The following photo was taken at Phnom Penh Centre Building A. The photographer felt as if it is in Hanoi rather than Phnom Penh. The photographer invite everybody to come and see it for yourself, it is still there!
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Back in 1979 in the aftermath of the collapse of the Pol Pot regime, Premier Pham Van Dong having seen the extent of the devastation and suffering that gripped the Cambodian nation confessed how surprised he was to have witnessed misfortune on such a scale notwithstanding the fact that his own country had 'endured so much suffering ourselves'.
Another Vietnamese statesman, Le Doc Tho, who was to play a pivotal role in the overthrow of the Pol Pol regime and subsequently in laying the foundation for establishing Vietnamese hegemony over Cambodia, a project which he believed would entrench that domination leaving a lasting Vietnamese political legacy there rather than a temporary contingency or measure also insinuated at his country's historical uneasiness towards the recalcitrant nature of Khmer nationalism when he quipped that 'We know that once they (Cambodians)have recovered they will turn against us'. Le Doc Tho could not be blamed for resonating the sentiment of Vietnamese rulers down the centuries.
Emperor Ming Mang was said to have expressed similar frustration noting that 'Even if we were to conquer all their territories, these barbarians would always remain untamed by virtue of their customs . . . My hair stand on end when I think of their rebellious trait!' That one of his generals resorted to committing suicide in apology to the Emperor over his own failure to keep Cambodia under Vietnamese rule gives us a valuable insight into this turbulent relationship and the weight Vietnamese rulers have attached - and continue to attach - to Cambodia.
We can deduce, on the one hand, from these sets of observations by Vietnamese actors, a display of intrinsic 'ambivalence' on their part in relations to Cambodia's woes, but justifiably an unguarded expression of innate arrogance and unpardonable hypocrisy for evading the root causes of those misfortunes.
One could hardly share Pham Van Dong's sense of shock and denial of knowledge of Pol Pot's crimes against the Khmer people prior to the invasion in December 1979 given the close proximity Hanoi had to the DK regime in both physical and intelligence terms. But, what some of us, whether we are nationalists or humanists, find unfathomable and inexcusable is what many of us have warned and foreseen for years that Khmer nationalism in its extreme, violent form be it channelled inward or outward has been primarily a function of external pressure that has been exerted on Cambodia by her two expansionist neighbours.
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This is BS! You are in Cambodia that meant you should learn to read/write Khmer and follow Khmer culture. Will Vietnam government allow Khmer Krom to do the same in Vietnam?
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On the other hand, reading carefully into Le Doc Tho's remark about the recalcitrant nature of Khmer nationalism, one might be forgiven for thinking that this offers a hint of Vietnamese resignation over the 'barbarians' to the west instead of concealing a carefully crafted stratagem to head off not just that Holy Alliance of anti-Vietnamese resistance, but the consolidation and entrenchment of Vietnamese influence over all aspects of Khmer life, including exploitation of the country's natural assets ranging from tiber and fishery to to rubber, and an insistence upon an open border to one-way immigration traffic on an unprecedented scale.
Lebensraum - living space - may be too strong a term, but the aim is no less realistic or predatory: it achieved the immediate objective of relieving socio-economic pressure on an impoverished post-war nation (Vietnam) while the influx of settlers would be facilitated by a surrogate authority to submerge or integrate themselves into the fabric of the indigenous population gradually imitating the latter's speech and adopting customs that were once viewed with disdain by Vietnamese emperors.
In short, where outright military occupation had once provoked popular backlash and native hostility, in contrast, the opportunity to neutralise the nationalistic forces of a nation through its carefully nurtured yet pampered (corrupt) elite ensures a multi-faceted expansion of Vietnamese interest to proceed unresisted, combining piecemeal annexation of territories and political infiltration in an almost imperceptible fashion, as Chantrea, Memot and other Khmer villagers have hitherto witnessed.
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YOU COULD KNOW HOW MANY VIETNAMESE CURRENTLY WORKING FOR VIETTEL_097 MOBILE COMPANY.
THEY ARE NOT LESS THAN 70% YOUN
The Khmers must organize in hit and run death SQUADS similar to the Malays' tactic in southern Thailand.
We must prepare to seize the initiative and take the fight to the viet foes everywhere:
- in the rice paddy fields
- in the Mekong and Tonle Sap
- in the offshore islands
- in the streets of Phnom-Penh
- in the National Assembly
- in the garment sweatshops
- in the School and Hospital
- in the Pagodas
- in the brothels at Sway-Pak district
We must make their life a LIVING HELL.
Hun Sen is so powerful among Khmers, but his real skin is the absolute lackey of foreigner
don't blame hun sen ok comrade,hun sen is my friend ,he make my dick happy all the times.you can see a lot of Yuon pussy.
It is not surprising! Many places looks like China, Viet, Korea and Siam.
Frankly speaking I feel so sad about mismanaged, misspelling of the label and billboard from the relevant authorities.
There is law on labeling i.e Khmer must be on top and size must be three times bigger the foreign language.
As being Khmer, intellectuals, I would recommend to boycott to utilize any establishments in Cambodia does not use Khmer. We are Khmer be proud of Khmer and be together for Khmer.
There will be uprising. No one will stand for injustice too long or forever.
That because Sam is making trouble to Hun Sen.
Youn race is parasites same as hun sen 's dick sucker.
do ma ah yuon khang jerng!
that is why we call ah hun kwack sen familly ignorant familly. no matter degree kon ah kwack hold from. ignorant mother and father will lead ah kon vear because they been since they were young. so we call the blind and ignorant familly hun kwack sen. they know nothing better then that.
one thing viet or youn should realize is that they are in cambodia, thus they have to always include khmer writing and learn khmer language, etc... no except. what is wrong with the picture above? hey, this is cambodia they are at, not vietnam, really! khmer people must educate viet or youn company to respect local costum and etiquette, khmer culture, etc..., if they want o do business in cambodia, really! we have to protect khmer people's interest, not viet or youn interest, ok! hey, khmer people can't read youn, you know! it's common sense to include khmer writing in cambodia, really! no wonder khmer people don't trust viet or youn intention! see what i mean!
ah Yuons are behind Khmer-Thai present conflicts. Ah Yuons they think they now own Cambodia, now they are targeting Thailand. Ah Yuons use Hun Sen as puppet to stir up Khmer-Thai relation while ah Yuons are settling down in Nam Giang. Ah Yuons named Kampuchea Krom "Nam Bo", and they have named Cambodia "Nam Giang"---soon a big family of Annam Kingdom.
Nam-Tien (Vietnamization) is coming to Thailand. Watch out Thai people!
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Nowadays, we're been sandwiches by ah Siem and ah Yuon. Sooner are later we all ended up in Tonle Sap. Currently Phnom Penh had so many ah Yuon businesses not 1 nor 100, it's 400 businesses throughout srok KHMER today. We need to do something we CPP members.
correction: something with CPP members. (Champagne of Phnom Penh)
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