Ung Sean, the CPP Cambodian ambassador in Thailand, claimed in the following rebuttal to the critical editorial by the Bangkok Post on Hun Sen that: "... Hun Sen "...invited his older leaders, even including top Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and leng Sary, to Phnom Penh where they joked and bantered..." is bad intention against Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen". Obviously, the ambassador failed to review the photo above showing Hun Sen joking with Khieu Samphan, and Nuon Chea, Brother No. 2 of the Khmer Rouge regime.Ambassador disputes facts in editorial
Bangkok Post
I wish to reply to your editorial of April 18, "Cambodians look back in horror". As the editorial is full of biased opinions, inaccurate historical facts and wrong analysis, I wish to set the record straight for the benefit of your readers:
First, the "peace treaty" or what we call the Paris Peace Accord, was not signed in 1989 as you have wrongly stated. The Paris Peace Accord was in fact signed in October 1991. The mistake of this historical significance shows that the writer of the editorial article is neither a careful researcher nor an authoritative writer.
Second, it is completely preposterous for the author of this article to argue that Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen has "conspired to deny such courts and chance of a fair hearing for the survivors, victims and their families" of the Khmer Rouge genocide and has "dragged out the process of appointing a court..."
This is manipulative journalism. It was Samdech Hun Sen, Second Prime Minister, and Samdech Krom Preah Norodom Ranariddh, First Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia, who wrote a joint letter to H.E. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in 1996, to request the UN to assist in setting up a tribunal for the Khmer Rouge leaders.
Since then, it has been Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Royal Government of Cambodia that have been consistently pushing for a Khmer Rouge trial, including an allocation of Cambodia's budgetary and in-kind contributions for this tribunal. To say that Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen has no commitment and is dragging his feet is an insult to Samdech Prime Minister and the Cambodian nation as a whole.
Third, to state that "he himself was a Khmer Rouge soldier" is to take things out of historical context. When Preah Bat Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk, then the Head of State of Cambodia, was overthrown in March 1970, he appealed to all Cambodians to join him in the United National Front of Cambodia. Samdech Hun Sen at the time went into the maquis and joined the United National Front of Cambodia. After the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975 and when he discovered that the Khmer Rouge were killing innocent people, Samdech Hun Sen fled to Vietnam.
Fourth, to write that Samdech Hun Sen "...invited his older leaders, even including top Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and leng Sary, to Phnom Penh where they joked and bantered..." is bad intention against Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen. Indeed, 1998 was a significant year for Cambodia's contemporary history, as Samdech Hun Sen engineered a win-win policy of the Royal Government of Cambodia to end the conflict and insurgency in the country. Once the Khmer Rouge leaders had defected, Prime Minister Hun Sen, by receiving them, wished to send a powerful signal to the Khmer Rouge troops in the countryside that they had to lay down their arms. As a historical fact, the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) had not been able to disarm the Khmer Rouge in 1992-93. The Khmer Rouge continued to fight the government troops until 1998.
Fifth, to state that "China, Singapore, Thailand and the US allied to force Vietnam to give up its armed occupation of Cambodia" is to be completely ignorant. The writer of this editorial article should check with UNTAC records that there was no Vietnamese army in Cambodia during the UN peacekeeping operations in Cambodia in 1992-93. After the Cambodian government was able to prevent the return of the Khmer Rouge, the Vietnamese army started to withdraw from Cambodia since 1985 and completed the withdrawal in 1989. So those countries as stated above did not force Vietnam to leave Cambodia.
Finally, I wish to request the Bangkok Post to do more homework and better research on Cambodia so that is would not print any article, be it news or editorial, which is full of lies, inaccuracies and wrong analyses.
UNG SEAN
Ambassador, Royal Embassy of Cambodia
First, the "peace treaty" or what we call the Paris Peace Accord, was not signed in 1989 as you have wrongly stated. The Paris Peace Accord was in fact signed in October 1991. The mistake of this historical significance shows that the writer of the editorial article is neither a careful researcher nor an authoritative writer.
Second, it is completely preposterous for the author of this article to argue that Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen has "conspired to deny such courts and chance of a fair hearing for the survivors, victims and their families" of the Khmer Rouge genocide and has "dragged out the process of appointing a court..."
This is manipulative journalism. It was Samdech Hun Sen, Second Prime Minister, and Samdech Krom Preah Norodom Ranariddh, First Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia, who wrote a joint letter to H.E. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in 1996, to request the UN to assist in setting up a tribunal for the Khmer Rouge leaders.
Since then, it has been Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Royal Government of Cambodia that have been consistently pushing for a Khmer Rouge trial, including an allocation of Cambodia's budgetary and in-kind contributions for this tribunal. To say that Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen has no commitment and is dragging his feet is an insult to Samdech Prime Minister and the Cambodian nation as a whole.
Third, to state that "he himself was a Khmer Rouge soldier" is to take things out of historical context. When Preah Bat Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk, then the Head of State of Cambodia, was overthrown in March 1970, he appealed to all Cambodians to join him in the United National Front of Cambodia. Samdech Hun Sen at the time went into the maquis and joined the United National Front of Cambodia. After the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975 and when he discovered that the Khmer Rouge were killing innocent people, Samdech Hun Sen fled to Vietnam.
Fourth, to write that Samdech Hun Sen "...invited his older leaders, even including top Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and leng Sary, to Phnom Penh where they joked and bantered..." is bad intention against Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen. Indeed, 1998 was a significant year for Cambodia's contemporary history, as Samdech Hun Sen engineered a win-win policy of the Royal Government of Cambodia to end the conflict and insurgency in the country. Once the Khmer Rouge leaders had defected, Prime Minister Hun Sen, by receiving them, wished to send a powerful signal to the Khmer Rouge troops in the countryside that they had to lay down their arms. As a historical fact, the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) had not been able to disarm the Khmer Rouge in 1992-93. The Khmer Rouge continued to fight the government troops until 1998.
Fifth, to state that "China, Singapore, Thailand and the US allied to force Vietnam to give up its armed occupation of Cambodia" is to be completely ignorant. The writer of this editorial article should check with UNTAC records that there was no Vietnamese army in Cambodia during the UN peacekeeping operations in Cambodia in 1992-93. After the Cambodian government was able to prevent the return of the Khmer Rouge, the Vietnamese army started to withdraw from Cambodia since 1985 and completed the withdrawal in 1989. So those countries as stated above did not force Vietnam to leave Cambodia.
Finally, I wish to request the Bangkok Post to do more homework and better research on Cambodia so that is would not print any article, be it news or editorial, which is full of lies, inaccuracies and wrong analyses.
UNG SEAN
Ambassador, Royal Embassy of Cambodia
6 comments:
Lies and inaccuracies seem suiting Hun Sen well,Khmer Rouge volunteer,lackey, usurper,dictator and a yuon sell out.This ambassador is one of the kind in Hun Sen derriere kissing.Keep on man,how pity
I hope one day the Ambassador can read my comments:
I have not read what Bangkok Post editor wrote but based on the Ambassador's reply, I wish to comments on his points. But since I am just a Khmer overseas, it may not seriously taken into account.
1) Yes I agreed with his comment on this historical fact.
2) NO. I do not agree with him because he is just trying to support his boss HS. He either ignores the facts or he is fooled by his boss action. HS is very tricky. With every twist and turn in Khmer politics, HS only listens to his two Masters - VN and CHINA.
On the surface, he reveals to the Khmer nation that he is working to the best of his ability to bring former KR leaders to justice, but behind the scene, he could not do that because his Masters say: "DO NOT ever attempt" so he orders his sub-ordinates to delay the tribunal and tries every tactics to slow down until those ex KR leaders die of old age or of disease. We just need to wait and see if my words are true or not. So it is normal for him to say what he said in 2) because if he did not support and defend his boss HS or the Royal Government of Cambodia he would be called home and sacked.
3) Nothing wrong in saying HS was a KR soldier, because he was. Saying that his boss HS joined UNFC due to appeal of the then deposed Head of State and Prince, Norodom Sihanouk, and his call for Khmer men to join is a complete disgrace. That was just a timing coincindence. Why did HS flee to VN was just another ploy and tactics of the VN?
4) What he did in 1998 was a disgrace to the victims of KR regime because the former KR leaders were invited to a high class hotel and were given the previledge of being shown on camera and laughing and chatting as if nothing happened. Again on the surface, he was portrayed as a good PM because he launched a win-win policy to unite all Khmers but in reality and for history book, it was to make himself famous because his Master Chinese government told him to do so as his Master did not support the KR movement any longer.
5) Of course those countries in ASEAN and US put pressured on VN to leave Cambodia which eventually they did in 1989 but when the VN forces remained in Cambodia and became Khmer nationalities and spoke Khmer very well, no one mentioned that. Likewise when the foreign forces left during the day and came back in at night with no uniform, no officials care to mention. How could they?
Perhaps, the Ambassador, Ung Sean needs to do his homework as well so that he says and writes something correctly in the future and do not sell Cambodia to VN or CHINA. I am ashamed to read his comments.
From A sad Khmer overseas individual. KG
It is great to hear the reaction from mr. Embassador in order to care for national integrety, value and interests, but he must be able to make an independent reaction without subject to any leader. I mean he must relialize that Youn (Vietname) troops were still in Cambodia until 1996 some are still in Cambodia today disguised as civil in order to stay and back Hun Sen to lead the regime.
A Student in PP
I understand your position, Mr. Embassador. You just tried to defend your boss, HS, in order to keep your job. But do you know that what you and your gangs have been practicing is slowly killing your own country. Open your eye(s)widely and tell us how many Vietnamese currently living in Cambodia.
ASOK- A Son of Khmer
Doesn't Ung Sean (mr. Ambassador) name sound like Hun Sen??? no wonder he's so strongly defended his bossman (HunSen). Their name sound the same.
All I got to say is that this ambassador is brian washed by his boss and his boss (hun sen) is brain washed by Vietnam and China. Like KG said in previous comment, if this ambassador don't defend his boss or showing an effort in doing so, he'll be call back home and HunSen will strip his title and he'll be un-employed soon. Like every other Ambassadors that Hun Sen placed them around the world, they are all brain washed and corrupted just like HunSen. They don't work for us or at lease for Cambodian, they work for Vietnam and China. That's the behind the scence truths. If POL POT/Khmer Rouge and his gangs can commited such an genocide that is beyond human comprehension and were able escaped/eluded from being prosecuted for this long (over 30yrs) Trust me.. they all be dead or MIA by the time the UN get the trial moving. Finding justice for those khmer lives lost will continue to hunt those who still alive due to the fact that HunSen who is Khmer Rouge himself order by his Boss China in preventing a trial from successfully execute.
No justice for all still.
A Kon Kom Preah...
I wish u check ur facts right too....U or many of your family wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for Samdach. U r brain washed too..
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