A poem by Chea Vichea: "American policy in Cambodia and Overseas Khmers".
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The search for Khmer unity of Khmer Overeas has been done continuously and it has not worked.
Khmer overseas are broken into small particles and getting smaller. Financial and human resource is the main problems. There are more than 3,000 Non-for- profit organizations working inside Cambodia and many of them organized and financed by overseas Cambodian. Numerous political parties have been formed and more of such will be created.
Unless and until Khmer overseas united to do the most important thing together first, I don’t expect that we can do anything much to impact Cambodia.
Hun Sen and the CPP and their teams have all the financial support, human resource, and strong network to charge forward. Many overseas Khmers now have switched side to work with the CPP. It’s sad.
We can stop counting on the U.S.A and other nations to challenge the Cambodian authority because they are working with the Cambodian government for the sake of “Cambodia’s stability”.
What we (Khmer Overeas) have done up to this point is not working. A change is needed. Some have said that the CPP is not strong, but the oppositions are weak, divided and also corrupted.
What do you propose because the present unity of Khmer overseas did not work? Are you proposing that we stop the unity? Change, yes, but what change ? What is the way to do it?
Unity is an ongoing process even if it doesn't work, we must do it differently. To stop unity means division and division will lead to weakness.
At this moment, there is no other alternatives to the SRP. The SRP is not perfect, but it is better than the CPP. Kem Sokha's party is small and new, but it is ineffective compared to the SRP.
The CPP is without a question strong because it uses the national resources like money, positions within the government and army, police and court to strengthen its powers. This is why the oppositions need to unite.
The purpose of Khmer overseas unity is not necessarily to topple the Hun Sen and his CPP party. However; It would be damn great if this Khmer overseas unity had some sort of effect on Hun Sen government. Mainly, the unity is about all Khmer anywhere in the world and Khmer in Srok Khmer to unite as one to fight for common the cause. That cause is to see Cambodia become a democraticaly free and independence nation without foreign influence, to economically grow and prosper, and to be strong and able to defend itself from traditional enemies.
Freedom of expression and freedom of information in Cambodia is a joke. The mass populations are kept deaf, blind, and mute about the government incompetency. Khmer overseas have such freeedoms and can do research and dig into the sources to obtain such information that are being kept secret by the Cambodian government. Khmer in Srok Khmer and Khmer overseas should work together in exchange of knowledges. If knowledge is power, then to obtain knowledge to expose Hun Sen incompetence government should be the reason for the common cause. That's should be the power all Khmer can have.
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The search for Khmer unity of Khmer Overeas has been done continuously and it has not worked.
Khmer overseas are broken into small particles and getting smaller. Financial and human resource is the main problems. There are more than 3,000 Non-for- profit organizations working inside Cambodia and many of them organized and financed by overseas Cambodian. Numerous political parties have been formed and more of such will be created.
Unless and until Khmer overseas united to do the most important thing together first, I don’t expect that we can do anything much to impact Cambodia.
Hun Sen and the CPP and their teams have all the financial support, human resource, and strong network to charge forward. Many overseas Khmers now have switched side to work with the CPP. It’s sad.
We can stop counting on the U.S.A and other nations to challenge the Cambodian authority because they are working with the Cambodian government for the sake of “Cambodia’s stability”.
What we (Khmer Overeas) have done up to this point is not working. A change is needed. Some have said that the CPP is not strong, but the oppositions are weak, divided and also corrupted.
Timothy,
What do you propose because the present unity of Khmer overseas did not work? Are you proposing that we stop the unity? Change, yes, but what change ? What is the way to do it?
Unity is an ongoing process even if it doesn't work, we must do it differently. To stop unity means division and division will lead to weakness.
At this moment, there is no other alternatives to the SRP. The SRP is not perfect, but it is better than the CPP. Kem Sokha's party is small and new, but it is ineffective compared to the SRP.
The CPP is without a question strong because it uses the national resources like money, positions within the government and army, police and court to strengthen its powers. This is why the oppositions need to unite.
The purpose of Khmer overseas unity is not necessarily to topple the Hun Sen and his CPP party. However; It would be damn great if this Khmer overseas unity had some sort of effect on Hun Sen government. Mainly, the unity is about all Khmer anywhere in the world and Khmer in Srok Khmer to unite as one to fight for common the cause. That cause is to see Cambodia become a democraticaly free and independence nation without foreign influence, to economically grow and prosper, and to be strong and able to defend itself from traditional enemies.
Freedom of expression and freedom of information in Cambodia is a joke. The mass populations are kept deaf, blind, and mute about the government incompetency. Khmer overseas have such freeedoms and can do research and dig into the sources to obtain such information that are being kept secret by the Cambodian government. Khmer in Srok Khmer and Khmer overseas should work together in exchange of knowledges. If knowledge is power, then to obtain knowledge to expose Hun Sen incompetence government should be the reason for the common cause. That's should be the power all Khmer can have.
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