Re: The fate of Col. Gaddafi terrified all world dictators, including Hun Sen
How so after Peace Accord signed in Paris in 1991 an individual can stay in power for that long or cannot be defeated in an election? Is the Accord itself defected in design or the UN which supervised the application didn’t do the work properly? It should be the responsibility of all Khmers and all of the signatory countries if this situation continues to prevail! What is going on with the people of Cambodia to allows such a situation to happen?
How is the strength of the country's oppositions today? Are they able to organize? Are they too weak because they do not have a charismatic leader or one that is good enough to lead a unified front? That can also be explained by the fragmentation of the oppositions going from self-centered interest parties to those too extreme or too radical for the majority of Cambodians.
After three decades of wars, the country may not be ready for another one.
The memories of war are too fresh for many of us! Even recently there were many cases of families with lost and reunification under miracle circumstances. The Khmer Rouge court has yet to render justice and finger pointing to the main culprits of those responsible for the deaths of about two millions people, results of that war years, is still in the process.
One particular lesson learned from this darkest period of our history is that Cambodia is ravaged by a devastating war when a group of Khmer dissidents decided that a war was necessary to reach some ideal objective according to the group’s ideology: The Khmer Rouges during the ’60 decided that they needed a revolution to build their ideal country which ought to be a communist one. Many of them have even started their struggle a lot earlier while they were students in France. In early 1970, Gen. Lon Nol, with the help from the US, joined hand with the Son Ngoc Thanh movement to topple the then Prince Sihanouk because they decided that war was needed to get rid of the monarchy and to establish a republic, pro-Americans and the West in general and against the communist Viet Cong.
Now, it seems that some of Khmers have decided and actively promoted a new war to get rid of Hun sen, their “Gaddafi”! They are really urged for that because it seems that they really think that it is fully justifiable, regardless the fact that the wounds from the last thirty years wars are not healed yet. Regardless, they are ready to start another chapter of our history book, another chapter of uncertainties, unrest, sufferings, destruction, starvation, deaths or frighten life in refuge camps… Who know if that could be the last chapter of the book when we all know that vultures are waiting there to eat the carcass if that were to end up in ruin?
Our Khmer adage says: “Those who control their heart to reject anger deserve the greatest praise of all”.
How is the strength of the country's oppositions today? Are they able to organize? Are they too weak because they do not have a charismatic leader or one that is good enough to lead a unified front? That can also be explained by the fragmentation of the oppositions going from self-centered interest parties to those too extreme or too radical for the majority of Cambodians.
After three decades of wars, the country may not be ready for another one.
The memories of war are too fresh for many of us! Even recently there were many cases of families with lost and reunification under miracle circumstances. The Khmer Rouge court has yet to render justice and finger pointing to the main culprits of those responsible for the deaths of about two millions people, results of that war years, is still in the process.
One particular lesson learned from this darkest period of our history is that Cambodia is ravaged by a devastating war when a group of Khmer dissidents decided that a war was necessary to reach some ideal objective according to the group’s ideology: The Khmer Rouges during the ’60 decided that they needed a revolution to build their ideal country which ought to be a communist one. Many of them have even started their struggle a lot earlier while they were students in France. In early 1970, Gen. Lon Nol, with the help from the US, joined hand with the Son Ngoc Thanh movement to topple the then Prince Sihanouk because they decided that war was needed to get rid of the monarchy and to establish a republic, pro-Americans and the West in general and against the communist Viet Cong.
Now, it seems that some of Khmers have decided and actively promoted a new war to get rid of Hun sen, their “Gaddafi”! They are really urged for that because it seems that they really think that it is fully justifiable, regardless the fact that the wounds from the last thirty years wars are not healed yet. Regardless, they are ready to start another chapter of our history book, another chapter of uncertainties, unrest, sufferings, destruction, starvation, deaths or frighten life in refuge camps… Who know if that could be the last chapter of the book when we all know that vultures are waiting there to eat the carcass if that were to end up in ruin?
Our Khmer adage says: “Those who control their heart to reject anger deserve the greatest praise of all”.
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