WHILE CAMBODIA REMAINS OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM.
Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote
of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces
from Cambodia.
A CAMBODIAN COMMUNIST UNDER THE VIETNAMESE INVADER RULE .
Nam Tum, boss of the CPP Kampong Thom provincial committee.
Cheam Yeap( A VIETNAMESE), a senior CPP lawmaker, said the party would soon
establish youth quick reaction units (YQRUs) down to the commune level
A VIETNAMESE DISGUISE AS KAMPUCHEAN
THE VIETNAMESE TRICKS IN CAMBODIA OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM.THE VIETNAMESE WEARING
THE LABEL "CAMBODIAN"
Khieu Kanharith, the minister of Information, during a press conference held
on 04 January 2009. KHIEU KANHARITH , A VIETNAMESE WEARING THE LABEL"CAMBODIAN"
Thursday, May 20, 2010
‘Units’ of CPP youths to check opposition
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Sebastian Strangio and Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
THE ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) is set to expand its efforts to
organise youth in a bid to shore up support ahead of elections in 2012 and
2013, officials said Wednesday.
Cheam Yeap, a senior CPP lawmaker, said the party would soon establish youth
quick reaction units (YQRUs) down to the commune level in order to curb the
opposition’s appeal.
“The CPP is now starting to establish volunteer youth quick reaction units in
every commune, district and province across the country,” he said. “They will
play a role responding to political propaganda and attacks from the other
political parties.”
Cheam Yeap said the units, which will augment the party’s central Youth Working
Group, will work to educate other youths about the CPP’s platform.
He did not give a time frame for the establishment of the units, but said they
would be made up wholly of volunteers.
On Monday, Nam Tum, chief of the CPP’s provincial councillors in Kampong Thom,
told the Post that youth units would be established in the province by next
month. He said they would be used to counter familiar barbs from the
opposition, such as: “The CPP is a yuon [Vietnamese] puppet” and “the CPP is a
dictatorial party that shuts down the people’s rights”.
Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) spokesman Yim Sovann said Wednesday that the party was
not worried about the CPP’s drive to attract youth. He said that with 30,000
young Cambodians entering the job market each year, the CPP’s lack of concern
for youth employment would soon make itself apparent.
“I am not threatened or concerned about anything at all. If they can find jobs
for all the youths in Cambodia, then we will be concerned,” he said.
He added that the attempt to harness youth – combined with an initiative to
categorise people as “black”, “grey” or “white” according to their level of
support for the CPP – was a sign of desperation.
“They know their support is going down because they cannot solve any problems.
They are trying to use other strategies ... to hide the truth,” he said.
The establishment of the YQRUs sees the ruling party move to consolidate its
support among one of the SRP’s key target demographics.
“Children are more and more numerous; they are more critical, more educated,
more demanding,” SRP president Sam Rainsy said in an interview with the Post in
November.
“Youth expectations are very different, so the voter patterns from now on will
be different also,” he added.
But in a nationwide survey conducted by the International Republican Institute
(IRI) during July and August of last year, 81 percent of those surveyed between
the ages of 18 and 24 thought the country was going in the right direction. In
addition, 56 percent of that demographic said they expected to be richer in one
year’s time, with just 14 percent saying they expected to be less well-off.
Young people “are more likely to be happy with where the country’s going”, said
John Willis, IRI’s country director. “They tend to be more optimistic about the
future.”
Ke Bun Khieng, chief of the CPP’s central Youth Working Group, said young
people support the party because they believe its leaders “are on the right
track” in promoting economic growth.
But Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights, expressed
concern that the CPP’s employment of youth volunteers to “react” to criticism
could detract from the quality of political debate at the grass roots.
“The youth groups should focus on policy,” he said.
He added that although many youth seem to support the CPP, it is only a matter
of time before increasing wealth leads young people to articulate new political
demands.
“I think it will be the youth who bring change,” he said.
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