By Khmer Young
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The end of 2011 has frightened Hun Sen mentally and physically. The middle east spring has toppled many dictators such as Tunisia’s Ben Ali (removed after 24 years in power), Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak (removed after 30 years in power), Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi (to be removed after 42 years in power), Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh (to be removed after 33 years in power) and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad (to be removed after 40 years of dictatorship including his father Hafez al-Assad’s 29-year reign). But our Cambodian Hun Sen is (32 years in power). Hun Sen can also recall to his neighbors such as Suharto of Indonesia and Marcos of the Philippines.
Recent speech at the bridge inaugural ceremony of Hun Sen on the comparing him to Col. Gaddafi is understood as 
a consoling lullaby for his personal nervous soul. The video clip of beating up and humiliating of Gaddafi is not acceptable for those who love human rights and human dignity but it has truly terrified dictators worldwide.
a consoling lullaby for his personal nervous soul. The video clip of beating up and humiliating of Gaddafi is not acceptable for those who love human rights and human dignity but it has truly terrified dictators worldwide.All dictators have been defined as:
- staying in power too long or forever
- transferring power to their own kin under the umbrella of family when they are in aging condition
- terrify their own objectives (citizens) not to stand up bargaining their power
- monopolize national wealth, state media, arm force and create the rule of law that can legitimize their power
All these few considering factors of dictatorship, how could Hun Sen can distinguish himself from Gaddafi?
Khmer Young
Khmer Young
4 comments:
Only time will tell, let Cambodian people decide. But I'll say that Hun Sen will not live to see his 90th birthday and will end his ruling by next election. Daryl of USA.
A breeze of Jasmine from the Middle East!
Now it seems that some of Khmers have decided and actively promoted a new war to get rid of their “Kaddafi”! It is also undeniable a breeze felt from the jasmine revolutions in the Middle East. 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. They argued that poverty is still there, corruptions are not eradicated, our economy is not as strong as of China and our society is not as good as in the West, etc. Regardless, they are ready to start another chapter of our history book, another chapter of uncertainties, unrests, sufferings, destructions, starvations, 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?
Do we learn anything from our History?
Please be patient and put aside individual interest and ambitions. A country can be more democratic and prosperous with peace and stability than with permanent war and revolutions. Look around us in the region and in the whole world. In prosperous Japan the LDP ruled almost continuously for more than fifty years from its founding in 1955. No one can say that the country is not a democracy. In Korea autocratic and military regime ruled the country most the half last century before it becomes prosperous and democratic nowadays. In Taiwan the KMT controlled the government under a single party state until reforms in the late 1970s through the 1990s loosened its grip on power. Now the country is a prosperous economy and democracy is strengthening.
Sure that we want a wealthy Cambodia with a democratic government as in France, or in Australia, Great Britain, Canada or the US! But should we know how long those countries took to get there? I do not believe that our country now is worst than in 1991 or in 2008 when it held the last election. It is facts that nowadays more and more countries around the world want to do business in Cambodia and we can be certain that business people do not want to lose their monies. Building a country is a work in progress and everyone should play by the rules which required a lot of wisdom and patience.
Our Khmer adage says: “Those who control their heart to reject anger deserve the greatest praise of all”.
vultures are waiting there to eat the carcass!
How after Peace Accord signed in Paris in early '90 an individual can stay in power for that long or cannot be defeated in an election? Is the Accord it-self 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 people of Cambodia that allows this to happen?
How is the strength of the oppositions to the regime today? Are they unable to organize? Are they too weak because they do not have a charismatic leader or one that 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.
One particular lesson learned from this darkest period of our history is that each time at start 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 general Lon Nol with the help from the US has joined hand with Son Ngoc Thanh movement to topple 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-Congs. Now it seems that some of Khmers have decided and actively promoted a new war to get rid of .their “Kaddafi”! 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, unrests, sufferings, destructions, starvations, 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”.
Good morning extremists. You're not helping but destroying my country's peace. Please just stay and work in your US factories. Thank you. As far as i've watched, there's only a bunch of jobless writers here working with imagination and their joyous dreaming thoughts. That does not seem normal to me writing in this blog, i accidentally got here when i searched for some news, but every article just itched me to write something... hahaha... better change your site address from Khmerization, it doesn't look alike a bit. Use selfization or something else, look fit. Sorry! No offense!! Goodbye extremist, have a nice imaginary day!!! say whatever you want, but don't use cheeky words, only girl would do. i don't wanna argue.
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