03/27/2008
STATEMENT ON 11TH ANNIVERSARY OF GRENADE ATTACK.
DID THOSE KILLED ON MARCH, 30 1997 DIE IN VAIN?
What a sham and a farce the investigation of this tragic event has become.
Every year we call on the Cambodian Government to investigate. We're asking
the Hun Sen government to re-open a case which he never really opened.
The FBI found out within weeks of the attack that it was planned and carried
out by Hun Sen's own private guards and covered up by Hun Sen's top police
enforcers. What a crime was committed that day. We shouldn't be vague about
culpability when we ask for a new investigation. So let's be real.
Did those slaughtered on 3/30/97 die in vain? Even today Hun Sen is the
supreme and ultimate puppeteer of all that happens in Cambodia. He decides
who will be exiled and who will be allowed back in the country. He decides
how far each opposition party can go in criticizing has government. He makes
sure the NEC is loaded with yes men who will validate the results of the
election. He decides who will be jailed and who will be released. He decides
the fate of pro-democracy party commune leaders who speak out and try to
organize. His forces bribe opposition part officials to join CPP. And as we
saw on 3/30/97 he decides when opposition goes too far.
He is a master of intrigue. He has told the world for years that his
government will bring the Khmer Rouge leaders before his court for trail.
How is that trial going by the way? These KR leaders are dying right and
left of old age while the corrupt judicial system in Phnom Penh makes a
farce out of a situation so tragic it still rips the heart out of those who
suffered at the hands of Pol Pot.
Cambodia hasn't really changed. Everything looks shinier and tourists who
fly from their own country to Bangkok or Hong Kong to Siem Reap and its
five-star hotels and then back to their homes talk of how wonderful to see
all the changes. They should travel about an hour from Siem Reap in any
direction and see what has happened to the homeless who used to pack the
streets of that great city.
Those gathered on 3/30/97 only asked for justice and political freedom. If
they were alive today they would still be begging for basic human rights and
the same freedom and opportunities that CPP officials enjoy.
In Cambodia everybody votes but nobody counts.
Ron Abney, Cochran, Georgia,USA
<mailto:ronab...@hotmail.com> ronab...@hotmail.com
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