Thursday, November 5, 2009 _Extra-parliamentary Opposition_ (http://about-cambodia.blogspot.com/2009/11/extra-parliamentary-opposition.html)
Many SRP followers hailed Sam Rainsy’s recent ‘publicity stunt’ as a great call of awakening. They see this as an overdue calling attention to the Eastern border problems, which, in their opinion, is just as grave as the problem with Thailand. Needless to say, this is a great misjudgment of the situation. Sam Rainsy’s actions, however, are nothing less than outright ludicrous. One can only ask oneself, ‘What was he thinking?’ One can understand the local villagers that want to take matters in their own hands in the face of a possible border violation by probably Vietnamese villagers on the other side. Whether or not the border markers were inside Cambodian territory, it certainly is not appropriate for the leader of the opposition to pull the posts out. Perhaps he got carried away. Perhaps he thought this was a good opportunity to get back into the headlines as it had become a little quiet about him in recent weeks. After all, Hun Sen had one scoop after another recently, what with his invitation and now appointment of Thaksin. The issue with the border markers would ordinarily have been rather insignificant had it not been for Sam Rainsy’s activism. An opposition leader’s place is in the National Assembly and at the helm of his party. These are the venues where he can make speeches, denounce the government, and lay out his proposals. As an MP he is a member of the legislative body, not the executive. Border disputes clearly are within the responsibility and jurisdiction of the government. As a man who constantly calls for the rule of law, he should be the first to abide by it. He did the same as the Red or Yellow shirts in Thailand. But these are what ’s generally called extra-parliamentary opposition. They can stage demonstrations, hold sit-ins, mass-rallys, or whatever else pleases them, in order to make their point of view known. They can also resort to civil disobedience. A member of parliament’s weapons are his or her voice, and his or her legislative actions. If they want to use the tools of the extra-parliamentary opposition, they should join them and resign from their seat in the National Assembly. That would be the right thing to do. Who knows, a career change might do wonders for his future. Posted by KJE at _11:55 A_ (http://about-cambodia.blogspot.com/2009/11/extra-parliamentary-opposition.html) _http://about-cambodia.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html_ (http://about-cambodia.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html) In a message dated 11/9/2009 3:15:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Vietnam hospital is the dead bed for Cambodians, if you are sick you must go to Vietnam there is no exception. No need to build hospitals in Cambodia, CPP has to follow strict policy of Vietnam, otherwise you are in trouble. For instance, Sam Raingsy pulled out border poles near Vietnam border, immediately CPP had to send madame Men Sam An to please Vietnam by promising to punish the perpetrator in this case LOk Raingsy to the fullest of the law . Vietnam agreed and assist CPP all every aspects of subversive activities, again no one dare to touch or trying to mess around this solid friendship. Lok Raingsy is waiting for conviction from local court of Svay Rieng as persona juridistic system. Vietnam will teach a tough lesson to Raingsy do not mess around Vietnam's interest in Cambodia, you can curse Hun Sen as you wish, Vietnam will protect you from harmful attack of Hun Sen bodyguards. On Nov 8, 5:53 pm, kangaroo <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you think that cambodian government ought todo? > Should they allow anyone to operate in cambodia freely as long as the > mission deems to help people? > > Is cambodia that bad? > > [email protected] wrote: > > Dear all, > > > No NGO can operate an hospital in Cambodia without respecting the CPP rule which is, in order to operate an hospital, all the NGO hospital funds must be transferred to the CPP people. And this without exception. > > > If the NGO operators don't agree with that CPP rule, the NGO would never ever get the authorization to operate in Cambodia. > > > The WORLD VISION proposed to HUN SEN government to create and operate 25 hospitals, one per each province and municipality, and each one is bigger and well equipped and modern than any existing hospital in Cambodia (the French CALMETE hospital, the Russian hospital or Preah KetMealea hospital). > > > Hun Sen said, if you want to operate in Cambodia, you have to respect the CPP rule. All the Hospital funds must be in the hand of CPP people. The CPP let the Hostpital managers recruit their personals and buy supplies and the CPP pays the personals and supplies etc. > > > The WORLD VISION refused the CPP rule. > > > Hun Sen did not want the 25 American hospitals to save Cambodian life if they don't respect the CPP rule. > > > Until today, Hun Sen government still opposes to the creation of these 24 American hospitals in Cambodia without the CPP rule. > > > 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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