From: black saphire To: laosnetworkroom@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:00 AM Subject: RE: ( 249 ) ກົບ ເລືອກນາຍ ແລະ ລີງກັບລີງ ຊິງກັນຂື້ນໄມ້ ບາດຈະໄດ້ ບັກໂກກນາໂຖ.
Vietnam, Laos NAs promote cooperation!!! The National Assemblies (NAs) of Vietnam and Laos opened a conference in the northern province of Son La on April 23 to discuss boosting mutual cooperation, solidarity and friendship.
NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung and Lao NA Chairwoman Pany Yathotou. (Source: VNA) Speaking at the opening ceremony, Vietnamese NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung welcomed his Lao counterpart, Pany Yathotu, and her entourage to the conference and conveyed his best wishes to the Lao people on their Bunpimay festival. He emphasized the significance of this year’s conference, saying it marks the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties and 35th anniversary of the signing of the Friendship and Co-operation Treaty.Lao NA President Pany Yathotu said the event offers an opportunity for both nations to review the strong ties, friendship, solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation between the two Parties, States, and peoples, which were founded by the late Presidents Ho Chi Minh and Cayson Phomvihan and nurtured by their successors. She said that over the past decades Laos and Vietnam have joined hands to attain great achievements and feats of arms during their struggles for national independence, which makes their bilateral relationship an invaluable heritage.We are proud to see that despite regional and international complications, the special friendship and comprehensive cooperation between Laos and Vietnam has developed substantially, for prosperity and happiness of the two nations, said Ms Yathotu.The Lao Party, State and people will continue working together with Vietnam to foster their traditional relationship and special solidarity to make mutually beneficial and comprehensive cooperation more effective, Ms Yathotu stressed.On behalf of the Lao Party, State and people, she expressed gratitude for Vietnam’s assistance to Laos during its revolutionary cause.The Vietnamese people have always stood side by side with Laos, helping it to achieve victory over foreign imperialists and reap achievements on its path to socialism, she said.At the plenary session after the opening ceremony, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Lao counterpart Somsavad Lengsavad highlighted the effective bilateral cooperation between the two countries since they signed the 1977 Friendship and Co-operation Treaty.They also proposed measures to fully tap their potential for mutual benefit, especially by raising awareness of their relationship and strengthening cooperation in all fields. Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:09:19 -0700From: ath_dhatpa@yahoo.comSubject: Re: ( 249 ) ກົບ ເລືອກນາຍ ແລະ ລີງກັບລີງ ຊິງກັນຂື້ນໄມ້ ບາດຈະໄດ້ ບັກໂກກນາໂຖ.To: laosnetworkroom@googlegroups.com ສະບາຍດີທ່ານທັງຫລາຍ,
March 7, 2012 A pastor has been released from prison in Laos after being locked up for nearly 13 years because of his Christian activities, ASSIST News Servicereports. Bounchan Kanthavong was set free Feb. 2, having been arrested in June 1999 and sentenced to 12 years in jail for treason and sedition. According to the ministry Barnabas Fund, Bounchan's only "crimes" appear to have been receiving Bible training and sharing his faith with customers in his clothing shop; his actions were perceived as a threat to national security and the traditional Lao religion of spirit worship, and were thus interpreted as treason. Lao authorities warned him repeatedly to stop practicing and sharing Christianity, and ordered him to cease all worship activities at his shop, but his witness led to around 70 people accepting Christ. Following his arrest, his wife took over the leadership of their Christian community, which has grown to more than 3,000 believers today. Bounchan refused to renounce Christ to leave prison early, and his health suffered during his time in jail.
WikiLeaks on Laos The Laos files from WikiLeaks underscored the country’s underdevelopment, endemic corruption in the bureaucracy and the fragile state of its environment. But we already know that. What makes the cables interesting is the kind of frankness that we don’t often get to see or hear from diplomats’ public statements.
For example, here’s how the US Embassy in Vientiane described the poor and unequal economic conditions in the country:
‘Although GoL (Government of Laos) ministers and officials with salaries of less than S75 per month sport cars villas and worthy of Monte Carlo, GDP per capita is still officially less than $400...Unemployment is epidemic, underemployment is endemic, crime is rising, and the investment climate is among the least hospitable in the world.
‘There is almost no rule of law or basic human freedom in Laos, and education is in the hands of a corrupt and ideologically hidebound ministry that uses ADB money to build a grandiose but unnecessary new ministry building while rural children sit on logs and try to remember what a teacher looked like.’
One report even declared a ‘direct consequence of decades of abuse of power is that there is no public trust’ and that ‘government officials are presumed to be corrupt unless proven otherwise.’
These corrupt officials apparently approved the implementation of several development projects that are hurting the poor:
(KPL)-- La Pharmacie américaine Walgreens a déclaré lors de la cérémonie du lancement de campagne de vaccination contre la grippe et de célébration de la semaine mondiale de vaccination, le 24 avril qu’elle offrira un don en vaccin antigrippe d’une valeur totale de 9 millions de dollars au gouvernement de la RDP du Laos pour soutenir son projet de vaccination contre la grippe qui pourrait se produire pendant l’hiver . Le ministère laotien de la Santé publique de commencer la distribution de ces vaccins le 26 avril et durera jusqu’à la fin mai 2012. Ce don fait partie des efforts de coopération commune entre le centre de prévention et de contrôle des maladies des Etats-Unis et le ministère de la Santé publique du Laos, sur la base de la coopération existant depuis longtemps entre le ministère laotien de la santé, l’OMS, le centre de prévention et de contrôle des maladies des Etats-Unis et l’ambassade des Etats-Unis à Vientiane. Cette aide reste un but prévisionnel de Walgreens pour vacciner les personnes en risque qui sont les femmes en ceinte, les enfants et les personnes âgées ainsi que celles touchées par les maladies pulmonaires et cardiaques. De son côté le ministère laotien de la santé prévoit de vacciner plus de 357000 personnes contre la grippe.
Remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers repatriated from Laos
(KPL/VOV 27.04.12) - A ceremony was held in the central province of Nghe An on April 22 to rebury 84 sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who had sacrificed their lives on the former battlefields in Laos.
The remains were found and excavated by a special working group of Vietnam' s Nghe An province and Laos' Xieng Khouang and Vientiane provinces during a joint search campaign in the two Lao provinces in the 2011-2012 dry season.
Earlier, local Lao people and Vietnamese nationals in Xieng Khouang province held a requiem to commemorate the fallen Vietnamese soldiers and experts.
Over the past 28 years, the Military Command of the Nghe An province has searched, repatriated and reburied more than 12,000 sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts at Vietnam-Laos War Martyr Cemetery in Anh Son district and a war martyr cemetery in Do Luong district.
Of the total, nearly 800 remains have been identified.
LAOS: Communal land titles could save more than forests
Photo: Contributor/IRIN A villager cuts bamboo from the local forestVIENTIANE, 16 April 2012 (IRIN) - With pressure on natural resources increasing in Laos, the first community land titles granted to five villages in Vientiane Province could provide a national model for environmental protection while safeguarding the livelihoods of villagers.
“It’s very important because the communal land titles can give communities the right to access and harvest natural resources, and overcome land concessions to companies,” Souvanpheng Phommasane, an advisor for SNV Netherlands Development Organization told IRIN.
The title deeds cover an area of 2,189 hectares of bamboo-producing forest. After a two-year process the land was finally handed over to the five villages in Sangthong District, 50km west of the capital, Vientiane, in February.
Hanna Saarinen, coordinator for the Land Issues Working Group, which represents 40 concerned civil society organizations, says the issue of land ownership is becoming more urgent.
“In the last five to 10 years there have been more and more competing interests [seeking control] over natural resources,” she said. Private sector companies as well as communities “have been using the same land, the same forest for years”.
The government’s 2011-2015 development plan sets a target of at least 8 percent annual economic growth, driven primarily by extractive industries, such as mining, hydropower and plantation agriculture. All these activities require significant land allocation, while slash-and-burn agriculture and logging further diminish forested areas.
Trees once spread across 70 percent of Laos, but in 2010 the Department of Forestry estimated that this has now been reduced to just 40 percent. The decline in forest cover not only has wide environmental impacts but also affects rural incomes.
Per capita income stands at just over US$1,000 per year, the World Bank reports, and 75 percent of the country’s workforce earns a livelihood from agriculture.
Government statistics note that non-timber forest products, such as bamboo, contribute about 40 percent of rural income.
A bamboo trade association in Sangthong District, set up in 2007, designs and produces furniture and handicrafts made from local bamboo. The district administration states that households involved in the project can earn an additional 2 million Lao Kip ($250) a month - a significant amount for villagers living in one of the 46 districts designated by the government as the poorest in the country.
Photo: Contributor/IRIN Villagers practice slash and burn agriculture in northern Laos Salongsay Mixay, the head of Na Po village, says the local forests were under threat before the land titles were granted.
“There were different cases. A big truck comes from somewhere - no one knows where, maybe the city - and they cut [bamboo] and went away. The second case is the investor who talks to the villagers and says, ‘I want to cut this much [bamboo],’ and pays a little amount of money, and leaves.”
Replicating the land-grant model across this Southeast Asian nation may not be straightforward. “In Sangthong it was a specific case because they had this bamboo project - they were already managing the bamboo areas, they had a forest management plan - but there are no clear guidelines or manuals, so the districts do not know how to do it in practice,” said Saarinen.
Support from a number of development organizations, with funding through the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme, and implementation by the United Nations Development Programme, helped the Sangthong District administration to tackle the procedures needed to apply for and eventually be granted the title deeds to the land.
Phommasane from SNV Netherlands believes that if other districts receive similar support they could also get communal land titles. The government is carrying out a land policy review that is expected to formalize the procedures for granting communal land titles.
Giving ownership of more of the land to the villagers who earn their living from it could be critical to the government’s stated ambition of restoring forest cover to 65 percent of the country by 2015.
Khamoon Tiengthila, the Sangthong District deputy governor, says he is proud of what his district has achieved. “It’s a small project that contributes to preserving the world’s environment. The forest is important for development and the economy.”
Champassack calls for almost 100 billion kip for road repair
By Vinnaly
(KPL25.04.2012) The authorities of Champassack province has called for 98 billion kip for the renovation of bridge and road hit by severe flooding and landslide removal.
More than 300 million kip fund is now an urgent request for repairing the damaged roads.
A senior staff of Champassack Public Works and Transport Service, Mr. Phitsahong Phoummavongsa said Champassack province was hit by tropical storm Nork Tene between July and August, triggering flash flood.
Over 80 roads in 10 districts have been reportedly broken caused by severe flooding.
The worst-hit districts are Paksong with more than 100 km long, following by Soukhouma with the stretch of 70 km, five bridges.
The budget for road and Mekong embankment renovation cost 98 billion kip, Mr Phitsahong said.
He added that many roads in Parkse municipality have been broken. ຍາມຝົນມາຮອດແລ້ວ ຖນົນ345 ສາຍ ຂັວ34ແຫ່ງ ແລະ ໂຮງຮຽນໂຮງຫມໍ182 ທີ່ຖືກພັຍທັມມະຊາດ(ສູນເສັຍທັງຫົມດ 1600ລ້ານ ດລ ໃນຂະນະທີ່ງົປມານທັງ ປທ ມີແຕ່ 1800ລ້ານ ເດິສັດເດັຍຣະສານທັງຫລາຍ) ທຳລາຍໃນປິ 2011ຍັງບໍ່ມີຄວາມສາມາດສ້າງສາບຸຣະໄຫ່ມຂື້ນໄດ້ ຊ້ຳໄປ ເສຶອກ ຕົບມື ຮ້ອງໂຮແບບຊີ້ນສຕີວ່າ ປິ ນີ້ ເສຖກິດ ໂຈນແນວລາວມັນຊີໂຕອິກແລ້ວ ໂຄດຊັ່ວສຸ
(KPL24.04.2012)-- L’ambassade des Etats-Unis au Laos a remis un chèque au Fonds mondial de conservation des animaux sauvages au Laos. Cette aide est destinée à la mise en œuvre de l’étude sur les sites et sur l’habitat des pangasius (pa Beuk) du Mékong. Ce poisson peut peser plus de 350 kg et mesurer 3m de long.
Cette aide vise également à protéger les poissions rares et à financer des études sur les nouvelles espèces de poisson du Mékong, a déclaré M. Victor Cowling, représentant du Fonds Mondial de Conservation des animaux sauvages au Laos.
La remise de cette aide a été organisée, le 23 avril à Vientiane par S. E. Mme Karen B. Stewart, ambassadrice des Etats - Unis au Laos et M. Victor Cowling.
The war in Laos was merely a tail of the war in Vietnam. While the Vietnam problem was not resolved, the Lao problem would not be satisfactorily resolved. Therefore, in 1968, while Vietnam peace talk was taking place in Paris, various Lao factions also started to negotiate. On July 22 1968, the central committee of the Lao Patriotic Front announced that it no longer accepted the 1962 domestic agreement to create a three-way Lao coalition government, and that all Lao resolutions must be based on the 1962 Geneva conference on Laos. In the mean time in Vientiane, Phouma stuck to his well-worn position that there would be no new negotiation, the four seats belonging to Lao communist in the coalition cabinet remained vacant until they “returned”. On March 6, 1970, the Lao communist, still under the banner of the central committee of the Lao Patriotic Front, advanced a concrete five-point proposal to serve as basis for all negotiations. This proposal was modelled after the ten-point comprehensive resolution put forth by Vietnam communist on May 8, 1969 (under the cover of the People’s Liberation Front of South Vietnam), aiming at re-establishing a new coalition government (naturally based on the new arrangement), accepting five principles for peaceful coexistence and requiring the U.S. to withdraw personnel and arms from Laos. Phouma responded by rejecting the key requirement (for the U.S. to cease bombing), and demanding immediate cease-fire, letting the International Commission of Control supervise the cease-fire, and convening the three factions afterwards. On April 27 1971, the communists again put forth two demands in a joint announcement at a conference between the Lao Patriotic Front and the Alliance Committee of Patriotic Neutral Forces. These demands were no different from the previous five points, as they merely repeated the same demands but under the banner of a broader coalition. On June 26 1971, Phouma rejected the new demands and repeated his position that “the urgent issue presently is to arrive at a cease-fire throughout Laos.” Pursuant to this was a series of letter exchanges between the royal brothers Souvanna Phouma and Souphanouvong which contained an important change of direction, such as the June 22, 1971 letter from Souphanouvong accepting cease-fire as a first step, the July 27 1971 letter from Phouma accepting the five-point plan as a basis for peace talk. Of course, these were the agreements between Hanoi and Washington, and the two Lao princes were merely spokesmen. The basic difficulty in arranging for peace talk was the representation of the neutral faction. On July 20, 1972, an announcement from the central committee of the Lao Patriotic Front on the 10-year anniversary of the 1962 Geneva conference on Laos accused the Phouma government of being the reactionary force aiding U.S. sabotage and invasion, and also repeated the old position that the three-way coalition government no longer existed after the April 6, 1964 coup. Finally, peace talk got under way and each of the two sides claimed to represent itself as well as the neutral side. So the Lao communist delegation included a Lao Patriotic Front representative and the Alliance Committee of Patriotic Neutral Forces (general Phoume Sipraseuth). In reality, both were controlled by Phoumi Vongvichit, the general secretary of the Lao Patriotic Front. On the other side, Vientiane tried to re-establish Phouma as the “neutral prince” and form a neutral party (but its central committee was not elected until February 17 1973). The conference started with numerous procedural maneuvers, and not until the conclusion of the Paris peace talk on Vietnam on January 27, 1973 that the conference did get into gear. Even then, it took more than a month, on February 20,1974, for both sides to agree on a document known as the Agreement on Peace and National Reconciliation in Laos. Lao communist accepted the agreement because Vietnam communist agreed to it. North Vietnam accepted because it had completed moving to its Indochinese base 15,000 troops, 250 tanks, 50 armored trucks, a large number of 120 and 130 mm artillery, and over 1,300 tons of ammunition and war supplies despite non-stop U.S. air bombardment of the Ho Chi Minh trail, with over 50 B-52 sorties and 200 tactical sorties daily throughout this period. On the U.S. side, it wanted a Laos agreement in hand before attending the international conference on Vietnam in Paris on February 26, 1973. So, the White House sent Sullivan to Vientiane to pressure Phouma. Specifically, the U.S. let it be known that it would unilaterally stop all bombing starting February 25. Phouma reluctantly agreed, in the face of the irony that his government would be known only as the Vientiane government (instead of the government of the Lao Monarchy), while the other side was called the patriotic fronts! On February 21, the agreement was signed at 11 AM at the private mansion of prime minister Phouma. The agreement comprised of five parts and 14 conditions. The content was based on the Vietnam agreement; however parity between the two sides was more clearly defined. This gave Lao communist a clear advantage, compared to the communists in South Vietnam. According to the agreement, both sides would cease fire immediately starting the next day, February 22, 1973; afterwards they would immediately form a joint committee to implement the agreement. Within 30 days, an interim coalition government and a political committee would be formed to govern the country, organize a National Assembly election, and form an official coalition government. Within 60 days after the formation of the interim government, all foreign forces would withdraw from Laos and all prisoners of war would be released. To deal with the third faction, similar to the Vietnam agreement, the Laos agreement left this decision to the two sides, meaning that each side would add its own people. To be blunt, there was really no third faction in the coalition, because the general masses never separated themselves into a first or second faction, let alone a third or fourth. The reality was that the third faction was merely a label used by the politicians without affiliation with the left or right. Once they had obtained a worthy position, these politicians would immediately assimilate with the faction that gave them the position. These disagreeable scenes could be witnessed everywhere, and there was no need for further discussion. From the people’s point of view, the people’s position is unchanged, that of the oppressed in their own country. That position is to inherently against the invaders. Today the invaders are the communists and capitalists; in the past, they were the colonialists and fascists; tomorrow they could be X or Y. And generally speaking, they are of the same type, belonging to the same side, the side opposed to the people in a country targeted by foreign manipulation. So, this agreement or that accord is merely the affair of global antagonists, victims have no voice and they do not even deserve mentioning. Regarding the Laos situation, the optimistic right will conclude that after a quarter of a century of struggle, the communists had failed to turn Laos red. This is true. But to the communists, success is not necessarily limited to the struggle of a generation. The communist strategists would give this more realistic assessment: “Within the Vientiane coalition government, the left gained two seats in the first coalition in 1957, four seats in the second coalition in 1962, and six seats in the third coalition in 1973.” And with this gradual forward movement, in a fourth coalition (if ever exist) the left would gain all 12 seats within the cabinet that has a total of 12 seats in Vientiane!
Asia 21 April 1999 : The pakse Bridge : Building such a huge project in a country like Laos has it own special problems.Patrick Arnold , a Swiss engineer explains how the majority of the 250 workers who are local, had little or no experience of construction prior to starting in september 1997."It is hard to believe , but for some of them , it was the first time they had seen a hammer" 37 ປີ ພ...ວກ ຂ້າສາຣະວັນອັຕປື ເມືອງໂຂງ ນຳພາ ປທ ຊາຕຂອງພວກເຮົາໄປສູ່ຄວາມຫລົ້ມເຫລວ ຈີບຫາຍວາຍວອດຂາຍຫ້ນາຂາຍຕາ ເຫັນໄດ້ ເຂົາບໍ່ໄດ້ພັທນາການສືກສາ (ທຸກໆຂແຫນງເລີຍນະ)ໃຫ້ເປັນມາຕຖານໂລກໄດ້ ເພື່ອ ຕ້ອນຣັບການປ່ຽນແປງຢ່າງວ່ອງໄວຂອງການພັທນາ ປທ ເຫັນໄດ້ ໃນປີ1997 ເມື່ອ ມີການສ້າງຂັວ ທີ່ ປາກເຊ ກັມມະກອນລາວ 250 ຄົນ ແມ່ນພຽງຄົນງານທັມມະດາທີ່ອາດຈະຜ່ານການສຶກສາຈາກໂຮງຮຽນການຊ່າງຊັ້ນຕ່ຳເທົ້ານັ້ນ(ສ່ວນໄຫ່ຍໃນຊີຊີດ ບໍ່ເຄີຍເຫັນຮອດໄມ້ຄ້ອນ)ໄດ້ຖືກບັນຈຸເຂົ້າເຮັດວຽກໃນ ບໍລີສັດການກໍ່ສ້າງຂອງຍີ່ປູ່ນນີ້ ສ່ວນຂັ້ນສູງ ເຊັ່ນ ນັກ ວີສາວະກອນເອກ ທີ່ ມີຄູນນະພາບໂລກ ແມ່ນຄົນຕ່າງດ້າວທັງນັ້ນ ເພາະ ພວກໂຈນມັນບໍ່ສາມາດສູມຫົວກັນປັບປູງມະຫາລັຍການຊ່າງຊັ້ນສູງໄດ້ ເພື່ອ ປ້ອນຕລາດ ບໍລີສັດຕ່າງດ້າວ ທີ່ ກຳລັງຫລັ່ງໄຫລເຂົ້າມາສັມປະທານການສ້າງສາ Mega project ຂອງ ປທເວລານີ້. ຫນັງສືພີມ ຈາກ ຍີ່ປູ່ນ ທີ່ ຜູ້ຂ້າ ກ່າຍອອກມາໃຫ້ອ່ານຢ່າງຫ້ນາວີຕົກຕໍ່ອານາຄົດຂອງຊາຕເຮົານີ້ ເຂົາຍົກເອົາຄວາມຍູ້ງຍາກໃນການຮັບເອົາແຮງງານລາວຊັ້ນຕ່ຳກັມມະກອນ)ເທົ້ານັ້ນກະຍັງຊີ້ໃຫ້ເຫັນແລ້ວວ່າ ເຂົາມີບັນຫາ ຜູ້ຂ້າເຄີຍໄປ ສີງກະໂປ ເຫັນ ຄົນຂອງເຂົາໃຊ້ ພາສາອັງກີດ ເປັນພາສາ ຣາຊການ ຊູມຊົນ ເຂົາ ຈະເປັນທີ່ໃດກະຊ່າງແມ່ນ ຈະໄດ້ຍີນເຂົາເວົ້າໂລກກັນແຕ່ພາສາ ອັງກີດ ສ່ວນຫນັງສືພີມນັ້ນ ບໍ່ໃຫ້ເວົ້າເຖີງ ສ່ວນໄຫ່ຍແລ້ວ ແມ່ນພາສາໂລກນີ້ລະກວມກີນຫົມດ ເຫດນີ້ລະ ສີງກະໂປ ຈື່ງເປັນ ປທ ມະຫາອຳນາດ ທາງດ້ານການເງີນ ໃນໂລກ(ມີເງີນໃນກອງທືນ ປທ ເກືອນ ຈະຮອດ ລ້ານລ້ານ ດລ ສ່ວນ ສປປລ ມີຫນີ້ 3ພັນກ່ວາລ້ານ ດລ) ທັງໆ ທີ່ ເປັນ ປທ ນ້ອຍ (ອາດຈະໄຫ່ຍກ່ວາເມືອງ ວຈ ເຮົານີ້ລະ) ມີ ປະຊາກອນ ແຕ່ 4 ລ້ານ ດີນແດນ ຈຳກັດ ນ້ຳຕ້ອງສັ່ງຊື້ຈາກ ປທ ມາເລຊີ ແລະ ຢ່າລືມນະ ເຂົາໄດ້ເອກກະຣາຊ ກ່ອນ ລາວເຮົາ 10 (1965) ປີ ແຕ່ ອ້າງຕາມຄຳສຳພາດ ຂອງ ນຍ ບັວສອນ ທີ່ ປທ ສີງກະໂປ ເມື່ອ ສອງປີ ກ່ອນ ບອກວ່າ ອານາຈັກໂຈນ ເຂົາ ລ້າຫລັງ ກ່ວາ ອມຣກ 300 ປີ ເປັນຫ່ວງບໍ ພີ່ນ້ອງເສຣີຊົນ ລາວທັ່ວໂລກ ຄວນ ທື້ນ ພວກ ເຖື່ອນ ນີ້ອອກຈາກ ອຳນາດມືດຂອງມັນໄດ້ແລ້ວ
ต้องยอมรับว่า เสียงเพลง Let it be ที่ พ.ต.ท.ทักษิณ ชินวัตร อดีตนายกรัฐมนตรี เปล่งร้องจากผืนแผ่นดินแห่งกรุงเสียมราฐ กัมพูชา นั้น พุ่งตรงเข้าก้องโสตของฝ่ายอำมาตย์ และผองศัตรูกันถ้วนหน้า
Je suis tout-à-fait sceptique sur la cérémonie religieuse de repentante concernant Phrakéo Morakot commises, selon lui même, par M. Thaksin dans sa vie précédente. A mon avis, ce n'est qu'un prétexte pour cacher les enjeux économiques probables de sa visite au Laos les 11 - 12 - 13 avril qui est le projet de TGV sino-lao que l'on n'a plus entendu parler depuis un certain temps.
Premièrement, les négociations lao-sino trainent en longueur parce que les Chinois demandent de plus la concession de 2 k.m. de terrain de chaque côté de la voie longue plus de 400 k.m. que les Laotiens, jusque là, n'ont pas voulu accepter.
C'est la raison pour laquelle on n'a plus entendu parler de l'avancement de la construction de la voie debuté depuis le début de l'année. Je crois qu'elle a été suspendue jusqu'à l'aboutissement des négociations
en cours.
Deuxièmement, le nouveau gouvernement thailandais dirigé de façade par Melle Yingluck Shinawatra,
soeur de Thaksin, a accordé les priorités aux projets de TGV Bangkok - Chiengmai et Bangkok - Khorat.
Personnellement, je me pose la question pourquoi la ligne du Nord-Est s'arrête tout simplement à Khorat et n'est pas prolongée jusqu'à Nongkhai. Alors qu'elle a été la même ligne depuis plusieurs décennies.
Donc le projet de TGV thailandais ne correspond pas à celui des Chinois voulant se servir de la ligne
sino-laotienne liée à la ligne thailandais à Nongkhai pour acheminer leurs marchandises jusqu' à la
Mailaisie et Singapour.
Je pense que c'est là le principal enjeu de la venue de M. Thaksin à VTE dont les Laotiens espèrent qu'il convaincra sa soeur de modifier le projet de TGV en faveur du Laos.
Si les deux côtés parviennent à des objectifs voulus par les Laotiens, l'un des obstacles de la ligne
sino-lao sera levé. Il ne restera plus que l'autre que les Laotiens doivent négocier directement avec les Chinois. On verra bien ce que résultera de ces négociations.
Voila, M. Xaysana, les enjeux principaux de la venue de M. Thaksin à VTE...Par contre, la cérémonie religieuse de repentante de sa part à propos de Phrakéo Morakot ne sera que la façade à tromper les esprits faibles.
Je crois fort bien que même si M. Thaksin pouvait rentrer en Thailande et diriger le pays de l'intérieur, le sacré Phrakéo ne sera pas rendu au Laos. Thaksin oubliera vite la cérémonie de sa repentante à VTE.
Pour votre information, je tiens à vous rappeler de façon brève l'histoire lao-siamoise. Le roi siamois règnant à l'époque où Phrakéo avait été emmené à Bangkok s'appelait "Phrachao Taksin Maharaj" ou (Taksin Le Grand) qui venait de libérer son pays, dont la capitale était Ayudhya, de l'occupation birmane....
Fort de sa victoire contre les Birmans, alors il en profitait pour lancer avec succès ses forces victorieuses à la conquête du Cambodge, du Lanexang divisé et affabli en trois royaumes hostiles les uns contre les autres:
Luang Phrabang, Vientiane et Champassack.
Rien ne pouvait arrêter la montée en force de ses armées. Après le Camboge et le Lanexang, ses forces
continuaient à aller encore plus loin au Nord pour conquérir le Lanna dont la capitale était Chiengmai.
Je crois que la ressemblance des noms "Taksin" et "Thaksin" a donnée une idée trompeuse à l'ancien PM thailandais selon laquelle il est la réincarnation de "Phrachao Taksin Maharaj".....Il va faire semblant de reconnaître ses erreurs dans le passé concernant Phrakéo Morakot lors de sa venue à VTE cette fois. Seuls le esprits faibles peuvent y croire facilement.
Voila, M. Xaysana, mon analyse sur la venue de M. Thaksin à VTE mercredi prochain. Je sais bien que cela
ne pourra jamais vous convaincre, car votre esprit est fort bien concentré sur le rêve de la réunion du Laos actuel et le Phak Issan, ce qui n'est pas du tout dans mon esprit.
Toutes les priorités des priorités pour moi c'est de développer le Laos actuel pour hisser son niveau de développement proche de celui des voisins de l'ASEAN.
Si l'on perd le temps à songer à la reconquête de Phak Issan, du Yunnan dans le Sud de la Chine, de Muong Thèng (Dien Bien Phu), de l'Etat Shan en Birmanie ou de l'Assam en Inde on ne finira que par se faire écraser en miettes car une petite fourmi ne s'engage jamais dans une grande guerre contre des grands éléphants.
Vous m'avez parlé du boukin "Si Souphanouvong réincarnait" dans lequel la reconquête de Phak Issan est abordé. A mon avis, il s'agit de l'ancien projet de l'époque de la guerre froide du prince rouge. Même si Souphanouvong vivait encore aujourd'hui il ne parlerait plus jamais de cet ancien projet bien révolu à nos jours.
Nine men arrested with 371 kilos of explosives at Lao border Last Updated: Thursday, April 20, 2012 02:20:00
Nine men are escorted by central Vietnam police with illegal explosives they had smuggled from Laos
Nine men were arrested by police in the central province of Quang Binh on Tuesday as they were smuggling explosives into Vietnam through the Laos border. Nine sacks of explosives weighing 371 kilograms were seized near the border in Bo Trach District. The men, all locals between 26 and 45 years of age, said they had crossed the border into Laos early this month to bring the explosives to Vietnam. The case is being investigated further.
20 morts dans 160 accidents routiers pendant la fête du Nouvel An laotien
La police a enregistré 20 morts et 60 blessés dans les accidents routiers qui se sont produits dans l’ensemble du pays pendant trois jours de la célébration du Nouvel An laotien (13, 14 et 15 avril 2012). Le nombre de morts a diminué par rapport de la même période de l’année dernière, a déclaré, un policier de circulation routière du ministère de la Sécurité publique. La cause principale reste la conduite dans un état d’ivresse et l’excès de vitesse. Parmi ces accidents, 100 étaient survenus dans la capitale, 22 cas dans la province de Savannakhet, 7 dans Attapeu, 7 dans Oudomxay, 4 dans Bokèo, 18 dans Bolikhamxay, 7 dans Saravane, 17 dans Khammouane et 16 dans Champassak. Les provinces épargnées d’accidents sont celles de Xayboury, de Luang Prabang, de Houaphanh, de Sékong et de Vientiane. On a compté 30 morts dans 160 accidents routiers l’année dernière.
Champassack calls for almost 100 billion kip for road repair
By Vinnaly
(KPL 20.04.2012) The authorities of Champassack province has called for 98 billion kip for the renovation of bridge and road hit by severe flooding and landslide removal.
More than 300 million kip fund is now an urgent request for repairing the damaged roads.
A senior staff of Champassack Public Works and Transport Service, Mr. Phitsahong Phoummavongsa said Champassack province was hit by tropical storm Nork Tene between July and August, triggering flash flood.
Over 80 roads in 10 districts have been reportedly broken caused by severe flooding.
The worst-hit districts are Paksong with more than 100 km long, following by Soukhouma with the stretch of 70 km, five bridges.
The budget for road and Mekong embankment renovation cost 98 billion kip, Mr Phitsahong said.
He added that many roads in Parkse municipality have been broken.
Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh memorial complex built in Laos
(KP L/VNA) - Construction of a memorial complex to President Ho Chi Minh began in Xiangvang village, Nongbouk district, in Khammouane province of Laos on April 18.
The event was jointly held by Ho Chi Minh Museum of Vietnam and Kaysone Phomvihan Museum of Laos.
Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony, Director of Ho Chi Minh Museum Chu Duc Tinh said the complex will be built on an area of 1.5 hectares at a cost of 35 billion VND as non-refundable aid from the Vietnamese Government.
It includes a memorial house and a house introducing the revolutionary life of President Ho Chi Minh as well as his impact on the Vietnam-Laos special relations.
The complex is expected to be completed within a year to mark the 122nd anniversary of the birthday of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19) and Vietnam -Laos Friendship Year in 2012, Tinh said.
Souvandi Sisavath, who is in charge of the Kaysone Phomvihan Museum , said the complex will hold historical and political significance, and highlight the special cultural identities of the two countries.
The beloved President, who founded the Indochinese Communist Party, the precursor of the Lao People�s Revolutionary Party, established and fostered the special relations and comprehensive cooperation between the two Parties, States and people, he said.
The complex is built on land where President Ho used to live and work, Souvandi Sisavath said, noting that it manifests boundless gratefulness to the President, who dedicated his life to the revolutionary cause of the two countries.
กติกา ของเขาบอกว่าให้รถทางด้านขวามือของคนขับไปก่อน ตัวอย่างในภาพ รถคัน B สีเหลืองต้องให้สิทธิรถ A คันสีแดงไปก่อน เพราะรถสีแดงอยู่ทางด้านขวามือของคนขับสีเหลือง
De : laosnetworkroom@googlegroups.com [mailto:laosnetworkroom@googlegroups.com] De la part de Jonh Anouvong Envoyé : mercredi 18 avril 2012 05:16 À : laosnetworkroom@googlegroups.com Objet : Re: Thaksin chantait comme un chat
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From: loukmahaxay001 To: laosnetworkroom@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:01 PM Subject: RE: Thaksin chantait comme un chat
ທ່ານບຸນລຽນທີ່ນັບຖື..
ຖ້າທ່ານມີນ້ອງສາວເປັນນາຍຍົກແລ້ວ ດັ້ງຍິງຣັກ
ທ່ານຈະເປັນຂູ້ແຂ່ງ ຫລືຈະສະນັບສະນູນຕໍ່ ?
ຜູ້ຂ້າຂໍເປັນ ຄົມໃນຝັກຈະດີກ່ວາ..
De : laosnetworkroom@googlegroups.com [mailto: laosnetworkroom@googlegroups.com ] De la part de Bounliane Rajphoumy Envoyé : mardi 17 avril 2012 15:04 À : laosnetworkroom@googlegroups.com Cc : santy khammoung Objet : Re: Thaksin chantait comme un chat
UN CHIEF CONGRATULATES NEW WORLD BANK PRESIDENT New York, Apr 17 2012 2:10PM
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated Dr. Jim Yong Kim on his appointment as the 12th President of the World Bank, noting that he brings to the Bank the mix of professional development expertise and personal commitment required to advance the global development agenda at this difficult time.
“A pioneer in the struggle to address HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, and with an extensive track record as an institutional reformer, Dr. Kim has long emphasized empowerment, grass-roots action and holistic approaches that put people first,” Mr. Ban’s spokesperson said in a statement.
It added that the Secretary-General assures him of the UN system’s full support, and looks forward to working closely with Mr. Kim on efforts to promote sustainable development and achieve the Millennium Development Goals – the globally agreed blueprint for halving extreme poverty, halting the spread of diseases, promoting access to education and improving health care – ahead of the 2015 deadline.
Mr. Ban’s spokesperson also conveyed the Secretary-General’s gratitude to Mr. Kim’s predecessor at the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, for his service over the past five years, noting that, at a time of crisis for the world economy, he forged strong partnerships with developing countries and other multilateral institutions in addressing common challenges.
“He brought greater transparency to the Bank and the development process,” the spokesperson said. “And under his guidance, the Bank has made significant contributions to the development debate, including through its flagship World Development Reports addressing key issues such as food security, climate change, gender equity and the links among conflict, security and development.” Apr 17 2012 2:10PM ________________ For more details go to UN News Centre at http://www.un.org/news
Israeli Air Force Set To Attack Iran – Israeli TV Written by: RT
April 17, 2012 Israel has once again demonstrated its readiness to launch a massive assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The Israeli Air Force is geared up and ready to strike as soon as the order is given, a major Israeli TV station reported.
A reporter from Israel’s Channel 10 TV station has spent several weeks interviewing pilots and other military personnel at an Israeli air base. Dozens of pilots are inspired with the prospect of Israel’s first full-scale air campaign in 30 years. Most of the interviewees spoke openly about the “year’s preparations” that are now almost over, as the country heads towards a hot and tense summer.
“Dozens if not more planes” are being prepared to carry out an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, the reporter Alon Ben-David said. This includes F-15 fighter jets, escort planes and air tankers to refuel the squadron en route to its target.
Unmanned drones are also expected to play a role in the operation. The all-weather fully-automatic UAV Eitan was designed for strategic reconnaissance but reportedly has assault capabilities as well. “This plane can do all that is required of it when the order is given,” one of the pilots said as cited in the report.
When the order is given, the assault will be “short and professional,” pilots say.
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan warned earlier that, although IAF has the capability to deliver a crushing blow to Iran’s nuclear facilities and wipe out years of research, such an attack would have serious repercussions. He said that such an operation would trigger a war in Gaza – and that in retaliation, Iran would launch hundreds of missiles at Israel.
One of major problem the IAF will be facing is the Russian-made advanced anti-aircraft systems deployed in many countries across the region, including Iran and Syria. Israel’s military personnel are aware that by no means will all of them get home safe from the mission.
Moreover, the pilots had already been told where their families would be moved when the assault begins – proof that attack day is drawing close, as the report mentions.
Israel believes that a nuclear-equipped Iran would pose an existential threat to it. As a result, Israel has repeatedly reiterated its threats to deal with the issue militarily. Defense Minister Ehud Barak even spoke of a three-month deadline for Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions, which ends in mid-summer.
Iran insists that its nuclear program is fully civilian, and any enriched uranium it produces is for medical and research purposes. The Islamic Republic has even said it is ready to make concessions on its nuclear program if the West takes “confidence-building measures” and lifts the crippling sanctions. “We are ready to resolve all issues very quickly and simply,” Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in an interview with the Iranian news agency ISNA.
“It can speed up the process of negotiations, reaching results,” Salehi said, “if there is goodwill.” Iran is currently under four sets of UN sanctions over its nuclear program. The US and EU have also slapped Tehran with their own sets of sanctions, targeting the country’s financial markets and oil industry.
The nuclear talks between Iran and six major world powers resumed on April 14. The latest meeting in Turkey was described as generally successful by the majority of participants, and the next round is scheduled for May 23 in Baghdad. Many consider these talks to be the last chance for a peaceful solution.
Above all, in view of the recent tragic history of Cambodia, the States participating in the Conference commit themselves to promote and encourage respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cambodia, as embodied in the relevant international instruments to which they are party.
13. The States participating in the Conference request the International Committee of the Red Cross to facilitate, in accordance with its principles, the release of prisoners of war and civilian internees. They express their readiness to assist the ICRC in this task.
14. The States participating in the Conference invite other States to accede to the Agreement on a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict and to the Agreement concerning the Sovereignty, Independence, Territorial Integrity and Inviolability, Neutrality and National Unity of Cambodia.
15. Further recognizing the need for a concerted international effort to assist Cambodia in the tasks of rehabilitation and reconstruction, the States participating in the Conference urge the international community to provide generous economic and financial support for the measures set forth in the Declaration on the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Cambodia.
In witness whereof the representatives have signed this Final Act.
Done at Paris this twenty-third day of October one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one, in two copies in the Chinese, English, French, Khmer and Russian languages, each text being equally authentic. The originals of this Final Act shall be deposited with the Governments of the French Republic and of the Republic of Indonesia. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook at 4:50 AM Labels: Benge Mike, Don Dien, expansionism, KY, VN invasion
Paper presented by Michael Benge at the National Conference 2007 to commemorate and assess “The Paris Peace Agreement” of October 23rd, 1991 (with attached “Final Act of the Paris Conference on Cambodia”). October 20 & 21, 2007.
Mr. Benge is a retired Foreign Service Officer who spent over 16 years in South East Asia, 11 years in Viet Nam, and five years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese -- ‘68-73 – in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam. Mr. Benge is a student of South East Asian politics, is very active in advocating for human rights and religious freedom for the people there, and has written extensively on these subjects. He resides in Falls Church, VA, and can be contacted through email at: Bengemike@aol.com
Literature cited
1Hoang Van Hoan as cited by Moyar, Mark. “Triumph Forsaken.” Cambridge University Press. 2006.
2RSAMH, Fund 89, list 54, document 10. About VWP policy in determination of Indochinese problems and our goals implying from the decisions of the ??IV Congress of the C.P.S.U. (political letter). May 21, 1971, p. 14. as cited in “The Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese Communists.” http://www.wccpd.org/news/news69.html
3Cambodia’s Border Committee. “Cambodia is becoming more and more Vietnamized.”¶
October 23, 2007. Paris.
4Vietnam News Agency (organ of the communist party). 2004.
1. Concerned by the tragic conflict and continuing bloodshed in Cambodia, the Paris Conference on Cambodia was convened, at the invitation of the Government of the French Republic, in order to achieve an internationally guaranteed comprehensive settlement which would restore peace to that country. The Conference was held in two sessions, the first from 30 July to 30 August 1989, and the second from 21 to 23 October 1991.
2. The co-Presidents of the Conference were H. E. Mr. Roland Dumas, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, and H. E. Mr. Ali Alatas, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.
3. The following States participated in the Conference: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Canada, the People's Republic of China, the French Republic, the Republic of India, the Republic of Indonesia, Japan, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
In addition, the Non-Aligned Movement was represented at the Conference by its current Chairman at each session, namely Zimbabwe at the first session and Yugoslavia at the second session.
4. At the first session of the Conference, Cambodia was represented by the four Cambodian Parties. The Supreme National Council of Cambodia, under the leadership of its President, H.R.H. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, represented Cambodia at the second session of the Conference.
5. The Secretary-General of the United Nations, H.E. Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, and his Special Representative, Mr. Rafeeuddin Ahmed, also participated in the Conference.
6. The Conference organized itself into three working committees of the whole, which met throughout the first session of the Conference. The First Committee dealt with military matters, the Second Committee dealt with the question of international guarantees, and the Third Committee with the repatriation of refugees and displaced persons and the eventual reconstruction of Cambodia.
The officers of each committee were as follows:
First Committee Co-Chairmen: Mr. C.R. Gharekhan (India) Mr. Allan Sullivan (Canada)
Rapporteur: Ms. Victoria Sisante-Bataclan (Philippines)
Second Committee Co-Chairmen: Mr. Soulivong Phrasithideth (Laos) Dato' Zainal Abidin Ibrahim (Malaysia)
Rapporteur: Mr. Herve Dejean de la Batie (France)
Third Committee Co-Chairmen: Mr. Yukio Imagawa (Japan) Mr. Robert Merrillees (Australia)
The Conference also established an Ad Hoc Committee, composed of the representatives of the four Cambodian Parties and chaired by the representatives of the two co-Presidents of the Conference, whose mandate involved matters related to national reconciliation among the Cambodian Parties. The Ad Hoc Committee held several meetings during the first session of the Conference.
The Coordination Committee of the Conference, chaired by the representatives of the two co-Presidents, was established and given responsibility for general coordination of the work of the other four committees. The Coordination Committee met at both the first and second sessions of the Conference. An informal meeting of the Coordination Committee was also held in New York on 21 September 1991.
7. At the conclusion of the first session, the Conference had achieved progress in elaborating a wide variety of elements necessary for the achievement of a comprehensive settlement of the conflict in Cambodia. The Conference noted, however, that it was not yet possible to achieve a comprehensive settlement. It was therefore decided to suspend the Conference on 30 August 1989. However, in doing so, the Conference urged all parties concerned to intensify their efforts to achieve a comprehensive settlement, and asked the co-Presidents to lend their good offices to facilitate these efforts.
8. Following the suspension of the first session of the Conference, the co-Presidents and the Secretary-General of the United Nations undertook extensive consultations, in particular with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, with the Supreme National Council of Cambodia, and with other participants in the Paris Conference. The object of these consultations was to forge agreement on all aspects of a settlement, to ensure that all initiatives to this end were compatible and to enhance the prospects of ending the bloodshed in Cambodia at the earliest possible date. The efforts of the co-Presidents and the Secretary-General paved the way for the reconvening of the Paris Conference on Cambodia.
9. At the inaugural portion of the final meeting of the Paris Conference, on 23 October 1991, the Conference was addressed by H.E. Mr. Francois Mitterrand, President of the French Republic, H.R.H. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, President of the Supreme National Council of Cambodia, and H.E. Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
10. At the second session, the Conference adopted the following instruments:
1. Agreement on a comprehensive political settlement of the Cambodia conflict, with annexes on the mandate for UNTAC, military matters, elections, repatriation of Cambodian refugees and displaced persons, and the principles for a new Cambodian constitution;
2. Agreement concerning the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and inviolability, neutrality and national unity of Cambodia; and
3. Declaration on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Cambodia
These instruments represent an elaboration of the "Framework for a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict" adopted by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council on 28 August 1990, and of elements of the work accomplished at the first session of the Conference. They entail a continuing process of national reconciliation and an enhanced role for the United Nations, thus enabling the Cambodian people to determine their own political future through free and fair elections organized and conducted by the United Nations in a neutral political environment with full respect for the national sovereignty of Cambodia.
11. These instruments, which together form the comprehensive settlement the achievement of which was the objective of the Paris Conference, are being presented for signature to the States participating in the Paris Conference. On behalf of Cambodia, the instruments will be signed by the twelve members of the Supreme National Council of Cambodia, which is the unique legitimate body and source of authority enshrining the sovereignty, independence and unity of Cambodia.
12. The States participating in the Conference call upon the co-Presidents of the Conference to transmit an authentic copy of the comprehensive political settlement instruments to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The States participating in the Conference request the Secretary General to take the appropriate steps in order to enable consideration of the comprehensive settlement by the United Nations Security Council at the earliest opportunity. They pledge their full cooperation in the fulfilment of this comprehensive settlement and their assistance in its implementation.
Already in Laos, the Vietnamese army’s Military Corps No. 15 has completed an irrigation complex in Sekong for plantation crops, established a coffee plantation in Saravan, and developed plans for setting up coffee, rubber and cashew plantations, and building a 10,000 tonne-per-year rubber processing plant in Attopeu. Atopeu’s new rubber plantation covers an area of over 7,000 hectares.7 The Laos Government is about to issue the VN Quang Minh company a license to establish a rubber plantation in the Attopeu Province. It is the first rubber plantation project in this location, with a surface of 3,000ha over a period of 50 years; the investment needed is of USD 14 million. The GoL has likewise given authorization to another VN company, Dakruco, to cultivate rubber on 10,000ha in the Attopeu, Champassak and Saravan Provinces, with a project budget of USD 22 million. Today, around 50 VN enterprises wish to invest in the development of rubber in Laos, mainly in the southern provinces. Vientiane, 30 janvier 2007 (AVI)
The ‘Triangle’ area is only one of many places that the Vietnamese expansionists have moved into in order to exploit the natural resources of Laos; e.g., there are six hydroelectric dams that were constructed and are owned and operated by the Vietnamese to power Vietnam’s booming economy.
In Cambodia, China is competing with Vietnam and constructing roads in Stung Treng, exploiting forests in Mondulkiri, and developing mining exploration units in Ratanakkiri. Vietnam views the Triangle area for its potential for growing cash crops and establishing vast plantations fast-growing trees, coffee, tea and rubber to earn export dollars. Both the Vietnamese and Laotian regimes have voiced policies of using ethnic minorities in these regions for cheap labor for plantations established on their ancestral lands.
Vietnam’s parastatal company EVN (Electricity of Viet Nam) is planning to build five hydroelectric dams on the Sesan River in Stung Treng Province. The dams will have a total production capacity of 818 megawatts. The estimated production capacities and costs of the five dams are: 1) 420 MW, costing $611 million; 2) 180 MW, costing $387 million; 3) 90 MW at $164 million; and 4&5) 64 MW each, costing $114 million each.
Construction on these dams is expected to begin in 2012 upon the completion of the Japanese-funded highway connecting the port of Da Nang in Vietnam with the northeastern provinces of Cambodia, and the southeastern provinces of Laos.8
Corruption and a lack of progress in combating it remain a major blight on Asia's restructuring efforts following the 1997 crisis. Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam also lost ground in 2007, according to Transparency International. The strong correlation between corruption and poverty means that the benefits of growth are concentrated among the politically connected and bypass many who most need it.9
Given the level of corruption among officials in Vietnam and Cambodia, it is expected that several Cambodian and Vietnamese officials will become very, very wealthy from these projects. The dams would be constructed, owned and operated by Vietnamese, and the electricity generated from these hydroelectric plants will be forwarded and sold to Vietnamese power plants. Purportedly, electricity would be resold to Cambodia at a “cheap price.” One has to be very naive to believe that Vietnam will sell any electricity to Cambodia at a cheaper price than in Vietnam, given that county’s level of corruption, rate of economic growth and the need for cheap energy to fuel its economy; its needs are increasing by 10-15% annually.
Another reason for its expansion into Laos and Cambodia is Vietnam’s conflict between food production, industrialization and building dams to power its economic growth. In the last five years, Vietnam has lost 300,000 hectares of irrigated rice due to industrial development, including a vast amount lost through the construction of dams. This is creating a looming shortage of rice needed to feed it burgeoning population.
The construction of dams results in the displacement of large numbers of indigenous populations that farm the fertile soils in the river basins. These people are then either relocated to marginally productive lands, or receive no land at all; thus they fall victim to abject poverty. Vietnam has a history of doing this as well as corrupt officials absconding with relocation funds, leaving the victims with little or nothing; e.g., the Muong Lay Dam in North Vietnam.10 Those who choose to remain behind to farm the basins below the dams find that two or three times a year,uncontrolled spillage from the dams will flood their fields, destroy their crops and drown their livestock.
The Se San River originates in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and flows into Cambodia where it meets the Mekong River. In 1993, the Vietnamese government started construction on the first dam on the river -- Yali Falls Dam -- which was completed in 2000.
While the dam was under construction from 1996-2000, erratic releases of water resulted in flash flooding downstream, causing deaths to people and livestock and destruction of rice fields and vegetable gardens. Since 2000, operation of the dam has resulted in rapid and daily fluctuations in the river’s flow downstream in Cambodia’s Ratanakiri and Stung Treng provinces. It is estimated that at least 36 people have drowned due to erratic releases of water from the dam, and at least 55,000 people have been adversely affected -- suffering millions of dollars in damages due to lost rice production, drowned livestock, lost fishing income, and damages to rice reserves, boats, fishing gear and houses. Over 3,500 people have relocated to other areas without compensation.11
In addition, more than 6,700 people were resettled to make way for Yali Falls Dam (in Vietnam, ed.). According to a 2001 study by Vietnam’s Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, people displaced by the dam have suffered from severe shortages of food and other hardships since the dam flooded their homes and land in 1999.
Affected communities (in Vietnam, ed.) have not received compensation for their losses, and there are no plans to provide them with compensation for past or future impacts. In Cambodia, communities have formed the Se San Protection Network to press for compensation and changes to the dam’s operating regime to minimize downstream damages. Despite the unresolved issues, the government of Vietnam has embarked on an ambitious plan to build up to five more dams on the Sesan River. The International Rivers Network is working to support the Se San Protection Network in their request for reparations and a halt to future dam construction on the Se San River.12
Although he’s dead, Hanoi is well on its way in the implementation of Ho Chi Minh’s 1930 aspirations of creating a Soviet-style Indochina.
Cambodia is presently ruled by Hanoi’s marionette Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Vietnamese communist-backed corrupt cabal. In terms of “real politick”, Hun Sen’s Premiership -- albeit obtained illegally, first by a coup d'état in 1997 and then appointed by bought-and-paid-for National Assemblies in 1998 and 2003 --de facto international recognition as the “legitimate” representative government of Cambodia. Therefore, the Paris Peace Agreement of October 23rd, 1991, or any other accord/agreement, is at present moot. Thus, nothing can be done at this time about violations of Cambodia’s territorial integrity until a democratic or another form of government representing the true aspirations of the Cambodian people is elected. At that time, the new Cambodian government can take these matters to the international court for abrogation of these unfair and illegal treaties and agreements made by the illegitimate, corrupt and immoral regime of Hun Sen and the Cambodian People's Party (CPP). continues to receive
Vietnam’s Tay Tién expansion into Laos and Cambodia "I got this paper from Benge Mike by email. He said he presented this paper at the National Conference 2007 to commemorate and assess “The Paris Peace Agreement” of October 23rd, 1991. This short paper gives us wider understanding of Vietnamese Tay Tien and Don Dien policy, Ho Chi Minh is more successful than Joshep Stalin of Soviet Union, and particularly the NEOCOLONIZATION OF VIETNAM IN CAMBODIA. Please, enjoy reading and don't forget to drop some lines as feedback"
It is common belief that the Vietnam War was a civil war when in fact it wasn’t; it was a war of conquest of Southeast Asia, for Ho Chi Minh was not a Vietnamese nationalist rather he was an international communist. Ho Chi Minh, cofounder of the French communist party, held a position of leadership in the international communist movement – the Comintern. Ho was sent by the Comintern to Siam (Thailand), Malaya and Singapore to preside over the creation of communist parties in these countries. Moscow also put him in charge of creating communist parties in Cambodia and Laos. All were encouraged to contribute to the international proletarian revolution, and all of them reported to the Comintern’s Far Eastern Bureau headed by Ho.1
As part of the “Communist Internationale funded by the Soviet Union, Ho Chi Minh founded the "Indochinese Communist Party in 1930. Aping his mentor — the butcher Joseph Stalin – Ho’s ultimate plan was to establish a greater Vietnam by gobbling up his neighbors, Laos, Vietnam, and later other S.E. Asian countries as Stalin and Russia did to its neighbors in establishing the Soviet Union.
After the Geneva Agreements in 1954, Ho Chi Minh saw to it that several hundred young Cambodians were taken north, indoctrinated in communism and given military training. They were later armed and sent back, where they became the basis of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia’s Eastern Zone. Knowing of Ho’s close ties to Moscow and his intent to emulate his hero, the butcher Joseph Stalin, by creating a Soviet-style Union of South East Asia, China began training and arming the Pol Pot faction of the Khmer Rouge as a counterbalance to Soviet influence. China believed that revolution should come from within. North Vietnam enabled the Khmer Rouge to take over Phnom Penh in 1975 by providing logistics, ammunition, artillery and backup by Vietnamese troops making them complicit in the genocide of at least one and one half million Cambodians.
Viewing the U.S. as a paper tiger after its abandonment of South Vietnam, the Vietnamese communist party sent its mighty military force into Cambodia, not to liberate it from Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, but to colonize that country to fulfill Ho Chi Minh’s dream of hegemony over Indochina. They never dreamed that the U.S. would ally with communist China to drive them out. Unfortunately, the Hanoi’s Khmer Rouge remained intact and now controls Cambodia.
From the onset of the Indochina communist party, Ho Chi Minh began neo-colonizing Laos. He, as the majority of the Vietnamese, considered the Laotians, and even more so the Hmong, who had not been cultured by ChinaNha que qua [very backward], therefore they were not to be trusted. That attitude persists among the Vietnamese communists leaders today. Since the Vietnamese had better access to French education, the French colonial government used Vietnamese as lower-echelon civil servants throughout the region, thus playing right into the hands of Ho Chi Minh. Ho began implementing his plan to dominate Indochina by infiltrating educated communist Vietnamese agents into Lao villages with money to set themselves up as scribes, and moneylenders. Acting as liaisons with the French colonial government through the lower-echelon Vietnamese civil servants, they gained considerable influence throughout the countryside. To cement their stature and gain total trust of the villagers, the Vietnamese communist agents took Lao wives and raised families. Now the sons and a few daughters of these Vietnamese make up a fair portion of the Lao communist party leadership.
In Laos, the U.S. waged a "secret war" against Hanoi to interdict communist North Vietnamese troops infiltrating into South Vietnam. The backbone of this secret war was the Hmong ethnic minorities who lost over 40,000 killed while fighting for the United States. It has been over 30 years since the Vietnam War ended; yet a second ”secret war” continues in Laos. However, this secret war is being waged jointly by Vietnamese and Laotian communist forces, this time without American involvement. The war is against the Laotian people, especially the Hmong and other ethnic minorities, such as the Khmu, Mien and Chao Fa.
Hanoi maintains large numbers of troops in Laos to assist the communist Pathet Lao in hunting down and exterminating their joint enemy -- the Hmong. In 1988, the Lao Communist Party proclaimed it would hunt down the “American collaborators” and their families, “to the last root.” They will be “butchered like wild animals.” Those they are hunting are mostly the children, grand children and great-grandchildren of the fighters who sided with the U.S.
Although Ho Chi Minh is dead, the repressive and genocidal regime in Hanoi continues to implement Ho’s 1930 Indochinese Communist Party’s strategy by neo-colonizing Laos and Cambodia; a strategy reaffirmed in successive Vietnamese communist party congresses.2 Today, the Vietnamese communists have extended their hegemony over Laos and Cambodia and have de facto annexed Laos, which in many ways is now a province of North Vietnam. The Lao party leaders are anointed by Hanoi and receive their marching orders in a Sub Rosa fashion through a Vietnamese shadow government.
In Cambodia, Hanoi maintains a contingent of 3,000 troops, a mixture of special-forces and intelligence agents, with tanks and helicopters, in a huge compound 2½ kilometers outside Phnom Penh right next to Hun Sen's Tuol Krassaing fortress near Takhmau. They are there to ensure that Hanoi's puppet, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, doesn't stray far from Hanoi's policy of neo-colonization of Cambodia. The Vietnamese compound bristles with electronic surveillance equipment that would make any group’s electronic ease-dropping outstation proud. When Vietnamese troops were forced to withdraw from Cambodia, as a compromise, Vietnam installed its Hanoi trained Khmer Rouge marionette Hun Sen as Prime Minister.
Amoeba-like, communist Vietnam began neo-colonizing Laos and Cambodia by the traditional Vietnamese expansionism termed "Don Dien", first by occupying territory with troops, then having their families come in to settle the new territory, then putting the troops into civilian clothes to become "ready reservists" and replacing them with new troops for further expansion. After their defeat in Cambodia, in order to quell a budding revolt within the Vietnamese army, Hanoi compelled their willing partner, Hun Sen, to grant land in Eastern Cambodia and citizenship to over 500,000 Vietnamese army personnel. Thus, the “Vietnamization” of Cambodia began, forcing the puppet regime in Phnom Penh to issue in 1982 Circular No. 240 SR/MC/HH and successive decree-laws appealing to all Cambodians to consider the expansion of solidarity with the fraternal Vietnamese people their duty by helping Vietnamese nationals to settle in Cambodia. By 1989, the number of Vietnamese “settlers” in Cambodia had reached 1,250,000. Simultaneously, Vietnam developed new maps depicting their new borders expanding up to 40 kilometers inside Laos and Cambodia. Hun Sen formally conceded these borders to Hanoi in violation of international law through a series of treaties, the latest in October 10, 2005. Reportedly, Vietnamese people form the majority in Cambodia eastern provinces, such as Svay Rieng and Prey Veng.3
Today, the communist party of Vietnam is faced with a burgeoning population, a lack of natural resources to fuel its economy and enough fertile land on which to grow food to adequately feed its people. In a desperate move to keep its grasp on power and in an attempt to pacify a restless young population, Hanoi is exporting “guest workers” and by further excursion into neighboring countries in order to expand its control over those territories. In 2005, the communist regime exported 500,000 Vietnamese workers overseas to countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, and now they are being exported to Cambodia and Laos.
Vietnamese communists continue their policy of neocolonization, nibbling away at Cambodia by annexing sizable portions of its borders, coastlines and islands (e.g., Koh Tral and Krachak Ses) through illegitimate treaties with their puppet regime in Phnom Penh in violation of the1991 Paris Peace Agreement on Cambodia. Their latest scheme is involves flooding three northeastern provinces of Cambodia and the three southeastern provinces of Laos with Vietnamese settlers and exploiting the natural resources there.
Chapters of the Cambodian-Vietnam friendship organizations (United Front for National Construction and defense of Cambodia –UFCDK), a “front” for the Vietnam Fatherland Front, have now been established in all of Cambodia’s cities and provinces4 The UFCDK is comparable to Hanoi’s creation of the National Liberation Front (NLF) during the Vietnam War. The NLF was touted as being the political arm of South Vietnam’s Viet Cong, when in fact it was no more than a façade created for propaganda purposes and owned and operated by Hanoi. “The Vietnam fatherland front and its member organizations constitute the political base of people's power. The front promotes the tradition of national solidarity, strengthens the people's unity of mind in political and spiritual matters….”5
In November 2004, Vietnam cajoled the puppet communist regimes of Laos and Cambodia into signing the “Development Triangle agreement.”6 This agreement allows the Vietnamese to now formalize their expansion through what is historically termed Tay Tién (Westward movement) into the three North Eastern provinces of Stung Trèng, Ratanakiri and Mondolkiri in Cambodia, and into the three South Eastern provinces of Attapeu, Sékong and Saravan in Laos.
The “Development Triangle” is a vast area of high plateaus and virgin forests covering approximately 120,400 square kilometers. With the exception of the provinces in Vietnam where the communist regime has already confiscated the ancestral lands of the Montagnards in the Central Highlands, deforested the area, and relocated several million people there; those provinces in Laos and Cambodia are sparsely populated, mainly with ethnic minorities, but were occupied by the Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.
This “so called development” of these provinces starts with building a “security” road network with the intent to deprive Montagnards fleeing repression in the Central Highlands of Vietnam of sanctuary among their distant relatives in Laos and Cambodia and in the UNHCR camps in Phnom Penh. Although claiming that the roads would increase tourism and commerce in these areas, the real reason is to create easy access for the growing Vietnamese population to migrate to and neo-colonize these provinces in Laos and Cambodia. Already, Vietnamese settlers are flooding Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri provinces in Cambodia occupying lands belonging to the local populations.
The Triangle occupies “an eminently strategic position on the political, economical, social, environmental and ecological levels” for the control of Laos and Cambodia by Hanoi. Japan and China are leading supporters of Vietnam’s expansionism.
The official decision on sanctions against Myanmar (formerly Burma), which the EU and the United States had introduced over human rights violations, is expected at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council on April 23.
Speaking at a European Parliament session in Strasbourg, Ashton said she would visit the country later this month and invited Myanmar’s foreign minister to Brussels.
Myanmar was ruled by military dictators in 1962-2011, which brought about Western economic sanctions in the 1990s. However, the opposition party National League for Democracy led by Nobel prize winner Aung Sun Suu Kyi was openly elected to parliament and hailed in the EU.
Although parliament remains controlled by the military, a civil government was
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L'UE supprimera de 20 ans des sanctions contre le Myanmar et inclure le pays dans son système généralisé de préférences, la politique étrangère européenne, Catherine Ashton, a déclaré mercredi.
La décision officielle sur les sanctions contre le Myanmar (anciennement Birmanie),dont l'UE et les Etats-Unis avaient introduit des violations des droits de l'homme, on s'attend à une réunion du Conseil de l'UE des Affaires étrangères, sur Avril 23.
S'exprimant lors d'une session du Parlement européen à Strasbourg, Mme Ashton a déclaré qu'elle se rendrait le pays plus tard ce mois-ci et a invité ministre des Affaires étrangères du Myanmar à Bruxelles. Myanmar a été gouvernés par des dictateurs militaires en 1962-2011 qui ont abouti àdes sanctions économiques occidentales dans les années 1990. Toutefois, le parti d'opposition de la Ligue nationale pour la démocratie dirigée par le prix Nobel Aung Sun Suu Kyi a été ouvertement élu au parlement et a salué dans l'UE. Bien que le Parlement reste contrôlé par les militaires, un gouvernement civil a été créé en Mars 2011 et les militaires délégué leurs pouvoirs à ses membres.
To: From: jon_bluemax@yahoo.com Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:33:50 -0700 Subject: [freelaos] Thaksin chantait comme un chat
Dans les années 60' je dormais mal chez moi au Laos car les chats sortaient la nuit et miaulaient sans cessse. Voici l'idole des jeunes -surtout celui de KBN-chantait à Siamriap le 14 Avril:
Chang Mai Man
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ชั่งแม่มัน
On s'inquiète pour son état de santé surtout mentale.Il lui faut manger qq courgettes de son adepte pour se guérir.
May the New year bring peace, healthy friendship among Laotian of all ethnics, kinder and more responsible Lao government for the Lao people and the nation of Laos. We Laotians need to see and conduct our individual role above and beyond the political perception and insecurity, but the welfare of Laos the next several thousand years.
Otherwise, relation between Lao Nok and Lao Nai will gradually fade the next 25 years, which would be such great loss of rich human resources ( many talented Laotian professionals of all fields would not feel secure or interests to bring bring their advance skills and experience to invest and safeguard laos). I compliment the current Government for relaxing some of the law to encourage Lao Nok investment and partnership, but security, accountability and other protection remain major issues for continue improvement.
We Lao Nok have not done a good enough job to mature ourselves in the area of mutual respect, professional collaboration, shared vision and other unified activities and behaviors. And, we need to improve that by responsible leadership tune, encouragement and engagement.
25 year Treaty between Vietnam & Laos ( July 18, 1977 )
Article One: The Mutual Trust & Long Term Cooperation
The two sides undertake to do their best to defend and develop the Lao-Vietnam special relationship to constantly strengthen solidarity and mutual trust, long-term cooperation and mutual assistance in all fields in a spirit of proletarian internationalism
Article Five: The Two Sides Endeavor to Strengthen Militants, Solidarity Relations & Cooperation
Military, the 25 year Vietnamese - Laotian Treaty of July 18, 1977 allowed more then 500,000 Vietnamese civilians and family of the army to station in Laos. There were more than 100,000 Vietnam troops in December 1988. In December 1988, the Communist Lao Government announced that all the Vietnam troops had withdrawn from Laos but in fact, there are still more than 60,000 Vietnamese troops in December 1990.
On 11 November 1995 Vietnam signed a new Treaty with Laos to further enhance this arrangement, under the name " Labour Exchange Agreement " Under the term of Labour Exchange Agreement , Vietnam sent their soldiers to Laos in the disguise of ordinary labourers; these labourers had trucks of their own, in which they kept a wide variety of special weaponry for military action for any eventuality.
2. The co-Presidents of the Conference were H. E. Mr. Roland Dumas, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, and H. E. Mr. Ali Alatas, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.
3. The following States participated in the Conference: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Canada, the People's Republic of China, the French Republic, the Republic of India, the Republic of Indonesia, Japan, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
In addition, the Non-Aligned Movement was represented at the Conference by its current Chairman at each session, namely Zimbabwe at the first session and Yugoslavia at the second session.
4. At the first session of the Conference, Cambodia was represented by the four Cambodian Parties. The Supreme National Council of Cambodia, under the leadership of its President, H.R.H. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, represented Cambodia at the second session of the Conference.
5. The Secretary-General of the United Nations, H.E. Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, and his Special Representative, Mr. Rafeeuddin Ahmed, also participated in the Conference.
6. The Conference organized itself into three working committees of the whole, which met throughout the first session of the Conference. The First Committee dealt with military matters, the Second Committee dealt with the question of international guarantees, and the Third Committee with the repatriation of refugees and displaced persons and the eventual reconstruction of Cambodia.
The officers of each committee were as follows:
First Committee Co-Chairmen: Mr. C.R. Gharekhan (India) Mr. Allan Sullivan (Canada)
Rapporteur: Ms. Victoria Sisante-Bataclan (Philippines)
Second Committee Co-Chairmen: Mr. Soulivong Phrasithideth (Laos) Dato' Zainal Abidin Ibrahim (Malaysia)
Rapporteur: Mr. Herve Dejean de la Batie (France)
Third Committee Co-Chairmen: Mr. Yukio Imagawa (Japan) Mr. Robert Merrillees (Australia)
The Conference also established an Ad Hoc Committee, composed of the representatives of the four Cambodian Parties and chaired by the representatives of the two co-Presidents of the Conference, whose mandate involved matters related to national reconciliation among the Cambodian Parties. The Ad Hoc Committee held several meetings during the first session of the Conference.
The Coordination Committee of the Conference, chaired by the representatives of the two co-Presidents, was established and given responsibility for general coordination of the work of the other four committees. The Coordination Committee met at both the first and second sessions of the Conference. An informal meeting of the Coordination Committee was also held in New York on 21 September 1991.
7. At the conclusion of the first session, the Conference had achieved progress in elaborating a wide variety of elements necessary for the achievement of a comprehensive settlement of the conflict in Cambodia. The Conference noted, however, that it was not yet possible to achieve a comprehensive settlement. It was therefore decided to suspend the Conference on 30 August 1989. However, in doing so, the Conference urged all parties concerned to intensify their efforts to achieve a comprehensive settlement, and asked the co-Presidents to lend their good offices to facilitate these efforts.
8. Following the suspension of the first session of the Conference, the co-Presidents and the Secretary-General of the United Nations undertook extensive consultations, in particular with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, with the Supreme National Council of Cambodia, and with other participants in the Paris Conference. The object of these consultations was to forge agreement on all aspects of a settlement, to ensure that all initiatives to this end were compatible and to enhance the prospects of ending the bloodshed in Cambodia at the earliest possible date. The efforts of the co-Presidents and the Secretary-General paved the way for the reconvening of the Paris Conference on Cambodia.
9. At the inaugural portion of the final meeting of the Paris Conference, on 23 October 1991, the Conference was addressed by H.E. Mr. Francois Mitterrand, President of the French Republic, H.R.H. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, President of the Supreme National Council of Cambodia, and H.E. Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
10. At the second session, the Conference adopted the following instruments:
1. Agreement on a comprehensive political settlement of the Cambodia conflict, with annexes on the mandate for UNTAC, military matters, elections, repatriation of Cambodian refugees and displaced persons, and the principles for a new Cambodian constitution;
2. Agreement concerning the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and inviolability, neutrality and national unity of Cambodia; and
3. Declaration on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Cambodia
These instruments represent an elaboration of the "Framework for a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict" adopted by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council on 28 August 1990, and of elements of the work accomplished at the first session of the Conference. They entail a continuing process of national reconciliation and an enhanced role for the United Nations, thus enabling the Cambodian people to determine their own political future through free and fair elections organized and conducted by the United Nations in a neutral political environment with full respect for the national sovereignty of Cambodia.
11. These instruments, which together form the comprehensive settlement the achievement of which was the objective of the Paris Conference, are being presented for signature to the States participating in the Paris Conference. On behalf of Cambodia, the instruments will be signed by the twelve members of the Supreme National Council of Cambodia, which is the unique legitimate body and source of authority enshrining the sovereignty, independence and unity of Cambodia.
12. The States participating in the Conference call upon the co-Presidents of the Conference to transmit an authentic copy of the comprehensive political settlement instruments to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The States participating in the Conference request the Secretary General to take the appropriate steps in order to enable consideration of the comprehensive settlement by the United Nations Security Council at the earliest opportunity. They pledge their full cooperation in the fulfilment of this comprehensive settlement and their assistance in its implementation.
Above all, in view of the recent tragic history of Cambodia, the States participating in the Conference commit themselves to promote and encourage respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cambodia, as embodied in the relevant international instruments to which they are party.
13. The States participating in the Conference request the International Committee of the Red Cross to facilitate, in accordance with its principles, the release of prisoners of war and civilian internees. They express their readiness to assist the ICRC in this task.
14. The States participating in the Conference invite other States to accede to the Agreement on a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict and to the Agreement concerning the Sovereignty, Independence, Territorial Integrity and Inviolability, Neutrality and National Unity of Cambodia.
15. Further recognizing the need for a concerted international effort to assist Cambodia in the tasks of rehabilitation and reconstruction, the States participating in the Conference urge the international community to provide generous economic and financial support for the measures set forth in the Declaration on the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Cambodia.
In witness whereof the representatives have signed this Final Act.
Done at Paris this twenty-third day of October one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one, in two copies in the Chinese, English, French, Khmer and Russian languages, each text being equally authentic. The originals of this Final Act shall be deposited with the Governments of the French Republic and of the Republic of Indonesia. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook at 4:50 AM Labels: Benge Mike, Don Dien, expansionism, KY, VN invasion
In addition, more than 6,700 people were resettled to make way for Yali Falls Dam (in Vietnam, ed.). According to a 2001 study by Vietnam’s Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, people displaced by the dam have suffered from severe shortages of food and other hardships since the dam flooded their homes and land in 1999.
Affected communities (in Vietnam, ed.) have not received compensation for their losses, and there are no plans to provide them with compensation for past or future impacts. In Cambodia, communities have formed the Se San Protection Network to press for compensation and changes to the dam’s operating regime to minimize downstream damages. Despite the unresolved issues, the government of Vietnam has embarked on an ambitious plan to build up to five more dams on the Sesan River. The International Rivers Network is working to support the Se San Protection Network in their request for reparations and a halt to future dam construction on the Se San River.12
Although he’s dead, Hanoi is well on its way in the implementation of Ho Chi Minh’s 1930 aspirations of creating a Soviet-style Indochina.
Cambodia is presently ruled by Hanoi’s marionette Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Vietnamese communist-backed corrupt cabal. In terms of “real politick”, Hun Sen’s Premiership -- albeit obtained illegally, first by a coup d'état in 1997 and then appointed by bought-and-paid-for National Assemblies in 1998 and 2003 --de facto international recognition as the “legitimate” representative government of Cambodia. Therefore, the Paris Peace Agreement of October 23rd, 1991, or any other accord/agreement, is at present moot. Thus, nothing can be done at this time about violations of Cambodia’s territorial integrity until a democratic or another form of government representing the true aspirations of the Cambodian people is elected. At that time, the new Cambodian government can take these matters to the international court for abrogation of these unfair and illegal treaties and agreements made by the illegitimate, corrupt and immoral regime of Hun Sen and the Cambodian People's Party (CPP). continues to receive
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Paper presented by Michael Benge at the National Conference 2007 to commemorate and assess “The Paris Peace Agreement” of October 23rd, 1991 (with attached “Final Act of the Paris Conference on Cambodia”). October 20 & 21, 2007.
Mr. Benge is a retired Foreign Service Officer who spent over 16 years in South East Asia, 11 years in Viet Nam, and five years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese -- ‘68-73 – in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam. Mr. Benge is a student of South East Asian politics, is very active in advocating for human rights and religious freedom for the people there, and has written extensively on these subjects. He resides in Falls Church, VA, and can be contacted through email at: Bengemike@aol.com
Literature cited
1Hoang Van Hoan as cited by Moyar, Mark. “Triumph Forsaken.” Cambridge University Press. 2006.
2RSAMH, Fund 89, list 54, document 10. About VWP policy in determination of Indochinese problems and our goals implying from the decisions of the ??IV Congress of the C.P.S.U. (political letter). May 21, 1971, p. 14. as cited in “The Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese Communists.” http://www.wccpd.org/news/news69.html
3Cambodia’s Border Committee. “Cambodia is becoming more and more Vietnamized.”¶
October 23, 2007. Paris.
4Vietnam News Agency (organ of the communist party). 2004.
1. Concerned by the tragic conflict and continuing bloodshed in Cambodia, the Paris Conference on Cambodia was convened, at the invitation of the Government of the French Republic, in order to achieve an internationally guaranteed comprehensive settlement which would restore peace to that country. The Conference was held in two sessions, the first from 30 July to 30 August 1989, and the second from 21 to 23 October 1991.
This “so called development” of these provinces starts with building a “security” road network with the intent to deprive Montagnards fleeing repression in the Central Highlands of Vietnam of sanctuary among their distant relatives in Laos and Cambodia and in the UNHCR camps in Phnom Penh. Although claiming that the roads would increase tourism and commerce in these areas, the real reason is to create easy access for the growing Vietnamese population to migrate to and neo-colonize these provinces in Laos and Cambodia. Already, Vietnamese settlers are flooding Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri provinces in Cambodia occupying lands belonging to the local populations.
The Triangle occupies “an eminently strategic position on the political, economical, social, environmental and ecological levels” for the control of Laos and Cambodia by Hanoi. Japan and China are leading supporters of Vietnam’s expansionism.
Already in Laos, the Vietnamese army’s Military Corps No. 15 has completed an irrigation complex in Sekong for plantation crops, established a coffee plantation in Saravan, and developed plans for setting up coffee, rubber and cashew plantations, and building a 10,000 tonne-per-year rubber processing plant in Attopeu. Atopeu’s new rubber plantation covers an area of over 7,000 hectares.7 The Laos Government is about to issue the VN Quang Minh company a license to establish a rubber plantation in the Attopeu Province. It is the first rubber plantation project in this location, with a surface of 3,000ha over a period of 50 years; the investment needed is of USD 14 million. The GoL has likewise given authorization to another VN company, Dakruco, to cultivate rubber on 10,000ha in the Attopeu, Champassak and Saravan Provinces, with a project budget of USD 22 million. Today, around 50 VN enterprises wish to invest in the development of rubber in Laos, mainly in the southern provinces. Vientiane, 30 janvier 2007 (AVI)
The ‘Triangle’ area is only one of many places that the Vietnamese expansionists have moved into in order to exploit the natural resources of Laos; e.g., there are six hydroelectric dams that were constructed and are owned and operated by the Vietnamese to power Vietnam’s booming economy.
In Cambodia, China is competing with Vietnam and constructing roads in Stung Treng, exploiting forests in Mondulkiri, and developing mining exploration units in Ratanakkiri. Vietnam views the Triangle area for its potential for growing cash crops and establishing vast plantations fast-growing trees, coffee, tea and rubber to earn export dollars. Both the Vietnamese and Laotian regimes have voiced policies of using ethnic minorities in these regions for cheap labor for plantations established on their ancestral lands.
Vietnam’s parastatal company EVN (Electricity of Viet Nam) is planning to build five hydroelectric dams on the Sesan River in Stung Treng Province. The dams will have a total production capacity of 818 megawatts. The estimated production capacities and costs of the five dams are: 1) 420 MW, costing $611 million; 2) 180 MW, costing $387 million; 3) 90 MW at $164 million; and 4&5) 64 MW each, costing $114 million each.
Construction on these dams is expected to begin in 2012 upon the completion of the Japanese-funded highway connecting the port of Da Nang in Vietnam with the northeastern provinces of Cambodia, and the southeastern provinces of Laos.8
Corruption and a lack of progress in combating it remain a major blight on Asia's restructuring efforts following the 1997 crisis. Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam also lost ground in 2007, according to Transparency International. The strong correlation between corruption and poverty means that the benefits of growth are concentrated among the politically connected and bypass many who most need it.9
Given the level of corruption among officials in Vietnam and Cambodia, it is expected that several Cambodian and Vietnamese officials will become very, very wealthy from these projects. The dams would be constructed, owned and operated by Vietnamese, and the electricity generated from these hydroelectric plants will be forwarded and sold to Vietnamese power plants. Purportedly, electricity would be resold to Cambodia at a “cheap price.” One has to be very naive to believe that Vietnam will sell any electricity to Cambodia at a cheaper price than in Vietnam, given that county’s level of corruption, rate of economic growth and the need for cheap energy to fuel its economy; its needs are increasing by 10-15% annually.
Another reason for its expansion into Laos and Cambodia is Vietnam’s conflict between food production, industrialization and building dams to power its economic growth. In the last five years, Vietnam has lost 300,000 hectares of irrigated rice due to industrial development, including a vast amount lost through the construction of dams. This is creating a looming shortage of rice needed to feed it burgeoning population.
The construction of dams results in the displacement of large numbers of indigenous populations that farm the fertile soils in the river basins. These people are then either relocated to marginally productive lands, or receive no land at all; thus they fall victim to abject poverty. Vietnam has a history of doing this as well as corrupt officials absconding with relocation funds, leaving the victims with little or nothing; e.g., the Muong Lay Dam in North Vietnam.10 Those who choose to remain behind to farm the basins below the dams find that two or three times a year,uncontrolled spillage from the dams will flood their fields, destroy their crops and drown their livestock.
The Se San River originates in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and flows into Cambodia where it meets the Mekong River. In 1993, the Vietnamese government started construction on the first dam on the river -- Yali Falls Dam -- which was completed in 2000.
While the dam was under construction from 1996-2000, erratic releases of water resulted in flash flooding downstream, causing deaths to people and livestock and destruction of rice fields and vegetable gardens. Since 2000, operation of the dam has resulted in rapid and daily fluctuations in the river’s flow downstream in Cambodia’s Ratanakiri and Stung Treng provinces. It is estimated that at least 36 people have drowned due to erratic releases of water from the dam, and at least 55,000 people have been adversely affected -- suffering millions of dollars in damages due to lost rice production, drowned livestock, lost fishing income, and damages to rice reserves, boats, fishing gear and houses. Over 3,500 people have relocated to other areas without compensation.11
Although Ho Chi Minh is dead, the repressive and genocidal regime in Hanoi continues to implement Ho’s 1930 Indochinese Communist Party’s strategy by neo-colonizing Laos and Cambodia; a strategy reaffirmed in successive Vietnamese communist party congresses.2 Today, the Vietnamese communists have extended their hegemony over Laos and Cambodia and have de facto annexed Laos, which in many ways is now a province of North Vietnam. The Lao party leaders are anointed by Hanoi and receive their marching orders in a Sub Rosa fashion through a Vietnamese shadow government.
In Cambodia, Hanoi maintains a contingent of 3,000 troops, a mixture of special-forces and intelligence agents, with tanks and helicopters, in a huge compound 2½ kilometers outside Phnom Penh right next to Hun Sen's Tuol Krassaing fortress near Takhmau. They are there to ensure that Hanoi's puppet, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, doesn't stray far from Hanoi's policy of neo-colonization of Cambodia. The Vietnamese compound bristles with electronic surveillance equipment that would make any group’s electronic ease-dropping outstation proud. When Vietnamese troops were forced to withdraw from Cambodia, as a compromise, Vietnam installed its Hanoi trained Khmer Rouge marionette Hun Sen as Prime Minister.
Amoeba-like, communist Vietnam began neo-colonizing Laos and Cambodia by the traditional Vietnamese expansionism termed "Don Dien", first by occupying territory with troops, then having their families come in to settle the new territory, then putting the troops into civilian clothes to become "ready reservists" and replacing them with new troops for further expansion. After their defeat in Cambodia, in order to quell a budding revolt within the Vietnamese army, Hanoi compelled their willing partner, Hun Sen, to grant land in Eastern Cambodia and citizenship to over 500,000 Vietnamese army personnel. Thus, the “Vietnamization” of Cambodia began, forcing the puppet regime in Phnom Penh to issue in 1982 Circular No. 240 SR/MC/HH and successive decree-laws appealing to all Cambodians to consider the expansion of solidarity with the fraternal Vietnamese people their duty by helping Vietnamese nationals to settle in Cambodia. By 1989, the number of Vietnamese “settlers” in Cambodia had reached 1,250,000. Simultaneously, Vietnam developed new maps depicting their new borders expanding up to 40 kilometers inside Laos and Cambodia. Hun Sen formally conceded these borders to Hanoi in violation of international law through a series of treaties, the latest in October 10, 2005. Reportedly, Vietnamese people form the majority in Cambodia eastern provinces, such as Svay Rieng and Prey Veng.3
Today, the communist party of Vietnam is faced with a burgeoning population, a lack of natural resources to fuel its economy and enough fertile land on which to grow food to adequately feed its people. In a desperate move to keep its grasp on power and in an attempt to pacify a restless young population, Hanoi is exporting “guest workers” and by further excursion into neighboring countries in order to expand its control over those territories. In 2005, the communist regime exported 500,000 Vietnamese workers overseas to countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, and now they are being exported to Cambodia and Laos.
Vietnamese communists continue their policy of neocolonization, nibbling away at Cambodia by annexing sizable portions of its borders, coastlines and islands (e.g., Koh Tral and Krachak Ses) through illegitimate treaties with their puppet regime in Phnom Penh in violation of the1991 Paris Peace Agreement on Cambodia. Their latest scheme is involves flooding three northeastern provinces of Cambodia and the three southeastern provinces of Laos with Vietnamese settlers and exploiting the natural resources there.
Chapters of the Cambodian-Vietnam friendship organizations (United Front for National Construction and defense of Cambodia –UFCDK), a “front” for the Vietnam Fatherland Front, have now been established in all of Cambodia’s cities and provinces4 The UFCDK is comparable to Hanoi’s creation of the National Liberation Front (NLF) during the Vietnam War. The NLF was touted as being the political arm of South Vietnam’s Viet Cong, when in fact it was no more than a façade created for propaganda purposes and owned and operated by Hanoi. “The Vietnam fatherland front and its member organizations constitute the political base of people's power. The front promotes the tradition of national solidarity, strengthens the people's unity of mind in political and spiritual matters….”5
In November 2004, Vietnam cajoled the puppet communist regimes of Laos and Cambodia into signing the “Development Triangle agreement.”6 This agreement allows the Vietnamese to now formalize their expansion through what is historically termed Tay Tién (Westward movement) into the three North Eastern provinces of Stung Trèng, Ratanakiri and Mondolkiri in Cambodia, and into the three South Eastern provinces of Attapeu, Sékong and Saravan in Laos.
The “Development Triangle” is a vast area of high plateaus and virgin forests covering approximately 120,400 square kilometers. With the exception of the provinces in Vietnam where the communist regime has already confiscated the ancestral lands of the Montagnards in the Central Highlands, deforested the area, and relocated several million people there; those provinces in Laos and Cambodia are sparsely populated, mainly with ethnic minorities, but were occupied by the Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.
Vietnam’s Tay Tién expansion into Laos and Cambodia "I got this paper from Benge Mike by email. He said he presented this paper at the National Conference 2007 to commemorate and assess “The Paris Peace Agreement” of October 23rd, 1991. This short paper gives us wider understanding of Vietnamese Tay Tien and Don Dien policy, Ho Chi Minh is more successful than Joshep Stalin of Soviet Union, and particularly the NEOCOLONIZATION OF VIETNAM IN CAMBODIA. Please, enjoy reading and don't forget to drop some lines as feedback"
It is common belief that the Vietnam War was a civil war when in fact it wasn’t; it was a war of conquest of Southeast Asia, for Ho Chi Minh was not a Vietnamese nationalist rather he was an international communist. Ho Chi Minh, cofounder of the French communist party, held a position of leadership in the international communist movement – the Comintern. Ho was sent by the Comintern to Siam (Thailand), Malaya and Singapore to preside over the creation of communist parties in these countries. Moscow also put him in charge of creating communist parties in Cambodia and Laos. All were encouraged to contribute to the international proletarian revolution, and all of them reported to the Comintern’s Far Eastern Bureau headed by Ho.1
As part of the “Communist Internationale funded by the Soviet Union, Ho Chi Minh founded the "Indochinese Communist Party in 1930. Aping his mentor — the butcher Joseph Stalin – Ho’s ultimate plan was to establish a greater Vietnam by gobbling up his neighbors, Laos, Vietnam, and later other S.E. Asian countries as Stalin and Russia did to its neighbors in establishing the Soviet Union.
After the Geneva Agreements in 1954, Ho Chi Minh saw to it that several hundred young Cambodians were taken north, indoctrinated in communism and given military training. They were later armed and sent back, where they became the basis of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia’s Eastern Zone. Knowing of Ho’s close ties to Moscow and his intent to emulate his hero, the butcher Joseph Stalin, by creating a Soviet-style Union of South East Asia, China began training and arming the Pol Pot faction of the Khmer Rouge as a counterbalance to Soviet influence. China believed that revolution should come from within. North Vietnam enabled the Khmer Rouge to take over Phnom Penh in 1975 by providing logistics, ammunition, artillery and backup by Vietnamese troops making them complicit in the genocide of at least one and one half million Cambodians.
Viewing the U.S. as a paper tiger after its abandonment of South Vietnam, the Vietnamese communist party sent its mighty military force into Cambodia, not to liberate it from Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, but to colonize that country to fulfill Ho Chi Minh’s dream of hegemony over Indochina. They never dreamed that the U.S. would ally with communist China to drive them out. Unfortunately, the Hanoi’s Khmer Rouge remained intact and now controls Cambodia.
From the onset of the Indochina communist party, Ho Chi Minh began neo-colonizing Laos. He, as the majority of the Vietnamese, considered the Laotians, and even more so the Hmong, who had not been cultured by ChinaNha que qua [very backward], therefore they were not to be trusted. That attitude persists among the Vietnamese communists leaders today. Since the Vietnamese had better access to French education, the French colonial government used Vietnamese as lower-echelon civil servants throughout the region, thus playing right into the hands of Ho Chi Minh. Ho began implementing his plan to dominate Indochina by infiltrating educated communist Vietnamese agents into Lao villages with money to set themselves up as scribes, and moneylenders. Acting as liaisons with the French colonial government through the lower-echelon Vietnamese civil servants, they gained considerable influence throughout the countryside. To cement their stature and gain total trust of the villagers, the Vietnamese communist agents took Lao wives and raised families. Now the sons and a few daughters of these Vietnamese make up a fair portion of the Lao communist party leadership.
In Laos, the U.S. waged a "secret war" against Hanoi to interdict communist North Vietnamese troops infiltrating into South Vietnam. The backbone of this secret war was the Hmong ethnic minorities who lost over 40,000 killed while fighting for the United States. It has been over 30 years since the Vietnam War ended; yet a second ”secret war” continues in Laos. However, this secret war is being waged jointly by Vietnamese and Laotian communist forces, this time without American involvement. The war is against the Laotian people, especially the Hmong and other ethnic minorities, such as the Khmu, Mien and Chao Fa.
Hanoi maintains large numbers of troops in Laos to assist the communist Pathet Lao in hunting down and exterminating their joint enemy -- the Hmong. In 1988, the Lao Communist Party proclaimed it would hunt down the “American collaborators” and their families, “to the last root.” They will be “butchered like wild animals.” Those they are hunting are mostly the children, grand children and great-grandchildren of the fighters who sided with the U.S.
Laos–Vietnam relations refers to the current and historical relationship between Laos andVietnam. Laotian relations with Vietnam had secretly set the strategy for the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) during the struggle to achieve full power, and the "sudden" opportunity to establish the Lao People's Democratic Republic in 1975 left no leeway to consider foreign policy alignments other than a continuation of the "special relations" with Vietnam. The relationship cultivated in the revolutionary stage predisposed Laos to Indochinese solidarity in the reconstruction and "socialist construction" phases and all but ensured that relations or alignments with China and Thailand would be wary and potentially unfriendly. Further, the LPRP, unlike the Cambodian communists under Pol Pot, was far too accustomed to accepting Vietnamese advice to consider striking out on its own... The final seizure of power by the hitherto secret LPRP in 1975 brought both a public acknowledgment of the previously hidden North Vietnamese guidance of the party and genuine expressions of gratitude by the LPRP to its Vietnamese partners. The challenge facing the ruling group—the construction of a socialist society—was seen as a natural extension of past collaboration with North Vietnam. The revolution was simply entering a new phase in 1975, and the LPRP leaders congratulated themselves upon ousting the "imperialists" and looked forward to advice and economic as well as military support, which was not available from any neighbor or counter revolutionary state.[1] LPRP leaders were accustomed to discussing policies as well as studying doctrine in Hanoi. They formalized governmental contacts with their mentors at biannual meetings of the foreign ministers of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam starting in 1980 and through the joint Vietnam-Laos Cooperative Commission, which met annually to review progress of various projects. Other levels of cooperation between Laos and Vietnam existed, for example, party-to-party meetings and province-to-province exchanges, as well as mass organizations for youths and women. Meetings of the commission were held regularly.[1] The primary channels for Vietnam's influence in Laos, however, were the LPRP and the LPA. In the LPRP, long-standing collaboration and consultation at the very top made special committees unnecessary, whereas in the LPA, the Vietnamese advisers, instructors, and troops on station constituted a pervasive, inescapable influence, even though they scrupulously avoided public exposure by sticking to their designated base areas. Cooperation in the military field was probably the most extensive, with logistics, training, and communications largely supplied by Vietnam throughout the 1970s and 1980s (heavy ordnance and aircraft were provided by the Soviet Union).[1] The phrase "special relations" came into general use by both parties after 1976, and in July 1977, the signing of the twenty-five year Lao-Vietnamese Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation legitimized the stationing of Vietnamese army troops in Laos for its protection against hostile or counter revolutionary neighbors. Another element of cooperation involved hundreds of Vietnamese advisers who mentored their Laotian counterparts in virtually all the ministries in Vientiane. Hundreds of LPRP stalwarts and technicians studied in institutes of Marxism-Leninism or technical schools in Hanoi.[1] The resources that Vietnam was able to bestow upon its revolutionary partner, however, were severely limited by the physical destruction of war and the deadening orthodoxy of its economic structures and policies. However, it could put in a good word for its Laotian apprentices with the Soviet Union, which in turn could recommend economic assistance projects to its East European satellite states. Yet, Vietnam's influence on Laos was determined by economic assistance and ideology as well as by geographical and historical proximity. The two nations fit together, as the leaders liked to say, "like lips and teeth." Vietnam provided landlocked Laos a route to the sea, and the mountainous region of eastern Laos provided Vietnam a forward strategic position for challenging Thai hegemony in the Mekong Valley.[1] During the 1980s, Vietnam's regional opponents attributed to it a neo-colonial ambition to create an "Indochina Federation." This phrase can be found in early pronouncements of the ICP in its struggle against the French colonial structures in Indochina. The charge, exaggerated as it was, lost its currency once Vietnam withdrew its troops from Cambodia in 1989 and subsequently from Laos. Laos's dependence on Vietnam since 1975 could then be perceived as a natural extension of their collaboration and solidarity in revolution rather than as domination by Vietnam.[1] With the departure of Vietnamese military forces—except for some construction engineers—and the passing of most senior Vietnamese revolutionary partners, the magnetism of the special relationship lost its grip. Further, Vietnam was never able to muster large-scale economic aid programs. It launched only 200 assistance projects between 1975 and 1985, whereas the Soviet Union generated considerably more in the way of contributions. In 1992 the long-standing Vietnamese ambassador to Laos, a veteran of fourteen years' service, characterized the relationship as composed "d'amitié et de coopération multiforme entre les pays" (of friendship and diverse cooperation between the two countries). This pronouncement was far less compelling than the "objective law of existence and development" formulation sometimes expressed in the past.[1] Although Vietnam's historical record of leadership in the revolution and its military power and proximity will not cease to exist, Laos struck out ahead of Vietnam with its New Economic Mechanism to introduce market mechanisms into its economy. In so doing, Laos has opened the door to rapprochement with Thailand and China at some expense to its special dependence on Vietnam. Laos might have reached the same point of normalization in following Vietnam's economic and diplomatic change, but by moving ahead resolutely and responding to Thai and Chinese gestures, Laos has broadened its range of donors, trading partners, and investors independent of Vietnam's attempts to accomplish the same goal. Thus, Vietnam remains in the shadows as a mentor and emergency ally, and the tutelage of Laos has shifted dramatically to development banks and international
April 11, 2012 Hundreds of Catholics were forced to gather and celebrate Easter without a priest outside their chapel in a parish bordering Thailand on Sunday following its recent closure by the government.
“Around 200 Lao Catholics recited the rosary, sang hymns and read the Gospel to celebrate Easter in front of Kengweng chapel, while four armed soldiers watched from the chapel’s gate,” Lovers of the Holy Cross Sister Josephine Seusy, who organized the ceremony, said.
“We prayed with the risen Christ for the government to return the chapel,” she said.
The chapel, built in 1964, was closed off to parishioners by Savannakhet provincial authorities in February.
The 200 sq m chapel set on a 500 sq m plot of land is located in Xaybuly district of the province.
“The government decided to confiscate the chapel after saying we had no ownership papers,” she said.
“It plans to build a school on the plot.”
On Saturday, three local Catholics were arrested and questioned by security officials after they removed a closure notice which was posted on the main door of the chapel by government officials in February.
The faithful had also gathered outside the chapel to celebrate Palm Sunday.
Sister Seusy said priests from elsewhere are still being prevented from providing pastoral services for local Catholics.
She said she and her five novices have to hold prayers, teach catechism and provide communion, baptism and funeral services.
There are around 3,000 Catholics among 850,000 people, most of them Buddhists, in Savannakhek province.
Etats-Unis: les camps de prisonniers NKorean pire que du Goulag soviétique Publié à l'origine: Avril 10, 2012 03:08 AM Mise à jour: Avril 10, 2012 15:31 Par Le PENNINGTON Associated Press MATTHIEU (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON - (AP) - Les Etats-Unis droits de l'homme envoyé pour la Corée du Nord a déclaré mardi dans des conditions «brutale» du pays communiste camps de prisonniers sont pires que dans goulag de l'Union soviétique pendant la Guerre froide.
Robert King a fait ses commentaires lors d'une conférence examinant réseau du Nord de camps de travail pénitentiaire et les pénitenciers. Un nouveau rapport estime que les camps de détenir plus de 150.000 détenus, malgré les dénégations la Corée du Nord qu'elle détient des prisonniers politiques.
King a dit aux États-Unis a clairement fait savoir à Pyongyang dont elle a besoin non seulement de répondre aux préoccupations internationales sur les programmes de ses armes, mais à améliorer son bilan des droits humains si elle veut participer pleinement au sein de la communauté internationale. La scène internationale est actuellement sur le Nord sur ses plans visant à lancer une fusée à longue portée dès jeudi, car elle marque le centenaire du fondateur de la nation - une étape que Washington affirme fera dérailler une récente aux États-nord-coréenne accord pour fournir l'aide alimentaire en échange de concessions nucléaires. Selon la Corée du Sud l'intelligence, le Nord se prépare également son troisième essai nucléaire. «Il est clair la question du nucléaire est une question cruciale qui doit être traitée dans la Corée du Nord. C'est une question qui menace les voisins la Corée du Nord, au Japon (et) la Corée du Sud,» dit King. "Dans le même temps, nous avons aussi pour traiter des droits de l'homme." Le rapport sur les camps de prisonniers dans le Nord est par le Comité pour les droits de l'homme en Corée du Nord, un groupe aux États-Unis privé et l'organisateur de la conférence. Il documente l'incarcération présumée de familles entières, y compris les enfants et les grands-parents pour les "crimes politiques" de membres de la famille d'autres, et l'infanticide et les avortements forcés des femmes détenues qui franchi illégalement intoChina et est tombée enceinte par des hommes là-bas, et ont ensuite été rapatriés de force vers le Nord Corée. «Ce n'est pas seulement les armes nucléaires qui doivent être démantelés», a déclaré Roberta Cohen, présidente du conseil d'administration du comité d'administration », mais tout un système de répression politique." Le rapport est basé son rapport sur des entretiens avec 60 anciens prisonniers et les gardiens, dit le système des camps a été initialement modélisé dans les années 1950 sur le goulag soviétique pour punir "penseurs mal» et ceux qui appartiennent à la «classe politique erronée» ou convictions religieuses. Il cite des estimations de responsables nord-coréens état l'agence de sécurité qui ont quitté la Corée du Sud que le système des camps détient entre 150.000 et 200.000 personnes sur une population totale d'environ 24 millions d'euros. Il demande instamment à la Corée du Nord pour permettre au Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, et à démanteler les camps. Roi contre le grand nombre de détenus nord-coréens avec des centaines emprisonnés dans des camps de prisonniers soviétiques dans les années 1970. Il a cité des rapports anecdotiques que les gens ont fait face à l'arrestation, la torture et l'emprisonnement pour faire une blague sur les dirigeants nord-coréens et être entendu par les informateurs du gouvernement. Il a dit des conditions en Corée du Nord sont pires aujourd'hui que dans l'Union soviétique pendant les répressive années 1960 à 1980. Le rapport du comité décrit différents types de centres de détention, y compris les colonies de travail pénales où il dit les détenus politiques sont emprisonnés sans procédure judiciaire pour les peines plus souvent la durée de vie dans les mines, l'exploitation forestière ou d'entreprises agricoles. Les colonies de travail sont enfermés derrière des barbelés et des clôtures électrifiées, principalement dans le nord et au nord les montagnes centrales du pays, indique le rapport, alléguant des taux élevés de décès en détention en raison de mauvais traitements, la torture systémique, l'exécution et la malnutrition. Le rapport indique que les anciens prisonniers ont pu identifier leur baraque ancienne et maisons, les lieux de travail, lieux d'exécution et d'autres sites dans les camps par le biais des images disponibles sur Google Earth. Le comité affirme que les conclusions du rapport en contradiction avec une Décembre 2009 Déclaration par la Corée du Nord à l'homme des Nations Unies Conseil des droits de ce que les camps de prisonniers politiques n'existent pas. Greg Scarlatoiu, directeur exécutif du comité, a déclaré plus de 30.000 transfuges nord-coréens ont désormais fui le pays, contre seulement 3000 il ya une décennie, afin de Pyongyang ne peut pas cacher la dure réalité de ses camps de prisonniers politiques.
US: NKorean prison camps worse than Soviet gulag Originally published: April 10, 2012 3:08 AM Updated: April 10, 2012 3:31 PM By The Associated Press MATTHEW PENNINGTON (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON - (AP) -- The U.S. human rights envoy for North Korea said Tuesday conditions in the communist country's "brutal" prison camps are worse than in the Soviet Union's gulag during the Cold War.
Robert King made his comments at a conference examining the North's network of prison labor camps and penitentiaries. A new report estimates the camps hold more than 150,000 inmates, despite North Korea's denial it holds political prisoners.
King said the U.S. has made it clear to Pyongyang that it needs not only to address international concerns over its weapons' programs but to improve its human rights record if it wants to participate fully within the international community.
The international spotlight is currently on the North over its plans to launch a long-range rocket as early as Thursday, as it marks the centennial of the nation's founder -- a step that Washington says will derail a recent U.S.-North Korean agreement to provide food aid in return for nuclear concessions. According to South Korean intelligence, the North is also preparing its third nuclear weapons test.
"Clearly the nuclear issue is a critical issue that needs to be dealt with in North Korea. It's an issue that threatens North Korea's neighbors, Japan (and) South Korea," King said. "At the same time, we have also to deal with human rights."
The report on the North's prison camps is by the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, a U.S.-based private group and the organizer of the conference. It documents the alleged incarceration of entire families, including children and grandparents for the "political crimes" of other family members, and infanticide and forced abortions of female prisoners who illegally crossed intoChina and got pregnant by men there, and were then forcibly repatriated to North Korea.
"It is not just nuclear weapons that have to be dismantled," said Roberta Cohen, chairwoman of the committee's board of directors, "but an entire system of political repression."
The report, is based its report on interviews with 60 former prisoners and guards, says the camp system was initially modeled in the 1950s on the Soviet gulag to punish "wrong thinkers" and those belonging to the "wrong political class" or religious persuasion.
It cites estimates from North Korean state security agency officials who defected to South Korea that the camp system holds between 150,000 and 200,000 people out of a total population of around 24 million. It urges North Korea to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross access, and to dismantle the camps.
King compared the vast number of North Korean detainees with the hundreds imprisoned in Soviet prison camps in the 1970s. He cited anecdotal reports that people have faced arrest, torture and imprisonment for making a joke about North Korean leaders and being overheard by government informants.
He said conditions in North Korea are worse today than in the repressive Soviet Union during the 1960s to 1980s.
The committee's report described different kinds of detention facilities, including penal labor colonies where it says political detainees are imprisoned without judicial process for mostly lifetime sentences in mining, logging or agricultural enterprises.
The labor colonies are enclosed behind barbed wire and electrified fences, mainly in the north and north central mountains of the country, the report says, alleging high rates of death in detention due to systemic mistreatment, torture, execution and malnutrition.
The report says former prisoners were able to identify their former barrack and houses, work sites, execution grounds and other landmarks in the camps via imagery available through Google Earth.
The committee says the report's findings contradict a December 2009 statement by North Korea to the United Nations Human Rights Council that the political prisoner camps do not exist.
Greg Scarlatoiu, the committee's executive director, said more than 30,000 North Korean defectors have now fled the country, up from just 3,000 a decade ago, so Pyongyang cannot hide the harsh reality of its political prison camps.
Bounthavy Khaosanga 11. April 14:55 NanZhao United under One King Capital was Talifu than NongSaeh
In 1046-160 BC was YingXu ZhaoGe at the south Eastern of Mongolia and North Western of North Korea.
In 476-221 BC became Zhao country. In 618-907 AD found a new location the capital was Talifu than called NongSaeh at the South Western of China.
In 649 AD was a King BengHek (Chang Li Chin) In 697 prince Kounboulom (Pilawko) was born. In 729-749 King Kounboulom ascended the throne at age 31 and died at age 53, he had two wives Ekamahesi and Ekengthavi with 7 sons, 1 prince KounLo(Kolofeng), 2 prince Yi Fah Lan went to YunNan, 3 ChouSong(ChouLaNee) went to TongKin Annam(Hanoi), 4 prince KhamPhong(SingHoNaWat)was ruled ChiengSen, 5 prince Ngua-In went to Ayutthaya, 6 prince Lak Kom went to Khammouan, but they executed him in Pakse, 7 prince JetChuang went to XiengKhuang and they executed him there during the KuLai Khan over threw Sung Dynasty than subdue NanZhao(Laos).
In 750 prince KunLo left province ChiengDong-ChiengThong went to YunNan as King Kunboulom was illed, he had 2 sons as 1 prince FongLah(Gun Gia Ih) was a bravely son died in the war before him, 2 prince Kun Sawa (Farng Gia Ih) took the ChiengDong-ChiengThong-Meung Sawa- (Luangphabang)
In 779-809 King Inthasom was a grandson of KunLo. In 860 was King ShiLeng, but 5 more kings before unknown.
In 1252 king Hsin Ci was a last king of NanZhao, by KuLai Khan had over threw the Sung Dynasty than subdue NanZhao, the kingdom of NanZhao ended by the power of KuLaiKhan.
In 1289 King Souvanna KhamPhong had son prince YakFah with a grandson Chao Fah Ngum.
In 1353-1371 King Fah Ngum. In 1371-1373 King Vutha Singsavaddy. In 1373-1417 King Samsaenthai(OunMeung). In 1417-1428 King Lankhamdeng.
In 1428-1438 period of confusion, the power behind the throne during 10 years was in behind of princess PhimPha daughter of Samsaenthai, she assassinated 7 kings at her hands as 1 king Phommathat, 2 king KhamTum, 3 king MeunSai, 4 king Fahkai, 5 king Khongkham, 6 king Yukhone, 7 king Khamkeut, final the nobles had the wicked princess and her husband arrested put both to death.
In 1438-1441 Interregum.
In 1441-1478 King Chaiyachakkaphat Phaenpheo was a prince Wangburi son of Samsaenthai with princess Keoyohfah in Ayutthaya.
In 1478-85 King Souvanna BanLang In 1485-95 King Lahsaenthai Phouvanat In 1495-97 King Visounarat (uncle acting for SomPhou). In 1497-1500 King SomPhou, but 3 years later he died. In 1500-1520 King Visounarat. In 1520-1550 King Phothisarat. In 1550-1572 King Setthathirat. In 1572-1574 King Saensourin (acting for grandson NohMeung).
In 1591-1598 King Nohkeo Koumanh (NohMeung) . In 1598- 1621 King Voravongsa. In 1622 King MomChai (Ouphayouvarat) In 1622- 1627 King Phothisarat the second ( Phaya Mahanam age 71).
In 1627-28 King MomKeo son of king Voravongsa. In 1628-1633 King Thonkham had 3 sons Somphou, BounSou, Souriyavongsa.
In 1633-1690 King Souriyavongsa had 1 son Chao Ratsabout died by king him self, with 2 daughters Koumari(Hongkham) and SoumangKala had 2 sons OngLo and NohKasat. But Crown prince Ratsabout already married to princess ChanthaKummari was a sister of prince Inthakumman in province ChiangRung both they escaped here to LanXang during the Haw war in the meanwhile prince Inthakumman took Lao girl than married her and they had a son as OngNok(momNoi), but Crown prince Ratsabout with princess Chanthakummari had 2 sons as prince Kingkitsarat and prince Inthasom.
The ethnic Hua, the original Hua of LanXang. Wish you for all to everyone and everywhere.
In 1627-28 was King MormKeo and he had two sons as Prince ThoneKham and Prince Vichai.
In 1628-33 was Prince ThoneKham became King and had three sons as Prince Somphou, Prince BounSou and Prince Souriyavongsa.
Kingdom of Laos's flag was represented three Kingdoms.
To the left side represented the Kingdom of Luangphrabang known as came from King Souriyavongsa.
At the center represented the Kingdom of Vientiane known as came from Prince Somphou.
To the right side repersented the Kingdom of Champasak known as came from Prince Vichai.
In 1707 the Kingdom of Luangphrabang seperated from Vientiane by the King Kingkitsarat.
In 1713 the Kingdom of Champasak broke away from Vientiane and Luangphrabang by King Nanrath Soysysamoun.
In 1707-1735 the Kingdom of Vientiane was by Jhao Xay OngVeh became King in the title of Setthathirat the second.
In 1735-1760 Vientiane Kingdom was King OngLong.
Then in 1760-1778 Vientiane Kingdom was Prince OngBoun became King known as King Siri Bounyasan.
In 1778 during Vientiane had failed the war with Siam and LanXang had fallen into under control of Siam, then King Siri Bounyasan escaped to Vietnam, in the meanwhile Silanakhone gave birth to Prince Civit Cy in Khamkeut 1780, when King returned to Vientiane, the governor of Siam was ruling in Vientiane as Phraya Supho, then they allowed him to rule in second time, then he died in 1781.
After he died all his sons became to rules, until to the ended of Vientiane in 1828, his first son was King Nanthasen ruled in 1781-1795, then his second son was King Inthavong ruled in 1795-1804 in the title of Setthathirat the third, then next his third son was King Anouvong ruled in 1805-1828 with his half younger brother known as prince Civit Cy youngest son of King Siri Bounyasan.
Prince Civit Cy appointed viceroy known as Tissa, in 1785-1805 he went into Monkhood in temple Wat Inpeng to be safe from Siam, in 1875 he died, and the river Cy in Laos Esan it has been still remaining in the his name by the king of Siam Rama the third since.
His first married had one daughter known as Uameng Loungholme born in 1807-1902 her last name changed to Louang Rath, and his second married had three sons known as Huahong Louangholme born in 1832-1864, Huanou Louangholme born in 1835-1942, and Huasing Louangholme born in 1837-1960.
In the 1863-1864 Huahong had just appoined governor to rule the east side of the Mekong river was Mukdahan present Savanh, him and his wife had been stabbed to dead in the field under the tree during in the festival Thatinghang, his survival with 2 children, great grandma Thone was 3 years old and great grandpa Chine was 1 year old, during their parents got killed, the two of them had been sat there and cried to almost dawn.
But they survived by the elderly women and with the villagers came to safe them, great grandma Thone born in 1861-1955 died in Ban That, great grandpa Chine born in 1863-1956 died in Savanh.
When Huahong appoined governor his name had been changed to Thao Chanhthalatep Souriyavong (Hong), even when his brother came to take over in 1865-1869 also had been known as Thao Chanhthalatep Souriyavong (Nou) all by the king of Siam.
Huanou his survival with one secret wife and four children have been living in Laos Esan since even more, about Huasing Louangholme had been hidden away in Pakse until he died in 1960 at age 123 years old.
About great grandma Thone her survival with four children as grandpa Khao Souriyavong, grandma Bang Souriyavong, grandma Miy Souriyavong, and grandma Meuy Souriyavong.
About Great grandpa Chine had six children.
Grandpa Khao born in 1881-1946 had 11 children some have been living in Thailand, after he died his older son as uncle Colonel Khamphay Souriyavong changed the last name to Khaosanga, but in 1965 Colonel Khamphay Khaosanga died in Vientiane from guned shot in his behind.
In 1975 I'm Bounthavy letf Prince BounOum Nachampasak then went to visit uncle Bounpone at villa of Prime Minister Souvan Naphouma and Savanvong Khaosanga in Chi Nie Moe camp, then passed up General Kouprasith Aphay and the king Savang Vatthana and he did ask about Tissa.
Also in 1975 before the end of the school year SomOck Siharat was attacted by five men in the front of Lycee Vientiane, i went to help and told him to run away into safe place, In 1976 of January to July was in Xeing Khuang then met SomOck again more conversations with ate sweet rice and Padek.
In 1976 September to 1979 October was studied Road Construction in Vietnam, in 1979-80 December to October was in Nong Khai's Refugee camp ThaiLand, in 1980-81 was in the Philippines, in 1981 April 3rd in the USA to present.
About the province SavanNakhet, Savan meant Nou-Nu is mean heaven, named Huanou was came from king AnouVong.
In Vientiane's downtown was Ban Cy Luangholme than Ban Sihorm than Ban Anou. Thank you for visiting..
Anachak NONG SAE Beginning of New Year. Bounthavy Khaosanga 11:09pm Apr 10 NanZhao United under One King Capital was Talifu than NongSaeh
In 1046-160 BC was YingXu ZhaoGe at the south Eastern of Mongolia and North Western of North Korea. In 476-221 BC became Zhao country. In 618-907 AD found a new location the capital was Talifu than called NongSaeh at the South Western of China. In 649 AD was a King BengHek (Chang Li Chin) In 697 prince Kunboulom (Pilawko) was born. In 729-749 King Kunboulom ascended the throne at age 31 and died at age 53, he had two wives Ekamahesi and Ekengthavi with 7 sons, 1 prince KunLo(Kolofeng), 2 prince Yi Fah Lan went to YunNan, 3 ChuSong(ChuLaNee) went to TongKin Annam(Hanoi), 4 prince KhamPhong(SingHoNaWat)was ruled ChiengSen, 5 prince Ngua In went to Ayutthaya, 6 prince Lak Kom went to Khammouan, but they executed him in Pakse, 7 prince JetChuang went to XiengKhuang and they executed him there during the KuLai Khan over threw Sung Dynasty than subdue NanZhao(Laos). In 750 prince KunLo left province ChiengDong-ChiengThong went to YunNan as King Kunboulom was illed, he had 2 sons as 1 prince FongLah(Gun Gia Ih) was a bravely son died in the war before him, 2 prince Kun Sawa (Farng Gia Ih) took the ChiengDong-ChiengThong-Meung Sawa- (Luangphabang) In 779-809 King Inthasom was a grandson of KunLo. In 860 was King ShiLeng, but 5 more kings before unknown. In 1252 king Hsin Ci was a last king of NanZhao, by KuLai Khan had over threw the Sung Dynasty than subdue NanZhao, the kingdom of NanZhao ended by the power of KuLaiKhan. In 1289 King Souvanna KhamPhong had son prince YakFah with a grandson Chao Fah Ngum. In 1353-1371 King Fah Ngum. In 1371-1373 King Vutha Singsavaddy. In 1373-1417 King Samsaenthai(OunMeung). In 1417-1428 King Lankhamdeng. In 1428-1438 period of confusion, the power behind the throne during 10 years was in behind of princess PhimPha daughter of Samsaenthai, she assassinated 7 kings at her hands as 1 king Phommathat, 2 king KhamTum, 3 king MeunSai, 4 king Fahkai, 5 king Khongkham, 6 king Yukhone, 7 king Khamkeut, final the nobles had the wicked princess and her husband arrested put both to death. In 1438-1441 Interregum. In 1441-1478 King Chaiyachakkaphat Phaenpheo was a prince Wangburi son of Samsaenthai with princess Keoyohfah in Ayutthaya. In 1478-85 King Souvanna BanLang In 1485-95 King Lahsaenthai Phouvanat In 1495-97 King Visounarat (uncle acting for SomPhou). In 1497-1500 King SomPhou, but 3 years later he died. In 1500-1520 King Visounarat. In 1520-1550 King Phothisarat. In 1550-1572 King Setthathirat. In 1572-1574 King Saensourin (acting for grandson NohMeung). In 1591-1598 King Nohkeo Koumanh (NohMeung). In 1598- 1621 King Voravongsa. In 1622 King MomChai (Ouphayouvarat) In 1622- 1627 King Phothisarat the second ( Phaya Mahanam age 71). In 1627-28 King MomKeo son of king Voravongsa. In 1628-1633 King Thonkham had 3 sons Somphou, BounSou, Souriyavongsa. In 1633-1690 King Souriyavongsa had 1 son Chao Ratsabout died, with 2 daughters Koumari(Hongkham) and SoumangKala had 2 sons OngLo and NohKasat.