Xen

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday accused the opposition Sam Rainsy Party of having a covert plan to subvert passage of next year’s national budget and threatened legal action against any of its members who continued to compare him to Muammar Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader killed last month after a months-long revolution.

“It is painful and insulting to be compared to Gaddafi, and to compare my fate to his,” Hun Sen said. “I am not going to take violent action. I will take legal action if I catch you continuing to compare [me] to Gaddafi.”

Hun Sen’s remarks came while he was speaking to about 1,000 villagers at a ceremony opening the refurbished and widened National Road No 3, which connects Phnom Penh with Kampot province.

The premier also said he had obtained “secret information” that the SRP was attempting to subvert the passage of next year’s budget by forcing four parliamentarians to resign from their seats in the 123-seat National Assembly.

SRP slams Senate-bid rumours

SRP lawmaker Mu Sochua speaks to reporters outside the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh in August. (Photo by: Heng Chivoan)

Monday, 14 November 2011
Meas Sokchea and Vincent MacIsaac
The Phnom Penh Post

A Sam Rainsy Party spokesman yesterday dismissed a local media report alleging its 25 MPs would resign to boycott the next parliamentary session, amidst speculation of internal strife within the main opposition party.

A report on pro-government website DAP News said the SRP was aiming to ensure the National Assembly would lack the quorum of MPs necessary to pass legislation.

SRP spokesman Yim Sovann said the report was false and failed to “quote from the ... party spokesman”. “What I say is the official SRP position,” he said.

Hun Sen withdraws his threat to reveal the name of his spy agent

Friday, December 21, 2007
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Prime minister Hun Sen, who on Wednesday threatened to reveal the name of his former spy to the public, said on Thursday that he is withholding this name and the documents temporarily, because he received a request from a leader in France asking him not to issue these documents.

On Wednesday, Hun Sen threatened to unmask his spy by revealing secret documents dating from 1997 where this unnamed spy received money to do spy work and to provide information to the CPP so that it can win in the little war in Phnom Penh city (1997 Hun Sen’s coup d’état).

Hun Sen’s statement about receiving a phone call from a leader from France asking him not to reveal these documents seemed to be aimed at opposition leader Sam Rainsy. Hun Sen said, during the distribution of diplomas to students at the institute of education on Thursday 20 December, that the leader who called him over the phone from France asked him not published the documents and not to act like this.

Hun Sen said that he has a 28-page document pertaining to the conversation (which took place) and they have been copied already, but that he is withholding these documents as a secret for now. Hun Sen said: “It’s not like Hun Sen is pulling the bow to scare the crow, Hun Sen really has an arrow to shoot down.”

SRP MP Son Chhay, whom people suspect as being involved in this spying affair and providing secret information to Hun Sen during that time, already rejected this claim on Wednesday, saying that he did not spy for Hun Sen and that the accusations made by Hun Sen against him are nothing new or to be surprised about.