In Cambodia, even the smallest children are put to work, scavenging for 14 hours a day for plastic, glass, metal. These children are at incredible health and safety risk and earn barely a penny an hour. These children are exploited and abused in the extreme - the victims of overpopulation. (A Decent Life Charity)By Paul Wallis
Digital Journal
The world needs to start setting standards for international aid. Things have to be achieved, not just said to be achieved. It’s not enough to simply allow another pack of vultures to set up shop in disaster areas. The message has to be, “Do the job right, run the place according to law, or we pull the plug on you.”It’s called progress, anyway. Most crimes have at least some euphemisms. Teams of workmen arrive at a residential location near Phnom Penh. They’re carrying axes. At 6AM they move in and start demolishing the houses. With the people still in them.
The idea? High rises. You know, those obvious essentials to people whose annual income would perhaps buy a week’s rent in the average Western home.
Bulldozers move in, and hit people trying to find their possessions. At least one woman is hospitalized. The residents react, and throw things at the bulldozer. Fire extinguishers are turned on them. A cat is killed in the process, and people wander around what looks like Stalingrad.
The land, as you will have guessed, is prime land. The residents were offered compensation of about $20,000. They said it wouldn’t buy them another place to live, and they knew their land was worth more.
Australia’s SBS current affairs show Dateline got a first hand view of this blatant violation of human rights and property laws.
*** Please note, this is a pretty infuriating, upsetting video.
A moment of farce was achieved by an interview with the Australian ambassador, who was asked if she was embarrassed that was happening practically on the doorstep of the new Australian Embassy. She was diplomatically not embarrassed.
As an Aussie, I, however, was embarrassed. We led a peacekeeping mission in the 90s to try and get Cambodia back into the current part of human history. We, like many other countries including the US, donate a lot of money to support Cambodia.
It turns out that as usual with international aid, we’re supporting the rich, not the majority of the population. Obviously, Cambodia’s poor have no rights, and less future. We’re clearly not supporting human rights, international law, or anything resembling sanity.
Cambodia is a mirror of the truth of all the international aid. That’s progress, folks. If you happen to remember all the visions of global development, pulling the Third World out of poverty, building a better world, this is what happened to it, just about everywhere on Earth.
This is where 50 years of talkfests has got the human race. Four billion people living in the Middle Ages with cell phones. Wars, revolutions, genocides, political and business babble, followed by what is basically oppression in another form. It’s infallible. One collection of corrupt vermin is replaced by another. Aid becomes a matter of protecting people from the following sets of disasters.
All the good intentions seem to be paving others’ roads to hell.
The world needs to start setting standards for international aid. Things have to be achieved, not just said to be achieved. It’s not enough to simply allow another pack of vultures to set up shop in disaster areas. The message has to be, “Do the job right, run the place according to law, or we pull the plug on you.”
My guess would be that we don’t need saints running aid programs. We need cynical bastards who wouldn’t trust their own grandmothers with a baby.
I don’t think you can be simultaneously determined to save the world and equally determined to look under every rock to find out who’s causing what’s wrong with it.
Then maybe we'll see some real progress.
This opinion article was written by an independent writer. The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessarily intended to reflect those of DigitalJournal.com
8 comments:
This children shoul be in school, but is not happen for a little guy. Even those Hun Sen not have any passion for his people.
How long khmer people need to suffering, wake up Hun Sen, you are a khmer in blood, even you under control of Youn/VN. All the plan in Cambodia is in your hand, but yor evil mind is so strong.
La culpabilité de cet enfant c'est etre la au mauvais endroit et au mauvais période . Sa question de tous les jours est comment satisfaire mon estomac Quelqu'un peut répondre est ce que la conscience de samdach Ta peut rester tranquille cela s'appelle les effets collatérales en voulant satisfaire sa vengeance et la soif de venger. C'est triste et malheureux il y en a combiens des cas comme cet enfant au cambodge
The king father Sihanouk, have no power to control in Cambodia at all. The power is under Hun Sen system, I hope Khmer in Cambodian and Khmer around the world, should stand up together fight for our people, enough is enough for Khmer suffer.
I hope Kmer leadership is understand, our country is the best country in the wold, we have every thing what we wantbut they don't no how to stard, some of power people they busy to currupted, they never think what is the simply kind to build their own country. They sold all the Land,leet other country come and live in our Land and let our people be homeless.
If you voted for CPP (Cambodian People's Party):
Also known as:
Communist People's Party
Khmer Rouge People's Party
Khmer Krorhorm People's Party
You're support the killing of 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples in Cambodia.
You're support the killing of innocent men, women and children on March 30, 1997 in Cambodia.
You're support assassination of journalists in Cambodia.
You're support political assassination and killing in Cambodia.
You're support attempted assassination and murder of leader of the free trade union in Cambodia.
You're support corruption in Cambodia.
You're support murder of Piseth Pilika (Hun Sen's affaire).
You're support Hun Sen Regime burn poor people's house down to the ground and leave them homeless.
Hun Sen, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin was a former Khmer Rouge commanders.
Now, Hun Sen, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin are Khmer Rouge leaders, since their leader (Pol Pot) is dead.
From 1975 to 1979, these Khmer Rouge commanders responsible for killing 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples in Cambodia.
From 1980 to present, these Khmer Rouge leaders responsible for killing innocent men, women and children on March 30, 1997, assassinated journalists, political assassination and killing, murder of Piseth Pilika (Hun Sen's affaire) and attempted assassinated and murder of leader of the free trade union in Cambodia.
When is the ECCC going to bring these three criminals to U.N. Khmer Rouge Tribunal?
Khmer Rouge Regime is a genocide organization.
Hun Sen Regime is a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen Bodyguards is a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen Death Squad is a terrorist organization.
Cambodian People's Party is a terrorist organization.
I have declare the current Cambodian government which is lead by the Cambodian People's Party as a terrorist organization.
Whoever associate with the current Cambodian government are associate with a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen's government committed:
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Drugs Trafficking
Intimidation
Death Threat
Assassination
Murder
Killing
Terrorism
Mass Eviction, by burn poor people's house down to the ground and leave them homeless.
Land Grabbing
Corruptions
Injustice
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Steal Votes
Violates the Constitution
These are the Trade Marks of Hun Sen Regime.
Under Hun Sen Regime, no criminals that has been committed murder and all other crimes within Hun Sen's government ever been brought to justice.
Information change without notice as it become available.
This child look healthy huh? this is the way strongman running the country....just take a look at this child! they are suppose to be in school not working?
hey, it's not progress that cause people to be poor, it's the lack of transparency, good management, old way thinking, paranoia, too much authorative power, unwilling to change or reform in order to adjust to new concept, new way, etc..., in other words, it's the lack there of that seems to create problem... wake up from your hibernation, people and open both eyes to see the big world out there! also paradigm change or thinking change can help progress, too, you know! god bless cambodia.
Bonjour 11:08 Il est inexact de dire que Samdach Ta ne controle pas le cambodge , mais je pense qu'ol a une influence minime sur HS et que Samdach Ta cesse de faire l'AUTO PROMOTION et qu'il fasse l'auto critique comme les brigades selon les préceptes ddu Grand TIMONIER MST . Il est facile de se défiler et cette peur ancestral d'etre convoqué en tant que témoin assisté deavnt la cour international. Si Samdach Ta était aussi clean comme il n'arretait de se proclamer IL FAUT QU'IL APPORTE SES TEMOIGNAGES SPONTANNES et confronté avec ses détracteurs qye Samdach TA ne cessait de traiter comme TRAITE La situation de cet enfant ce n'est qu'une patie des conséquences apres la destitution démocratique de 1970 Que Samdach TA soit courrageux et présenter devant le tribunal pour lever toute les accusations que Samdach Ta est complice des vietnamiens et des KR
please understand that progress bring clean water for people, etc... imagine the world without progress, we would all be riding on rafts, not ship, oxcart or horsecart, not car, reading with candlelight, not electricity light, etc, etc... see my point! don't we all love progress? and cambodia needs it the most! god bless cambodia.
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