Khmer Circle:
Once you have sold your soul to the Devil, nothing you do or intend doing afterward will ever redeem or cleanse that tarnished soul.
The highest and noblest goal of life's education is to forge and pave a righteous path for oneself and one's fellow men to walk along and not to lead them down a crooked one.
The usual
response from and on behalf of this breed of Cambodian commentators and
analysts - he is not the only one who has been honoured by RFA and other political
platforms in recent years - is that "we do not live in a perfect
world"!
If you can't speak the Truth - as Kem Ley did - for whatever reasons then by all means opt not to speak out [this is also your personal right] instead of speaking untruth or half-truths.
^^^
The threat came after the analyst said this week that he has worked as an informant for Hun Sen since 2021.
By RFA Khmer2025.02.07
Political analyst Seng Sary at the U.S. Capitol with the Supreme Court in the background, March 14, 2024. (Gemunu Amarasinghe/RFA)
Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen threatened on Friday to release all private correspondence with an Australia-based political analyst who revealed this week that he was paid to secretly provide information about opposition activists.
Seng Sary, based in Adelaide, told Radio Free Asia on Thursday that he has received more than US$120,000 from Hun Sen since 2021.
The money was in return for passing along information about members of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, or CNRP, he said. Most of the party’s top leaders fled Cambodia after the Supreme Court banned it in 2017.
Hun Sen, 72, led Cambodia from 1985 until 2023, when he stepped down as prime minister in favor of his son.
For years, he has used intimidation and the courts to neutralize the political opposition. He remains president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
Seng Sary, based in Adelaide, told Radio Free Asia on Thursday that he has received more than US$120,000 from Hun Sen since 2021.
The money was in return for passing along information about members of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, or CNRP, he said. Most of the party’s top leaders fled Cambodia after the Supreme Court banned it in 2017.
Hun Sen, 72, led Cambodia from 1985 until 2023, when he stepped down as prime minister in favor of his son.
For years, he has used intimidation and the courts to neutralize the political opposition. He remains president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
Seng Sary was granted political asylum in Australia in 2022 after a warrant was issued for his arrest in Cambodia.
He told RFA on Thursday that he agreed to work as a spy for Hun Sen partly because of threats made to family members still living in Cambodia.
“I was trapped and colonized by Hun Sen for the past four years,” he said in an interview. “Our relationship is like a boss and an employee.”
Cambodian President of the Senate Hun Sen arrives at the 46th ouster anniversary of the Khmer Rouge regime, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Jan. 7, 2025. (Heng Sinith/AP)
Seng Sary added that he still considers Hun Sen a political opponent and hopes to run for office in Cambodia as an opposition candidate someday.
On tape
In response, Hun Sen said on Friday that he has documents and audio messages in which Seng Sary asked for money to pay off a house and for monthly expenses.
In one of two messages sent to RFA, Hun Sen said he considered Seng Sary to be a political consultant –- not someone who was beholden to him.
In his second message, Hun Sen warned that if Seng Sary continued posting critical comments, he would post on his Telegram channel the nearly 300 messages sent to him by Seng Sary over the last few years.
Seng Sary responded with his own message, saying that he has nothing to hide or lose, and Hun Sen should go ahead and release the messages.
“Father [Hun Sen] you succeeded in destroying me,” he wrote on Facebook on Friday. “I am a political isolationist now but I am free from your political trap. I wish democrats to have success.”
RFA has cited Seng Sary as a political analyst in articles dating back to 2020.
Translated by Yun Samean. Edited by Matt Reed.
On tape
In response, Hun Sen said on Friday that he has documents and audio messages in which Seng Sary asked for money to pay off a house and for monthly expenses.
In one of two messages sent to RFA, Hun Sen said he considered Seng Sary to be a political consultant –- not someone who was beholden to him.
In his second message, Hun Sen warned that if Seng Sary continued posting critical comments, he would post on his Telegram channel the nearly 300 messages sent to him by Seng Sary over the last few years.
Seng Sary responded with his own message, saying that he has nothing to hide or lose, and Hun Sen should go ahead and release the messages.
“Father [Hun Sen] you succeeded in destroying me,” he wrote on Facebook on Friday. “I am a political isolationist now but I am free from your political trap. I wish democrats to have success.”
RFA has cited Seng Sary as a political analyst in articles dating back to 2020.
Translated by Yun Samean. Edited by Matt Reed.
1 comment:
Seng Sary was born in a poor family. He exerted all of his efforts to get high education. That was a major accomplishment. I loved Seng Sary so much. Before this surprise news, Khmer people as a whole love Seng Sary.
Had Seng Sary revealed the truth to the people after he and his family members arrived in Australia, his credibility and his good reputation would be intact. We are so sad that Seng Sary made this kind of mistake. We had high hope that Seng Sary would play the same role as Dr Kem Ley. We lost another great person due to the devil Hun Sen's dirty tricks.
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