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Speaking at the conclusion of a conference on military reform, held at the Ministry of Defence on 28 Jan 2010, Hun Xen warned some solidiers and military commanders involved in illegal businesses and corruption with

 harsh sanctions. They are Sum Samnang, director-general of logistics and finance at the Ministry of Defence; Chao Phirun, director-general of the military’s materials and technical services department; Ung Samkhan, commander of the  Cambodian Navy; and Chhoeun Chanthan, chief of Senate President Chea Sim’s bodyguards.The Phnom Penh Post has the detail report  HERE : 
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“It is time to stop every activity involving illegal business or the support of illegal business. [I] don’t care how many stars or moons you have – I will fire you, and nobody will keep corrupt commanders in their seats,” Hun Xen said. “In Cambodia, the prime minister directly controls the troops.”
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Hun Xen also acknowledged that many soldiers were involved in illegal activities including logging, land grabbing, smuggling and illegal fishing. “I declare my absolute order [to stop illegal businesses] — otherwise military reform will not move forward,”  said Hun Xen.
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As reaction to this Yim Sovan, the spokeman of SRP,  reacted that:

 He was pleased to hear the prime minister address the issue of land grabbing by the armed forces.“What I am happy about is that he acknowledged past misdeeds,” Yim Sovann said, adding that the SRP’s recommendations on these issues had been ignored for years.

However, Hun Xen´s waring can´t buy in  Mr. Thun Sary´s trust as he observes that:

“His speech is very good, but we also ask for real implementation … sometimes when we take his speech to lower levels for implementation, they do not listen,” he said.

If we look back to the past, Hun Xen has given such harsh warings  many times on many issues like the crack down on  Karaoke, bars and night clubs in 2006,   second-hand controll along national highways in 2005, the  rich kid gangs,  military and police  plates in May 2009, deforestation, and the so-called, ”War against land grabbing“ in March 2007 and 17 February 2008, etc. But NOTHING HAS CHANGED SO FAR because land grabbing, Karaoke, night clubs,  deforestation, gangsters, corruption, second-hand controll…still dangeriously exist in Cambodia without any disturbance.  So Thun Saray is absolutely right about Hun Xen.

Quotable Quote: 

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.​  ​​​Peter F. Drucker.