The following is the response provided by Kit Hargreaves, the owner of the ilovekhmer.org website, in regards to the controversial policy posted by ilovekhmer website.
I included the sentence about being willing to remove the site upon government request for two reasons:
- The first is that I'm a British national. I set up the site, and have Khmer staff who are trying to get decent content to put on it. Given that this is not my country, while I'm willing to defend it, it's not my place to interfere with any ongoing government efforts to fix the situation.
- The second reason is that I'm very weary of the possibility of creating more friction, possibly resulting in violence. Therefore, if the government were to suggest that this could be a likely result of the site, I would remove it for the sake of both sides.
With regards to an accusation made on a previous comment here; I can't even vote, and am not affiliated with any political party.
To those who are dissapointed with the lack of content, I apologise, and would ask you to be patient while we get it all together. We are a small company with limited resources in the middle of a global recession, and this site is something that we're doing for free. Clearly this means that we also have to dedicate at least some of our time to our clients.
Thanks to all of our supporters, and whether you support www.ilovekhmer.org or not, I urge you to at least stand together as Cambodian citizens and support each other.
--------
KI-Media Note: According to The Phnom Penh Post, Kit is also the 23-year-old CEO of Arocore, a provider of digital solution for the Cambodian market.
I included the sentence about being willing to remove the site upon government request for two reasons:
- The first is that I'm a British national. I set up the site, and have Khmer staff who are trying to get decent content to put on it. Given that this is not my country, while I'm willing to defend it, it's not my place to interfere with any ongoing government efforts to fix the situation.
- The second reason is that I'm very weary of the possibility of creating more friction, possibly resulting in violence. Therefore, if the government were to suggest that this could be a likely result of the site, I would remove it for the sake of both sides.
With regards to an accusation made on a previous comment here; I can't even vote, and am not affiliated with any political party.
To those who are dissapointed with the lack of content, I apologise, and would ask you to be patient while we get it all together. We are a small company with limited resources in the middle of a global recession, and this site is something that we're doing for free. Clearly this means that we also have to dedicate at least some of our time to our clients.
Thanks to all of our supporters, and whether you support www.ilovekhmer.org or not, I urge you to at least stand together as Cambodian citizens and support each other.
--------
KI-Media Note: According to The Phnom Penh Post, Kit is also the 23-year-old CEO of Arocore, a provider of digital solution for the Cambodian market.
37 comments:
Thanks Kit
What a wonderful mankind you are kit! We thank you for your help.
Shame on KI comments earlier..!!!
Rubbish KI, itself, a biased shit blog.
But, anyway, i still want thig shit alive cos we are in a democratic world.
Kit, considering that you are a British national, you have done us Khmer proud. Keep up your good work. Don't be discouraged by some unwanted criticism.
I know the site lacks contents but I also understand that you need time to put things to together. My hat off to you.
Kit is a Brit. Cool! All Hail Britania. Best Wishes to you, Kit. Thank you, Kit, for standing for the underdog Cambodians.
Thanks to KI Media for posting my response, it's much appreciated.
And thanks once again to all the people who have been sending us articles and content for the site.
Thanks you very much for ilovekhmer.org
Kit, wonderful!
We support you, at least spiritually. We will help promote your site so that you could earn back from your efforts.
If we meet, I'll buy you a drink or two. Keep doing it and many many thanks. I know a normal citizen usually respects the truth.
Surya
From America, Thanks to Kit!!
I knew from the beginning already there will be people knew our histories and will represent us.
Khmer Empire!!!
From Canada with love. Thank you very much for your excellent work Kit. Also, your unbiased and tactful approach sets a good example for many of us in this forum, including KI media.
Thanks for your kind effort Kit. If I become Prime Minister one day, I'll appoint you to my cabinet.
It takes another country citizen to care for Cambodian's justice and interest. Where are the Cambodian brights and shining stars? We must come out and defending out causes... What Kit exemplifies the exceptional leadership skill. Thanks Kit for your invaluable part for this nation!
From America with Love. Kit I love you and I also love
your Queen. I really appreciate about your commitment to my country. Congratulations to you and your team!
If I got elected to be the PM of Cambodia I will ask you to represent Khmer to revive the unforgotten case in French Parliament. The case is Khmer Kampuchea Krom. The French had it pending due to lack of our leader conscience of re-appeal this case.
We want the French to bring the case to the UN curt. Khmer Kampuchea Krom has suffered a lot when the French left Indochina, French signed it to Vietnam.
We want it back!!!!!
Masterpieces from Angkor in Cambodia, thought to be the world's first-pre industrial city, are currently pulling in the crowds at the Rietberg museum in Zurich.
With its 140 examples of Khmer art from different periods, the exhibition -"Cambodia's Divine Legacy" - offers fascinating insights into the ancient kingdoms of the country.
The director of the Rietberg museum, Albert Lutz, couldn't hide his enthusiasm as he presented the works to the media.
"We have never had so many significant treasures of art history from one country," he said.
It was largely thanks to German president Horst Köhler, who held discussions with King Norodom Sihamoni, that Cambodia's national treasures were allowed out of the country.
The two curators of the exhibition, Wibke Lobo from Berlin and Helen Ibbitson Jessup from Washington, are among the world's most knowledgeable specialists of Khmer art.
"Even if you know the masterpieces by heart, they come to life again at every exhibition", the United States art historian said when seeing them in Zurich.
"This is one of the most beautiful presentations I have ever seen."
Orange recesses bring out the contours of the Buddha statues inside them, large panelled walls were chosen for imposing heads and special lighting intensifies the illusion of movement of the four-armed sculptures.
Fitting setting
The Rietberg museum prides itself in providing a fitting setting to such timeless treasures.
The entrance to the exhibition presents a model of the Angkor Wat temple, which was probably built between 1113 and 1150.
"Since the Paris peace agreements in 1991, archaeologists from all-over the world have been working in Angkor" Lobo explained. " New temples are being discovered all the time".
According to museum director Lutz, recent archaeological findings show that Angkor could have well been the world's first pre-industrial city. It is thought to have had up to one million inhabitants.
Beside the impressive model of the renowned temple, the first room contains the bust of a demon made in 1191.
With its squint eyes, the stoneware face comes from one of the monumental statues that lined the "Alley of the Giants" and were intended to ward off visitors.
The first room is also decorated with copies of low relief, which ornamented the galleries around the temple. Over 500 metres in length, these two-metre high panels show all kinds of scenes, such as fighting between gods and demons.
Lobo explained that the photographer Jaroslav Poncar made a "slit scan" of it, a single long negative lit up laterally, which allows you to see numerous figures almost better than in reality. The detail is so fine that it's as though you're in front of a painted fresco.
Apart from many linga, phallic symbols of Shiva, the exhibition also shows the first anthropomorphic representations of Shiva, coming from north Cambodia. The shapes are very simple with a very characteristic torso and a meditative posture.
The entrance in the Angkorian period, from the ninth century shows a new wealth and iconography. The kings now identify themselves with gods and want to show it.
One of the most beautiful pieces of the exhibition, "Vishnu Anantashayin", a face elegantly posed on a double arm, required an "intensive exchange of letters" before the National Museum of Phnom Penh gave permission for the work to leave the building, Lutz said.
With a height of about six metres, it is the biggest bronze masterpiece discovered to this day.
It was found in 1936 in an artificial lake, where it had been "resting" for centuries.
Another significant item in the exhibition is the portrait of King Jayavarman VII (1181 to about 1218), the biggest builder of Angkor, who through his meditative face expresses the two principles of Mahayana Buddhism - compassion and wisdom.
The celebrated "Angkor smile" may well remain engraved in visitors' minds.
King Jayavaramann VII was the builder and the warrior!!
Tell Ah PPU to f**K off!!!
it is the right thing to do. anyone with any love and interest in cambodia, its khmer people and everything it stands for can help cambodia, yes, anyone or any nationality; don't have to be khmer to do so. god bless cambodia.
Only Thailand is undermining and manipulating our culture and civilization while others in the world are appreciating and recognizing our Khmer splendid achievement in mankind.
I love his conclusion.
""Thanks to all of our supporters, and whether you support www.ilovekhmer.org or not, I urge you to at least stand together as Cambodian citizens and support each other.""
Hope KI and all KI fans re-think and again and again about what it means.
For me, I love Khmer, yes I do.
But the Khmer leaders of today, plus the sweet cucumbers' dynasty
were and are so dumb, and beside of being a Viet Rubber Stamp, they are continueing to support the Vietnamisation of Cambodia, and destroyed khmer Identities.
THANKS KIT,
MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR GOODNESS.
Kit,
You're British who was born in the Powerfull nation on earth.
Unfortunaly,we're khmers do not want to be Indochineses of Hanoi-Federation.I think you don't have that feeling as Khmer do everyday.
Tell me pls how could you unite with the government which is the Yuon'slave ?The evilly regime that oppresses its own people ?
Corruption,Land Grabbing,Lawless,Injustice and others.....
If you're in a Khmer'shoes you would feel the same as Khmers do.
But it's hard to blame you...cuz you have a very priveledge life style in Cambodia that you ever have like this in UK,I beg.
Hope someday you will understand the real sufferings of Khmer-People.
From a grand-dad of a British girl
I know that you're Britih,do U read English of the reports from the Global Witness ?
Kit,
First, I admire your mentality to stay with the Cambodian people.
Second, I am afraid that your good intention would become the tool of CPP administration.
ilovekhmer.org must be independent and I suggest you to change that content. Don't worry about government would suggest you to close that website or admire that website. Your website intends to draw attention from all Khmers, so don't worry about the job of government. As you know, Cambodian government has always played tricks with their own people. They don't have sincere heart towards Cambodian people.
They have used Cambodian people and the land to legitimize their power.
Now, they are using democracy as the propaganda to deceive Cambodians, but in reality they are dictator. They are jeopardizing, killing, silencing, and jailing those brave dissents.
Every Cambodian are sensitive to the losing of Preah Vihear, but government through Sok An has taken advantages from this scheme for the power and benefit of the group.
Believe me Kit.
From a Young Khmer!
Some people in the West when they're hungry they say that they are "Starving ".
They never understand the real feeling of these two words.
.....In Cambodia they cannot living under $1.00 dollar per day as the majority of Khmer People do everyday.
Khmer People are so hungry for FOODS & FREEDOM.
Kit,
If you can make the CPP group to share their stealing wealth to them
or only set up a webside to pls CPP
and make some Khmers to be happy with your magical words : " ILOVEKHMER ".
is this believable that Kit Hargreaves is a Brit and set up the site to defend Khmer? I'll wait and see.
O4
Dear Mr./Ms. 3:15 AM,
I am taking the initiative just to say that neither KI-Media nor its readers are dumb or stupid as you may have thought.
Thank you for your comment.
IRRITATED? NOTHING WAS WRONG WITH 3:15AM,SOME OFF SPRIG FAKED CUCUMBERS STILL EXIST? OH LORDY! WHEN THEY QUIT POWER GREED ,EVEN THEM SELVES CAN'T DO SOMETHING TO HELP CAMBODIA BUT DESTROYED.
Cambodia Town
Long Beach, Ca
Dear Kit
I was really appreciate your work
toward Cambodia history in fact, so keep up.
New Phally
Secretary of State for Ministry of Interior and Adviser for First Vice President National Assembly
Thanks for all the support
Thanks for everything from Khmer Government.
If I go back to UK.....
I do not having my own chauffeur,my cook, my servants and the beautiful ladies are around me to serve my meals.
I'm just a nobody in UK....That's why ILOVEKHMER.
In this wonderful World who doesn't want this Lifestyle ?
I'm British,not an Indochina-Man
A lot of thanks & loves from,
Kid who lives in the Hardess-Graveyard's land
To 10:14am, While I'm not Khmer and don't pretend to know how it feels to be Khmer, it would do you some good not to pretend you know anything about me, as clearly you don't.
Hi Kid,
That's why I'm saying you are not in Khmer' shoes who are living under $1.00 a day.
Pls listen to your Heart as a Decent British ,not your head to serve your own benefits in Cambodia.
While you laugh and having Fun.....
Many Khmer are crying under the Evilly Regime of Hyena-Hun Sen.
Spare your time to see those victims who are evicted of the Group 78 community,where I beg it's not
far away from your mighty IT-Office.
I do not predenting to know everything about you, but your words in your site are proving enough for your ACTS.
Hi Kit,
I want to reassure you that your work is highly appreciated by the Khmer mainstream. There are a few who, for the reason that you and I fail to comprehend, are critical of anything and everything. Keep up with your great work and disregard the emotional or incendiary comments.
Just a quick update to let everyone know that ilovekhmer.org will be launching a fully interactive forum (in both English and Khmer) within the next few hours. hopefully this will serve as a place where people can share and discuss documents and information relating to the history of the great Khmer Empire. We're also desperately seeking skilled translators to help us get everything translated between English, Khmer, and Thai.
Thanks for all the support
thank you, Kit. Your contribution and sacrifice is invaluable. For this, our respect to you. Please, hand in there. Government being that government that it is!
Post a Comment