Khmer People Power Movement (KPPM) is the U.S.-based civil political movement which was founded in March 18, 2010 by Mr. Sourn Serey Ratha whom is well known in the country as a social activist and grassroots advocator in Cambodia since 1997. He fled to the U.S in 2007 and was granted asylum by the U.S. government. In 2008, Mr. Sourn Serey Ratha created a group of political advocates named the Cambodian Action Committee for Justice and Equity (CACJE), the organization that advocated the Khmer Rouge court to call Norodom Sihanouk and other top ranking officials of the Cambodia People Party to testify.
On March 18, 2010, the CACJE had changed to KPPM and became a prominent political movement of Cambodians overseeing the challenge of Hun Sen’s regime in Phnom Penh for the purpose of political change. KPPM has its mission not only to change leadership but it is also to change regime in Phnom Penh from Communist-Monarchy to Democratic Liberal Republic which will be recognized as the Second Khmer Republic Regime.
KPPM does not believe in the current election system in Cambodia that is controlled by the existing ruling parties. Mr. Sourn Serey Ratha, the president of KPPM, called the election in Cambodia is a political tool for ruling party (CPP) used to legalize power and continue to rule country without respect for the full spirit of Paris Peace Agreement October 23, 1991.
KPPM believes in the power of the people that will receive backup from international communities to encourage the Cambodian people rising up across the country against dictatorship regimes as well as the belief in the power of international law that the International Criminal Court will be able to call Hun Sen for the hearing on war crime and crimes against humanity.
This is the reason why KPPM tried to advocate the U.S lawmakers and government to put in force of the H.R. 533 and Bill 309 which the U.S Congress and Senate adopted on October 1998 and deemed Hun Sen as a criminal leader and communist. Therefore, the international court must establish and bring Hun Sen to court.
On June 22, 2012 KPPM officially filed a law suit against Hun Sen at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at Huge of the Netherlands.
Now KPPM does not accept the coming election and ask for Cambodians not to vote. To boycott this coming vote, yet encourage people to gather the power of the people in order to topple Hun Sen’s power.
Since 2010, KPPM has worked hard to build networks in the Cambodian country through the channel and networks of Thailand, in order to expand to Canada, Europe, Australia and Thailand where Cambodians are living, and there are thousands of supporters inside and outside of the country. The side population to support KPPM is competing with the political parties that still believe in unacceptable voting. In the commune election on 2012, KPPM was able to call 49% of voters not to vote and now those supporters of KPPM are waiting for a new political order which will remove Hun Sen and CPP from power.