Cambodian dictator Hun SenI remember the hit movie, "The Killing Fields", about Cambodia's murderous rampage against millions of innocents.
I seems as if Cambodia is on its way back to this dark era in world history.
Read the Front Page article.
Some excerpts:
In his most recent coup against democracy, human rights, freedom of the press and freedom of speech, Hun Sen took a page right out of communist Hanoi’s playbook by silencing all opposition to his regime. Hun Sen manipulated Cambodia’s notoriously corrupt and incompetent court system to make it a criminal offense to criticize him or his regime. In February 2005, Hun Sen stripped parliamentary immunity from the
leader of the main opposition party (SRP), Sam Rainsy, and two legislators, Cheam Channy and Chea Poch -- both SRP party members. Rainsy and Poch fled the country while Channy remained in Cambodia. In August 2005, Channy was given a seven-year prison sentence. Rainsy was tried in absentia by Hun Sen’s kangaroo court and was given an 18-month jail sentence.
Next, Hun Sen had the publisher of the leading opposition newspaper arrested and
the paper shut down for publishing articles critical of Hun Sen. He then had the director of the country’s only independent radio station -- Behive FM -- arrested and charged with defaming him by broadcasting interviews criticizing Hun Sen for allowing Hanoi to gobble up a good portion of Cambodia’s border territory.
Hun Sen then had several leading human rights advocates arrested and detained including Kem Sokha, the president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and his deputy, the director of the Community Legal Education Center, and the president of the Cambodian teachers’ association. Several others fled Cambodia, including a cousin and aide to Norodom Sihamoni, the new figurehead king. The latter acquiesced to Hun Sen’s border gift to Hanoi that then gave it a façade of legality. Hun Sen has a history of giving land to the Vietnamese.
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Hun Sen has instilled a climate of fear in all opposition individuals and parties in Cambodia. In spite of this, at an independent forum in the commune of Rokar Khnong, one man said, “In the Khmer Rouge time, my father was served soup and they asked him if it tasted good," one man said. "'Tell the truth,' they said. And so he said it did not taste good, and they killed him. Now when we speak the truth, are we going to be jailed? Is Cambodia going back to the Communists again?"
I would say this is a very bad sign.
It's another warning signal to the Free World. They just keep coming. The planet is regressing backwards into the days when evil was powerful and the Free World was oblivious until brutally attacked. Will this happen again? Do we want to find out? It's time to prepare. We must rebuild our defensive capabilities to face the growing danger facing us.
We must prevail for the sake of freedom, democracy and the rule of law. The Axis power group must be seen as likely attempting to take over the world to abolish these great gifts given to humanity by many who paid the ultimate price.
