| Written by Paul Gibbings | |
| Wednesday, 01 April 2009 |
Dear Editor,
Returning to Phnom Penh from Kampong Cham on Sunday, March 22, we took the Prek Kdam ferry that connects Route 5 with Route 61. We were part of a group of nine vehicles waiting for the next ferry. My car was the seventh in line.
Three silver vehicles pulled up behind us - all sporting Royal Cambodian Armed Forces licence plates. Two were four-wheel drive saloons, and the third was a four-wheel drive pickup truck.
The group purchased tickets, and all three RCAF-plated vehicles drove down the wrong side of the road and took up positions at the front of the queue. As a result, the eighth and ninth cars in our group were forced to miss the ferry when it finally arrived.
The RCAF vehicles did not seem to be on official business. Too many of the vehicles' occupants were casually dressed.
Surely the vehicle bearing the licence plate RCAF 23607 and the two other vehicles have no right in times of peace to behave in such an arbitrary fashion, showing absolutely no respect for their fellow citizens.
The time has come for the use of RCAF number plates to be reviewed, as is the case with the police. What are such plates doing on fancy four-wheel drives? They should be confined to purely military vehicles that are conducting military business, not military families on private jaunts.
Paul Gibbings
Phnom Penh
21 comments:
Thanks the witer for making this known to the public through the Post.
In fact, many more of us know about this. RCAF licence plates have been used mostly by private cars, which is not right.
While they are supposed to be used by only military officers and on official military missions, they have actually been used by female singers and movie stars, by the mafia Chinese rich, and by the powerful's or rich's youngsters. These people drive very crazily, agressively, and lawlessly.
If the government really wants to reform, please put an end to such anarchy.
Raja
"YAK-SAYA LAKYEAR,NAK-VICHHOANTI,AGNHA-YAK,AKA-THAING KATHI,AKMAKTOR TATHAING,AK-NUK PAK-TAING,TAMA-HAING,PROU-MI PREAM-NAING"
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May Buddha Srey Aar Metrey save all people in this planet
http://fr.youtube.com/user/maitreyaproject
"HE WHO HAS NO LONGINGS THROUGH PERFECT KNOWLEDGE IS FREE FROM DOUBTS,HAS PLUNGED INTO THE DEATHLESS,-HIM I CALL A BRAHMAN"
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"Enfin Bouddha notre maître suprême a bien dit que l'ignorance est la source de la souffrance,il éclaire que l'ambition est une forme de cette ignorance à sans arrêt causer le malheur des Cambodgiens car l'ambition de leurs dirigeants pour obtenir le pouvoir à vie et de viser d'expansionnisme de leurs voisins dure depuis très longtemps,mais grâce à la vérité Bouddha a pu quitter ce cercle de la souffrance et parvenir à l'élimination donc la vérité en soi,la vérité concernant leurs histoires et leurs combats peut sûrement aider les cambodgiens à sortir de leurs épreuves"
" Finally Buddha our supreme boss said well that the ignorance is the source of the suffering, it lights(enlightens) that the ambition is a shape of this ignorance to cause non-stop the misfortune of the Cambodians because the ambition of their leaders to obtain the power with life and to aim at expansionism of their neighbours lasts for a very long time, but thanks to the truth Buddha was able to leave this circle of the suffering and to reach the elimination thus "
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLTFmWX4VE
Le problème aujourd'hui n'est pas l'énergie atomique, mais le coeur des hommes.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
yup this is true....
I, myself, went to visit Cambodia several years ago and amazed that these government vehicles acting the stupid thing. I went to Nak Loung ferry with my cousin. While we're waiting for the ferry, there were four vehicles with SUV lexus and land cruiser. They drove the wrong side of the gate and pursued to the front with their powerful license plate. They don't respect the rest of us who wait under the hot sun for 1/2 hour or so. I myself don't have respect for these people and try to look at them who are they? They're a scum and under class people who act like a gangster.
Good citizen won't do that kind of behavior. We need to learn to respect each other and no one should be above the law including Ah Hun Sen. He is from peasant family and now his followers act like animal from the jungle which has no law and order.
Good that someone put this article on the website, but those dump people can't read English anyway.
Do you ever see American cut off in front of people? The white people respect others than we do. Even the front lawn with nice grass, we should walk on it. The owner love their grass. Going to grocery store or some other public place, we should wait in line and not to cut in front of people.
WE NEED TO RESPECT OURSELF AND RESPECT OTHERS. OTHERS WILL RESPECT US BACK.
je ne comprend pas l'étonnement de ce fait divers il faut poser le problème autrement les personnes qui conduiesent sont ils des bêtes ou des ertres humains oui non Il se pourrait que les utilisateurs de ces véhicules se sont des gens FRUSTRES JALOUX ET TOUJOURS PRONES POUR LE PEUPLES ET PEUT ETRE ILS IGNORENT LA NOTION DE MOYENS DE LOCOMOTIONS ILS N'ONT PAS ENCORES PERDU CETTE NOTION dDE MARCHES PIEDS NUS COMBATTRE LES IMP2RIALISMES US OU AUTRES ALLER ASSEZ ECRIT IMPERIALISME US VOUS N'ALLEZ PAS PARLER AVECS TOUS CES SATHS DERACHANNS NON
7:02 PM
Understandable your feeling with all VIP-system in Cambodia.
But I am not agree with you, to call the PM of Cambodia, Mr. Hun Sen "Ah Hun Sen". You wanted to teach others, that you are a good citizen and have a very well educational background. Why you still used that kind of language. My short reply to your comment, you are just a "Caucasian Cambodian".
A Khmer from the jungle
Don't worry, it is from me HUN SEN.
Soon I'll get rid all these VIP want to be.
We don't want those in our society.
We will make them respect the public.
Lately I've blast those who abuse power. They can't abuse power. They got to respect people because they got elected by the people. And they need to work for the people. They can't be the boss to the people. Even me I'm working for the people. People are the boss.
It will happen.
They need to wait in line just like other.
They are not special. If they are special they should be coming with convoy. Not on a family trip to some where with that gov license plate.
Those plates are meaningless now cause every where you always see them.
KhmerPP,
LET HAVE PITY TO THESE KIND OF PEOPLE. THEY LIVE IN CONSTANT HELL. THEY RUSH TO GO BACK TO HELL. LET THEM ARRIVE TO THEIR DESTINATION.
corrupt government spawns corrupt officials
corrupted officials spawn corrupted citizen!
corrupted citizens spawn coruppted country!
corrupted country spawn corrupted regions!
and so on!
May lightning clean the corrupted gansters!
Communist expansion (Soviet)
+ Vietnam expansion + Khmer Rouge = vietnamese invation of cambodia.
Who benefits the most? Vietnamese because 1)VN got rid of its enemy (Khmer Rouge), 2)VN can control Cambodia until now, 3)VN gains territory (stole Khmer land) and continue to do so, 4)VN had successfully honored Ho Chi Minh's goal of controling the whole Indo China.
Vietnamese invasion indeed saved most of Cambodian life, but that was not the purpose of the invasion. The real purpose of the incvasion is to oust the Khmer Rouge and establish the expansion. On the other hand, the invasion had killed many Cambodian as well.
Please note that VN also invaded Laos.What was the reasons? There was no Lao Rouge there.
The life saved is the consequense of Vietnam expansion or it can be sen as a coincidence.
Quetion:
Are Cambodians willing to sacrifice their land, their rights, their lives, sovereingty and be sufferred of the Vietnamese influences because they believe that the VN saved Cambodian lives from the Khmer Rouge?
If someone save you from danger and you have to be his slave for the rest of your life to pay the gratitude, would you agree to do that?
If VN respects Cambodia's integrity and stop support and control its Cambodian puppet government,then a mutual respect between VN and Cambodia should be hornored.
it's called reforms, the cambodia needs a lot of reforms in our thinking, our society, etc... no one should be allowed to be above the law, no matter who or what position they held, otherwise, there will no no justice, and abuses. when khmer people understand the importance of having the rule of law, they too will disapprove of impunity. remember power is now given, not born with because all it takes now is the power of the vote and they will be out of office in no time, especially if they are ineffective leader, abusive leader, or think they are above the law, etc... please educate all khmer people to understand that they too have the power to vote leaders out of office if they are not compatible with with their job! god bless cambodia.
Mr. G, thanks for noticing. That's just a miniscule problem you've seen.
The Whole country is MADE FOR THE ELITE KHMER PEOPLE.
8:10PM,
I respect only the people do a good deed, not people like Ah Kwak who killed too many people and keeps selling Cambodia properties to VN and Siem. I'm in the jungle in the US. Freedom of speech and expression, it's so called First Amendment. I'm not a fool people like you to bow to low class people like Ah Kwak and CPP supporters. I'm 1000% anti-CPP. I'm a democratic person who values Cambodia people's life and prosperity.
That is another thing i hate about cambodia, the way they treat people is not fair at all! those poeple in the car are just regular people civilian just like us! not a military or an officials!
Do not talk too much about that! Only under 90-seat-Hun regime that high ranking officials and their cronies have the priority to do wherever,whatever and however they want.
if half the country is using RCAF license plates what's stopping the other half from getting their own? sour grapes hey? and i don't see why i can't get one for my cyclo.
We still have many many vehicles with RCF Plate numbers and lighting in daytime... that represents the strength of our Army ... to make Thai army fears...
we have a lot of Phd Bandits in military officers...
so that we are the 1st in the world with strong military Power...
Bandit Excellency Knoy
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