Op-Ed by Ly Diep
Angkor Borey –Khmer voice overseas
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy for KI-Media
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Recently, Hun Sen and his government are playing a game to divert the national and international opinion away from problems that he and his government are facing. These major problems are: (1) the KR Tribunal wants to bring charges on additional KR leaders for their crimes against humanity, and (2) the border issue with Yuon (Vietnam), in particular the conclusion of the “Supplemental border treaty” in order to avoid the annulment of former illegal treaties concluded by the Heng Samrin-Hun Sen regime when Cambodia was still under the colonial boots of the Yuon (these include the 1979, 1982, 1983 and 1985 treaties concluded with Vietnam). In fact, the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia gave the ability to Cambodia to annul all the past illegal treaties that led to the loss of Cambodia’s independence, sovereignty and national integrity.
1- Diversion from charges on additional KR leaders
To divert the attention from this issue, Hun Sen, who was himself the biggest former KR leader governing the eastern shores of the Mekong River – a region that also suffered the most savage killings under the KR regime – (based on Hun Sen’s personal boasting when he was deriding Pen Sovann, the former PM of the State of Kampuchea, broadcasted by RFA on 23 December 2008, stating that there were no KR army leaders that was more senior than him along the eastern shores of the Mekong River in 1977), and his government, which is filled with numerous KR killing leaders, are using the political influence of the ruling party, i.e. the CPP, to put pressure on the hybrid (Cambodian and UN) tribunal in order to prevent that additional KR leaders be brought in beyond the five leaders who are currently being detained. If the tribunal would actually charge additional KR leaders, this could affect him personally, as well as his former comrades (such as Heng Samrin, Chea Sim, Keat Chhon, Hor Nam Hong etc…) and also King Sihanouk.
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