ANALYSIS: Hun Xen's political ploy and Sourn Sereyratha a secret agent of Hun Xen?

By Pang Sokheoun
07-04-2011

If we remember on 27 April 2011, MP Sam Rainsy released a letter demanding Mr. Hun Xen to step down for his incompetence handling the ongoing border conflicts with Thailand. And then recently, this week on 4 May 2011 we see a person named Sourn Sereyratha who claims as president of People Power Movement appeared on ASTV of Yellow-Shirt of Thailand, the extremist group who provoke war and hate Khmers to their bone, appealing to Khmer people to topple Hoon Xen by asking help from Thailand and use Thailand as its base for this movement. More, one of the remarkable points that he made in his speech then is that he accused Cambodia under Hun Xen as warmonger, meaning Thailand is a victim and just acts in self-defense from Cambodian invasion as it always clams.

My question is why did Sourn Sereyratha use Yellow-shirt forum? And why is it this time?

Trying to figure out the issue, I may conclude it as the followings according to my understanding.

It is Hun Xen’s political ploy to destroy the Opposition (Sam Rainsy Party):

1. Sourn Sereyratha is known as an OPPORTUNIST when he was in Cambodia. He joint Students’ Movement for Democracy in 1998 and then was dismissed from the group for his misbehavior and dishonesty, esp, corruption. He never criticized Cambodian government when he was in Cambodia. But he starts this drum only when he got the political asylum in USA taking the chance Cambodian government cracking down on its critics (border activists) on the signing of the 2005 illegal supplemental treaty with Vietnam by claiming that he had the connection with those border activists. Suspiciously, there must be something behind.
2. Sourn Sereyratha was offered a position by Hun Xen’s cabinet . Whether it is true or not, it proves to be somehow correct with one case. If we know this man since he resides in USA is known for his sharp-tongue in criticizing Hun Xen, Khmer kings and all the leaders of Cambodia with no exception even the opposition leaders, but he is safe when he visited Cambodia at the end of 2010 and got engaged to a girl in Phnom Penh. Surprisingly, three Cambodians were arrested when they came back from Thailand to listen to his speech in Bangkok.
3. In Cambodia, when people hear the word ” Opposition” (neak prochhaing), they think it is Sam Rainsy Party (SRP). Hun Xen knows clearly that Cambodian people don’t like the Thai Yellow-Shirt or PAD, the alliance of Thai Democrats. Hun Sen also used to say publicly that SRP is close to the Democrats of Abhisit and he paints SRP as bad as PAD of Thailand. So it is not surprising at all that Hun Xen may use Sourn Sereyratha to join hand with PAD to discredit the SRP or neak prochhaing since it is so coincident and thought to be the right time to strike. Now it is clear that many pro-Hun Xen media run their story about this by combining Sourn Sereyrath’s demnad to topple Hun Xen government and Sam Rainsy’s appeal to Hun Xen’s step down. And the effective weapon is that those news just say pouk prochhaing or krom prochhaing without distinguishing who is who which can easily confuse the general public which leads to misunderstandings making them to think that SRP are not patriotic but traitorous and stop the support.

In fact, the use of Sourn Sereyratha has three political benefits to Hun Xen:

1. He acts as a divider and to feign the public in order to weaken the Opposition.
2. He can dig out many opponents against Hun Xen from all sources, infiltrate himself with other Khmer nationalists and send their names to Hun Xen for execution.
3. He can paint a very bad image of all the oppositions. He now lifts up his status too high asking for equal status negotiation with Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha in order to unite all the democrats. But what is this guy when he was in Cambodia? This makes some people think that Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha are not sincere in politics for not having the political will to unite with him.

People should know that Sourn Sereyratha is the opposition against the Opposition. And in his speech he speaks against Cambodian government, too, but in the hidden agenda as I mentioned above no one clearly knows about this. SO THINK ABOUT IT.