Dear all, Your three testimonies on December 12th, 2017, in front of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee was just a sham to put the final piece of jigsaw to you and your boss’s mission to hurt Cambodia, and soon after that, the committee would declare that a measure should be taken urgently and timely to salvage traitor Kem Sokha and the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party. Your three testimonies were systematically planned and supplemented each other in a bid to frame my government as drawn up by some Western countries who don’t want to see Cambodia in peace and development. All of the actors were Americans – besides members of the Foreign Affairs Committee being Americans by origin, the attestant Kem Monovithya was also an American because she holds American passport and spoke on behalf of American people. All of you appointed yourselves as Cambodia’s representatives, but all your words and actions were encouraging foreigners to hamper Cambodia and Cambodian people’s interest. On behalf of the Cambodian people, I’d like to respond to your exaggeration, confusing and flattery of Cambodia’s situation as you had read in front of the committee as follows:

1. To the political puppet’s heir Kem Monothya – your father Kem Sokha was used by foreigners to implement the ‘color revolution’ while you, his heir, inherited his role to carry on with plans to hamper Cambodia’s interest when your father was jailed. Every single word of yours was full of vengeance and anger. You were born to a Cambodian family like me, but you have Western characteristics, keep blaming your own nation and doing everything you can to hurt Cambodia. You and your father's names are record as traitors in Cambodia’s history. You and your outlawed opposition party have never helped develop Cambodia, but instead bowed your heads down to the Westerners and allowed them to look down on my country’s sovereignty and integrity. Have you ever wondered why Kem Sokha was arrested on in flagrante delicto crime on charges of treason? If there was not adequate evidence, the authorities would have not handcuffed him, so please do more thorough research before you raise that your father’s arrest violated Cambodia’s law and constitution while he has immunity. Actions taken against in flagrante delicto crime does not necessarily have to be in administration hours nor need to lift his immunity beforehand. Please learn to accept your mistake; do not think you are always right. I know that you are a ‘career’ victim. I’d like to inform you that Cambodia’s government which was elected by the Cambodian people has a duty to protect the nation and the people’s well-being and would not tolerate your traitorous group wreaking havoc.

Cambodian people clearly understand your group’s trick to trigger a revolution during the election to topple the government. In 2013, it was a lesson learned when the CNRP turned a demonstration to protest against the election result to be a mass movement to topple the government’s leaders and to overthrow the election winners. The outlawed opposition used alleged election irregularities as an excuse to fulfill their ‘winning’ ambitions – they must win both election and ‘color revolution’ battles or either one. Your group is familiar with this experience since Kem Sokha had been trained on the ‘color revolutions’ in Yugoslavia and Serbia while Sam Rainsy had studied the lesson learned from the successful revolution in Tunisia. For the same purpose, inside the country, the former opposition CNRP invited experts to train demonstrators on how to do a protest and demonstration and how to use various ‘color signs’ to ignite ‘color revolution’. The revolution plan was exposed clearly when the opposition announced publicly that 2018 would be the final battle, after failing in 2013, all of which demonstrated that their plan always targeted elections. If their plan is foiled by the government, they would accuse the government of restricting freedom, interfering into the election process, intimidating the opposition before the election, and killing or undermining Cambodia’s democracy, etc. to cover their wicked plan. And, they are carrying out these activities right now.

Why do they target elections for ‘color revolution’? For revolutionists, like your group, the elections are golden opportunity to implement their plan to topple the government since during that time, the political battle and emotion are always intense and it is easy to gather people to execute your plan. For revolutionists, like your group, the election result doesn’t matter since you know that no matter win or lose the election, your group still carries out the ‘revolution,’ just like the event which happened in Yugoslavia and from which Kem Sokha adopted the plan from.

While ‘Arab Springs’ were successfully implemented in a number of Arab countries in early 2010s, action and strategy plans were also drafted for ‘color revolution’ in Cambodia, allegedly with the U.S. Embassy to Cambodia being the command headquarter and the opposition CNRP being the political chess. The International Republican Institute was known to have assisted Kem Sokha establish the Human Rights Center in 2002 and his Human Rights Party in 2007. After 2012, seeing the increasing number of supporters, the U.S. then secretly helped finance and make the SRP-HRP mer happen. The CNRP was backed by U.S.-financed civil society groups. Your party, in collaboration with COMFREL, stirred the election by announcing that the ‘black ink’ was washable, while in fact, it was not and was quality guaranteed. In your ‘color revolution,’ your party violated laws repeatedly on the election day, like appealing for your activists to incite trouble and interrupt the election process, citing barring Vietnameses from voting as an excuse, and Saim Rainsy unilaterally announcing CNRP's supposed landslide win since before the vote counting had evenfinished and inciting violence and arson on two police vehicles at Steung Mean Chey.

After the election, your opposition party denied the election result, gathered forces from all provinces, and even forced the garment workers to stop working, take to the street, block public roads, and illegally occupy the Democracy Park and make it their gathering and training place, leading to violent events. Moreover, your group also hooked artists and monks as your shields. You group even incited a violent incident where houses and the business premise of Lux Salon were looted and robbed, and your supporters were involved in a bloody confrontation with police officials on Kbal Thnal Bridge. At last, the demonstrators inspired by your group were out of control, blocking roads and destroying some private clinics along Veng Sreng Road. Your group, with cooperation with media outlets, like RFA, VOA, VOD, the Cambodia Daily and the Phnom Penh Post, posed only gloomy images of Cambodia, so that it gave a ‘sword’ to the opposition to execute a leadership change. Furthermore, the opposition ruined the people’s confidence in authority and tried to nullify the authority’s power by inciting people to disrespect them and the laws. The repeated accusations that the authority was under a dictatorship was a huge claim to undermine the authority’s power, as well as to fuel public sentiments against the authority by framing, confusing and worsening the situation vy stating that the authority had inflicted hardship on people and oppressed people’s freedom. However, because those activities were ‘color revolution’ nature, the government stepped in and foiled it on time.

After their ‘color revolution’ attempt was unsuccessful due to the government’s legal measures, the CNRP defied and still wished to carry on with their ambition in July 2018. Moreover, your party has taken political advantage of Dr. Kem Ley’s death, making wicked analysis to frame the government and to confuse the public, as well as to begin a Black Monday Campaign and later on a White Campaign. Recently, your former CNRP president and convictSam Rainsy has incited military forces and civil servants with psychological war through social media, causing fear and confusion. Your party has even cooperated with foreigners to make a strategic plan to topple my government and train your youth in 2014 for future ‘color revolutions’. CNRP also cooperated with media outlets, such as RFA, VOA, VOD, the Cambodia Daily and the Phnom Penh Post, to broadcast and publish only negative and gloomy images about Cambodia, giving the opposition opportunities to begin their plan to change the government’s leadership. Moreover, the CNRP strived to undermine people’s confidence towards authority and to nullify the authority’s power by inciting the public to not respect the authority and the laws. The repeated accusations that the authority was under a dictatorship was a huge claim to undermine the authority’s power, while at the same time to fuel public anger against authority by framing, confusing and worsening the situation by stating that the authority had inflicted hardship on people and oppressed people’s freedom.

In all, you, the political puppet Kem Sokha’s heir, should accept that the ‘color revolution’ that traumatized some Arabic countries almost happened in Cambodia, with the opposition being the ‘political chess’ and being under U.S. orders in a bid to topple the legitimate Cambodian government, but their plan was foiled due to lack of support from the civil servants, military and the public because they were not stupid and wanted to maintain the current peace and development, not tragic ‘color revolution.’ The ‘color revolution’ was recognized as the U.S. ambition to overthrow the CPP-led government in an attempt to strengthen their geopolitical and economic stance in Cambodia. Their reactions were adequate enough to respond to your pretence. If the opposition leader was not arrested and the CNRP was not dissolved in time, the possibility of a ‘color revolution’ was inevitable, followed up by civil war and political instability because the opposition had set 2018 as their deadline. Therefore, the government, at any cost, has to take all actions at its disposal to foil the ‘color revolution’ plan and to arrest the mastermind for prosecution and to dissolve the party involved in accordance with the laws.

2. To Olivia Enos, political analyst with the Heritage Foundation’s Asia Studies Center – you have raised every negative point in an attempt to point out that my government had no sympathy for traitors like Kem Sokha and accused that government’s legal actions against the opposition’s secret ‘color revolution’ as a politically motivated ploy to oppress the CNRP, while the 2018 election was approaching. Has any country not taken legal actions against traitors who posed harm to their people’s well-being? Even the U.S. is hunting for the traitors accused of ‘conspiracy’ with Russia in the 2016 Presidential Election. You told the U.S. House that Cambodia’s government had silenced civil organization and pro-opposition media’s voices in Cambodia, as you didn’t recognize it was purely the government’s law enforcement as a sovereign and integrity state. Are you blindly protecting them and encouraging them to operate unlawful and to abuse Cambodia’s law? Are the civil society’s operation without government’s approval correct?
Does your country has a tradition of tax fraud? You encourage a family business newspaper to operate without paying tax against Cambodia’s Law on Taxation, while other media outlets have paid tax according to the law. In your country, can any company or individuals avoid tax? If no, it is not unusual for the civil society and the media outlets operating in Cambodia to observe Cambodia’s law. You seem to hold a prejudice against Cambodia so that you claim that every action of my government violates the law, though the action was meant to maintain Cambodia’s peace and development and my nation and people’s achievements. Moreover, you proposed to the U.S. to revive Cambodia’s Paris Peace Accord, an echo the calls made by the outlawed opposition.

Did you know or pretend not to know that all contents in the accord was included in the 1993 constitution of Cambodia? The constitution was idrafted and passed by a number of parliament members from the CPP, then FUNCINPEC, MOULINAKA, and Buddhist Liberal Democratic Party. You have made enormous efforts to persuade the U.S. to render every type of pressures against Cambodia’s government in a bid to give excuses for traitors like Kem Sokha who admitted that he had been supported by the U.S. to undergo leadership changes in Cambodia. Citing human rights and democracy through free and fair election, you proposed to the U.S. to render political pressures and economic sanctions against Cambodia. Moreover, you demanded the U.S. to press harder to unconditionally free Kem Sokha. You might not realize that what you were doing was to free a traitor from his chargeable crime without any official judgment. Does your country do the same in such cases? You are encouraging impunity and breaching the rule of law, while charges against traitors like Kem Sokha could result in serious penalty and cannot be pardoned if found guilty. What you gave in your testimony was just to serve an outlawed opposition’s interest and pressurise my government. This is the career and job of some foreigners who assigned him or herself as the analyst for Cambodia-related politics, but their real work relied only on media contents and without thorough studies on Cambodia’s history and Cambodian’s mindset, way of thinking and tradition. Because you didn’t know well about Cambodia, you became an instrument for the opposition party to support their rhetorical language. You were in turn cheated in their political game and ‘color revolution’.

3. To Kenneth Wallack, Director of the National Democratic Institute –what you raised in front of the House’s Foreign Affairs Committee was full of revenge against Cambodia’s government and leaders who had taken steps against the NDI which had been for long operating in Cambodia without the government’s approval and had played an active role in assisting the former opposition to attain power undemocratically, by planning the party’s political propaganda, dissemination of strategies and other plans, in instance moves to declare themselves the winners of the 2013 poll before the vote counting was completed and to resort to inciting strategy for the public to take to the street in case the opposition didn’t win the election. Your interference and conspiracy with the opposition deserved my government’s decision to shut down the institute and expel its officers with a 7 days ultimatum. It was the right time to take action since the House’s members allowed NDI’s representatives to shamelessly confuse and twist the real situation in Cambodia and to unfairly frame and put all the blame on my country’s leaders. It was easy for foreigners like you to switch roles – turning us from a victim of your interference into an enemy of democracy and human rights. All scenes were already set up with the testimony committee and testimony givers all being foreigners who served the U.S. interest under the same umbrella of democracy and human rights. You raised that the dissolution of the former opposition led Cambodia to be a one-party country. Before you claimed that, did you look up at Cambodia’s constitution? Did my parliament make any amendment to the constitution saying Cambodia is a one-party country. The fact is that my constitution reads Cambodia is a free multi-party democracy, so please stop framing my nation as a one-party country. You should be ashamed of the Cambodian people and researchers. A number of political parties were established and contested elections, and there are also a number of their representatives in the National Assembly. Following the dissolution of the CNRP, there are representatives from at least four political parties in the national assembly, meaning Cambodia’s multi-party democracy process was in much better condition than when the opposition you backed existed.

Democracy exists at all levels – it is translated by how hard the representatives at the National Assembly and members of the Commune-Sangkat Council are working actively to serve their supporters, even harder than those from the opposition who, after each election, always cause social troubles and conspire with foreigners to trigger ‘color revolution’ to grasp power undemocratically. Such work might have been brought and taught to you in your NDI training. You also claimed that Cambodia suppressed freedom of information but you never raised the fact that the opposition and civil society had full freedom to operate and even insult my leaders, as well as His Majestic the King. The outlawed opposition activists, both overseas and inside the country, have campaigned to pollute the information to cause social problems. You didn’t even have a single word about it. Is this how the National Democratic Institute works? Your institute should change its name to Strategic Institute for Color Revolution since what you have been doing embedded a secret plan the opposition and the civil society in Cambodia had never known – to serve the U.S. interest.

Ladies and Gentlemen!

In all, the efforts in striving to push foreigners to harm Cambodia’s interest has indeed been significant You, including Kem Monovithya, bowed your head down to serve the American interest and risked Cambodia’s sovereignty for the sake of your family and group’s interest. You call for the U.S. to exercise political and economic sanctions and other measures against Cambodian officials, including appealing for goods embargo from Cambodia, no more investment and aid to Cambodia. On behalf of Cambodian people, I’d request Cambodia’s government to take the following steps:

a). You should not be welcome in Cambodia and Kem Monovithya and their traitorous family’s assets in Cambodia should be frozen.
b). Should the politicians who were barred from politics for five years still carrying on using their party’s structure and badge like at present, official action should be taken.
It is very disappointing that traitors like Kem Sokha, his daughter and Sam Rainsy were born as Cambodians; however, Cambodia is still safe, thanks to the necessary and timely action against the revolution's mastermind. Cambodia and its people have to strive to fight against those traitors’ bosses who are staging revenge against Cambodia on behalf of their puppets. It is not surprising that Cambodia would see unfair actions against them, as a result of the incitation carried out by the outlawed opposition, and is ready to fight back. We also remember in our hearts that Cambodia has traitors and their descendants. They, their outlawed party and their foreign boss should be held accountable for the effects of their eminent political and economic sanctions. Lord Buddha, please bless Cambodia with long-lasting peace and development and punish all the traitors.

Phnom Penh, 15th December 2017
Chao Chakmok,
Independent analyst,
Phnom Penh