A Change of Guard

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Friday 13 November 2009

Cambodia should look West and East at the same time


CAMBODIA SHOULD LOOK WEST AND EAST AT THE SAME TIME

IN THE DEFENSE OF HER TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY

The CPP-dominated National Assembly is planning to suspend my parliamentary immunity on Monday, November 16. There will be a special parliamentary session with the lifting of my immunity being the only topic on the agenda.

I expected this move by the Hun Sen government. It proves how subservient the Cambodian authorities are to the Vietnamese government. On November 4, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung “proposed that the Cambodian government take due measures to deal with [Sam] Rainsy's acts of sabotage and not permit similar cases to occur, as they negatively affect the fine relations between the two nations.” See official statement from Hanoi at http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/news/041109/domestic_vs.htm

On October 25, as an elected representative of the Cambodian people, I had only expressed my support for, and solidarity with, Cambodian farmers who are victims of land grabbing along the Vietnamese border in Svay Rieng province. See the context of my intervention context and evidence at http://tinyurl.com/ykblbpr

The attempt to silence me by lifting my parliamentary immunity also shows that the current Phnom Penh government totally ignores King Father Norodom Sihanouk's concern about Cambodian farmers losing their rice fields because of border encroachments by the Vietnamese authorities as I elaborated in my November 7 letter to the Retired King. See related documents at http://tinyurl.com/yzcxqyq and at http://tinyurl.com/yec3hw5

Vietnam's Prime Minister apparently blew out of proportion my symbolic gesture to morally come to help Cambodian farmers who are victims of local injustices involving Vietnamese authorities. But this incident could also show that I embarrassed Vietnam by shedding light on a much bigger issue with strategic implications and much higher stakes than one may first consider.

The recent appointment of fugitive Thai national Thaksin Shinawatra as an adviser to the Cambodian government in order to exacerbate tensions between Cambodia and Thailand may be just a ploy to divert the public attention from much more serious problems concerning Cambodia’s territorial integrity, which appears to be more vulnerable on our country’s eastern border than on the western border with Thailand because of Vietnam’s more subtle expansionist policies and Hun Sen’s subservient attitude towards Hanoi.

Sam Rainsy

Member of Parliament

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

WHEN IS THE FUCKING KHMER START NOT TO TRUST THE LEECH!!!!!!!!!!! THEY HAVE TAKEN KHMER KROM DURING MY LIFE TIME, THIS IS NOT 500 YEARS AGO OK. FUCK, FUCK........

Anonymous said...

WELCOME Thaksin!!!!!! WE LOVE YOU LIKE OUR BROTHERS. WE DON'T TURN OUR BACK TO OUR FRIENDS.WE KNOW YOU SELL YOUR BILLION DOLLARS BUSINESS TO FOREIGNER THAT IS WHY THIS PARTY TAKE OVER YOU. BUT YOUR INTENTIONS WERE NEVER TO ABANDONE KHMER OR THAI BEACUSE YOU SEE A BIGGER PICTURES IN OUR REGIONS. CHILDEST Abhisit AND HIS PARTY AND SUPPORTERS ARE STILL LIVEING IN THE PAST BY SEPARATE AND DISTINGUISHED US APART FROM THE TRUTH AND HARMONY. THIS IS THE 21 CENTURY, YOU CAN NOT SURVIVE WHEN YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE POOR. BUT OF COURSE YOU ONLY BEHAVE LIKE THIS BECAUSE YOU THINK WE ARE STUPID AND BE ABLE TO BULLY US AND KEEP US POOR SO OF THAT YOU CAN MANIPULATE AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF US TO STEAL OUR LANDS AND CULTURES. THIS IS WHY YOU BEHAVE AND OVERREACT LIKE THIS!!!YOU THAI ARE NOT LEECHES(YUON) NO MATTER IF YOU WANT IT TO BE.YOU NEVER A GOOD LIAR. I HOPE ALL YOUR NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS WILL KEEP CONFLICTING WITH US LIKE THIS FOREVER. AND PULL YOU BACK TO OUR KHMER ROUGE MENTALLY(CALL ROUGE THAI)) AND START WEARING OUR SHOES.PLEASE,YOU ARE NOT LEECHES, YOU ARE NOT LEECHES.....

Anonymous said...

WE KNOW WHAT YOU TRYING TO DO YOU LEECHES... YOU JUST WANT TO INFLAME AND CREATE UNREST US WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU SIDED WITH Abhisit AND DIVERT OUR ATTENTION AWAY FROM YOUR TRCKERIES..