Thaksin and his family with Mr. Hun Sen's family during his controversial visit to Cambodia on 10th November, 2009.Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Cheang Sokha
Phnom Penh Post
Government officials have offered a noncommittal response to the question of whether ousted former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be allowed to stage another of his controversial visits to the Kingdom during the current Thai election campaign, in which his sister is a leading candidate for prime minister.
Thaksin, who was deposed in a 2006 military coup and lives abroad to avoid a jail term for graft, was appointed economics adviser to the Cambodian government in 2009. The appointment, along with Thaksin’s high-profile visits to the Kingdom in the months that followed, provoked the ire of his bitter rivals in the current Thai government of Abhisit Vejjajiva, which repeatedly requested his extradition to no avail.
Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said yesterday Thaksin had yet to ask to return to Cambodia for the campaign.
“Up until now, we haven’t received any request from Thaksin,” he said, declining to comment on how the government would respond to such a request. Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said he had “no information about Thaksin” and also could not comment.
During mass anti-government protests in Thailand last year that eventually turned violent and resulted in the deaths of more than 90 people, Hun Sen reportedly told officials from the Abhisit administration that Thaksin would not be allowed to visit Cambodia. Koy Kuong added at the time, however, that Thaksin remained Hun Sen’s “eternal friend”.
In a statement on Friday following the premier’s weekly cabinet meeting, the Council of Ministers said Hun Sen had “once again announced that he will not allow any foreigner or foreign political organisation to use Cambodia as a base to attack or overthrow the government of any foreign country”, though no specific individuals or countries were mentioned.
Thaksin announced his resignation from his government advisory post last year, prompting Cambodia and Thailand to return ambassadors that had been withdrawn in the row over his 2009 appointment.
Even while living abroad, Thaksin remains the most polarising figure in Thailand’s colour-coded politics, vehemently opposed by the conservative Yellow Shirts and lionised by the populist Red Shirts.
The opposition Puea Thai Party, aligned with the Red Shirts, has even tapped his younger sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, as its prime ministerial candidate.
Thailand’s elections will be held on July 3.
Cheang Sokha
Phnom Penh Post
Government officials have offered a noncommittal response to the question of whether ousted former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be allowed to stage another of his controversial visits to the Kingdom during the current Thai election campaign, in which his sister is a leading candidate for prime minister.
Thaksin, who was deposed in a 2006 military coup and lives abroad to avoid a jail term for graft, was appointed economics adviser to the Cambodian government in 2009. The appointment, along with Thaksin’s high-profile visits to the Kingdom in the months that followed, provoked the ire of his bitter rivals in the current Thai government of Abhisit Vejjajiva, which repeatedly requested his extradition to no avail.
Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said yesterday Thaksin had yet to ask to return to Cambodia for the campaign.
“Up until now, we haven’t received any request from Thaksin,” he said, declining to comment on how the government would respond to such a request. Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said he had “no information about Thaksin” and also could not comment.
During mass anti-government protests in Thailand last year that eventually turned violent and resulted in the deaths of more than 90 people, Hun Sen reportedly told officials from the Abhisit administration that Thaksin would not be allowed to visit Cambodia. Koy Kuong added at the time, however, that Thaksin remained Hun Sen’s “eternal friend”.
In a statement on Friday following the premier’s weekly cabinet meeting, the Council of Ministers said Hun Sen had “once again announced that he will not allow any foreigner or foreign political organisation to use Cambodia as a base to attack or overthrow the government of any foreign country”, though no specific individuals or countries were mentioned.
Thaksin announced his resignation from his government advisory post last year, prompting Cambodia and Thailand to return ambassadors that had been withdrawn in the row over his 2009 appointment.
Even while living abroad, Thaksin remains the most polarising figure in Thailand’s colour-coded politics, vehemently opposed by the conservative Yellow Shirts and lionised by the populist Red Shirts.
The opposition Puea Thai Party, aligned with the Red Shirts, has even tapped his younger sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, as its prime ministerial candidate.
Thailand’s elections will be held on July 3.
2 comments:
Boy, don't we[Cambodian] look pathetic?, look at our leaders and their family members, they look so happy and very proud to have a Thai fugitive and his family posting with.
How stupid are we[Cambodian]?
We[Khmer], often had regime changed in the past, and our leaders often in exile to another country, most often is Thailand, I never recalled any of the Thais government or leaders ever posting photograph very happily with us, in fact they are more likely put all of us the refugee camp.
All Khmer people were stupid and we continue to be stupid, we just never learned to be smarter people, we are incapable of learning.
Hun Sen has been always using someone else outside Cambodia as his guide just like he has used the Communist Hanoi masters as his guides or as administrators (including CPP Yuon official thieves). That was why Cambodia has been misled in the wrong directions and the lands and natural resources of Cambodia have been destroyed and sold to other foreigners illegally without sharing Cambodian people. Also, money and food and medical assistance from International donors have been stolen and shipped to Evil Communist Vietnam.
Hun Sen was originally from a peasant family without proper education and has had no experiences to lead and build Cambodian's future. All he got for himself and his Yuon wife and family is money and power- just like he acts as Pi Anh. Actually he joined and served as the Khmer Rouges army. He was shot right in one of his eye and then fled to Vietnam. Later he returned with his Yuon wife and Communist Vietcong/Yuon red armies to invade Cambodia easily along with Hen Samrin, Chea Sim, Pen Sovan and other Khmer Rouges cadres.
Hun Sen is the most stupid leader as Khmer people could imagine. He has been blind to led Communist Viet masters and CPP Yuon official thieves to take for grant and over take everything from Srok Khmer to Srok Yuon/Vietgook. He was a very slow learner, not knowing how to develop Cambodian in the modern day. He did not provide assistance or build schools or universities for young Khmer people to learn and gain high education. But he only give a chance to his evil son Hun Manet to study in the U.S., but very ugly and selfish, very stupid. It has been more 30 years to see Cambodia slowly developed or undeveloped like Thailand. It was a lot of time to have this idiot was illegally installed by the Communist Vietnamese masters (crooks and killers called Angkar Leur/Cap Tren) as a dumb Prime Minister of Cambodia.
This idiot Hun Sen and his Yuon family have to get out and live in Hanoi where his Communist masters love him.
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