Boeung Kak Lake residents put a curse on the Shukaku Co. on 12 June 2009 (Photo: Sophorn, RFA)13 June 2009
By Sophorn
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Residents of the Boeung Kak area have decided to organize a ceremony to put a curse on the Shukaku Co. [owned by CPP-Tycoon-Senator and Hun Sen’s crony Lao Meng Khin] which is currently funding the development of the Boeung Kak region in Phnom Penh city. The residents prayed that this company suffers total destruction.
The prayer for the curse on the Shukaku Co. was organized in the evening of Friday 12 June, and starting at 6PM on that day, all the residents burnt incense in their homes, while others gathered to pray at Village No. 6 of Boeung Kak area to put the curse on this company.
Be Pharom, a resident, said that because the residents no longer trust all levels of government authority to help them solve their hardship, they decided to organize this ceremony to put the curse on the Shukaku Co,: “May Lord Budda help us. Let the spirits guarding this land and water, let the spirit of Boeung Kak Lake, the angels, Indra, Brahma kill those who hurt us with lightning strike.”
The residents added that a few hours after they organized the cursing ceremony, plainclothes government agents, some of whom were armed, came to threaten the residents who dare organize this ceremony.
These agents also confiscated a cane juice container belonging to one of the residents, and they accused her of storing this container on the Shukaku Co. land.
Mom Phal, the owner of the juice container, said: “They used guns to threaten me, but I was not scared. I said shoot me, I am not scared. Even if I die, I still have many relatives left.”
On that same day, RFA reporters crossed the Shukaku Company’s fence to try to obtain information about the accusations made above, however, company agents and police officers in uniform came out to prevent us from asking any questions.
RFA attempted to call officials at the Srah Chork commune office, and officials of the Daun Penh district office, to obtain clarifications on this altercation, but they could not be reached.
Nevertheless, Sa Roeun, chief of Village No. 4 in Boeung Kak Lake area, confirmed that the Shukaku Co. indeed confiscated the cane juice container belonging to the resident, but, he does not have the rights and the duty to resolve this issue.
For the development of the 133-hectare area in Beoung Kak, the Cambodian government gave out a 99-year lease of the lake to the private Shukaku Co. Some of the residents disagreed to this lease and they have held several protests on this issue.
The prayer for the curse on the Shukaku Co. was organized in the evening of Friday 12 June, and starting at 6PM on that day, all the residents burnt incense in their homes, while others gathered to pray at Village No. 6 of Boeung Kak area to put the curse on this company.
Be Pharom, a resident, said that because the residents no longer trust all levels of government authority to help them solve their hardship, they decided to organize this ceremony to put the curse on the Shukaku Co,: “May Lord Budda help us. Let the spirits guarding this land and water, let the spirit of Boeung Kak Lake, the angels, Indra, Brahma kill those who hurt us with lightning strike.”
The residents added that a few hours after they organized the cursing ceremony, plainclothes government agents, some of whom were armed, came to threaten the residents who dare organize this ceremony.
These agents also confiscated a cane juice container belonging to one of the residents, and they accused her of storing this container on the Shukaku Co. land.
Mom Phal, the owner of the juice container, said: “They used guns to threaten me, but I was not scared. I said shoot me, I am not scared. Even if I die, I still have many relatives left.”
On that same day, RFA reporters crossed the Shukaku Company’s fence to try to obtain information about the accusations made above, however, company agents and police officers in uniform came out to prevent us from asking any questions.
RFA attempted to call officials at the Srah Chork commune office, and officials of the Daun Penh district office, to obtain clarifications on this altercation, but they could not be reached.
Nevertheless, Sa Roeun, chief of Village No. 4 in Boeung Kak Lake area, confirmed that the Shukaku Co. indeed confiscated the cane juice container belonging to the resident, but, he does not have the rights and the duty to resolve this issue.
For the development of the 133-hectare area in Beoung Kak, the Cambodian government gave out a 99-year lease of the lake to the private Shukaku Co. Some of the residents disagreed to this lease and they have held several protests on this issue.
9 comments:
I can hear them now:
"may the lightning stike them in broad daylight blasting their sculp to bits and pieces...please Lord?"
Amen
The curse has been granted!!!.
Die soon Lao Meng Khin.
Cambodian land CANNOT take you anymore.
Lord Mohamed,Christ,Visnu,Buddha...and deities of the environment WILL take HIM,Lao Meng Khin.
Amen
never put curses on any being . it karma . pray for them to do the right thing and good karma will reflect back. these idiots they have no compassion period. if you curses them it will only come back to you. that's why all the bad things always show up over and over again toward us. instead of curses at them , why don't we pray for them to have more wisdom and compassion and good karma reflect back to us.
Course must also put on Vietnamese Gov'ts that kept abusing Khmer Krom people everyday, and Khmer Gov't must reforms and pay attentions....
Fart on your heads, FUCKERS! Wake up!..... No such thing! If there is such thing as you wish, Cambodia would not be like that. Politics hide behind this Khmer "crazy" belief system.
1:53pM! WAIT UNTILE YOU FAMILY TEAR APART IN PIECES THAN YOU WILL KNOW WHAT HAPPEN WHEN 90% OFF POPULATION OF A COUNTRY CURSING YOU!
mOVE TO CHINA AH kITH IF YOU WANT TO HAVE BODY TO BURRY! see what happened to ah Hok Landy?????
1:33am,
It's Lao Meng Khin not Kith. Khin and Kith is not the same.
This kind of rituals have been practicing all over the world including in the US, just that they do different rituals.
They still practice in the US mainly in New Orleans where huricane Katrina hit a few yeays ago. Those rituals brought from old ancient Africa or Egypt to Asia, and Khmer received it from Hindu.
For some reasons scientists cannot figure our why calling the dark energy could sometime be so effective. Watch History Channel and learn more from many who witnessed their experiences with dark energy. These people called for dark force to help them like calling evils to be their saviors.
cannot figure out. correction
It may be working if they do correctly but in Cambodia many high ranking have their protections. Hun Sen and his family memebrs have many Psychics or astrologers helped behind. They do somekind, Khmer say "peak katha" to proptect themselves from all evils. Some work and sometime don't work.
I don't believe in such things, but I believe in our Karma.
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