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[CPP's thugs armed with sticks blocked border activists to reach their goal, Facebook image] |
By Khmer Wathanakam
www.khmerwathanak.blogspot.com
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[Image Thy Sovantha Facebook] |
The border dispute saga with Vietnam turns into
humiliation for all Khmer when Hun Sen turns to his old tactics of using
his militias or armed thugs to disrupt and intimidate border activists
from visiting border post peacefully, only 100 activists were allowed to
reach border post 203 while the rest watched from a distance. This old
CPP's dirty tactics had been used in the past, intimidating and
disrupting all opposition's activities throughout the country during
election fraud protests. We believe that this kind of violent tactics
no longer being used by the CPP since the opposition agreed to join the
parliament and to create a culture of dialogue with the CPP in order to
avert all such violent confrontation. Now the CPP may run out of
patient or lose control when the opposition and the people demand
transparency on border demarcation with Vietnam, thus they return to
violent tactic again. So far, though Hun Sen accepts some errors in
demarcation, and pledges to borrow original map from UN and other
powerful countries-- the US, France, and Great Britain-- there is no
sign the government has taken any concrete step to tackle with such a
sensitive and critical issue for the nation yet. After three
day-meeting between the two border committee from the two countries,
they have announced a contradicted result: Cambodia claimed Hanoi had
made a big concession, agreeing to cease all activities on the white
zones and to fill up at least three of eight excavated ponds while
Vietnam repeatedly claimed that it has built roads, military outpost,
and ponds only in its controlled territories. In fact, Vietnam made no
any concession or correction on border dispute, instead it insisted that
it had adhered and respected a previous memorandum in 1995. Now over
80 per cent of delineation has been completed, and Hun Sen claimed that
he could relocate border posts if found incorrectly based on the
constitutional mandated map of 1964. So far, the government has not
received the original map yet; Vietnam did not budge to Cambodia's
demand, and thousands of Cambodian borders activists were disrupted and
not allowed to view border post, only 100 activists were allowed. So
the border issue with Vietnam more likely turned bleak, no sign of
conceded and compromised tone from Hanoi. How can Hun Sen's government
resolve border dispute with Vietnam more effectively when Hun Sen still
uses violent tactics to intimidate his own fellow Khmer border
activists? This is not a political but a national security issue that
the government must heed and protect all those border activists as if
Vietnam has done for its own border activists.
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[Armed
military personnel and CPP's ruffians stood ready to attack border
activists if they cross a set line, image the Cambodia Daily] |
It's
very appalling as a Khmer to see other Khmer armed with sticks backed
up by military personnel held up AK-47 ready to attack the fellow Khmer
border activists who just want to see and find out a fact how far
Vietnam has encroached into Khmer territories. In such a circumstance,
all Khmer should unite, stay together hand in hand, placing their
differences aside in order to show up strength and power to deter our
enemies. Instead Khmer still accuse one another of playing politics on
the border issue, then the enemies will look down on us and fear
nothing, for they just stood watching and laughing at us arguing and
threatening one another. The government should have a concrete plan
and clear strategy to resolve such an sensitive issue. The way the
government handles this situation just humiliates itself and the whole
nation. The government should accommodate and protect its own people
from violence that can break up between the two countries not to send
armed thug to threaten and attack its own people who peacefully walk to
see our own border demarcation. Hun Sen, when talking about a culture
of dialogue with CNRP recently, he emphasized that fighting and violence
is obsolete nowadays. But what we have seen now is no different from
the past. Nonetheless, such a tactic can't subdue heart and minds of
the people who have incensed with such unjust actions committed by
Vietnam and Hun Sen's regime, but it creates more anger and animosity
toward the CPP even stronger in the next election.
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[Khemr confront with Khmer not Vietnamese, Facebook image] |
Cambodian border guards should stand on the middle
line between Vietnamese and Cambodian activists, coordinating and
preventing any violence may break out as in the previous incident. But
instead, Cambodian military personnel stood with Ak-47 ready to shoot
their fellow Khmer if they dare to cross the forbidden line. They
regarded their own fellow Khmer as if enemies in the battle, indeed they
are the peaceful group of Buddhist monks, youths, farmers, and
opposition MPs who walked with empty hands only held flags to show their
national pride and patriotic spirits. Those CPP's ruffians armed with
sticks, threatened and yelled at the group of activists who begged them
not to beat up their fellow Khmer, for they came to find the truth and
to protect land for all Khmer including those Khmer thugs. One activist
yelled at those ruffians, " don't beat up our fellow Khmer, it's
nonsense; I don't live here, I'm from Phnom Penh want to see Border
encroachment from Vietnam. You (thugs) would regret in the future."
However, no one knew for sure where those plain clothe ruffians came
from; some confirmed that those thugs are not local people; they may be
mercenaries or plain clothe police. Although their identities were not
disclosed to journalists, frequently we used to see the government
deployed such the violent-prone thugs to disrupt and beat up the
opposition activists in the past such as on Freedom Park, Kampong Cham,
Kandal, Koh Kong, Anlong Veng and so forth during election fraud
protests in 2013.
If Hun Sen has a political will to
solve border issue with Vietnam accurately and fairly, he should not
handle this situation in a tense and fearful atmosphere. He should order
the border guards to stand protecting the fellow Khmer border
activists, cooperating and guiding them to reach a final goal in a
peaceful manner. Instead, Cambodian border guards held up their rifles
ready to shoot the group of peaceful activists with empty hands without
providing a clear instruction to them. The way that Cambodian border
guards and ruffians had acted has clearly encouraged the Vietnamese to
encroach more Khmer land since they stand to protect the Vietnamese
interest in front of fellow Khmer. Since the previous incident,
Cambodian government dared not to condemn violence instigated by the
Vietnamese thugs who caused injuries both sides while Vietnamese
government repeatedly condemned Cambodian activists, branding them as
the extremists who had attacked the Vietnamese villagers along the
border injured seven of them when it never recognized injuries had
happened on both sides as all Khmer media had reported. The two border
incidents have indicated that Vietnam still dominates over Cambodia
politically and militarily without a question. Hanoi rebuked and accused
Cambodian activists as provocateurs and demanded Cambodian government
to prevent such a violence in the future. In fact, Hanoi is a culprit,
the Vietnamese attacked Cambodian activists first while Cambodian just
tried to defense themselves. Hanoi's behavior and attitude toward
Khmer is unacceptable since it blames Khmer as the extremists and
provocateurs, but instead Vietnam is a real hypocrite.
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1 comment:
These thugs and gangsters with baton and post in their hand are Yuon illegal disguise and hire by Yuon slave administration to confront or bare khmer patriotic from go to see the real border, intrude by his patron Yuon . You can see Khmer who love and protect their land, in the eyes of traitors puppet turn to be a trouble maker or an agitation group . these forces hire and paid by government to stop Khmer with terrorist act are not normal, they not a real Khmer civilians, They are Youn infiltrate and daunting support of traitor administration . Please stand up and beat them back don't let these thugs to intimidate or menace you .
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