By Mu Sochua
Planting Democracy Seeds-Part 2
Rattanak Mondoul-Battambang Province-North West Cambodia
“My first husband died when he was just 25 years old. We had two children. We came to this part of the forest over 10 years ago. It was nothing but land mines. We were too desperate for land. Our young children watched their children blown up by a land mine”.
“I was clearing the forest and there it was: 3 land mines. I was so terrified, I was paralyzed. I will never forget that day”.
“The rich man tells me that I do not own this land, because I am too young. I say to him that I came with my father to plant these mango trees. I crossed this creek with my father every day. I know every parcel of this land. Do you?”
As I listen to this group of 40 farmers talking about their desperate search for land to cultivate, I hear their burning need for justice. For over a decade, they have farmed these plots of land collectively and have managed to build a community and survived year after year from the crops.
Today, rich and powerful men claim that every single plot of land in this community is theirs. They have the backing of the new village chief and the commune chief. They are protected by police and local authorities.
I say to the villagers:
Tell your stories. Tell the truth. That is your power.
Stand up together. That is your power.
Speak with one voice. That is your power.
The rich men do not have your power.
“Land is life- land is hope. ” a song from the messenger band. A group of young women who put justice into songs.
2 comments:
Justice will not fall from the sky for us.
We have to fiercely fight for it.
And Vietnam will not let Cambodia lives peacefully unless we fight hard against this devil monster Vietnam, primarily through legal peaceful means. One way is to let the international Communities aware of Vietnam’s hostile acts against Cambodia.
Don't be complacent with the fake peace that we have right now. This peace given by Vietnam will lead to Khmer people become a minority in our own Country in the future. Look at the mass influx of Vietnamese into Cambodia.
Presently, Vietnam does not hit Cambodia with the war, but Vietnam hits Cambodia with the deployment of Vietnamese people to take over Cambodia, the same method that Vietnam took Kampuchea Krom.
Khmer people must always remember that whether Cambodia has war or peace depends entirely on Vietnam. Vietnam can stage a fake civil war in Cambodia at anytime it wants.
So, to survive, we must get rid of the puppet government which has followed strictly all Vietnam's orders.
The puppet government has defied the Paris peace accord and has implemented the detrimental bilateral treaties between Cambodia and Vietnam.
Look at the result of those bilateral treaties:
Koh Trol, Koh Krarchalk Sess, border encroachment on land and sea, use 3 Khmer provinces to serve Vietnam, massive land concession to Vietnam, lease Khmer's soul Angkor Wat to Vietnam, destruction of natural resource, mass influx of Vietnamese into Cambodia, etc...
So, when will the puppet government wakes up and realizes that Vietnam is swallowing Cambodia ?
When will Khmer people be able to remove this puppet Yuon's slave from power?
This is what you called democrazy under AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave puppet regime! All Cambodian people will be victimized not just the SRP members!
This is AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave with fake Ph.D. from Hanoi in pursuing his win-win economic miracle!
In fact in reality there is no such thing as win-win but only winner-loser! There is this concept of Ying-Yang! Even in heaven there are male and female…there is day and night…there is good and bad! The concept of two is the law of nature and AH HUN SEN can't violate that! For this reason now that AH HUN SEN has violated the law of two and more misery and suffering will fall on Cambodian people!
So don't violate the law of nature!
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