Family members mourned the dead soldiers.
Radio Free Asia
By Sav Yuth
26th October 2008
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization
The wives and children of the soldiers killed during a fighting with the Thai soldiers on the 15th October on the borders near Preah Vihear temple have appealed to government officials and generous donors to help them as some of them become orphans and poor because they don’t have rice fields, vegetable gardens or jobs to feed their families. They do not even have a place to stay.
The government has been very generous with the families of the dead soldiers by donating thousands of dollars ($US8,000) and help with funeral expenses as well as donations to the families of the wounded soldiers.
However, the families of the dead soldiers said that they still need government’s help such as providing lands for them to build a place to live and farm to feed their young families, as their husbands are dead and cannot provide for them any more.
Mrs. Bea Sann, 46 years old, from Veal Rumpouk village, Preah Klaing commune, Tbeng Meanchey district, Preah Vihear province, said that her husband, Mr. Phert Khambai, was killed during the fighting. As she has no job, she is facing hardship to feed her 7 young children.
Mrs. Bea Sann said that she no place to live and no rice field to farm in order to feed her children. When her husband was alive, her family live with him in his barrack and raise her family with his salary of 200,000 Riels ($US50).
She added that, after her husband was killed she want to appeal to the government to provide her with some lands in the Preah Vihear provincial capital so she can make a living from the lands.
Mrs. Bea Sann said: “I have no place to live. Currently I live in the barrack belonging to Battalion 21. I am very poor. I don’t have any rice farm. I don’t have any vegetable farm and I have 7 children. My first child is a soldier, my second child is unemployed, my third children is studying in grade 4, the 4th and the 5th stay home. I am very poor. I want a house, big or small I don’t care as long as I have a house to live in.”
A neighbour of the late Mr. Phert Khambai said that his family is very poor. He said: “The family of the wife the late Mr. Phert Khambai is very poor, her house has holes everywhere, she lives next to me. When her husband was killed she is very miserable because she has too many children to feed. During the harvest season, she always took her young children with her, going around working in the rice fields earning just 10,000 Riels ($US2.50) per day.
The family of the late Mr. Toch Soeun cannot be contacted for the interview. But according to the chief of Bak Anlong commune of Tropeang Prasat district, Ouddor Meanchey province, Mr. Sin Seng, said that the family of the late Mr. Toch Soeun lives in his commune. His first wife pre-deceased him leaving him to raise their 4 children. Later, he re-married with a widow with 4 children and they have one more child together. So the total of the children in the family are 9 children.
Mr. Seng said that the family of the late Mr. Toch Soeun is very poor and they don’t even have any lands in which to farm. And he is always on military duty away from the family. After Mr. Toch Soeun was killed, his 4 children from the previous marriage were taken care by their auntie, and they received some financial assistance from the government. And the second wife received $US4,000 in government assistance, but as soon as she received the money she disappeared without even staying for the husband’s funeral which was organised by the government.
Mr. Sin Seng said: “The late Mr. Soeun has died, leaving 4 children orphaned. Now their auntie has stepped in to take care of them. The government has provided them with their share of the compensations and another part paid to the 5 children of the second wife. After his funeral, the second wife did not come to collect his ashes, she just took the $4,000 and disappeared.”
The government has helped all the families of the dead and wounded soldiers. Gen. Srey Doek, commander of Intervention Forces of Division 12 said that the government has looked after both the families of the dead and wounded soldiers well.
Gen. Srey Doek said: “the government has handed them a lot of money. In short, the government has taken care of them a lot, especially PM Hun Sen who has asked Mrs. Men Sam Orn to lead a delegation to meet the families personally.”
Please note that, in the fighting with the Thai troops on the 15th of October, 3 Cambodian soldiers were killed. They are Col. Phert Khambai, 47 years old, from Battalion 121 with 7 children. Capt. Toch Soeun, from border Protection Unit 404 with 9 children and Capt. Lon Deth, from Border Protection Unit 431, his wife’s name is Sum Trea, deceased, leaving 6 children orphaned.
According sources from the government, the government has decided to compensate the families of the dead soldiers with $US8,000 each family and one million riels ($US250). As for the families of the 2 wounded soldiers have received more than $US2,000 each in compensation as well as 260,000 riels ($US55). And ex-king Sihanouk announced from Beijing that he will provide $US1,000 each to the families of the dead soldiers as well as $US500 each to the families of the wounded soldiers.//
By Sav Yuth
26th October 2008
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization
The wives and children of the soldiers killed during a fighting with the Thai soldiers on the 15th October on the borders near Preah Vihear temple have appealed to government officials and generous donors to help them as some of them become orphans and poor because they don’t have rice fields, vegetable gardens or jobs to feed their families. They do not even have a place to stay.
The government has been very generous with the families of the dead soldiers by donating thousands of dollars ($US8,000) and help with funeral expenses as well as donations to the families of the wounded soldiers.
However, the families of the dead soldiers said that they still need government’s help such as providing lands for them to build a place to live and farm to feed their young families, as their husbands are dead and cannot provide for them any more.
Mrs. Bea Sann, 46 years old, from Veal Rumpouk village, Preah Klaing commune, Tbeng Meanchey district, Preah Vihear province, said that her husband, Mr. Phert Khambai, was killed during the fighting. As she has no job, she is facing hardship to feed her 7 young children.
Mrs. Bea Sann said that she no place to live and no rice field to farm in order to feed her children. When her husband was alive, her family live with him in his barrack and raise her family with his salary of 200,000 Riels ($US50).
She added that, after her husband was killed she want to appeal to the government to provide her with some lands in the Preah Vihear provincial capital so she can make a living from the lands.
Mrs. Bea Sann said: “I have no place to live. Currently I live in the barrack belonging to Battalion 21. I am very poor. I don’t have any rice farm. I don’t have any vegetable farm and I have 7 children. My first child is a soldier, my second child is unemployed, my third children is studying in grade 4, the 4th and the 5th stay home. I am very poor. I want a house, big or small I don’t care as long as I have a house to live in.”
A neighbour of the late Mr. Phert Khambai said that his family is very poor. He said: “The family of the wife the late Mr. Phert Khambai is very poor, her house has holes everywhere, she lives next to me. When her husband was killed she is very miserable because she has too many children to feed. During the harvest season, she always took her young children with her, going around working in the rice fields earning just 10,000 Riels ($US2.50) per day.
The family of the late Mr. Toch Soeun cannot be contacted for the interview. But according to the chief of Bak Anlong commune of Tropeang Prasat district, Ouddor Meanchey province, Mr. Sin Seng, said that the family of the late Mr. Toch Soeun lives in his commune. His first wife pre-deceased him leaving him to raise their 4 children. Later, he re-married with a widow with 4 children and they have one more child together. So the total of the children in the family are 9 children.
Mr. Seng said that the family of the late Mr. Toch Soeun is very poor and they don’t even have any lands in which to farm. And he is always on military duty away from the family. After Mr. Toch Soeun was killed, his 4 children from the previous marriage were taken care by their auntie, and they received some financial assistance from the government. And the second wife received $US4,000 in government assistance, but as soon as she received the money she disappeared without even staying for the husband’s funeral which was organised by the government.
Mr. Sin Seng said: “The late Mr. Soeun has died, leaving 4 children orphaned. Now their auntie has stepped in to take care of them. The government has provided them with their share of the compensations and another part paid to the 5 children of the second wife. After his funeral, the second wife did not come to collect his ashes, she just took the $4,000 and disappeared.”
The government has helped all the families of the dead and wounded soldiers. Gen. Srey Doek, commander of Intervention Forces of Division 12 said that the government has looked after both the families of the dead and wounded soldiers well.
Gen. Srey Doek said: “the government has handed them a lot of money. In short, the government has taken care of them a lot, especially PM Hun Sen who has asked Mrs. Men Sam Orn to lead a delegation to meet the families personally.”
Please note that, in the fighting with the Thai troops on the 15th of October, 3 Cambodian soldiers were killed. They are Col. Phert Khambai, 47 years old, from Battalion 121 with 7 children. Capt. Toch Soeun, from border Protection Unit 404 with 9 children and Capt. Lon Deth, from Border Protection Unit 431, his wife’s name is Sum Trea, deceased, leaving 6 children orphaned.
According sources from the government, the government has decided to compensate the families of the dead soldiers with $US8,000 each family and one million riels ($US250). As for the families of the 2 wounded soldiers have received more than $US2,000 each in compensation as well as 260,000 riels ($US55). And ex-king Sihanouk announced from Beijing that he will provide $US1,000 each to the families of the dead soldiers as well as $US500 each to the families of the wounded soldiers.//
23 comments:
Give them some lands please Mr. PM HS. Not only helps the poor families but encourage more volunteers to enlist to protect Cambodia. Make senses out of it.
Fuck Hun Sen give them a piece of land unless you want to send Ho Lung Duc and his siblings to the front line, which is another good alternative.
Ain't that just suck ass? They die and fight for the country,what do they get in return? crap..that's right crap..may all those who betray their own people burn in hell, yes that included you too HS.
8:48 PM
What the fuck have you given huh? You are full of shit for talking trash all the time and never done a damn fucking thing fucking selfish hypocritical fucker. It's self-righteous assholes like you that we don't need. My uncles and his friends from Chicago have donated 6000 dollars total to the Cambodian military so far. How many cents have you given, asshole?
9:37 PM
Each family gets 9000 dollars. In Cambodia, the average person makes 50 dollars a month. You do the calculation if you think the government and the ex-king have not done enough.
also, it doesn't hurt if you start giving also instead of talking all the time.
9:45 PM
Does 9000$ will replace her husband?
Use your tiny brain (if you have one), before writing anything.
9:43 PM
You couldn't resist revealing who much money you gave. Bravo.
The point is that she has no land and her husband is not there anymore, and 9000$ will not get far.
Do you understand that it's impossible for a woman with 7 children with no land to take care of them?
For your information, actually 9000 for all the three families. Not just one. So 3000 each.
So where the rest of the money goes?
These fuckers really have now shame, they are worst then dogs.
9000$ each families
you can buy a land whit 2000$ and later the price will go up 8)i wish she think about that
9:43 PM. Why are you so angry? On behalf of the widow families I thanks your uncle and friends for the donation... if it's not tanted moneys (I doubt it). you think all the amount of the money in the world could replace your loved one? May be you don't give a shit just throw the money and you can buy silencing.
Oh BTW, Cambodian around the globe make some donations not just your uncle, DICKHEAD!
Ah Hun Sen and the rest of the gangs never care about the soldiers!
Cambodians, "Kom slabb doeumbei cheath...RUOS DOEUMBEI CHEATH!"
Hey! Where's Mr. Eng
aka Hong Chikong?
Ah Smaum Hong Chikong! Chuoy Teahean chumnuos Hun Xen Phorng!
How much is enough? $9,000 per family is alot. American dead soldier families get $250,000 for their death. So basically it comes down to how much is enough? I know everyone want to give them all for their sacrafice but what about the living? Don't they need help too? Many join the army for the same reason as the dead soldiers; lack of jobs.
You got a second wife that shows up for the remaing $4,000? What the hell? They need to have an organization that is not for profit and let them distribute the money and provide across the board like COUNSELING! That is the first action that should have been taken. Not about money right away. Just like winning the lottery, what do you do with all that money?
Just keep talking, you stupid assholes. All you can do is TALK. I am full of shit too because I'm here talking like you. At least I know I'm full of shit unlike some of you who can't see that on yourself.
No money can replace the loved one but what better solution can you suggest, all Mr. self-righteous internet warriors? 9000 per family. A normal Cambodian farmer will never see that in his or her lifetime. It's sad that you CAN'T never give enough. People always want more. I am saddened by the loss of our three soldiers but their families start to sound like my relatives in Cambodia too. Always ask for more, no matter how much you give. Don't blame the fucking government because I think they did their best giving 9000 dollars for each family. This "we need more" sounds like a never ending wants or maybe it's to blame the government that they don't do enough. That's only so much your government can do. If the dead soldiers' families are greedy and want to exploit their loved one's death indefinitely, that's even a sadder story.
I don't believe even the rich Siam country gives anything significant to its dead soldiers. When you signed up and sacraficed for your country, it did not mean you asked for a guaranteed contract.
For the sake of everybody's well-being, the veterans' widows included, the government should establish a welfare system so that people could live by having basic needs met. They should not have to lose any dignity to beg for donation from individual private persons.
Donors should organize to have foundations so that donated money can be made to grow and awarded to the deserved recipients.
"Give so that the person can teach themselves how to fish, instead of give so that they can only learn to be fed." It is not enough for the windows to live on a few thousand dollars if they use that sum only to eat, but if they use that money to invest in buying pigs, chicken, or stuffs to sell at the markets, the money should last a little longer.
That's what you'll get when you try to steal Lands and temples from the Real Khmer in Thailand.
Stay the fuck out of any area that doesn't belonged to you.
6:30 PM,
you sound like you are a Khmer with the Siamese brain. If you are a Khmer Surin, I think that you are a Khmer who was brain-washed by the Thai education system. But if you are a Khmer from Cambodia, or with parents born in Cambodia, i think you have a serious identity problem. Who steal whose lands is evident by the fact that Khmer people have spread across at least 10 provinces in Thailand and around 18 provinces in southern Vietnam, known as Kapuchea Krom. Go and learn a proper history, will ya?
So how much money do u think the govt. should give the soldiers families? a million dollars??? It's true that the amount of money cannot make up for their loss, but I think $9,000 per family is pretty good, when a lot of these poor Khmer will never hold this much money in their life time. If they are smart, they will use this money to buy some land and use the rest of the money to buy themselves some livestocks.
In Cambodia, if u were to get into an accident and kill someone, the price to pay is less than $5,000. ....depending on how wealthy u are. As most people don't have car insurance. Some of these poor victims only got a couple hundred dollars for their families. That is if the drivers stay to pay for the price. Most just hit and run. It's really sad. So as u can see, $9,000 is a lot over here. Again, i'm not saying that this amount of money is sufficient enough, as u know, no amount of money can make up for the losses.
6:30 pm you said
"...you try to steal Lands and temples from the Real Khmer in Thailand"
I'm not sure why it is so hard for you to understand that siams attempted to steal what belonged to Khmer.
You said you are "Khmer in Thailand" What are you calling youself officially: Khmer or Thai?
If you called youself "Khmer" Why is so hard for you to acknowledge that Khmer in Cambodia and Khmer in Thailand are obviously all KHMER. If we are all Khmer, why you guys keep saying Cambodia steal temples that belongs to Khmer???? Isn't it Cambodia is a nation of Khmer?
Perhaps, you rather acknowledge that these temples were built by siams instead of Khmer. If that the case, you are nothing but a bunch of idiotic human on earth. Do you think Thai consider you all as Thais?? Dream on!! Think twice or more. You are still Khmer my friends. If you don't drop your ignorant attitude, you will end up with "a human with no identity" No one will accept you neither Thai nor Cambodian. It's time for you all to wake up. Have some faith and adopt the wisdom of Khmer Krom and you will deserve to label your self as Khmer.
Khmer Unity.
What are you talking about, 11:35? The Khmer in Thailand did not complained about any Siem stealing anything from them. They only complained about the monkeys from Cambodia trying to steal the temple from them. Comprendres?
4:50
Are your retarded or some sort of Autism disease eating your brain?
the key word in the discusion is "KHMER" re-read my comment again. It is in plain english no fancy vocabularies. Get help if you still don't understand. Well if you are siam don't bother to pretend anymore because every one know siam mentallity.
Oh.BTW and correction: the monkeys from Cambodia don't have to steal their belonging. Why you steal what's already yours?
Doesn't make any sense. Isn't it? Those monkeys from bangkok who stealing. Be caution, some monkeys look alike but the one from bangkok has red ass. Check on their asses before you jump to conclusion.
You must have got an incorrect information from a wrong souce. Go find a reliable one that can provide the truth. That the one you want.
Any question?
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