how about Kangkarou, what do you want RFA to be ?
Rick On Oct 2, 10:03 am, kangaroo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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