Mrs Bun Rany and Mr. Hun Sen.
“A culture of a wife running her husband’s affairs must be stopped, especially if the husband’s affairs are the state affairs……So, my advice to Mrs Bun Rany is: to please butt out and stay away from your husband’s affairs and the affairs of the state.”
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Editorial by Khmerization:- In the turbulent politics of Cambodia, wives of past leaders have been condemned for meddling in the affairs of the state. But the ones who held the tightest rein and the most powerful of all is none other than the wife of our current PM, Mrs Bun Rany. She had shown times and again how tremendously powerful she is. She had instigated many changes behind the scenes. Her orders for the bans of three songs show that Mrs. Bun Rany was acting as if she was the prime minister and that Mr. Hun Sen was only her yes man.
To know how powerful she is, just consider this: A few weeks ago she asked her husband, Prime Minister Hun Sen, to ban three songs deemed immoral by her. All TV and Radio stations must not defy the ban or they will be severely punished. All TV and Radio stations, as well as her PM husband, obliged submissively.
This is not the first time she meddled in the affairs of the state or that of her husband's. Insiders' information, who knew the Hun Sen's household and the government cabinet well, that have been circulated within the CPP circle around the CPP establishment, revealed that she holds the rein of the ministers. This has proven that she is the boss.
The Cambodian has a saying that: “If the husband is a major, then the wife is a colonel” (បី្ដស័ក្កិបួនប្រពន្ធស័ក្កិប្រាំ)- meaning that the wife is more powerful than the husband and is wielding the power behind the scenes. This is the case with Mrs. Bun Rany. In a full functional democracy, the duty of the wife of a PM or a President is ceremonial and she will never meddle or will never be allowed to meddle in the affairs of her husband and that of the state. Mrs Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States, and Mrs. Janet Howard, wife of Australian Prime Minister John Howard, had always stayed in the backgrounds and performed their charity works magnificently.
Mrs Bun Rany seemed to wrongly think that, as a PM’s wife, she is the PM herself and that her power is limitless. Her meddling in the affairs of her husband, and to a degree, the affairs of the state, are born out of her ignorance or a disregard for the democratic process. By using a power that she has no mandate to wield, she has shown no regard for the constitution and treated the parliament with contempt. And, in a stroke of a pen, her words and that of her husband’s, become “laws”.
Mrs. Bun Rany has been known for some times to be wielding tremendous power behind the scenes, but this is the first time that it has come out in the open.
Mrs Bun Rany’s notoriety came to public attention during the infamous Pisith Pilika Affair. The actress Pisith Pilika was a mistress of her husband. During the affairs with the actress Mr. Hun Sen provided the actress with good remunerations of $200,000 deposited in her bank accounts and a brand new Landcruiser 4-wheel drive. When the affair was brought to her attention, the $200,000 and the Landcruiser was confiscated by Mrs. Bun Rany and the actress was ordered assassinated by her, using her husband’s bodyguards to do the job. Her husband, PM Hun Sen, was dumbfounded.
A culture of a wife running her husband’s affairs must be stopped, especially if the husband’s affairs are the state affairs. Cambodia had become what it is today, a backward country, due partly as a result of generations of wives running the affairs of her husbands who happened to be the leaders of the country. The country has an elected parliament to enact the legislations. The PM has his advisors, ministers and minders to guide and advise him on state affairs. The un-elected wives must back off and stay in the backgrounds, performing only charity works. So, my advice to Mrs Bun Rany is: to please butt out and stay away from your husband’s affairs and the affairs of the state.//
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The Cambodian has a saying that: “If the husband is a major, then the wife is a colonel” (បី្ដស័ក្កិបួនប្រពន្ធស័ក្កិប្រាំ)- meaning that the wife is more powerful than the husband and is wielding the power behind the scenes. This is the case with Mrs. Bun Rany. In a full functional democracy, the duty of the wife of a PM or a President is ceremonial and she will never meddle or will never be allowed to meddle in the affairs of her husband and that of the state. Mrs Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States, and Mrs. Janet Howard, wife of Australian Prime Minister John Howard, had always stayed in the backgrounds and performed their charity works magnificently.
Mrs Bun Rany seemed to wrongly think that, as a PM’s wife, she is the PM herself and that her power is limitless. Her meddling in the affairs of her husband, and to a degree, the affairs of the state, are born out of her ignorance or a disregard for the democratic process. By using a power that she has no mandate to wield, she has shown no regard for the constitution and treated the parliament with contempt. And, in a stroke of a pen, her words and that of her husband’s, become “laws”.
Mrs. Bun Rany has been known for some times to be wielding tremendous power behind the scenes, but this is the first time that it has come out in the open.
Mrs Bun Rany’s notoriety came to public attention during the infamous Pisith Pilika Affair. The actress Pisith Pilika was a mistress of her husband. During the affairs with the actress Mr. Hun Sen provided the actress with good remunerations of $200,000 deposited in her bank accounts and a brand new Landcruiser 4-wheel drive. When the affair was brought to her attention, the $200,000 and the Landcruiser was confiscated by Mrs. Bun Rany and the actress was ordered assassinated by her, using her husband’s bodyguards to do the job. Her husband, PM Hun Sen, was dumbfounded.
A culture of a wife running her husband’s affairs must be stopped, especially if the husband’s affairs are the state affairs. Cambodia had become what it is today, a backward country, due partly as a result of generations of wives running the affairs of her husbands who happened to be the leaders of the country. The country has an elected parliament to enact the legislations. The PM has his advisors, ministers and minders to guide and advise him on state affairs. The un-elected wives must back off and stay in the backgrounds, performing only charity works. So, my advice to Mrs Bun Rany is: to please butt out and stay away from your husband’s affairs and the affairs of the state.//
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2 comments:
The KI-Media article is just an April Fool joke. Pls. look at the end of the article, the name of the "so-called" reporter is Mesa Phool (Mesa=April and Phool=Fool).
I thought you may want to know and make the necessary change to this article.
The article has been changed. Thanks for the info. This is the first time I've been fooled on April Fools Day, hehehe.....
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