Raoul Jennar’s Confession: “I am out of work and have no money”

Raoul Janner being received by Khieu Kanharith (Photo: DAP news)

Raoul Jennar’s Confession:
“I am out of work and have no money”

In a pathetic confession titled “Goodbye” which was published following the defeat of his political party (the New Anti-Capitalist Party or NAP) during the last EU election, Raoul Jennar, the advisor of Hun Sen’s regime and a defender of Hor Namhong, wrote on 15 August 2007:

“I am out of work and have no money. For several months now, I am looking [for work]. In spite a well garnished résumé, which should have quickly opened numerous doors for me, in particular in the academia in France – my adopted country – instead, I found no serious support or credible offer. In Cambodia where people did not forget my 12-year-long role in helping it get out of the sequels from one of the major tragedies of the 20th century, some came to learn about my situation. They considered that this is not acceptable. I was given an offer to work as an expert consultant for the Cambodian government on certain cases where I can bring something to this country. I accepted it. Just like another offer I received from Lebanon. I will devote the next 4 years [of my life] before my retirement to these two countries.

Raoul Marc Jennar
Consultant on International issues
7 Place du Chateau, 66500 Mosset
raoul.jennar@wanadoo.fr"

The entire confession in French is available at: http://www.legrandsoir.info/article5345.html

During the last hearing of the Paris Tribunal held on 09 December 2008, vice-prime minister Hor Hamhong, who sued Sam Rainsy for “defamation”, introduced only a single witness: Raoul Jennar who was recently recruited to become the “expert consultant” for the Phnom Penh regime because he had “no job and no money” during the 2007 summer … Thus, how credible is such a witness?

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CONFESSION DE RAOUL JENNAR :
« JE SUIS SANS EMPLOI ET SANS RESSOURCES »

Dans une confession pathétique intitulée « Au revoir » publiée au lendemain de l’échec de son parti politique (NPA ou Nouveau Parti Anti-capitaliste) aux dernières élections européennes, Raoul Jennar, conseiller du gouvernement Hun Sen et défenseur de Hor Namhong, écrit le 15 août 2007 :

«Je suis sans emploi et sans ressources. Depuis des mois, je cherche. En dépit d’un curriculum vitae bien fourni, qui, ailleurs, m’aurait très vite ouvert de nombreuses portes, notamment à l’Université, en France, mon pays d’adoption, je n’ai trouvé ni soutien sérieux, ni proposition crédible. Au Cambodge, où on n’a pas oublié le rôle que j’y ai joué pendant douze ans pour l’aider à sortir des séquelles d’une des plus grandes tragédies du XXe siècle, certains ont appris ma situation. Ils ont considéré que ce n’était pas acceptable. Une offre m’est faite de travailler comme expert-consultant auprès du gouvernement cambodgien sur certains dossiers où je peux apporter quelque chose à ce pays. Je l’ai acceptée. Comme j’ai accepté une autre offre sur le Liban. Je vais partager les quatre années qui me séparent de la retraite entre ces deux pays.»

Raoul Marc JENNAR
consultant - questions internationales
7, place du Château, 66500 Mosset
raoul.jennar@wanadoo.fr

Lire l’intégralité de la confession à http://www.legrandsoir.info/article5345.html

Lors de la dernière audience au Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris le 9 décembre 2008, le vice-premier ministre Hor Namhong qui avait porté plainte contre Sam Rainsy pour "diffamation", n'a fait venir qu'un seul témoin: Raoul Jennar qui venait d'être recruté comme "expert-consultant" par le gouvernement de Phnom Penh parce qu'il s'était trouvé "sans emploi et sans ressources" après l'été 2007... Quel crédit accorder à un tel témoin?

Khmer Intelligence News - 13 February 2010

Raoul Jennar

KHMER INTELLIGENCE NEWS

13 February 2010

Foreign experts versus Khmer scholars (1)

There are some arrogant foreign experts who pretend to know the Khmer language better than the native Khmers themselves. They give their own interpretation to some Khmer words and sometimes invent so-called Khmer expressions that the Khmers themselves ignore. For instance, they used to frequently call former Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok, “The Butcher,” whereas such an expression doesn’t exist in Khmer in such a context. More recently, they pretend that the word “yuon” used by the Khmer people to commonly call the Vietnamese, is a pejorative or even a racist term. They are actually unable or unwilling to make the difference between “pejorative” and “politically incorrect” under the current Vietnamese-friendly regime. They ignore Khmer geography and culture, not being aware of the existence of very old Phums (villages) such as Banteay Yuon (Yuon citadel) and very old Khmer sayings such as “Siem min chaol kbuon, Yuon min chaol put.”

Fortunately, a number of independent and respected Khmer polyglot scholars have recently written to counter those foreign experts and set the record straight at http://tinyurl.com/ya6t9u4

Raoul Jennar, the longest-serving foreign mercenary in Cambodia (1)

Belgian-born Raoul M. Jennar is one of the foreign experts described above. But he is also a specialist in disinformation who has been selling his services to the Hun Sen regime for more than twenty years. In order to hide the real nature of his mission, he has worn several hats, from NGO official to historian to political analyst to journalist to Tribunal (ECCC) expert to government adviser. He was the main contributor to The Vision, a lousy and ephemeral pro-CPP newspaper in the late 1990’s which was instrumental in the disinformation and manipulation of the Western, especially French-speaking, public opinion. His contract at the ECCC was not renewed because of his support for the Hun Sen government view that only five former Khmer Rouge leaders -- those who are currently in jail -- should be prosecuted so as to prevent other former Pol Pot colleagues -- who are now high-ranking CPP leaders -- from being investigated and possibly prosecuted. He finally ends up as an official adviser to the Hun Sen government while being a regular contributor, under several fictitious names, to the French-language newspaper Cambodge Soir Hebdo.

CPP secret document showing Vietnamese army remaining in Cambodia (1)

This 7 May 1991 confidential document shows a CPP government (“State of Cambodia”) decision to pay Vietnamese soldiers -- including “experts” with the rank of army generals -- who stayed behind in Cambodia after their much-publicised September 1989 withdrawal. It is obvious that significant elements of Hanoi’s army were still in Cambodia after they had claimed they had withdrawn from our country. The United Nations (UNTAC) could not ignore this fact during the transitional period (1991-1993).

Read the document in Khmer at http://tinyurl.com/y8aqbc5

CPP secret document showing Cambodia dealing with border issue under orders from Hanoi (1)

This 2 December 1988 Report of 10-Year-Work of the “State of Cambodia” Cabinet, pages 11-12, relates to boundary work. It shows that the Hun Sen government was not ready and incapable of dealing with boundary demarcation with Vietnam; yet they were forced to do so. The Border Committee was actually led by a Vietnamese "expert" (or “chumneanhkar”). This “expert” forced the Cambodian government to start working on boundary when Cambodia was not even ready to do that.

Read the document in Khmer at http://tinyurl.com/yl5bjrl

Royal Palace source confirms King’s surreptitious departure from Cambodia on 23 March 2009 (2)

A source from the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh confirms that King Norodom Sihamoni was pressured by CPP Royal Palace Minister Kong Sam Ol into unexpectedly and discreetly leaving Cambodia on 23 March 2009. He then went to France for a week. At the same time, a CPP source confirms that the Cambodian government was in a hurry to secretly grant Cambodian citizenship to Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. But even the King must not know about this CPP top-secret decision. The corresponding Royal Decree was then signed off by CPP Chairman Chea Sim in his capacity as Acting Head of State in the absence of the King.

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Raoul Jennar is concerned that tourists visiting Cambodia know the truth about the shenanigans of Hun Xen, his boss

Raoul Jennar (R) hugging Khieu Kaharith (Photo: DAP news)

09 September 2009
DAP news
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Raoul Jennar, the Belgian advisor of Hun Xen’s government and an expert in constitutional law, expressed his concerns when he saw that some tourist guides written in French contain attacks on Hun Xen’s regime. He said that such attacks could affect the emotion of tourists visiting Cambodia.

Raoul Jennar made this comment during his meeting discussion with Khieu Kanharith, the minister of Information, in the afternoon of 08 September 2009, at the ministry of Information.

Raoul Jennar came to Cambodia in 1989 to provide help to the People’s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK), the Vietnamese-installed puppet regime, to set up a new constitution in order to form the state of Kampuchea. This year, he is also giving a talk, for the first time, at the Cambodian news media headquarter about democracy in the world.

Currently, Raoul Jennar is a Cambodian government advisor providing help in international relation, such as the KR Tribunal and the Preah Vihear temple issue etc…

Raoul Jennar also indicated that some foreign countries said that freedom of the press in Cambodia dropped and he said that Cambodia must put additional effort to let other countries understand about this issue. Furthermore, he also raised the issue of the delays at the KR Tribunal work due to other piling up problems.

In response to Raoul Jennar, Khieu Kanharith said that the publishing freedom right in Cambodia is guaranteed by the Cambodian press law. However, he said that, when false reports are printed, Cambodia has the right to review these publications by a panel of experts, therefore tourist guides must also be reviewed by the ministry of Tourism, and as far as the concerns expressed by Raoul Jennar, the ministry of Information plans to discuss this issue with the ministry of Tourism. Furthermore, the ministry of Information will review all these points, and it will send its guidelines to the publishers. [KI-Media note: Khieu Kanharith must be joking if he thinks he can censure tourist guides published overseas].

Regarding freedom of the press, Khieu Kanharith said that Cambodia still have elevated freedom rights, but what people get confused is when disinformation is published and some [the publishers] are charged, then the public does not understand in depth that this is not done to prevent the freedom of the press, but that it is rather a case of defamation of the honor of certain individuals [like Hun Xen and Xok An?], or an act of incitation, such as the case of Angkor Wat temple when Thailand claimed that Cambodia does not have the ability to preserve the temple by itself. Therefore, according to Khieu Kanharith, some articles are not only defamation, they also constitute incitation as well.

Regarding the KR Tribunal, Khieu Kanharith said that Hun Xen’s stance, as expressed in his speech on 07 September, does not mean that Hun Xen is trying to prevent or put obstacles in the tribunal work, but that he only indicated that some of the issues raised by the KRT does not take into consideration the social aspect whereby several problems will be created. Right now, the KRT has 4 other KR leader cases to judge, why doesn’t it concentrate on this work? Furthermore, the number of explanations provided by the witnesses so far is sufficient enough, so there is almost no need to bring in additional witnesses to come forward and provide their clarifications. But, Khieu Kanharith added that, maybe the salary for the KRT judges are so high that there are delays taking place like this.