Dear Venerable & All Cambodian Nation,

Cambodian is always to conduct elections for nothing, the political parties are starting to cut deals in contempt of the will of Cambodian people who are the real masters of the country. First, the political parties try to defend their own interests without regards for national interest by ignominiously sharing ministry Porto folios and greedily grabbing honorific and lucrative positions for their party members.

The Cambodian people has tried hard since 1991 to vote out the Cambodian People Party (CPP), the Vietnamese puppet, but those Cambodian political leaders who loudly claimed to be the champion of anti-communism, democracy and strong opponents of CPP ended up by rallying  to the CPP , then, finally voted to let the CPP  take power. 

In 1993, in order to fulfill his ardent desire to return Cambodia back to a monarchy, through the Paris Peace Agreement of October 23, 1991 which articles never mentioned the monarchy, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, as President of the Supreme National Council (SNC), abused and used his powers as SNC President to terminate the UN mandate in Cambodia before it could complete its tasks, contrary to the Paris Peace Agreement’s spirit.

The 1993 election gave the FUNCIPEC the absolute majority. According to the constitution, the Funcipec was supposed to form the government, but Prince Sihanouk put pressure on his son Prince Rannaridh, the majority leader, to share a 50-50 government with the CPP minority.  Cambodia then ended up being governed a bizarre two-headed hydra government with two co-prime ministers, two co-defense ministers, two co-interior ministers etc…It was Prince Sihanouk’s idea to share the power with the communist CPP with disregard for the will of the majority of the Cambodian people who had voted out the Vietnamese puppet.  This constituted also treason against the combatants who sacrificed their life and fought valiantly against the Vietnamese aggression and the Vietnamese puppets.

Why are those political parties unable to unite before the election?

Why did some party opponent leader secretly try to make deal in sharing ministry port- folios with CPP in the back of other allied partner?

It seems that the political strategy of the opposition parties in the end, those leaders will have recourse as usual to ex-king Norodom Sihanouk to solve Cambodia’s political problems and he, as usual, will design a solution, as usual, which pleases Hanoi and the Vietnamese puppet.

Only the power of, by and from the People and the solidarity of the Cambodian people, the true owners of Cambodia, can change the political regime and select its genuine government.

To entrust our future and the defense of Cambodia to political leaders or political parties or Norodom Sihanouk who had never, ever been independent of Hanoi, is equivalent to shackle Cambodia with the  Indochina federation under the Vietnamese yoke, or to put Cambodia on a silver plate to be shared and swallowed by Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.

What is left of Cambodia now, in land, forest, natural resources, rivers, monuments, heritage of our rich civilization and our religious beliefs are the results of the sacrifices of, by and for the Cambodian people. Cambodia is not the property of political parties nor king and nor their clans.

Looking back at the political solution authored by Norodom Sihanouk in 1993, 1998, 2003, and 2008, we can see which political leaders are traitors which ones are the genuine defenders of Cambodia.

To act People Power, the Cambodian people have to participate actively in public debates and to keep track of political developments and negotiations to know for sure who has betrayed Cambodia, who did not keep their promises, who collaborated with the Vietnamese puppet, who are the real defenders of Cambodia and sacrificed their life, time and fortune for Cambodia’s sake?

I wish for the Cambodian people to win and to select genuine leaders who will serve Cambodia first through a free, democratic and fair election.

 Sincerely,

 SOURN SEREY RATHA, Chief Mission