By 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 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.
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.
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