Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy yesterday called on residents in the northeast provinces to defend their land lest the area be turned into a Vietnamese “colony”.
Rainsy’s comments were quickly condemned by both the Cambodian and Vietnamese governments.
Speaking to hundreds of people in Mondulkiri and Ratanakkiri provinces yesterday as part of a wide-ranging tour to meet supporters, Rainsy said the government has granted thousands of hectares of land to private companies that are Khmer in name only and really belong to Vietnam.
In rhetoric that is now familiar, the opposition leader warned that the companies will allow floods of Vietnamese people into the region, effectively colonising the land.
“This is not immigration. Immigration is different from colonialism. An immigrant is a foreigner who enters each country to find an occasion to live for himself. But a colonist is not a normal immigrant, a colonist does not go back. A colonist serves a political plan to take the neighbouring territory,” Rainsy said.
He added that the Vietnamese can then vote to secede from Cambodia and become part of Vietnam. He also urged people to defend their forests, fields and farms, but did not specify the means.
Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said Rainsy misunderstood the nature of investment. Cambodia does not discriminate against any country that wants to invest in the country, he said, and moreover, Cambodia will not be controlled by another country.
“We do not let our country be a slave of any country,” he said. “Excellency Sam Rainsy’s language is just an allegation for political popularity,” Siphan said.
Tran Van Thong, a Vietnamese Embassy spokesman in Phnom Penh, said Rainsy’s accusation is groundless.
“Vietnamese companies that invest in Cambodia have respected Cambodian law, international law and Vietnamese law. So for his accusation, I don’t know about his idea. Vietnam does not have this idea, [Vietnam] has the idea of friendship and cooperation,” he said.
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Khmer people specially young generation Khmer need to wake up all together to protect our mother land .This Yuon trick to colonize and swallow our country , exist for century ago .It is real , just a fucking shit yuon brain but speak Khmer CPP and their affiliates only who try to refuse to accept this enemies trick . Young Khmer generation , Please stand up to salvage our country. you need to do revolt ,kick all of this traitors yuon slaves dog like Hun Sen and Phay Siphan And all CPP affiliate out of our land as soon as possible . Thank you . God Buddha will help our Khmer nation .
a fucking shit CPP yuon puppet who commit to facilitate this process of absorbing our mother land only who turn his blind eye and refuse accept this critic . Don't be fool by This Khmer traitor name Hun Sen and Phay Siphan
I agree totally with CNRP's president Sam Raingsy by saying that vietnamese are colonizing the north eastern part of Cambodia via land concessions. Thousands hundreds hectares of Cambodia's lands along its eastern border have been conceded for 99 years to vietnamese companies. This concession duration is very very long. They[vietnamese] are bringing vietnamese workers as well as their families. In the future not too long, they will be in majority in this part of Cambodia; then they will ask annexation of these lands to vietnam as did pro-russian ukrainians in Crimea and the eastern part of Ukraine. After discussing with friends, I can affirm that immense majority of cambodian people agree with H.E. Sam Raingsy, except hun sen and affiliates.
I would like to call every cambodian citizen, to use every possible mean to prevent at all cost the colonization of our country by vietnam. We have to cancel all the concessions given to vietnamese companies.
The comments made by the CNRP president Sam Raingsy is right. Thousands hundreds hectares of lands along the Cambodia's eastern border conceded to vietnamese companies by Hun sen government can be lost to vietnam. Why? Because the concession last 99 years which is very very long. The vietnamese companies bring the vietnamese workers and their families to work in these lands. And when they[vietnamese] outnumber cambodian people in these lands, they[vietnamese] ask the annexation of these lands to vietnam, as do the pro-russian ukrainians in Crimea and east Ukraine. We must learn the lesson from the past. In the 17th century, our king Chey Chetha II who married a vietnamese wife, allowed vietnamese people to settle in Kampuchea Krom (prey Nokor especially). When they[vietnamese] outnumbered cambodian people, they asked the annexation of Kampuchea Krom to vietnam. Now Kampuchea Krom is part of vietnam.
I would like to demand all cambodian people to oppose the hun sen policy of conceding lands to vienamese companies; to use every possible means to prevent that. We have to protect at all cost the lands bequeathed by our ancestors. In this task, we cannot count on hun sen.
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