Dear Excellency and friend,
I thank you very sincerely for your letter and for your offer to transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion.
As for you and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty. You have refused us your protection and we can do nothing about it. You leave us and it is my wish that you and your country will find happiness under the sky.
But mark it well that, if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad because we are all born and must die one day. I have only committed the mistake of believing in you, the Americans.
Please accept, Excellency, my dear friend, my faithful and friendly sentiments. Sirik Matak.
I thank you very sincerely for your letter and for your offer to transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion.
As for you and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty. You have refused us your protection and we can do nothing about it. You leave us and it is my wish that you and your country will find happiness under the sky.
But mark it well that, if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad because we are all born and must die one day. I have only committed the mistake of believing in you, the Americans.
Please accept, Excellency, my dear friend, my faithful and friendly sentiments. Sirik Matak.
67 comments:
Because of you cambodia went 30 years backward
did you mean 30 years from 1979?
he was a hero. sihanorouk was and is still a scumbage bottom-feeding, low-life.
Trakaulrungruang, Aust
Indeed in was a mistake.... that's why the country turned up side down... Well at least prince Sirimatak didn't run away like the coward Lon Nol when the war was out of control he ran off to Hawai... Siri Matak stayed back died like many of us.... If there hadn't been a coup in 1970 may be things would have been different...
Siri Matak was a hero.
Sihanouk is a coward.
and he was a black-belt in karate and aikido...
Prince Sirik Matak committed a mistake, because he had not other choice. For me he was our hero and great patriotic.
He only wanted something better for our country and Khmer people.
We all love our country, but we did different ways. Some of us have left the country, live far from home, but still have the feeling of loving our country Cambodia.
Please learn to understand, accept the situation and stop blaming each other,
All these posters are stupid.
They don't understand the geopolitics.
What does Hun Sen say his best friend Thaksin allegedly dies?
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/05/01/politics/Thaksin-family-dispel-rumours-of-death-coma-30128376.html
1:40PM
We are counting on you to give a lecture on geopolitics.
Stupid people cannot understand the geopolitics but they know how to barke like dogs. Like them this dumbest 1;49pm is one of their another clowns.
1:55pm yes you motherfucker go and fuck your mother your fool.
1:55 PM,
Are you the expert in geopolitics of Indochina and SE Asia?
Learn to be nice and respect other people's opinion, will you?
Yours is only one among millions of opinions and may not necessarily be correct either.
You pointed one finger to others by calling them stupid, you indeed pointed the other four fingers at yourself.
Ah Preit 2:08 PM,
Curse on the one who posted not the mothers who knew nothing about this fight. How about your mother? Was she not fucked by your father to have you, you pudden-head?
How about you ,you 2:30pm.GO AND FUCK YOUR MOTRHER TOO AH CHOY MRAY.
2:23pm,
Yes I am, but why should I waste my time to teach the pudden heads?
How long that these dunderheads still barke the same story? How do you know I pointed fingers to myself?
I pointed all 5 fingers to them if you want me to clarify.
Ah Preit 2:35 PM,
Why do you have to tell people that you choy your own mother ah Preit niss. Is it the only thing you know how ah preit.
I love this man behavior.
That's a Khmer hero.
I prefer to die like him than live like Sihanouk.
I ask to Sirimatak children not to do bad to keep this man soul alive.
Did anyone ever notice his name? Seri Matak in Khmer means Freedom Forever.There you see, the man had stayed true until the end.
As most of us know American by now that they do change. The next time around, if the American changes, just go with the flow to save your life and go back and fight for it later.
Now that Seri Matak, Long Boret, Lon Nol, Cheng Heng & Ung Bun Hor are dead, who will fight for our real freedom? Who will hear the real voice of Khmer Freedom? Never again, Cambodian people know the real freedom giving by America in their own country the way it was in 1970. Never.
I infer from his letter that he gave up his only life for Cambodia....
May he rest in peace.
Prince Sirikmatak and Lon Nol were heroes that destroyed Cambodia. In 1967 Lee Kuan Yew said, when he was conferred the title of honorary doctorate of law at the uniersity of phnom penh, said he would be proud if he were khmer. he wants singapore to be like phnom penh. Sirikmatak and Lon Nol destroyed Cambodia by staging a coup d'Etat.
If not them, it would be two other Khmers, they had no choice, Vietcongs were everywhere in Cambodia, Americans did anything to bomb Cambodia, enter into Cambodia.
7:19 PM, you should not confuse victims and offenders.
Dear all,
Nothing changes since I kept myself away from the comment area a year ago. Our Khmer Warrior DNA still has not evolved from what it was hundreds of years ago. Look at and listen to us. Cursing, name calling, bringing in our mothers into the conversation, many of us still carry on. Very sad !!!
If you have Khmer heart, what ever your political party is, even you are the executioner of Sirimatak, Sirimatak deserves your respect.
princed sirik matak could've stay alive if he accepted the american invitation. now he's dead under KR regime. he showed patriotism then, undermined the KR atrocity, i guess. i say live to fight another day is better. we want america influence in my country now. god bless cambodia.
Reading a letter like this rips my heart apart and makes me cry. Why someone with so much love and passion for the country like him was mercilessly murdered by his own compatriots.
The KR could put him under the house of arrest or expulse him out of the country, yet they choose to treat their own compatriots with unprecedent brutality.
Khiev Samphan, Ieng Sary and his wife, and Duch must all pay the price...
9:31 PM
You did not live during the 1970 war. War is war. This letter shows that Prince Sirik Matak was a human being, not a leader.
During the war the Lon Nol soldiers killed Cambodian peasants and the opposite armies very cruelly.
If you live in Kampong Cham, the plane will shoot you from the sky, as they cannot distinguish whether you are peasants or a communist fighters.
Many of the communists did not know what communism was about. They had no choice. People had no choice during a war.
Why Prince Sirik Matak and Lon Nol dragged Cambodian into the war. The coup was just to allow the US to withdraw from VIetnam, but the coup leaders did not know that.
What happened to Cambodia without this coup d'etat. we might had peace. King Sihanouk had weakness, but he was much better than Sirik Matak and Lon Nol. It was a disaster during the that time. The current Hun Sen government is almost perfect, if compared with the Lon Nol government.
If Prince Sirik Matak was not a leader why he staged a coup.
American interests are not necessary Cambodian.
9:46 PM, you were not there either, you forget American bombs,
Khmers killed by Vietcongs, Khmers killed by Khmer rouges, before 1975, Sirimatak did nothing wrong, if just love his country, defend his contry against communist and freedom exactly like you and your friends Khmer rouges, Vietcongs and Vietminhs.
i know, some people are not even a poltician and act like they are a trained politician or a career politician. that's a mistake like seri matak, lon nol, etc. during that time! learn from history, ok! also, keep in mind that was war time, think smartly and have a back out plan in case of disaster next time you have coup or whatever. don't take it lightly. you are dealing with people's life, you know! like stupid KR regime, they are dealing or playing with people's life! that is criminal in itself. so, learn from history; it was a stupid mistake then! no more, enough already!cambodia paid a heavy price for it then. enough!
yes, good point, patriotism is not the same as a career politician. seri matak, lon nol, etc weren't politician. they were politician want-to-be. one has to be a career politician to stay in politics. if not, you may not know what you are doing or talking about, really! i mean, to comment is one thing, but to be serious and matter, you have to have some kind of creditial as a trained politician, etc... to count, really! that's all.
the thing about the stupid KR was that they didn't have kill people like animals, they could've expul them out of the country or put them under house arrest, etc; but to kill everyone? that's where the line is drawn. of course, KR leaderships are reponsible for their brutality against khmer people! that's where stupidity came in! KR regime should rotten in hell forever!
I lived during Sihanouk, Lon Nol, Khmer Rouge, Heng Samring, Norodom Ranaridh/Hun Sen and Hun Sen.
You cannot just read books to know history. You should go through history yourself, just like you cannot be an economist by going to Harvard or Oxford, you must go through yourself.
Without the coup d'etat, there was not Khmer Rouge. Before the coup Cambodia was at peace. Withouth the Khmer ROuge there was not killing. Don't forget that the US bombed Cambodia during Lon Nol. He cannot say no.
You must know history before accusing me of being whatsoever. Just you must analyze why the Khmer Rouge killed people. I regret that the current tribunal will never shed light on this. But I think I know the answer. May be a wrong answer.
You know that the leaders or ministers of the Khmer Republic sent their kids and families to the US, but preferred to stay on in Cambodia.
I run to see the US marine lifting Cambodians and Americans who wanted to leave Cambodia. It was followed by a barrage of motars and shelling.
Going to school under rocket shelling can be more interesting than now. We wanted to study, especially after the Khmer Rouge. Now students don't want to study anymore. They have too good life.
If we are not educated, we don't appreciate freedom, even if we lieve in America.
it's ok, there's no right or wrong answer here. it's good to read or see everyone's comments, remarks, opinions, etc here. we all can learn from everybody, really. i encourage you to express what you know or understand here, please. don't worry about wrong answer or what have you. just express what you understand. we all can learn from each other here. thank you and god bless.
If we want to learn we have to question. If we question, we should ask "Does God exists?"
God doesn't exist,
if he exists, he's incompetent, he's week, he's lasy..
Why ?
He allows men kill men.
He allows bad men do bad thing.
He never intervenes.
He allows satin do what ever they want.
Prince Sirik Matak made a tragic mistake by letting Pol Pot killed him and his own people. He should went to U.S and fight back to save Khmers and his country. Their is nothing wrong for a leader to live another day and continue to fight back.
Prince Sirik Matak made a tragic mistake by letting Pol Pot killed him and his own people. He should went to U.S and fight back to save Khmers and his country. Their is nothing wrong for a leader to live another day and continue to fight back.
actually, ah sary, ah somphan, ta nu are all cowards...scums and criminals...
Dear All kmer blood,
1- SIRIK MATAK, he is political guy but he do not know politic
( he trust American, than his owne people when he lost the game, he feel regretted for his mistake.)
2- NORODOM SIHANOUK, also do not trust his owne people he trust HO CHIM MIN, Vietname than Cambodian people. So when he lost the game with vietname, Cambodia people died and SIHANOUK him self feel regretted for his mistake.
So please all Khmer blood we must united. do not trust any nation than your onwe country. Do not trust other person than your onwe family. If you are real love Khmer do not killed khmer political please we are all the same blood.
We already have aleson. We must to stop.
Khmer is the riched culture in the world.
KHMERSOT IN USA
What a pity for HE Sirik Matak! It is his guilty conscience that led to his death. Although he has sacrificed his life and only to be a wasted one. A hero of any country must use the skill or his intelligence to counter his enemies combattan. To struggle for survival is to fight another day and it must be a motto for every soldiers on the battle field. To committ a sucide just to get out of trouble is rather a cowardly act. For His Excellency Sirik Matak to accuse the Americans for leaving him was not the right thing to do. An embassy in every nation of the Free World is only an act of exchanging diplomacy to which one must committ to certain responsibilities by certain countries toward each other, but to expect your allies to a 100% support during war time is like putting a gun to your head and waiting to die, and that is exactly what happened to HE Sirik Matak. Cambodian should learn that we must trust anyone...not even our own people. This world is a very cruelty world.
Thanks for listen.
X-Men
CORRECTION: Cambodian should learn that we must NOT trust anyone...not even our own people. This world is a cruelty world.
sirik matak was ineffective perhaps, he's too passive. you can't be passive when you're a politician. you've gotten to be tough, thick skin, aggressive like a real warrior, and too much emotion did not help either. be aggressive, competitive, if you are to be effective. put love aside when it comes to enforcing the rule, etc... it doesn't mean you kill people, either, it just means you have to stand your ground and be firm, be thick skin. and sirik matak and lon nol did not do that. as for pol pot and his stupid KR people, they are too extreme, too fascist, too dictatorial, too radical, to tyrannic, etc... got to find the balance, not too soft, and yet not too hard, either, middle ground is better toward your own people, really! however, you enemies, is another story. maybe everybody was pol pot's enemies, include our own cambodia, that's why his regime killed khmer people and destroyed cambodia. now that was so stupid of them, really! maybe that's why they did not last long at all!
when gov't is good and desirable or better, it lasts a long time. why? because people support it and protect it. think about it. so, don't be jealous of current gov't. the fact that it can last a long time is a sign that it's a good gov't, not perfect, but good or better, really! still a lot of works to be done, though, nevertheless, it's good and better. otherwise, like stupid KR regime, it won't last long at all. god will judge that.
i don't feel sorry for sirik matak. he was too passive alright. as a leader, you can't be too passive like that. you got to be willing to fight another day, not did what he did like lamenting and die cowardly like that. it's like a suicidal mission he did to himself then.
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តំណាងសង្គមរិតរុំព័ទ្ធ ជុំវិញខ្លួនគាត់រលួយអែរ ។
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ហ៊ានពោលហ៊ានប៉ះចោទថាខ្មាំង ខ្មែរណារារាំងត្រូវប្រល័យ ។
ព្រាបអ៊ិន សៅង៉ុយ ចៅបូរី ចៅស៊ី ង៉ែតងិនបានក្សិណក្ស័យ
ឈាមស្រស់ហូរស្រោចសព្វប្រថពី ស្លាប់ទាំងរីករាយ ចៅមធុរ៉ា ។
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ស្ថានការណ៍ធ្ងន់ធ្ងរទ្រមិនរួច ទ័ពយួនដែលលួចនៅបំបាំង
មិនព្រមដកថយលយកំលាំង រាតកាន់តែខ្លាំងក្នុងដែនខ្មែរ ។
សេដ្ឋកិច្ចក្នុងស្រុកធ្លាក់ដុនដាប នាម៉ឺនលុតក្រាបប្រឹងបូមដែរ
បៀប៉ោពាលាអាវាសែ រាស្ត្រក្រីក្រខ្មែរកើតទុរ្ភិក្ស ។
រដ្ឋាភិបាលស្រោចស្រង់ជាតិ បញ្ញាវន្តមូលញាតិច្រើនសន្ធឹក
លន់ណុល សិរិមតៈភ្ញាក់រលឹក គគ្រឹកគគ្រាំនាំគ្នាចរ ។
ផ្តើមទំព័រថ្មីល្បីខ្ទរខ្ទារ ១៨មិនារាស្ត្រមូលមក៍
សីហនុឆេះឆាបដាបមោហោ ស្រែកហៅរត់រក៍យួនយៀកមិញ។
ឲ្យចូលកំទេចរដ្ឋខេមរា បំបះប្រជាទាំងទោម្នេញ
ព្រោះតែចង់បានអំណាចវិញ រលាយភ្នំពេញព្រោះនរណា? ។
របបសាធារណរដ្ឋ បានប្រាំឆ្នាំគត់ចូលមរណា
ព្រោះតែចាញ់បោកថោកឫស្យា ល្បិចកលពួកមារខ្មែរក្រហម ។
ជន្លៀសប្រជាចេញពីផ្ទះ ឲ្យទៅនៅរស់តាមថ្មក្រំ
ចាក់កាប់សម្លាប់បាញ់វាយដំ ក្មេងចាស់តូចធំពុំប្រណី ។
សម្លាប់រង្គាលអស់ហើយមនុស្ស ការងារច្រើនហួសមិនឲ្យឆី
បង្ខំកុមារឲ្យបាចជីរ ខ្លះសូន្យជីវីដោយអត់ឃ្លាន។
គ្មានថ្នាំសង្កូវព្យាបាលរោគ បែរបន់គុណលោករកតាមហ៊ាន
គ្រុនញាក់គ្រុនញ័រត្រដរប្រាណ ស្លាប់ចុះក៏បានរួចផុតកម្ម ។
យ៉ែនមករា ថ្ងៃ ទី ២៥ ធ្នូ ១៩៩៥
Until now, we Khmers still trust foreigners? I am so sick in the stomach with these stupid people who still blame King Sihanouk.
China and US and other foreigners are all the same. The US were the one who secretely made a deal with French to sign Khmer land at Southern part to Yuon, because the US and China wanted to rule & reign in SEA.
The animal Yuon have been killing Khmers for 500 years making themselves Khmers and killing Khmers, the US knew but do they care? No.
Cambodia is a piece of land that they want to use as their battle field. The US are no democracy's lover, but fake.
How many SEA freedom fighters helped the US ended up being killed and in jail like the Lao general?
K-5 was abandonend and indirectly killed by the US and all of the sudden the US decided to sleep with Yuon after they killed each others in Vietnam War losing million lives, then Pol Pot was assassinated after he joined Yuon and he broke away from Yuon and he told the Journalist that Yuon were among his people. Yuon directly killed Khmers in K-5 by the green light from the US.
The people in SEA of small nations now know that their fates are unpredictable because if they joint China they will end up dead and if they joint US they still end up dead, just try to survive so they joint anyone who could save them for a while.
Khmers knew thant animal Yuon were among Khmers since the French colony so they had no other choice but to create 2 groups: one jointed with the US and 2 joined with China. Sirimatak was a politician and he was no stranger to King Sihanouk, they may be working together. He refused to leave the country, he may be secretely joined with China to free Cambodia; and to stay to fight agaisnt Yuon who infiltrated in Khmers may be his mission.
BUT YUON ANIMALS May Know the jeux of Siramatak with Sihanouk, so he was killed along with other Khmers; while Sihanouk escapted from killing by Yuon. Allowing Khmers like Sirimatak and Sihanouk to unite would be danger to Yuon.
Yuon have alwasy used the tactic "Divide and Conquer strategy".
Joining with the US or China sacrificed lives, and why was King Mahidol shot on the head at the time his rule and reign, the US vs. Communists, and his young brother stop smiling and stop becoming King? No one knew the fact who killed Mahidol? How could some said he was killed by his brother or KGB if he seemed to favor Communists? How about CIA? King Sihanouk escaped assassination by CIA and by animal Yuon many times. If some said the CIA is nice and killed no body. Oh yeah how about the Kennedys, John and Robert Kennedys? Who's the most powerful to kill the world leader and no one dared to challenge or even investigate? CIA was.
When the US alone couldn't defeat the mighty Communist army combined (Soviet-China and Yuon/Cuba), what happend to small peopel like us in SEA?
In Thailand, there're too many poor Thais, so they voted Thaksin who is China's favorite man who care for the poor, and every elected officials who sided with China always be kicked out from Thailand.
IT IS NOT SAFE whoever SEA nations side with China or US. While the REd shirts making their cases accusing the Abhisit the western educated man of beinng a usurpur, now all of the sudden there are another mystery group with a black uniforms rise up and invade Hospital Chulanlongkorn and even shooting bother red shirts and the policemen.
Can we figure out who created these black uniforms? Thaialnd today is going to be just like in Cambodia while animal Yuon hiding among Khmers made tehmselves Khmers and killed Khmers.
In Burma now the US accuse Chinese for taking Burma by keep moving into Burma. But why didn't theUS accuse British for taking BUrma before?
I trust no body but I think we should play middle games; we shake hands with both China and US. If the US ignore our country, we kiss China, and if China abandons our Cambodia, we kiss the US.
In Cambodia when Khmers protest againat CPP-Yuon, then CPP-Yuon protest back. The Black uniforms created by Abhisit illegal Gov't and may be helped by Hanoi (with the US behind). Hanoi is so good in doing that. Because of this confusing situation in Thailand, China starts to put pressure on Hanoi.
this is one powerful letter to American. Wow i'm impressed.
Sirik Matak a traitor.
Mr:2,04am,you` re so good man!,i love to read your comments.Do you have something else to say body!,what ever you `ve said is absolutely true and logically is nature for the KHMER leaders in the past,the present and in the future to deserve to learn,to adapt,to commit and to serve the country.Do you know why?,i say so!,because our nation the smallest one,poor and surround by two enemies from the east and the west.So we have no choice!,do what we have to do to keep our nation alive!.No matter, what we do!,no matter how we fight as long as we wont!!!!.God bless all CAMBODIANS around the globe,united we stand,divided we fall!!!.QUEBEC,MTL,CANADA.
Even 1,000 Hun Sens would never ever equal to one Sirik Matak. Sirik Matak will eternally live forever as a Khmer hero with honor and dignity. Hun Sen will forever be known as a piece of traitorous garbage that sluts himself penis to anus for the Viets.
Happy Mother day guys/girls.
Long live Siri Matak.
Mr:2,04am Aren't we need Hun Sen Just in case If China (pol pot) ignore our country We kiss sompeng Youn. like we deed now.
Yumm Yumm...
Happy Mother day guys/girls.
Long live Siri Matak.
Mr:2,04am Aren't we need Hun Sen Just in case If China (pol pot) ignore our country We kiss sompeng Youn. like we deed now.
Yumm Yumm...I'm Immune to AIDs.
General Healey
General Healey's speech to the Second world Convention of
Khmer Krom, Washington D.C.USA. August 14 1987
Mr. Chairman
Ladies and Gentlemen;
I felt very humbled by your kind invitation to come to spend a few moment with
you this evening and to once again be among the many very wonderful people that,
during the time I was in Vietnam (and it hardly seems possible) that my first
association with the knmer krom came about almost 25 years ago. that wakens one to
a continuing advancing age. I am most grateful of this opportunity.
What I am about to say may sound to some like an indicment of American policy
pacts, and the shame ful experiences that we, the Special Force, had to undergo
when we left our friends in Southeast Asia in 1973 I can tell you from personal
experience that, since that time, I have on many occasion unashamedly cried because
of my personal involvement with the Khmer Krom and the Khmer Serei Force, who were
unafraid to stand wth the Civilian Irregular Defense Group scattered throughout
the Delta of Southest Asia, who stuck with us on occasions when others of fainter
heart left us. More of that in a moment, I think it is appropriate for the
Americans who are here to understand that, of all the experiences that I had in
Vietname and of all the lessons I learned as a human being and as an individual,
my association with your people is a lasting and indelible mark in my mind, A
gentle, quiet peaceful group of people strongly religiously oriented, family
oriented, who live- even when they were poverty - with great dignity, an ancient
race of brave men and women. It was Colenel George Morton, he's here, who first
permitted me to visit you, and I am sure that all of you who associated with us in
those early day will remember that he was really the one who identified the great
fighting spirit and capability of the Khmer Krom, from Tay Ninh province to Hatien,
down in the Delta area of Vinh Gia, Moc Hoa, Hiep Hoa and in all the other
locations where you proved yourselves so valiantly. I was specially impressed
during my years of service with you with the resoluteness of your people in the
face of great adversity, to continue the fight, to not accept second class
citizenship in the republic of Vietnam those created French border born of the
degradation and unkind treatment that you received. The loyalty, the commitment
that you made were fundamental to your way of life and I strongly urge you not to
stop thinking and being that way.
We were included in your group of friends and, as I said, when others left us in
the face of severe adversity, we could defend on it that the Khmer Krom were
present in the camp, as they were in 1964 at Moc Hoa and Heip Hoa. We did not have
to worry about staying alive because the Cambodian boys were with us when others
run away.
General Healey
General Healey's speech to the Second world Convention of
Khmer Krom, Washington D.C.USA. August 14 1987
I can remember being underground in a bunker at Dakto and the only strength that
really held in 1969, were the Khmer Krom. And at Buprang month later, when our
fire support bases that were forward to the border were surrounded, I received
some wonderful military instruction from some of my very small men who held to the
hills with their finger nails and asked me not to allow the Vienamese to attack,
but to hold on so that the enemy force would continue to gather around their
positions and then they told me that the solution to the problem was to ask
general Abram to send in the B-52's and kill the enemy because the only thing that
could happen to the Vietnamese camp would be that they(the Khmer Krom and their
three Americans Advisors) and the fire support base to the North and the East of
Buprang, would be caught in the middle. General Abram was convinced to allow us to
hold. I'm very proud of the fact that holding on for 22day-much of it without
food or proper water to drink, end without us hearing again, from some of the
enemy units that surround us directly. This was unbelievable. They keep telling me
"The Khmer people are to loving a people. They don't really fight. Well they don't
like to fight, but when the time comes that it is necessary- Oh! yeh, Oh! they
fight so well.
I recall numerous conversation with Dr. son Ngoc Thanh in his small apartment in
Saigon. When we were getting ready to send the first three batalions to Phnom
Penh from Long Hai. He told me that " The greatest treasure of any nation were
its people. He said that " The greatest protection of any people, in any nation,
is freedom. He told me that " Freedom could only be guaranteed by equality under
laws, and he pulled out script of the Cambodian people-a hand-written copy of
what he had praised to be the constitution of the Khmer Republic. He didn't speak
all that well in English, but he told me that he had used the American Constituion
as his guide-not French Constitution, not the German Constitution, nothing from
Great Britain...but the American Constitution.
He said that he hope was that the preamble to our constitution would become almost
the Brahmanist's prayer, that it would be understood by every young boy and girl
in Cambodia. Dr.Son Ngoc Thanh told me that the wisdom of the ancient dictated
that some place in this world that there would be a nation that would become
a guiding light. Then, he identified my country. And I was very proud at that
moment. When he told me that he said "Now, it become necessary for us to educate
our young people so that they will understand the blessing of liberty and the
right to self-determination'. His last words before we send the first three
batallions to Phonm Penh were " In Cambodia, we must have , as soon as possible, a
republic of the people, by the people, and for the people, and we must educate
them and to tell them that treasure is worth giving their lives to have".
General Healey
General Healey's speech to the Second world Convention of
Khmer Krom, Washington D.C.USA. August 14 1987
Regardeless of how it is looke upon, believed or not believed, for or against,
when a policy of a great nation, such as my country, encourages and supports men's
strugle for freedom, men to commit themselves, their fortunes, their honor, their
lives to gain or to maintain that freedom, it is indeeded terrible
act to walk away from that support. The American people in 1973, in the face of
internal home political difficulties were strugling with themselves. As a
previous speaker mention, a very vocal, small, but well organized than vocal group
of people who mouthed the surrender of Southeast Asia( by our departure would
cripple in fact) and they send us home. Those responsible for that
desertion of our friends on the battle field, should never forgotten. Their names
should be indelibly etched in our mind so that, when and if they should never run
for public office, the American people who vote should be told that they were the
ones who were responsible for the surrender of not just 17.5 million people in
the Republic of Vietnam, but for million of people who died in the Cambodian
Holocaust, and million who remain enslaved. There are still fain-minded people
among us, and we yet, today face another American decision where we have
encouraged by our support the people in Central America to fight for the freedom
against enslavement. And once again, in political turmoil domestical, they are
those of faint heart who sometime I wonder if they do not truly believe in some
kind of a dialectical materialism theory of the inevitability of communism, tell
us to now run from those we encourage to take to the field to fight for freedom
peace offensives are not new to America. God knows we hope for peace.
We pray for peace, but as long as there is a man or woman enslaved under the yoke of
communism, none of us will be free, because that yoke that imprisons humanity in
so many parts of the world, is hungry for more, and they are never satisfied.
Those who do recommend for the opposition, have never tasted slavery.
They have never seen quite, loving boy who lived in the rural areas of Cambodia
and who, in 1970, return to their home to fight the enemy, deserted in the field.
They have never see the Khmer Rouge that only number about 2900 people in the
hard core organization, capture the youth of Cambodia, take them into the forest,
indoctrinate them and creat from that youth of Cambodia an uninform, misinformed
and misguided group of executioners that killed almost 2 millions proxies, or they
would not say, "Desert those who are struggling for freedom". The peace offensive
has been launched. The smell is familiar. I only say to those who search for
those things that we take for granted.
At this moment, I am still tremendously impressed by you that knowledge that I
first recognized 25 years ago, continues to develop and you are the ones I still
remember, I wonder what manner of greatness must you posess to imagine to be free.
And whenever I see the limited numbers that are or the few who were sacrificed at
all to tast this beautiful freedom, I recall my religion and what I believe in and
my God and I assure you it is the same God, just on the diffrent road. I khow that
1987 years ago or there abouts, in a small room, onece again in the Middle East,
twelve resolute men gathered together to express their views of God.
So no matter how few you are, don't you forget Khmer Krom that you are and that
your children are.
Thank you very much for inviting me.
One thing that General Healey did not montion, in a guerrilla warfare, they should work with the local population. How they are goin to fight ignoring the plights of the local people. They should learn the lesson of the lost war.
When Pol Pot army marching into Phnom Penh, Prince Sirik Matak and all of his family member were executed in his home...because he refused to leave his beloved cambodia...the Prince said, this is my home, this is my beloved country, if he wanted to run like other, he will be alive and welll til these days...
Yep, he' is a HERO!!!!
US is coward..
7;29 I agree with you .
He is a HERO I wish he will born and do the best to his coutry againd.
He has at least this one of this quality of a leader. A leader never ever leaves his people he leads. We still remember you. thank you to give your live in our place. His mistake is in believing foreigner for help. This same mistake has been done by khmer leaders before him and after him and abound up to today by and with the ruling party and the opposition party as well. WE SHOULD STOP TO MAKE THE SAME AND DEADLY MISTAKES WHICH IS TO COUNT ENTIRELY ON OTHER NATIONS, WHATSOEVER, IN SOLVING OUR PROBLEMS. WE SHOULD DO IT BY OURSELVES WITH THEIR HELPS ONLY IF NEEDED, BUT ALWAYS WITH GOD'S HELPS.
see that... America design horrible future in cambodia
When you you are a true leader, you rather die than to try to blame some one.
If you are a leader, you will never let your family or others who have to dies because of your stupidity.(if he knew he is stupid.)
When a leader who has no morale almost always blamed the others and only a stupid person follows him.
When something goes wrong all he care about is pointing fingers at others as the cause of the problem and covering their own ASS making sure everyone knows that he is not to blame.
A blamer is always a loser!No one will hire a blamer because he/she will destroy your company.
If you want to know the truth just look at a blamer (LY Diep)
4:15 PM, you're stupid,
if your child is killed by a man,
you must blame that man,
the society must blame that man and jail him.
Vietcongs brought war into Cambodia, they must be blamed.
Americans bombed Cambodia to kill Vietcongs but Khmers died, they must be blamed.
Khmer rouges killed Khmers you must not blame Australian PM, you must blame Pol Pot.
Thailand deosn't know what they get when Bhumibol dies. His son just not favor by his people. Thailand's future Queen will be his third wife. She used to get naked and entertained him during his dog's birthday party. Thailand is a Bhuddist country for crying out loud. She deserved no respect even though she was loved and favored by the prince. Thailand should not count too much on American and the western world to support them too much with their future sovereign acting like that. There is going to be a powerful rebel and Thailand is going to be in state of disaster. Right now Bhumibol is still alive and look at Thailand. Wait until he dies, it will be much worse. Someone mentioned that the black uniform was from vietnam and the American, it could be true, but you never know, because Hun Sen Kisses both China & Vietnam.It's going to be a real war struggle between Abhisit and Thaksin and it doesn't real matter who will be King or Queen of Thailand? and as long as the person represents the right party? wrong. Thailand needs to think very carefully. To install Princess Mahachakri Sarinhorn as future Queen should look more favorable to both Thaksin and Abhisit's supporters. Someone they can live with. Right now, a lot of Thai are sick in the head. All because of the playboy Prince. If the princess doesn't have children then the throne should be giving to one of the current crown prince's children when she dies. He has three wives. One of them should have a perfect son. Will Abhisit and majority of the elite in Thailand strong enough to do so? May be not, but that is Thailand's luck.
Also talking about our own, Cambodia doesn't a designate heir to the throne either. We seem to play by ears. This doesn't seem to bother anyone. Not even with the royal family themself. That's great, but seems dumb dumb dumb . Are we going to do anything different? May be in the next ten year when King turns 67:)
7:29 AM
IF HE IS AHERO CAN WE DO CELEBRATE TO REMENBER HIM EVERY YEAR ,OUR KHMER HERO BE FORGET
Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak was indeed patriotic and displayed characteristics of heroism and courage for choosing his own fate along with his people. Lon Nol was patriotic as well for his campaign against youn & viet-cong. They both stood for the people and country. That is why they chose to abolish absolute monarchy.
For my idea, I think Prince Sirimatak was a country lover but not a good leader. No matter what you love a thing but if you can’t do it, step out and give the opportunity to the other. Anyways, his letter breaks my heart and be a shame that i am not as responsible for my mistake as he did even. Even pol pot also a country lover, it was not what he wants to destroy his people but lack of leadership and plan, the result will be unexpected one. Let learn from history it is enough for Khmer to get this Kama.Try to have a good behavior and show the world that we are not a cruel nation, we are Buddhist, we are kind, we have heart. Some of you guys, use the bad word when each other give an idea. That is the real bad khmer behavior let the other talk and take the good idea and drop the bad one. Being a Khmer what did u do to make ur own people proud of u beside teaching a khmer bad word here? BTW, Do you know that prince sirimatak was a crown prince before French chose King Sihanouk.
He wanted to be king himself.
It was supposedly sisowat in the first place Not norodom .But too much believe in the American that promise to win the war. Sadly the complete the opposite.
The American not to be trusted.
Look How the American treating the middle east countries "A total destruction "
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