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On Oct 6, 12:23 pm, "Bopha Angkor" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lok Sophon,
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> ខ្ញុំគ្រាន់តែផ្តល់ជាយោបល់ឬទស្សន:ចំពោះអ្វីដែលជាចំណុចមិនសមរម្យឬខ្វះកាតក្នុងអត្ថបទរបស់
>  Professor Peang Meth ដែលបណ្តាលឲ្យអត្ថបទបាត់បង់តម្លៃ គ្មានគុណភាព (perdu 
> l’essense) ជាពិសេសក្នុងចំណោមបញ្ញាជន ទោះវាជាការអស្ចារ្យចំពោះជំពូកជនខ្លះមែន ។ 
> ទឹកពេញកន្លះកែវ ខុសគ្នានឹងទឹកពេញកែវ ។ គ្រប់បញ្ហាទាក់ទងនឹងយួន 
> តោងតៀមទាការទទួលខុសត្រូវខ្ពស់ លើកលែងតែជននោះមានចេតនាផ្សេង ។  បើ Professor Peang 
> Meth មិនពេញចិត្តឬជំទាស់អ្វីចំពោះយោបល់ ឬការតិះទៀនរបស់ខ្ញុំ 
> លោកអាចសួរនាំខ្ញុំដោយសម្រួល ខ្ញុំអាចឆ្លើយទៅវិញសមរម្យបាន តែខ្ញុំមិនខាតពេល 
> វេលាដ៏មានតម្លៃរបស់ខ្ញុំជាមួយពួកអាចោរម្សៀតឬពួកអាថោកទាបផ្តាច់ការទេ ។ សូមទោស  
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> ម្យាងទៀត ការតិះទៀន 
> ការពិភាគសាររកខុសត្រូវវាជារឿងធម្មតាសម្រាប់សង្គមប្រជាធិបតេយ្យហើយវាជាចំណុចខ្វះខាតបំផុតក្នុងសង្គមខ្មែរ
>  វាសម្បូរតែពួកអាចោរ/អាចារ្យតែថេះ និងពួកអាហៃអើប៉ុណ្ណោះ 
> ទើបសង្គមខ្មែរធ្លាក់ក្នុងភាពខ្មៅងងឹតយ៉ាងនេះ ។ ការដែលនាំអោយចេះពិចារណា ចេះតិះទៀន 
> គឺវាខុសពីទម្លាប់ពួកវាហើយ 
> ព្រោះវាមិនមែនជាវប្បធម៌របស់ពួកអាផ្តាច់ការដែលស្គាល់តែហឹង្សាផ្តាច់ការ 
> ល្ងង់ខ្លៅដឹកនាំជីវិតពួកវាតែប៉ុណ្ណោះ ។ សុភាសិតបារាំងថា ក្នុងនគរពួកអាខ្វាក់ 
> អាភ្នែកម្ខាងជាស្តេច នោះវាត្រឹមត្រូវណាស់ចំពោះអ្វីកើតឡើងក្នុងសង្គមខ្មែរ  ។ 
> សូមជំរាបថា ការជេរដៀលត្មេះទាំងងុលកំរោលរបស់ពួក/អាថោកទាប 
> ពួកអាផ្តាច់ការវាគ្មានអ្វីគួរអោយភ្ញាក់ផ្អើលចំពោះខ្ញុំទេ 
> ហើយវាក៏មិនអាចប៉េះពាល់អ្វីខ្ញុំដែរ 
> ព្រោះខ្ញុំស្គាល់ក្រយៅវានិងវប្បធម៌វាច្បាស់ណាស់ ។ សូមអរគុណ
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> Bopha Angkor
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "sophan" <[email protected]>
>   To: "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) -www.cambodia.org" 
> <[email protected]>
>   Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:12 PM
>   Subject: Re: This is a must read article by Dr. Peang-Meth, a Khmer 
> political scientist
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>   Thanks James for your kind wisdom-sharing. I do hope Bopha Angkor can
>   take time to answer to what James has concerned about. My response to
>   Bopha Angkor is the same like James.
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>   With Metta,
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>   On Oct 6, 8:11 am, James Sok <[email protected]> wrote:
>   > Please read attachment.
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>   > Thanks,
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>   > James
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: S. Sophan
>   To: Cambodian Community of Canada
>   Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 9:52 PM
>   Subject: This is a must read article by Dr. Peang-Meth, a Khmer political 
> scientist
>
>   Wednesday, October 5, 2011
>   Brief History of Vietnamese Expansionism vis-à-vis Cambodia
>   Brief History of Vietnamese Expansionism vis-à-vis Cambodia
>
>     In 1941, Ho created the Viet Minh, an abbreviation of "Vietnam Doc Lap 
> Dong Minh Hoi," or "League for the Independence of Vietnam," and spread its 
> anti-French activities to Laos and Cambodia, where the Viet Minh later 
> fragmentized the anti-French local Khmer Issarak front into a Khmer Viet Minh 
> front. In 1949, the Viet Minh instituted the "Ban Van Dong Thanh Lap Dang 
> Nhan Cach Mang Cao Mien" ("Canvassing Committee for the Creation of the 
> Revolutionary Kampuchean People's Party") and created the Kampuchean People's 
> Liberation Army in 1950.
>   By Gaffar Peang-Meth
>   Professor of Political Science (retired)
>   University of Guam
>
>   Originally posted 
> at:http://www.khmerinstitute.org/articles/art13vietnamization.html
>   On Christmas Eve 1978, more than 100,000 Vietnamese troops, backed by tanks 
> and aircraft, crossed the border into Cambodia. In 14 days of fighting, 
> Hanoi's army sent Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge fleeing. The Vietnamese 
> captured Phnom Penh Jan. 7, 1979, installed a puppet regime and stayed for 
> the next 10 years.
>
>   For victims of Pol Pot's genocidal rule, which began April 17, 1975 and 
> resulted in the deaths of upwards of two million people, Jan.7, 1979 was the 
> day of deliverance by Vietnam. Surely, Vietnam was their "savior" and their 
> "liberator" at a time when the world watched and did nothing about the 
> horrors of the Killing Fields. However, for many Cambodians, Jan. 7th is also 
> a day of infamy. Pol Pot was replaced by those referred to as Cambodians with 
> Khmer bodies but Vietnamese heads, the Khmer Viet Minh. This cohort was 
> created by the Vietnamese Communist Lao Dong, trained at the Son Tay Military 
> Academy and the Nguyen Ai Quoc political school, and led by a disgruntled 
> regional field commander, Hun Sen, who became indebted to Hanoi for his 
> return to power. Many Cambodians felt that substituting the Khmer Viet Minh 
> for the Khmer Rouge was like replacing cholera with the plague.
>
>   A host of foreign governments also worried. The world was still governed by 
> the well-specified rule of law founded on the principle of absolute, 
> comprehensive, permanent and inviolable sovereignty and independence. As 
> Singapore argued before the international community at the United Nations, 
> the world is no longer safe, and peace and security are no longer assured, if 
> a more powerful state is allowed to invade a weaker one like Vietnam had 
> done. The Association of South East Asian Nations spearheaded calls for 
> Vietnam to withdraw its troops from Cambodia.
>
>   As a result, the United Nations and other international organizations 
> became a political-diplomatic battleground for many years between proponents 
> and opponents of Vietnam's invasion. And so it was that the anti-Vietnamese 
> Khmer Resistance was born, first as separate armed bands with similar goals, 
> and later as a loose coalition of Cambodians of the fallen Khmer Republic, 
> Cambodians of the monarchy, and the leftovers of the Khmer Rouge. Despite 
> their differences, they worked together toward pressuring Vietnam into 
> withdrawal and to seek Cambodian self-determination.
>
>   Cambodian nationalists assert that Vietnam attacked Pol Pot in 1979 because 
> he became too independent of Hanoi. The invasion was initiated to bring the 
> insolent back into line. Since 1979, they have asked: If Vietnam's goal was 
> to "save" and "liberate" the Cambodian people from Pol Pot, what prevented 
> Vietnam from surrendering a freed Cambodia and her people to work with the 
> world community to build a new government and social order? Would not Vietnam 
> have received profound gratitude by ceding to the United Nations the role of 
> assisting Cambodians' self-determination rather than imposing 10 years of 
> foreign occupation?
>
>   HANOI’S GRAND DESIGN
>
>   Hanoi, like the rest of the world, knew that Pol Pot's agents had 
> perpetrated brutalities against the Khmer people since April 17, 1975, when 
> the Khmer Rouge forced the evacuation of the entire Cambodian population from 
> homes, villages, towns and cities and took them to perform forced labor. 
> Suffering, death and destruction were the order of the day.
>
>   The widely reported burning of homes and massacres of civilians in 
> Vietnam's An Giang and Chau Doc provinces in 1977 by Pol Pot's guerrilla 
> units offered an incitement to Vietnam, which was then busy strategizing and 
> plotting Ho Chi Minh's grand design of a greater Vietnam. The Khmer Rouge’s 
> belligerence gave the Vietnamese even more reason to put in play a takeover 
> plan that would advance its goal of a federation of Vietnam, Cambodia and 
> Laos.
>
>   It is no coincidence that Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia on the same 
> day Brezhnev's Soviet 40th Army entered Afghanistan, Dec. 24, 1979. The 
> Soviet Union was Vietnam's chief ally and financial supporter at the time. 
> Following the regime change in Moscow in May 1988, the Soviets began to exit 
> Afghanistan one month after Gorbachev announced they would. Meanwhile, Hanoi 
> was working on an exit strategy of its own.
>
>   Vietnam observed the rapid changes under way around the world: in the 
> Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, communism was in retreat; rival China was on 
> the rise; and U.S.-China relations was warming and mutually supportive of the 
> anti-Vietnamese Khmer Resistance. While Vietnam began to hint at its eventual 
> withdrawal from Cambodia, it took offensive military action against the 
> Cambodian resistance. Hanoi maneuvered to weaken the anti-Vietnam U.S.-China 
> alliance by encouraging talks between the Vietnam-created regime in Cambodia 
> and the resistance factions. The talks were also designed to improve the 
> puppet government's legitimacy. By the time withdrawal of Vietnamese forces 
> from Cambodia began in December 1989 (11 years after the initial invasion), 
> Vietnam had ensured that its Cambodian subordinates, the Khmer Viet Minh, 
> were entrenched in Cambodia's administrative and governmental organizations.
>
>   BACKGROUND
>
>   As French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr said, "Plus ça change, plus 
> c'est la même chose," or, "The more things change, the more they remain the 
> same." Look at the history of relations between Cambodia and Vietnam for 
> affirmation.
>
>   The Vietnamese southward expansion after Nam Viet freed itself in 939 from 
> a thousand-year Chinese bondage was described by Vietnamese scholar Nguyen 
> The Anh in "Le Nam Tien dans les textes Vietnamiens," as a centuries-long 
> phenomenon called "Nam Tien" (progression southwards), "one of Vietnam's 
> history's constants." Anh described the "sparsely populated and accessible 
> land available for [Vietnamese] rice growers" to the south as "favorable for 
> encroachment." Vietnamese "Confucian persuasion" was abandoned in favor of 
> "an action resolutely imperialistic" to grab land and impose Vietnamese 
> "administrative and cultural practice ... to better integrate [the new area] 
> into the Vietnamese space." The migration was ongoing, even as other kingdoms 
> were encountered. In 1406, the ancient kingdom of Champa's capital, Vijaya, 
> was seized and the kingdom was extinguished in 1471. Then, in 1630, 
> Vietnamese princess Ngoc Van, married to Khmer King Chey Chetha II, promoted 
> Vietnamese settlements in the low delta Khmer territory of Preah Suakea (Ba 
> Ria) and Prey Nokor (Saigon).
>
>   Historical records reveal that until the French protectorate was 
> established in 1863, Cambodia was a battlefield for Thai and Vietnamese 
> armies that fought on Khmer soil. Khmer dynastic quarrels led separate royal 
> factions to seek support from Bangkok and Hue. Cambodia was known as a 
> "two-headed bird" – a tributary state to both foreign capitals. In 1833, 
> after Vietnam defeated the Thais in Cambodia, the bird head pointed toward 
> Hue, and Vietnamization of Cambodia began in earnest: Vietnam installed 
> teenager Ang Mey as queen, Cambodia's capital was renamed "Nam Viang," 
> Cambodia's reorganization followed Vietnamese administrative lines, and 
> authorities adopted Vietnamese names, customs and dress. In 1840, the 
> Cambodian government was seated in Saigon, and Cambodia's name was changed to 
> "Tran Tay" (western commandery).
>
>   REPEAT OF HISTORY
>
>   Opponents of Vietnam's 1978 invasion see Hun Sen and his ruling Cambodian 
> People's Party as a force seeking integration of Cambodia into the late Ho 
> Chin Minh's dream of a federation of former French Indochinese states of 
> Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. As has been the case many times in history, 
> Cambodians have connived with the Vietnamese to accomplish Vietnam's goals: 
> Khmer King Chey Chettha II in 1620, King Ang Chan II in the 1800s, Prince 
> Sihanouk in the Vietnam War, Pol Pot and Paris-trained Khmer Marxists, Hun 
> Sen and his ruling Cambodian People's Party, supported by the King Father 
> Sihanouk and his son Sihamoni, the current king.
>
>   What started as Nam Viet’s search for security and growth became a strategy 
> for expansionism. The intention to expand its influence is illustrated even 
> in the name of the political party founded in 1930 by Ho Chi Minh – the 
> "Communist Party of Indochina." Ho did not just want to liberate Vietnam from 
> the French; he defined the task of the CPI "to make Indochina completely 
> independent."
>
>   In 1941, Ho created the Viet Minh, an abbreviation of "Vietnam Doc Lap Dong 
> Minh Hoi," or "League for the Independence of Vietnam," and spread its 
> anti-French activities to Laos and Cambodia, where the Viet Minh later 
> fragmentized the anti-French local Khmer Issarak front into a Khmer Viet Minh 
> front. In 1949, the Viet Minh instituted the "Ban Van Dong Thanh Lap Dang 
> Nhan Cach Mang Cao Mien" ("Canvassing Committee for the Creation of the 
> Revolutionary Kampuchean People's Party") and created the Kampuchean People's 
> Liberation Army in 1950.
>
>   Although the CPI was dissolved to publicly demonstrate Vietnam did not 
> harbor expansionist intentions toward its neighbors, it resurfaced in 
> February 1951 as the Lao Dong (Vietnam Workers' Party) with the same agenda. 
> The Lao Dong’s goal of integrating Cambodia into a Greater Vietnam may be 
> read in its political report which stated: "We must strive to help our 
> Cambodian and Laotian brothers ... and arrive at setting up a 
> Vietnam-Cambodian-Laotian Front" against the French. A month later the "Joint 
> National United Front for Indochina" was formed. In November of that year, 
> the Revolutionary Kampuchean People's Party was created with name and statute 
> drafted in the Vietnamese language. It has been said the RKPP and the 
> Cambodian local Communist Pracheachon Party were one and the same. As Prince 
> Sihanouk wrote in February 1960, the Pracheachon Party was "working 
> indefatigably ... and specifically to bring Cambodia under the heel of North 
> Vietnam."
>
>   Brian Crozier, a former Reuters correspondent, quoted a captured November 
> 1951 Viet Minh document exhibiting Vietnam's hegemonic attitude: "The 
> Vietnamese Party reserves the right to supervise the activities of its 
> brother parties in Cambodia and Laos." Crozier also quoted a Viet Minh radio 
> broadcast of April 1953: "The Lao Dong Party and the people of Vietnam have 
> the mission to make revolution in Cambodia and Laos. We, the Viet Minh 
> elements, have been sent to serve this revolution and to build the union of 
> Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos." Viet Minh administrations with their own armed 
> forces and system of tax collection were established in Cambodia and Laos. A 
> Hanoi-created "Kampuchean Resistance Government" emerged in 1952 to rival 
> Sihanouk's Royal Government.
>
>   When the July 1954 Geneva Accords ordered Viet Minh forces to leave 
> Cambodia, they took with them between 4,500 (a conservative figure) and 8,000 
> Cambodians (reportedly claimed by Vo Nguyen Giap in 1971), mostly young 
> children, to be raised, cultured and given political and military training in 
> Vietnam. These Cambodians with "Khmer bodies but Vietnamese heads" returned 
> to Cambodia after 1970 to fight Lon Nol, and to unsuccessfully wrest control 
> of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from Pol Pot. Some were arrested, others 
> purged.
>
>   According to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, the Marxist-Leninist Communist 
> Party of Kampuchea was born on Sept. 30, 1960, after the first party congress 
> of 21 people met for three days and three nights. Pol Pot asserted that a 
> Cambodian revolutionary movement that "truly belonged to our people" existed 
> prior to the Geneva Convention, but its dissolution after the 1954 agreement 
> was acknowledged because "people lacked a correct and enlightened guideline." 
> Pol Pot described 1968 as the year when armed struggle – civil war – began.
>
>   Undoubtedly, Hanoi was aware that its publicly proclaimed "fraternal 
> brothers and sisters," the Khmer Rouge, were not so "fraternal" privately, 
> and it knew its relationship with the Khmer Rouge was unsatisfactory. But 
> Hanoi let the Khmer Rouge be while it looked to building its own Kampuchean 
> puppets. Hanoi was biding its time. And as it was fighting a war against the 
> Americans in Vietnam, Hanoi threw in its battle-tested troops to fight Lon 
> Nol's republican army, enemies of Prince Sihanouk who had allied himself with 
> Hanoi. It was Hanoi's troops that routed Lon Nol's army and put Pol Pot in 
> power in Phnom Penh.
>
>   Neither Hanoi nor the world governments intervened to stop the genocide 
> that followed. However, when the Khmer Rouge's fierce independence of Hanoi 
> was more than the latter would tolerate, Hanoi concluded it was time to teach 
> its insolent comrades a lesson. On Nov. 3, 1978, Hanoi signed a 25-year peace 
> and cooperation treaty with Moscow. A month later, on Dec. 3, Hanoi Radio 
> announced the birth of the "Kampuchean National United Front of National 
> Salvation," led by a 14-member Central Committee under Heng Samrin, a former 
> commander of the Khmer Rouge's 4th Division. Hun Sen was a former chief of 
> staff and regimental deputy commander in Sector 21. By the end of the month, 
> Vietnamese troops would lead 18,000 KNUFNS soldiers across the border into 
> Cambodia. Phnom Penh was soon captured and a subservient regime installed. On 
> Feb. 18, 1979, master and puppet comrades signed a 25-year treaty of peace, 
> friendship and cooperation, a treaty that effectively integrated Cambodia 
> into a Greater Vietnam.
>
>   “FRIENDSHIP” TREATY
>
>   The 1979 friendship-cooperation treaty brings Hanoi's influence as far west 
> as the border with Thailand. The treaty binds Cambodia and Vietnam in what it 
> terms "militant solidarity and fraternal friendship." As people educated in 
> the culture of Confucianism, Vietnamese leaders' actions are generally 
> carefully thought-out and calculated to maximize Vietnam's interests. They 
> know what they want, what their national interests are, and they move 
> methodically to attain them. Unfortunately for Khmers and their country, King 
> Sihamoni, son of King Father Sihanouk, signed the supplements to the treaty, 
> giving Vietnamese full access to colonize and Vietnamize Cambodia. In the 
> stroke of a pen, the signatories extol a symbiosis of interests between 
> Cambodia and Vietnam. Retired Johns Hopkins professor Naranhkiri Tith 
> observes on his Web site that the 1979 treaty between Hanoi and its puppet in 
> Phnom Penh "became official in 2005" when Cambodia's King Sihamoni, "with the 
> support of his father Sihanouk," put his royal signature on "supplements" to 
> the treaty, thereby making Cambodians complicit in the Vietnamization of 
> Cambodia.
>
>   In its preamble, the treaty cites the "closely interrelated" independence, 
> freedom, peace and security of Vietnam and Cambodia – what affects one 
> affects the other – and that both countries are "duty-bound to help each 
> other wholeheartedly and with all their might" safeguard and consolidate the 
> products of their "revolution." It cites both countries' "militant 
> solidarity" and "long-term and all-round cooperation and friendship" as 
> representing their "vital interests."
>
>   In the treaty's first three articles, the Cambodians hand Ho Chi Minh the 
> goal of an Indochinese alliance he had dreamed about.
>
>   In Article 1, the two countries pledge to "do all they can" to maintain 
> their "traditions of militant solidarity" and to develop "mutual trust and 
> assistance in all fields."
>
>   In Article 2, they pledge to "wholeheartedly support and assist each other 
> in all domains and in all necessary forms," as well as to take "effective 
> measures to implement this commitment whenever one of them requires." 
> Cambodian leader Hun Sen can "require" Vietnamese intervention and he will be 
> assisted "in all domains and in all necessary forms," and vice versa.
>
>   In Article 3, both countries pledge "mutual fraternal exchanges and 
> cooperation" and mutual assistance in the economic, cultural, educational, 
> public health, scientific, and technological fields, as well as the training 
> of cadres and the exchange of "specialists and experience in all fields of 
> national construction." This opens the door for Vietnam to operate in 
> Cambodia. For example, Vietnam has always been short of food, and Cambodia is 
> historically rich in fertile land and fish and natural resources.
>   Subsequent sections of the treaty further reinforce this dictate of 
> Cambodian-Vietnamese interdependence.
>
>   Article 4 stipulates a border agreement based on the "present border line."
>
>   Article 5 pledges a "long-standing tradition of militant solidarity and 
> fraternal friendship" to which both parties "attach great importance."
>
>   Article 6 requires that the parties "frequently exchange views" on all 
> questions concerning both countries' relationships and on "international 
> matters of mutual interest."
>
>   Articles 7, 8, 9, speak of the right and obligation of each party to any 
> bilateral and multilateral agreements.
>
>   In 1962, Prince Sihanouk wrote: "Whether he is called Gia Long, Ho Chi 
> Minh, or Ngo Dinh Diem, no [Vietnamese] will sleep soundly until he succeeds 
> in pushing the Khmer toward annihilation, after having made them go through 
> the stage of slavery." Pol Pot and his French-trained Marxists handed 
> Cambodia to Vietnam. Then Heng Samrin and company agreed to a Vietnamized 
> Cambodia. Important stipulations in the Paris Peace Accords on Cambodia 
> signed in October 1991 were not implemented, allowing Vietnam's surrogate, 
> Hun Sen, to elbow his way into becoming a co-prime minister despite losing 
> the 1993 general elections. The co-premiership formula was devised by 
> Sihanouk to benefit Hen Sen at the expense of Sihanouk's own son, Ranariddh. 
> It gave Ranariddh, winner of the election, the title of 1st Prime Minister, 
> and the loser of the election, Hun Sen, the title of 2nd Prime Minister. 
> Dissatisfied with his subservient position in the dual premiership, Hun Sen 
> unleashed a coup d'etat in 1997 in which hundreds were killed and seized 
> power.
>
>   MARCHING ONWARD
>
>   The journey toward a greater Vietnam has not ended. What began in 939 when 
> Nam Viet freed itself from Chinese bondage has in 2010 put the Vietnamese at 
> Thailand's border and in a position to have an impact on Thailand's political 
> stability. Cambodians are being manipulated by Hun Sen to respond to Thailand 
> based on historical animosities not relevant to today's political realities. 
> It would be preferable if lessons could be taken from history so that it is 
> not repeated.
>
>   The current Cambodian-Thai conflict has been inflamed by Hun Sen's 
> continuing provocations, intended to destabilize Thailand and provide 
> opportunities for Vietnam to influence events there. Hun Sen's success at 
> diverting his countrymen's attention from their own meager lots to the 
> possibility of a conflict with their historical adversary has had the side 
> benefit of increasing domestic support for his regime. The recently revealed 
> "classified" contingency plan by Thailand for military action against 
> Cambodia, should the Thai-Khmer dispute escalate, is seen by Professor 
> Naranhkiri Tith as "exactly what Hun Sen wanted." Logically, the Treaty of 
> Peace, Friendship and Cooperation between Hun Sen's Cambodia and Vietnam is 
> an important instrument for him to invite Hanoi's troops – the "liberators" 
> against Pol Pot – to help fight the Thais on Khmer soil, another repeat of 
> history.
>
>   Hun Sen has successfully used governmental administrative machinery to keep 
> Cambodians intimidated and ignorant of their civil rights and the principles 
> of good governance. He dangles showy projects and physical improvements to 
> infrastructure, while many scavenge the city's dumps and live on rodent meat. 
> Of late, he has taken to publicly cursing the Thai leadership seemingly 
> daily. His call to protect Cambodia's Preah Vihear Temple from the Thais 
> brings many Cambodians to his side, though they are mute over Vietnamese 
> encroachment from the east. Those who dare speak out against Vietnamese 
> expansionism are silenced through intimidation or imprisonment.
>   * * * * *
>
>   About the author:
>   Gaffar Peang-Meth of Russey-keo, Phnom Penh, holds a Ph.D. in political 
> science (comparative governments and politics, Southeast Asia) from the 
> University of Michigan in 1980, served in the Khmer People's National 
> Liberation Front at Banteay Ampil in 1980-1989, and taught at Johns Hopkins 
> in 1990 and at the University of Guam in 1991-2004. He is retired, and now 
> lives in the United States. He can be contacted at [email protected]
>
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