Prime Minister Hun Sen urges UN special rapporteur to monitor the discrimination

Prime Minister Hun Sen urges UN special rapporteur to monitor the discrimination

Published: 21-Sep-15

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School of Vice: Yet another attempt to distract attention from rampant human rights violations and Vietnamese hegemony by raising specious concerns on racial 'discrimination' and piling pressure on the embattled Opposition? Mind you, it might just work. See how much success and fuss they have had so far with the blatantly concocted definition and smear relating to the otherwise completely neutral and 'value-free' Khmer word "Yuon" [Vietnamese-Vietnam]. 

Well, these gullible foreigners won't to know that, will they? But, they do know the importance of political correctness ... and that's enough. No one can question with impunity the scale, concerns and impact surrounding the Kingdom's actual or de facto discrimination in relations to her neighbour to the east. The larger and most disturbing reality is that the country is being bled dry and discriminated against on all fronts; from border land encroachments and unprecedented, unconstitutional granting of land and forests to foreign [mostly Vietnamese] companies, to the phenomenon of hundreds of thousands of illegal settlers from the same neighbouring country and monopolized control over vital national economic arteries. Find an important economic sector in Cambodia that does not have a preeminent Vietnamese stake in it. 

In brief, 'discrimination' and 'racism' do exist here, but it's not the Cambodians as a people or nation who are at their source or beneficiaries - quite the contrary. To insist otherwise would require a leap of imagination of the most stupendous, farcical nature.   

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PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald)—  Prime Minister Hun Sen requested here this morning the United Nations Special Rapporteur  Ms. Rhona Smith to further monitor on the discrimination and racism in Cambodia.

This made known here when he received Ms. Smith at the Peace Palace, said Eang Sophalleth, assistant to the Cambodian premier.

“Samdech Techo Hun Sen said that we should work on these together for the benefit of the Cambodian people, while we understand that human right is a package of living”, he quoted the premier.

In her responds, Ms. Smith said her mission here to promote and enhance the human rights in Cambodia, especially during her mandate as the United Nations Special Rapporteur.

Ms. Smith was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in March 2015 to report and advise on the situation of human rights in Cambodia.

Besides her courtesy call premier Hun Sen, during her mission from Sept. 16 to 24, 2015, she has talked with various Cambodian senior officials, and will meet other representatives of the civil society and local communities as well as the UN Country Team and the donor communities.