Who Will Be Struck by Lightning?

Hun and Hok

September 13, 2009
Op-Ed by Sokheoun Pang
On the web at http://sokheounpang.wordpress.com

Cambodian people were shot, wounded and burned alive by Siam brutal soldiers after they entered Thailand for logging for their survival because of poverty. The news really shocks my heart.

If we remember this month about the curse of the gangster leader Hun Sen who warned his critics that they would be struck by lightning if they dared to suggest his leadership was plunging the country into poverty.

“ [They] say Cambodia is getting poorer and poorer, but aren’t they afraid of being struck by lightning?” he said and adding that, “ If you dare to say it and be struck by lightning, go ahead.”

The news of Siam soldiers shot our poor people is posted in the Dap-news. So can we believe the news posted in Dap-news, which belongs to Soy Sopheap who is Hun Sen´s crony, be true that the people who live there along the border are poor? If the news is not true, then Soy Sopheap will be struck by lightning, and yet if the news is true then who will be struck by lighting? Of course, Hun Sen himself. Another Hok Longdy?
However, I do believe Soy Sopheap about this news of the poverty of our people which forces them to risk their life by entering Thailand illegally for logging because they just can´t die by waiting for help from the ganster leader like Hun Sen who has no competence, morality, and responsibility. And we all have already heard such a news many times published and yet it is still happening because we have such an incompetent and irresponsible leader like Hun Sen.

Notice: Hun Sen dares to compare Cambodian development only with the Pol Pot regime but not with other countries or the current of the world.

PM says his critics will be struck by lightning [... A superstitious commy?]

Tuesday, 08 September 2009
Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post

PRIME Minister Hun Sen warned on Monday that his critics would be struck by lightning if they dared to suggest his leadership was plunging the country into poverty.

Speaking at the announcement of the General Population Census of Cambodia 2008, the premier defended his record.

"[They] say Cambodia is getting poorer and poorer, but aren't they afraid of being struck by lightning?" he said, insisting he had led the country back to wealth since the fall of the Khmer Rouge.

He challenged dissenters to swear their statements were true - or risk the wrath of nature.

"[People] who insult [the January 7 liberation], they are still alive because of who?" Hun Sen said.

"If you dare to say it and be struck by lightning, go ahead."

Opposition politicians dismissed the rhetoric, saying poverty levels could not be ignored.

"We have 14.5 million people [in Cambodia] and 6 to 7 million of them are poor," said Yim Sovann, spokesman for the opposition Sam Rainsy Party.

Kem Sokha, head of the Human Rights Party, said the government had failed to provide for its people.

"[Hun Sen's regime] is better than Pol Pot's time, that is true, but it does not conform to people's needs," he said, referring to food, shelter, employment, education and health care.

"These five points, our government has still not met successfully. Let [the prime minister] swear: Can he do it?"