Here's an untold story waiting to be written and maturely, properly
analyzed by a Cambodian journalist or a particularly courageous,
objective foreign journalist: a THOROUGH chronological list of EVERY
visit of a Cambodian senior official (particularly PM, deputy PM,
defense minister, interior minister, security personnel) and more
difficult to detect, the provincial authority (Ratanakiri, Mondolkiri,
Stung Treng, Kampong Cham /Tbaung Khmum, Kandal, Svay Rieng, Prey Veng,
Takeo, Kep/Kâmpôt) TO VIETNAM. And vice
versa, of EVERY visit of Vietnamese officials to Cambodia. And the
"friendship", "cooperation" meetings and conferences. The English press
in Cambodia (The Daily, The Post) only covers a fraction of these
visits; the Khmer press a bit better. The Vietnam press more
comprehensive. I noticed KI Media tried to pick up many of these
stories from as many sources; Truth2Power Media a bit more systematic
but only very recent, 2013 or so.
In particular, analyze the frequency and the personalities of these
visits several weeks leading to a "domestic" boiling point or event and
immediately after: 1994 coup attempt, KR re-integration; 1995
assassinations, establishment of grassroots democracy Khmer Nation
Party; 1997 events, grenade attack, July coup; these events spilling
into July 1998 elections and the aftermath of violent standoff and
weeks-long mass protests in front of the Cambodians Hotel; before;after
2002 commune elections; before/after 2003 national elections; its
aftermath spilling into 2004 with killing of Chea Vichea; before after
2007 commune elections; before/after national elections; before/after
2012 commune elections; before/after 2013 national elections,
particularly weeks leading to July elections of May, June 2013, and the
assassination attempt of Sam Rainsy in August 2013; surrounding every
forced exile of Sam Rainsy; November, December 2013 during the almost
daily peaceful protests at Democracy Square; the Veng Sreng massacre in
Jan. 2014; etc.
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