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| The ASEAN old member, Lee Kuan Yew-Dictator of Singapore |
4/5/2011
Op-Ed by Kok Sap
Originally posted at: http://khamerlogue.wordpress.com/
Cambodia should stop selling its sand and everything else to Singapore. After more than a decade later, Singapore’s oldest dictator Lee Kuan Yew talked down on Cambodia affiliation with the ASEAN. At his old age the man showed no wisdom. This may be why in 2008, Singapore’s foreign minister George Yeo arrogantly ignored Cambodia complaint against the truculent Siam in its encroachment on Cambodia sovereignty that triggered the deadly fire fights at the ASEAN Summit.
While Cambodia struggles to catch up with the world economic development and world community, the oldest dictator has the audacity to insult Cambodia people in the worst way. It’s understood that he has had bad blood with former King Sihanouk then. Both never saw each other eyes to eyes in bloc’s politics. But it’s absurd that he forgot during the war against Viet occupation, it was Singapore that made a bundle of profits out of arms conduits and money laundering on Cambodia’s back. Until now, Singapore uses sand from Cambodia to build its mega-structures.
What an ingrate hand biter!
Lee said: “Cambodia should not have been accepted into ASEAN due to its lack of shared values with the bloc’s founding members“, according to a secret diplomatic cable released last year by the website WikiLeaks.
“The older members of ASEAN shared common values and an antipathy to communism,” the cable states, describing Lee’s views. “Those values had been `muddied’ by the new members, and their economic and social problems made it doubtful they would ever behave like the older ASEAN members.”
It’s understood in 1967, dictatorial leaders from Siam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and renegade Singapore struck a deal to create ASEAN backed by US. Of course they shared the same values and master. Then Cambodia was a lightning rod to the US hegemony and imperialistic view on Asian nations.
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