Hun Sen might say he doesn't need the $80 million aid from the United States, but this is only the first step of many punitive measures that the United States might take against Hun Sen. If Hun Sen is smart enough, before things get worse with the United States, he should agree to negotiate with the opposition on an equal footing to settle the political impasse once and for all. The United States started with small punitive measures with Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi and ended with devastating consequences when those dictators chose to tackle America head on.
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Bad analogy. Too bad Saddam and Gaddafi did not have the support of friend like Vietnam. With Vietnam support, no country, not even the US, would dare to touch Hun Sen. Example, the Funcinpec was created by the US and China in Singapore to replace the CPP, but it was dismantled by Hun Sen's army in 97. Did the US or China come to their rescue? No. The opposition better accept Hun Sen's suggestion of joining the government, otherwise, it too will get dismantle within hours, as Hun Sen put it succinctly. Should that ever come to past, the opposition will learn, just as the Funcinpec learned in 97, their western buddies will not come to save them.
Saddam was once the darling of the U.S during the Iranian-Iraqi war from 1979 to the late 1980s. Gaddafi was already on good term with Britain and was about to mend the broken relations with America, yet they both died a painful death.
Don't think that Vietnam is god. Vietnam is facing territorial loss to China and that's why it turned to America. America will help Vietnam, not because America likes Vietnam, but because America wants to contain the spread of Chinese influence in Southeast Asia and as well as around the world.
If Hun Sen uses force to crush the opposition, you are right that no country will come to save them immediately, but Hun Sen could be dragged to the ICC like many dictators around the world are facing or waiting to face trial at the ICC right now.
It’s almost hilarious to hear the supporters of the opposition talked about bringing Hun Sen to ICC. Name the dictators that got brought to ICC? All of them are losers. Hun Sen is a winner. Did the world drag Hun Sen or any of the CPP officials to the ICC after the Funcinpec got dismantled? No. Hun Sen is too powerful, and he got powerful friends like Vietnam and China to protect him. Even the US is providing military aid and training to Hun Sen’s army. Nobody can touch him. Period.
To poster @20 January 2014 7:03 pm
You are really a Yuon/Vietnamese whore. LOL
You are not thinking straight, but think backward like a Yuon/Vietnamese communist whore who knows nothing.
Dear Khmer people and leaders,
Please write the letters to the UN and International Communities to ask to put pressure on Communist Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and leaders in Hanoi, Communist Vietnam because this Communist Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and leaders in Hanoi, Communist Vietnam have influenced criminal Cambodian leader Hun Sen (a form Khmer Vietminh) and because they have done a lot of damages to Cambodian images by getting involved with their Vietnamese puppet Hun Sen, providing military assistance and Vietnamese/Yuon agents or bodyguards and setting up the deadly games in Cambodia so that Cambodian/Khmer people have been living in fears and being afraid of Hun Sen's crackdowns on them. Many Khmer/Cambodian people are so scared because Hun Sen's Vietnamese bodyguards illegally shot and killed innocent Cambodian people just like violence happened in Veng Sreng of Phnom Penh, Cambodia on January 2-3, 2014. Khmer protesters have done nothing wrong just because they have just asked for a living wages so that they can support their family. Hun Sen's government have done anything to provide the food assistance program for the poor or starving people.
I will do my part to help out. Thank you for helping and taking care of each other as Khmer unity.
Khmer living in the U.S.
i would like to know why khmers keep hoping that the UN or the USA will step in... remember those people just stood and watched and did nothing to help us during the genocide period... then they turned around and supported the khmer rouge along the borders when the viets invaded cambodia...even GOD only helps people who help themselves first... get the drift..
It is about time for the U.S. government to put pressure on the Hun Sen Government.
For the opposition parties, it doesn't mean any thing, whether or not they are jointing the Hun Sen government. In the past, every demand, big or small, that put in place by the oppositions, has been rejected by the CPP control parliament. Hun Sen did not give The opposition any incentive to joint the government. If Hun Sen dismantle the oppositions within parliament, the opposition will not loss anything, because they can't do any nothing anyway in the house of parliament.
However, opposition can accomplished more for not jointing the corrupted CPP control parliament. As far as I'm concern and despite many have been killed, wounded, and arrested, the oppositions are successfully got their messages heard and able to ignite the population. The up rising would not happened, if the oppositions lock themselves up in the CPP control parliament. Hun Sen himself knows this arrangement so well and that is the reason he so furious. He feel he loosing his grip.
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