Hun Sen threatens to publicize 'spy documents' about Ranariddh

picture: Hun Sen (left) and Ranariddh (right) and (top) a cartoon by http://sacrava.blogspot.com/.

By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer Original report from Phnom Penh

Khmerization's comment: Hun Sen's blackmailing here is not the first. In the past, when cornered, he has threantened his opponents with intimidation and violent force. Hun Sen must have built up a considerable amount of dirty files on Ranariddh during their long, rough and tumble marriage of inconvenience of three shakeable coalition governments. But Ranariddh must also have known many dirty acts that have been committed by Hun Sen as well. In a tit for tat situation Ranariddh should build up a dirty file or a case against Hun Sen as well. In the past we have seen that Hun Sen has only trampled on the weak. Ranariddh was always the weak because he was too scared and too coward to fight back. Hun Sen has never trampled on Sam Rainsy because he knew that Sam Rainsy had fought back hard many times before. So in a sense he was scared to blackmail Sam Rainsy because Rainsy will fight back with the same method. So my message to Ranariddh is: build a dirty file and a case against Hun Sen. If he try to blackmail you, you have to do the same like what Rainsy used to do to him.

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19 December 2007

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday threatened to release 11-year-old "spy documents," in an apparent threat to his political rival, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, ahead of national elections.
Prince Ranariddh, who is living in exile and facing an 18-month prison sentence on charges related to embezzling, recently criticized opposition leader Sam Rainsy for withdrawing a suit against Hun Sen. And Hun Sen and the prince have been trading public barbs in recent weeks.
Prince Ranariddh runs a self-named political party that draws from royalist supporters, but Hun Sen has said his ruling Cambodian People's Party will remain political allies with the traditional royalist party, Funcinpec.
Hun Sen threatened to release information linking Prince Ranariddh to the deceased Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok.
"Now my spy council is making 200 to 300 photocopies of articles and CD-VCDs," Hun Sen said at an opening ceremony for a sprinkler system in Kandal province, though he didn't elaborate on the contents of those documents and did not name Prince Ranariddh specifically.
"If you dare to jump, they will be disseminated," Hun Sen said.