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"Kamlaing Reung Neung Tun, Yudh Vithi Yuon" a Poem in Khmer by Hin Sithan
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This poem is so right. It is the truth. I get so angry at ah Hun Sh*t for being ah slave of ah YOUNs. It is true. Ah YOUNs are still controlling Cambodia. They have never left. For example, the detachment of Cambodia's eastern border areas by ah YOUNs. True independent Cambodia will never be quiet at all. Another example, is the celebration of Jan. 7. Remember ah YOUN slaughter of the Khmer people called ah Ming Mang in 1800's?? He claimed that he sent his YOUN soldiers repeatedly to protect Cambodians from the massacres in Cambodia and he asked why were Cambodians still ungrateful to him and his YOUN soldiers. Remember, he put into effect the Vietnamization of Cambodia by forcing Cambodians to practice Vietnamese culture and custom? Well, it is a reality now. Ah Hun Sh*t is a practitioner of ah YOUN culture. Listen to his accent carefully. Rmember how he used to pronounce the name Kampuchea Vietnamese tonic style. Khmer do not use tone but ah HUN Sh*t use Vietnamese tone when speaking Khmer. In history, Thailand liberated Khmer from the YOUN Ming Mang. Is that time now?
Lok Sithan – I very much always appreciate your opinion shown by excellent poems. it does serve good purposes to educate Khmers in general. However, I found this poem is very good except verse 3&4 about opposition. I found a little disturbance, unfair assessment, to label opposition as the soft force to accomplice the hard force meaning to help Hun Sen stays in power under Yourn. I think this concept was originated from CPP to smear opposition’ force for change. I beg this analogy should not be used anymore. It doesn’t serve good purpose to help khmer at all. It only contributes politically benefit to CPP. In fact, I’m not SRP, but my fair assessment is opposition has been working and is working very hard to protect khmer’s interest as you may have been aware the latest event about border posts. You’ve got to help him in this issue. I see this is the only time that khmer can pull together to united as ONE to save our country. I hope you and I will agree that if the general election had only two contenders CPP and SRP, the result would be much more different. Unforturnately we have had too many people claims to be democratic leaders appealing for khmer to unite starting from Zero ground or creating another party by themselves. Khmer people will see the same fate in 2013 as I have seen some signs have happened already example: Some people fresh from monk and asking other parties to pack up and join him. HRP demanding SRP to unite with them ect... Wha’t kind of appeal is this? to serve Yourn? to set up democracy for failure? Well, my point is before you label opposition as such you should have thought it twice. Will it serve purpose to unite khmer or not? I’m sure, It’ not well taken with major Khmers who work hard to risk their life and family to protect our motherland.
Khmer should not worried as long as I am Prime Minister and serving our master Vietnam; Thus, they will losing more land, job, go begging neighboring countries to survive.
6:00 AM Ofcause you are dislike this website, because you are a theft you don't like the truth nor the laws. When the victems call out for help or comblain you theft called them hatred or racist, this is the only game card you Youns thieves are trying to use.It not going to work anymore because every one in the world already knew that.
CAMBODIA: Colonization Monday, Dec. 24, 1979 The White House protested that Hanoi has been diverting international relief supplies intended for Cambodia's hungry civilians to its own occupying troops. www.time.com
Deathwatch: Cambodia Monday, Nov. 12, 1979 Cambodia's years of hunger problem was made worse by the Vietnamese conquest. Hanoi's disregard of the plight of the Cambodians has been reinforced by the enmity between the two peoples. The Vietnamese have long regarded the Cambodians as treacherous barbarians who had the impudence to revolt against their domination in 1840. Observed Minh Mang, the Vietnamese emperor at the time: "We helped the Cambodians when they were suffering and lifted them out of the mud. Now they are rebellious. I am so angry that my hair stands upright. Hundreds of knives should be used against them, to chop them up, to dismember them." The Cambodians hate their Vietnamese conquerors, but they live in deathly fear of the Khmer Rouge, who have not abandoned their politics of terror. www.time.com
6:00AM to keep you post and inform of what's going on with Khmer, I found this site maybe of useful for you: Hun Sen Chea Chor lourk Cheat. Give us comment too will ya?
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 1 In the 17th century Cambodian politics, from 1658 to 1772, Nguyen armies intervened in Cambodia 8 times, and sometimes clashed with Thai armies sent for the same purpose: the Thai won in 1714-16 and again in 1772. They placed a 7-year old, Prince Eng on the throne in 1779 under the regency of a pro-Thai official. In 1790, Eng was brought to Bangkok and formally anointed as King before being sent back to Cambodia four years later; he died at the beginning of 1797, leaving four sons. One of them, Chan, was crowned in 1806, but he soon grew tired of Siamese domination and tried to strengthen tributary connections with Vietnam while maintaining his subservience to Bangkok. In 1807, he requested Vietnamese investiture, and received a gilded seal and a promise of protection against Siam in return for sending tribute every four years. Upon Rama I’s death in 1809, he refused to attend the cremation in Bangkok and executed two pro-Thai officials who did. Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 2 In 1811, therefore, Siamese armies invaded Cambodia planning to replace Chan with his brother Duang. Chan fled to Saigon, and the Vietnamese escorted him back with a large army. Reluctant to force a confrontation, the Siamese withdrew (taking with them Chan’s three pro-Siamese brothers), expecting the Vietnamese to do the same. Instead, the Vietnamese turned Cambodia into a protectorate with the governor of Saigon, Le Van Duyet, as its viceroy. Twice a month, King Chan and his entourage had to put on Vietnamese court costumes, visit a Vietnamese temple and bow before a tablet bearing the Gia-long emperor’s name. The Vietnamese probably also nurtured Cambodian grievances against Siam: Rama I had rewarded Eng’s regent in 1794 by giving him Battambang and Mahanokor (which contained the ruins of Angkor) as his own private domain, and in 1816 the Cambodians launched a failed attack on these two areas which remained under Thai suzerainty.
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 3 This, however, was soon overshadowed by Vietnamese ill-treatment of the Cambodians recruited to excavate the Vinh Te Canal from 1817 to 1820. It precipitated an anti-Vietnamese rebellion in 1820, led by a former monk or “person of merit” who was said to give his followers invincibility. The rebellion had to be crushed by a Vietnamese army because the Cambodian troops either defected or refused to fight. Though the Vietnamese still preferred to maintain indirect rule and give the Cambodian court some autonomy, claiming that “the purpose of the institution of the protectorate is to strengthen the preservation [of Cambodia]” , resentment against the Vietnamese continued to grow over the next decade. Meanwhile, relations between Siam and Vietnam had broken down. In 1832, Le Van Duyet died, and when the Minh-mang emperor tried to remove Le’s son and successor Van Khoi from power, he seized Saigon and rebelled. King Rama III of Siam saw his chance to “restore the kingdom of Cambodia and to punish the insolence of Vietnam.” Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 4
Siamese armies entered Cambodia, escorting Chan’s two surviving brothers, Im and Duang. The Cambodian campaign succeeded in the short run, with the Vietnamese abandoning Phnom Penh and taking Chan into exile in Vietnam. In 1834, the tide had turned against the Siamese in Cambodia. Le Van Khoi’s rebellion in Saigon was crushed by General Truong Minh Giang, and soon logistical difficulties, lack of popular support and a Vietnamese counter-attack led by Giang forced Chaophraya Bodin to withdraw from Phnom Penh. The Siamese carried off more than 4,000 local people, including Im and Duang, of which perhaps a thousand managed to escape into the woods. King Chan returned to his capital, but under more stringent Vietnamese control. The initial success of the Thai offensive had shown Minh-mang that he could not rely on the Khmer to protect his southern and western borders, and he now ordered Truong Minh Giang to consolidate Vietnamese control.
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 5 King Chan died of illness at the end of 1834, posing additional problems for the Vietnamese as he had no sons and his eldest daughter was suspected of being pro-Thai. They therefore chose his second daughter, Princess Mei, to be named as queen. A Vietnamese official was sent from Saigon to officiate at her investiture, where Mei and her sisters faced north, towards the emperor’s letter authorising her to reign, while the Vietnamese officials faced south, representing the position of the emperor in Hue. Cambodia was then officially renamed as the province of Tran Tay (‘guarding the west’). Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 6 In Cambodia, the Vietnamese tried to impose new hairstyles and tastes in clothing, a new language, a new philosophy of political administration, and even new modes of agriculture (Vietnamese crops were imported and systematically planted). The Vietnamese were also surprised that Cambodians continued to hold the prestige of their kings in high esteem. In Cambodia, however, even a temporary return to stability would prove impossible. Faced with the Vietnamese ‘civilising’ program, many Cambodians were beginning to believe there was much truth to Siam’s oft-stated aim of intervening in their country: to share the benefits of the Thai king’s fund of merit by protecting Cambodian Buddhism from the heretical Vietnamese. Vietnamese reforms put all social arrangements in jeopardy, including such ‘barbarous’ customs as eating with the fingers, wearing turbans and loincloths, building houses on stilts and greeting from a kneeling position. Sporadic anti-Vietnamese uprisings were already breaking out every year since 1836, but it was a reform to replace the chaovay sruk with Vietnamese in 1840 that finally threatened the vital interests of the Cambodian official class (okya) enough to drive them to revolt. Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 7 The last straw came in August, when the Vietnamese arrested Mei and her sisters and exiled them to Vietnam with the Cambodian regalia. To many Cambodians, the disappearance (and feared murder) of their monarch, however little authority she really had, signified the disappearance of the state, and the absence of the regalia with which to enthrone a successor made things even worse. The disappearance of patrons at court, the reformed tax system, and the devaluation of seals of office all precipitated a wide-ranging okya-led rebellion in September, which had been planned since May but probably was provoked into an early launch. A famous comment by one of the rebels expresses succinctly the popular mood: “We are happy killing Vietnamese. We no longer fear them; in all our battles we are mindful of the three jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha.”
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 8 The Minh-mang emperor was a weary man by the end of 1840, and his recorded words over the previous five years may serve as a reflection of the growing Vietnamese disappointment with their new provinces. By 1838, he was growing annoyed at the Cambodian ingratitude: “Thanks to… my generosity, imperial troops were despatched to Cambodia, costing millions of coins, and brought you security by destroying the Thai… Anyone who can think for himself should be grateful to the court; why are there people who hate us and believe the rebels?” When the 1840 rebellion broke out, he could at last only conclude that: “The Cambodians are so stupid that we must frighten them. Ordinary moral suasion has no effect.” Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 9 1841, Siamese expeditionary force under Chaophraya Bodin entered Cambodia with the exiled prince Duang, who carried insignia of rank and royal accoutrements supplied to him by Rama III. The objective was to win over the okya by promising that Duang would rule over Cambodia, since several had written to Bodin asserting that Cambodians would be happy only if the political conditions preceding the arrival of the Vietnamese were re-established. Thai intervention gave new momentum to the rebellion. By late 1841, Truong Minh Giang knew that the political balance in Cambodia had shifted irrevocably. He withdrew to Vietnam, taking the population of Phnom Penh - some 6,000 people – with him, after which he committed suicide by poison for his failure.
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 10 Throughout 1845, the Vietnamese tried but failed to dislodge the Thai forces; the two sides opened negotiations for a cease-fire at the end of the year. Siam had the stronger candidate for the throne, but Vietnam still retained the regalia which he needed for legitimacy. In a face-saving gesture, the Vietnamese demanded that a Cambodian tributary mission travel to Hue in 1846 and declare Cambodia’s formal subservience to Vietnam. The embassy returned in 1847, upon which the Vietnamese handed over the regalia and released those members of the royal family still in their custody. Soon afterward, they withdrew their forces from Cambodia. Over the next few months, in a series of ceremonial gestures, Duang restored the institution of kingship and kingly behaviour, including the restoration of Theravada Buddhism as the state religion – for example by levelling the Vietnamese fortifications at Phnom Penh and using the bricks to build or repair seven Buddhist monasteries. In 1847, Cambodia had gotten its own king back and at least the semblance of independence as well. Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 11
In April 1848, Duang was anointed king of Cambodia in the traditional fashion, by Thai and Cambodian brahmins. For the rest of his reign, his kingdom was at peace, and although Thai political advisors and some Thai troops remained, the king was relatively free to make political decisions. One of these was to seek relations with the French from 1853 onwards, in an attempt to gain more protection from the Vietnamese, but the Thai put their foot down and stopped the French diplomatic mission from arriving. When the French began their campaign of conquest at Saigon in 1858, Cambodians saw an opportunity to regain the territory lost to the Vietnamese through the previous ears. Upon Duang’s death in 1860, his heir Norodom faced a series of rebellions and turned to the Thai, but soon grew frustrated by the conditions attached to their patronage. He reopened negotiations with the French, and signed a treaty of protection with them in 1863. Thus, in a manner very similar to that of his uncle King Chan, Norodom invited another ‘civilising mission’ into Cambodia, and this time even the Thai would be of no help against it. Lastly, some thoughts about the present-day legacy of the Vietnamisation project: the enmity that it created between Vietnamese and Cambodians has lasted into the Cold War and beyond, with especially destructive consequences in the Pol Pot era. www.chinahistoryforum.com
8:15 AM You misunderstood my point. I don’t mean SRP in person but SRP as an opposition party and yes they are subject to critic as well. But I admire their courageous and diligence work risking their lives to promote democracy in Cambodia. I know they are not perfect but they deserve to be respect and support. Can you tell me how many other minor opposition parties still functioning after each election? They show up only during election time to foul khmer voters and sway vote away from the main SRP opposition party. This was the main consequence. As I said, being labeled SRP as an accomplice with Hun Sen to make Viet’s plan a successful one is not a good reason to compare as such. Perhaps he means other minor opportunist parties? You know, as I also asked above, if there were only two parties to compete in 2008, I think the result would be much different. Unfortunately, HRP jumped in from nowhere to break up the voters. I agree as constitution stipulates that Khmer Citizen has the right to form political party but we as khmer should also conscientiously think who will benefit from forming too many parties to compete at national level? The more ballots for voters to choose, CPP will always win. To answer your questions regarding yourn voter, my simple answer is to have concern Khmers united as one strong opposition.
Who would post up essays or compositions on these blogs? Do you have authority and references to all your facts you suggested?
There's no author mentioned in these compositions whatsoever. How credible is it to read them?
It's useless to even post them here.
If we need information, we research from credible or institutional sources not from sources such as these posted on the blog.
Get real, or get lost.
Once again, never preach hatred towards others as you have always been taught in this 21st century. It's a disgrace how ppl on this blog preach hatred towards others unshamelessly.
Always preach peace and nobility.
If you're a good Khmer, you don't do that. Aren't Khmer people known as gentle people.
If you say all these bad things, how are we Khmer portrayed as a whole?
Article one, "CAMBODIA: Colonization" Monday, Dec. 24, 1979 and two, "Deathwatch: Cambodia", Monday, Nov. 12, 1979 came from www.times.com
Research Article 3, "Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexation" came from www.chinahistoryforum.com
Thailand saved Cambodia from Vietnam. Thailand is needed once again, if the shrinking border areas are to be stopped from being lost to the land-grabbing YOUN thieves.
poem by Hin Sithan totally lacks of manner and lacks of intelligence. Hin Sithan's poem is only hatred nothing about how to unite. If Hin Sithan still believes Yuon Spy Ly Ngoc Diep that Khmer King is bad, Hin Sithan is in a big deep shit. Hin Sithan lacks of a skill of being a diplomat. He does not know how to unite people, but hatred. Very Bad peom he wrote. This old fart boy needs to sit in a Prey Sar cell sometimes in the future, when he steps his feet on Cambodia soil.
In order to achieve their goal and wealth, the Poem writers such as clans Hin Sithan, KC, KB, Sam Vichea, Sék Serei, Ung Thavry, Yim Guechsè and Champa Diep did not hesitate to use the following exodus Hanoi's methods:
1). The development of anti-King and Queen, Anti-governmental propaganda, by written newspapers, Books and Poems via Internets.
2). Create a climate of crisis and insecurity and to provoke divisions in the population to rise up agaist the King, Queen and Government.
3). Carrying out of acts of sabotage and break khmer apart from the majority of the population remained loyal to the King, Queen and elements of Government.
4). Circulation of tracts and other printed matter originated by the various factions, and in their place the appearance of a single overall their political line, both in written and spoken propaganda, a development which became more and more intence and widespead.
5). The sudden attacks launched by the Newspapers, books and Poems with political pictures or cartoons.
Hin Sithan, KC, KB, Sam Vichea, Sék Serei,Ung Thavry, Yim Guechsè and Champa Diep are practically, sympathy directed by Ho Chi Minh and their Vietnamese Communist in Hanoi. That's the stategy of Hin Sithan, KC, KB, Sam Vichea, Sék Serei,Ung Thavry, Yim Guechsè and Champa Diep are preparing the entry of Cambodia into their Indichina Federation and their new political indoctrination.
5:44AM, Know your facts before you blab it out. Ask your idiot ex-king Sihanouk why American bomb our country.
He's the one give consent to COMMUNIST North Viet to hide inside our border. He's the one give consent to COMMUNIST North Viet to stretch the Hoi Chimin Trail inside Cambodia along the border to transport supplies and weapons to South Viet.
If you know the history you would not blame on American for bombing. THEY SHOULD BOMB AH SIHANOUK THEN TOO. WHAT A MISTAKE.
IT IS ALL SIHANOUK FAULTS FOR EVERYTHING. IT'S ALL SIHANOUK FAULTS FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DIE AND SUFFERES DURING KHME ROUGE REGIMES. IT'S ALL SIHANOUK FAULT HUN SEN TOOK POWER AND CONTINUES TO KILL AND SUFFERS OUR PEOPLE. IT'S ALL SIHANOUK FAULTS OUR COUNTRY IS DESTROYING.
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This poem is so right. It is the truth. I get so angry at ah Hun Sh*t for being ah slave of ah YOUNs. It is true. Ah YOUNs are still controlling Cambodia. They have never left. For example, the detachment of Cambodia's eastern border areas by ah YOUNs. True independent Cambodia will never be quiet at all. Another example, is the celebration of Jan. 7. Remember ah YOUN slaughter of the Khmer people called ah Ming Mang in 1800's?? He claimed that he sent his YOUN soldiers repeatedly to protect Cambodians from the massacres in Cambodia and he asked why were Cambodians still ungrateful to him and his YOUN soldiers. Remember, he put into effect the Vietnamization of Cambodia by forcing Cambodians to practice Vietnamese culture and custom? Well, it is a reality now. Ah Hun Sh*t is a practitioner of ah YOUN culture. Listen to his accent carefully. Rmember how he used to pronounce the name Kampuchea Vietnamese tonic style. Khmer do not use tone but ah HUN Sh*t use Vietnamese tone when speaking Khmer. In history, Thailand liberated Khmer from the YOUN Ming Mang. Is that time now?
Lok Sithan –
I very much always appreciate your opinion shown by excellent poems. it does serve good purposes to educate Khmers in general. However, I found this poem is very good except verse 3&4 about opposition. I found a little disturbance, unfair assessment, to label opposition as the soft force to accomplice the hard force meaning to help Hun Sen stays in power under Yourn. I think this concept was originated from CPP to smear opposition’ force for change. I beg this analogy should not be used anymore. It doesn’t serve good purpose to help khmer at all. It only contributes politically benefit to CPP. In fact, I’m not SRP, but my fair assessment is opposition has been working and is working very hard to protect khmer’s interest as you may have been aware the latest event about border posts. You’ve got to help him in this issue. I see this is the only time that khmer can pull together to united as ONE to save our country. I hope you and I will agree that if the general election had only two contenders CPP and SRP, the result would be much more different. Unforturnately we have had too many people claims to be democratic leaders appealing for khmer to unite starting from Zero ground or creating another party by themselves. Khmer people will see the same fate in 2013 as I have seen some signs have happened already example: Some people fresh from monk and asking other parties to pack up and join him. HRP demanding SRP to unite with them ect... Wha’t kind of appeal is this? to serve Yourn? to set up democracy for failure? Well, my point is before you label opposition as such you should have thought it twice. Will it serve purpose to unite khmer or not? I’m sure, It’ not well taken with major Khmers who work hard to risk their life and family to protect our motherland.
Khmer from WA
So what's fuck American tropped alots bomb in Cambodia why motherfuck don't blam nothing?
Khmer should not worried as long as I am Prime Minister and serving our master Vietnam; Thus, they will losing more land, job, go begging neighboring countries to survive.
(Signed) Hun Xen, Chea Xim, Heng Xamrin.
Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
I really dislike this web site very much.
It always posts poems and articles with hatred connotation towards the sense of vietamese.
Can you all wake up that it's the 21st century?
I don't read those poems or articles as they have no useful purposes whatsoever in uniting all kinds of people.
As I glance through titles I know that it would be a waste of time to read them.
If you keep preaching these connotations, there would be cycles of generations of children who would nothing but only hatred and discrimination.
6:00, if you refuse to learn the truh, then you will be never be freed from your ignorance. Let there be light, says the Lord. Now go f*ck off, fool!
6:00 AM, Just f--k yourself.
Don't complain!
Make your own website. OK?!
Ah Kandear Mae Vuoy!
5:44 AM,
You sound like yuon.
We're talking about now and the future Ah Kandear Mae Vuoy!
6:00 AM Ofcause you are dislike this website, because you are a theft you don't like the truth nor the laws. When the victems call out for help or comblain you theft called them hatred or racist, this is the only game card you Youns thieves are trying to use.It not going to work anymore because every one in the world already knew that.
CAMBODIA: Colonization Monday, Dec. 24, 1979
The White House protested that Hanoi has been diverting international relief supplies intended for Cambodia's hungry civilians to its own occupying troops. www.time.com
Deathwatch: Cambodia Monday, Nov. 12, 1979
Cambodia's years of hunger problem was made worse by the Vietnamese conquest. Hanoi's disregard of the plight of the Cambodians has been reinforced by the enmity between the two peoples. The Vietnamese have long regarded the Cambodians as treacherous barbarians who had the impudence to revolt against their domination in 1840. Observed Minh Mang, the Vietnamese emperor at the time: "We helped the Cambodians when they were suffering and lifted them out of the mud. Now they are rebellious. I am so angry that my hair stands upright. Hundreds of knives should be used against them, to chop them up, to dismember them."
The Cambodians hate their Vietnamese conquerors, but they live in deathly fear of the Khmer Rouge, who have not abandoned their politics of terror. www.time.com
6:00AM to keep you post and inform of what's going on with Khmer, I found this site maybe of useful for you: Hun Sen Chea Chor lourk Cheat. Give us comment too will ya?
http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2007/06/cambodias-family-trees-aka-elitus.html
5:36 AM,
Sam raingsy is not an untouchable person.
Every body had their own view.
And how do your own view to counter Viet Xamers casting ballots for CPP, plus CPP's fraudulent vopte ???
You have to organise as making teams standing at every voting boxes area to yell against Viet voters,ect... Can you do that ???
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 1
In the 17th century Cambodian politics, from 1658 to 1772, Nguyen armies intervened in Cambodia 8 times, and sometimes clashed with Thai armies sent for the same purpose: the Thai won in 1714-16 and again in 1772. They placed a 7-year old, Prince Eng on the throne in 1779 under the regency of a pro-Thai official. In 1790, Eng was brought to Bangkok and formally anointed as King before being sent back to Cambodia four years later; he died at the beginning of 1797, leaving four sons. One of them, Chan, was crowned in 1806, but he soon grew tired of Siamese domination and tried to strengthen tributary connections with Vietnam while maintaining his subservience to Bangkok. In 1807, he requested Vietnamese investiture, and received a gilded seal and a promise of protection against Siam in return for sending tribute every four years. Upon Rama I’s death in 1809, he refused to attend the cremation in Bangkok and executed two pro-Thai officials who did.
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 2
In 1811, therefore, Siamese armies invaded Cambodia planning to replace Chan with his brother Duang. Chan fled to Saigon, and the Vietnamese escorted him back with a large army. Reluctant to force a confrontation, the Siamese withdrew (taking with them Chan’s three pro-Siamese brothers), expecting the Vietnamese to do the same. Instead, the Vietnamese turned Cambodia into a protectorate with the governor of Saigon, Le Van Duyet, as its viceroy. Twice a month, King Chan and his entourage had to put on Vietnamese court costumes, visit a Vietnamese temple and bow before a tablet bearing the Gia-long emperor’s name. The Vietnamese probably also nurtured Cambodian grievances against Siam: Rama I had rewarded Eng’s regent in 1794 by giving him Battambang and Mahanokor (which contained the ruins of Angkor) as his own private domain, and in 1816 the Cambodians launched a failed attack on these two areas which remained under Thai suzerainty.
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 3
This, however, was soon overshadowed by Vietnamese ill-treatment of the Cambodians recruited to excavate the Vinh Te Canal from 1817 to 1820. It precipitated an anti-Vietnamese rebellion in 1820, led by a former monk or “person of merit” who was said to give his followers invincibility. The rebellion had to be crushed by a Vietnamese army because the Cambodian troops either defected or refused to fight. Though the Vietnamese still preferred to maintain indirect rule and give the Cambodian court some autonomy, claiming that “the purpose of the institution of the protectorate is to strengthen the preservation [of Cambodia]” , resentment against the Vietnamese continued to grow over the next decade. Meanwhile, relations between Siam and Vietnam had broken down. In 1832, Le Van Duyet died, and when the Minh-mang emperor tried to remove Le’s son and successor Van Khoi from power, he seized Saigon and rebelled. King Rama III of Siam saw his chance to “restore the kingdom of Cambodia and to punish the insolence of Vietnam.”
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 4
Siamese armies entered Cambodia, escorting Chan’s two surviving brothers, Im and Duang. The Cambodian campaign succeeded in the short run, with the Vietnamese abandoning Phnom Penh and taking Chan into exile in Vietnam. In 1834, the tide had turned against the Siamese in Cambodia. Le Van Khoi’s rebellion in Saigon was crushed by General Truong Minh Giang, and soon logistical difficulties, lack of popular support and a Vietnamese counter-attack led by Giang forced Chaophraya Bodin to withdraw from Phnom Penh. The Siamese carried off more than 4,000 local people, including Im and Duang, of which perhaps a thousand managed to escape into the woods. King Chan returned to his capital, but under more stringent Vietnamese control. The initial success of the Thai offensive had shown Minh-mang that he could not rely on the Khmer to protect his southern and western borders, and he now ordered Truong Minh Giang to consolidate Vietnamese control.
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 5
King Chan died of illness at the end of 1834, posing additional problems for the Vietnamese as he had no sons and his eldest daughter was suspected of being pro-Thai. They therefore chose his second daughter, Princess Mei, to be named as queen. A Vietnamese official was sent from Saigon to officiate at her investiture, where Mei and her sisters faced north, towards the emperor’s letter authorising her to reign, while the Vietnamese officials faced south, representing the position of the emperor in Hue. Cambodia was then officially renamed as the province of Tran Tay (‘guarding the west’).
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 6
In Cambodia, the Vietnamese tried to impose new hairstyles and tastes in clothing, a new language, a new philosophy of political administration, and even new modes of agriculture (Vietnamese crops were imported and systematically planted). The Vietnamese were also surprised that Cambodians continued to hold the prestige of their kings in high esteem. In Cambodia, however, even a temporary return to stability would prove impossible. Faced with the Vietnamese ‘civilising’ program, many Cambodians were beginning to believe there was much truth to Siam’s oft-stated aim of intervening in their country: to share the benefits of the Thai king’s fund of merit by protecting Cambodian Buddhism from the heretical Vietnamese. Vietnamese reforms put all social arrangements in jeopardy, including such ‘barbarous’ customs as eating with the fingers, wearing turbans and loincloths, building houses on stilts and greeting from a kneeling position. Sporadic anti-Vietnamese uprisings were already breaking out every year since 1836, but it was a reform to replace the chaovay sruk with Vietnamese in 1840 that finally threatened the vital interests of the Cambodian official class (okya) enough to drive them to revolt.
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 7
The last straw came in August, when the Vietnamese arrested Mei and her sisters and exiled them to Vietnam with the Cambodian regalia. To many Cambodians, the disappearance (and feared murder) of their monarch, however little authority she really had, signified the disappearance of the state, and the absence of the regalia with which to enthrone a successor made things even worse. The disappearance of patrons at court, the reformed tax system, and the devaluation of seals of office all precipitated a wide-ranging okya-led rebellion in September, which had been planned since May but probably was provoked into an early launch. A famous comment by one of the rebels expresses succinctly the popular mood: “We are happy killing Vietnamese. We no longer fear them; in all our battles we are mindful of the three jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha.”
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 8
The Minh-mang emperor was a weary man by the end of 1840, and his recorded words over the previous five years may serve as a reflection of the growing Vietnamese disappointment with their new provinces. By 1838, he was growing annoyed at the Cambodian ingratitude: “Thanks to… my generosity, imperial troops were despatched to Cambodia, costing millions of coins, and brought you security by destroying the Thai… Anyone who can think for himself should be grateful to the court; why are there people who hate us and believe the rebels?” When the 1840 rebellion broke out, he could at last only conclude that: “The Cambodians are so stupid that we must frighten them. Ordinary moral suasion has no effect.”
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 9
1841, Siamese expeditionary force under Chaophraya Bodin entered Cambodia with the exiled prince Duang, who carried insignia of rank and royal accoutrements supplied to him by Rama III. The objective was to win over the okya by promising that Duang would rule over Cambodia, since several had written to Bodin asserting that Cambodians would be happy only if the political conditions preceding the arrival of the Vietnamese were re-established. Thai intervention gave new momentum to the rebellion. By late 1841, Truong Minh Giang knew that the political balance in Cambodia had shifted irrevocably. He withdrew to Vietnam, taking the population of Phnom Penh - some 6,000 people – with him, after which he committed suicide by poison for his failure.
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 10
Throughout 1845, the Vietnamese tried but failed to dislodge the Thai forces; the two sides opened negotiations for a cease-fire at the end of the year. Siam had the stronger candidate for the throne, but Vietnam still retained the regalia which he needed for legitimacy. In a face-saving gesture, the Vietnamese demanded that a Cambodian tributary mission travel to Hue in 1846 and declare Cambodia’s formal subservience to Vietnam. The embassy returned in 1847, upon which the Vietnamese handed over the regalia and released those members of the royal family still in their custody. Soon afterward, they withdrew their forces from Cambodia. Over the next few months, in a series of ceremonial gestures, Duang restored the institution of kingship and kingly behaviour, including the restoration of Theravada Buddhism as the state religion – for example by levelling the Vietnamese fortifications at Phnom Penh and using the bricks to build or repair seven Buddhist monasteries. In 1847, Cambodia had gotten its own king back and at least the semblance of independence as well.
Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexations 30 March 2005 Part 11
In April 1848, Duang was anointed king of Cambodia in the traditional fashion, by Thai and Cambodian brahmins. For the rest of his reign, his kingdom was at peace, and although Thai political advisors and some Thai troops remained, the king was relatively free to make political decisions. One of these was to seek relations with the French from 1853 onwards, in an attempt to gain more protection from the Vietnamese, but the Thai put their foot down and stopped the French diplomatic mission from arriving. When the French began their campaign of conquest at Saigon in 1858, Cambodians saw an opportunity to regain the territory lost to the Vietnamese through the previous ears. Upon Duang’s death in 1860, his heir Norodom faced a series of rebellions and turned to the Thai, but soon grew frustrated by the conditions attached to their patronage. He reopened negotiations with the French, and signed a treaty of protection with them in 1863. Thus, in a manner very similar to that of his uncle King Chan, Norodom invited another ‘civilising mission’ into Cambodia, and this time even the Thai would be of no help against it.
Lastly, some thoughts about the present-day legacy of the Vietnamisation project: the enmity that it created between Vietnamese and Cambodians has lasted into the Cold War and beyond, with especially destructive consequences in the Pol Pot era. www.chinahistoryforum.com
8:15 AM
You misunderstood my point. I don’t mean SRP in person but SRP as an opposition party and yes they are subject to critic as well. But I admire their courageous and diligence work risking their lives to promote democracy in Cambodia. I know they are not perfect but they deserve to be respect and support. Can you tell me how many other minor opposition parties still functioning after each election? They show up only during election time to foul khmer voters and sway vote away from the main SRP opposition party. This was the main consequence.
As I said, being labeled SRP as an accomplice with Hun Sen to make Viet’s plan a successful one is not a good reason to compare as such. Perhaps he means other minor opportunist parties? You know, as I also asked above, if there were only two parties to compete in 2008, I think the result would be much different. Unfortunately, HRP jumped in from nowhere to break up the voters. I agree as constitution stipulates that Khmer Citizen has the right to form political party but we as khmer should also conscientiously think who will benefit from forming too many parties to compete at national level? The more ballots for voters to choose, CPP will always win.
To answer your questions regarding yourn voter, my simple answer is to have concern Khmers united as one strong opposition.
Kmher from WA
Who would post up essays or compositions on these blogs? Do you have authority and references to all your facts you suggested?
There's no author mentioned in these compositions whatsoever. How credible is it to read them?
It's useless to even post them here.
If we need information, we research from credible or institutional sources not from sources such as these posted on the blog.
Get real, or get lost.
Once again, never preach hatred towards others as you have always been taught in this 21st century. It's a disgrace how ppl on this blog preach hatred towards others unshamelessly.
Always preach peace and nobility.
If you're a good Khmer, you don't do that. Aren't Khmer people known as gentle people.
If you say all these bad things, how are we Khmer portrayed as a whole?
U talking like shit 9:15am not fair not peace.ok my dear hunsen yuon dog'sdic sucker////////
Article one, "CAMBODIA: Colonization" Monday, Dec. 24, 1979 and two, "Deathwatch: Cambodia", Monday, Nov. 12, 1979
came from www.times.com
Research Article 3, "Cambodia: Failed 19th-c. Vietnamese annexation" came from www.chinahistoryforum.com
Thailand saved Cambodia from Vietnam. Thailand is needed once again, if the shrinking border areas are to be stopped from being lost to the land-grabbing YOUN thieves.
poem by Hin Sithan totally lacks of manner and lacks of intelligence.
Hin Sithan's poem is only hatred nothing about how to unite. If Hin Sithan still believes Yuon Spy Ly Ngoc Diep that Khmer King is bad, Hin Sithan is in a big deep shit. Hin Sithan lacks of a skill of being a diplomat. He does not know how to unite people, but hatred. Very Bad peom he wrote. This old fart boy needs to sit in a Prey Sar cell sometimes in the future, when he steps his feet on Cambodia soil.
According to 10 parts
composition posted above, khmer kings and khmer people were/are nothing... but slaved and slaving.
11:12 AM,
You're a Viet offspring Song Kunthea, Hanoi and Hun Sen secret spy from Tacoma, Washington state.
5:44 AM, American Bobs have been dropped on Viet Cong's Heads allowing to hide in Khmer Territories by Your Ov Saktraob Norodom Sihanouk. O.K
Two big mistake made by SRP:
1-Gave LEGITIMACY to the illegal Viet puppet regime.
2-50 +1 vote in 2006.
Please do not repeat another mistake again. And then Khmer will be united with you.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
In order to achieve their goal and wealth, the Poem writers such as clans Hin Sithan, KC, KB, Sam Vichea, Sék Serei, Ung Thavry, Yim Guechsè and Champa Diep did not hesitate to use the following exodus Hanoi's methods:
1). The development of anti-King and Queen, Anti-governmental propaganda, by written newspapers, Books and Poems via Internets.
2). Create a climate of crisis and insecurity and to provoke divisions in the population to rise up agaist the King, Queen and Government.
3). Carrying out of acts of sabotage and break khmer apart from the majority of the population remained loyal to the King, Queen and elements of Government.
4). Circulation of tracts and other printed matter originated by the various factions, and in their place the appearance of a single overall their political line, both in written and spoken propaganda, a development which became more and more intence and widespead.
5). The sudden attacks launched by the Newspapers, books and Poems with political pictures or cartoons.
Hin Sithan, KC, KB, Sam Vichea, Sék Serei,Ung Thavry, Yim Guechsè and Champa Diep are practically, sympathy directed by Ho Chi Minh and their Vietnamese Communist in Hanoi.
That's the stategy of Hin Sithan, KC, KB, Sam Vichea, Sék Serei,Ung Thavry, Yim Guechsè and Champa Diep are preparing the entry of Cambodia into their Indichina Federation and their new political indoctrination.
1:38PM You are wrong. I love to read the poems.
5:44AM,
Know your facts before you blab it out. Ask your idiot ex-king Sihanouk why American bomb our country.
He's the one give consent to COMMUNIST North Viet to hide inside our border. He's the one give consent to COMMUNIST North Viet to stretch the Hoi Chimin Trail inside Cambodia along the border to transport supplies and weapons to South Viet.
If you know the history you would not blame on American for bombing.
THEY SHOULD BOMB AH SIHANOUK THEN TOO. WHAT A MISTAKE.
IT IS ALL SIHANOUK FAULTS FOR EVERYTHING. IT'S ALL SIHANOUK FAULTS FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DIE AND SUFFERES DURING KHME ROUGE REGIMES. IT'S ALL SIHANOUK FAULT HUN SEN TOOK POWER AND CONTINUES TO KILL AND SUFFERS OUR PEOPLE. IT'S ALL SIHANOUK FAULTS OUR COUNTRY IS DESTROYING.
All Khmers,
Until now what Norodom Sihanouk is doing for Cambodia ????
He recently PRAISED the 7th January 1979, a day Of 200,000 Hanoi's troops INVADED CAMBODIA, and now Hanoi is VIETNAMISING Cambodia.
Damned N. Sihanouk, you will be in 7th hell.
Both of your hands were covered with Khmer innocent people's blood.
You will receive the BAD KAMA due to your murdering of Khmer people.
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