Cambodia Jails US Agents as US-China Tensions Rise
The US government, Western media, and supposed “human rights” organizations are condemning Cambodia for recently sentencing Kem Sokha, the former leader of the opposition party “Cambodia National Rescue Party” (CNRP), to 27 years in prison. While the arguments being made publicly revolve superficially around upholding “human rights” and “democracy,” the actual reason for the West’s condemnation is Kem Sokha’s role as a long-time US government proxy Washington invested heavily in over many years.
The Guardian in its article, “US condemns ‘fabricated’ case as Cambodian opposition leader is jailed for 27 years,” would report:
The former leader of the dissolved opposition party the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was arrested in 2017 and accused of conspiring with the US to oust Cambodia’s authoritarian leader, Hun Sen, who has ruled for almost four decades.
US ambassador W Patrick Murphy said the allegations, which Kem Sokha denied, were “fabricated conspiracy theories”.
The Guardian also reported:
Judge Koy Sao told the court in Phnom Penh on Friday: “Kem Sokha … is sentenced to 27 years in prison on the charge of collusion with foreigners committed in Cambodia and other places.” Kem Sokha, who has now been placed under house arrest, was also banned from running for office and from voting in elections.
While the Guardian, other Western media outlets, as well as “human rights” organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are condemning the charges as “fabricated,” no mention is made of the actual evidence presented by Cambodia itself which includes a video where Kem Sokha himself openly admits to planning a Serbia-style color revolution entirely sponsored by the US government.
Kem Sokha’s Admitted Collusion with US-Sponsored Color Revolution
The Phnom Penh Post in 2017 while still an enthusiastically pro-Western media outlet, would report in its article, “Sokha video producer closes Phnom Penh office in fear,” that:
Sokha says he has visited the US at the government’s request every year since 1993 to learn about the “democratisation process” and that “they decided” he should step aside from politics to create change in Cambodia.
“They said if we want to change the leadership, we cannot fight the top. Before changing the top level, we need to uproot the lower one. We need to change the lower level first. It is a political strategy in a democratic country,” he said.
“And, the USA that has assisted me, they asked me to take the model from Yugoslavia, Serbia, where they can change the dictator [Slobodan] Milosevic,” he continues, referring to the former Serbian and Yugoslavian leader who resigned amid popular protests following disputed elections, and died while on trial for war crimes.
“You know Milosevic had a huge number of tanks. But they changed things by using this strategy, and they take this experience for me to implement in Cambodia. But no one knew about this.”
The article also reported:
“I do not do anything at my own will. There experts, professors at universities in Washington, DC, Montreal, Canada, hired by the Americans in order to advise me on the strategy to change the dictator leader in Cambodia.”
It should be noted that the author of the article, Erin Handley, currently works for Australian state media, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and the article itself attempted to excuse Kem Sokha’s collusion with the US government as still somehow congruent with legitimate democratic processes.
Based on Kem Sokha’s own words, the Cambodian opposition leader was clearly engaged in what any nation around the world would define as treason and foreign-sponsored sedition.
Kem Sokha’s reference to Serbia, and the nature of regime change there being US-sponsored, is a fact admitted by even the Western media including in a 2000 article by the New York Times titled, “Who Really Brought Down Milosevic?,” which admits:
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