A Thai cook flips pork cutlets below a whole roasted pigwhile talking on a mobile phone at a Bangkok beer garden. (STEPHEN SHAVER/AFP/Getty Images)
The border showdown between Thai and Cambodian troops has eased in recent weeks. Soldiers on both sides of the disputed terrain remain locked in a staring contest. Only occasionally do shoot-outs and shelling punctuate the bouts of dull downtime.
But, according to the Bangkok Post's senior military reporter, Thai troops have found a non-violent means of pecking away at the Cambodian rivals' morale. They're feeding them.
Noting the Cambodians' meager food rations -- typically just sardines and sticky rice -- Thai officers occasionally welcome across the divide to a Thai-style lunch: grilled chicken, colaand laab mu, a chili-sprinkled minced pork dish.
"Our soldiers share their food such as canned fish and snacks, particularly doughnuts," reporter Wassana Nanuam quotes a colonel as saying. "Some Cambodian soldiers have never eaten doughnuts before."
I suppose it's harder to shoot a man who's offered you doughnuts.
But we should remember that this account of culinary psy-ops only offers the Thai-side view. The Cambodian troops, many hardened from the brutal Khmer Rogue era, could just as easily accuse the Thais of confusing a military stand-off with a picnic.
Still, if I was deployed to a grinding border showdown with no end in sight, I'd rather be on the side with the minced pork than the one handing out dried fish.
35 comments:
Please do not fall into the trap of the journalist especially the Thai one. One should consider it irrelevant since it is simply a corrupted propaganda of the shameful Thai culture. I don't even think Bangkok post is a news but a sarcastic and personal propaganda of anti-Khmer sentiment. I would say ethically, Phnom Penh Post is much more professional with accurate and respectful report.
Concerning the stinky doughnuts, Thai are known to be the heaven of prostitution of Southeast Asia. They think that by eating the greasy high-fatted Yanky food make them Western. Big stock of laugh. They are proud to eat McDonald, Doughnuts, and those fast-food cultured which in the West are considered to be polluted and unhealthy. What a shame! I swear to you that the banana-floured fried cake made by my khmer village tast better and healthy than those stinky doughnuts American shit!
I don't think they like doughnut then their homemade culinary. Thai posts are just scrap and everybody know that. They would blow off the head of the man who give them doughnuts since it is a disgusting shit!
The politice war games would ends, if khmer soldiers would just shoots any vietcong on site.
if they go to food, it means siem thugs are running out of option! why siem kept wanting to steal from khmer? how pathetic are they!
Donut is full of unhealthy nutrient, rose pork, Lap Pork full of fat, cola full caffein, Thais soldiers full of colesterol in their blood they are not fit after a few shoot they all surrender. Khmer soldier eat own traditional food make them healthy, no colesterol, no high blood pressure. Sorry Thai, your copy cat western food are unwelcome, Khmer have planty of food but we do not want to eat.
They will eat Banh Xeo soon.
Hello Nambodia.
Sardines and sticky rice are much healthier. I agree. Cambodia don't have medicine to treat obest people? Don't let the taste buds deceive you.
Yes, Cambodians are living under poverty. We are living in lack of education, social disorder and mental retaliation on whoever been doing bad to them. Soon, or later Cambodia will bring justice, and whoever think they are doing the right things for Cambodia will face consequences on their behave. For exsample, Hok Long Di, the most cruelty person I never met. The rest of these people will soon and later get their prosecution through the international court of law. PEACE CAMBODIA.
R.I.P who were fighting for the better reconstruction, development of Cambodia.
That pig's head looks like siamese king boom-mi-bull.
When you preach about unhealthy food to someone who has plenty to eat, you will receive appreciation.
But it is nonsense to talk about health food to the one who just eat to survive.
I have seen your soldiers eat rats, cats, dogs, snakes and even centipedes.
Unfortunately some Khmer soldiers died from eating wild mushrooms.
Please make your comments with sensible and productive reason.
global post, your news- was not reliable, such liar.( bull shit)news
i agreed, that pig head- looked liked
siamese's king
One of my friends who has been fighting there told me that the Thai soldiers have been replaced from time to time but our Khmer soldiers just have to be there all the time. and another source told me that in the list we have 100.000 soldiers but in real number we have only around 30,000.
Please don't believe me neither my friends but do your own research or question the government directly.
9:02Am,
You're pathetic. You have nothing to substantiate your claimer, loser!
you mean 5000 troops for khmer there
Bangcock Post is the Siem government propaganda machine!
I don't give a fuck if the Siem want to give me donut or minced pork and even if my own brother wearing an enemy uniform who dare to enter the Cambodian territory illegally and I will kill the enemy in heart beat!
During the Khmer Rouge I have eaten snakes, rat, lizards, crickets, ants, fishes...just to survive now and I certainly can do without the donut and pork minced! Ahhahahhah
By the way to all those stupid Cambodian soldiers who dare eat the Siem food because when the Siem soldiers enter Cambodian territory to give their food and the Siem soldiers will lock in their GPS location on Cambodian military position and the next round of conflict all Cambodian soldiers’ life will be in danger!
The Siem will give you food but they will take your life later on!
yes,yes, I agreed again, be careful with Siam 's GPS - they will take our soldiers life.
don't be friend, with them again...
with those Stupid Khmer Surin's soldiers
Siam foods are a lot healthier than Viet' s which full of chemicals like dried salty fish. Flies would not want to go near those dried fishes, they would be dead on the spot because Viet use Entrine for every thing including Wines.Except BANH xeo (6:07AM)in Nambodia is safe to eat.
And all Khmer soldiers remember not to bite the hands that feed you and turn your guns to the all thieves Viets i n Cambodia.
Who would have thought the Siem can use their food to kill Cambodian soldiers?
And for 12:09PM the above comment and if your dumb ass doesn't like the Viet food and you can eat the Siem food for yourself and you don‘t need to convince other!
Siem food = Viet food!
High content of sodium, sugar, monosodium glutamate...please check the expiration date before you eat! I recommend you don't eat none of the Siem and the Viet food because it is not better than making your own food where you have total control over the ingredient such as salt, sugar, and the amount of meat and fresh vegetable!
khmer traditional food is much healthier for everyone, really! god bless the khmer cuisine.
majority of khmer people who eat authentic khmer food are not fat and physically fit than most other people, you know! got to love real, traditional khmer food, ok!
Every khmer people are fully support Mr Sam Rainsy to bring Hun Sen and his CPP regime to Justice.
We Know that Hun SEn and his CPP group are good at kill, blackmail Khmer people everyday but today we are not scare of dying and Hun Sen blackmail anymore. We hurt enough, We death enough, we suffer enough of his traitors regime.
Khmer people don't afraid of Hun Sen and his CPP chop of our head anyomore.
We khmer people are stand up and fight to honor Angkor Wat spirite, We are stand up and fight Vietnam'slave sell out Cambodia to Vietnam for over 30 years.
If we don't stand up and fight we die any way so if we die let's die in the name of real khmer hero to inspire all khmer people spirite in every generation. Khmer generation will talk about us thousands years. Our names will echo for eternity like the Echo of Angkor Wat hero.
We support you Mr Sam Rainsy. Please don't let's us down like Prince Ranaridth and his king families.
Let's all khmer people and all khmer spirites rise up to free our Khmer Nation from Vietnam invader and Vietnam'slave regime CPP.
i love khmer food in cambodia. it is very healthy for everyone, really! khmer eat and cook fresh food, organic, non-processed food, etc, etc... plus, khmer people eat lots of vegetables and fish. we all need fermented food like khmer famous prahok dishes, noodle dishes, soup based dishes, grilled dishes, the don't forget variety of khmer salad dishes as well. real, authentic khmer food is very delicious and very healthy in fact, you know! stick to khmer food and you won't get fat. i grew up with khmer food and i'm not fat and i'm healthy and physically fit. yes, got to love real khmer food. forget siem and youn food, they use a lot of msg, oil, spices and other food chemical that can make people sick, addicted, fat and unhealthy, you know. khmer food is the best, you know!
khmer food is way better than siem and youn food, you know! if i have to pick one, i prefer khmer food!
where the fuck all the money donate to khmer soldier ?? they dont even have enough food to eat man fuck
This is total Thai propaganda bullshit. We know that some the frontline Cambodian soldiers in that region are poor, but they never go begging for food. In most cases, the Cambodian and Thai soldiers share and exchange foods. Thai soldiers give Khmer soldiers food and Khmer soldiers give Thai soldiers food when they have downtime and play cards or joke with each other.
The way this article is written is that it makes the Thai people look down on Khmer people. This is more reason why ah kwak yuon pleur hun sen needs to reorganize the Cambodian army. Makes sure everyone WEARS THE SAME TYPE OF UNIFORMS, HAVE COMBAT BOOTS, HAVE ADEQUATE EQUIPMENT, AND ARE WELL FED.
These Preah Vihear province frontline soldiers (not the ones from Phnom Penh or the special forces or the military police) were former Khmer Rouge who fought against hun sen's army in the 80's and early 90's and now they are fighting for hun sen.
CPP = Cwak People Party
EVIDENCE OF POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS AND KILLINGS OF FUNCINPEC LOYALISTS.
LIST OF INSTANCES OF EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS
• Ho Sok, 45, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Interior and second ranking FUNCINPEC official in the Ministry of Interior.
• 2-3. Gen Chao Sambath, alias Ngov, Deputy-Chief of the Intelligence and Espionage Department, RCAF Supreme Command since 1993
• 4 and 5. Maj. Gen. Ly Seng Hong, Deputy-Chief of Staff, RCAF General Staff (second highest-ranking FUNCINPEC official in the RCAF General
• 6. Colonel Sok Vireak, Chief, Transmission Bureau, Army General Staff. A former KPNLF General Staff officer in charge of military training who joined Nhek Bun Chhay after the Paris Agreements. Status
• 7. Colonel Thlang Chang Sovannarith, Deputy Chief-of-Staff of the Fifth Military Region, RCAF General Staff
• 8. Colonel Hov Sambath, Deputy-chief of Military Training Bureau, RCAF General Staff
• 9. Lietenant Colonel Sao Sophal, 42, an officer of the First Bureau of the RCAF General Staff.
• 10. Navy First Lt. Thach Soeung, aged about 30, an ethnic Khmer from southern Vietnam, stationed at Dang Kaum Navy base on the eastern bank of the Tonle Sap.
• 11 to 14. Seng Phally, Lt. Col. Chao Keang, Chao Tea and Thong Vickika - security officers working under Gen. Chao Sambath.
• Seng Phally, alias Huot Phally, aged 25, single, a gendarme who worked as chief of the security team at the Pipoplok 2 Hotel/Casino
• Lt. Col. Chao Keang, aged about 25. He was an officer in the Research and Intelligence Bureau of Chao Sambath
• Chao Tea, 29, brother of Chao Keang, a security guard at the Regal Hotel/Casino. His body bore a bullet hole in the left side of the chest and in the right side of the stomach. He was also handcuffed and blindfolded
• Thong Vicchika, aged about 27-28, a body-guard of Chao Sambath and a security staff at the Regal Hotel/Casino.
• Dr. Seng Kim Ly, a military medical doctor
• Major Lak Ki, Head of Operations, Research and Intelligence, RCAF High Command
• Four unnamed body-guards of Nhek Bun Chhay were summarily executed after his office-cum-house in Somnang
• Major Lak Ki, Head of Operations, Research and Intelligence, RCAF High Command
• Pheap, a body-guard of Major Lak Ki, in his late twenties
• Dok Rany, 27, an officer and body-guard of Gen. Chao Sambath who worked at the Research and Intelligence Bureau
• Ros Huon, aged 23, Sopheap, aged 25, two alleged members of the Gendarmerie
• Dok Sokhun, alias Michael Senior, a Khmer-Canadian journalist who taught English at ACE Language School in Phnom Penh
• Major Aek Eng (CPP), Head of Administration of Phnom Penh Thmei police station
• At least four, and possibly up to 22 persons described as FUNCINPEC soldiers executed and cremated in Pich Nil on 9, 10 and 11 July 1997 by Military Region 3 soldiers. Status: Confirmed executions in at least 4 cases
• 34 to 36 (and possibly 45). On 17 July, at about noon time, the body of a soldier was witnessed floating near the bank of the Tone Bassac near the Watt Chum Leap, in the village of the same name, Rokakpong commune, Saang district, Kandal province. The body was headless and both hands were tied up behind the back with a kramma. It was dressed in dark olive military uniform
• 37 and 38. Two unidentified men, blindfolded and with their hands tied behind the back. Status: Confirmed executions
• Pheap, aged 33, a bodyguard of the First Prime Minister. Status: Confirmed execution.
• Sok Vanthorn, 21 and Sou Sal, two villagers from Ampeov village, Kompong Speu province. Status: Confirmed execution.
• Brig. Gen. Chea Rittichutt, a founding member of the Moulinaka movement and the Governor of Kep-Bokor
• Navy officer Meas Sarou, Deputy-director, First Bureau, Navy, based in Chrouy Changvar, and one of his body-guards, and a third person, a woman named Luch.
• Ung Sim, Second Deputy Governor, Kompong Speu province - missing since his arrest, reportedly near Pich Nil by CPP soldiers on 7 or 8 July 1997.
• Col. Sam Sarath, Deputy Chief-of-Staff, Third Military Region
• Put Som Ang, male, aged 42, a KNP activisit in Siem Reap province, and Sam Sophan, 38, an activist in Takeo province
• Major So Lay Sak and Major Chin Vannak, officers working in the Logisitics department of the RCAF General Staff
• Som Taing, Deputy Chief, Inspection Office, Provincial Governor's Office, Kompong Speu
• Chum Sarith, Chief, Criminal Bureau, Provincial Police, Sihanoukville
Forty-six bodies were brought in and dumped at the crematorium of a Phnom Penh pagoda between 5 and 9 July
In the case of Ho Sok (executed on 7 July, brought to Watt Lanka on 8 July); of Seng Phally, Chao Keang, Chao Tea and Thong Viccheka (executed on 5-6 July and brought by the police to Wat Unalom on the morning of 7 July - see cases number 13-16 above) and in the case of a fifth corpse which was brought to the same pagoda on the same morning, but which could not be identified, the police ordered that cremation of the bodies be conducted without question and without proper cremation permit.
Between 9 and 11 July, according to a variety of reliable corroborating accounts, the bodies of 4 and probably up to 22 soldiers were alleged to have been executed in Pich Nil and burned
Plus many and many more names with lose count that order and executed by Hun Sen and CPP.
There should be big postor with Hun Sen pirated face looking to hanoi. With their logo
" Cwak People Party " ?
CAN SOMEONE HERE DO THAT? whether is logo postor or visual graphic.
of course, khmer people aren't fond of neighbors' food as cambodia have our own rich and variety of cuisine in cambodia, you know! to say otherwise, you don't understand our khmer way and thinking, really! of course, it is natural for khmer people to prefer khmer food, you know! nothing wrong with that, ok!
siem thugs even stole khmer cuisine and tell the world it's siem food, how pathetic is that, really! for your information, cambodia is not thailand nor vietnam, ok! get used to it, ok!
Thailand is trying to undermining Cambodia in every way possible. This is a total lie. They can't even it right; Cambodians do not eat sticky rice.
i know, khmer eat sticky rice only as dessert, not staple food like rice. siem are so ignorant by telling westerners about khmer like this. how stupid they are, really!
This is Siem propaganda bullshit. Some of these Khmer Preah Vihear soldiers are very poor, but they don't go begging for food. They will share their own food with the Siem soldiers and eat together, but they don't go begging for food. For the most part, these Siem soldiers are also eating the Khmer soldiers' food.
i only like khmer food, not siem or youn food, ok!
A lot Funcinpec loyalis are muredered by Hun Sen during 1997 coup but Prince Ranaridth and Bun Chay are join CPP to be rich. They are eat great foods, drink champoin, using Viagra to increase their sex life with young girls everyday.
What're about the victims of 1997 coup? Prince Ranaridth and his high rank officers are betray these victims innocent blood for their sake.
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