Thursday, May 17, 2007

Political figures propose to display King-Father’s statue in a public place

16 May 2007
By Huy Vannak
Radio Free Asia

Translated from Khmer by Socheata

A group of politicians propose to display the statue of King-Father Norodom Sihanouk in public rather than keeping it in the royal palace.

This 4-meter high statue of the former monarch was made in 1992, and it was moved from the Funcinpec party headquarters last week, following the sale of this headquarters to a private company.

CPP MP Chiem Yeap [KI-Media: Chiem Yeap’s son-in-law is the buyer of F’pec headquarters] called on the city and the government to seek for a decent location to display this statue of the former king. “Since his majesty of the patriotic father of our nation, he is talented, and we love him, we cherish him from the bottom of our heart. If the city or the royal government has a place to set [this statue], it would be even better, it will be kept as a souvenir from now on, I think this would be good. I tell you, there is a lot of benefit for the younger generations to study well the patriotism that people accomplished for their country and people, just like the patriotic king was.”

SRP MP Son Chhay believe that the statue of King-Father should be displayed at a public worship location rather than being kept in the royal palace: “The statue of his majesty should be displayed in a decent public place so that it represents the respect and love of the people to the patriotic king. Normally, this type of statue is displayed in public, or if there is any problem in finding a place to put it, we must discuss among ourselves.”

Nouv Sovathero, Funcinpec spokesman, said that Funcinpec and the royal palace office agreed with each other to bring the statue of King-Father to the royal palace for safekeeping.

He said that it would be a good thing if the top national institutions agree to find a decent place to display King-Father’s statue for all future generations to pay respect to.

Nouv Sovathero said: “If we have the ability, and there is a mutual agreement among the top three institutions: the Senate, the National Assembly, and the royal government, and if there is a decent location available, it is better to display this statue in public, and it will set a location for Cambodians who love the king, to come and pay respect to him.”

Along with the recall of the achievements of the patriotic king, Muth Chantha, NRP spokesman, said the former monarch is an important symbol for the Cambodian population, “His Majesty the patriotic king is an extraordinary king in the development of the country, in the preservation of the national reconciliation, and he is an important symbol for all the Cambodian people. Therefore, this statue should be displayed in a worship place where his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren can pay respect to.”

All the MPs propose that Cambodia should educate the younger Cambodian generations about the culture of respect to the symbolism and the achievements of past leaders.

53 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:33 PM

    I think it's a brilliant idea to have Sihanouk'S statue in PUBLIC so we can vent out our ANGER at him by spitting on it, or throwing EGGS, or shit on it for his past mistakes that led to 1.7 millions khmers dead.

    Yep, only in cambodia, you killed people ,and get respect at the same time.

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  2. Anonymous3:15 PM

    I second that!!!!!

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  3. Anonymous3:19 PM

    A suggestion: Since our August King is the Father of our independence, his statue should put on top of the Independence Monument in Phnom Penh if that monument can support it, with an electrecution device to prevent birds and other creatures from soiling it.

    LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong

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  4. Anonymous3:43 PM

    Dr LAO Mong HAY ....
    Sihanouk was not the father of Independence. FRANCE most likely to leave South east ASIA anyway after the defeat at DIEN BEN PHU. To say that he,Sihanouk, struggled against the FRANCE for independence for Cambodia is no different than THE ROOSTERS claim credits for the SUNRISE.The SUN will rise anyway no matter what....

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  5. Anonymous5:29 PM

    I cannot understand a person like Dr Lao Mong Hay, can approve this ideas. I wonder why Hun Sen has schooled you a funny Dr of Law. This kind of worship is only happened in North Korea. Even in China, there is no more Mao Ste Tung statute in the public place. THis kind of display will only represente an oppression society. I think only if Sihanouk is a shameless leader who is still allowing all the idiots to display his statute in public place. He must understood that he was one of great architect of Cambodia destruction in the 1970-1993. Areak Prey

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  6. Anonymous6:03 PM

    Wow, 3:43, you are quite a sharp
    person to notice that the defeat
    of the French by the vietnamese,
    discouraged the friend from staying
    in IndoChina. The French knows
    fair well, that soon or later, the
    Vietnamese would have driven them
    out of their back yards, thus, it
    is smart of the French to leave
    while they are ahead of the game.
    Furthermore, there weren't much
    to gain in Cambodia anyway, at that
    time. In history, the same thing
    happened in the US. After the UK
    defeated by the US, sometime later
    the UK also pulled out of the US
    back yard (Canada) because they
    know fair well that the US,
    soon or later, will come after
    them. I am sure there are other
    similar examples if one care to
    look for it.

    Congradulation, my friend, you
    are the first person I meet to
    figured out something that is not
    well taught in any school.

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  7. Anonymous6:06 PM

    Correction:
    Wow, 3:43, you are quite a sharp
    person to notice that the defeat
    of the French by the vietnamese,
    discouraged the French from staying
    in IndoChina. The French knows
    fair well, that soon or later, the
    Vietnamese would have driven them
    out of their back yards, thus, it
    is smart of the French to leave
    while they are ahead of the game.
    Furthermore, there weren't much
    to gain in Cambodia anyway, at that
    time. In history, the same thing
    happened in the US. After the UK
    defeated by the US, sometime later
    the UK also pulled out of the US
    back yard (Canada) because they
    know fair well that the US,
    soon or later, will come after
    them. I am sure there are other
    similar examples if one care to
    look for it.

    Congradulation, my friend, you
    are the first person I meet to
    figured out something that is not
    well taught in any school.

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  8. Anonymous9:49 PM

    Mr. 3:43

    Please brush up your knowledge of our history. The battle of DIEN BEN PHU ended on 7 May 1954 with the defeat of the French. Cambodia regained its independence from France on 9 November 1953.

    Mr.5:39 PM

    You also need to brush up your knowlege of China and Mao Tse Tung as well. I was in Beijing last July. I saw the poster of Mao Tse Tung as described in the following exerpt from a website:

    "in China, the personality cult surrounding Mao persists. Mao's embalmed body lies in a mausoleum on Tiananmen Square. A huge poster of Mao hangs at the square's main gate. His portrait is on every Chinese bank note. A statue of Mao can be found in every town and city. Each year millions of Chinese visit 'Red Tourism' sites such as Zunyi, where Mao took the leadership of the CCP, and Shaoshan, where he spent his childhood." http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/mao.html

    I also saw many effigies of Mao Tse Tung and his redbook on sale at different souvernirs shops. Such effigies and his redbook are also available at souvernir shops in Hong Kong as well.

    You further need to visit London, especially its most famous square called Trafalgar Square where you find a column that is 46 m high. At the top of that column is the 5.5 m high statue of Nelson. You might like to visit the following website to see the picture of that column and Nelson's Statue: http://www.great-britain.co.uk/towns/london/trafalga.htm

    If you want to know more about Nelson, please visit:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson's_Column

    Please kindly let me know whether my suggestion is still as crasy as you might have thought.

    If you like to have privacy, please send an e-mail to this address:mong.hay@gmail.com.

    LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong

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  9. Anonymous10:30 PM

    Lao mong hay I think you are an educated people who is in the real world that can see how big the sky is? I havebeen in Europe and visite more than 10 countries and been in China and make the tour along the Southern provinces and I went to the countryside I let my translater asked so many questions to the people and compare wath the picture that happen longtime ago and nowaday it was big different. They buitl their country, and their leader stay near the people they sacrify because of their country it is not like your king steals tones of gold and runs to the communist countries and pays to built the palace in North Korea and in China. The people in these both countries they don't like the king why they offer Sihanouk the nice palace? Rethink again Mr. Lao

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  10. Anonymous10:50 PM

    That politic dude 10:30pm. Shihanouk can not keep tones of gold in his pokets to pay for hispalaces.
    He paid his palace with his GOOD WILL, they the communist know Shihanouk would be king again some day, and they are right?
    They get their money worth it, but you and me got to pay!

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  11. Anonymous11:12 PM

    Dr. Lao, here's a quote from
    Wikepedia for you:

    "By 1953, the First Indochina War was not going well for the French. A succession of commanders – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Jean-Étienne Valluy, Roger Blaizot, Marcel-Maurice Carpentier, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, and Raoul Salan – had proven incapable of suppressing the Viet Minh insurrection. ... ."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu

    The French has been retreating
    from the VietMinh since the late
    40's. They knew it was hopeless
    by the early 50's. The DIEN BEN PHU
    battle is just a stupid last stand
    off to see if their luck will
    turned around for them. That is
    all.

    There is no way for Cambodia to
    get independence from the French
    without taking advantage of the
    the pressure that is put on the
    French in Laos and Vietnam.

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  12. Anonymous11:19 PM

    PS: And yes, Dr. Lao, I do agree
    with you about Chairman Mao
    recognition in China. He's still
    a hero to a vast majority of
    Chinese people. They knew he was
    not a perfect man and they
    understand his position. I wouln't
    dare to criticize Chairman Mao
    to a frog in China if you know
    what I mean, hehehe!

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  13. Anonymous12:00 AM

    History said we have independent from franc in 1953 before the Viet get its.

    Your opinion is your Fucking opinion 11:12PM.

    Yes we did it with no related to those daugther seler, wife prostitution Vietnamese sucker!

    The Viet got lucky because Franc can not use Cambodia for help any more or the french still keep them in cage till now.

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  14. Anonymous12:19 AM

    You idiot, the war in vietnam
    continued on only because the US
    was funding the French. The French
    was dead meat way before The DIEN
    BEN PHU battle. That is why they
    pulled out Cambodia. So just
    because Vietnam continues battle
    with the US it does not meant they
    are not independence. It just meant
    they got more war, period.

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  15. Anonymous12:25 AM

    Good will be one of his statue place at ECCC entrance then another at Tuol Slaeng

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  16. Anonymous12:49 AM

    12:19am stupid fool the Viet got indepedent from the french in 1954

    Wwhat the fuck they try to killed each others ( north and south suckers) that when the USA get involved!

    And We Cambodia has independent in 1953, that why the viet git it undeserve independent because the french was beatup so hard by us in 1953.

    Why you stupid monkey have a reverse brain like coconut?

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  17. Anonymous1:38 AM

    12:49, 1954 was just on paper.
    It doesn't mean crap. In reality,
    the French got their asses kicked
    around 1952 as far as I am
    concerned. Accordingly, they are
    independent, despite what the
    corrupted UN said. I mean they
    don't have to pay the French
    taxes. They don't have to follow
    any French's law ... . On the
    other hand, Cambodia can't do
    any of that until after the late
    1953. Do you know what I mean?

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  18. Anonymous2:00 AM

    You idiot and stupid fool 1:38Am, what ever your concern who care you are just a dog brain!

    Till 1954 the french sodiers still walked around raping the Viet's mothers, and beside those handfull of jungle vietnamese all the Viet in town was buying stuff that taxes by french ( No personal Tax in Vietname until now, stupid)

    The Dien Ben Phue had Chinese finger prints all over Viet Pussy.

    We Cambodia kick the friench out befor September 1953, so we had UN reconized us in 9/1953. We way above the Viet fool!

    That why the french hate us and love it faithfull slave, the Viet!

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  19. Anonymous2:35 AM

    Hey you fool, here's what Wikipedia
    said:
    "Sihanouk was making a high-stakes gamble, for the French could easily have replaced him with a more pliable monarch; however, the military situation was deteriorating throughout Indochina, and the French government, on July 3, 1953, declared itself ready to grant full independence to the three states of Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos. Sihanouk insisted on his own terms, which included full control of national defense, the police, the courts, and financial matters."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Cambodia

    The above quote clearly stated
    that the French was weaken in
    indochina, and it certainly aint
    khmer who weaken them. I can tell
    you that much. And Sihanouk was
    just taking advantage of the
    French that was weaken by the Viet
    Minh as I have stated all along.

    Even here, we can tell that the
    author is anti-viet who's
    deemphasized the VietMinh who's
    had weaken the French, but they
    can't hide it from gifted people
    like some of us. Mua hahahaha!!!!

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  20. Anonymous3:20 AM

    Hello Lao Mong Hay!! There is a totally different presentation to the Nation between Statue and poster, and in currency. Posters and currency just to represente a leader of a country. Statue will represente a sign of worship like Kim II Sung, Saddam Hussein and Stalin. How can you compare Sihanouk to Mao Ste Tung ( No Statue any wehere in China )? What kind of credit can he has from leading Cambodia into a full catastrophe of 1970-1975? People around the world would only display people who have archieved great success for their country out from poverty, from war and from dictatorship and not for people who has led their country into completed suffering. Please go back to China and recounte again to see if there is any more Statue of Mao? His memorial in Beijing can be in different interpretations. Some will say that with his cruelty, his death body will stay for public display. Areak Prey

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  21. Anonymous3:24 AM

    2:35AM, You get stupider than I thought, fool!

    Who and what is or was Pikipedia, is it god? or just a human who try to make money with writting?

    Be logic fool, no body give you any thing for free, WE CAMBODIAN EURNED OUR INDEPENDENT With our lives and brain.

    In a race there isno one ever get first and was slower only in the story of Rabit and turtle, and that cause turtle use trick.

    In a fight if I hurt your right hand do you pul out your left hand first or right hand first?

    Fool, ask some one next to you to pock your right eye see if you close your left eye first?

    You have a lopster brain stupid!

    The Viet beat the franc cause of Chinese help then and the chinese use that trick again in Korea, fool!

    WE CAMBODIAN GOT INDEPENDENT BY OURSEVES AND MAKE THE FRANC WEAK TO OPEN OPORTUNITY TO THE VIET AND LAOS.

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  22. Anonymous3:36 AM

    TO 3:20AM, THAT IS YOUR OPINIOM ABOUT SHIHANOUK BAD OR GOOD1

    ABOUT STATUE, IN AMERICAN THE FATHER OF DEMOCRACY, THEY HAVE THERE STATUE OF THEIR PRESIDENT ALL OVER PLACES FROM DC TO DAKOTA!

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  23. Anonymous3:39 AM

    Dear 2:35AM ,The force or the militia that SIHANOUK were very proud of to inflict on the mighty colonial power was called;" CHIVAPUL and NEARY KHLAHAN" .This force had nothing but wooden rifles, how did i knew because my father had one too.If the FRENCH really want to take on this ragtag army , it will take only at the most half a day and be done with it, but you know after WW2 the FRENCH was sick and tire of it and say what the heck.... in all FRENCH was not weaken by the khmers period.......

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  24. Anonymous3:55 AM

    Hey Guys, don't get me wrong.
    I am just sharing the truth here,
    and I am not putting down Sihanouk
    either. Actually, a few months ago
    I've said that Sihanouk is better
    then the US George Washington
    because he got us independence
    with minimal casualty. He's smart
    to make a move when the condition
    is right, and BINGO! But the truth
    is it was the Viet Minh who had
    done the most damage to the French.
    Don't mess around with history, my
    friend because you might just
    turned our KR messacre into one of
    the comedian show. Do you know what
    I mean? Keep it clean.

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  25. Anonymous3:55 AM

    You STUPID 3:39 and yourself above 2:35AM, Chip trick man!

    If you are Khmer and you at that age you should know a bout:
    - Kralahome Kong
    -Achar Svar
    - Achar Pokambor
    even some princes like
    - Hasokan
    -Sivutha that fought the Friench with sword and arrow long long befor Shihanouk was borned

    Khmer do got our Independent and weak the Franc. The Viet get free ride with the help of Chinese!Stupid noeukman brain!

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  26. Anonymous4:09 AM

    Kepp you fuckingself clean you do not know wath is history!

    Judgement is not history, fact is!

    We had our 1953 and the Viet had it in 1954.

    Pock you eye and see STUPID PIG!

    The Viet are lucky shit!

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  27. Anonymous4:14 AM

    Hey 3:55, my dad was also member
    of a French resistance, but we are
    talking pocket of peanuts, Dude.
    The French did not budge. And
    true, that the Viet Minh was armed
    by China, but it was their strategy
    that buckle the French and
    ultimately the US.

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  28. Anonymous4:20 AM

    So what a French resistance you dad do nothing but drinking BOURBON! Paris was free by GI.
    The fucking french was kick by the Japan and then Cambodian.

    Go eat your peanut BARAING or youn's Kadouy

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  29. Anonymous4:39 AM

    Okay, if you don't like wikipedia,
    how about something from your
    Goddess (Yale)?

    At the moment, Indochina is the area where international communism most vigorously seeks expansion under the leadership of Ho Chi-Minh. Last year President Eisenhower, in his great "Chance for Peace" address,(2) said that "aggression in Korea and Southeast Asia are threats to the whole free community to be met by united action." But the French were then opposed to what they called "internationalizing" the war. They preferred to treat it as a civil war of rebellion. However, on July 3, 1953, the French Government made a public declaration of independence for the three Associated states,(3) and in September it adopted the so-called Navarre plan(4) which contemplated a rapid buildup of national native forces. The United States then agreed to underwrite the costs of this plan.(5)
    http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/intdip/indoch/inch024.htm

    Is that fact or jugement, huh?

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  30. Anonymous6:47 AM

    I agreed the way the US has put up all their leaders statues. Has any leader of US ever killed their own people? If you put all leaders statue like US, you have to put Pol Pot and Hun Sen as well. Is that right? Hun Sen will claim that he has done far better than Sihanouk for saving Cambodian from completed massacre of Pol Pot, Ieng Sary and Khiev samphann. Indeed Hun Sen hasn't driven any KR out from Cambodia. THe commander of that time was General Be Binh ( Vietcong general ). Areak Prey

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  31. Anonymous8:20 AM

    To all who have reacted to my comments:

    Thank you so much for enlightening me. I have learned more from you all. As reflected in my comments, my knowledge and understanding of history and contemporary events have limitations. But unless Cambodian historians lie when they write Cambodian history to teach us, unless our current leaders are hypocrites when they keep reiterating their reverence to August King Sihanouk as the Father of our inpendence, and despite this King's accusation that I was a supporter of Lon Nol who overthrew him in 1970, I still proudly proclaimed aloud that he is the Father of our independence; I still maintain that the date of our independence is 9 November 1953, before Dien Bien Phu; I still demand that his statue be erected in a place higher up (a suggestion is on top of the Independence Monument) commensurate with his status as a national hero.

    Our Vietnamese neighbours do not like very much the date of our independence (1953) and the date of the Khmer Rouge liberation (17 April 1975, because they got their own independence and achieved their liberation after the Cambodians. Cambodians have denied them the status of the liberators of Indochina. Our history might have been different, had they regained their independence and liberated their country before us.

    We need to identify our other heroes who are not necessary leaders of the country and have their statues erected in public places to educate others. Piseth Pillica, Chea Vichea, Sin Sisasamuth, and many others deserve such status as well.

    A nation without heroes is a nation without history, so goes a saying.

    As always, I adhere to the idea that we agree to disagree, and unity can be had in diversity.

    LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong

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  32. Anonymous9:25 AM

    Dr. Lao, I think you are missing
    the point: 3:43 was 100% correct
    when he stated that the French will
    leave volunterely anyway, as the
    sun will rise everyday. What this
    mean is if Sihanouk has never been
    born, we will get our independence
    anyway. Do you doubt this? Your
    point (using date of our
    independence vs. date of the
    stupid battle)to prove him
    incorrect is not strong, unless
    you can show us that Sihanouk can
    pull off independence if the Viet
    Minh has never been born. Do you
    know what I mean? Think about it.

    Yes, Sihanouk should be given
    some credit, but let's not blow
    it out of proportion, okay?

    As for historians (Khmer or not
    Khmer), never give any of them the
    benefit of the doubt. They all
    should be considered guilty, until
    proven innocent. I bet not too many
    people here doing that. Am I wrong?

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  33. Anonymous10:15 AM

    If George Washington or Gandi weren't born, someone else would still get independence in America or India? If independence from French got by someone else in Cambodia French can drag it until 1955, 1958, or 1960???? King Sihanouk's legacy remains a unique one.

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  34. Anonymous2:19 PM

    9:25AM from 3:43, you're brilliant my friend for supporting my comment about the FRENCH's defeat at DIEN BIEN PHU at the hand of the Vietnameses led by GEN.GIAP...

    Well, come over for breakfast tomorrow ok bud...

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  35. Anonymous4:13 PM

    Thanks 2:19, but I knew about this
    long ago, and I have talk about it
    previouly too, but only if someone
    bring it up. I just wanted to know
    who can really think for themself,
    that is why I am not bragging about
    it. And if you care to trace my
    discussion about 3 months ago, you
    will noticed that I have suggested
    this. Anyway, we knew the Viet Minh
    armed to the teet by China had
    given the French a lot of trouble,
    in the late 40's, especially after
    the Chinese Civil War. The Dien
    Bien Fhu is really just the French
    last atempt to try to turn around
    their luck because they knew they
    will get financial assistant from
    the US; otherwise, they would
    had pull out long ago. I would have
    done the same. The truth is all
    French top commanders had given
    up since the late 52's and by the
    mid 53's they had publicly
    announced independence for Loas,
    Vietnam, and Cambodia at the SAME
    TIME, but no one was taught this
    in Cambodia ever because they want
    to maintain hatred with vietnam,
    in case of an invasion. However,
    there the possibility that China
    will allowed such invasion is
    slim because Somdach Euv has great
    relation with China and was not
    a threat to them. Cambodia was
    ruined only when we became a threat
    to China. So you're doing great in
    my book.

    Also, another thing that is not
    well emphasized in history is
    the Mighty Mongiolian. Had Vietnam
    not decimated them in the late
    13th century, many of us would
    have inhirited Mongolian blood.
    A good fraction of Chinese people
    has some mixture of mongolian
    blood in them from the long
    occupation.

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  36. Anonymous4:24 PM

    Yes, 10:15, that is also a
    possibility, but there are no sign
    of the French was shaken by any
    Khmer Resistance recorded anywhere
    on this planet. So that
    possibility is very very slim.

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  37. Anonymous9:12 PM

    You stupid idiot, try to bring some information that not even official and claiming that the UN document was fake. And said you fucking know history.

    Want to know if we could have independent in 1953 if the Viet is not existed, Go ask your Great great grand parent to committed sourcide and see if you fucking dog ever exist to polute the world!

    If this Fucking dog viet not exist Champa may be come a great country and our good neigbor, we may live in peace just like in Europe!

    Go to hell you Youn Vietnamese rabis Dog!

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  38. Anonymous9:18 PM

    Yeah, sure you prefered Champa
    over Viet because you can pushed
    the Champa around and not the Viet.

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  39. Anonymous9:56 PM

    Mr. (:25 AM

    That French departure is a hypothesis, not a reality. Another hypothesis is also possible: there was going to be that Dien Bien Phu anway since the French were so weak after World War II. In fact the French were very weak indeed. Or another hypothesis: there was going to be no Dien Bien Phu, had there been no Japanese war of expansion in East Asia.

    A bit more of the relationships between Vietnam and Cambodia
    based on an anology with the expansion of the Soviet Union to eastern and central Europe at the end of World War II. The (Soviet) Red Army was advancing to that part of Europe to fight the German Nazis. That army was advancing faster towards the end of the war so as to gain as much territory as possible in the face of the advance of the Allied Forces (US and others)from the west, so as to put eastern and central Europe and East Germany under the Soviet control, by installing communist regimes in those different countries. The Soviet Union contolled all these countries after World War II until the collapse of communism in 1989. Who knows what might have happened to Cambodia if the communist Vietnamese had captured Saigon before the Khmer Rouge had captured Phnom Penh and the war in Cambodia had continued? The Khmer Rouge would have depended entirely on the communist Vietnamese for their arm supplies from China and would have even needed help from communist Vietnamese troops. The communist Vietnamese would have then had a lot of influence on the Khmer Rouge and/or control over Cambodia in the same way as the Soviets occupied and controlled eastern and central European countries including East Germany after World War II. Which country could then have helped the Khmer Rouge? Perhaps China. But How? China could not have done much to help, when in 1979 it could not do much to help the Khmer Rouge after Vietnam had ousted them from power. The longer war in Cambodia had continued the better it would have been for the communist Vietnamese. There were communist Khmers (khmer Vietminh) who were pro-Vietnamese who could have been used to rule Cambodia as they were in 1978 and after.

    Let's keep challenging one another. Further truth might come out.

    LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong

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  40. Anonymous12:11 AM

    THANK, DR. LAO !

    It is fanny to see the imposter try to be Cambodian!

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  41. Anonymous12:37 AM

    4:24 you must be come from Hanoi scholl of shit-
    You ever heard of
    --Shihanouk?
    -Khmer Esarak?
    -Dab chourn?
    -Chantaraisey?
    -Ear Keuv?
    -Krala Houm Kong
    -My Grand fathers

    Cambodia resitence fought the freinch for 100 of years, agaist:

    -Sivutha
    -Hasokan
    -Archar Sva
    -Archar Pokambor
    -and all of khmers

    You Vietnamese Pimp do not think about us try to find out who your father shit even Chinese and mongold do not want to reconoze you as their shit!

    You Viet is Devil spirit it destroy thing where ever you go!

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  42. Anonymous2:15 AM

    Dr. Lao, we are talking up to 1954
    only. I don't understand your point
    on going beyond that. And it is not
    a hypothese that the French finally
    gave up on May 1954. And it is not
    a hypothese that the French did
    decared on July 1953 that they will
    granted independence to Cambodia,
    Laos, and Vietnam.

    As for the Japanese, are you
    saying they had soften up the
    French which is why the Viet Minh
    was able to defeat them? If so,
    yes, that is a good possibility;

    Therefore, shouldn't the credit for
    khmer Independence be fairly
    distributed to Sihanouk, Japanese,
    and Viet Minh? If not, what did
    Sihanouk used to scare the French
    into gave us Independence?

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  43. Anonymous2:20 AM

    Okay, 12:37, would you mind showed
    us some evidence that the French
    was scared or weaken by the long
    pounding from the Khmer resistances
    for nearly 100 years?

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  44. Anonymous2:21 AM

    And shut the fuck up, Ah Khmer-Yuon
    (12:11).

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  45. Anonymous3:34 AM

    Stupid 2:20AM What evidence can I give to you more than the french drop its tail and run out in 1953?

    What the fuck do you, Vietnamese, want?

    Can you see the frech coul not change us to use Roman Alpha bet on any level and or become christian!

    And see how do you Vietnames strong resitance did, do not even remember your encester writing! and more than half the country betray their own parent religion! WHAT KIND OF STRONG RESISTANCE IS IT?

    And 2:15AM ( Sory Dr. Loa I can not stop talking ahead of you)for the Viet fucking credit is No they fucking with its own interest and busines.

    and for the french weaknes is not only by Japonese
    but by all many problem the french face and created:

    -many front with many colonies in Arabia, Africa , Asia and America.

    -World war II, Is the bigest blow to Franc.

    Why I have to lecture of this basic history to you Neurmam Brain.

    And 12.11AM,
    You are right Youn is Youn, it can not be joint together with us Khmer.
    Go to China Youn Vietnamese if China do not want you go to hell where you are belong!

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  46. Anonymous3:40 AM

    2:21 AM Get all the VitMinh, VietCong, Vietnamese tricks to sut any thing up your ass, It's never work scump!

    Soon not only Khmere but the hold world will know your evil bribging!

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  47. Anonymous3:59 AM

    2:20AM, poke your right eye yet to see if your left eye get hury?

    Do not ask this kind of dumb question again,that belong to Youn pick poket at the bus station. Read and thing, and thing harder!

    Your mother will dispointed or she may dumb too?

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  48. Anonymous4:59 AM

    Guys, stop changing the subject.
    If the French had a hard time
    holding off any resistance,
    They whould had recorded it and
    reported to France. Thus, it should
    be on record. Stop nick nacking,
    start googling. I need to see
    some evidence.

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  49. Anonymous3:17 PM

    It's funny when people talk about fairytale figures like;

    acha sva
    pokombor
    krolarhormkong and the rest of the rascals, they probably mean,,swords can overcome machine guns ,or slings shot can beat artilleries etc...Be honest, i don't think the FRENCH paid any attention at all to those rats period....

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  50. Anonymous5:01 PM

    hehe! True, and the statistic is
    the French had more people killed
    in France by Bank Robbers and Gangs
    than they do by the Khmer
    Resistance in Cambodia.

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  51. Anonymous10:33 PM

    Hey folks, rather than to continue
    on "Khmer Independence", allow me
    to share with you the important of
    giving credit to where it is due.

    You see, if you want to eliminate
    corruption at its root, look no
    further from here. Stealing credit
    from others is no difference from
    stealing land, property, or money
    from others. Most university will
    penalyzed you very heavy if you
    are caught not given credit to
    where it's due. And in case you
    don't know why, they are teaching
    you not to be corrupted, to have
    pride and proud from your own
    genuine works and discorveries,
    not from other people works.
    Therefore, try to learn this moral
    teaching and passed on to your
    kids and grandkids so that they
    will have pride and proud, and they
    will be able to overcome
    any temptation.

    As for Somdach Euv, I believe he
    was a great Khmer King, and he need
    not to steal someone else credits.
    Thus, for the sake of Khmer future
    and Cambodia, I urge him to
    restore credits to where its due
    in order to set good example for
    the Khmer people and students to
    follow and learn from. Otherwise,
    we (khmer) will have no pride nor
    proud, and we will always be
    corrupted indefinitely.

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  52. Anonymous7:33 AM

    10:33pm, Honestly,i really admire your intellect,in fact,i've never missed your postings, i just don't get enough of it , but to me bro ,SIHANOUK is truly a national's disgrace.I still believe that he is a rooster who claim credit for the SUNRISE.

    In a civilize society,we have the right to disagree and still friend.

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  53. Anonymous10:51 AM

    Thanks 7:33, and Of course we can
    be friend and dissagree. Frankly,
    sometime I dissagree with my mum
    too, and she still my mum, hehehe.

    And yes, I agree that Sihanouk
    is obsess with give himself credit
    that he don't really need, which
    set bad example for Khmer people.
    And unless he wise up, I too
    believe that people will see him
    as a National disgrace, and he
    will lose all of what he had worked
    hard for. It will be a shame if
    he allowed that to happen.

    Other than that, he is a very
    gifted Khmer person. He has
    excellent perception about who
    is going to win the vietnam war.
    How to keep Cambodia from
    dissapearing from the planet by
    becoming great allied with China.
    Just imagine had he not allied
    with China what will happened?

    If the US is involved, both Pol Pot
    and Vietcong will be armed to the
    teet by China to go after him. And
    he will in the worst position than
    he's in now.

    And if the US is not involved, the
    Vietcong will take Cambodia from
    him and use it for their cause
    in South Vietnam.

    Having said that, I think he's
    doing great for Cambodia.

    Do you see a better path that
    he should had taken for Cambodia?

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