Thursday, November 25, 2010

Tragedy at Pich Bridge - Poem in Khmer by Nop Chandara of the Khmer Post

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well written poem in Khmer language. Thanks to Mr. Nop Chandara. In America, it is a crime for anyone to falsely yell out the term "FIRE!" in any public places because the consequences of a stampede is very tragic as evidenced by the Cambodian deaths on Koh Pich Bridge.

The security police officers should have shoot the their guns into the air repeatedly and order the pedestrians to sit down on the bridge. However, this tragedy shows that when there are no interventions in place in case of any unforeseenable problems, then the ruling government is to blame.

In the future, there should be warnings and signs post to tell the pedestrians what to do in case of an emergeny. Lives wasted and SAD totally.

Anonymous said...

Awesome! poem Pu Chandara Khmer should trains all the people how to protected them selfs went we've emergency. But where all the police at when the stampedes happen the Polices should stand in the bridge watching people crossing but where da hell they at I don't see shit that what it happen.

Kulen Monorom said...

Your Majesty Samdech Ta former King Norodom Sihanouk,

Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen,

Thank you for your both kindness and understanding.
What we need is prevention methods, not to let this type of accident happen again in the future.

It also makes me very worried to see so much alcohol allowed to enter or be produced in our beloved Kingdom of Cambodia? What about “ YA BA “ and other types of DRUGS from Thailand and Vietnam?

Can His Majesty Samdech Ta and Samdech Hun Sen stop all sorts of drugs coming to Cambodia? The accident may not be related to drugs and alcohol but just some thing that I could not sleep peacefully from now on to the future, in the names sake of true Khmer citizen.

Can Samdech Hun Sen kindly ask all 5 million Vietnamese illegal immigrants to peacefully return to Vietnam, so Koh Pich will not be too crowded more and more every day, every month and every year to come.
All Vietnamese illegal immigrants can easily come in and settle inside Cambodia even though they already have their own country Vietnam.

When Cambodia is too crowded, definitely we Khmer people can not go to settle inside Vietnam, can we?
Please Vietnamese, you said you came to rescue us from Pol Pot, and you don’t want to return home, it is not right according to 23rd October 1991 Paris Peace Agreement, can all of you go back to your country now.

Vietnamese illegal immigrants, you see because 5 million of you are inside Cambodia, it makes us too crowded and we wasted our lives at Koh Pich without good reasons.

Your Vietnamese Communism expansionist mind in Cambodia, is to give an excuse to China mainland to occupy your Spratly Islands, Parcel Islands, the whole of your Eastern sea border and perhaps the Northern border sooner or later.

5 million Vietnamese illegal immigrants in Cambodia, please go back home to defend your country from Chinese mighty economic invasion.

May I pray to God and the Lord Jesus Christ that those who have lost loved one will be comforted.

My condolences to all the victim's family.

Regards,

Kulen Monorom
(The rice farmer's son)