Who is the right person?

My comment is about Cambodian politic. Since I am Cambodian, I just want to share some of my opinion to be heard by other Khmer citizens. So why I name my title as "Who is the right person?" what do i mean by that? Oh yes, it is simple. It is about Cambodia politic today and the future. However, I want to let you guys know that I am not a member of CPP nor other party yet. Even though I used to registered as a CPP member before, because I was young and did not pay much attention in politic. In other word, I had no ideas yet about politic. It was just peer pressure that why i did that. But now i know what is politic, and i start to like it from day to day. So sometime i come up with my opinion about politic.

Talk about my title above, what do i mean by that? yeah it is about who is the right person to head Cambodia to future. We are not just want to go forward but with success and development. To me, Cambodian politic has been divided into six separates periods. The first period i would name it as the golden age, which we all Cambodian know as "The Khmer Empire". The country was great. But past is past, and we need to move on. the second period is the dark age of the fall of Khmer Empire, during the helpless of Khmer society due to foreign intrusion and influence. The third period was The French protectorate, which the national life was relied on the hand of French protection. The fourth period was the Sangkom Reas Niyoum of King Norodom Sihanouk. The fifth period was The Year Zero of Khmer Rought, and finally the Kingdom of Cambodia period which is where we are right now. So through out our history, we mostly met negative politic than positive. The point was our politician and our ex leaders politic were mostly wrong. We did not do well enought for our great nation which she sould deserve better than this.

Now please take a close look through our history, everytime our country got peace and stability, Cambodia tend to do great. Look at our old empire and our Sangkom Reas Niyoum period, our country was doing great. Compare to nowadays, even though Mr, Hun Sen was whatever a puppet of Vietnam politic, but sometime it is good to have a strong man is heading the very young and weak nation like what we are right now. I am not support Hun Sen politic with some neighbours countries as what he has been doing, but I support him to bring peace, stablity, and development to Cambodia. Since 1993 Cambodia has started her way on a very brand new rough democracy way which she has never been before experienced with. Actually she did, but it was live long enought to count in. Until today, the fourth term of Cambodia democracy with the same guy Mr. Hun Sen. Some western politicians always mentions his name as a strong man. I think they are right. However, there is nothing wrong to be a strong man right. Finally, Cambodia economy start to working with its 10% plus growth since 2005 to today. So what is going to be next?

My point is I don't care who is the prime minister. But make sure that he is heading the country going forward. I am not talking about who is better than who and who politic is more effiency than who. But it is about is it working or not. We all know that democracy in this world is transforming everyday. The original democracy system was long gone tranformed. Maybe it only exist in the west. But it does not mean that all countries have to use exactly the same democracy system as American does. For Cambodia, with the long history of collectism than individualism, plus its very young and weak democracy structure in the goverment policy nowadays, pushing to hard may be end up in danger to democracy itself. With Mr. Hun Sen, who is holding absolute power from the top to the bottom, and from the left of horizontal of Cambodian territory to the right, violence strategies as Norodom Ranarith did in 1998 was not a good choice to be used. Instead, I support H.E Sam Rangsy non violence policy, even though sometime i feel so pitty about his actions and his policy, but i think he has done the best that he could so far for the sake of Cambodian people and Cambodia herself. Finally, who is leading the country is not a matter, but whether he is capable to run the country to right way or not does really matter to us. So may god bless Cambodia.

By Rocky