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Why do Kos Trol, sea and lands proximately over 10 000 km2 have been lost to Vietnam by who treaty? Why don’t Cambodia goverment transparencies explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 and what's about over 10 000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Kos Trol, Sea and lands over 10 000km2 have been lost to Vietnam by who treaty at 1979 to 1985 treaty! Treaty! Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protect a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group rather in the real name of protecting Khmer nation?
Cambodian army at front line suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition, their families have no health care help, no securities after they die but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning with young girls message, have super health care from oversea medical treatment, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make Cambodian people suffer everyday as Cambodian people know already.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that result lost over 10 000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why don't they transparency inform all Cambodian and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't include Kos Trol (Kos Trol size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen with heap of great natural resources) in education system in Cambodia.
Look at Hun Sen families, relatives; friends are billionaires, millionaires where do they get the money from if we all just get out of war with empty hands? Hun Sen always say in his speech Cambodia just get up from war, just get up from Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% innocent Cambodian people are so poor struggling with living every day.
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
You're trying TOO HARD, sweetheart.
Just let it flow freely and NATURALLY.
To: 11:24AM
I am with you! Why Hun Sen remains so quiet about Koh Trol?
Koh Trol is bigger than Singapore! Koh Trol has much more potential for tourism than Koh Pich, Koh Pos, and Koh Sess...
If Hun Sen is so serious about tourism and Koh Trol is the next destination! Koh Trol must be returned back to Cambodia!!!!!
Thank you so much for your work, Ms. Theary Seng. Your presentation on the Khmer Rouge tribunal and your pursuit of justice, although not perfect, serve to aleviate some of the suffering for the victims family. I echo your point on the "symbolic justice".
Theary, honey, you need to relax a bit more when doing a presentation. i know it is very hard even for an experience presenter like you.
What's up with her with peace and justice?
Give it up, move on, and be happy!
I guess she's never had joy in life while growing up. She may still suffer from post-traumatic stress.
I can't even listen to her online. I don't know how the audience could survive listening to her at all.
wow she doesn't even really know what is going on with the Khmer Rouge regime. She just like any Khmer would say the same things because they have no ideas about only reaction to what they see. Good luck TS.
she has no concept of peace more or less the concept of justice. She is attempting to lecture on judicial politics. She has no understanding the price and cost of nation building or survival strategies of the state. I fell sorry for her: psydo-intellectual crusade.
bad speaker for a US trained lawyer- SAD.
NOTICE THE REPETITION of THE UH,UH,UH, UH
To all who criticize Theary Seng,
Can you stand up and deliver anything close to what she did? Do you listen to her for the content or only to criticize her? Don't you have relatives killed by the KR? If you do, you better understand the issues involved.
Thank you Theary, keep up the good work and keep it coming!
Observer from CA
I have no doubt of Theary's intelligence, but I sense her tension and anger that only a Khmer Rouge victim could readily validate.
The best way to deal with this post-traumatic stresses is to let go of this pent-up anger and sad feeling. The embrace of humor and light-heartedness also would greatly serve as a non-chemical and low cost treatment. The sadness and anger can be easily triggered, however, spiritual and emotional liberation helps to toughen up the trigger.
For 30 plus years, the struggle is still present. Many a nights, I'd look at her beautiful face after she had peacefully fallen asleep, and my tears would warmly flow down on my face because of the sadness and anger that now filled up every chamber of my heart and made it feel like an imminent bursting would occur, when I thought how she was cheated of so much when she was so young...how they savagely took away almost her whole family and deprived her of her youth and the security of family love...
Theary, you got my admiration and love. I wish you peace of mind and happiness. Please reconcile within your heart.
this is sooooo embarrassing
1:55, the problem is really the content. She has no idea what she is taking about when she uses big terms like justice, peace and reconciliation.
her experience and stress is real and valid but the content of the presentation is rubbish.
What is also embarrassing is that she is obviously not thinking while talking, but struggling to reproduce her badly memorized script.
I did not like her for all her self-promotion but I realize only now the remarkable absence of reflexion and intellectual capacity.
the most embarrassing thing really is that apparently she is convinced that she knows what she is talking about while it is equally apparent that she does not.
so the point is supposed to be that the choice between peace and justice is a false one but did anyone claim the opposite? It is so trivial so why make a big presentation of it.
it is so funny how she is acting, pretending to actually think while just reproduce a prepared speech that not much thought went into in the first place.
Why is it that only Theary Seng has her TEDxPhnomPenh talk published in a separate blog post that names her in the title and is tagged with her name?
Of these presentations, hers is certainly the poorest and least substantial one.
It really reinforces the impression that KI Media constantly privileges Theary Seng and serves aa a platform for her self-promotion.
She always says "we" but what does she mean with this? I resent the false implication that she speak on behalf of all Cambodians, all Khmer Rouge victims and so on.
Or does she really mean "I" or "Me and my equally ignorant friends" when she says "We"?
I think she would have good reasons to be humble, given the apparent limits of her capacity, but she is not.
Dealing with ignorant is a challenging task for every individual. It takes courage and gutsy effort to introduce changes, as many do not wish to accept willingly without prejudice. Theary has been doing a tremendous job to help the modern Cambodia to face with many challenges, involving justice over the very complex issue of the killing field. She has displayed the passion to convey her views to discuss the very sensitive issue with a genuine character, to convince her audience through her eloquent arguments on the subject.
Great job Theary, congratulation.
Yeay Tep
Good idea Yeay tep tonight i am going to meet you
Ta Brahma
5:25, that's why you're stuck in your tiny world and narrow home and Theary is traveling the world on invitations... bc she is so limited hahahahahah!!!
Like it or not Theary Seng is a rising star! You better recognize...
Personally, I think the Khmer Rouge tribunal is way too late and has very little benefits to render justice or reconcile the turmoil with peace for the victims.
First, my sense of justice is quite immediate and urgent, which should reflect humanistic instinct. For example, the way Tunesians upsrised and deposed of Ben Ali, should immediately follow with a trial to judge hime of wrong doings and to confiscate all his ill-gotten wealth and distribute it back to Tunesia national budget. In some primitive way, justice would mean that we should have put these Khmer Rouge culprits on trial and sentenced them a long time ago.
Secondly, I do not support organized revenge - delayed justice - because it brings back the very same human instinct that harbor harmful actions that perpetuate the cycle of hatred and vengefulness. In some places, organized violence and revenge took the most primitive form, e.g. the hanging of a dictator that almost severe his head off. That action was only to prove that we all are just capable of the same horrific act of killing and eliminating someone else who happened to be our 'enemy.'
It is a very complex situation. However, I rather see a killer be put down during the prusue to arrest him, than to see guards prepare lethal injection or firing squad to shoot him so many years after his trial.
One can argue the needs for social order, 'justice,' and 'reconciliation' require that we tried and prosecuted these offenders; which most of the times, these legal court proceedings did resolve and render justices. On the other hand, the demands for justice could also be proof that we are not much better than the criminals.
The concept of 'devine justice' also is many times misinterpreted - based on my own perspective and biases - by most people. Whether people were buddhists or christians, the 'wrong and right,' 'karma,' or 'eternal hell,' all teach us that there should be some forms of revenge and gratification. Why would devine power that represents righgeousness, forgiveness, and unconditional love condemn someone to 'burning in hell?' And why would a teaching of tolerance and state of blissfulness also incude the karmic cycle of revenge that would constantly and perpetually produce the doers and the receivers of bad karma?
This is just my perspetive on justice and reconciliation.
If what Theary does is summed up to "Like it or not Theary Seng is a rising star!," may she reach the highest sky in God speed!
WHY ALL YOU GUY STILL TALK ABOUT BORDER ,NOW THERE ARE MILLION AND MILLION VIETNAMESE IN CAMBODIA .
DAI KHMER THAO KE YUON
spelliing problems...
'divine' not 'devine'
Theary Seng Babby, you sound pretty much to defend the current regime and everything fallen unto the khmer rouge. How about yuon killed your relatives during that time; have you seen or hnown that?
ok, be fair babe... in the name of "defander" and "justice".
this is so not inspiring
10:20, you say i am stuck in my tiny world and narrow home and Theary is traveling the world on invitations
ok, my home is narrow but most Cambodians live in narrow homes. Theary lives in a big home, travels the world on invitation indeed and more than that, she misses no opportunity to publicize these facts.
Now I think it would be humble on her part to display some recognition that she is extremely lucky and privileged compared to most Cambodians who never get such opportunities, no matter how deserving, potentially more deserving than Theary, they might be. Such as the Cambodian heroes and heroines displayed on the top right of this page.
I am not saying she is not deserving it. But all her undeserved privileges combined make her an extremely implausible representative of Cambodians in search of justice. She talks on behalf of others all the time but no one has ever voted for her. She does not represent anyone. It is the pretention of leadership to which she has no legitimate claim that annoys me.
don't waste your time, if a few people think she is smart even after watching this, than no need to argue with them
constructive criticizing:
when the presentation souded like a reading session or lecturing, the presenter would lose the attention of the audience. To engage and persuade effectively, there should be pauses and meaningful body language and eye contacts that solicit attention.
2:16 well said and all true but following your advise would only solve the superficial problems of poor presentation, not the bigger problem that is the lack of substance. If you got nothing meaningful to say, you will not engage or persuade anyone effectively, no matter eye contacts, pauses and body language.
2:26 AM,
The contents and substance of the presentation is the choice of the presenter - she has the freedom of deciding to choose which content and substance to share.
For example, Mike Rios' topic was about doing the opposite of marketing for money by reaching for meanings, which may not be somthing that inspires a good number of ambitious young folks in the audience, but it was his conviction of the moment.
2:26 AM,
most comedians do not have many meaningful topics to say, but many succeed in engaging their audiences to laugh and loosen [up].
I don't take lightly the gravest tragedy that the Khmer Rouge inflicted on their victims. Nor, would I ignore the effects such us PTSD and the compliant/fearful attitude that are now so prevalent among Cambodians.
2:26 is a true eye opener, if I re-watch this presentation as a piece of comedy, it all makes sense.
thanks for enlightening me.
comedy is actually a great explanation for the content of many of Theary Seng's articles and statements.
comedy is great but please do not let the Khmer Rouge Trial become a stage for her soap opera.
3:45 AM and 3:47 AM, your think you are a comedian, truly!
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