It’s Time to
Walk Off the Plank
Join others to break the Hun
Sen’s lemming and walk off the plank. Over three million voters have.
Congratulations to those who
have signed a petition calling for investigations by Australian authorities into
illicit activities in Australia by Hun Sen’s minions who use Australia as their
safe heaven. Their assumption that they are above the law in Australia – just
like they are in Cambodia – must be put to test. You can ensure they take the
test by sharing the petition among your peers and encouraging them to sign it.
A reasonable support for the petition will move the Australian authorities to investigate
and prosecute any criminals. It is possible then to have their travel visas to
Australia banned, and their ill-gotten assets frozen. Here is the petition
link.
Another way of walking off the
plank is to boycott the forthcoming elections. Boycotting is not illegal. Lawyer
Choung Chu Ngi concludes, after examining relevant laws, that there is no legal
obligation whatsoever to vote. Hun Sen is also very clear about this when he
confirms in Sydney in March Cambodia has no compulsory voting system like
Australia. Thus, you are free to vote or not to vote.
Furthermore, the lawyer says there
is no law stipulating that appealing – or inciting as Hun Sen prefers to hyperbolise
it – someone not to vote is illegal; it is because not voting is not unlawful. He
gives an example to illustrate the point. As loving someone is not illegal, leading
someone to fall in love is not unlawful. Hence, you are free to appeal or lead
others not to vote.
If Hun Sen managed – without rigging
the elections numbers – to achieve a turnout rate that is anywhere near the average
of all election turnouts of 76.6% since 1993, he would never lift his foot off
your throat. A source in Hun Sen’s inner circle claims that there could be no
more elections of any kind after 2018. Cambodia is becoming a colony under a
shared patronage of China and Vietnam. Just look at a sample development in
Sihanoukville and border provinces with Vietnam. There is little, if any, effort
to counter the progress in those areas to mitigate a national destruction. Hun
Sen is paying off heavy debts to the two patrons.
Your boycott will starve Hun Sen
of legitimacy oxygen he desperately needs. A massive boycott would disable his
corrupt rule. The bigger the boycott the bigger the risk will be for him.
The worst measure Hun Sen could
take in response is to prosecute and persecute the boycotters. If a popular
backlash is a huge revolt, even his loyal dirty-dozen generals and Chinese guns
will not stop it. His son Many’s world record scarf of over 1,000 metres long
may come in handy, but may not be long enough, to wipe all his and the minions’
tears and rear ends.
You may have a hundred reasons
to be apprehensive, but join the boycott anyway and let Hun Sen fall off the
cliff.
Ung Bun Ang
24vii18
Fake News You Can Trust
Khieu Sopheak is right the
people are not scared of the troop movements that have been flexing their
muscles around the country. It is Hun Sen who is anxious while going through a
nightmare of being haunted by the CNRP ghost.
It is nerve-wrecking for Hun Sen
because based on recent elections outcomes he is no longer certain that 100% of his troops will not turn their guns towards him and his top commanders. After
all, 50% of voters have shown they have enough with him, and he himself has
just removed three of his once-trusted generals from gun-related top jobs. He
conjures up an imminent showdown with the CNRP ghost. Stay tuned.
“None of the people are scare. It is typical for the
nation’s police forces to train… It is also typical for that opposition party
to make excuses and accusations.”
Interior Ministry spokesman
Khieu Sopheak, 18 July 2018, The Phnom Penh Post
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