"Hi m a journalist, m writing an article about the Cambodians blogger. How do u think about the blog? Is it important for our daily life or not?"
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Hi,
Blog is important for our daily life in the sense that one can share one's own thoughts and ideas with the general people freely without any fear or censorship. One can write and criticise freely. With blog people can write daringly which any journalists in Cambodia cannot, for fearing of retribution and reprisal from the government or powerful people whom our articles criticised.
Hi,
That is great so that we all can learn from your idea on the blog.
Thank
Hi,
Thank you very much, I fully support your blog, I found that it's very interesting to follow the current news about Cambodia.
Cheers,
Quite frankly, I like to intellectually keep myself informed locally and globally, particularly the current event Cambodia, thus enable me to piss on the Hun Sen's regime to make myself feel better.
Now, I feel good!
Certainly, Blog is really great for sharing informations!
http://khmeritforyou.blogspot.com is the best easiest way to install Khmer Unicode NiDA fonts in your computer. Thanks.
Hi,
so important for daily life and get fast news, it's a part of political and economic. Yes , let say i appriciated!!
Hi everybody, I am an Italian journalist, I write for a press agency and at the same time I am the responsible of the web site www.sudestasiatico.com (I share the link with Ki-Media). Firstly I would like to know the nationality of the journalist who did the question. Secondly, I think, even if I am not Cambodian, blog reality is wonderful because you can comment, write, share opinion, with people with different culture and education. It is simply fantastic. The only problem, in my little opinion, it is that sometimes, for some blogs, you cannot verify the source of the news....anyway.For example I put on line my web site just to give my view of South East Asia to the Italian audience offering my ideas, giving the possibility to comment and share different opinions. I begun to travel cross SEAsia in 2004 discovering that many Italians and European people have a wrong image of your region and countries...
Thanks for your attention, ciao
Roberto Tofani
www.sudestasiatico.com
KI truely gives me an extraordinary opportunity, not just to read but also to publish my comments simultaneously.
Can you please find more infos about Kosovo independence so we can encourage our beloved Khmer Krom to work toward their independence too. Thanks!
Thanks for your question!
In terms of to consider the realities about Cambodia daily situation, from local to government and from a very common person to leadership level, the blogger: KI is providing me very fair-share knowledges.
Thanks for your hard working to improve the public knowledge, Awareness. From Cambodian Social Justice Movement.
IT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT EVEN THE DUMP HEADS WHO DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE HECK WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ARE STILL MAKING THEIR EFFORTS TO RESPONSE OBNOXIOUS COMMENTS.
to 9:58 PM
AH HUN KHVAK OR AH HUN BLIND?
9:59PM, What the heck are you screaming about? Not just you being smart in this universe. Stop your CAP letters. Don't underestimate people. Look at HUN SEN, back then POL POT won't believe he is this high. You got to chill down brother.
Roberto is right. The story's should all be linked. Plus what is up with the bold red and bold blue text that shows up in the stories? And how come you sometimes change the titles? I never know if the story is actually what was written of not.
Hi Mr. journalist what do you mean by important? can we live without it?
No it is not that important as food and freedome and security.
News is kind of important for some peole who need it but is a kind of education to all?
Live need knowledge KI provide Knowlege about current day of Cambodia!
It is helpfull but not that important for every day live. But is is important for Cambodia ututer as a nation!
It is good that We can express our idea freely without any fear.
There were stories that whoever criticised the CPP would be dead either by "accident" or by some strange deceases.
I don't know is it true or not.
Anyway keep the blog going for freedom and safety of speach.
I 100% support the independence of the Khmer Krom People. People told me that there are approximately 10 million Khmer Kroms.
it is sad that WE let our people under the control of other race or nation.
Khmer Kroms must have their own land and must be able to decide their own destiny and don't count on the current cambodian government.
Before it was this tiny nation with their population of under 1 million and they got their independence. It is now being call East Timore. Now it is another one, it is Kosovo with approximately of 2 millions. We sure that Khmer Krom is the way working toward their independence too. Khmer Krom must be the next one. We can't let a nation of 10 millions under anyone rules. And now I'm so happy to see that they set up their government outside of Kampuchea Krom to get ready when the moment comes. Khmer Krom please keep up the good work. One day you will get there.
To be polite you should write the full English for help like that Mr. Wantnabe Journalist
Kosova
1991-08-06
Geography
Kosova is situated in the southern territory of former Yugoslavia and borders with Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The capital is Pristina. Area: 10,887 km?
People
Population
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimates the population at 2.0 to 2.2 million people, by analyzing voter registration data in 2000.
?88% Albanians (1,733,600)
?7% Serbs (137,900)
?3% Muslim Slavs (59,100)
?2% Roma (39,400)
?1% Turks (19,700)
Language
The official language in Kosova is Albanian. The Albanian language has two main dialects, Tosk and Gheg. The latter is spoken in Kosova.
Culture and religion
The Albanians in Kosova are the direct descendents of the Illyrians who held vast territories covering all of the western Balkans in 2000 B.C. The name "Albania" is derived from the ancient Illyrian tribe called the
Albanoi who inhabited the provinces of Durres and Dibra in today's Albania in 200 AD. The Albanian population in Kosova share the ethnic background of the population of neighbouring Albania. They speak the Albanian language and are largely Muslim.
Economy
The economy is primarily agricultural: wheat, maize, potatoes, grapes. Livestock; cattle, sheep, pigs. Kosova has always been one of the least developed regions within former Yugoslavia. The country is rich in natural resources, especially in lead, pyrite, gold, nickel and brown coal. Kosova is one of Europe's poorest regions, with more than half of its people living in poverty.
Environmental problems
As a result of the war in Kosova the following long-term effects occurred or may occur in the future:
High levels of pollution around main military targets, in particular the chemical industry.
Ecosystems are threatened, in particular river ecosystems.
Contamination of drinking water now priority of the environment in the reconstruction process. Especially under time pressures this can lead to decisions where the environmental impact of an activity is not taken into consideration. One of the main sources of pollution in Kosova is the industrial sector. It is characterized by air, water and soil contamination and dirty production techniques.
History
The earliest inhabitants of Kosova were called Illyrians by both the Greek and the Romans. Alexander the Great conquered Kosova three centuries before Christ and the region became part of the Roman province of Dardania in the 4th century A. D. Slavic people crossed the Danube and moved into the Balkans by the 6th century. These migrations weakened the Byzantium Empire. The result was that Illyrian-speaking people, known to their neighbors as Albanians, moved eastward from the Adriatic into the Kosova region of the Balkans.
Their language became known as Albanian and their culture became allied with Byzantium after the breakup of the Catholic Church into Eastern and western branches in 1054. By 1190 Kosova had become the administrative and cultural center of the medieval Serbian state ruled by the powerful Nemanjic dynasty, that lasted two centuries. In 1389, in the famous Battle of Kosova Polje, the Serbs and their allies were defeated by the Ottoman Turks and for a short period of time Kosova became part of the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottomans took sovereignty over the region in 1489. During this time the great majority of Albanians were still Christians, and Serbs and Albanians lived together in reasonable harmony. Gradually, Albanians and to a lesser extent Serbs, were converted to Islam. In the late 17th century a great number of Serbs left Kosova as a result of military victories of the Ottoman Turks. As a result, the Serbian "center of gravity" moved to the region of Belgrade. This displacement of the Serb population is known in history as "the great migration".
In this period Kosova was resettled by Muslim and Christian Albanians. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Turks in the Russo-Ottoman War in 1878 the terms of the "Peace Accord" extended Bulgaria westward and gave the Serbs control of Mitrovica and Pristina in Kosova, while the remainder stayed in Ottoman hands.
In the first Balkan War of 1912 Albania was attacked by Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece. Serbs joined the army in large numbers to avenge the Serbian defeat by the Turks at the Battle of Kosova Polje. The population of Kosova at this time mostly consisted of Albanians. Serbs entered Pristina as Albanians fled to the mountains. The Albanians fought fiercely but lost the war and Kosova came under Serbian authority.
In 1913, as a result of the London Conference, one-half of Albanian territories, including Kosova, were taken away from Albania and granted to the Serb, Croat, Slovene Kingdom and Greece.
The entire period between 1913 and 1941 was marked by a policy of massive repression towards the Albanians in Kosova with the aim of either assimilating them or expelling them.
In 1943, the Conference of Bujan recognized the Kosova-Albanian right to self- determination.
After World War II Yugoslavia consisted of the republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia. In 1940, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia had committed in writing to an autonomous "Peasant Republic of Kosova", but the promise wasn't kept. After the end of the war, the Assembly of Kosova was forced to vote for an entry into Yugoslavia at its Convention in Prizren in 1945.
After Tito had consolidated his power and the rule of the communist party over all of Yugoslavia, he favored a Kosova within Serbia for political reasons since he needed support from the Serbs and to win them over to communism. The 1946 Yugoslav constitution did not grant territorial autonomy to Kosova, nor did it grant Albanian status as a recognized nationality. The 1953 constitution reduced autonomy for Kosova even more with much repression of Albanians taking place. Not surprisingly, by 1956 there was a resurgence of Albanian nationalism.
In 1974, by reconfirming the Bujan Resolution, the federal status of Kosova was recognized in the Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Kosova was represented as one of the eight constitutive units of the federation of Yugoslavia in all elected bodies, including the presidency of the state, and had the right to veto. Kosova passed its own constitution, maintained a genuine constitutional government and had a territorial defense force.
The process to abolish Kosova autonomy began in March 1989 via amendments to the Serbian constitution that gave Serbia direct control over Kosova. The Kosova Parliament, after it had been purged of opponents to centralization, also accepted these modifications.
In 1990 civil disturbances in Kosova broke out, which was violently suppressed by the security forces. In March 1990, the Serbian Parliament adopted the "Program for Achieving Peace, Freedom and Equality in Kosova". The aim of this program was the peaceful co-existence of all ethnic groups in Kosova, but it also identified Albanian separatists as the main menace to this objective.
Consequently, Albanians did not recognize this program. In July 1990, the Serbian government prevented the Kosova Parliament from meeting. In response, Albanian parliamentarians assembled on the steps of the Parliament building and proclaimed the Sovereign Republic of Kosova within the Yugoslav federation. Serbia then officially dissolved Kosova's government and took executive control.
The complete removal of Kosova's autonomy was completed in September 1990 when a change in the Serbian constitution redefined Kosova as a region in Serbia, with administrative and executive control now in the hands of the Serbian National Assembly.
In September 1991 the Parliament of the un-recognized Republic of Kosova approved a resolution supporting the "Independence and Sovereignty of Kosova". In the summer of 1992 Albanians and Serbs in Kosova were living in a virtual state of apartheid, basically entirely separated from each other.
In December 1992, there were Yugoslav elections, in which the Albanian leadership in Kosova advised Albanians not to vote. The Albanian population decided to follow this recommendation and did not vote. Milosevic's Socialist Party won the election with 47 seats but the strongly nationalist Radical party won 33 seats.
This result put additional pressure on Milosevic to preserve Serbian interests in Kosova and Serbian nationalism in general. By 1993, 400,000 Albanians had left Kosova as a result of the deteriorating socio-economic conditions. The Albanian Kosovars were disappointed by the 1995 Dayton agreement to end the conflict in former Yugoslavia, which did not recognize their demand for independence. Meanwhile Serbs felt isolated and abandoned by Belgrade and increasingly felt they were being sold out to the Albanians.
Serbs and Albanians in Kosova were mobilizing themselves with arms. Passive Albanian resistance gradually gave way to a more violent atmosphere, first by the underground "National Movement for the Liberation of Kosova" and then by the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA).
In March 1997, civil government in Albania totally collapsed and anarchy resulted. This caused some Albanians to realize that a "Greater Albania" may not be such a great idea.
The KLA and Serbian authorities meanwhile became engaged in a civil war for independence. The United States advised the League for a Democratic Kosova, under the leadership of Ibrahim Rugova, who sought a non-violent solution to the crisis that parallel parliamentary elections should not be held and also that Kosova should remain part of Serbia.
As the civil war intensified in Kosova, Western Europe and the United State became involved in early 1998. In March 1998, US Secretary of State Madeline Albright outlined terms, which Milosevic and his government had to accept including the presence of international observers in Kosova, "enhanced" status for Kosova within Serbia and an end to the killing. These terms and others were not met and the war intensified.
In October 1998, NATO authorized the NATO Commander to launch air strikes if Milosevic continued to fail to comply with "the repeated political and humanitarian demands of the UN Security Council in regards to Kosova". On October 27, Albright announced at a news conference in Washington that Milosevic had complied sufficiently with NATO demands that air strikes were not warranted "at this time".
The KLA, sensing that NATO was on its side intensified its military efforts and the Serbs intensified their military campaign to defeat the KLA on the field. Hence the October agreement fell apart. On January 28, 1999 NATO warned that it was ready to use military force immediately. A conference was held at Rambouillet in France in mid-February to negotiate an end to the war.
Present were the Western allies, Yugoslavia and representatives of the major Albanian Kosovar groups demanding independence. The Western Allies led by the United States issued a two-week deadline, backed by the threat of air strikes, during which time both parties must agree to the proposed settlement.
This settlement, dictated by the West, required Yugoslavia to withdraw its forces from Kosova, the KLA to lay down their arms, NATO peace-keeping troops on the ground to enforce the agreement and a three year period to settle the political future of Kosova. Neither side would agree and the bombing deadline was extended two weeks.
The conference re-convened in Paris two weeks later and enough pressure was put on the Albanians that they finally agreed to sign the Rambouillet agreement. Milosevic would not. The bombing started March 24.
The expectation of NATO was that Yugoslavia would capitulate to the West and sign the Rambouillet agreement. Instead Yugoslavia intensified its war with the KLA and approximately a million Kosovars were driven out of Kosova. An agreement was signed later in which both sides made compromises.
This agreement was formalized by the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 adopted June 10, 1999.
Key elements of this resolution were the right of all refugees to return home, commitment of all member states to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia and, most importantly, a framework for a political solution to the Kosova crisis based on the following general principles:
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Khmer Krom
2001-07-15
Geography
Kampuchea-Krom means "Cambodia Below" or "South Cambodia". Kampuchea-Krom was the southernmost territory of the Khmer Empire, and it was once known as (French) Cochin China. It is the southwestern part of Vietnam. It covers an area of some 89,000 km2 with Cambodia to the north, the Gulf of Thailand to the west, the South China Sea to the southeast and the Champa territory to the northeast. Prey Nokor was one of the most important commercial cities of all in Kampuchea-Krom, but the name was first changed to Saigon and then to Ho Chi Minh City by the Vietnamese Communist in 1975.
People
Population:
It is estimated that there are about 8-10 million Khmers living in Kampuchea-Krom. Approximately 80 percent of them live in the Mekong delta, and a small number is in other provinces throughout the southern part of Vietnam. Besides the Vietnamese, there are other people living in Kampuchea-Krom, including the Chinese, the Chams, the Montagnards, and many other small ethnic groups.
The Khmers-Krom is outnumbered by these population groups. About 70 percent of the Vietnamese and 95 percent of the Chinese live in the cities and fill most of important jobs in government and business. The Khmers-Krom live throughout the country, especially in the Mekong delta.
Culture and language:
Approximately 95 percent of the Khmers-Krom are Buddhists. They practice Hinayanna Buddhism, whereas most Vietnamese practice Mahayanna Buddhism, or Chistianity. The Chams are Muslims, and the Chinese are mostly Buddhists, and some Christians. There are more than 580 temples and more than 10,000 monks throughout Kampuchea-Krom. Some temples were built many centuries ago and are still standing today, but
many others were destroyed during the wars
(The Khmer pagodas, 450 in the delta of Mekong, play a fundamental role as guardians of the Khmer culture and notably in the field of education).
For centuries, Theravada Buddhism has been part of the Khmer identity and culture. Practiced by virtually all Khmers Krom, Theravada Buddhism influences all aspects of life to a much greater extend than do religions in the West.
The Khmer Krom sees Theravada Buddhism as a rational religion, possessing a coherent philosophy, which neither incites violence nor excites passion. Theravada Buddhism shaped the Khmer Krom way of life, guiding the standards of conformity for men, women and children. Religious institutions are responsible for the education and personality formation of the children. (Theravada Buddhism is probably the same as Hinayanna Buddhism).
After 1975 (land reform acts), in the name of the proletariat revolution, no one was allowed to own land. The only means to make a living for Khmer Krom was stolen. Ironically, when the communist government ensured that no Khmer� farm land was left for private ownership it started to sell or distribute to farmers. The loser of this deceitful scheme was the Khmer. Khmer Krom had to buy back their own land.
Those who could not afford became tenants on their own land. Furthermore, the government official or their family kept all fertile lands. As a result, most Khmer were left starving. During the 70s virtually all traditional religious activities ceased. They could not even afford to buy a robe for their children to be ordained. Today, the current authority somewhat allowed the Khmer to resume their religious practice and renovate their
temples.
According to the KKF, this gesture is only a trap to attract much needed foreign currency from the Khmer Krom abroad who generously send the money back home.
On the political front, the Vietnamese attacked more directly to dissolve Khmer Krom religion. John Crowley, an officer of the U.S. Embassy to Bangkok wrote about religious repression toward Khmer Krom as follows: The Socialist Republic of Vietnam Government seeks to destroy Khmer culture in Vietnam through other, more subtle means: Repairing or making addittion to temples is forbidden New temples cannot be constructed Ordination of those under 55 years of age is forbidden Temples cannot be used as meeting area All temple donations must be given through government representative, etc.
All of this, and much more, can be seen as a sophisticated campaign to decentralize, fractionalize and reduce the influence of Buddhism on the Khmer Krom in Vietnam. The Khmer language is spoken in all Khmer families and communities.
For official business, however, the Vietnamese language is strictly enforced. About 10 percent of the Khmers-Krom is able to speak and write Vietnamese correctly. The Khmer language is taught at home and in the temples, but it is not permitted in any official business.
The struggle against the Vietnamese government to allow the use of Khmer in school or public place has been advocated for years, but no satisfactory result has ever been achieved. In many of instances, thousands of Khmers-Krom were accused, jailed, tortured, deported, or persecuted for speaking, learning or teaching the Khmer language. The Vietnamese do not allow books or documents to be written or published in Khmer unless they are to be used as propaganda.
The Khmer language is spoken almost exclusively in rural zones, only the children going to school understand Vietnamese. However, once they re-enter on their premises they exclusively speak Khmer with their parents. Conversely, in the urban zones, where the mixed marriages are very numerous and the exchanges with the Vietnamese and the Chinese are very many, the Khmer language is not any more spoken but by the old ones; the young people speak Vietnamese almost exclusively.
Environmental problems:
There are 2 problems in some of the zones which have strong Cambodian settlement. The salt deposit to the grounds make the coastal areas more and more sterile. In the district of Duyen Hai the rice yield has decreased by 50 to 90% in 30 years. This salt deposit worsens with the increase in the use of water of the Mekong in agriculture.The irrigation canals multiply in the regions of An Giang, Long Xuyen, Can Tho. Worsening factors: destruction of the mangrove, the floods which kill people and destroy the harvests. They are due to the rains of July to October and the resulting swelling of the water of the Mekong, the weak slope of the river, the low dams, the weak drainage and the problem of the deforestation.
Economy:
Agriculture is very important in Vietnam. The industry and services sectors are not very well developed. Agriculture is even more important in the Mekong delta, the area where the Khmer Krom people live. After 1975 (land reform acts), in the name of the proletariat revolution, no one was allowed to own land. The only means to make a living for Khmer Krom was stolen.
Ironically, when the communist government ensured that no Khmer farm land was left for private ownership it started to sell or distribute to farmers. The loser of this deceitful scheme was the Khmer. Khmer Krom had to buy back their own land.
Those who could not effort became tenants on their own land.
Furthermore, the government official or their family kept all fertile lands. As a result, most Khmer were left starving. The economic status of the Khmer Krom is reducing from land-owners to barely physical laborers for less than 1.0 U.S. dollar per working day. They are living ten folds below poverty level but the government of Vietnam constantly prevents any international organisations to observe the facts to help these people.
History:
The Khmer-Krom people have been in existence in this part of the peninsula since the beginning of the first century. The territory was immense compared to the Khmer popularion at that time, creating opportunities for expansionist neighbours to invade.
Therefore, Vietnam moved their people to Kampuchea-Krom using all kinds of tactics. The epoch of the Khmer Empire has been from the start of the 9th century until early 15th century. During this period, the Empire was a major power in South East Asia.
The famous architecture and construction of the ancient Angkor Wat, and many other monuments in the Empire had brought the Khmer artistic to a very high level. The ruined port of Oc-Eo (O-Keo in Khmer) in the province of Rach Gia in today� southern Vietnam, was the busiest port in the region, where the Khmers, Chams, Chinese, Indians, and Europeans did their trading.
The township of Prey Nokor was a commercial center for the Khmer Empire, and it was once the most important military garrison against the Vietnamese� southward movement. After over one thousand years under Chinese domination, the Vietnamese ambition on territory expansion gained strength in the 11th century. Vietnam moved its southern border further and further to the south and as a result the Khmer Empire declined from the 14th to the 19th century.
The Vietnamese leaders used inter-marriage as another means of manipulation to capture the territory of Kampuchea-Krom. The territory therefore became smaller and smaller as time went by and in 1954, as the French left the territory, Kampuchea-Krom was incorporated into Vietnam, rather than Cambodia. The Khmer-Krom people have been legally separated from the motherland Cambodia since then.
They are now considered as Khmers in Vietnam and, and as Vietnamese in Cambodia. During the presidency of the Republic of South Vietnam (1955-1963), Ngo Dinh Diem ordered that all Khmer names be changed to Vietnamese, and the Khmer-Krom identity was altered by a new and easily identifiable as the Vietnamese of Khmer Origin.
As a result of this decree, some of those who worked for the government, including military officers, lost their Khmer identity.
Organizations
The Khmer Krom are represented in UNPO by the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation. The three branches of the federation have been elected from the representatives of Khmer Krom constituencies around the world. The officers of the federation from different regions of the world are the legitimate representatives of the Khmer Krom people.The Executive Committee of the Federation is placed under a Steering Committee, after consultation with member organisations of the Federation in each region.
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My hat off to the blog inventors. The sharing of information, ideas and comments is irrefutably vital. Just like food you eat for the well-being of your body and physical strength, information is all you need to consume for the welfare of your brain and thinking power.
MY ONLY SUGGESTION IS THAT: PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE, ALTER OR MODIFY ANY PART OR WHOLE OF THE TITLE AND CONTENT OF THE NEWS YOU WANT TO POST. SINCE THE INFORMATION ITSELF SHOULD BE VIEWED AS BEING FACTUAL AND OF COURSE AVAILABLE TO ALL, THE SINGLE BEST WAY IS TO JUST PRESENT IT AS IS AND LET THE PUBLIC PROVIDES THEIR OPINIONS/COMMENTS. ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION.
LP
To 9:58PM, I profoundly presume that you're not ingenious individual, instead, lacking of self-confidence and having derogatory manner by severely denigrating other people. In repercussion(reflection), your derogatory behavior disparages of yourself and your whole family.
11:58PM
As I notice in KI media, I has seen one think is to add or make Tittle more attractive.
However, I will find out which one is new creating tittle and which one is former tittle.
I hope you can use your eyes and brain to observe this.
Blog has become part of life. First thing I do is to go the blog website to get updated news from Cambodia and see how people think of certain issues concerning the motherland. Cambodia is the country of rebuilding itself from many years war; thus there are just about everything lackings. So to be able to speak freely via blog of the Cambodian government is crucial tool for the opposite views. I hope the government take these views into consideration.
As you can see the number counter in this website has gained much popularity.
I like KI-media the way it is. I thank for highlighting the most important points and it is not that I am so stupid to find the main idea but I see highlighting and adding additional comments to the articles as part of creativity!
Please let not transform KI-media into another newspaper junk fill with black and white writing!
I can say that blog is a part of my life. It is true to make analogy that we need food and water as we need news and information to understand things around us and the world.
I have my own blog, and I spend a lot of time to read others' blogs. Blogs are considered as raw information that we have to filter it my ourselves. So we need to read by consciousness, not by mouth and by eyes.
If I differentiate Khmer blogs, I can see there are varieties of themes, reflection, mentality, idea, taste, and tendency. But KI-media has performed its extraordinary contribution because I can conclude as follow:
1. Through reading and observing KI, I can understand that Cambodia is still controlled by the totalitarian leaders who are occupying major national mass media, economic, power, and self-arrogance. Cambodia in not yet an equal state for Cambodian peoples or general peoples to have access social equity.
2. Power of democratic effort to outreach their clients is gigantic. They have to spread it as much as possible though what tool and medium they can use to grow and nurture democracy.
3. Cambodian peoples of both domestic and abroad are gradually broadening their value, vision and knowledge through blogging.
4. Overall, human rights, democracy, advancement, and dignity of human beings can be granted only by us. We are individually trying to do whatever for the cause of Cambodia, for the cause of the world...both Cambodia and the world meaningful to ourselves, our relatives, and family.
....It is a reciprocal consequence....it is complimentary each other....it is interdependent...it is interconnected....
KY
Good that you [Ki-Media]ask question and want feedbacks from readers here.
Personally, new to the blog and your site but found to be very interesting. However, as writer/ administrator [Ki-media] shall also take responsible to ensure that moral obligations are respected in term of language using [name calling].
Why?
Ki-media is not only attracted local readers but foreigners alike from other corner of the globe [as you can read a comment from an Italian Journalist]. Therefore, would you please check comment before approve comment to be posted
Thank you.
To 3:03AM
Oh come on! I am not here to please the world! If the world care so much about being proper or well manner and do you think that Cambodia would have genocide?
No self-censorship here please! If KI-media dare to regulate self-censorship and I will get the hell outer here!
3:15 AM
Yes, we are not here to please the world but to show them that Cambodia do have manner and moral.
Genocide, very good question indeed.
Part of the genocide was because the super powers turned their blind eye to the facts, were too busy to turn Cambodia into their own cold war game and playground, and our past leaders were too paranoid and were pleased to serve that purposes and own ambitions - the Nationalism and patriotism.
Lon Nol was a stunning nationalism and patriotism sent Cambodia to war with own blood and flesh [Cambodia] but his regime short lived and could not pocketed money.
Pol Pot was another nationalism and patriotism sent 1.7 Cambodia to death galore.
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The very reason that Cambodian nationalism and patriotism couldn't succeed because King Sihanouk was in the way! It doesn't matter how you look at Cambodian history and King Sihanouk had managed to insert himself to every part of Cambodian people struggle and more often he had done more harm than good!
Even the after Paris Agreement and King Sihanouk allowed Cambodia to have two Prime Ministers in the history of the world! I guess AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave was smart enough to kick King Sihanouk and his party the FUNCINPEC party out by staging military coupe in 1997 and turn FUNCINPEC party members into his slave to show Cambodian population that Cambodia can have real progress without King Sihanouk and his party the FUNCINPEC!
Real Khmer nationalism and patriotism doesn’t aim to destroy Cambodia but restore Cambodia as a nation among the civilized nation in the world! The Khmer Rouge government fanatic nationalism and patriotism supported by the Vietcong to destroy Lon Nol government then by China to destroy the Vietcong government are nothing but fake! The Lon Nol government nationalism and patriotism supported by the CIA is nothing but a fake with the aim to help withdraw American troop from South Vietname!
Again real Khmer Nationalism and Patriotism doesn’t seek to destroy Cambodia!
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