By Pang Sokheoun
07-04-2011
If we remember on 27 April 2011, MP Sam Rainsy released a letter demanding Mr. Hun Xen to step down for his incompetence handling the ongoing border conflicts with Thailand. And then recently, this week on 4 May 2011 we see a person named Sourn Sereyratha who claims as president of People Power Movement appeared on ASTV of Yellow-Shirt of Thailand, the extremist group who provoke war and hate Khmers to their bone, appealing to Khmer people to topple Hoon Xen by asking help from Thailand and use Thailand as its base for this movement. More, one of the remarkable points that he made in his speech then is that he accused Cambodia under Hun Xen as warmonger, meaning Thailand is a victim and just acts in self-defense from Cambodian invasion as it always clams.
My question is why did Sourn Sereyratha use Yellow-shirt forum? And why is it this time?
Trying to figure out the issue, I may conclude it as the followings according to my understanding.
It is Hun Xen’s political ploy to destroy the Opposition (Sam Rainsy Party):
07-04-2011
If we remember on 27 April 2011, MP Sam Rainsy released a letter demanding Mr. Hun Xen to step down for his incompetence handling the ongoing border conflicts with Thailand. And then recently, this week on 4 May 2011 we see a person named Sourn Sereyratha who claims as president of People Power Movement appeared on ASTV of Yellow-Shirt of Thailand, the extremist group who provoke war and hate Khmers to their bone, appealing to Khmer people to topple Hoon Xen by asking help from Thailand and use Thailand as its base for this movement. More, one of the remarkable points that he made in his speech then is that he accused Cambodia under Hun Xen as warmonger, meaning Thailand is a victim and just acts in self-defense from Cambodian invasion as it always clams.
My question is why did Sourn Sereyratha use Yellow-shirt forum? And why is it this time?
Trying to figure out the issue, I may conclude it as the followings according to my understanding.
It is Hun Xen’s political ploy to destroy the Opposition (Sam Rainsy Party):
- Sourn Sereyratha is known as an OPPORTUNIST when he was in Cambodia. He joint Students’ Movement for Democracy in 1998 and then was dismissed from the group for his misbehavior and dishonesty, esp, corruption. He never criticized Cambodian government when he was in Cambodia. But he starts this drum only when he got the political asylum in USA taking the chance Cambodian government cracking down on its critics (border activists) on the signing of the 2005 illegal supplemental treaty with Vietnam by claiming that he had the connection with those border activists. Suspiciously, there must be something behind.
- Sourn Sereyratha was offered a position by Hun Xen’s cabinet . Whether it is true or not, it proves to be somehow correct with one case. If we know this man since he resides in USA is known for his sharp-tongue in criticizing Hun Xen, Khmer kings and all the leaders of Cambodia with no exception even the opposition leaders, but he is safe when he visited Cambodia at the end of 2010 and got engaged to a girl in Phnom Penh. Surprisingly, three Cambodians were arrested when they came back from Thailand to listen to his speech in Bangkok.
- In Cambodia, when people hear the word ” Opposition” (neak prochhaing), they think it is Sam Rainsy Party (SRP). Hun Xen knows clearly that Cambodian people don’t like the Thai Yellow-Shirt or PAD, the alliance of Thai Democrats. Hun Sen also used to say publicly that SRP is close to the Democrats of Abhisit and he paints SRP as bad as PAD of Thailand. So it is not surprising at all that Hun Xen may use Sourn Sereyratha to join hand with PAD to discredit the SRP or neak prochhaing since it is so coincident and thought to be the right time to strike. Now it is clear that many pro-Hun Xen media run their story about this by combining Sourn Sereyrath’s demnad to topple Hun Xen government and Sam Rainsy’s appeal to Hun Xen’s step down. And the effective weapon is that those news just say pouk prochhaing or krom prochhaing without distinguishing who is who which can easily confuse the general public which leads to misunderstandings making them to think that SRP are not patriotic but traitorous and stop the support.
In fact, the use of Sourn Sereyratha has three political benefits to Hun Xen:
- He acts as a divider and to feign the public in order to weaken the Opposition.
- He can dig out many opponents against Hun Xen from all sources, infiltrate himself with other Khmer nationalists and send their names to Hun Xen for execution.
- He can paint a very bad image of all the oppositions. He now lifts up his status too high asking for equal status negotiation with Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha in order to unite all the democrats. But what is this guy when he was in Cambodia? This makes some people think that Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha are not sincere in politics for not having the political will to unite with him.
People should know that Sourn Sereyratha is the opposition against the Opposition. And in his speech he speaks against Cambodian government, too, but in the hidden agenda as I mentioned above no one clearly knows about this. SO THINK ABOUT IT.
6 comments:
That is why I have seen many KI bloggers and readers accused Mr. San Rainsy and SRP members involved with Thai Yellow shirted party. That was not true. This guy was politically involved to confuse the Cambodian voters and he is also paid by CPP Yuon members or Hun Sen to play political games. He is similar to Kem Sokha who got paid to divide the SRP. Now, Kem Sokha is not coming to Washington state to give the speech, but he will be in Texas instead. Kem Sokha will be the same as Sourn Sereyratha who gave speech to Yellow PAD in Thailand to confuse to mislead SRP members or voters along and CPP supporters or HRP supporters.
I would Whao, Khmer people watch out those scum Sourn Sereyratha and Kem Sokha to try to divide SRP party, mislead the SRP supporters, HRP and CPP voters are victimized by CPP.
Again, Khmer people, please watch those scandals Kem Sokha and Sourn Sereyratha. Please don't be fooled by these two idiots.
Khmer Yeurng
question to the author.
If this guy is an agent of Hun Sen, why did the Thai yellow shirts allow him to use their platform if it doesn't serve their agenda?
It is very sad to conclude with certainty that Cambodia has moved back to the old times when it comes to dealing with her aggressive and ambitious neighbours who are watching for every opportunity to interfere in her own affairs for their benefits.
Any Cambodian who wants to hold a political power and becomes a leader of the country should ask himself/herself if he/she wants that position to improve the livelihood of the majority of Cambodians who are still very poor by the international standard/average or if he/she is doing it for his/her own livelihood, prosperity and power.
It is indeed unthinkable that an individual by the name of Sourn Serey Ratha has stooped to anything simply to achieve a personal gain.
So what exactly does Mr. Sourn wants to do?
Assuming that Thailand wants to share the rewards of Cambodia with Vietnam and decides to sponsor Mr.Sourn with money and everything he needs to recruit a new army to fight with the current Cambodian army in the name of liberating the country from all the evils of communism or whatever he wants to call the regime of Phnom Penh by, we will be back at square one of starting a new civil war where one side depends on the Vietnamese and the other obviously on the Thais.
With this situation in place and let us assume that, though it may be a wrong assumption, but it is certainly a possibility, Mr. Hun Sen does indeed want to free himself off the Vietnamese bondage; we can see that he will be pushed right back and deeper into the hands of the waiting Vietnamese.
There are so many individuals in the CPP who want Mr. Hun Sen's chair and are willing to serve Vietnam's interests if Mr. Hun Sen does not want to do it anymore.
Though Mr. Hun Sen may want to free Cambodia from Vietnam, he won't do it as he loves himself more than Cambodia and he is afraid of being replaced by someone in the CPP who is willing to serve Vietnam if he does not want to do it anymore.
There are many individuals who had come to live in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia in the 1980s; they went back to Cambodia and are now holding high positions in the Hun Sen's government.
Have they applied what they saw and learned when they were in the developed countries in their daily work to help Cambodia as a country or are they simply returning for the sake of having the opportunity to enrich themselves and have become as corrupt as or even worse than those officers of the CPP?
The only way for Cambodia to get out of Vietnamese influence and become independent and prosperous is Cambodians being willing to stop fighting among themselves, refusing to serve foreign interests in order to enrich themselves and truly working for Cambodia by turning away from corruption, cronyism, nepotism and selfishness.
I certainly feel sorry for Cambodia as I do not see her being able to get herself out of the mess she is in unless her children, one by one, begin to realize that for her to survive, they must stop wanting to enrich themselves at her expense.
Anet Khmer
It is very sad to conclude with certainty that Cambodia has moved back to the old times when it comes to dealing with her aggressive and ambitious neighbours who are watching for every opportunity to interfere in her own affairs for their benefits.
Any Cambodian who wants to hold a political power and becomes a leader of the country should ask himself/herself if he/she wants that position to improve the livelihood of the majority of Cambodians who are still very poor by the international standard/average or if he/she is doing it for his/her own livelihood, prosperity and power.
It is indeed unthinkable that an individual by the name of Sourn Serey Ratha has stooped to anything simply to achieve a personal gain.
So what exactly does Mr. Sourn want to do?
Assuming that Thailand wants to share the rewards of Cambodia with Vietnam and decides to sponsor Mr.Sourn with money and everything he needs to recruit a new army to fight with the current Cambodian army in the name of liberating the country from all the evils of communism or whatever he wants to call the regime of Phnom Penh by, we will be back at square one of starting a new civil war where one side depends on the Vietnamese and the other obviously on the Thais.
With this situation in place and let us assume that, though it may be a wrong assumption, but it is certainly a possibility, Mr. Hun Sen does indeed want to free himself off the Vietnamese bondage; we can see that he will be pushed right back and deeper into the hands of the waiting Vietnamese.
There are so many individuals in the CPP who want Mr. Hun Sen's chair and are willing to serve Vietnam's interests if Mr. Hun Sen does not want to do it anymore.
Though Mr. Hun Sen may want to free Cambodia from Vietnam, he won't do it as he loves himself more than Cambodia and he is afraid of being replaced by someone in the CPP who is willing to serve Vietnam if he does not want to do it anymore.
There are many individuals who had come to live in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia in the 1980s; they went back to Cambodia and are now holding high positions in the Hun Sen's government.
Have they applied what they saw and learned when they were in the developed countries in their daily work to help Cambodia as a country or are they simply returning for the sake of having the opportunity to enrich themselves and have become as corrupt as or even worse than those officers of the CPP?
The only way for Cambodia to get out of Vietnamese influence and become independent and prosperous is Cambodians being willing to stop fighting among themselves, refusing to serve foreign interests in order to enrich themselves and truly working for Cambodia by turning away from corruption, cronyism, nepotism and selfishness.
I certainly feel sorry for Cambodia as I do not see her being able to get herself out of the mess she is in unless her children, one by one, begin to realize that for her to survive, they must stop wanting to enrich themselves at her expense.
Anet Khmer
If Thailand is willing to help Mr. Sourn raise the army and provide the shelters inside Thailand for his forces and yet wants, in return, Preah Vihear and many other border temples currently in contest when Mr. Sourn becomes the Prime Minister of Cambodia, what do you think Mr. Sourn decides to do?
There will never be a free meal from either Thailand or Vietnam!
Anet Khmer
sourn and samrainsy are all the same stupid because of personal hatred they want the foreigner to burn down Cambodia again they not 100% khmer blood
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