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Dancing with wolf; Sihanouk and his 'friend,' North Vietnamese Prime Minister, Pham Van Dong -------------------- Sihanouk warmingly embracing Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of North Vietnam, during an Anti-US Imperialism Meeting in Southern China, in 1971  Sihanouk addressing a meeting with Khmer Rouge Leaders (khieu Samphan and Hou Youn) in Northern Cambodia in 1973. Now, Sihanouk is unashamedly allied with Hun Sen. Now, Let us honestly ask the following question. Is Sihanouk a true Khmer Patriot and defender of the Khmer nation, as he often claimed? The answer is a resounding 'NO'. ----------------------------------- (Comments: This Memorandum from the Central Committee of the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party, dated September 1982, amd signed by Say Phuthang, legalizing The settlement of Vietnamese civilians in Cambodia. These memoes are the most tangible proofs that the Vietnamization of Cambodia is real, and has resumed with a Vengence, after Vietnam invaded Cambodia, in 1979, and continues until today. That is why a few of friends of mine and I had decided to send a petition (signed by almost 10,000 Cambodians from all parts of the world) to President Bush requesting him to verify the problem settelemt of illegal Vietnamese immigrants in Cambodia, based on the information provided by Ambassador Bindra, the former Chairman of the International Control Commission (ICC), which was set up by the major powers at the Geneve Conference, to supervise the agreements, signed in that Swiss city, in 1954. (For more details on this petition, please go to my web site address s 'http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeof03b/index.html', and FYI, a copy of the petition is opted below) Not unexpectedly, we received a non-committal answer, which in fact mentioned some diplomatic platitudes regarding our concern about the unlimited and unstoppable flow of illegal Vietnamese immigrants into Cambodia, since the invasion of Cambodia by the Vietnamese aemed forces, in 1979. It should be reminded that once these illegal Vietnamese have entered Cambodia, they automatically received Cambodian citizenship thus benefitting Hun Sen in any elections to be held in Cambodian. Any census of population, cannot reveal neither the number nor the location of Vietnamese concentration in Cambodia, which is absolutely abnormal, to say the least. Unfortunately, most NGOs have gone along with this insane policy, and even accused those who would dare to ask for such information on the illegal Vietnamese immigrants in Cambodia, are considered by them as racists. Here we are trapped inside and trapped outside. This was due to thefact that some Cambodian individuals and organizations have used their rage rather than reason to address the Vietnamization issue in Cambodia. Again, don't blame only foreigners in this tragic story of the Vietnamization of Cambodia. Cambodians at all levels in the society have committed high treason in favoring the Vietnamese interests and grand design of imperialism in Cambodia, to fulfill their own selfish and short-term personal objectives. This cavalier response was due, as you may know, to the fact that G W Bush is now totally committed to have Vietnam as America's best ally in Asia, in order to confront the rising power of China in Asia and to fight against terrorism. Knowing the closeness between Hun sen and Vietnam, the Bush administration is now also backing Hun Sen 100 per cent as the reigning dictator of Cambodia. In so doing, the United States of America has given up for pratical purposes, all supports for the promotion of democracy and human rights in Cambodia, as elswhere in the world. In view of this tragic situation for Cambodia, Cambodian-Americans should not remain silent in front of this abandon of the basic principles upon which America was founded, and should use their voting rights and previleges to ask the US Congress to reverse this insane, obtuse, and morally unjust foreign policy in Asia, by G W Bush. They should protest against this dangerous and immoral policy by intervening in the Congress to remind it of this failure to support these fundamental principles of all free and open societies, that the USA has been preaching so loudly to the rest of the world, and for a very long time. Naranhkiri Tith Ph.D. Washington DC August 28, 2007) For an excellent analysis of Vietnamese colonialism in Cambodia, please, read the article by clicking the link posted below:
Documents on CPP asking Cambodian people to help Vietnamese colonists settled in Cambodia. This is themost deadly policy for Cambodia. This also shows how Hun Sen and his CPP are totally under Vietnamese control. Source; Marie Alexandrine Martin; Cambodia: a Shattered Society; University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Memo I from Say Phuthang to Cambodian Officials to Help Vietnamese Civilians to Settle in Cambodia.  ---------------------------------------------- Memo II From Chan Si to Cambodian Officials to Help Vietnamese Civilians to Settle in Cambodia    
A Petition To: George W. Bush, President of the United States of America TO SAVE THE KHMER ROUGE TRIAL BY MOVING IT OUT OF HUN SEN’S CORRUPT SYSTEM TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) OF JUSTICE, THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS AND TO INVESTIGATE THE VIETNAMIZATION OF CAMBODIA
Signatures: _______ November 14, 2005
Category: Justice and Human Rights
Region: United States of America
Perspective: Global
The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
We, the under-signed, Cambodian-Americans and friends in the United States and abroad, call your immediate attention to Hun Sen’s systematic manipulation and obstruction of the Khmer Rouge Trial process under international scrutiny. This blatantly contradicts the United States’ longstanding governing principal of democracy, open society, transparency and the protection of inalienable human rights. These current practices of sabotaging the rule of laws and the proper working of the judicial system according to the international standard of justice, pose imminent danger to the Cambodian people’s ability to survive and to their return to normalcy, after having been victims of one of the most heinous crimes against humanity in recent memories, under the demented regime of the Khmer Rouge. Ultimately, these deliberate acts of sabotage by Hun Sen and his CPP threaten the very existence of the Cambodian people.
Attached herewith are supporting a set of recent articles on how Hun Sen has been creating political obstacles to allow the Khmer Rouge Trial to be concluded at an early date. Hun Sen sabotage’s acts center mainly on his claim to defend Cambodia’s sovereignty.
Cambodia’s territory has continually shrunk while the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s land continues to grow since its January 1979 military invasion and capture of Phnom Penh from Pol Pot’s regime. Vietnam installed leadership that consisted of former members of the Khmers Rouge who fled to Vietnam to seek refuge from Pol Pot’s regime and joined forces with Vietnam’s communist organization. Among them is the current dictator Hun Sen. Cambodia’s current government is a colonial regime of Vietnam. Vietnam has imposed its communist system on Cambodia through the back door, as His Excellency Bindra states in his writing. Vietnam was forced by the international community and by the collapse of the former Soviet Union to abandon its direct occupation of Cambodia in 1989; however, it still retains power through its client communist party led by Hun Sen.
Less obvious but more deadly, Vietnam’s colonial policy is evident by the alarming and continuous influx of illegal Vietnamese immigrants into Cambodia from 1979 onward, where substantially none remained during the Khmer Rouge regime. With its protégé Hun Sen in power, Vietnam was able to create land growth and secure full legal status for the Vietnamese civilians in Cambodia through the 1982, 1983, and 1985 agreements. These treaties revoked the agreements that the same Vietnamese leadership made in1967 in its recognition of Cambodia’s borders in the name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and South Vietnam National Liberation Front (NLF). By 1987, there were approximately two million Vietnamese inhabitants in Cambodia. Today, about 17\% of approximately 14 million Cambodians are Vietnamese. Full voting rights from these illegal Vietnamese settlers and a deadly grip on the governing system are allowing Vietnam and Hun Sen to breach the territorial integrity of Cambodia through colonial practices.
It should be noted that many independent NGOs have reported human rights violations by the Vietnamese government on the Khmer Krom, the Cambodian indigenous people of South Vietnam, who are now reduced to ethnic minority status.
Vietnam’s foreign policy of expansionism has already obliterated an entire civilization of Champa residing in what is now the Red River delta of Vietnam during the second half of the fifteenth century. The remaining group of Champs sought refuge in Cambodia, where they remain today. These practices of isolating and of forcing Khmer Krom to take Vietnamese names could be regarded as a form of genocide according to the content of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Furthermore, in his recent speech Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened to “legally” deal with Cambodian citizens who dare criticize his stance on the border issue with Vietnam. For instance, he arrested and detained journalist Mam Sonando and President of the Cambodian Independent Teacher’s Association, Rong Chhun. He also brought government charges against four members of Cambodia’s Border Watchdog Council for voicing their concerns. Many NGOs have been reporting that Hun and his government are responsible for numerous gross violations of human rights and repression of democracy.
For all the above mentioned reasons, we urge the United States government, international organizations, the United Nations, the European Union and members of ASEAN and Donor-Nations, to investigate Vietnam for continuously violating breaching Cambodia’s territorial integrity and encouraging the uninhibited flow of illegal Vietnamese settlers into Cambodia. We strongly request all those international leaders who were participants and signatories of the Paris Accords in 1991 on the peace settlement in Cambodia to compile an unbiased report and submit this document to their Member-States for further debate in order to stop current illegal actions in Cambodia.
Cambodia has had a turbulent and tragic history and if it is to have another chance at normal social, political, and economic development, the world needs to firmly monitor this extremely dangerous situation and encourage a democratic and transparent governing system in Cambodia. In the January 1979 invasion by Vietnam of Cambodia, the United States, Western and Third World nations refused to cooperate with Vietnam. We again need that type of moral integrity and resolve to protect the rights and liberty of Cambodia, a Member-State of the United Nations. We sincerely fear that if Vietnam continues to violate Cambodian sovereignty, the Cambodian people cannot be expected to remain peaceful and silent. A human tragedy of major proportion may be repeated in Cambodia. The Cambodian people have the legitimate right and duty to defend themselves against this naked Vietnamese aggression.
Khmer Rouge Leaders: the Role of the Vietnamese in the Khmer Rouge Organization and Ideology Table of contents 1. A link to a web page on the introduction to an Expatriate's reflection on Cambodia's Past, Present, and Future. 2. A link to a web page on a history of Vietnamese Imperialism and colonialism against Champa and Cambodia 3. A link to a web page on the Alliance between (1) the Khmer Rouge and Sihanouk, (2) the Viet Minh with Sihanouk, (3) and Hun Sen with the Communist Vietnam 4. Two opposite views on the Khmer Rouge Trial; one by the head of a Cambodian NGO, and the other by a pro-Hun Sen foreigners 5. My interviews with Radio Free Asia on the factors behind the recent near collapse of the Khmer Rouge Trial 6. Pol Pol Bio 7. Ieng Sary Bio 8. Nuon Chea Bio 9. Khieu Samphan Bio 10. One Big Happy Family in Cambodia; a Look at the CPP extended Family; by Bertil Lintner 11. Contemporary Cambodian Political Leaders Biographies 12. New Problems, Old Problems; The Khmer Rouge Trial in Historical Perspective by; Milton Osborne (ANU) 13. Hanoi's Double-Cross on Democracy 14. The worth of War Crimes Trials; beyond the trial views 15. The Khmer Rouge leadership; an unusual analysis; by Phillip Short 16. Cambodian and Vietnamese Communism by Steve Morris 17. The Cambodian culture of dependence on Foreign Patrons; The Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese; by Steve Hedder 18. Khmer Rouge Tribunal Stalls Again 19. Hun Sen Complete Biography by Columbia University 20. HRW requests the FBI to Re-open the 1997 grenade attack on Sam Rainsy Party's Demonstration; Sam Rainsy and his Disdain for the Rule of Law 21. Vietnam Priest Jailed for dissent From BBC 22. Vietnam's Expansionism in Indochina 23. The 1948 Geneva Convention on the prevention and the punishment of the crime of Genocide 24. Mass murders committed by dictatorship of the left and of the right 25. David Chandler response to my comments on his role as a defender of Hun Sen and the Vietnamese in his earlier years 26. Mass Murder by Communism to Build a Perfect but Utopian Society 27. Sihanouk Blaming his Son for Collapse of Coalition
From reliable historical records, Vietnam is, at the same, a Communist, a Colonialist, and an Imperialist country. How could it pretend to have saved Cambodia with this combination of the of the worst totalitarian regimes in recorded human history? Introduction:  This page presents a number of selected articles showing how Vietnam is at the roots of the creation of Communism, and therefore, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The Vietnamese are not at all what they claim to be that is the 'savior' of the Cambodian people from Pol Pot murderous regime. Only, when the vietnamese realized that they could no longer control the Khmer Rouge, did they start to systematically destroying them, as they did later on with Pen Sovann, and replaced him by a more subsevient one, like Hun Sen and Chea Sim. Two articles are highly recommended for a better grasp of this deadly problem for Cambodia, one by Steve Morris, and the other by Philllip short, posted below in this page. The late military historian, Bernard Fall had most vividly captured this hidden but deadly Vietnamese colonialism when he wrote that: "“It is interesting to compare the Vietnamese colonization process with the corresponding process of state-building going on in Europe at that time; for too many well-intentioned writers (particularly those in the United States who feel that Europe must continually make amends for her colonial performance) tend to gloss over the non-European colonial processes that were going on simultaneously. In Europe, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed what could be called a national "regroupment" process: Spain left the Low Countries; non-German states lost their influence in Germany; and the Turks, after a high tide that had brought them to the gates of Vienna in 1529 and 1683, returned to the lower reaches of the Balkans. In Europe outside Russia, only Austria-Hungary was to survive as a major multinational state until 1918, and no new state rose to power by ethnic assimilation of alien areas. Viet-Nam was obviously doing exactly the opposite: It carved out its territory through military conquest over states whose level of indigenous culture was at least equal, if not superior, to its own. In other words, it did not invoke the moralistic rationale of "Manifest Destiny," "la Mission Civilisatrice," or "the White Man's Burden"; its action, like the German Drang nach Osten, was simply a manifestation of the vitality of its people. It was simply and purely a process of colonial conquest for material gains, no more, no less. The fact that it took place on contiguous territory does not make it any more respectable than, say, the Russian conquest of Hungary. But, what makes the Vietnamese colonial process unique in Asia is that it took place in competition with that of several European powers—and the Vietnamese beat them to the punch on several occasions! By 1750, nearly all the later European colonial powers had appeared on the scene: the Dutch and Spaniards in the Spice Islands, the French and British in India, and the Portuguese through-out Southeast Asia, even as far inland as Laos. All of them, at one time or another or simultaneously, had trading stations in Viet-Nam. Whether through superciliousness or plain ignorance, none of the "traditional" colonial powers consciously reacted to the Vietnamese colonial process. But it was not without reason that the French consolidated their position in South Viet-Nam first when they set out to conquer the country one century later; after all, it had been Vietnamese for so short a time that its conquest proved easiest, for its inhabitants were the least secure in their social structure and institutions. This assertion appears to be borne out by the fact that the South appeared more “pro-French” (or simply “French”) than central and North Viet-Nam and that the French colonial penetration became more difficult as it advanced farther North. Thus, much of what today is the Republic of Viet-Nam south of the 17th parallel has been "Vietnamese" for a shorter span of time than the Eastern seaboard of the United States has been American." This is a reality that cannot be simply talked away, for it affects the very fabric of the nation in times of stress and crisis, as in the 1960’s.” (Vietnam Deadly but Hidden Colonialist and imperailist design and policy; From Bernard Fall 'The Two Viet Nams; A Political and Military Analysis, Chapter 2,': 'A glimpse of the Past' Praeger, New York, 1971)
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