Nhiek Bun Chhay Said To Be Discarded by Hun Sen in Next Government for Bad Record

05 Apr 08

"Today's Comment"

Samleng Yuveakchon Khmer

Translated from Khmer by Anonymous

Courtesy of http://ki-media.blogspot.com

The FUNCINPEC [National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, and Peaceful Cambodia] Party of Nhiek Bun Chhay (pictured) and Keo Put Reaksmei is breaking up and, at the last moment that these phony politicians are grasping for their last breath, they still engage in mutual fighting that in Cambodian society is described as the poor men's fight to the grave. This is the nature of the opportunist politicians who smell the stink of death because of their betrayal in the coup de parti that they stupidly waged at the instigation of an outsider to overthrow their own leader and benefactor.

Nhiek Bun Chhay, Keo Put Reaksmei, Sisowath Sirirat, and Lu Lay Sreng said that allowing Serei Kosal, Ok Socheat, and Kim Vien to join their FUNCINPEC Party might somehow benefit their populist policy to fool the people. In the end, however, this decision is not different from using these adventurer-cum-politicians to burn their party. In such a snafu, Nhiek Bun Chhay should not blame Kev Put Reaksmei in order to show that it is not his fault; and Kev Put Reaksmei, too, should not feel sorry or disappointed because of the seething internal dispute that is plaguing the party, for all of this is an unavoidable retribution because of the coup-de-party and betrayal against Prince Norodom Ranariddh.

Just as Hun Sen told Nhiek Bun Chhay and Keo Put Reaksmei, the Cambodian People's Party [CPP] does not want them to join the next government if they could not help themselves and try only to cling to other people to get high positions and gains. Keo Put Reaksmei, Arunrasmy, Nhiek Bun Chhay, and their followers need not worry and do not have to go around lying to the Cambodian voters, for even Neou Sovatthero, who kept repeating like a parrot that the in-depth 18 October 2006 reform made the FUNCINPEC Party stronger, could not help but deserting Nhiek Bun Chhay's FUNCINPEC Party and defecting to Hun Sen's CPP.

After the 27 July 2008 election if Hun Sen's CPP wins again, which will be a cowardly victory achieved when the people's spirit is weakened, Nhiek Bun Chhay and Keo Put Reaksmei should not dream of getting from Hun Sen even the posts of state secretaries, let alone having the posts of deputy prime ministers, senior ministers, or ministers that they used to get from Prince Norodom Ranariddh. The best that could be expected is that Hun Sen would give scraps of positions such as state undersecretaries to Nhiek Bun Chhay and Keo Put Reaksmei because this is proportionate to the personal values and knowledge level of Nhiek Bun Chhay and to the behaviors of these people who did not hesitate to betray their own leader for the sake of a position as someone else's bootlickers.

To put it more bluntly, Nhiek Bun Chhay should learn to control his feelings right now so that he would not be too surprised or too hurt when Hun Sen accepts a fragment of the FUNCINPEC Party after the elections. When this happens, it is not the group of Nhiek Bun Chhay but that of Keo Put Reaksmei that will be chosen. At that time, allow us to warn that Nhiek Bun Chhay and Serei Kosal should not blurt out that Keo Put Reaksmei betrays the resistance fighters because the term resistance fighters uttered from the mouths of Nhiek Bun Chhay and Serei Kosal just belies the real resistance fighters, and Hun Sen does not know the meaning of resistance fighters, who were led by the King Father and later on by Prince Norodom Ranariddh in the fight to drive the Vietnamese aggressor troops out of the country.

Besides, Nhiek Bun Chhay and Serei Kosal should never dream that Hun Sen wants to hear the phrase "real FUNCINPEC resistance fighters" who are not the fighters of the current FUNCINPEC Party of Nhiek Bun Chhay. Hun Sen's desire to let go of Nhiek Bun Chhay and abandon him to his fate has many reasons, including the fact that normally the reputation of the Prime Minister's party is already not very good but it could get worse when there is rumor that he is leading Cambodia into confusion and involvement with the narcotic crime, the trafficking in person, and so on. This is because Nhiek Bun Chhay has a bad record. He used to have a close relationship with a Chinese named Chea Chung, who later on was found to be a drug lord together with the late Um Chhay, former adviser to Heng Samrin, concerning the several tons of narcotics in Treng Troyeung, Kampong Speu province. With all of this, do you think that Hun Sen wants Nhiek Bun Chhay near him? Like it or not, even if you do not like thinking or are not good at thinking, you would not mistake that Hun Sen now has no need for Nhiek Bun Chhay. This is reminiscent of the time when this CPP vice president duped the group of Tun Chay, Duong Khem, Ung Phan, Toek Ngoy, and so on before kicking them away. And since Nhiek Bun Chhay used to have an adviser who became a major drug criminal in Kampong Speu, Nhiek Bun Chhay's chance of winning Hun Sen's favor and joining the next government is very slim.

Nhiek Bun Chhay, Keo Puth Reaksmei, Sisowath Sirirath, and Lu Laysreng were of course well aware of all these facts, but they could do nothing because they were fooled. Once they understood that they were duped into toppling Prince Norodom Ranariddh, they tried hard to beg the prince to return and lead the FUNCINPEC Party again. But the prince did not want to save these corrupt opportunists. He wanted to listen to the people and to help the people. When Nhiek Bun Chhay, Keo Puth Reaksmei, Sisowath Sirirat, and Lu Laysreng went out of their way to beg Prince Norodom Ranariddh to help lead and save the FUNCINPEC Party like in the past, their main concern was to keep the FUNCINPEC Party from dying in their hands, which would earn them condemnation by the people. Besides, they thought that if the prince could help to revive the FUNCINPEC Party, they would have a chance to implore the prince for posts and perks. It is because of this issue that Prince Norodom Ranariddh refused to come to the rescue of the Nhiek Bun Chhay-Keo Puth Reaksmei FUNCINPEC Party. Now these gentlemen are quarrelling over the last shred of assets left behind by the FUNCINPEC Party on its death bed.