By Sok Serei
Radio Free Asia (a station labeled insolent by Hun Sen)
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
On Saturday, the Cambodian government spokesman and Cambodian Muslim leaders have reacted to reports accusing a number of Cambodian Muslims (Cham) who left Cambodia to train insurgents and terrorists in Southern Thailand. The government of Cambodia said that this accusation does not reflect the truth, and that this is just a blame game.
Khieu Kanharith, the government spokesman, gave his reaction to RFA on Saturday by saying that he believes that the Thai General’s claim is neither representative of the Thai government position, nor is there any truth to this accusation.
Khieu Kanharith said: “I already said it, we need to be shown proof. If there is no proof, then this action is what we call in Khmer: the oddity between two states which maintains diplomatic ties. … We already saw that the Thai government did not talk about this issue, and only one individual is talking about it. Nevertheless, such talk could affect our Cham people who are working or doing business there. This kind of declaration is not acceptable for countries that maintain diplomatic ties with one another. Whatever happens in Thailand, please do not use Cham in Cambodia as an excuse of what has happened.”
The reaction of the government spokesman came after several reports from Thailand quoted Thai General Watanachai Chaimuangwong, an advisor of the current Thai Prime Minister, who claimed that, according to Thai government investigation, several hundred of Cham people from Cambodia, as well as a number of Indonesian Muslims, are providing training to insurgents and terrorists in Southern Thailand which is considered a stronghold of Thai Muslims.
Sarusak Surapat, an official of the Thai embassy in Cambodia, reacted by telling RFA that he plans to ask for confirmation from the Thai government in Bangkok as to whether the Thai general’s claim was given in his name as a private individual, or as a representative of entire Thai authorities.
Sarusak Surapat commented that there is no tightening for Cham people wanting to enter Thailand, if these Cham people have the proper documents for traveling into Thailand.
Osman Hassan, the director of the Muslim Development Funds in Cambodia said in reaction to this story: “Harmony prevails between Cham and Buddhists, as well as with other faith followers, this is sufficient for them (Cham), there is no reason for them to create problems for themselves.”
Osman Hassan added that he does not want to see the characterization and accusation made against Cambodian Muslims, because they only want peace and do not want to stir problems as they are accused of. He added that currently, more than 600,000 Cham people are living in Cambodia.
Khieu Kanharith, the government spokesman, gave his reaction to RFA on Saturday by saying that he believes that the Thai General’s claim is neither representative of the Thai government position, nor is there any truth to this accusation.
Khieu Kanharith said: “I already said it, we need to be shown proof. If there is no proof, then this action is what we call in Khmer: the oddity between two states which maintains diplomatic ties. … We already saw that the Thai government did not talk about this issue, and only one individual is talking about it. Nevertheless, such talk could affect our Cham people who are working or doing business there. This kind of declaration is not acceptable for countries that maintain diplomatic ties with one another. Whatever happens in Thailand, please do not use Cham in Cambodia as an excuse of what has happened.”
The reaction of the government spokesman came after several reports from Thailand quoted Thai General Watanachai Chaimuangwong, an advisor of the current Thai Prime Minister, who claimed that, according to Thai government investigation, several hundred of Cham people from Cambodia, as well as a number of Indonesian Muslims, are providing training to insurgents and terrorists in Southern Thailand which is considered a stronghold of Thai Muslims.
Sarusak Surapat, an official of the Thai embassy in Cambodia, reacted by telling RFA that he plans to ask for confirmation from the Thai government in Bangkok as to whether the Thai general’s claim was given in his name as a private individual, or as a representative of entire Thai authorities.
Sarusak Surapat commented that there is no tightening for Cham people wanting to enter Thailand, if these Cham people have the proper documents for traveling into Thailand.
Osman Hassan, the director of the Muslim Development Funds in Cambodia said in reaction to this story: “Harmony prevails between Cham and Buddhists, as well as with other faith followers, this is sufficient for them (Cham), there is no reason for them to create problems for themselves.”
Osman Hassan added that he does not want to see the characterization and accusation made against Cambodian Muslims, because they only want peace and do not want to stir problems as they are accused of. He added that currently, more than 600,000 Cham people are living in Cambodia.
9 comments:
These fucken Thaicong fail to take ownership of their fucken problem and now they want the world to take care of their fucken problem! Yeh… I like to take care of these fucken Thaicong’s problems by sending in B-52s!
I never thought these fucken Thaicong can be so childish!
The kamen-Yuan are barbarians.
Okay, let us keep open mind about
this, and not be too confident
about anything. No one can be so
cetain about the existence of
criminals in a society. The truth
is to the best of our knowledge,
we are not aware of such activity
as alleged by the thai General,
but we will work with them to get
rid of any terrorist activity from
our soil that will spoil our
progress to reconstruct our country
and the region.
Just remember, avoid joining "oil
for weapon" program at all cost,
no matter what you hear or who
died. An arm race in the region
can only keep us in poverty and
misery forever and put us all at
hi risk toward extinction.
How to get rid of the terrorists, if most cpp high ranking are terrorists alike? At least the Yuan Hok Lundi's been accused of sort thing terrorized Cambodia.
Finally you say something Mr. gavernment spokeman, i have been waiting so long for your reaction to Siem general, why so quiet with then so loud with Khmer Krom and fellow Cambodian
Not even close, Fluke's Boy, what
we need here is to stop Sam Nazi
of the SRP from extorting money
from poor people and using to fund
terrorist activities in Southen Thailand.
We must stop Sam Nazi now!
We must stop Sam Nazi now!
We must stop Sam Nazi now!
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To 11:36AM Vietcong slave!
You had been eating too much dog meat for you to speak like the Vietcong!
All of you Vietcong slaves and lovers better move to Hanoi and wait there for further instruction from the Vietcong government! The time is running out for all of you Vietcong slaves!!!!Better get the fuck out now!!!
Yeah, but it is too damn expensive
to live in Hanoi. Do you have some
space cashes to help us out?
Why Hanoi is too expensive? Million illegal immigrants from China. Yuan Hanoi needs to focus on the economy instead of crawling around. It is not fun to be parasites.
You can always move to Iraq, there're plenty of jobs.
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