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Three more VN rubber companies to get land
THE PHNOM PENH POST; THURSDAY, 11 FEBRUARY 2010 15:01 CHUN SOPHAL

(Comments: Again and again, while Hun Sen is provoking Thailand by faking to defend Preah Vihear, he allows the Vietnamese to obtain land in Cambodia under the camouflage of business deal in the form of land concessions for rubber plantations. Does this kind of deals benefit really Cambodia? Does Cambodia have enough land to afford to lease it to Vietnam? Do these land deals lead to more employment, as proclaimed by a Hun Sen spokesperson, when he said that:
“On Tuesday, Chan Sarun said that developing the crop created job opportunities and brought economic growth.”
Think again; since most of these are contiguous to Vietnam, why would Vietnam employ Cambodians? Is it not logical that A Vietnamese company would prefer to employ Vietnamese workers? Especially when we all know that Vietnam has always used this kind of back door deal to allow the free flow of Vietnamese colonizers to move legally into Cambodia.
As I have been always saying for quite sometime now that we have never heard a word from either the old or the new king in the defence of the Cambodian national interests. Don’t blame the Vietnamese alone; they always had a well-conceived and executed plan known as “Nam Tien,” and they always know what they are doing; especially, as to how to use the Cambodians to work for them. In this case as in other cases throughout the sad Cambodian history, the Vietnamese need Cambodian traitors, and they manage to always have found them among the so-called Cambodian leaders.
Last but not least, let me remind the Cambodian people that Vietnam is using the spirit of the imposed 1979 Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Cooperation and rendered official by its 2005 supplements to silence all those Cambodians who would dare to question this kind of deals with Vietnam's hidden agenda to the detriment of Cambodia's national interests. Naranhkiri Tith Ph.D. Washington DC. February 11, 2010)