Dear PM Hun Sen,
“បើខ្ញុំមិនពឹងចិនទេ តើអោយខ្ញុំទៅពឹងនរណា? និយាយអោយពិត និយាយការពិត នៅទីនេះ បើខ្ញុំមិនពឹងចិនទេ តើអោយខ្ញុំទៅពឹងនរណា? ទុកអោយប្រជាជនកម្ពុជាឆ្លងទន្លេ ឆ្លងព្រែកដោយជិះទូកដរ ដោយឆ្លងស្ពានឫស្សី ឬឈើប្រកបដោយគ្រោះថ្នាក់ដោយគ្មានផ្លូវដើរ ឬយ៉ាងណា? … អញ្ចឹងសុំតាំងជាសំនួរថា បើសិនជាកុំមានជំនួយរបស់ចិន តើយើងខ្ញុំគួរទៅពឹងអ្នកណា? គេអាចឆ្លើយកើត ពិភពលោកនេះ ពិភពលោកនេះអាចឆ្លើយជាមួយនឹងកម្ពុជាបានដោយសំនួរនេះទេ?”
នាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រីហ៊ុនសែន ថ្ងៃទី ២០ ឧសភា ២០២១ វិទ្យុបារាំងអន្តរជាតិ
To your question: “If not China, whom do I rely on?”, a simple answer is none other than “yourself”. One of Buddha’s enduring wisdom is self-reliance.
You are right, with the Chinese-funded infrastructure development, it is no longer necessary to risk crossing rivers and streams on wobbly boats, or bamboo or wooden bridges. Average Cambodians do benefit from China’s concrete bridges and 3,000 km roads, but their gain is miniscule compared to what you have secured for yourself and sycophants.
Your extensive benefits are twofold: through your systematic corruption, the sycophants take their cuts in each step in the process from receiving borrowed funds to project completion; via the infrastructure, your sycophantic tycoons can move their goods and services around the country efficiently allowing them to accumulate more wealth. Indeed, a chunk of the buck must flow upwards onto your altar.
Your benefits are so massive that you have no shame in flaunting your wealth. You can afford, with a tiny legitimate salary, a collection of watches worth several millions of dollars, while others make do with a Casio. You move away from a timepiece that tells accurate time to the one with how many carats of gold and precious stones planted on it.
Thus, it is sad you imply without China you would be lost. It is a parasite mentality that inspires you to depend on foreigners and you have perfected it since your claimed success in inviting the Vietnamese 1979 invasion.
This parasite mentality has indeed served you so well. Would you care to know why? Why do you find it so easy to be a parasite growing off foreigners whose assistance, you insist, is free and unconditional?
No parasite host likes a parasite living off it, because it loses hard-earned nutrients the parasite sucks up. A calculating host, however, tolerates a parasite to hang about because only it can draw benefits from the parasite at least as much as, if not more than, it loses to it. You and Vietnam lie when you say Vietnam’s 1979 intervention is to save Cambodian lives. This lifesaving is just an unintended consequence of Hanoi’s goal of taking control over Indochina. How else would you explain why Vietnam also simultaneously invades and takes control of Laos where there are no mass killings? It is a blatant military mission to materialise Uncle Ho’s visionary plan for Indochina. You would curb the ever-increasing Vietnamese population in Cambodia if your parasite mentality were free and unconditional.
You and China lie when claiming China’s showers of yuans are free and unconditional. Like a hireling, you protect with gusto China’s interests anywhere. China controls Cambodian economy, resources, and land: tourism, mining, garment industry, Sihanoukville, Koh Kong, etc. Your regime would collapse if China one day decided Cambodia no longer has enough resources for exploitation. Just ask China about abandoning Pol Pot. While the yuans may be free to you, they form a debt yoke you have put onto Cambodia’s neck, which will last long after you.
Ung Bun Ang
28v21
Fake News You Can Use
Thai Makara’s satirical rhyming verse in Khmer, see below, is witty and brilliant. He writes, Sam Rainsy sells [raffles] his Casio watch to help the nation [proceeds going to the poor during Covid lockdown] while character-deficient Hun Sen sells the nation to buy watches [Patek Philippe, Richard Mille, etc]. Ouch.
Tep Monorom of a CNRP committee to raffle off Sam Rainsy’s used watch for a fiver reveals logistics for distributing the proceeds; it is as clear as mud. He says the distribution will be in secret if Hun Sen bans it. However, if Hun Sen bans it, it will be done in the open. Hence, if Hun Sen bans it, the distribution will be in secret as well in the open.
He gives Hun Sen, who worships “Thank You Peace”, no option other than either allowing the distribution or sending in his village chiefs to run the show. Tep Monorom says the distribution is non-partisan and he welcomes CPP village chiefs for the task if it is transparent. Nevertheless, He does not say how he will ensure or verify this transparency.
Speaking of transparency, one thing is not muddy: Sok Eysan of the CPP will be breathing down the CNRP’s neck over the raffle proceeds. He has asked questions about the fund of some few hundred thousand dollars the CNRP raised a few years ago for setting up its TV broadcasting station “Sun”. There has been no trace of either the station or the cash or the accountability. The transparency does not work here.
«សម រង្ស៊ី លក់នាឡិកា ជួយជាតិ, ហ៊ុនសែន ចោលម្សៀត លក់ជាតិ ទិញនាឡិកា។»
គណនីយហ្វេសប៊ុក ថៃ មករា ថ្ងៃទី ២០ ឧសភា ២០២១ វិទ្យុអាស៊ីសេរី
“ការចែកថវិកាជូននេះទៀត ក៏មិនរើសអើងគណបក្សនយោបាយអ្វីដែរ។ បើសិនជាមេភូមិ មកពីគណបក្សប្រជាជនកម្ពុជា ចង់យកថវិកានេះទៅចែកក៏គណៈកម្មការព្រមដែរតែត្រូវមានតម្លាភាពច្បាស់លាស់។… វិធីសាស្រ្តចែកថវិកាមនុសុ្សធម៌នេះ មានពីរប្រភេទ ទី១គឺចែកជាលក្ខណៈសម្ងាត់ ដើម្បីជៀសវាងអាជ្ញាធររបបលោក ហ៊ុន សែន ហាមឃាត់។ តែបើសិនជា ការចែកជាសម្ងាត់នេះ មិនបានទៀត គណៈកម្មការនឹងចែកដោយបើកចំហរ ដើម្បីបង្ហាញថា តើរបបឯកបក្សរិតត្បិតដូចម្ដេចខ្លះ។”
លោក ទេព មនោរម្យ គណៈកម្មាការរៀបចំជាវនាឡិការបស់លោកសមរង្ស៊ីថ្ងៃទី២៤ ខែឧសភា ២០២១ វិទ្យុអាស៊ីសេរី
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