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21 September 2011
By Mu Sochua
Part I
Since May of this year, I have visited 7 villages in the North West of Cambodia. The plots of land they cleared-some died from land mines and malaria- is now being offered to a private company by the prime minister
This journey to Sralao Chrum village, Sampouv Loun district, Battamabang province was made on a road totally destroyed by rain. We had to take a Ko Youn or a ėlectric cow", a sort of small tractor pulled with an engine set in the front. It took us 2 hours.We had already traveled by car, crossing through Bantey Meanchey province, for 3 hours.
We walked through the forest for another 40 minutes.
We finally arrived at the pagoda where people were waiting with a lot of patience for more than 4 hours.
The people welcomed us with open hearts and spoke of their fear for the lost of their land. A total of 4,095 hectares have already been offered by the prime minister without ever consulting the people. Local authorities are now forcing the villagers to comply with the order of the prime minister.
I spoke of their right to land. Land is life.
It got to be 7PM. We had to go to the next village as the chief of the village had prevented the people from coming to meet our team.
We would have to sleep in the next village.
Before leaving the pagoda, we prayed for the safety of the land. A 12 year-old chanted louder than the monks. He had been a monk for one year but had to leave monk hood because the village chief considered his family as part of the opposition. He had never been to school.
My heart breaks to see so much endurance, so much pain and suffering of our rural poor.
They work the land. They will die for their land.
The children roam around, the pigs roam around, the cows roam around.
Women, with their children behind and carrying another life inside their wombs, still work the land.
There is so much injustice.
This is my land. These are my people.
That night, I cried a river. I was too exhausted to think. I was very hungry but could not take the wild pig meat offered with a bottle of coke and pounded rice. Thank god for the sweet bananas.
I slept in borrowed clothes.
9 comments:
Why did you keep the people you say are yours waiting? For four hours?
One of the reasons you refused the villagers food was that it did not look hygienic enough.
It is wise to keep your emotional and political manipulations to a minimum.
Kuoy Pichet
MU SOK HOR JUST TALK BUT SHE DON'T GIVE YOU MONEY LIKE HUN SEN DO.
Bravo Mu Sochua! Cambodia need a strong building of grassroots democracy.
Taking Mu Sochua as our role model...we have to join her and the world will join us.
Bravo Mu Sochua! Bravo SRP!
បើដឹងថាបោះឆ្នោតមិនឈ្នៈអាខ្វាក់ហើយ ហេតុដូចម្តេចបានជាមិនដូរយុទ្ធសាស្រ្តថ្មី? ក្រែងយើងទាំងអស់គ្នាដឹងហើយថា៖ អាខ្វាក់ជាបុគ្គលដូចម្តេចនោះ?
យុទ្ធសាស្រ្តអីគេ? កាន់កាំភ្លើង? ប្រហែលជាគ្មានផ្លូវទេ
it's time to start building good, modern roadways and other modern infrastructure, cambodia, i'm sick and tired of seeing cambodia lack of modern infrastructure like roads, bridges, big airports, skyscrapers, railroads, etc, you know! cambodia have to start building good roads that will lasting forever, really! there no good excuses in the world for not building good, modern innfrastructure, ok! i don't like muddy roads, you know!
She is a great Lady I admire. May GOD Bless and protect her.
A muddy road can be built, if you can convince your Oknha about places on thad muddy road where Onkha can make more money, Marketing infrustructure.
Emotional has no place in politic, it is lifetime story....should be kept hidden in her diary...Mu, you are smarter than that....KI who posted that article of hers?
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