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Thursday 23 October 2014

CNRP Activist [Soung Sophorn] Offers to Fight Against Islamic State


Soung Sophorn speaks to the media.
BY  | OCTOBER 22, 2014
A former lawmaker candidate from the opposition CNRP announced Tuesday that he is now leading a platoon of amateur soldiers and will next week ask the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh to deploy the group in the war against the Islamic State group.
The U.S. has for four months been waging an aerial campaign against the terrorist group, which is also known as ISIS and has taken control of large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq.
Soung Sophorn, 28, a longtime opposition youth leader who stood as the CNRP’s lawmaker candidate in Pailin province in last year’s national election, said he is now at the head of a group of 50 youth who wish to join the war in the Middle East.
“We are Cambodian youth and we want to show our will and concern on international issues,” he said.
“The reason we want to join with the U.S. to fight against the jihadist ISIS is because the extremist jihad group will start World War III and destroy people’s health by creating an Ebola biological weapon.”
The amateur soldiers will deliver a petition to the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday asking to join the fight, Mr. Sophorn said. The next day they will deliver a letter to the U.N. in support of global action against I.S.

On Thursday, they will notify the Cambodian government of their plan to fight alongside the U.S., which has, in fact, not committed any ground troops to fight I.S.
Mr. Sophorn said he hoped the U.S. would accept his team’s offer so that he could later use his experience in the Middle East to wage war against Vietnam, which he accuses of taking Cambodian land.
“I’m not racist against the Vietnamese but the Vietnamese are violating Cambodian land at Koh Tral,” Mr. Sophorn said, using the Khmer language term for the Vietnamese island of Phu Quoc.
“We want to show that we will fight back against those extremist Vietnamese,” he said.
One of Mr. Sophorn’s amateur soldiers, Hang Sisovat, 32, said he was under the impression the U.N. was involved in the fight against I.S. and was glad to help out.
“I’ve never been trained in military exercises but I want to show the heart of the Khmer youth and our will to fight ISIS,” Mr. Sisovat said.
“The U.N. used to help Cambodia in 1993 so the Khmer have to help the U.N. fight against ISIS.”
Defense Ministry spokesman General Chhum Socheat declined to comment on the activists’ plans and said only that the government supported the fight against terrorist groups.
“I won’t comment on the youth, but the government’s stance is against international terrorism,” he said.
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Cambodian youth offer to join US to fight against ISIS 


PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- A group of 50 Cambodian youth have sought intervention to join the U.S to fight against jihadist ISIS in Iraq. 

As scheduled the group will rally outside the US embassy on October 28 in order to deliver petition to the US President Barack Obama, asking to join the US to fight against the ISIS jihadist. 

On October 29 they will rally in front of the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a day later they will present petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen, to inform Cambodian government over their wishes to join the US to fight the ISIS. 

"On 28th, 29th and 30th October, a group of 50 youth will deliver petitions to the US embassy, UN Office of High Commissioner as well as the office of Prime Minister Hun Sen to over the offer to fight against jihad group in Iraq," the group leader Suong Sophorn told CEN, an affiliate of The Cambodia Herald. 

He said the objective of the petition to President Barack Obama through US embassy is to ask the US to accept us to join US military to fight the ISIS, and the petition to the UN Office of High Commissioner is to ask it to cooperate with US embassy to examine the activity and participation as well as the information of Cambodian youth in fighting the jihadist, while the petition to Hun Sen is to send message to the premier to have good cooperation with the US embassy and UN office in Cambodia. 

"Though the premier doesn't cooperate, we still go because we have requested," Sophorn said. 

Phay Siphan, spokesman for the Office of Council of Ministers, said that it is their rights, but in Constitution of Cambodia, we will not allow to interference into internal affairs of other countries. 

Cooperation of Cambodia with international community reflected the spirit of Constitution, he said, adding that we join only cooperation to protect peace, but Cambodia will not join to fight others. 

Cambodia joins to fight terrorism at its place, but we will not join war or fight against other countries.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Soung Sophorn,

I support your cause. You will be remembered if you die fighting the ISIS.
If you fight the VN your coward and stupid government will condemn and give you a coffin, besides you will not have any good weapon to fight.

Anonymous said...

Smart idea but dumb move. Can't even stand up for your right fighting in cambodia, how can you want to fight isis? Are you and your youth support to fight for your right, your land, your parents and your children first before you taking on a fight for someone else.

Another dumb move, you're now invite ISIS to cambodia.