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Saturday 29 August 2009

Authority identified source of anti-Hun Sen leaflets


Source: Radio Free Asia
Reported in English by Khmerization

Phnom Penh Police Commissioner Gen. Touch Naroth said the authority has identified the source and a group of people who distributed hundreds of leaflets attacking Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) as a "puppet of Vietnam" and as of being too "corrupt".

Gen. Touch Naroth said the authority have not yet gathered enough evidence to charge those people. "Now we are still investigating the case, but I cannot tell you in details yet", he said.

On 19th August, hundreds of anti-Hun Sen leaflets have been seen scattered in Phnom Penh. The names of Pan Sovanney, Sreng Vuthy, Kim Sopheak, Chea Socheap and Chim Thoeun were listed on the top page of the leaflets.

On the leaflets, there is a picture of Prime Minister Hun Sen and a caption which reads "Mr. Hun Sen is a dictator of Cambodia who is a life-long slave of the Vietnamese". The leaflets also called on "all Khmers to rise up against the present regime".

Gen. Touch Naroth said the leaflets falsify the truth and are characteristic of the Khmer Rouge mentality. He said: "First, they talk about 7th January as the day of the Vietnamese invasion, but people recognised that they have survived the Pol Pot regime (because of this invasion) and the king has also signed a royal decree recognising that day. So when they falsify the truth it look like they are the Pol Potists. Second, they made accusations against the head of the government (Mr. Hun Sen), but all people acknowledged his leadership, that's why they voted for him. So, the people are tired of hearing such issues (accusations) and they don't even read them but collected them and handed to us. But we, as an authority, don't care what they think but we will investigate and search for those who committed this offence in order to create turmoil".

Local media reported that Kim Sopheak, one of those named on the leaflets who vehemently denied any involments, has sought refuge with the UNHCR Office in Phnom Penh, but a UNHCR official denied Kim Sopheak is hiding in the UNHCR Office.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This leaflet case is a set up by Mr. Hun Sen's camp to hunt down his opponents, either from the oppositions or dissidents from within his own CPP party.

If those five people named in the leaflets are really the ones who wrote the leaflets they wouldnt' be so stupid enough to put their names on the leaflets. It doesn't make sense!

And the withdrawal of troops from borders to their barracks are probably also linked to Mr. Hun Sen's paranoia. Probably he is so schizophrenic and paranoid that someone's is after him or after his jobs, that's why he ordered all his tanks and his bodyguard units to return back to barracks, meaning to his Tuol Krosaing Tiger Den in Takhmao.

Anonymous said...

What law exists that says you can't disagree with history?? Why can't we say that 7 January 1979 was the day that the Vietnamese took over PP. It certainly isn't the date of the invasion, as that happened in late 1978. Why can't we say that these dates began the next 15 years of war between the Vietnamese supported by their Khmer allies and the opposing factions, which included the royalists and the khmer rouge amongst others. This is historical fact. Why cannot some celebrate the end of the conflict (1991/1993) as the time when the Cambodia really emerged from war?

Are some people worried about possible questions about why the civil war lasted so long (diamonds, timber)? Or is it the case that, as always, history is written by the winners. The Nazis were tried for their crimes but not the allied commanders who obliterated german and japanese cities.

What is most disturbing is the weakness of the government. With all its money, power, guns and men willing to use them, they are still terrified of a man with an opinion and a desktop printer. More power to you all with a view and a form of media.

Anyone for youtube films of police corruption? All you need is a mobile phone and......

Anonymous said...

It is almost always synonymous that the more power they have garnered, the more paranoia they have become, ex. Pinochet of Chile; or it is a disinformation deployed by the man to further consolidate his grip and at the same time flush out any other oppositions due to his fig of imaginations. The man has to realize that at the very present moment the threat from the outside is much greater. The new game is changed a bit; it now involves more tangible and lucrative assets that could be much more explosive figuratively and literally, the oil and gas in the gulf. One has to keep in mind that outside adversary could be behind these leaflets not any local/internal dissidents to stir up the insecurity and break up the cohesion. Sometimes the worst enemy to a man is himself.