Monday, 01 October 2012
Phnom Penh Post
By Meas Sokchea
King
Norodom Sihamoni (R) greets Prime Miniser Hun Sen on Independence Day
last year in Phnom Penh. Photograph: Vireak Mai/Phnom Penh Post
A long-dormant proposal to create an executive governmental body with
oversight of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces is back on the National
Assembly’s agenda.
In the coming days, according to a
high-ranking government official who declined to be named, lawmakers
will consider a draft law to create a Supreme Council of National
Defence.
King Norodom Sihamoni would preside over the newly formed body, with Prime Minister Hun Sen serving as deputy president.
A
statement about the draft law, which was approved by the Council of
Ministers at the end of last week, describes the Supreme Council of
National Defence as being responsible for safeguarding the constitution,
national independence, sovereignty, the territorial integrity of the
Kingdom of Cambodia and the military.
Though the Cambodian
constitution laid out the grounds for a defence council when it was
drafted in 1993, the specifics are only now being worked out now.
The
proposed governmental body would appear to oversee the military in the
same way that the Supreme Council of Magistracy monitors the courts
system.
In the draft law, there are six chapters and 11
articles, but the statement from the Council of Ministers did not give
specific numbers on how many officials will make up the body.
Son
Soubert, a former member of the Constitutional Council and now an
adviser to King Norodom Sihamoni, said that the establishment of the new
defence body is useful, but it must be independent.
The fact that Hun Sen has a role, he said, indicates that it will be under political pressure.
“When
Mr Prime Minister Hun Sen is in this body, it means that the power is
not divided clearly. It means that the executive body interferes in the
Supreme Council of National Defence,” Soubert said.
Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann agreed.
“The
establishing of this body is good, but we wait to see if the
composition of these leaders is neutral,” he said. “Because based on the
law, the armed forces must be neutral and not under the influence of
any political party.”
Public information officers at the Council of Ministers declined to comment yesterday.
To contact the reporter on this story: Meas Sokchea at sokchea.meas@phnompenhpost.com
2 comments:
There's a controversy in the current constitution. One article states that the " King reigns and doesn,t govern". Another article said " the King is the Supreme commander of the Army".
Since the king doesn't govern, why should he be the Supreme commander of the Army?
Madam Secretary of States, Ms. Hillary Clinton and her undersecretaries of States should know that Vietnamese masters in Hanoi who have involved the crisis in Cambodian for more than 3 decades in the dirty political games and played the major roles to destroy Cambodia/Khmer Nation in order to erase the lies of their bad and disgusted Yuon behaviors and ill-intentions to slowly replace Yuon/Vietnamese folks (illegal Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia in every corners) and done the trick in the blind eyes of gullible innocent Khmer/Cambodian people, foreigners and International Communities in the world.
Hun Sen has been living in fear because of his Yuon/Vietnamese masters and now Hun Sen is a very wealthy because of the stolen properties, lands for sales, Yuon/Vietnamese business deals with corrupted CPP clans (Yuon-Khmer, Dumb leaders of CPP) and including Yuon-Chinese mixed thieves like Var Kim Hong, Yeay Phu, Lao Meng, and beyond. How much longer those Yuon thieves under the Hanoi Masters and Hanoi masters will continue to do this until the blames and pressures coming from the UN, EU leaders, the U.S., International Communities and innocent Khmer/Cambodian people.
Time will come to destroy Hanoi Masters before their Yuon Hanoi puppet Hun Sen who will be arrested and put him on trial both at the UN and Cambodian People Courts because of more than 3 decades of losses of international donors' money, assistance, and more.
Yes, Vietnamese masters will return everything that have been stolen from Cambodia and Cambodian/Khmer people to Hanoi or Vietnam to make their country become developed and economically successfully to compete with ASEAN countries and other countries like Japan, S. Korea, China during their control over their Yuon puppet Hun Sen.
Cambodia has everything and is a very rich with natural resources that is why the evil Vietnamese/Yuon masters in Hanoi saw the big opportunities to make big wealth and profit by getting rid of Mr. Penn Sovan (former PM) and installed Yuon Puppet/Slave Hun Sen be illegally unrecognized PM among Cambodian people and the world. They (Hanoi masters and Yuon/Vietnamese slave Hun Sen) are just the thieves.
What they want from Cambodia are the following:
1. Angkor Wat (Tourists pouring money in)
2. Forests/Trees (giants trees - 500 to more than 1000 years olds)
3. Fish productions
4. Oil and gas
5. Rubber plants
6. Rich soils for plants
7. and beyond.
That is why Cambodia country is not poor because of very rich natural resources comparing to Taiwan, S. Korea, Thailand, Malay, and so on.
Those f**kng Hanoi masters have oversaw things and want to steal everything from Cambodia by having Yuon/Vietnamese slave Hun Sen. You have seen the terrible situations in Cambodia. Yes, uneducated Khmer leaders (no High School diplomas or not done with High School) have been very easily targeted by Hanoi masters including evil Ho Chi Minh in order to brainwash those blind and uneducated Khmer peasants like Hun Sen and others to be manipulated and influenced before hurting his or their own Khmer people.
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