Kampuchea: Heng Pov

Monday, January 15, 2007

Heng Pov

I understand that what the government of Indonesia did was possibly contrary to its declared principles of human rights. However, we seem to have forgotten that as far as Heng Pov goes, he is reaping his own Karma now. Or to say it bluntly, what goes around comes around.

We do not know what he did before he was on the wrong side with Hun Sen; for sure, he was one of them. For sure he was doing what they were doing. This is nothing more than a case of "a drug deal gone bad."

Just because we are not happy with Hun Sen does not mean that we should go around supporting whoever is against Hun Sen. We have to be able to seperate a wolf from a German sheperd. And Heng Pov was not a German sheperd.

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Anonymous said...: Right you are.; January 28, 2007 at 2:48 PM

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