Click on the text in Khmer to zoom inComment originally posted on the Camdisc bulletin board
Too much buttering up
Translated from Khmer by Chao Sok
Yesterday, I was watching the Bayon TV station, there was a point in there that I found so sickening. In the show, I saw an interview in a program called “Phum Kh-nhom, Pha-let-phal Kh-nhom” (my village, my product) in which a villager was discussing about his wooden mermaid carving. The villagers said that, in the past, he used a hand sander to polish the carving to smooth it, but now, he is using a mechanical sander instead because it makes his job easier. Immediately, the anchorman cut in and said that the villager was able to use a mechanical sander was because of the progress achieved by Samdach Akak Moha Sena Bat Dey Dek Cho [Hun Sen], and thanks to that, we are now developed and have received modern technology to use in our daily life. This is so sickening to me … just for a mechanical sander that costs 4 or 5 bucks, how could they claim that this is the Dek Cho’s achievement? How about the corruption cases involving millions of US dollars, why don’t they talk about these achievements as well?
Please help me, can you make any sense out of this?
Samnang
