He's baaaaaack!!!!
Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra walks down the steps of his plane
upon arrival at Phnom Penh international airport. Thaksin has landed in
Cambodia, setting the stage for another diplomatic fracas between the
neighbouring countries.(AFP/Str)
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (C) shakes hands with Mong Kim
Heng, the director of Prey Sar prison, during his visit to see Siwarak
Chutipongse in the outskirts of Phnom Penh December 13, 2009. Cambodia's King
Norodom Sihamoni granted a pardon on Friday to Siwarak, a Thai engineer
sentenced to seven years in jail for leaking the flight schedule of Thaksin.
REUTERS/Stringer
Siwarak Chutipongse (C), 31, is escorted by Cambodian police from his cell to
meet former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at Prey Sar prison in the
outskirts of Phnom Penh December 13, 2009. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni
granted a pardon on Friday to Siwarak, a Thai engineer sentenced to seven years
in jail for leaking the flight schedule of Thaksin. REUTERS/Stringer
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (C) speaks to Siwarak Chutipongse
(2nd R) and Siwarak's mother Simarak Na Nakhon Panom (R) at Prey Sar prison in
the outskirts of Phnom Penh December 13, 2009. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni
granted a pardon on Friday to Siwarak, a Thai engineer sentenced to seven years
in jail for leaking the flight schedule of Thaksin. Also in the picture are
government lawyer Pal Chandara (L) and Prak Sokhon, Cambodia's secretary of
state of the council of ministers. REUTERS/Stringer
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (L) speaks to Siwarak Chutipongse
(C) and Siwarak's mother Simarak Na Nakhon Panom (R) at Prey Sar prison in the
outskirts of Phnom Penh December 13 , 2009. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni
granted a pardon on Friday to Siwarak, a Thai engineer sentenced to seven years
in jail for leaking the flight schedule of Thaksin. REUTERS/Stringer
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:02:38 -0800
Subject: Hun Sen's Political Pawn
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HUN SEN’s Political Pawn
Saturday 12th December, 2009
“The arrest and the release of Siwarak Chotipong is Mr. Hun Sen’s political and
diplomatic game, set up to canvass political supports back home and to use as a
diplomatic weapon to fight against the Thai Prime Minister Mr. Abhisit
Vejjajiva.”
Op-Ed by Khmerization
Saturday 12th December, 2009
“The arrest and the release of Siwarak Chotipong is Mr. Hun Sen’s political and
diplomatic game, set up to canvass political supports back home and to use as a
diplomatic weapon to fight against the Thai Prime Minister Mr. Abhisit
Vejjajiva.”
The Thai spy’s case, the arrest and the release of Mr. Siwarak Chotipong, has
been played out like a soap opera on prime time television. In fact, it is a
drama with the script written by Mr. Hun Sen and the soap opera being directed
by Mr. Hun Sen alone and the hero being the Pheu Thai Party of Thailand which
is claiming credit for his release for its domestic political consumption to
satisfy its Thai electoral constituents back home. And the victims of all this
political game are Siwarak Chotipong and his poor mother who has to endure the
pain and the suffering of seeing her son being handcuffed, incarcerated and
used as a political pawn.
The arrest and the release of Siwarak Chotipong is Mr. Hun Sen’s political and
diplomatic game, set up to canvass political supports back home and to use as a
diplomatic weapon to fight against the Thai Prime Minister Mr. Abhisit
Vejjajiva who has vowed to punish Mr. Hun Sen’s government for appointing
fugitive ex-Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra as its economic advisor.
Mr. Hun Sen’s political and diplomatic childishness has cost Cambodia dearly,
both in term of financial costs- the costs of protecting and housing Mr.
Thaksin and the cost of jailing and court proceedings against Siwarak- and the
deepening diplomatic problems with Thailand which will eventually cause further
delays in future border negotiations between the two countries.
Mr. Hun Sen’s political game has ruined the life of an innocent man and ruined
the political chances of another man- his eternal friend Thaksin Shinawatra.
While his political manoeuvres seemed to have aimed at helping to revive the
political comeback of his eternal friend, Mr. Hun Sen’s real motives for all
the political drama in the last two months were aimed at the political
assassination of Mr. Abhisit. Sadly, both Mr. Hun Sen’s goals had the opposite
political effect and failed miserably. First, Mr. Thaksin’s political fortunes
had suffered irreparably after he toyed with Mr. Hun Sen’s game by visiting
Cambodia in mid November which upset many of his supporters. Secondly, not only
that Mr. Abhisit had not been assassinated politically, he has thrived
politically from Mr. Hun Sen’s political theatre. While Mr. Thaksin’s
popularity had plunged abysmally, Mr. Abhisit’s popularity, on the contrary,
had skyrocketed.
While many Cambodians would welcome the release of Mr. Siwarak Chotipong, due
to enormous helps from Mr. Hun Sen, many more Cambodians would resent the fact
that Mr. Hun Sen did not make good efforts to help release many Cambodians who
were incarcerated in Thai prisons for forgivable crimes such as crossing the
borders illegally. It would be very humanitarian of Mr. Hun Sen to work with
the Thai authority to release the 16 Cambodian prisoners imprisoned in Chonburi
province for allegedly logging illegally in Thai territories a few months ago.
Many more Khmer migrant workers had been killed by Thai soldiers every months
in the border areas. With the efforts and the resources he had put into working
for the release of the alleged Thai spy Siwarak Chotipong, many Cambodians
would have expected Mr. Hun Sen to put the same efforts and resources, if not
more, to help working for the release of many, it not all, Khmer prisoners in
Thailand.
The latest news coming out of Cambodia is that, on Monday Mr. Hun Sen will hold
a big ceremony to transfer Mr. Siwarak Chotipong into the care of his mother
and Pheu Thai Party President Chavalit Yongchaiyudh- another political exercise
with enormous costs to the Cambodian state coffers.
Mr. Siwarak is a simple and ordinary prisoner and the fanfare and extravagant
honour accorded to him can only be described as a political drama played out by
Mr. Hun Sen for his domestic political consumption and to help reviving the
political chances of the Pheu Thai Party. And this is not in the best interests
of Cambodia.
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