Thursday, February 15, 2007

Sihanouk versus Keng Vannsak: Same old feud, Same old foes, only the time and place are changed

Translated from French by Luc Sâr

After dragging N. Sihanouk in the mud to his fill, “Professor” Keng Vansak starts his “destruction” work on the incomparable and immortal Glory of Preah Jayavarman VII (!!!)
By N. Sihanouk

Beijing, February 10, 2007

I thought that Mr. Keng Vansal was only 500% anti-Sihanouk and 100% 20th century anti-monarchy.

I did not know that he could have wanted to attack the Angkorian Monarchy which all Khmer generations (including the “Republicans” of the 20th and 21st centuries) are extremely proud of, and that for a good reason.

“Today,” it appears very clearly and incontestably that Mr. Keng Vansak is devoting himself to the “Sacred Mission: of destructing, demolishing, reducing to dust, the glorious Reputation of the entire Khmer monarchy, starting from the dawn of its (monarchy) birth.

This inveterate Republican, without any scruple, without any intellectual honesty, without moral, goes all the way to dirty the name and the reign of an Angkorian King whom the best Historians in the Word over and from all eras, recognize as one the greatest Kings, one the biggest Patriots, one of the bearers of human virtues in universal History.

It is to believe that Mr. Keng Vansak had an anti-Sihanouk “indigestion.”

In terms of gastronomy, one cannot satisfy oneself with the same dishes. The menus must be changed!

As far as I am concerned, I adore goose “foie gras”. But, I often leave “foie gras” to eat caviar, or bean and meat stew (“cassoulet”), or something else.

For “Professor” Keng Vansak, dirtying Sihanouk “in all type of fashions” is no longer “sufficient.” He must attack the “biggest piece”: H.M Preah Jayavarman VII !!!

According to this Mr. Keng Vansak, H.M Jayavarman VII had a lot of Cham blood in his veins.

And, last but not least, H.M. Jayavarman VII even ceded one portion of Kambuja to the Siamese (alias Thai!).

This very grotesque deformation of History by “Professor” Keng Vansak dishonors him, and proves that his objectivity is non existent and that his Patriotism is very limited.

(Signed) Norodom Sihanouk

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

This time Prof Kheng Vansak can express as a Free Khmer & Acadamic.
PLs see the text is extracted from:" The Tragedy of Cambodia History " by David Chandler,page 83
........Thirty-One years later,Kheng Vannsak,the Democrats' most tireless compaigner,recalled the compaign with zest,He had enjoyed taking risks in his speeches,he said.Theses attacked absolutism,underdevelopment,and exploitation so vigorously that Sihanouk began calling him :" King Vannsak (sdach Vannsak)in private.He drew large crowds.One person who heard many of his speeches was Khieu Ponary,Khieu Thirith's old sister,who was to marry Saloth Sar the following year.
To counter Vannsak's arguments, a new Sangkum newspaper argued against notions of social unrest,claiming binignly that"those are poor owe their poverty to previous lives,"while the rich "are happy now, because of the previous good deeds."
Three days before the elections,Sihanouk decided to neutralize Keng Vannsak.As he was addressing a rally in Pnom Penh, a Buick sedan bearing Sam Sary, heavily armed policemen, and a loudspeaker drove slowly into the crowd backedup by truckload of Sangkum supporters.Shots rang out.and a Democrat chauffeur was killed.Vannsak was hustled from the rally, taken into custody, and,although unarmed,was blamed for inciting the violence.Vannsak was in prison for the next two weeks without being charged.He was released only after the Sangkum had won the elections,and he had apologized abjectly to the prince.

Anonymous said...

[Et qui est le pire? Sihanouk or Keng Vansak? Si ce ne sont pas les Viets qui gagnent finalement - qui?]

Who's the worse? Sihanouk or Keng Vansak? If the Viet do not end up winning, who?

Anonymous said...

Isn't Sihanouk's wife Viet?
Isn't Keng Vansak's wife French?

Anonymous said...

I have been interested in Keng Vansak comment for a while. I never heard he made any comment to dirty the khmer monarchy. In his article, N. Sihanouk tried to put the words on Kang Vansak mouth and then blamed on Keng Vansak. If you read only his article you will see how wrong Vansak is. This looks like the years 50s and 60s. If he were in power he would had killed Kang Vansak now. The khmer monarchy does not need to be dirty any more because it already been very dirty by the action of N. Sihanouk, N Ranaridd, just to mention two of them.
Sok Sann

Anonymous said...

KHMENG WAT KHNONG SROK
TO THE DARK SIDE OF KI-MEDIA READERS ONLY

TO ALL COUNTRYMEN!

WE ARE SURE THAT SOME ELEMENTS OF ANTI-KHMER AND ANTI-CAMBODIA ARE NOW LEAVING IN THE US AND TRIED TO PORTRAY THEMSELF AS PATRIOTS ANTI-HUN SEN OR ANTI-YOUN; BUT IN FACT WE IDENTIFIED THEM AS KHMER-THIEU KY... DREAMERS OF THE LON NOL REGIME!

PLEASE TRY TO ISOLATE THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE THE VIRUS OF SPREADING THE ANTI-KHMERS AROUND US; overseas and inside CAMBODIAN !!!!

THESE KHMER-THIEU KY ARE VERY DANGEROUS AND BARBAROUS. BEWARE OF THEM... JUST FEW AS YOU CAN READ THEIR COMMENTS AS ABOVE...

A TRUE PATRIOT

KHMENG WAT KHNONG SROK

Anonymous said...

Yeah right you fucking Khmeng Wat Knong Srok, Vietcong@7:21AM. Obviously, agent ORANGE, and the tremor from the B Nam Hai (52) bombings ate up your brain cells and made your brain go wacko barking like a crazy dog. Plus, your excessive drunkenness of your own Nuoc Mam (fish sauce) day in and day out for 25 years to make you less fearful of death to fight against the Americans made you Viets are what you are now: suicidal.

If you don't believe me, just ask the Amercans. Fair enough?

Anonymous said...

Is it good for the Khmer nation to keep this culture of enmity: you are either with me or against me.

Those who aspire to lead or currently pretend to lead this nation should ponder over the word of wisdom on leadership of a Chinese sage, Lao Tzu: "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim is fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong

Anonymous said...

Is it good for the Khmer nation to keep this culture of enmity: you are either with me or against me.

Those who aspire to lead or currently pretend to lead this nation should ponder over the word of wisdom on leadership of a Chinese sage, Lao Tzu: "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim is fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong

Anonymous said...

Thanks Dr. Lao, your comment is very thoughtful. I really appreciate it...

Anonymous said...

Sihanouk saw Cambodia's educated elite as he enemies.

Anonymous said...

I hear you loud and clear Dr. Lao. That's really nice of you to have come up with such a wonderful and very wise remark. But please, just look at it as being an isolated case and personal opinion of an individual and nothing more. Thanks for sharing.

Anonymous said...

Keng Van Sak opined his view on Kings generally and despised Comrade Sihanouk who stole his thunder in 1975

King Sihanouk labeled Angkorian kings as destroyers then and killed his critics as enemies of state after sold his soul to Hanoi

Tit Naranhkiri the most educated one after ate with and sucked up to Sihanouk now pretentiously attacked Sihanouk to fool young folks in US
Either one is devious and evil for Khmer nation.

Anonymous said...

I think all intellectuals should not quarrel with Red King Sihanouk becuase he is going to die soon.
The red King Sihanouk has never confess that he has committed a lot of mistakes. He is still thinking that he is a God-King and whatever he has done is always right. He allowed Vietkong to use Khmer land to conduct warfare against the US and in turn the war spread to Cambodia. The Red Sihanouk never accepted his grave mistakes but to blame Lon Nol and Sirimatak. Also when the Red Sihanouk joined hand with bloody Khmer Rouge Pol Pot against Lon Nol and as a result 2 million Khmers killed by his ally, Pol Pot, he also blames Lon Nol and Sirimatak. Stop quarreling with the Old Sihanouk. He is going to die soon. Use your energy to educate young Cambodian about democracy and human rights instead.

From me: Кхмерский патриот

Anonymous said...

In the reime of Norodom Sihanouk, anyone who knew how to flirt with him was called nationalist , and he promoted some of these people to Samdach Title.
For those who had different opinon with him ,Norodom Sihanouk labeled them as traitors ,and some were get killed .
This was the case of Dr. Keng Vansak.

Anonymous said...

So what? Isn't one Khmer Rouge
enough for you to debate with?
Just how many Khmer Rouge do you
want, sir, 24?

Anonymous said...

Don't worry my Khmer compatriots! A mad Red King Sihanouk will die soon. After he dies, you can write anything as you want.

Anonymous said...

Yeh! I agree with you. The new generation of Cambodians does not care with the fucking King Sihanouk. His son Price Ranariddh is also stupid and is mad with the evil fox Ouk Phalla.

Anonymous said...

Yes! As Mr. William Shawcross, a British writer broadcaster and commentator wrote in his book " Sihanouk is a playboy; he likes fast horse, fast car... At first glance he seems to rule his tiny country successfully, but behind the screen there are a lot of problems....He manipulates his people with donation, agriculture cooperative and of course film making and music" This is a typical Sihanouk.

Anonymous said...

DO MAIR DID HE LIKE VIETNAMESE FOOD TO OR JUST FRENCH?

DON'T LET HIME COME TO VITNAME ANY MORE, STAY IN CHINA ONGYA, SIHANOUK!

DO NOT COME TO NAMVANG, VIETNAME NO MORE, OK.

Khmer Young said...

Most Khmer Leaders are extremely RADICAL,

King Sihanouk and Prof. Keng Vansak and few others Khmer Leaders are extremely radical. Through my personal observation, they are disgusfully cripple and crap. Their politic role doesn't mean that to harvest it in order to bring prosperity, integrity, sovereignty and peace to the kingdom/people, especially to exploit from world's politic movements. But their previous roles are just personal interest, ego and ignorance. I am sad and sobbing to see such Khmer leaders who know nothing about leadership. They have competed each other with guns, cursing, manipulating, destroying and uprooting each other like cats and dogs...without shameness in order to obtain their power or interest. Most of the time, they sell themselves to foreigners for the personal power stability and interests.

This is so weired and disgusted for Khmer pundits and leaders. Their competition with same Khmer blood is bloodly staged, not play it for the interests of Cambodia. It is really different from Cambodia's neighboring countries or world's nations that their political games are just the expoloration to bring advancement to their land.

On behalf of KHMER YOUNG, I humbly suggest to all those retired leaders and pundits, please take care of your health as your priority, if not necessary don't throw your spit or waste to KHMER YOUNG anymore...those are only your past personal retaliating activities. If you all cannot be calm, please try to be creative and productive as the Khmer role models like other world's retired leaders are doing.

With Sincerely Respect,

Anonymous said...

Okay, now that you have your stupid
saying, get your stupid ass back
to school and stay out of the
fucken politic. Okay, retard?