Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Can Cambodia trust ASEAN?

By Tinothy Chhim

"Silence is not necessarily golden"


The Association of Southeast Asian Nations was formed on 8 August 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. These countries are well known to have closer relationship with the West and economically stable. Thailand is one of the senior countries and is one of the so-called “Founding Fathers” of ASEAN.

Later on ASEAN membership has expanded to include Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. These countries are well known as communistic, dictatorship and are closer to China than to the West.

Cambodia is the youngest or newest member of all. It was accepted by ASEAN on April 30, 1999. I am not sure in what class Cambodia is categorized, but if Thailand is one of the “Founding Fathers” then Cambodia is only the newest “kid” on the block.

Can Cambodia trust ASEAN?

ASEAN aims include the “acceleration of economic growth, social progress, cultural development among its members, the protection of the peace and stability of the region, and to provide opportunities for member countries to discuss differences peacefully.” The following is ASEAN’s Anthem:

The ASEAN Way

Raise our flag high, sky high
Embrace the pride in our heart
ASEAN we are bonded as one
Look-in out-ward to the world.
For peace, our goal from the very start
And prosperity to last.
We dare to dream we care to share.
Together for ASEAN
we dare to dream,
we care to share for it's the way of ASEAN!

Obviously, the recent fighting or the border war between an aggressive Founding Farther and a new kid on the block proves that ASEAN cannot handle its own problems. ASEAN’s motto: "One Vision, One Identity, One Community" or "10 countries, 1 identity” and the Southeast Asian Anthem (written and composed by the Thai) are humiliations to all members of ASEAN for they contradict such current actions taken by Thailand toward Cambodia.

Cambodia may have to think twice to let ASEAN handle its national issues because it appears that what Thailand says and does are two different things. The United Nations is the best organization to help solve Cambodia’s problems against Thailand. Bilateral talk or multilateral talk with ASEAN’s involvement will give Thailand the upper hand.

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cambodian can't even trust Cambodia government!

Anonymous said...

ASEAN suck Thai cock.

Anonymous said...

Timothy Chhim is a rotten CPP clan living in New York.

Anonymous said...

It is true, a bastard ASEAN and a thief siam (Thai) are brother. We, Khmer should not believe/trust on these bastards and thieves. We should go to the United Nations for help, otherwise our land will be divide to be 2 parts for both yuon thief and siam thief.

Khmer in Phnom Penh

Anonymous said...

Don't worry khmer brothers. Keep up good work at the border. We'll support you with $$$ abroad.

Anonymous said...

ALL KHMER PEOPLE

All Khmer people must understand and stop allowing Hun Sen's Vietnamese slave to control Khmer daily life. Khmer Krom is in very serious hardship and lossing land to the Vietnamese expansion forever because Khmer people in Cambodia are ignoring and separate themselves from Cambodia leaning toward the Vietnamese puppet Hun Sen's government for power, money, personal interests, and etc. that are destroying and killing Khmer people every day due to homeless and starvation.

Every time Khmer people supporting Hun Sen and fighting Thai you are supporting Vietnamese too. Hun Sen look like a powerful and strong man from the outside but inside he is a scary dog. Hun Sen spent hundreds of millions dollars of the Cambodian money every year for his own security and safety.

Hun Sen sold all the Khmer treasures and resources to pay his supporters and strengthen his power for life as a Prime Minister of all destructions in the Cambodian History. He is also given Khmer land to the Vietnamese people, security, safety, protection, schools and jobs are under Hun Sen agendas. While evicted millions of the poorest Khmer people from their motherland.

We are blaming Sihanouk for supported and armed the Khmer Rouge in 1960's but now Khmer people are ignoring and keep silence on Hun Sen's government because of Sihanouk biggest mistakes this why Hun Sen is in power for life. Hun Sen was a new Prime Minister after the Khmer Rouge era, UN Paris Peace Agreements in 1991 and reshuffled within the CPP.

Hun Sen was a poor kid living in pagoda with monks during the Sihanouk era. Hun Sen must know how suffering and hardship during the Khmer Rouge era, now he should be helping and protecting Khmer land and people because he is Khmer too.

All Khmer people knew that the Vietnamese was Hun Sen's boss and friend for life but Hun Sen need to learn from his boss and other country what is the friendship look like. Friendship and friend (HUN SEN) must never give your home to your best friend and your best friend (Vietnamese) must never take advantage you because you are the poorest and powerless. Now Hun Sen' s boss and Hun Sen best friend controlling and taking away everything from Hun Sen's motherland and left the whole country with nothing. Hun Sen must never make the same mistake liked Sihanouk with Ho Chi Minh.

All Khmer younger generation will have no place to stay liked Khmer Krom because of Hun Sen carelessness, brainless, power hungry, ignoring, and etc.

CAMBODIA Khmer Empire to Khmer’s country less by HUN SEN dictatorship.

What are Khmer people goals and purposes by joining and supporting Hun Sen to fight Thai?

How many Khmer people can live in Preah Vihear temple after the Vietnamese fully control and take over the whole CAMBODIA in 10 years?

Khmer should be fighting the Vietnamese for grabbing the Khmer land and killing Khmer people.

Savecambodian.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

If Cambodia has followed the 1991 Paris Peace agreement with the help of all signified countries, Cambodia may has not been bully by this thailand invader. The reasons this cambodian government has been putting cambodia for sale.

Anonymous said...

Good points Mr. Chhim.

Anonymous said...

ALL KHMER PEOPLE

All Khmer people must understand and stop allowing Hun Sen's Vietnamese slave to control Khmer daily life. Khmer Krom is in very serious hardship and lossing land to the Vietnamese expansion forever because Khmer people in Cambodia are ignoring and separate themselves from Cambodia leaning toward the Vietnamese puppet Hun Sen's government for power, money, personal interests, and etc. that are destroying and killing Khmer people every day due to homeless and starvation.

Every time Khmer people supporting Hun Sen and fighting Thai you are supporting Vietnamese too. Hun Sen look like a powerful and strong man from the outside but inside he is a scary dog. Hun Sen spent hundreds of millions dollars of the Cambodian money every year for his own security and safety.

Hun Sen sold all the Khmer treasures and resources to pay his supporters and strengthen his power for life as a Prime Minister of all destructions in the Cambodian History. He is also given Khmer land to the Vietnamese people, security, safety, protection, schools and jobs are under Hun Sen agendas. While evicted millions of the poorest Khmer people from their motherland.

We are blaming Sihanouk for supported and armed the Khmer Rouge in 1960's but now Khmer people are ignoring and keep silence on Hun Sen's government because of Sihanouk biggest mistakes this why Hun Sen is in power for life. Hun Sen was a new Prime Minister after the Khmer Rouge era, UN Paris Peace Agreements in 1991 and reshuffled within the CPP.

Hun Sen was a poor kid living in pagoda with monks during the Sihanouk era. Hun Sen must know how suffering and hardship during the Khmer Rouge era, now he should be helping and protecting Khmer land and people because he is Khmer too even though he was raised and educated in Vietnam.

All Khmer people knew that the Vietnamese was Hun Sen's boss and best friend for life but Hun Sen need to learn from his boss like other country what the friendship is like. Friendship and friend (HUN SEN) must never give your home to your best friend and your best friend (Vietnamese) must never take advantage you because you are the poorest and powerless. Now Hun Sen' s boss and Hun Sen best friend controlling and taking away everything from Hun Sen's motherland and left the whole Khmer population with nothing. Hun Sen must never make the same biggest mistake liked Sihanouk with Ho Chi Minh lost Khmer Krom and islands.

All Khmer younger generation will have no place to stay liked Khmer Krom because of Hun Sen carelessness, brainless, power hungry, ignoring, and etc.

CAMBODIA Khmer Empire to Khmer’s country less by HUN SEN dictatorship.

What are Khmer people goals and purposes by joining and supporting Hun Sen to fight Thai?

How many Khmer people can live in Preah Vihear temple after the Vietnamese fully control and take over the whole CAMBODIA in 10 years?

Khmer should be fighting the Vietnamese for grabbing the Khmer land and killing Khmer people. Preah Vihear temple was never been a big issue after the war until 2 years ago the Vietnamese started the Cambodia-Vietnam border demarcation and the Vietnamese installed the border markers inside Cambodia and Mr. Sam Raingsy intervened. Vietnamese demanded Hun Sen to declared war on the Cambodia-Thailand border for Preah Vihear temple so the Cambodian people will be focusing on Thai not the Vietnamese encroachments, moved the border markers and changed the boundary lines.

Savecambodian.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

Cambodian Government must get UN involve . Don't let the ASEAN handle the issue. Thailand is afraid of the the UN because they know that they will lose the cases to Cambodia. ASEAN is their hope because they know its in their favour. please reject the ASEAN offers.

Anonymous said...

ASEAN/UNITED NATIONS are the same shits people! They listen to Thailand instead? They asking Khmer to be more patient, while Thai soldiers keep throwing grenades all night long at Khmer soldiers..? I wish Thai do this to North Korean, Vietnam or something? I think the way we allowing them bullying us like this...is bad sign! We should fire back and pound their head with missile, otherwise they will look down on us more...Hey, they start first! Throwing grenades at us!

Anonymous said...

I think Hun Sen order to be patient, because he scared Thailand army force! Hun Sen allow to fight only they step inside our lands...

Anonymous said...

UN IS STUPID!

HOW CAN YOU ASK A BIG BULLY BOY TO TALK PEACE WITH A SMALL KID! AFTER THE BOTH KIDS SAY THEY WAS BULLY BY OTHER!''

BUT THE BIG KID OK LET NOT BRING THE POLICE IN AND YOU THE ONE STILL PUNCHING ME SMALL ONE!

THAT NEED YOUR PhD TO FIGURE IT OUT un!!!!! BIG EDUCATORS!!!?

Anonymous said...

Don't trust ASEAN. Even its gen sect is a thai and it's chair has thai bitch as his wife.

Anonymous said...

Cambodia is in deep shit right now if they don't fucking do something. ASEAN = Thailand

So what the use for the ASEAN to get involve, Thailand already won the the talk. We are in real deep shit.

Thank to the traitors for the bilateral talk since 2008. Now we are in deed shit, UN doesn't want to get involve.

Anonymous said...

Ah HUN SEN and Ah CPP do not care about khmer ,all they care is thier POWER.Khmer soldiers have nothing to eat untill the ware come,if they realy love Khmer why Ah CPP do that,when the ware done,all these poor soldiers have nothing again.

Anonymous said...

I never trust khmer government and my khmer neighbor. Here is why...

After yuon invaded cambodia sometimes on September 1979, my neighbor secretly told the Heng Samrin government who intalled by yuon invader to arrest me at Tuol Kok,they accused me as Khmer Lon Nol soldier. At that time yuon and khmer mixed together about 50-60 of them equip with AK-47 surround my house and arrested me. After 3 months they released me. I went westward to Thailand and joined the fight for 2 years and come to USA. In 1999 I went to visit the old country I met that neighbor guy
he just scared the hell out, he moved out real fast...Now he is the member of the CPP cabinet. In 2004 I went again; He hired 2 policemen to escort him.

Anonymous said...

The five ASEAN founded on 8 August
1967 and later on five.Amongst three
are communists:Lao,
Vietnam,and(Cambodia=ghost kingdom).
The Asian countries
and ASEAN community
never love,care,
respect help,and
work together as
good community,they
are greedy,and think
about their own
benefits,but not
the others.
So,they do not trust
each other; for example Vietnam encroaching Khmer
land;Thai is fighting with Khmer because of Preah
Vihear which Khmer
already won in 1962.
All the Asian and
ASEAN cuontries are
greedy,fault,and dull.


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Anonymous said...

Depend on ASEAN? Are you joking. when Khmer, Lao, Mhong,Cham (Muslim) and Vietnamese flee their country to Thailand for assylum, Where are them ASEAN. They next door to us but none of them do any humanitarian aid to those refugee. Thai as a founder of ASEAN deport us back to the mines field of Dorng Raek.

Anonymous said...

sent special agent to bangkok wipe out all oldest leader thai thugs, creat disorganize and destroy enemy economic system, blow out bank, airport, seaport and business center, make sure creta chaos and sank them into economice crisise. when enemy poor chaos will be up rising and revolution for sure will happen.

Anonymous said...

ASEAN is just a powerless organization.
Theoretical we can trust them.
Political sure we will not treat well as a legal member.
ASEAN will do, what this powerless body has to do and sure not positive for us.
In this case, Cambodia should not dreams that much, that ASEAN will able to help us, like in their statute.
Cambodia better trust ourselves.