Since
its inception in July of 2012, the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the
largest unified opposition party in the country has gained exponentially
support from Khmer people inside the country and around the globe. The
CNRP is getting recognition from the international community and
Professor Surya Subedi, the Special Rapporteur by the United Nations for
Cambodia, and along with the United States government have vouched for
free and fair election, for the purpose of allowing His Excellency
President Sam Rainsy to have “unconditionally” and “fully participation”
in politics upon his return ahead of elections.
The
CNRP is working from the grassroots levels - deploying their civil
servants to comb through cities, towns, and secluded villages, to
conduct meetings - disseminate information and educate the people about
the important of their basic fundamental rights - liberty, dignity of
individuals, and the consent of the governed. The CNRP have been
receiving outpoured of complaints from the people about their daily
struggles. The people have raised their concerned, and their choice for
the candidate to be their next Prime Minster was crystal clear. They
would not vote for a candidate who was only good at doing lip services.
The people would choose a leader, who is not only based with endless
creative ideas and/or solutions to combat these current myriad social
and political
issues, but a leader, who would uphold his promises in guaranteeing and
prioritizing their constitutional rights and ensuring for better future
for younger generations to come.
The
CNRP had anticipated the labyrinth of paths to wade through and a high
mountain to climb for, and recently, they had encountered with threats,
attempted by thugs and terrorists. Chheang Vun, the alpha male of the
hyena pack from the CPP, shooed MP Son Chhay out of the National
Assembly building, for instance. But the CNRP were undeterred. They
are the “Justice League of Cambodia.” The CNRP are comprised of
people who are honest, thoughtful, civic-minded individuals, and with
the can-do attitudes. They are committed to democratic principles and
respected the rule of law. The CNRP’s motto is “United We Win.” And
this has been amplifying and uplifting their spirits of solidarity and
unity, “Doing what we love is freedom. And
loving what we do is happiness.” Their political campaign platforms
were optimistic and promising. The overstuffed pinata (corruption) or
the “Cambodia’s Family Trees,” the Global Witness had named it, has long
been nationally and internationally abhorred and criticized as the
cancer that has been gnawing at and chipping away the good core moral
fabric of our Khmer society. If the CNRP won this upcoming election,
their administration would first take a complete X-ray of this pinata.
The
CNRP promises to do what the government should have been sworn to do
for its own people: (1) to rescue, serve, protect, and defend of Khmer
territorial integrity and sovereignty; (2) promote economic growth -
create jobs, improve the living and working conditions, and increase
wages; enlist the able body individuals into career and employment
training and move them into work force; improve infrastructures; invest
in green technologies; provide incentives for farm workers and merchants
with guarantee of low interest rates and tax breaks; ensure the country
with friendly and conducive environment for international investments;
(3) foster and nurture Tro Paing Snorng Rousey - improve education
system and promote mathematics and sciences; better salaries and
benefits for teachers; scholarships
for students; gives equal opportunity for youth to get involved in the
government and politics; and protect environment; and (4) establish
government safety nets and services - provide health care services and
coverages for children, women, poor, olds, and the sicks. The CNRP also
promises to certify people with the legitimate land titles. But the
ultimate duty and responsibility of the CNRP is to cherish ambitions and
shower the people with the overdue of generations of aching desire and
empire dreams of “freedom.” The freedom that the people can choose to
exercise their constitutional rights without fear of being scrutinize by
the government. The freedom that would allow the people to explore
their possibilities and abundant of opportunity in life. The freedom
that the people would like to live their lives to the fullest and feel
of being “Khmerness,” “Khmer spirit,” and “Cambodia pride.”
Retrospectively,
each of the past elections, Hun Sen had promised to do many wonderful
things for the people. But after he had clawed his way to get
re-elected, Hun Sen smashed, “Kom-tech,” the hopes and dreams of the
people. For more than 20 years, Hun Sen had become ancestral greed and
aggressive selfishness. He closely controls every aspect of political,
judicial, and social life. Hun Sen, his family, and his handful elite
circles had generated much of their wealth via the seizure of public
assets, particularly natural resources. Hun Sen’s policies,
“A-Phi-Voat,” have been serving for the privilege few, and while the
people were living in the squatter and rubbish dumps, scraping for a
living. He cheated and lied to the people.
He locked the people in the trenches and threw away the key. Not only
he has done relatively little to improve the lives of the people, Hun
Sen had turned his blind eye and refused to acknowledge the fact that
his regime is thoroughly corrupted and had not acted in the best
interests of the people. Furthermore, the policies of his had forced
the innocent people to panhandling and be maid in the foreign
countries. The tragic news ensued. Some of those people were getting
abused, raped, and even murdered. Some of those people had gotten their
limbs chopped off and were thrown into the streets to beg. And some of
other people were completely vanished and no one had ever heard from
any of them again. The people knelt and crawled in the streets,
agonizing appealed and supplicated Hun Sen for his mercy. But in
return, Hun Sen rewarded those defenseless innocent people with the
deployment of his paramilitary
police to threaten their livelihood - pumped in the water to flood the
towns, bulldozed, and burned down their homes, instead. The people
filed petitions, held peaceful protests, and had demanded for their
voices to be heard, but they were smashed with batons and blasted with
water pressure. A sense of desolation, impoverishment, embitterment,
and helplessness anger had volcanically boiling inside them. Their
lives have become darken and relentlessness fate. They cried their
hearts out. Their accumulated tears could have filled the Srah Srong
pond of Angkor Wat Temple. They shouted and screamed, as loud as the
sky could hardly defy the echo of their sea of anguish and were
impending cracked open. And nonetheless, the CPP, neither they were
born with abnormal talents, nor had they have any good brain cells left
in their craniums to acknowledge the suffering of the people. And now
once again, barefacedly,
Hun Sen is pleading with the people. He had recently imposed on the
people to swear before him to help get him re-elected. And even more
absurdly, his sycophants have been doing everything they possibly could,
including refusing to sell gasoline for the CNRP supporters, allowing
the influx of illegal Vietnamese to the country and issued them with
temporary identification cards to vote, and spending the money that they
had looted from the state to “rent-a-crowds” for a $5 a day retainer, to help them do election campaigning. Traitors! Trov Tae P’do!
July 28, 2013,
will be the golden sunshine of opportunity for each and every Khmer
citizen to make our dream reality - to free ourselves from this vastness
rubbish dumps. The Kanapak Sangkrous Jeat will be leading us the way
to make it happen for all of us. But first and foremost, Khmer living
in Cambodia must do your part, VOTE for CNRP, #7! Your voice is your
vote and your vote is the key to end the indelible of this incalculable
misery and wretchedness. Leading by His Excellency President Sam Rainsy, the Justice League of Cambodia is here to “Right the Wrong.” His
Excellency President Sam Rainsy is the man with impeccable
credentials - higher education, and experiences with domestic and
international economics and politics. His Excellency President Sam
Rainsy is the man with integrity, honest and trustworthy, refreshing,
acuteness, visions and abundance with creative ideas, resourceful, a
kitchen-table public servant, and fearless. His Excellency President
Sam Rainsy would not shy away from rolling up his sleeves and get down
in the trenches with the people. His
Excellency President Sam Rainsy puts the needs and comfort of the
people first. He would never wish to put the lives of the people in
harm’s way. If he had to do it all over again, wading through layers of
dangers, attempted by the CPP, to pull out those border poles that were
surreptitiously means and illegally planted by the Vietnamese on our
Khmer land, he would not
hesitate in any second to do it again! His Excellency President Sam
Rainsy is our Khmer Hero! He is wearing T-Shirt that has a logo designer of a glory Rising Sun in the horizon and with #7 that would represent, “Khmer is looking forward to the glory days” ahead of us! His Excellency President Sam Rainsy is here to hand
us with the key #7. Number 7 is the magic key to free ourselves and
open up the window of opportunity for our lives. Take bees for example,
sacrifice their lives, relentlessly and viciously to defense their
honeycomb from predators. On July 28, 2013,
each and every Khmer citizen should vehemently swarm the ballot box and
vote for CNRP, #7 to defend of our nation from the traitors and
invaders. The day after July 28, 2013,
we will all wake up in the morning, leaving this horrible and haunting
memories behind us, and instead, welcome and enjoy the new day with a
glory sunshine. Trov Tae P’do! Bravo, Kanapak Sangkrous Jeat!
All Khmer One Khmer
Justin C. Sok
*I
would personally like to appeal to all our Khmer friends living abroad,
please call your relatives and friends in Cambodia and remind them to
vote for CNRP on July 28, 2013.
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