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វីដេអូ អូបាម៉ា ចំអកឲ្យ ហ៊ុន សែន ដែលតាំងខ្លួនជាគ្រូ?
វីដេអូ អូបាម៉ា ចំអកឲ្យ ហ៊ុន សែន ដែលតាំងខ្លួនជាគ្រូ?
មានប្រសាសន៍នៅមជ្ឈមណ្ឌលពិព័រណ៍ និងសន្និបាតកោះពេជ្រ លោក ហ៊ុន សែន នាយករដ្ឋមន្រ្តីកម្ពុជាបានអះអាងថា៖ «ថ្ងៃមុនខ្ញុំជួប ជាមួយឯកអគ្គរដ្ឋទូតអាមេរិក មុនពេលដែលចាកចេញពីកម្ពុជា។ នៅពេលដែលគាត់ និយាយជាមួយខ្ញុំ គាត់និយាយយ៉ាងច្រើន អំពីអ្វីដែលហៅថាការ “ផ្លាស់ប្ដូរ”។ ខ្ញុំក៏បាននិយាយទៅកាន់គាត់វិញថា តើអ្នកភ្លេចទេ ឬអ្នកកំពុងនិយាយ ជាមួយអ្នកណា? ឯកឧត្តមកំពុងនិយាយ ជាមួយអ្នកណា? ឯកឧត្តមពិតជា កំពុងនិយាយជាមួយ “សាស្ត្រាចារ្យម្នាក់” ដែលអាចបង្រៀនឯកឧត្តម ឬប្រធានាធិបតី ប្រទេសឯកឧត្តម ឬនាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រីប្រទេសផ្សេង លើបញ្ហាការផ្លាស់ប្ដូរ។»
នៅក្នុងវីដេអូនោះ លោក អូបាម៉ា បានថ្លែងទៀតថា អ្នកខ្លះថាមានតែ“គេ”ទេ ដែលអាចដឹកនាំ និងរក្សាស្ថេរភាពប្រទេស នោះបាន។ លោកបានបង្ហាញ ការយល់ឃើញរបស់ខ្លួន យ៉ាងដូច្នេះថា តែសំរាប់លោកវិញ លោកមិនយល់ដូច្នេះឡើយ។ លោកនឹងជំរុញ ឲ្យមេដឹកនាំទាំងឡាយ ចេះគោរពច្បាប់ និងផ្តល់ឱកាស ដល់អ្នកថ្មី បានកាន់កាប់កិច្ចការដឹកនាំប្រទេសផងដែរ។ លោកបានថ្លេងទៀតថា៖ «ខ្ញុំពិតជាមានឱកាស និងវិធីសាស្ត្រច្រើន ដែលខ្ញុំអាចឈ្នះ តែខ្ញុំមិនធ្វើ។ ខ្ញុំគោរពច្បាប់។ (I actually Think about the opportunity any way I can win but I can’t. I respect to the law)»។
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Critics on Cambodia High School Exam 2015
This year is signified by its second attempt of education’s dictatorial regime of Cambodia to strictly monitor the exam’s session for high school students nationwide (watch video clip by RFA).
There are more than 87,000 candidates have lined up in different 150 exam centers to enter into 3576 restricted exam rooms. The nation’s budget is spent not less than 4 millions dollar to attain the two days nationwide exam on August 25-26, 2015.
Cambodia has been well-known of rampant corruption accounting from officers’ offices to school compounds. Urging to topple the school’s bribery and corruption regime, the new measure of dictatorial monitoring during exam has been taken place. The monitoring methods are incorporated by Anti-Corruption United (ACU) to dispatch exam monitors to inspect and to spook all entering students. The exam agents are scavenging hiding sheets under their pants, or sleeves, or inside their shoes etc. Exam monitors also walked around the rooms, the tables, and espy from all directions during the exam. Policemen are also dispatched to monitor the students as well.
This is weird scene looking from outsiders when they are recalling their high school exam experiences. Regardless to mention Western countries, Cambodia’s neighboring Thailand, their exam environment didn’t translate students’ confidence into hostility at all. Beside of well reform in education through fiscal transparency and increasing budget allocation towards the demands of schools especially to increase teacher’s decent salary, the curriculum and learning environment, all are conducive and incentive to students to grab knowledge at their maximum without grabbing the feeling of hostility.
Scene view of Cambodia Students during Exam 2015 – photo courtesy of MoEYs facebooke page.
The attendance, the effort, and the scores of yearly accumulation, all are included into students’ portfolio. The exam has been happened for students to fulfill their learning representing about 30 to 40 percent only at the year end. Strangely, Cambodian students’ portfolio has not been included. Their whole year effort is badly excluded. They are counted only two days exam. If they passed, they are happy; but if they are failed, they are sad. Many of them have given up schools without fulfilling their dream to step up tertiary education.
This has been seen as dictatorial and extreme policy for Cambodian high school students to bring with them confidence after 12 years compulsory enrollment.
Competitiveness?
Cambodian students who are lining up to enter into the rooms of fame (exam rooms) with confusing feeling of working hard 365 days is likely meaningless for them because they have to fight for homestretch in just these two days.
Those students are competing in two days to pass the exam. It seems Cambodia is good in setting up a competitive stage by dispatching thousand monitor agents (arbitrators) to believe in fairness but not the ability of the players themselves. The high school students (players) have been poorly trained within the schools’compound to prepare the facing up with those alien arbitrators. The students are believed to force to walk on broken glass.
How about Cambodia’s competitiveness with outsiders? Hard to speak about it for sure!
Political Paradigm of Pragmatism from the Khmer Youth part 33
This part (33), the author Mr. Sophan Seng described the current dilemma of trust and social capital in Cambodia. The survey research released by Asia Foundation found that Cambodian people have little trust on Cambodia government and governance institution. The deficit of trust is clearly caused by following criteria:
1. Decades of past civil war in Cambodia accounting from Lon Nol republic regime, to brutal extremism of Khmer Rouge, to foreign occupation between 1979-1990, and political turbulence in post-UN sponsored election 1993, all have caused dividing and confrontational movements in Cambodia.
- Interference towards the Court and Judicial System of Cambodia by PM Hun Sen is critically saddening. His speech publicized through television about accusing the political activists and senator, and his direct ordering to arrest them are seen undermining the due processes of the court. This political behavior has stifled the judicial system in Cambodia to trial cases fairly, independently, and professionally.
The 11 political protesters were jailed by the court.
- As Cambodia is paced in a post-conflicted stage, the outraging and sensitivity in existing controversies are very common. Hence, political leaders and academia must think twice before making a move with all their grand policy to avoid stagnation. Hun Sen has experienced well in creating public stunts to draw attention and to distract his opponents, but every move have not guaranteed his national interests goal as things could boomerang and bounce back to him unconditionally. Many times of his move shall result in more controversies and dividing.
The two latest protesters are jailed including one in custody.
- Prime Minister Hun Sen has been handling border issues through sensitive discrepancies. And the aim to amend the constitution article 2 is seen very unfavorable as Cambodian proverb said ” you couldn’t cut head to fit hat, but you can cut hat to fit head’.
At the end, the author articulated that good leaders must bear full accountability and transparency to benefit the nation. The nation refers to the Cambodian people, the land, and their future. While leader(s) shall be aged, sicked and died, only the nation and the people are continuing to struggle for their survival. Buddha admired those who have seen this truth and carry out the truth to their utmost ability. Eventually body shall be vanished but remained only name and honor, Buddha assured.
‘Bored’ of Advice of the West, Hun Sen Praises His Own Leadership
‘Bored’ of Advice of the West, Hun Sen Praises His Own Leadership
Hun Sen said his policies have moved Cambodia from a “planned economy” to a free-market one after decades of civil war, making it an attractive place for investors.
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen gestures as he delivers a speech during his presiding over an inauguration ceremony for the official use of a friendship bridge between Cambodia and China at Takhmau, Kandal provincial town south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015.
24 August 2015
Hun Sen said his policies have moved Cambodia from a “planned economy” to a free-market one after decades of civil war, making it an attractive place for investors.
“I am really proud of the policies of the party, as well as my leadership, which has been responsible for the executive body for over 30 years,” Hun Sen told the attendant tycoons. “I understood clearly that you all would deposit your money abroad or would use your money to buy homes abroad, ignoring investments here.”
Instead, his policies have grown the wealthy class, increasing business activities, Hun Sen said. This has made him “bored” with advice from countries of the West, he said. That includes the outgoing US ambassador, William Todd.
U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia William E. Todd gives a speech during a repatriation ceremony to honor the recovery of possible remains believed to belong to missing U.S. military service members found in Kampong Cham province.
“I met with the US ambassador before he left Cambodia,” Hun Sen said. “When he was talking with me, he talked a lot about change. I then said to him: ‘Don’t forget whom you are talking with. Your Excellency is truly talking with a professor who can teach you or the president of your country or other prime ministers on change.’”
“If I can’t discern change, or change the process, would I have been able to stay in power for more than 30 years?” Hun Sen said. “I’m bored with some of the advice provided by some countries to Cambodia.”