Cambodia Premier Warns Politicos Against Land Grabbing
DPA
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen criticized his party members for land grabbing during an internal meeting of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP), according to a statement received Sunday.
The statement and sources close to the ruling party said Hun Sen had warned the senior CPP members to desist from land grabbing and other abuses of power.
He also removed the former governor of north-eastern Ratanakiri province, Kham Khoeun, from the party's central committee. Khoeun was recently sentenced in absentia to 17 years in prison by a Cambodian court for his conviction of involvement in a 2004 illegal logging scandal in a protected area of the province.
Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, a former Khmer Rouge cadre member who defected to Vietnam and returned as a member of the nucleus that overthrew that regime in 1979, was promoted to become a party Permanent Committee member at the same meeting, the statement said, as was Constitutional Council president Bin Chhin.
Chhin led a recent delegation to neighbouring Vietnam aimed at building Cambodian government expertise in clarifying legal documents such as land titles, solving election disputes and fighting government corruption.
The 30-member Permanent Committee is pivotal in formulating party policy.
CPP sources said Hun Sen has grown increasingly impatient with party members who abuse their positions to take land from poor rural villagers and that at least one senior military official has already been forced to give land back to the government.
Donors, rights workers and political analysts have warned that if the problem is not solved, it could disenfranchise CPP supporters in the party's heartland rural areas and eventually lead to political instability. Donors have threatened to withold funds to the aid-dependent nation if endemic corruption is not curbed through legislation.
The Central Committee meeting, held Saturday, came less than a month before vital national commune elections scheduled for April 1.
The statement and sources close to the ruling party said Hun Sen had warned the senior CPP members to desist from land grabbing and other abuses of power.
He also removed the former governor of north-eastern Ratanakiri province, Kham Khoeun, from the party's central committee. Khoeun was recently sentenced in absentia to 17 years in prison by a Cambodian court for his conviction of involvement in a 2004 illegal logging scandal in a protected area of the province.
Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, a former Khmer Rouge cadre member who defected to Vietnam and returned as a member of the nucleus that overthrew that regime in 1979, was promoted to become a party Permanent Committee member at the same meeting, the statement said, as was Constitutional Council president Bin Chhin.
Chhin led a recent delegation to neighbouring Vietnam aimed at building Cambodian government expertise in clarifying legal documents such as land titles, solving election disputes and fighting government corruption.
The 30-member Permanent Committee is pivotal in formulating party policy.
CPP sources said Hun Sen has grown increasingly impatient with party members who abuse their positions to take land from poor rural villagers and that at least one senior military official has already been forced to give land back to the government.
Donors, rights workers and political analysts have warned that if the problem is not solved, it could disenfranchise CPP supporters in the party's heartland rural areas and eventually lead to political instability. Donors have threatened to withold funds to the aid-dependent nation if endemic corruption is not curbed through legislation.
The Central Committee meeting, held Saturday, came less than a month before vital national commune elections scheduled for April 1.
7 comments:
How about your relative that did illegal and yourself? Hun SEn, you are really hurt khmer feeling. Don't just admit! Why don't you resign in 2008 election and let someone else do it? Come on, you have power for yourself too long my dear hypocrite.
This is an election time, he is soft and sound nice. After election
is difference story.
If Ah Hun one eye Khvang admits again about land grabbing, the whole country will not exist in the globe.
Hun Sen cleans your family fisrt before you go clean your Evils CPP officers.
Somdach Hun Sen's family is the
cleanest of all. There is nothing
to clean. What is needed is to
deport Ah Khmer-Yuons Kmean Srok
back to Vietnam. That ought to make
things a lot cleaner.
8:25 Am it is only the same person or the dog being fed by would have said stupid like you.
The Yuan like you who using a fake Khmer identity need to be chop-chop and send back to Hanoi.
No Khmer would have hated Khmers only Yuan who hate Khmers.
Usung a reverse Psychology claiming to be Khmer, eh!! Shame on you. You are purely Yuan.
I can see you are Yuan from the ship.
NOT ONLY CPP_ BUT WE TOO if WE HAVE OPPOTUNITY/IF WE ARE POWEFULL- POWER IN HANDS - NRP member- Former FUNCINPEC Member)
Please keep it confidential - do not allow people to hear.. .."grab the land from the poor, NOT only Powerfull CPP high rank members, BUT We Funcinpec/and or NRP members while we gain power as of past experience(1992-97) we were strong too so we grabbed, ...
We try our best to do political Business some of us from abroad inwhich is difficult for us to earn money we came here/Cambodia to earn money from politics business as some of us are royal family we must be richer.. we are impossible to drive taxi and or cyclo like ordinary citizen, we always in politics, to do politics to earn money while becoming high Rank official=being Rich we gain also ladies(whores)in oversea it is more difficult to find lady ..here easier we just spend some USD...
SO THAT IF WE GAIN POWER WE WILL GRAB LAND TOO by peaceful/or violent ways but planned to be more peaceful than CCP does and has done now... and we will get too many ladies... including daughters or wives of our paty members/ subordiates we try to do the same as OUR BOSS PREAH ANG MCHAS RANARITH.. as much as poosible or if possible...
We try our best to return to Cambodia OR some of us (Local Cambodian) try to run from one party to another/ try to pay more money for Post/position from Office Chief to Ministers and higher we sold our property to collect money to spent to our Bosss(Prah Ang Mchas...and others)we sacrifice OUR YOUNG DAUGTER For Preah Ang.. We sacrificed our Beloved Wife for Preah Ang Mchas to enjoy with them..SO WHILE GAINING POWER LIKE PM HUN SEN & HIS PARTY MEMBERS WE will DO THE SAME THING THIS IS OUR MAIN GOAL..
"NOT ONLY CPP BUT WE NRP/Funcinpec TOO- IF OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE "
From ACHA KNOY- Norodom Ranarith Party Member/Former FUNCINPEC MEMBER/OR member of Party from which I can gain money/position/ and or Future CPP member if CPP accept and OR PREVIOUS CPP Member but was ousted / and or I Applied Form to be member of CPP But no acceptance)
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