"The gruesome nature of the attacks demand serious attention and thorough investigations. The spirits of the victims of those attacks must not be forgotten and must be allowed to rest in peace. Perpetrators and the masterminds of those attacks must be unmasked, punished and punished in the severest term possible."
Editorial by Khmerization:- Eleven years have passed and the masterminds behind the grisly attacks that brutally killed 19 people and wounded close to 200 people had roamed freely, and probably thrived on. It is time that the US Bureau of Federal Investigation (FBI) re-open its investigations, which were close to unmask the perpetrators but then have been frustrated by the non-cooperative behaviour of the Cambodian authority and eventually ordered closed by the then US Ambassador, Kenneth Quinn (read the link below).
The results of the unfinished FBI investigations have presumably contained findings that would have implicated the Cambodian authority at the top leadership level. In order to sow good relations and to court Cambodian cooperation in its fight against terrorism, the US has chosen to abandon its policy of not dealing with the perpetrators of human right violations. The US must not be duped into believing that “constructive engagement” with the Hun Sen regime, as in the case with the junta regime of Burma, is the best way to change them. Hun Sen, who never understand the language of diplomacy, whether in simple term or in a convoluted intellectual tone, must be dealt with in a rough and tough manner. And this, I mean, the US must talk tough, diplomacy aside.
For Hun Sen’s proponents and for those who are unfamiliar with the gruesome nature of the 30th March 1997 attacks, they would like to think that Hun Sen has been unfairly and wrongly accused of for political gains. Well, the unfinished FBI investigations had unmasked undeniably evidences of Mr. Hun Sen’s complicity. The unprecedented and strange deployment of Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit around and in the vicinity of the protest site is suspicious in nature, if not in motive. And after the people tried to chase the attackers they were stopped and threatened with guns by Hun Sen‘s bodyguards, while the attackers were let through and disappeared into the fortressed compound of Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit. This was enough of the proof that Hun Sen was a mastermind of those fateful and deadly attacks.
The gruesome nature of the attacks demand serious attention and thorough investigations. The spirits of the victims of those attacks must not be forgotten and must be allowed to rest in peace. Perpetrators and the masterminds of those attacks must be unmasked, punished and punished in the severest term possible.
The US FBI must re-start its investigations into those attacks. All its past findings must be released to the public. The victims have high hope on the FBI’s investigations. In fact, the FBI is the only hope to uncover the truth behind those attacks.
The US has been a good friend of the Khmer people and any attempt to whitewash Hun Sen’s crimes will only re-enforce the belief that the US has now chosen to abandon justice for the Khmer people over its good relations with the Hun Sen government. To choose this path would be a party to, and is an accomplice to, those crimes. //
The results of the unfinished FBI investigations have presumably contained findings that would have implicated the Cambodian authority at the top leadership level. In order to sow good relations and to court Cambodian cooperation in its fight against terrorism, the US has chosen to abandon its policy of not dealing with the perpetrators of human right violations. The US must not be duped into believing that “constructive engagement” with the Hun Sen regime, as in the case with the junta regime of Burma, is the best way to change them. Hun Sen, who never understand the language of diplomacy, whether in simple term or in a convoluted intellectual tone, must be dealt with in a rough and tough manner. And this, I mean, the US must talk tough, diplomacy aside.
For Hun Sen’s proponents and for those who are unfamiliar with the gruesome nature of the 30th March 1997 attacks, they would like to think that Hun Sen has been unfairly and wrongly accused of for political gains. Well, the unfinished FBI investigations had unmasked undeniably evidences of Mr. Hun Sen’s complicity. The unprecedented and strange deployment of Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit around and in the vicinity of the protest site is suspicious in nature, if not in motive. And after the people tried to chase the attackers they were stopped and threatened with guns by Hun Sen‘s bodyguards, while the attackers were let through and disappeared into the fortressed compound of Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit. This was enough of the proof that Hun Sen was a mastermind of those fateful and deadly attacks.
The gruesome nature of the attacks demand serious attention and thorough investigations. The spirits of the victims of those attacks must not be forgotten and must be allowed to rest in peace. Perpetrators and the masterminds of those attacks must be unmasked, punished and punished in the severest term possible.
The US FBI must re-start its investigations into those attacks. All its past findings must be released to the public. The victims have high hope on the FBI’s investigations. In fact, the FBI is the only hope to uncover the truth behind those attacks.
The US has been a good friend of the Khmer people and any attempt to whitewash Hun Sen’s crimes will only re-enforce the belief that the US has now chosen to abandon justice for the Khmer people over its good relations with the Hun Sen government. To choose this path would be a party to, and is an accomplice to, those crimes. //
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