WHAT DO YOU WANT RFA TO BE? Do you want it to be what you want? It will never happen. It's not your radio. Do you want it to be against Hun Sen? it will never happen. That's not what it is there for. Do you want it to be a pro Sam Rainsy radio station? It will never happen. Then it is the same thing as it is to side Hun Sen. What are you trying to say? Do you really want to force RFA to be on your side? It will never happen. It is not yours. Remember! RFA is a non profit private radio station funded by the federal government. It doesn't mean that you can make it whatever you want it to be. If you do, you will be disappointed.
On Oct 1, 10:28 pm, [email protected] wrote: > > > RADIO FREE ASIA UNDER KEM SOS’S > WATCH > > > > Radio > Free Asia’s under Kem Sos’s watch was leaning toward Hun Sen government. > > > > > > 1. Ratha, a political > activist and his association, witnessed the > > slide down of Radio > Free Asia under Kem Sos watch from information radio to an opinion radio, even > worst, RFA under Kem Sos became a partisan radio, pro-Hun Sen’s government. > > > > Ratha petitioned the > RFA stirring committee telling them that RFA now becoming opinion radio > instead > of information radio. RFA stirring committee chief asked Ratha to provide > proofs. If your proofs are convincing we can right what was wrong doing. > > > > > > Proofs will be very > hard to provide because Cambodian people are by nature very nice. > Cambodian people don’t want to bother anyone; Cambodian just wants to live > alone and let live. > > > > > > So we are not > organized to get proof to convict someone. Rumors stated that Kem Sos was > always well received as a VIP by Hun Sen officials every time he went to > Cambodia and even Kem Sos had bragged to his RFA colleagues in his Washington > DC office that he owned a dozen hectares of land in Phnom Penh which valued > several > million of dollars. But we never got proofs of any of this. > > > > > > 2. Months had passed. In > 2008, the CPP, Kem Sos, Sam Borin and Mayarith the th > ree pro-CPP RFA journalist > committed fatal errors. They provided by themselves the rope to hang them all. > It was their fall from the RFA pedestal. > > > > > > 3. Mayarith and two > other RFA journalists visited Cambodia during their summer times break. At > Phnom > Penh Mayarith was well received by Interior ministry. Phnom Penh Municipality > Police assigned him a police car to transport him everywhere as he pleased. At > that time, the driver was Mayarith. Arrived a little late to cross the Mekong > River at Neak Loeung, he used his privilege of Police VIP to stop the > ferryboat > and transport his car to cross the Mekong. Because of nervous pressure, > Mayarith car hit another car already packed in the ferryboat. Mayarith was > very > angry against the other accidental car owner/driver. Mayarith used his > handcuffs to cuff the other accidental car owner who was scared to death and > fled very fast far away. Mayarith yelled to ferryboat employees that his is a > Police officer and all the ferry employees must help him to arrest the > offending driver. > > > > > > The question > is: Why did Mayarith have the handcuffs? Why did Mayarith use the > Police power to cuff other people? Maybe, Mayarith is a CPP secrete Police > Officer? That was the proof the RFA chief needs to remove Mayarith from his > position RFA journalist reporter. You don’t hear him anymore on RFA broadcast. > > > > > > 4. Heng Vong Bun Chhat, > a Law Ph D., lawyer of Hu > n Sen’s government cursed a VOA journalist who has the > audacity to ask him by phone from his Washington DC office some thorny > question > about the corruption of Cambodia Law School. The VOA journalist asked him > to comment about the rumor of corruption: Each Cambodia Law School > alumnae have to pay $30,000 to be appointed as magistrate in the Court of > Justice of Cambodia. > > > > > > Heng Vong Bun Chhat > insulted and cursed the VOA journalist; you look down at us Cambodia because > you > are backed up by a super power and you insult us; you’re arrogant and > coward. Dare you to come here in Phnom Penh, I’ll show you what we’re > capable to do. You too young, you don’t know how to work with other > people. Ask Samborin. He is the only one to know how to work with > us. That was the proof the RFA Chief wants to move Samborin to a modest > position without power in RFA Washington DC Office. You don’t hear him anymore > on RFA broadcast. > > > > > > 5. On Preah Vihear > Thailand-Cambodia dispute, Samborin interviewed Sean Pense for thirty minutes > and Hun Sen government officials for also thirty minutes. But when Samborin > edited his news in RFA broadcasting, the public can hear Sean Pengse opinion > only for a few minutes while Hun Sen official spoke non-sense for thirty > minutes. > Sean Pengse don’t want no more to be interviewed by Samborin who played the > game for Hun Sen’s governments. 0A > > > > > > 6. A week ago some RFA > journalists demonstrated against their lay off. RFA Washington DC officials > knew so well that the RFA journalists in RFA Phnom Penh office, the majority, > were Kem Sos’s people and pro-CPP. To avoid some legal problem relative to the > lay-off, Washington DC officials chose to wait until the expiration of their > contract. It was not Kem Sos who laid off his protégés Phnom Penh > journalists. It > was the expiration of their contracts which ended the RFA Phnom Penh jobs of > Kem Sos protégés. Kem Sos would never lay > off his own people. > > > > > > So Washington DC > officials would like to wait until the end of their contract. When their > contracts were all expired, the Washington officials thanked them all, and did > not renew their contract to let them go. The objective was to clean the RFA > Phnom Penh Augean Stables, and recruit new independent Khmer journalists. > > > > > > As expected, Kem Sos, > Mayarith and Samborin organized the demonstration to show up solidarity with > the “lay off” of RFA Phnom Penh journalists, whose contract were not renewed > by > the RFA DC officials. > > > > > > RFA Washington DC officials > had good reason to end these contracts. They > want to clean the RFA off any partisan journalist. They want RFA become an > information radio, but not a partisan pro-CPP radio. Before, the power of RFA > broadcasting was in the hand of > the three pro-CPP, Kem Sos, Samborin and > Mayarith. Right now, it is no more in the hand of these three pro-CPP people > and RFA Phnom Penh pro-CPP journalists. > > > > > > The > RFA broadcasting was in the hand right now of new people recruited by RFA > Washington > DC officials. It was interesting to note that you don’t hear anymore Samborin > and Mayarith voice or news in RFA broadcasting. > > > > > > This > success is possible thank to the tenacious action of team work of Sourn Ratha > and > some courageous, independent and free Khmer nationalist journalists. > > > > > > After > the lay-off of partisan journalist, RFA will regild its emblems, that is > Cambodia Hope, hope of independence, freedom and sovereignty. > > > > > > Baphuon > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. 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