Border demarcation without independent observers' verification
Eviction from Sambok Chap (Photo: AFP)
Violence used during illegal land eviction (Photo: Licadho)
Police kicking Khmer Krom Monk (Photo: Licadho)09 March 2008
Editorial by Ly Diep
Angkor Borey – Khmer Voice Overseas
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Even though we were flotsam and jetsam who came to live happily, peacefully and with dignity on these lands, we cannot close our eyes to the suffering of our compatriots in Cambodia.
Our compatriots’ suffering is ours. If our compatriots are beaten up, we also feel their pains, if monks’ heads are beaten up, our heads also bleed like theirs. In summary, we cannot cut the common bond that links us together, nor can we ignore their appeal for help.
Therefore, whatever we can accomplish, we must undertake it based on our own capacity: those who are wealthy should help according to their wealth, whereas those who are poor, should help according to their means. We cannot remain still, nor can we only look to find faults from those who are taking actions.
The actions that overseas Cambodians can undertake are: (1) condemnation of the Cambodian government leaders, and (2) request for interventions from our host countries. Beyond these actions, we can also collect funds to help our compatriots who are suffering inside Cambodia.
The more we can help, the better our conscience would be as well, because we can consider our action as a good deed accomplished for the land which gave us our birth, even though the beneficiaries of our action are not directly related to us.
Writing petitions, holding demonstrations, protesting do not mean that “Cambodians are fighting each others,” that they are stupidly warring or inflicting wounds against each others. We are taking these actions in order to voice our displeasure against the Cambodian leaders for the policy they are currently adopting in Cambodia.
We have all seen and heard the image and the proofs of the actions undertaken by the Cambodian government from reports published by Global Witness, by Amnesty International, by Mr. Yash Ghai, the UN Special Envoy for Human Rights in Cambodia, and by local and international NGOs … Through these reports, we have seen and heard them all, and none of the issues (faced by Cambodia) have been left out.
Our compatriots inside the country live in misery, some have to take their shower during night time only, while others have to sell their children in exchange for rice and medicines, and to support their livelihood.
Without rice to eat, without shelters to live in, without land to cultivate, without cattle … what can they depend on? Cambodians by the hundreds of thousands are turned into “beggars” in neighboring countries, such as Vietnam and Thailand. If one were to meet a beggar carrying a small child, or dragging along a small child, in a market in Ho Chi Minh City or in Bangkok, one can be assured that this beggar is Cambodian, and that he/she is surely one of our compatriots. How could we not pity them?
Furthermore, if we were to focus on the policy adopted by the Hun Sen regime towards our neighboring countries, especially towards Vietnam, we can see many major mistakes committed: giving out portions of Cambodia’s territory to Vietnam through the Supplemental Border Treaties; the opening of Cambodia borders to Vietnamese migrants (who number close to 5 million now) to come and illegally settle in Cambodia; the formation of the Triangle commercial zone which is nothing more than putting into practice Ho Chi Minh’s “Indochinese Federation” doctrine through the absorption of Laos and Cambodia; the oppression perpetrated against Khmer Krom people, such as the defrocking of a Khmer Krom monk and handing him over to Vietnam to be jailed there; the putting down of Khmer Krom monks who only wanted to hand over their petition to the Vietnamese embassy in Phnom Penh (Would it be wrong if a Vietnamese embassy secretary come out and accept this petition? Whether Vietnam would follow suit to the demands in the petition or not, these Khmer Krom monks would have no saying), however, the Hun Sen regime chose to use violent and savage force against these monks – an action never before seen in the history of Cambodia’s politics – and only the traitors of the Nation would be able to undertake, for example during the handing over of Mr. Son Kuy to the Vietnamese to be decapitated.
From overseas, I (Ly Diep), personally, call on all our compatriots, and in particular on our Khmer Krom brothers and sisters, to please stop your demonstrations against this savage government, because they can lead to fatal accidents and injuries. Instead, our compatriots must adopt a new strategy by rising up, in as large number as possible, to go to vote in the upcoming election to kick out all these incompetent leaders (who are lackeys of the Vietnamese, who are corrupt, and who are dictatorial) out of power at all cost. There are more than one million Khmer Krom people living in Cambodia, why are you not using this weapon to oppose the current Vietnamese puppet government?
For our compatriots living overseas, we must accomplish our duties in our host countries by preventing Hun Sen’s group from shedding their influence, and we must unite with our compatriots living inside the country to bring about this “change” for our motherland.
Our compatriots have the choice between two democratic parties: the Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party, you can vote for either one of them. I am confident that, even though there is no agreement (between these two parties) yet, but they can still work with each other at the National Assembly, or they can merge with each other in the future, because they all are “nationalist” after all.
Please don’t remain quiet! Please rise up altogether one more time!
Bravo the Nationalist Cambodians!
We need an urgent “CHANGE”!
Our compatriots’ suffering is ours. If our compatriots are beaten up, we also feel their pains, if monks’ heads are beaten up, our heads also bleed like theirs. In summary, we cannot cut the common bond that links us together, nor can we ignore their appeal for help.
Therefore, whatever we can accomplish, we must undertake it based on our own capacity: those who are wealthy should help according to their wealth, whereas those who are poor, should help according to their means. We cannot remain still, nor can we only look to find faults from those who are taking actions.
The actions that overseas Cambodians can undertake are: (1) condemnation of the Cambodian government leaders, and (2) request for interventions from our host countries. Beyond these actions, we can also collect funds to help our compatriots who are suffering inside Cambodia.
The more we can help, the better our conscience would be as well, because we can consider our action as a good deed accomplished for the land which gave us our birth, even though the beneficiaries of our action are not directly related to us.
Writing petitions, holding demonstrations, protesting do not mean that “Cambodians are fighting each others,” that they are stupidly warring or inflicting wounds against each others. We are taking these actions in order to voice our displeasure against the Cambodian leaders for the policy they are currently adopting in Cambodia.
We have all seen and heard the image and the proofs of the actions undertaken by the Cambodian government from reports published by Global Witness, by Amnesty International, by Mr. Yash Ghai, the UN Special Envoy for Human Rights in Cambodia, and by local and international NGOs … Through these reports, we have seen and heard them all, and none of the issues (faced by Cambodia) have been left out.
Our compatriots inside the country live in misery, some have to take their shower during night time only, while others have to sell their children in exchange for rice and medicines, and to support their livelihood.
Without rice to eat, without shelters to live in, without land to cultivate, without cattle … what can they depend on? Cambodians by the hundreds of thousands are turned into “beggars” in neighboring countries, such as Vietnam and Thailand. If one were to meet a beggar carrying a small child, or dragging along a small child, in a market in Ho Chi Minh City or in Bangkok, one can be assured that this beggar is Cambodian, and that he/she is surely one of our compatriots. How could we not pity them?
Furthermore, if we were to focus on the policy adopted by the Hun Sen regime towards our neighboring countries, especially towards Vietnam, we can see many major mistakes committed: giving out portions of Cambodia’s territory to Vietnam through the Supplemental Border Treaties; the opening of Cambodia borders to Vietnamese migrants (who number close to 5 million now) to come and illegally settle in Cambodia; the formation of the Triangle commercial zone which is nothing more than putting into practice Ho Chi Minh’s “Indochinese Federation” doctrine through the absorption of Laos and Cambodia; the oppression perpetrated against Khmer Krom people, such as the defrocking of a Khmer Krom monk and handing him over to Vietnam to be jailed there; the putting down of Khmer Krom monks who only wanted to hand over their petition to the Vietnamese embassy in Phnom Penh (Would it be wrong if a Vietnamese embassy secretary come out and accept this petition? Whether Vietnam would follow suit to the demands in the petition or not, these Khmer Krom monks would have no saying), however, the Hun Sen regime chose to use violent and savage force against these monks – an action never before seen in the history of Cambodia’s politics – and only the traitors of the Nation would be able to undertake, for example during the handing over of Mr. Son Kuy to the Vietnamese to be decapitated.
From overseas, I (Ly Diep), personally, call on all our compatriots, and in particular on our Khmer Krom brothers and sisters, to please stop your demonstrations against this savage government, because they can lead to fatal accidents and injuries. Instead, our compatriots must adopt a new strategy by rising up, in as large number as possible, to go to vote in the upcoming election to kick out all these incompetent leaders (who are lackeys of the Vietnamese, who are corrupt, and who are dictatorial) out of power at all cost. There are more than one million Khmer Krom people living in Cambodia, why are you not using this weapon to oppose the current Vietnamese puppet government?
For our compatriots living overseas, we must accomplish our duties in our host countries by preventing Hun Sen’s group from shedding their influence, and we must unite with our compatriots living inside the country to bring about this “change” for our motherland.
Our compatriots have the choice between two democratic parties: the Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party, you can vote for either one of them. I am confident that, even though there is no agreement (between these two parties) yet, but they can still work with each other at the National Assembly, or they can merge with each other in the future, because they all are “nationalist” after all.
Please don’t remain quiet! Please rise up altogether one more time!
Bravo the Nationalist Cambodians!
We need an urgent “CHANGE”!
50 comments:
Ankor Borey again?
Can't believe how much craps we got here.
No wonder why Ah Khmer-Youn end up living in shit pit and eat maggots days in and days out in Vietnam.
Y we need to change?
Foreigners in Cambodia (including Ah Khmer-Yuon) are not chained down and abused. If they are suffering here, they are free to leave and go any place they please.
Yeah!
That's a good one!
Neak Cheath Niyum ruob ruom knea la-or nasssssssss!
Parachey! Ayorng Yuon!
The first person to be reformed is Ly Diep himself. You attack/insult every body, now you want people to stand up with you, what a dumb hypocryt. nobody is good enough for you. Can you name a group or a politician that you supported?
This guy Ly Diep (Ly Ngoc Dinh) is a poison snake.
Now his new satire is using Khmer Krom to cover his dirt.
Ah Kantorb niss min choul put mane veuy.
Why don't you go back and fu** your homeland at South Vietnam Ah derachhan?
Sa'ey kor vetanear m'less ah ly diep ly ngoc dick?
ah choss norok chhab tov ah chor viet cong.
meul muk ah viet cong ly diep doch chea muk chkae, meul muk kon khmer doch preah khae penh boramei.
death to ah viet cong ly deap.
Any voice that can prevail a positive change in Cambodia would be highly valued.
If internally of Hun Sen leadership doesn't change, we are all united to lead a change. Not through violence, but through election and express our constructive freedom.
Ly Diep has a very positive thought to garner the change by advising to vote for those democratic parties: SRP and NRP.
I am appreciating with you Ly Diep
Cheer! Cambodia will win all evils!
KY
Win my azz ah khmer youn. You not going to take our country and detroy again, get it?
Take ah fake khmer vietcong ly diep with you.
Our PM will win again.
Thanks Lok Diep!
keep talking to yourself ah pler 1030am
thank you Lok Pou, Ly Diep.
Sang Ku ah ly diep.
Are you blind, 10:30?
Yet another lop gorilla!
The greedy Yuon Hanoi not only invaded South Vietnam and Khmer Krom but continued to swallow Cambodia. Cambodia now have become a stiff fishbone in Yuon Hanoi's throat. I believe this fishbone will cause a cancer very soon, and I keep following what is Yuon Hanoi going to handle it. It is not differnt from Cambodian government, Yuon Hanoi is a big beggar as well.
"Slave to US you have clothes to wear, but slave to Youn you not even have peice of cloths", I don't beleive in that. Why? Hun Sen and Sok An and his culprits are Youn's Slave and have more than peice of cloths. They have Villa, women, alcohol and others they would want. Join them or else..
Ly Ngoc Dinh or Ly Diep Shit is not Vcong, he is a Khmer Blood Sucker or opportunist. He usually go to temple to request for donation for his family to go Cambodia. Donate to Cambodian in Cambodia I don't know, but I think this man may have a good heart or else..need more info. to assure his credit.
Khmer dirty USA fuck , with fuck that you write on this Chinese khmer blogs, how want you that the young Khmers today do not become delinquent and ready louts to sell their fatherland Cambodia to the foreigners in exchange for the dollars and foreign citizenships to flee the country?
Khmer dirty WORE fuck out, you think that writing these things, you help our country, but this is the opposite that produces itself: to the eyes of the foreigners that read this blog, you are a dirty khmer race of fuck. understand? dog band.
You are on the right track, mate (4:52), but the root to the problem is Ah Khmer-Yuon Maggot Feeders. They have been exploiting and brainwashing people with false history and propaganda.
I want to know who hat police is. I want to curse him for him to go to hell for kicking the robe that the monk wear. I don't care he is kicking the monk but that is too disrespecting manner for him to do such thing. At least he give a break for not insulting the religious symbol. Danm YOUN brainwash police!
When one tries to understand the misfortune of Cambodia while reading fuck that is written by its people as you on this Chinese blog- khmer, one wonders if you are not a type dangerous for the khmer people as Pol pot.
Pol Pot wants also as you to save the khmer race of the foreign invasion, and the result is completely the opposite of what he wanted. Do you know or not it?
This is not people as you that our country needs go out of his misfortunes, understood you ,
type of dirty dog of Chinese Khmer!
Cambodia will be fine. Just get Ah Fucking Khmer-Yuon Maggot Feeders out of there.
The picture that one saw is a faked picture. This is disinformation and manipulation of the information by the democracy enemies.
Dont not to fall in the trap of the political activists.
Yeah, but even those pictures were real, it doesn't mean anything because there are more victims of traffic accidents than victim of stupid disputes.
KI media try to fool people by repeating the same pictures over and over for about 1,000 times now, but no one is dumb enough to go for that.
KI used to be a best supplier for reader who seek for an accuracy, but it is not what it seems to be.
KI is friendlier to the a con man like Ly Diep or ly Ngoc Dinh who uses his newspaper to attack every body. Now he is under the attack from all over the world because he did to them, he now has a new scheme "Need a Change"?
Ly Diep is very manipulative, and he will do everything to get him out from his own mess he created, and KI is now under Ly Diep's influence what does everyone think about KI? Khmer Stupid.
They all alike. I mean stupid and overconfidence which is why they end up living in Vietcong's shit pits and eating maggots days in and days out.
for crying out loud, if you think this individual person "Ly Diep" is as what you have stated "manipulative, con-artist, etc." why don't you write your own version of proof about "Mr. Ly Diep" and post it on the Internet or newspapers, and you can also contact him or email him - that way you can become a hero by educating the public about "Mr. Ly Diep's darker side, " that the public does not know.
OR PERHAPS YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE PATHETICALLY BARKING NON-STOP ABOUT NON-SENSE.
THE PEOPLE WITH GOOD CONSCIENCE DO NOT JUST BARK, THEY WRITE AND PRESENT THEIR ARGUMENT IN THE CIVILIZE MANNER.
GO AHEAD WRITE YOUR OWN VERSION TO EXPOSE MR. LY DIEP'S UGLIEST STORY. I'M SURE THE PUBLIC IS VERY THRILL TO READ AND HEAR ABOUT IT.
Every body alreaky knows who is Ly Ngoc Dinh or Diep on the internet.
How did Khmer people allow this Ly Diep or Ly Ngoc Dinh to be in this position? He has been attacking and dividing Khmer people behind the curtain of Khmer Republic. He leads Khmer oversea and also drags a young Khmer writer in the mud of hatred to stop Sok An from coming to Long Beach in the name of justice.
If any one needs a change Ly Diep should be the first to change. Live in the 2008. Stop living in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. The world has changed. The only person who hasn’t is Ly Diep. Ly Diep stills fighting a losing war of the 70’s.
Leave us Khmer people alone. How do we know that you are not working for the Vietcong?
Guys, please stop beating up on each other already! We are all Khmer - whether we are from Cambodia, Khmer Krom, Khmer Surin.. we are all from the same family!
Fight for the common cause.. work toward our common goals, and that is to stand up and fight against oppression wherever u are, so that Cambodia can be freed from this puppet government there right now!
One more thing, please read about the history of Khmer Krom, and why its now part of Vietnam and do do the same about Khmer Surin. It's easier to educate, and explain to others once we know the true story behind it.
Put our differences aside and work toward a more powerful, prosperous future for one Mighty United Khmer Kingdom once and for all!
Cheers,
Fair enough, 10:15. Let's have his website and email, will ya?
He is the one who divides Khmer. He should know that we are not going put up with his nonsense. He knows how to write Khmer does not mean he knows Khmer. He has a few old guards who support him and praise him, that does not mean we agree with this old thinking.
Khmer will find a leader to unite them but not this person.
11:12, we don't have problem with Khmer Surin, Khmer Loa, Khmer-Burma... , and what have we, except for Ah Khmer Yuon. They have been exploiting us since day 1, not to mention exploiting Khmer all over the globe: US, AU, UK, ... . They have no respect for Khmer people. They couped the Khmer King, and hook us up with the most corrupted idiot (Lon Nol) in Khmer History who lead us all to the Devil (Pol Pol) who Massacre millions of us ... .
They had their own land. They did not paid a single cent of tax to Cambodia or follow any Cambodian Law for the last 200 years. They totally destroyed their own land on their own freewill, and now they tell us that Cambodia belong to them and they can do whatever they please with it. What type of crap is that, and who the fuck they think they are?
If ah Ly Diep or Ly Ngoc Dinh is Khmer Krom but he is a monster like that I hate all Khmer Krom, ah Khmer Youn. (PERIOD).
How can the stupid Vietcong slaves say anything bad about the Vietcong master for oppressing million and million Khmer Krom people because they have such inferior complex that they no longer consider themselves as part of humanity! And here they are would rather blame everything on the Khmer Krom people who are the victim of the Vietcong oppressor!
Fuck all the Vietcong slave animals!
Oh shut the fuck up, Vietcong ain't our master, but Ah Khmer-Yuon master. You can tell by looking at the form of government. If Vietcong are our master, we will be communist just like them, but we're not -- also not to say that I am against communist either.
Hey 10:15, I am still waiting for Ly Diep's website and email. Hurry up will ya? No one live forever, you know?
I think 10:15 is a fuck up moron. All he can do is bullshitting here. This is typical of Ah Khmer-Yuon Maggot Feeders from Vietnam. They don't know what the word "truth" means.
Oh, my gosh!!!! These few motherfuckers have been claimed to know so much about the ugly side of the person "Ly Diep" and have been bad mouthing about him but they don't even have any brain left to search for information. How pathetic is that, Ah Lop! I can bet your parents had wished that you would have never born, Pouk Ah Chong-Raiy.
So dumb that you can't even search for information. anyone would like to help these pathetic hobglobins?
Oh shut the fuck up (9:25). Stop stalling, the website and the email please.
Go mate 9:39 AM. Ah Ly Diep ah son of bitch is a Viet Cong spy. Ah kanhchass slab tay hong.
Die ah Ly Ngoc Diep die.
Hun Sen regime is as equal as to khmer rouge regime.
Khmer rouge regime was influnced by the chinese. Now Hun Sen regime is influnced or controlled by the vietcong.
Judgement day will come for hun sen for betraying true khmer. Hun sen is a cowarded khmer who hide behind the vietcong.
Judgement day my azz. A bunch of ah Youn Khmer trouble makers. Ah prass srok, you an't come back to destroy my country anymore. Get it loser?
PM Hun Sen can stay 90 more years.
I can value that Ly Diep is better than Hun Sen.
Because Ly Diep's words do make sense. Hun Sen's Words do not make sense.
According to samdey sar cheat meayeat sar pouch.
Yeah, but that is because you are not a true blue Khmer hardly touched by the west. Once you touched by the west you're screwed.
Ah Ly Diep 5:16 pm said he is better than ah Hun Sen because his name is Youn name and Hun Sen is Chenese name. ah Hun Sen is PM and steals million to billion, ah Ly Diep trying to con KHmer people to get a few pennies. Ah Ly Diep never be one of KHmer, he is ah youn, but ah Hun Sen is, because he is chen.
Trov mane ah samlanh 941pm.
Tired to read ah youn kanhchass Ly ngoc Dick Diep.
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