Friday, September 22, 2006

Pchum Ben Celebration in Vihear Suor: Buffamulo 1 Racing

Cambodian men pay their respect to the spirit Neakta Preah Srok with their buffalo before the start of an annual buffalo-racing ceremony at Virhear Sour village in Kandal province, 50km (31 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh September 22, 2006. The ceremony, which started more than 70 years ago, is held to honour the Neakta Preah Srok pagoda spirit. After the ceremony, the buffaloes are sold to the highest bidder. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

A Cambodian boy prepares his buffalo during an annual buffalo-racing ceremony at Virhear Sour village in Kandal province, 50km (31 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh September 22, 2006. The ceremony, which started more than 70 years ago, is held to honour the Neakta Preah Srok pagoda spirit. After the ceremony, the buffaloes are sold to the highest bidder. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

Cambodian men pay their respect to pagoda spirit Neakta Preah Srok before the start of an annual buffalo-racing ceremony at Virhear Sour village in Kandal province, 50km (31 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh September 22, 2006. The ceremony, which started more than 70 years ago, is held to honour the Neakta Preah Srok pagoda spirit. After the ceremony, the buffaloes are sold to the highest bidder. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

Cambodian men hold their buffalos during the buffalo racing at Preah Vihear Sour pagoda some 35 kilometers () North-east of the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia Friday, Sept. 22, 2006. The residents of this village on Friday held a 'Formula 1' buffalo race to mark the end of the traditional celebration widely known in Cambodia as Festival for the Dead. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian men ride buffaloes during an annual buffalo racing ceremony at Virhear Sour village in Kandal province, 50 km (31 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh, September 22, 2006. The ceremony, which started more than 70 years ago, is held to honour the Neakta Preah Srok pagoda spirit. After the ceremony, the buffaloes are sold to the highest bidder. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

Cambodian boys ride on their buffalos during the buffalo racing at Preah Vihear Sour pagoda, Kandal province some 35 kilometers (22 miles) northeast of the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia Friday, Sept. 22, 2006. The residents of this village on Friday held a 'Formula 1' buffalo race to mark the end of the traditional celebration widely known in Cambodia as Festival for the Dead. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

A Cambodian man rides his buffalo during an annual buffalo-racing ceremony at Virhear Sour village in Kandal province, 50km (31 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh, September 22, 2006. The ceremony, which started more than 70 years ago, is held to honour the Neakta Preah Srok pagoda spirit. After the ceremony, the buffaloes are sold to the highest bidder. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

Cambodian men ride buffaloes during an annual buffalo-racing ceremony at Virhear Sour village in Kandal province, 50 km (31 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh September 22, 2006. The ceremony, which started more than 70 years ago, is held to honour the Neakta Preah Srok pagoda spirit. After the ceremony, the buffaloes are sold to the highest bidder. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

A Cambodian boy rides on his buffalo through a village of Vihear Sour during the buffalo racing at Preah Vihear Sour pagoda, Kandal province some 35 kilometers (22 miles) northeast of the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia Friday, Sept. 22, 2006. The residents of this village on Friday held a 'Formula 1' buffalo race to mark the end of the traditional celebration widely known in Cambodia as Festival for the Dead. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful pictures. TWO thumbs up!

Anonymous said...

THE LON NOL COUP OF 1970 WILL REPEAT SOON AGAIN

YUON XEN GETS READY TO ABOLISH THE KHMER MONARCHY.



PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY


ON...........2006 AT..., THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS BEEN CONVENED AND HAS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO REMOVE NORODOM SIHAMONI AS A KING OF CAMBODIA, ABOLISHING THE MONARCHY AND DECLARING CAMBODIA A REPUBLIC WITH YUON XEN, WHO IS CURRENTLY PRIME MINISTER, AS THE PRESIDENT FOR LIFE WITH GRANTED EMERGENCY POWERS..

From Government spokesman and
Information Minister KHIEU KANHARITH

Anonymous said...

KHMER PEOPLE IS IN WANT OF

A KHMER DEGAULLE

TO THE LIBERATION OF OUR COUNTRY

http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/article.php3?id_article=510

Declaration of general de Gaulle published in France in the clandestine papers on, June 23rd 1942.

The last veils behind which the enemy and traitors plotted against France have now been torn down. The issue at stake in this war is plain to all Frenchmen : independence or slavery. It is the sacred duty of every man to contribute all he can to the liberation of our country through the invader's defeat. There can be no solution and no future for us except through victory.
Yet this gigantic ordeal has shown the nation that the danger threatening its existence does not come solely from outside, and that victory without courageous and thorough internal reconstruction would not be real victory.
One moral, social, political and economic régime, paralysed by corruption, has abdicated in defeat. Another, arising from a criminal capitulation, is drunk with personal power. Both are condemned by the French people who, even as they unite for victory, are massing for revolution.
In spite of the fetters and gags of slavery, a thousand tokens, coming from the very heart of the nation, allow us to glimpse her desires and hopes. In the name of France, we proclaim these, and affirm the war aims of the French people.
We want our country to recover everything that belongs to her. For us, the end of the war means the restoration of complete integrity to France, the Empire and the national heritage ; it means that the nation must once again exercise absolute sovereignty over its own destiny. Any usurpation, whether from inside or beyond our frontiers, must be destroyed and swept away. As we mean to make France once again sole mistress of her fate, we shall likewise see to it that the French people alone are masters of their destiny. At the same time as they are freed from enemy oppression, all their internal liberties must be restored. Once the enemy is driven from our land, all French men and women will elect a National Assembly, which, in the full exercise of its sovereignty, will determine the country's future.
We seek retribution for every blow which has been, or is now, aimed at the rights, interests and honour of the French nation, and intend all such dangers to be eliminated. This means, first and foremost, that enemy leaders violating the laws of war to the detriment of French persons and property must be punished, together with the traitors who co-operate with them. Next, it means that the totalitarian system which incited, armed and hurled our enemies against us, as well as the systematic coalition of private interests which, in France, has worked against the interests of the nation, must simultaneously and for all time be overthrown.