Cartoon by Sacrava (on the web at http://sacrava.blogspot.com)
Showing posts with label Joining the CPP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joining the CPP. Show all posts
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Sacrava's Political Cartoon: A Dried-Fish lays eggs
Cartoon by Sacrava (on the web at http://sacrava.blogspot.com)
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Brother of HRP President Quits the Party
By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
19 September 2008
Original report from Phnom Penh
19 September 2008
A senior member of the Human Rights Party and a brother to its leader left the party Thursday, claiming its position to boycott an upcoming swearing-in ceremony differed from his own views.
Kem Sokhon, the younger brother of Kem Sokha, said Friday he was joining the Cambodian People's Party.
His defection comes one day after Prime Minister Hun Sen warned he would use divide and conquer tactics to weaken the opposition.
In a speech on Wednesday, Hun Sen said he was going to employ "DIFID" strategies, saying in English: "divide, isolate, finish, integration, and destroy and development."
"I left the Human Rights Party to join the CPP, because I'm not satisfied with the Human Rights Party joining the Sam Rainsy Party to boycott the first National Assembly meeting and swearing-in ceremony on Sept. 24," he said. "It opposes my idea."
Kem Sokhon held the deputy secretary-general position and was in charge of the Human Rights Party's election complaints.
The Human Rights Party won three National Assembly seats in July's election, but it has aligned itself with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party in a boycott of 29 lawmakers of the Sept. 24 ceremony, potentially deadlocking the government.
Kem Sokhon has also been a member of Funcinpec, an advisor to the party's secretary-general Nhiek Bunchhay, and a member of the Sam Rainsy Party's steering committee.
He moved to the Human Rights Party when his brother formed it following local commune elections in April 2007.
Kem Sokha said Friday his brother's departure would not change the party's stance to boycott the ceremony.
His brother's leaving also "does not show internal conflict" within the party, he said. "It is his right to choose a political party."
Kem Sokhon, the younger brother of Kem Sokha, said Friday he was joining the Cambodian People's Party.
His defection comes one day after Prime Minister Hun Sen warned he would use divide and conquer tactics to weaken the opposition.
In a speech on Wednesday, Hun Sen said he was going to employ "DIFID" strategies, saying in English: "divide, isolate, finish, integration, and destroy and development."
"I left the Human Rights Party to join the CPP, because I'm not satisfied with the Human Rights Party joining the Sam Rainsy Party to boycott the first National Assembly meeting and swearing-in ceremony on Sept. 24," he said. "It opposes my idea."
Kem Sokhon held the deputy secretary-general position and was in charge of the Human Rights Party's election complaints.
The Human Rights Party won three National Assembly seats in July's election, but it has aligned itself with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party in a boycott of 29 lawmakers of the Sept. 24 ceremony, potentially deadlocking the government.
Kem Sokhon has also been a member of Funcinpec, an advisor to the party's secretary-general Nhiek Bunchhay, and a member of the Sam Rainsy Party's steering committee.
He moved to the Human Rights Party when his brother formed it following local commune elections in April 2007.
Kem Sokha said Friday his brother's departure would not change the party's stance to boycott the ceremony.
His brother's leaving also "does not show internal conflict" within the party, he said. "It is his right to choose a political party."
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Meas Marin and Ou Sovann offered $500 and $100 each to buy into the CPP ... anybody willing to offer more for a "His Excellency" title?
Two Cambodian-American join the CPP
04 June 2008
By Leang Delux
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
04 June 2008
By Leang Delux
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
Hun Sen indicated that two Cambodian-American joined the CPP rank during the inauguration of a school on 04 June. Hun Sen said that the pair are Cambodians living in the US, and they were former advisor to the SRP for the USA and Canada. Hun Sen’s revelation adds to the list of 9 other SRP defectors who joined the CPP.
Hun Sen named the two men as being, Meas Marin, the son of Meas John, a VOA radio broadcaster, and Ou Sovann, the SRP advisor for the USA and Canada.
According to Hun Sen also, the pair offered a contribution to support the CPP and to rebuild the country. They have offered $500 and $100 each, respectively. “Money does not count, it comes from the heart. And with this, how can anybody say that the CPP buys its followers, didn’t they come on their own?” Hun Sen asked while indicating that he is expecting others to follow suit.
Hun Sen also indicated that that he will abstain from giving any speech during the month long election campaign, as he did in the past.
Hun Sen named the two men as being, Meas Marin, the son of Meas John, a VOA radio broadcaster, and Ou Sovann, the SRP advisor for the USA and Canada.
According to Hun Sen also, the pair offered a contribution to support the CPP and to rebuild the country. They have offered $500 and $100 each, respectively. “Money does not count, it comes from the heart. And with this, how can anybody say that the CPP buys its followers, didn’t they come on their own?” Hun Sen asked while indicating that he is expecting others to follow suit.
Hun Sen also indicated that that he will abstain from giving any speech during the month long election campaign, as he did in the past.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Kim Van Chheng's Khmer Krom group to surrender to the CPP, a party which oppresses Khmer Krom people
KKKCC to join the CPP
This afternoon (4 January), the Cambodian People's Party [CPP] will hold a ceremony under the chairmanship of Sar Kheng, deputy prime minister and minister of interior from the CPP, at the party headquarters near the State House Chamka Mon in Phnom Penh to welcome a group of 300 new defectors.
A source in the defectors group disclosed that the event was to welcome more than 200 Khmer Kampuchea Krom [KKK] people [indigenous Cambodians from southern Vietnam] as well as a number of officials and members from the FUNCINPEC [National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia] and other parties.
In September and October last year, a group of KKK people led by Kim Van-chheng, president of the KKK Coordination Committee; Son Yoeung, president of the KKK Association for Development; and Thach Sang, president of the KKK Friendship Association, as well as some of their colleagues asked to join as CPP members. That was to exhort KKK people living in Cambodia to support the CPP, for they were optimistic that the approach could help those KKK compatriots currently living in Cambodia get rid of sufferings, such as their being refused to be issued with Cambodian identity cards and other documents.
The KKK people defecting to the CPP claimed that there would be more than 200 people, the largest number ever, to be introduced and welcomed at the party's headquarters this afternoon.
It should be recalled that about 50 percent of the KKK people currently living in Cambodia have Cambodia ID cards and are entitled to vote and take part in all social activities here. However, the other half has not yet obtained documents to prove that they are full Cambodian citizens, with local authorities claiming that KKK people do not have clear identity cards as the Vietnamese compatriots. This is the reason that some of the KKK Association officials have joined the ruling CPP in order to seek its intervention to legalize the KKK compatriots as full Cambodian citizens.
This afternoon (4 January), the Cambodian People's Party [CPP] will hold a ceremony under the chairmanship of Sar Kheng, deputy prime minister and minister of interior from the CPP, at the party headquarters near the State House Chamka Mon in Phnom Penh to welcome a group of 300 new defectors.
A source in the defectors group disclosed that the event was to welcome more than 200 Khmer Kampuchea Krom [KKK] people [indigenous Cambodians from southern Vietnam] as well as a number of officials and members from the FUNCINPEC [National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia] and other parties.
In September and October last year, a group of KKK people led by Kim Van-chheng, president of the KKK Coordination Committee; Son Yoeung, president of the KKK Association for Development; and Thach Sang, president of the KKK Friendship Association, as well as some of their colleagues asked to join as CPP members. That was to exhort KKK people living in Cambodia to support the CPP, for they were optimistic that the approach could help those KKK compatriots currently living in Cambodia get rid of sufferings, such as their being refused to be issued with Cambodian identity cards and other documents.
The KKK people defecting to the CPP claimed that there would be more than 200 people, the largest number ever, to be introduced and welcomed at the party's headquarters this afternoon.
It should be recalled that about 50 percent of the KKK people currently living in Cambodia have Cambodia ID cards and are entitled to vote and take part in all social activities here. However, the other half has not yet obtained documents to prove that they are full Cambodian citizens, with local authorities claiming that KKK people do not have clear identity cards as the Vietnamese compatriots. This is the reason that some of the KKK Association officials have joined the ruling CPP in order to seek its intervention to legalize the KKK compatriots as full Cambodian citizens.
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