Opposition infiltration

Sunday, 30 January 2011
Meas Sokchea and Sebastian Strangio
The Phnom Penh Post

Prime Minister Hun Sen has apparently signed off on a strategy to recruit spies in the opposition Sam Rainsy Party in a bid to undercut its support ahead of next year’s commune council elections, according to a leaked document from his cabinet.

In a letter dated December 21 and posted today on the antigovernment news blog KI-Media, Ngor Sovann, one of Hun Sen’s advisers, allegedly recorded that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party had successfully recruited SRP officials as double agents in Kampot and Takeo provinces.

The letter noted that 16 SRP members had been recruited as spies in Kampot, in exchange for 100,000 riels (US$24.60) and a $5 prepaid phone card per month.

“We were successful in our work in a short period, with the collection and building of 16 forces as secret agents in the commune councils,” Ngor Sovann stated.

He noted, however, that since November, CPP activists had postponed their attempts to woo SRP turncoats in Kampot, saying opposition activists “seemed to suspect” the presence of secret agents.

Hun Sen's regime cops didn't use violence against Khmer Krom Monks ... they used savagery and brutality

A group of 48 Khmer Kampuchea Krom monks, ethnic Khmer originally from southern Vietnam, had convened in front of the Vietnamese Embassy to submit a petition (Photo: Licadho)
The Ministry of Interior deployed a large contingent of police and anti-riot forces who arrived armed with shields, electric batons and guns (Photo: Licadho)
The anti-riot unit brutally charged the Khmer Krom monks with their shields and electric batons (Photo: Licadho)
The Khmer Krom monks scattered and tried to run away to avoid further injury (Photo: Licadho)
The police continued to violently attack the monks even after they dispersed (Photo: Licadho)
The police continued to violently attack the monks even after they dispersed (Photo: Licadho)
Surprised passers-by were told by the police "those who we are beating are not real monks." (Photo: Licadho)
Anti-riot Police chased the monks four blocks down various side-streets in the area around the Vietnamese Embassy (Photo: Licadho)

Vietnamese diplomatic lies - A poem by Yim Guechse

Vietnam requests the banning of Khmer Krom from UN Forum

Khmer Krom demonstration in front of the Vietnamese embassy in Washington DC on 20 April 2007 (Photo: RFA)

20 May 2007
By Mayarith Radio Free Asia (a station labeled insolent by Hun Sen)
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy

Thach Ngoc Thach, KKF Executive Director: The accusations by the Cambodian government spokesman came out even before Hanoi has yet to bring up any such accusation against Khmer Krom monks. So far, the Khmer Krom monks have been accused by Hanoi of participation in demonstration which affects the order in society only (and not on separatism).

Hanoi officials have requested the UN to prevent Khmer Krom people and Montagnard representatives from outside of Vietnam, from participating in the UN forum in New York city.

The Sixth UN meeting which will focus on the issues of indigenous people, will last for 11 days, from 14 to 25 May, and will be participated by about 2,500 people from all over the world.

Nguyen Tan Than, the deputy representative of the Vietnamese mission at the UN, accuses the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) and the Montagnard Foundation of involvement in separatism in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese official made a declaration on 18 May, in front of the Sixth Session UN Permanent Forum II (UNPFII) on indigenous people, in which he accused the separatist action (allegedly taken by the KKF and the Montagnard Foundation) of publishing false information against the Vietnamese government.

The KKF group and the Montagnard Foundaton have yet to officially provide their reactions at the UN forum which is participated by about 2,500 people.

A KKF representative said that his turn to provide his declaration at the UN forum will take place on Monday 21 May.

Thach Ngoc Thach, the KKF representative, told RFA from New York City that Vietnam has no right whatsoever to prevent any organization as it wants to do.

Thach Ngoc Thach said: “The Vietnamese government has no authority and no right to request the UN and the conference committee to ban any representatives of indigenous people from the forum…”

The Sixth Session of UNPFII (UN Permanent Forum II) is taking place shortly after the defrocking of several Khmer Krom monks, and the recent jailing of 5 Khmer Krom monks who demonstrated against Hanoi’s authority.

Earlier this week, Khieu Kanharith, the Cambodian government spokesman, declared that there was pressure for the Cambodian government to help intervene in the Khmer Krom monks case, but he said that the Phnom Penh regime cannot help since the Khmer Krom monks are involved with a movement of Khmer Kampuchea Krom government in the US.

Khieu Kanharith said: “… It cannot be like this, this is tantamount to secessionism, therefore, these accusations (made by Khmer Krom organizations) we received documents that are opposite to them, and we believe that the documents we received are true…”

The KKF representative who plans to clarify the case at the UN forum declared that Khmer Krom monks are not involved in the accusation leveled against them (by the Phnom Penh regime). “We regret that he (Khieu Kanharith) did not conduct proper research, even though he is the Minister of Information himself…,” Thach Ngoc Thach said.

Thach Ngoc Thach added that the accusations by the Cambodian government spokesman came out even before Hanoi has yet to bring up any such accusation against Khmer Krom monks. So far, the Khmer Krom monks have been accused by Hanoi of participation in demonstration which affects the order in society only (and not on separatism).

Justice-a-la-CPP: Not only does PPenh washes its hand off of KKrom plight, it even accuses KKrom monks of secessionism for the Hanoi regime

With the current accusation made by the RGC that defrocked and jailed Khmer Krom monks are involved in a secessionist movement, one wonders whether Khieu Kanharith is the spokesman for the government of the Cambodian people, or is he the spokesman of the Hanoi oppressive communist regime? (Photo: RFA)

Government official rejects call by Khmer Krom people

18 May 2007
By Kessor Raniya
Radio Free Asia (a station labeled insolent by Hun Sen)
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy

Khieu Kanharith, the government spokesman, rejects the call made by Khmer Krom communities both inside and outside of Cambodia. The call asks the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to help resolve the issue of the recent defrocking and jailing of Khmer Krom monks by the Vietnamese authorities.

Khieu Kanharith, who is also Minister of Information, accused the Khmer Krom monks of being involved with Kampuchea Krom liberation movement to create an illegal secession zone.

Khieu Kanharith said: “They (the Viets) arrest these monks because they participate with the movement of Khmer Kampuchea Krom government in the US, and (furthermore, it involves) a country (Vietnam) that has an embassy with us, so we do not support such action (by the Khmer Krom monks). This is secessionism.”

In response to Khieu Kanharith’s (wild assertion), Monk Thach Bin, the planning aid official of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) in the world, rejects this accusation, saying that it is not true.

Monk Thach Bin said: “The KKF has no intention of ordering the creation of a secession zone. If there is (any such intention) of creating a secession zone, why would the executive committee of the KKF work so hard to call on UNPO to help find justice for us.”

Regarding the request for intervention from the RGC by the Khmer Krom monks, Heng Samrin also rejected this request, saying that this is an internal issue of Vietnam, and that Cambodia must not interfere with it.