By Yun Samean
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
"New [political] campaigns the same as
Pol Pot are coming. They said that they
will rearrange the factories so the workers
should be ready to go back to the provinces..."
—Hun Sen,
Prime Minister
[and former Khmer Rouge commander - Socheata]
Pol Pot are coming. They said that they
will rearrange the factories so the workers
should be ready to go back to the provinces..."
—Hun Sen,
Prime Minister
[and former Khmer Rouge commander - Socheata]
Prime Minister Hun Sen warned provincial Funcinpec officials that they will be removed from their jobs if they attend a welcoming ceremony for Funcinpec's President Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who is scheduled to return to Phnom Penh Saturday.
The prime minister also cautioned that a Khmer Rouge-style movement is gaining momentum in the country.
Speaking Tuesday at the launch of the National Strategic Development Plan in Phnom Penh, Hun Sen denied that he had invited Prince Ranariddh back to Cambodia after his five-month absence, as the prince claimed in a recent radio interview.
"You went silently, so you must silently come back," Hun Sen told the absent prince in the speech, which was broadcast on radio.
"Don't bother to welcome [Prince Ranariddh]. Be careful: I will remove you." Hun Sen warned. "Provincial governors and deputy governors, if you dare to come to Phnom Penh, you will stay in Phnom Penh. Don't go back to the provinces."
Senior Funcinpec officials will also be dismissed if they invite their rural colleagues to the ceremony, he added.
Prince Ranariddh is expected to arrive in Siem Reap Thursday, and royalist officials had said a large gathering would be held to welcome him at party headquarters in Phnom Penh Saturday.
Hun Sen said that rural royalists who traveled to welcome the prince would waste time they could better spend serving the public. He also accused Funcinpec of inviting party officials to the ceremony without first seeking permission from Interior Minister Sar Kheng.
Funcinpec government officials must not send soldiers, police or civil servants to welcome the prince, Hun Sen added.
Funcinpec Secretary-General Nhiek Bun Chhay could not be reached for comment, while the prince's spokesman Chea Chanboribo said he was too busy to speak to a reporter about Hun Sen's threats against his party's members.
One senior Funcinpec official said on condition of anonymity that he was frightened by the speech, and that only a handful of Funcinpec members will now attend the gathering.
A second senior royalist official claimed that all Funcinpec senators and lawmakers will go instead to Siem Reap on Thursday to welcome back the prince.
Koul Panha, director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections, said the warning shows an unbridgeable rift between the CPP and Funcinpec. "The disagreement is deep. It will increase to another level," he warned.
During his speech, Hun Sen also made an ominous warning that a Pol Pot-style regime was emerging.
"New [political] campaigns the same as Pol Pot are coming," he claimed. "They said that they will rearrange the factories so the workers should be ready to go back to the provinces...so Cambodia will have to evict people again from the city to the provinces and from province to province just like Pol Pot's regime," he said.
Hun Sen added that several political parties and an unidentified movement that has not yet formed a party are preparing to take power from him. If they succeed, he said, they will not recognize existing business contracts drawn with the current government and investors will be deterred.
But all is not lost Hun Sen said. "If the next government is the same as this current government there will not be a problem."
Prince Sisowath Thomico, who recently formed a political alliance with four groups in order to compete in coming elections, said Hun Sen's comments were not directed at him, as his political platform is based on retired King Norodom Sihanouk's Sangkum Niyum Reastr rather than the Pol Pot regime.
Sam Rainsy, leader of the party that bears his name, accused the ruling CPP of behaving like the radical Khmer Rouge through its campaign of evicting the poor from central Phnom Penh.
"They don't examine themselves," Sam Rainsy said of the CPP, adding that the public will not believe the prime minister's alarming predictions of a Khmer Rouge resurgence.
"The more Hun Sen talks nonsense the happier I am because it is good for me," he said.
But Sam Rainsy did confirm one of the prime minister's predictions. If he does win power, Sam Rainsy said, he would annul illegal business deals in which poor people have lost their land to large-scale investors. "I will confiscate the land and return it to the people who originally owned it" he said.
The prime minister also cautioned that a Khmer Rouge-style movement is gaining momentum in the country.
Speaking Tuesday at the launch of the National Strategic Development Plan in Phnom Penh, Hun Sen denied that he had invited Prince Ranariddh back to Cambodia after his five-month absence, as the prince claimed in a recent radio interview.
"You went silently, so you must silently come back," Hun Sen told the absent prince in the speech, which was broadcast on radio.
"Don't bother to welcome [Prince Ranariddh]. Be careful: I will remove you." Hun Sen warned. "Provincial governors and deputy governors, if you dare to come to Phnom Penh, you will stay in Phnom Penh. Don't go back to the provinces."
Senior Funcinpec officials will also be dismissed if they invite their rural colleagues to the ceremony, he added.
Prince Ranariddh is expected to arrive in Siem Reap Thursday, and royalist officials had said a large gathering would be held to welcome him at party headquarters in Phnom Penh Saturday.
Hun Sen said that rural royalists who traveled to welcome the prince would waste time they could better spend serving the public. He also accused Funcinpec of inviting party officials to the ceremony without first seeking permission from Interior Minister Sar Kheng.
Funcinpec government officials must not send soldiers, police or civil servants to welcome the prince, Hun Sen added.
Funcinpec Secretary-General Nhiek Bun Chhay could not be reached for comment, while the prince's spokesman Chea Chanboribo said he was too busy to speak to a reporter about Hun Sen's threats against his party's members.
One senior Funcinpec official said on condition of anonymity that he was frightened by the speech, and that only a handful of Funcinpec members will now attend the gathering.
A second senior royalist official claimed that all Funcinpec senators and lawmakers will go instead to Siem Reap on Thursday to welcome back the prince.
Koul Panha, director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections, said the warning shows an unbridgeable rift between the CPP and Funcinpec. "The disagreement is deep. It will increase to another level," he warned.
During his speech, Hun Sen also made an ominous warning that a Pol Pot-style regime was emerging.
"New [political] campaigns the same as Pol Pot are coming," he claimed. "They said that they will rearrange the factories so the workers should be ready to go back to the provinces...so Cambodia will have to evict people again from the city to the provinces and from province to province just like Pol Pot's regime," he said.
Hun Sen added that several political parties and an unidentified movement that has not yet formed a party are preparing to take power from him. If they succeed, he said, they will not recognize existing business contracts drawn with the current government and investors will be deterred.
But all is not lost Hun Sen said. "If the next government is the same as this current government there will not be a problem."
Prince Sisowath Thomico, who recently formed a political alliance with four groups in order to compete in coming elections, said Hun Sen's comments were not directed at him, as his political platform is based on retired King Norodom Sihanouk's Sangkum Niyum Reastr rather than the Pol Pot regime.
Sam Rainsy, leader of the party that bears his name, accused the ruling CPP of behaving like the radical Khmer Rouge through its campaign of evicting the poor from central Phnom Penh.
"They don't examine themselves," Sam Rainsy said of the CPP, adding that the public will not believe the prime minister's alarming predictions of a Khmer Rouge resurgence.
"The more Hun Sen talks nonsense the happier I am because it is good for me," he said.
But Sam Rainsy did confirm one of the prime minister's predictions. If he does win power, Sam Rainsy said, he would annul illegal business deals in which poor people have lost their land to large-scale investors. "I will confiscate the land and return it to the people who originally owned it" he said.
6 comments:
Yeah, right.
It would be most interesting to know how the SRP is going to fix the national problems when it does not seem to be able to fix its internal ones.
SIS
HOK LANDY AND TEA BAINCH Would not listen to you, SRP, they may ........You!
If you able to stop Hun Sen from cheating!
Boy cut the election! until the Police and Army are reforme!SRP!
Hey you are a real Dick, Hun Sen!
Weekend is belong to individual they can do any thing they want even the CCP people!
Your wife may cheat on you someday if you give her no freedom, fool!
So what else is new? Hun Sen and his stupid remark. He's afraid of loosing control, so he scares the people. Sam is no better, you think after 20 years of CPP the government will suddenly become ethical. Tell that to Hok boy and his gangs.
Please help the democratic forces. the only force that can bring the total changes to our country. At least, you don't want to see the same leader for next term.
Does anybody here ever wonder how Sam got the money to do what he's doing, since he claims that he's not corrupt like Hun. Does he prints his own money or something. I believed Sam only talks, I think his party members as currupt as CPP.
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