In
the third episode of this ongoing series, Cambodia National Rescue
Party whip Son Chhay shares insights into post-election negotiations.
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Very nice guy, very intelligent and very patriotic. Son Chhay may not remember me posting this respond when I first met him in 2005, him drove his Lexus 450 LX to pick me and my father in law at the entrance of Angkor Wat. We went to his house all their was talking about was the forest being trimmed down everyday. He almost set tear when we were talking about the little girl try to sell us a book. He turn to me and said in Khmer, how can help turn Cambodian around so this little girl can go to school instead of selling a book on the street.
Today I think his ambition is completed. He won the election his party can go turn the country around.
I didn't realize he spoke very good English, he never spoke English to me, only in Khmer. I had a hard time respond to him in Khmer and every body in house was laughing at me.
The best response to the question about the CNRP planing or orchestrating any mass protest or demonstration would be to simply tell the truth, which is that even if the party is 'planning' this protest as a last resort, in the end and ultimately it simply cannot coerce all these thousands of people onto the streets without their consent or willing enthusiasm; or paying them to do so as it simply does not possess the amount of finance or resources required unlike its opposite number: the ruling party.
That is the main difference between a democratic mass protest and one engineered by the CPP regime - the latter uses the age old methods of bribery/patronage and intimidation [carrot and stick] to meet its ends.
Democrats can only ask and appeal to the people to do something: they cannot resort to the deployment of tanks and APCs to enforce their own party's will, particularly, against unarmed and peaceful protestors! That would be an anathema to every genuine democrat!
3 comments:
Very nice guy, very intelligent and very patriotic. Son Chhay may not remember me posting this respond when I first met him in 2005, him drove his Lexus 450 LX to pick me and my father in law at the entrance of Angkor Wat. We went to his house all their was talking about was the forest being trimmed down everyday. He almost set tear when we were talking about the little girl try to sell us a book. He turn to me and said in Khmer, how can help turn Cambodian around so this little girl can go to school instead of selling a book on the street.
Today I think his ambition is completed. He won the election his party can go turn the country around.
I didn't realize he spoke very good English, he never spoke English to me, only in Khmer. I had a hard time respond to him in Khmer and every body in house was laughing at me.
The best response to the question about the CNRP planing or orchestrating any mass protest or demonstration would be to simply tell the truth, which is that even if the party is 'planning' this protest as a last resort, in the end and ultimately it simply cannot coerce all these thousands of people onto the streets without their consent or willing enthusiasm; or paying them to do so as it simply does not possess the amount of finance or resources required unlike its opposite number: the ruling party.
That is the main difference between a democratic mass protest and one engineered by the CPP regime - the latter uses the age old methods of bribery/patronage and intimidation [carrot and stick] to meet its ends.
Democrats can only ask and appeal to the people to do something: they cannot resort to the deployment of tanks and APCs to enforce their own party's will, particularly, against unarmed and peaceful protestors! That would be an anathema to every genuine democrat!
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