“If we still allow this company [Vietnamese land concession
holder CRCK] to continue its activities here, this company would clear more and
more deeply and they will finish all of Prey Lang. People told me that workers,
experts and managers were brought in from yuon country. They have established
yuon villages, allowing yuon to enter and live in Khmer land. This area has
become a yuon colony.”
CNRP
president Sam Rainsy, 12 December 2013
“This [investment] has interests for both sides. Vietnamese
companies that are investing in Cambodia also help to find work for thousands
of Cambodian labourers... Vietnamese firms have no ambitions to take Cambodian
territory and were legally investing in the Kingdom. We are not quite
interested in this twist [of the facts]. [We] don’t know why [the CNRP] twists
like this.”
Tran
Van Thong, spokesman at the Vietnamese embassy, 12 December 2013.
It seems no
one is lying, only twisting.
Of course,
the Vietnamese investments are legal and legalised, but the issue is their
primary intentions and unintended consequences.
Are they of
similar nature to the 7 January intervention that puts some Cambodians into
debt of eternal gratitude no amount of repayment will suffice? Is the twist of
facts mild enough to partially reflect the “unintended” consequences, or
intended all along, of these investments?
UBA
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