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### Viewing cable 07PHNOMPENH551, MONDULKIRI PROVINCE: TRADITION, ELECTIONS AND THE CHINESE

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07PHNOMPENH551 | 2007-04-13 08:41 | 2011-07-11 00:00 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Phnom Penh

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    RR RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM RUEHNH
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    R 130841Z APR 07
    FM AMEMBASSY PHNOM PENH
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 8321
    INFO RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE
    RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 2450

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 PHNOM PENH 000551

    SIPDIS

    STATE FOR EAP/MLS

    SENSITIVE
    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: PHUM PREL KDEM ENV CB
    SUBJECT:  MONDULKIRI PROVINCE: TRADITION, ELECTIONS AND THE CHINESE

    ¶1.  (U)  Summary.  During the Embassy's recent election monitoring
    program, Emboffs visited Cambodia's remote Mondulkiri Province on
    the Vietnamese border.  Mondulkiri is a rapidly-changing region that
    encapsulates most of the major issues affecting Cambodia and its
    minority population -- property rights and tenancy, environmental
    degradation, deforestation, illegal logging, land seizures and
    Chinese economic expansion.  Despite a strong sense of alienation
    among minority Phnong and other tribal groups, Mondulkiri remains a
    stronghold of the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP).  End
    Summary.

    The Road to Mondulkiri
    ----------------------

    ¶2.  (U)  Mondulkiri Province borders Vietnam and is approximately
    400 kilometers to the northeast of Phnom Penh.  With an estimated
    45,000 inhabitants, it is Cambodia's least populated province but is
    also the largest in terms of geographic area (over 14,000 square
    kilometers).  Historically, the majority of the inhabitants have
    been ethnic Phnong and other indigenous tribes.  However, over the
    past few years, ethnic Khmer and some Cham have been moving in to
    settle "unclaimed" land.  Upon entering Mondulkiri Province, the
    main paved road ends and Khmer-style houses begin giving way to the
    circular thatched huts of the Phnong as the road becomes narrower
    and rougher and begins to wind up and down the foothills.  The road
    traffic dwindles to occasional trucks groaning under the weight of
    fresh-cut timber.

    ¶3.  (U) The road eventually passes through an unmanned checkpoint
    entrance to the Sey Ma Bio-Diversity Protection Area with prominent
    forest cover.  However, when the road reaches a plateau, the
    immediate areas are occupied by improvised Khmer-style houses and
    lean-tos with no sign of water, sewage or electricity -- evidence of
    the Khmer newcomers.  There is pervasive clear-cutting and
    slash-and-burn farming accompanied by smoldering tree stumps in the
    distance.  Sprinkled among the stumps in the gray, sandy soil are
    little patches of cassava and vegetable crops.  As the road leaves
    the plateau and climbs up the foothills, the squatter settlements
    give way to thicker forest cover interspersed with patches of
    clear-cutting and reforestation projects.

    Sen Monorom and the "Wild East"
    -------------------------------

    ¶4.  (U)  The provincial capital, Sen Monorom, has a population of
    7,000 and is an unlikely international crossroads -- a couple of
    paved roads, a spate of guesthouses, a traffic circle, a market
    street, a ramshackle provincial theater, and four or five
    restaurants.  Despite the lack of amenities, the town has a
    surprising cultural mix.  There are a handful of Western NGO workers
    and missionaries, the town's two-star hotel has Chinese financial
    backing, Phnong tribespeople from the surrounding villages regularly
    bring their livestock, produce and crafts to market, and Vietnamese
    officials and businessmen make regular visits from the nearby
    border.  During Emboffs' brief visit, we met American missionaries,
    an Israeli innkeeper, German tourists and a French restaurant owner.
     There has been a significant increase in tourism over the last few
    years, with many new guesthouses geared to the growing foreign
    backpacker tourist trade.  There are now enough foreign tourists and
    NGOs to support a combination pizzeria/falafel shop.

    ¶5.  (U)  Despite the growth in tourism, Sen Monorom's reputation as
    a shady border town remains valid.  According to our embassy warden,
    it is not unusual to see Vietnamese soldiers driving around town.
    During our election monitoring visit, Emboffs' saw a Vietnamese
    military officer and a group of well-dressed officials exit a local
    business and drive off in an expensive, late model SUV with
    Vietnamese plates.  Despite their official appearance and
    distinctive dress, they drew no attention or notice from the crowded
    street.

    ¶6.  (U)  Sen Monorom's small size and obscurity heightens the
    disparities of wealth and influence.  The local CPP headquarters,
    European NGOs and guesthouses catering to foreigners occupy new,
    freshly-painted buildings with the basic amenities.  By contrast,
    the local primary school a few blocks away is old and decrepit, with
    no plumbing or electricity.  The classrooms have only crude
    blackboards and maps and the classroom benches and tables are
    covered with graffiti, there are no books.  The French NGO Action
    contre Le Faim (Action against Hunger) set up operations due to
    recent crop failures in the Phnong villages that have led to
    increasing levels of malnutrition throughout Mondulkiri.  Some
    Phnong reportedly have sold their land for as little as 10 bags of
    rice and have little means to support their families.

    Visit to the Phnong Village of Pu Tru
    -------------------------------------

    PHNOM PENH 00000551  002 OF 003

    ¶7.  (U)  The election monitoring trip centered on Pu Tru, where
    Emboffs were assisted by our local warden, a fluent speaker of both
    Khmer and Phnong.  Almost all the Phnong live in round, unventilated
    thatched huts with neither plumbing nor electricity.  The huts
    require constant upkeep to remain habitable and usually must be
    rebuilt after 7 years.  The ceilings inside the huts are coated with
    a black resinous soot from a constant fire that is tended in the
    middle of the hard-packed dirt floor.  The Phnong sit on suspended
    wooden flooring planks that extend along the length of a hut.  Dogs,
    pigs and chickens rest underneath the planking and wander in and out
    of the huts.  Large cylindrical porcelain vats line the back of the
    huts, usually containing homemade rice wine.  Many of these vats
    have rather intricate bas-relief and are said to be hundreds of
    years old.  For a typical Phnong family, these black vats are among
    their most prized possessions.

    ¶8.  (U)  Yet in the midst of this traditional lifestyle, modern life
    intrudes.  Some huts have a motorcycle parked next to them and there
    are occasional DVC players, radios and television sets.  Khmer-style
    houses are now fashionable and are the preferred housing for the
    village chieftain and favored tribal elders.  In the middle of the
    village, a Japanese NGO has installed state-of-the-art solar energy
    panels and the Red Cross has provided the Phnong a sophisticated
    water filtration system to ensure a reliable source of potable
    water.  Despite the availability of electricity and treated water,
    the villagers of Pu Tru still prefer to wash their clothes and bathe
    in a nearby creek.

    ¶9.  (U)  After talking to a Phnong family in their hut, we then
    toured the village fields and grazing areas.  The seemingly random
    patches of subsistence crops belie a rather sophisticated,
    environmentally-sensitive agricultural system.  The Phnong rotate a
    variety of crops through a series of fields, often leaving fields
    fallow for years before replanting.  The Phnong also deliberately
    plant a variety of different crops in small patches to take
    advantage of the shade and/or disease resistance one plant can
    provide for another.

    Election Issues?  What's An Election Issue?
    -------------------------------------------

    ¶10.  (SBU)  The villagers we spoke with were reluctant to voice
    partisan political views on the upcoming commune elections.
    Nevertheless, the adult villagers had a strong desire to vote and
    were hoping they could secure rides from friends or from a village
    elder to the polls.  There seemed to be an unspoken disconnect
    between the communal elections and the real concerns of their
    village -- the ongoing encroachment of their lands by the Khmer and,
    most recently, their new Chinese neighbors.

    ¶11. (SBU)  Although the Phnong exist on meager resources, these
    concerns pale in significance to the growing threat of land
    confiscation, encroachment on their grazing areas and the
    accompanying external pressures on their indigenous way of life.
    Although not well articulated, the Phnong feel pressed on all sides.
     Vietnam imposes constraints on their ability to travel to their
    neighboring Montagnard cousins in Vietnam; Cambodia sends its
    dispossessed lowland farmers to squat on their land and set up
    tourist concessions on Phnong areas without their permission.

    ¶12.  (SBU)  Most despised now, however, are the Chinese who have
    encroached on Phnong lands, but also have imposed severe grazing
    restrictions, something the Khmer have never attempted.  The Phnong
    claim that their new Chinese neighbors have threatened to shoot any
    cattle that stray onto Chinese-occupied land.  Moreover, the Phnong
    say the Chinese have also threatened to detain any Phnong suspected
    of property crimes, meting out punishments outside of the Cambodian
    criminal justice system.  The Chinese routinely accuse the Phnong of
    burning their new pine plantations.  The Phnong counter that,
    although they traditionally burn off grasslands every year to create
    new pastures, they do not target the Chinese pine stands.  Rather,
    they maintain that the Khmer who work for the Chinese are angry at
    getting paid only 5,000 riel (USD 1.25) per day and burn the
    plantations themselves.  Khmer locals reportedly are angry at the
    Chinese for taking land that they had planned on occupying and may
    have set fires in retaliation.  One Phnong commune official has
    reportedly seen Khmer policemen and soldiers setting fire to the
    plantations.

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    ¶13.  (U)  Election day turnout on April 1 was modest in the
    precincts surveyed, with most of the voting completed before lunch.
    Voter queues were orderly except in the Phnong villages, where the
    villagers often clustered outside the polling stations, usually the
    village schoolhouse.  No violent incidents or confrontations were
    reported.  The election officials seemed reasonably well-versed in
    following the correct procedures at the polling stations.  On two

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    separate occasions, Emboffs witnessed election officials turn away
    unregistered or late-registered voters.  The COMFREL monitors as
    well as the political party agents were all cordial to each other.
    There were no disputed ballots and the vote tallying proceeded in an
    orderly fashion with only minor procedural delays.  By early
    evening, the monitored precinct reported lopsided victories for the
    CPP, which garnered more than 80% of the votes.  The opposition Sam
    Rainsy Party (SRP) trailed with 16% of the vote followed by
    FUNCINPEC with a remaining 4%.  Local observers speculated that the
    CPP's success was greatly assisted by the rather low turnout and the
    CPP-affiliated Phnong tribal elders, who encouraged the Phnong to
    vote as a bloc.

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    ¶14. (SBU)  Mondulkiri remains firmly in the hands of the CPP,
    despite the many problems faced by its indigenous Phnong community.
    The CPP's strategy of co-opting tribal elders and through them,
    delivering the majority of Phnong voters to the CPP has paid off -
    this tradition pre-dates UNTAC times and is also applied in
    Ratanakiri.  Given the low population density and expansive area of
    Mondulkiri, the SRP and other political parties do not find the
    expenditure of time, personnel, and resources to be cost-effective
    in trying to mobilize an opposition vote.  However, as Mondulkiri
    becomes less isolated, the quickening pace of outside encroachment
    on the traditional Phnong way of life could present the CPP with new
    challenges in maintaining control over Phnong voters.

    MUSSOMELI

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