4/5/2011
Op-Ed by Kok Sap
Originally posted at: http://khamerlogue.wordpress.com/
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The ASEAN old member, Lee Kuan Yew-Dictator of Singapore |
Cambodia should stop selling its sand and everything else to Singapore. After more than a decade later, Singapore's oldest dictator Lee Kuan Yew talked down on Cambodia affiliation with the ASEAN. At his old age the man showed no wisdom. This may be why in 2008, Singapore's foreign minister George Yeo arrogantly ignored Cambodia complaint against the truculent Siam in its encroachment on Cambodia sovereignty that triggered the deadly fire fights at the ASEAN Summit.
While Cambodia struggles to catch up with the world economic development and world community, the oldest dictator has the audacity to insult Cambodia people in the worst way. It's understood that he has had bad blood with former King Sihanouk then. Both never saw each other eyes to eyes in bloc's politics. But it's absurd that he forgot during the war against Viet occupation, it was Singapore that made a bundle of profits out of arms conduits and money laundering on Cambodia's back. Until now, Singapore uses sand from Cambodia to build its mega-structures.
What an ingrate hand biter!
Lee said: "Cambodia should not have been accepted into ASEAN due to its lack of shared values with the bloc's founding members", according to a secret diplomatic cable released last year by the website WikiLeaks.
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