Re: More Than 30 Yrs On, Lon Nol Family Back In Cambodian Politics

On Feb 20, 8:15 pm, "the *** of Saint Mary of Nazareth"
<veak...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
perhaps Lon Rithi can become an opposition to Hun SEn , because
Sam Rainsy is not .

On Feb 20, 6:21 pm, "Chim" <Chi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:



More Than 30 Yrs On, Lon Nol Family Back In Cambodian Politics
4 Hour,45 minutes Ago

The son of Lon Nol, who overthrew then-prince Norodom Sihanouk in a
1970 coup before losing power to the Khmer Rouge, has announced he
would return his family to the Cambodian political arena, local media
said Tuesday.

The Khmer-language Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper quoted a spokesman for
Lon Rithi's newly registered Khmer Republican Party as saying the
party would compete in the 2008 national elections.

"Lon Rithi will put his leg back into Cambodia," the newspaper quoted
Nhean Preah as saying.

Propped up by US aid, the Lon Nol government held out nearly five
years until Phnom Penh was overrun by the Khmer Rouge in April 1975
and he fled to Hawaii. He died in exile in the United States in 1985,
and Lon Rithi, 47, is a resident of Long Beach, California.

Against the backdrop of a war in neighbouring Vietnam, Lon Nol's
regime was widely blamed for sanctioning some of the worst purges of
ethnic Vietnamese in the history of the country prior to the Khmer
Rouge's brutal Democratic Kampuchea regime.

The political platform of his son's party were not immediately clear.- Hide quoted text -

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Mr. Sam rainsy has now a bad reputation regard his repeated promising
failures. Now a new man is coming up as Mr. Lon Rithi, son of former
President Lon Nol. We need to wait and see what would happen for him.
But as the matter of facts, there still are a lot Republican among
Cambodian inside and outside as well. My own vision, I can see Lon
Rithi will beat Rainsy and will take over opposition.

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