Khmer Intelligence News - 07 February 2012

February 7, 2012

ROADMAP FOR DEFECTORS LOOKING FOR PERSONAL BENEFITS

• STARTING POINT: SRP
• TRANSIT POINT: HRP
• FINAL DESTINATION: CPP

Today, approximately ten former Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) members who loudly defected to the Human Rights Party (HRP) in 2011, announced their decision to finally join the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). There are commune and district councilors and a former senator among them: Vann Sivoeun, Morn Yeang, Prak Vandy, Om Phosda, Lon Sokthai, Chea Bun Ngak, Boeun Sokha, Horn Ravy.

Before them, two more prominent professional defectors looking for personal benefits had followed the same political itinerary (from SRP to HRP to CPP): Kem Sokhon (a brother of HRP president Kem Sokha) and Keo Remy (a former Funcinpec then SRP National Assembly member and now an adviser to CPP Prime minister Hun Sen).

Before the January 29 senatorial elections, many HRP representatives had reportedly tried to entice SRP commune councilors to vote for the CPP.

CPP BLACKMAILING KEM SOKHA CONCERNING HIS PRIVATE LIFE

On January 15, 2012 Prime Minister Hun Sen accused HRP President Kem Sokha of having a son with a mistress and he exposed many details about the extramarital affair http://tinyurl.com/7yx62sw

As they did a few years ago with Prince Norodom Ranariddh when he was having an extramarital affair before his divorce from Princess Eng Marie Ranariddh, the CPP plans to have somebody sue Kem Sokha on the basis of the 2006 law on monogamy. Referring to articles 7 and 10 of the law, a judge can send Kem Sokha to prison for a period from one month to one year and to make him pay a fine from 200,000 to 1,000,000 Riels.

Following various wrongdoings, General Nhiek Bun Chhay and other Funcinpec leaders are also being blackmailed by the CPP into openly or secretly serving Hun Sen’s party.

Sacrava's Political Cartoon: A Dried-Fish lays eggs

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

Brother of HRP President Quits the Party

By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
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 Sokha’s brother returns to the CPP fold

19 Sept 2008
Cambodge Soir Hedbo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
Click here to read the article in French

Kem Sokhon was a losing candidate of the Human Rights party, presided by his brother, during the latest general election.

On Thursday 18 September, Kem Sokha’s younger brother announced that he is rejoining the CPP, whereas his older brother, Kem Sokha, who was elected during the last election, is still contesting the election results.

“I was a CPP member in the 80s, then I joined Funcinpec, then the Sam Rainsy Party, and finally the Human Rights Party. I came to the conclusion that only the CPP could serve the nation,” Kem Sokhon claimed. He was a HRP candidate during the latest election, but failed to win a parliament seat.

Kem Sokhon also indicated that he was a cop during the pro-Vietnamese PRK regime [presided by Heng Samrin].

Kem Sokha’s younger brother claimed that he did not know what role the CPP will give him in the upcoming government.

When asked about his relationship to Kem Sokha, Kem Sokhon replied: “We are brothers, but that does not mean we have to stay together. We have different lifestyles and different opinions.”