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Preab Pisey : The issue raised by IFJ is not new. We all know how much the repression is pervasive in our homeland. Hun Sen's authoritarian drift is a recurrent practice in Cambodia. And now, the Cambodian people are not the only victims of this drift, but foreign people who try to defend the poor become also a target of PM Hun Sen. Should Cambodians' destiny still depend on the goodwill / illwill of a small group of people like Hun Sen & company ? [ in RepublicofCambodia ]
Australia has agreed to sign ASEAN amity pact, Malaysian minister says (2005-Jul-21)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Australia has agreed to sign a nonaggression pact with its Southeast Asian neighbors, the Malaysian foreign minister said Thursday, and an Australian analyst said the decision will likely be announced next week at a regional security forum. Syed Hamid Albar told The Associated Press that his Australian counterpart, Alexander Downer, personally conveyed the decision to him a few days ago. "The F.M. called me and informed me that Australia has agreed to ratify" the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation, Syed Hamid said.
Australia had long been opposed to the treaty, describing it as a remnant of the Cold War. Australian Prime Minister John Howard had said that Canberra is more interested in the "substance" of its relationship with Southeast Asian countries rather than binding treaties. The TAC requires signatories to renounce the use or threat of force against any member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN.
It allows for arbitration by a tribunal for disputes between signatory countries. Australia's stand had created suspicions among ASEAN countries, especially after Howard said he would be prepared to launch pre-emptive strikes if terrorists in neighboring nations were planning to attack Australia. ASEANhad told Australia it cannot attend the inaugural East Asia Summit in December in Kuala Lumpur unless it signs the treaty. It has been signed by seven other countries besides the 10 ASEAN members.
Following the reversal of its stand, Australia "will be most welcome to the East Asia Summit. So that's very good. It will boost cooperation, understanding, goodwill in all dimensions of economic, political and security spheres," Syed Hamid said. Asked about the timing of the signing ceremony, he said: "I don't think there will be any problem. Whenever they want to sign it we can make the arrangements." Separately, Australian National University Asian security expert Tony Kevin [ 1 ] said Australia would likely announce its decision during Downer's trip to Laos starting Wednesday for the ASEAN Regional Forum, or ARF, Asia's biggest annual security meeting. Australia has concerns about ASEAN's mechanism for resolving disputes under the treaty and wants to retain a right to criticize countries such as Myanmar despite the treaty barring interference in signatories' internal affairs.
Syed Hamid said ASEAN has provided clarifications on all issues sought by Australia.
ASEAN's members are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
| Reply to Angkor Borei News (2005-Jul-15) 1) Sisowath Sirirath's flattery for Sihanouk was no different from Norodom Montana's in the 1960s. The
latter had been party chief amidst Norodom Norindeth and Sisowath Youttévong in the 1950s. |  |
2)Psychologiquement (et génétiquement?) la soumission plus que millénaire de notre peuple devant les 3 autorités (familiale, religieuse et étatique) a fait que nous sommes des soumis de père en fils, de mère en fille, et que nous commençons seulement à nous poser des questions. Tant et aussi longtemps que l'immense majorité des Khmers reste attachée à nos "valeurs" traditionnelles, l'éclosion de nouvelles idées restera insignifiante, l'immobilisme (la fameuse "discipline"!) continuera sous chaque régime, et on finira dans la gueule des loups viet ou/et thaï (qui embrassent très vite les nouvelles idées, même occidentales) sans même nous en rendre compte!
(2005-Jul-09) Un soldat du corps des fusiliers-marins américain (U.S. Marine Corps), |  |
| Prince Ranariddh’s assets (2005-Jul-03) K.I. : We examine today the case of Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who is currently in France and will be in Singapore later this week to look after his assets there. Even though the Funcinpec and National Assembly President has been using different names and tricks (including shell companies) to prevent investigation into his recently amassed fortune, some of his assets have been identified as such: |  Le président de l'Assemblée nationale du Cambodge a sa propre unité de gardes basée près de sa villa de Veal Sbov et payée par le gouvernement. |
| Donors frustrated with lack of progress in reform implementation (2005-Jun-30) K.I. : At today’s special meeting between international donors and Prime Minister Hun Sen to discuss fundamental reforms that the Cambodian government has committed itself to implementing since five to ten years ago, donor representatives were reportedly frustrated at the lack of progress in the implementation of three reforms considered as the most important and the most urgent in order to put the country on the right track : - Land reform - Judiciary reform - Anti-corruption reform. Beyond empty words, the absence of any progress whatsoever in the above three areas has led to an increase in poverty and a deterioration in human development indicators over the last ten years in spite of a massive international assistance amounting to more $5 billion. Some donors now start to seriously doubt the sincerity of Hun Sen and his team, to realize that they have been fooled for so long, and to understand that the current regime (which is based on systemic corruption, plunder and impunity) is unwilling and unable to implement the above reforms because such reforms would undermine the very foundations of the regime and make it collapse. Actually, donors are trapped and many diplomats do not dare to report the truth to their respective governments. | Les gens au pouvoir détruisent la forêt d'Anlong Veng  
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Three Ma...jor PARASITES back in Cambodia (2005-Jun-23)
Three Majesties back in Cambodia
Khmerintelligence.org : King Norodom Sihamoni, King-Father Norodom Sihanouk and Queen-Mother Monineath Sihanouk came back from China this evening on a
commercial flight. Only a few Khmer dignitaries and foreign diplomats were at Phnom Penh international airport to welcome the three Majesties. Hun Sen, Ranariddh, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin were absent.
$50 M for the Thai, peanuts for Khmer skulls (2005-Jun-19)
Khmerintelligence.org : $20 million in damages have been paid to Thai companies. As reported previously, the Cambodian government has accepted to pay $50 million in damages to Thailand (government and private companies) following the anti-Thai riots in Phnom Penh in 2003. According to the minutes of the meeting in Phnom Penh on 1 April 2005 between Cambodian Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Nam Hong and his Thai counterpart Kantathi
Suphamonghon:
- 17 Thai private companies have been claiming $34,403,927.24
- There is an agreement to pay them over $20,000,000
- 11 companies have already received $19,691,850.13 from the Cambodian government.
- The 6 other companies will soon receive an amount in excess of $1,000,000.
In the meantime, the Hun Sen government pretends it cannot afford to disburse some $13 million representing its previously agreed contribution to the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
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