A Change of Guard

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Sunday 10 May 2015

Staged attack on Khiev Samphan upon his return to Phnom Penh



School of Vice: Along with the orchestrated mob attack on the Thai embassy in the 1990s, this was another politically engineered event - with the rest of the world's media watching - directed against Khiev Samphan [former Head of State of Democratic Kampuchea] upon his return to Phnom Penh prior to the UN supervised election of 1993 to empathize the bitter feelings Cambodian people still held for one of the "genocidal" regime's principal architects, and by logical deduction, the legitimacy of the Hanoi-installed regime that was still being denied the country's seat at the UN. Hun Sen - a former KR military commander - took centre stage during the demonstration in which Samphan was given a bloody beating - played the role of the peace-maker, pleading with the rioters to bar the possible return to power of the murderous regime with their votes instead of their fists!

Note this was not the first time Samphan was ill-treated in public; Sihanouk [whilst in power] had also had him stripped naked by his police to humiliate him. Strangely, the two men became reconciled after Sihanouk's overthrow, and of all the KR leaders, Samphan was the only person to have shown the former ruler personal consideration and kindness during his house arrest under the Pol Pot regime. In some way, Samphan's capacity for forgiving Sihanouk's personal transgressions against him can be said to mirror another key figure in Cambodia's politics today in the person of Mr Sam Rainsy, who may have opted to put aside the memory of his own late father [Sam Sary, widely believed to have been executed on Sihanouk's order on charge of treason against him] in order to advance his political career on Sihanouk's royalist anti-Vietnamese crusade, and later, Funcinpec's political platform; a pattern now being extended to Mr Hun Sen in the name of the so-called "culture of dialogue".   

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