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Showing posts with label Vietcong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vietcong. Show all posts
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Sacrava's Khmer Republic Cartoon: Sihanouk's Royal Army
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Saturday, November 05, 2011
Sihanouk's confession of Vietnamese infiltration in Cambodia under his rule
Sihanouk in his own word:
- The Sangkum [Reastr Niyum] is not a political party (sic!)
- I'm returning home just to travel back upstream and to try to re-establish the neutrality and the non-alignment of Cambodia, that is the sine-qua-non condition of her survival as a sovereign and independent country (sic!)
- ... There's also the mistake and the clumsiness of the Vietcong and the Vietminh who did not respect their solemn promises to respect our neutrality and our borders. They recognized them, [yet] they infiltrate [our borders]. In fact, they interfered in our internal affairs in spite of their denials, they are behind the Khmer Rouge, i.e. the Communist Cambodians. Without the Vietcong and the Vietminh problems, there would be no communist rebellion in our country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iotbzpxnhHU
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Subterfuge to carry weapons in East Sea ‘trail’ (Part 2 of the Eas Sea Trail
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| Ba Dinh was standing at a US tank destroyed by communist soldiers on Truong Son Trail |
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| The portrait of Ba Dinh at her age of 26 |
Tuoi Tre (Hanoi)
The “trail” in the East Sea by which weapons were transported from northern Vietnam to battlefields in the south was created by a 26-year-old woman in 1946.
In October that year, a month after a group of revolutionaries sailed to Thailand to buy weapons, Nguyen Thi Dinh -- or Ba Dinh, as she was known – organized a trip by sea from Ben Tre to Phu Yen.
She was mourning her husband, a revolutionary soldier who was killed by the French on Con Dao Island, and had vowed to take revenge.
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
When weapons were dispatched through East Sea
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| One of the disguised cargo ships to carry weapons to the South Vietnam (Photo: Tuoi Tre) |
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| Munitions were loaded on a disguised ship to transport to battlefields in the South Vietnam |
Tuoi Tre (Hanoi)
Besides the Ho Chi Minh Trail along the Truong Son mountain chain -- Vietnam’s spine -- which was used by the North Vietnamese army to reach the battlefields in the South, another “trail” was established in the East Sea for boats to carry weapons.
Hundreds of cargo vessels, disguised as fishing boats, secretly set sail with hundreds of thousands of tons of weapons and ammunitions from Hanoi to South Vietnam which was ruled by a pro-US regime.
Most of the vessels evaded detection by the Saigon administration and the US army stationed there.
The crews of the ships were suicide squads in a sense: If they failed to elude the enemy and were surrounded by the enemy’s helicopters and warships, the communist soldiers opened fire and blew up their own ships rather than surrender.
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
50 years ago: Saigon Reds kill Cambodian soldiers
Deccan Chronicle (India)
Phnom Penh, Sept. 6: Eight Cambodian soldiers were killed last week in a clash between Cambodian troops and Vietnamese Communist guerrillas in the province of Svayrieng on the border to South Vietnam, the Cambodian Army announced today. An official communique said that “an armed foreign band” which had intruded into Cambodian territory, was driven back into South Vietnam on September 1, after suffering heavy losses. The communique indicated that the incident occurred when Cambodian Army units, local militia and police carried out a large-scale control operation along the border. During this operation the Cambodians ran into “an armed foreign band” of about one hundred in an area some two kilometres long an stretching about one km into Cambodian territory. The communique said an officer, identified as Captain Le Than Tung, Commander of the first Vietminh independent company, tried to negotiate with the Cambodian troops, but was arrested.
Monday, November 08, 2010
Movies And Specials: 'Shakey's Hill'
AllYourTV.com
Synopsis: In 1970, CBS News cameraman Norman Lloyd followed a battalion of American soldiers into the jungles of Cambodia. The mission was to seek out substantial weapons and supply caches being used by the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. As the battalion closed in on the location of the caches, they encountered a growing resistance from the North Vietnamese forces.
Rarely seen footage and first-hand accounts take the audience through each firefight leading up to the operation’s climax, which came to be known as the infamous taking of Shakey’s Hill.
By melding field interviews from 1970 with retrospective interviews from 35 years later, Shakey's Hill explores not only the events leading to this successful mission but the effects of war decades later.
Shakey's Hill, winner of the 2007 G.I. Film Festival’s Best Documentary Award, is produced and directed by Norman Lloyd. (Courtesy The Military Channel, 2010)
Airdate:
It premiered on the Military Channel on Friday, November 12th, 2010.
Friday, August 27, 2010
The Yuon gov't always paid special attention to the Viet residents in Cambodia ... unlike the coward Xmer leaders who do not care about Khmer Krom
Special attention paid to Vietnamese residents in Cambodia
08/27/2010
VOV News (Hanoi)
The Vietnamese community in Cambodia has a patriotic spirit and has positively contributed to the country’s two wars of resistance to gain national independence, said President Nguyen Minh Triet during his visit to the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia on August 26.
Meeting Vietnamese residents there, President Triet emphasised that the traditional friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia has grown stronger over recent years in different fields, political, economic, trade and investment.
Mr Triet’s State-level visit to Cambodia is to strengthen the time-honoured and neighbourly friendship between the two countries.
President Triet praised the Vietnamese Embassy’s efforts to help promote the development of the traditional friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia.
The Vietnamese Party and Government have always paid special attention to the Vietnamese residents in Cambodia, stressed Mr Triet.
Referring to the difficulties that Vietnamese nationals are facing in Cambodia, he asked the embassy staff to help them solve such questions as to their nationality and education.
Mr Triet said he hoped that Vietnamese community will join efforts to help each other and to contribute more to stabilise their lives and make more contributions to Cambodia’s socio-economic development, while adhering the country’s laws and preserving Vietnam’s cultural values.
Meeting Vietnamese residents there, President Triet emphasised that the traditional friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia has grown stronger over recent years in different fields, political, economic, trade and investment.
Mr Triet’s State-level visit to Cambodia is to strengthen the time-honoured and neighbourly friendship between the two countries.
President Triet praised the Vietnamese Embassy’s efforts to help promote the development of the traditional friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia.
The Vietnamese Party and Government have always paid special attention to the Vietnamese residents in Cambodia, stressed Mr Triet.
Referring to the difficulties that Vietnamese nationals are facing in Cambodia, he asked the embassy staff to help them solve such questions as to their nationality and education.
Mr Triet said he hoped that Vietnamese community will join efforts to help each other and to contribute more to stabilise their lives and make more contributions to Cambodia’s socio-economic development, while adhering the country’s laws and preserving Vietnam’s cultural values.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Cambodia, Vietnam boost military exchanges ... right in the middle of a border dispute with Thailand?
Le Van DungCambodia, Vietnam boost military exchanges
08/18/2010
VOV News (Hanoi)
General Le Van Dung, Director of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People’s Army, is leading a delegation on a four-day visit to Cambodia, which began on August 16.
General Dung met the Secretary of State of Cambodia’s Defence Ministry, General Neang Phat, and the Director of its General Department of Defence Services, General Meas Savan, saying Vietnamese and Cambodian armed forces have regularly exchanged visits and experiences under the cooperation agreements signed between the two countries and two defence ministries.
Vietnam’s General Political Department and Cambodia’s General Department of Defence Services have cooperated in staff training and security protection, he said.
In the future, the General Political Department of the Vietnam People’s Army will help train staff of the Cambodian Royal Armed Force’s gendarmerie, he added.
Meanwhile, General Neang Phat expressed his hope that the traditional friendship and cooperation between the two countries and two armed forces would continue to develop.
General Dung and his entourage have also met with Prime Minister Hun Sen and Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, General Tea Banh.
As planned, the Vietnamese delegation will visit Cambodia’s High Command of Guard and Riem military base in Preah Sihanouk province.
General Dung met the Secretary of State of Cambodia’s Defence Ministry, General Neang Phat, and the Director of its General Department of Defence Services, General Meas Savan, saying Vietnamese and Cambodian armed forces have regularly exchanged visits and experiences under the cooperation agreements signed between the two countries and two defence ministries.
Vietnam’s General Political Department and Cambodia’s General Department of Defence Services have cooperated in staff training and security protection, he said.
In the future, the General Political Department of the Vietnam People’s Army will help train staff of the Cambodian Royal Armed Force’s gendarmerie, he added.
Meanwhile, General Neang Phat expressed his hope that the traditional friendship and cooperation between the two countries and two armed forces would continue to develop.
General Dung and his entourage have also met with Prime Minister Hun Sen and Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, General Tea Banh.
As planned, the Vietnamese delegation will visit Cambodia’s High Command of Guard and Riem military base in Preah Sihanouk province.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Opinion: Comrade Duch and Cambodia’s sorrow
Duch's conviction last week was a case of justice delayed being justice denied.
August 3, 2010
By HDS Greenway
GlobalPost
August 3, 2010
By HDS Greenway
GlobalPost
BOSTON — Class and economic differences have all but vanished from the world today as a basis for war and extermination. With the failure of Communism the world has settled back to more traditional forms of aggression based on blood ties, tribe, ethnicity and religion. But most of the 20th century was plagued by class war, the most extreme example being the fate of Cambodia during the reign of the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979.
The conviction of Kiang Guek Eav, known as Comrade Duch, for crimes against humanity in Cambodia last week was a clear case of justice delayed being justice denied. Commandant of the notorious Tuol Sleng torture and extermination center in Phnom Penh, a converted school house, Comrade Duch oversaw the excruciating deaths of some 17,000 people during the Cambodian Holocaust more than 30 years ago. That his sentence was less than life in prison is a blow and a mockery to those who suffered during those terrible years.
The great Khmer civilization memorialized by the temple complex known as Angkor Wat ended almost a thousand years ago. Since then Cambodia has been in a long decline, squeezed, as Cambodians like to say, between the “tiger and the crocodile — a prisoner of geography between Thailand and Vietnam. From time to time one or the other has taken advantage of Cambodia’s weakness to invade.
For a while, during America’s Indochina wars, Cambodia seemed a fortunate land. Prince Norodom Sihanouk managed to balance both the external and internal forces of left and right to keep his country out of the fighting that engulfed the other two former French colonies, Laos and Vietnam. Mercurial and eccentric, Sihanouk seemed to lead a charmed life, writing sentimental songs, starring in his own movies and often summoning members of the diplomatic corps to the palace to play bit parts. “Shadow over Angkor,” a spy thriller produced and directed by Sihanouk in the starring role was my favorite.
One time, in the late '60s, some American soldiers on a river craft strayed up the Mekong too far and were captured in Cambodia. Sihanouk had them thrown in prison in Phnom Penh and an international incident was in the making. After inviting the world press in to watch, Sihanouk defused the situation by freeing the Americans in a public ceremony — but not before he had sent his tailor around to the prison to have them fitted for white cotton suits which they wore upon the occasion of their release.
But the Vietnamese were using the eastern fringes of his country to fight the Americans in Vietnam, and the Americans began to bomb them. Sihanouk, as part of his high wire act, knew about and encouraged both. The ides of March 1970, saw the right-wing coup that finally overthrew Sihanouk while he was on a trip abroad. I have never seen convincing evidence that the Americans engineered the coup, but they certainly encouraged and took advantage of it. The new leader, General Lon Nol, tried to take of the Vietnamese by sending his pathetic army — soldiers wearing magic scarves and amulets and chanting Buddhist prayers — who were decimated, and Cambodia descended into bloodshed and barbarity that overshadowed even that of Vietnam.
The peasantry in the countryside were organized by leftists into the anti-Lon Nol Khmer Rouge, or “Red Khmer.” There has never been a political movement quite like it for its twisted ideology and savagery. You could say it was an extreme version of China’s Maoist revolution. But it was so extreme, and so self-destructive that it put Mao to shame. Like the “jacquerie” peasant revolts of 14th century France, the Khmer Rouge were more interested in burning the chateaux and murdering the inhabitants than ruling a country.
Led by half-educated school teachers who had taken the ideals of the French Revolution and Marx to heart, it turned into an auto-genocide after it defeated Lon Nol and took over the country in 1975. As did the French after 1789, the Khmer Rouge declared their own “year zero,” and the tale of how they emptied the cities and turned the entire country into a rural labor camp has been oft told.
Whereas other genocides of the 20th century before and since, the Armenians, the Jews, Bosnians, were based on race or religion, the Cambodian genocide was based purely on class. And class was so narrowly defined that anyone with spectacles could be classified as an enemy and murdered.
I first learned how extreme the Khmer Rouge were while the war still raged with Phnom Penh. A few towns were held by Lon Nol’s forces while the rest of the countryside was in Khmer Rouge hands. A North Vietnamese advisor to the Khmer Rouge had defected to Phnom Penh and I went to see him. Hanoi at first had seen the Khmer Rouge as a leftist ally, and he was sent to help organize them politically. But he said they had no real idea of Communist thought, didn’t understand that you only killed people selectively as political examples, and were killing indiscriminately. He fled for his life.
Almost all the Cambodians I had known were killed during the four years of Khmer Rouge rule before the fed-up Vietnamese invaded and put an end to the horror. And no one who has since visited Toul Sleng, now a museum to man’s inhumanity to man, can help but be affected by the rows and rows of photographs of the victims. Duch had them all photographed and kept careful records of their tortured confessions, their crude cells still stained with blood when I visited. The look of utter horror and hopelessness of the victims staring into the camera is heartbreaking.
If you want to see where the ideals of the French Revolution via Karl Marx ended up in the 20th century go and see the batteries hooked up to bed springs in the sordid cells which Comrade Duch oversaw half a world away.
The conviction of Kiang Guek Eav, known as Comrade Duch, for crimes against humanity in Cambodia last week was a clear case of justice delayed being justice denied. Commandant of the notorious Tuol Sleng torture and extermination center in Phnom Penh, a converted school house, Comrade Duch oversaw the excruciating deaths of some 17,000 people during the Cambodian Holocaust more than 30 years ago. That his sentence was less than life in prison is a blow and a mockery to those who suffered during those terrible years.
The great Khmer civilization memorialized by the temple complex known as Angkor Wat ended almost a thousand years ago. Since then Cambodia has been in a long decline, squeezed, as Cambodians like to say, between the “tiger and the crocodile — a prisoner of geography between Thailand and Vietnam. From time to time one or the other has taken advantage of Cambodia’s weakness to invade.
For a while, during America’s Indochina wars, Cambodia seemed a fortunate land. Prince Norodom Sihanouk managed to balance both the external and internal forces of left and right to keep his country out of the fighting that engulfed the other two former French colonies, Laos and Vietnam. Mercurial and eccentric, Sihanouk seemed to lead a charmed life, writing sentimental songs, starring in his own movies and often summoning members of the diplomatic corps to the palace to play bit parts. “Shadow over Angkor,” a spy thriller produced and directed by Sihanouk in the starring role was my favorite.
One time, in the late '60s, some American soldiers on a river craft strayed up the Mekong too far and were captured in Cambodia. Sihanouk had them thrown in prison in Phnom Penh and an international incident was in the making. After inviting the world press in to watch, Sihanouk defused the situation by freeing the Americans in a public ceremony — but not before he had sent his tailor around to the prison to have them fitted for white cotton suits which they wore upon the occasion of their release.
But the Vietnamese were using the eastern fringes of his country to fight the Americans in Vietnam, and the Americans began to bomb them. Sihanouk, as part of his high wire act, knew about and encouraged both. The ides of March 1970, saw the right-wing coup that finally overthrew Sihanouk while he was on a trip abroad. I have never seen convincing evidence that the Americans engineered the coup, but they certainly encouraged and took advantage of it. The new leader, General Lon Nol, tried to take of the Vietnamese by sending his pathetic army — soldiers wearing magic scarves and amulets and chanting Buddhist prayers — who were decimated, and Cambodia descended into bloodshed and barbarity that overshadowed even that of Vietnam.
The peasantry in the countryside were organized by leftists into the anti-Lon Nol Khmer Rouge, or “Red Khmer.” There has never been a political movement quite like it for its twisted ideology and savagery. You could say it was an extreme version of China’s Maoist revolution. But it was so extreme, and so self-destructive that it put Mao to shame. Like the “jacquerie” peasant revolts of 14th century France, the Khmer Rouge were more interested in burning the chateaux and murdering the inhabitants than ruling a country.
Led by half-educated school teachers who had taken the ideals of the French Revolution and Marx to heart, it turned into an auto-genocide after it defeated Lon Nol and took over the country in 1975. As did the French after 1789, the Khmer Rouge declared their own “year zero,” and the tale of how they emptied the cities and turned the entire country into a rural labor camp has been oft told.
Whereas other genocides of the 20th century before and since, the Armenians, the Jews, Bosnians, were based on race or religion, the Cambodian genocide was based purely on class. And class was so narrowly defined that anyone with spectacles could be classified as an enemy and murdered.
I first learned how extreme the Khmer Rouge were while the war still raged with Phnom Penh. A few towns were held by Lon Nol’s forces while the rest of the countryside was in Khmer Rouge hands. A North Vietnamese advisor to the Khmer Rouge had defected to Phnom Penh and I went to see him. Hanoi at first had seen the Khmer Rouge as a leftist ally, and he was sent to help organize them politically. But he said they had no real idea of Communist thought, didn’t understand that you only killed people selectively as political examples, and were killing indiscriminately. He fled for his life.
Almost all the Cambodians I had known were killed during the four years of Khmer Rouge rule before the fed-up Vietnamese invaded and put an end to the horror. And no one who has since visited Toul Sleng, now a museum to man’s inhumanity to man, can help but be affected by the rows and rows of photographs of the victims. Duch had them all photographed and kept careful records of their tortured confessions, their crude cells still stained with blood when I visited. The look of utter horror and hopelessness of the victims staring into the camera is heartbreaking.
If you want to see where the ideals of the French Revolution via Karl Marx ended up in the 20th century go and see the batteries hooked up to bed springs in the sordid cells which Comrade Duch oversaw half a world away.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
I'm a former (and faithful) Friend of the Viet Cong and Hanoi: Norodom Sihanouk, a former King of Cambodia and the so-called Father of Independence
Translated from French By Oss Dey Oss Srok Oss Sdach
Communiqué
From Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
From Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
Phnom Penh, 14 June 2010
Being in retirement and not being involved in politics or diplomacy, my trip and my stay in the glorious Socialist Republic of Vietnam will have a strictly private character.
It is as a former (and faithful) Friend (comrade-in-arms) of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam [KI-Media note: Viet Cong government] and of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that the current Vietnam invites me to perform a few days stay in Hanoi.
During my stay, I will receive, in Hanoi, the cordial visit of several high-ranking Vietnamese officials. The brave Vietnamese People-Brethren will equally want to salute me.
(Signed) Norodom Sihanouk
កាលពីថ្ងៃទី១៤ មិថុនា ឆ្នាំ២០១០ សម្ដេចឪព្រះមហាវីរក្សត្រទ្រង់ចេញសេចក្ដី ប្រកាសមួយទាក់ទិនដល់ព្រះរាជទស្សនកិច្ច របស់ព្រះអង្គក្នុងប្រទេសវៀតណាម ។ សេចក្ដីប្រកាសនេះកោះសន្ដិភាពសូមបកប្រែក្រៅផ្លូវការដូចតទៅ ៖
ដោយខ្ញុំព្រះកុរណាខ្ញុំចូលនិវត្ដន៍ ហើយលែងធ្វើនយោបាយ ឬកិច្ចការងារទូតទៀត ដំណើរនិងការស្នាក់អាស្រ័យរបស់ខ្ញុំព្រះ ករុណាខ្ញុំនៅសាធារណរដ្ឋសង្គមនិយមវៀត ណាម នឹងជាទស្សនកិច្ចមានលក្ខណៈឯកជនសុទ្ធសាធ ។ គឺក្នុងឋានៈជាអតីតមិត្ដដ៏ស្មោះ ត្រង់ម្នាក់ (មិត្ដរួមអាវុធ) របស់រដ្ឋាភិបាល បណ្ដោះអាសន្នវៀតណាមខាងត្បូងនិងរបស់ សាធារណរដ្ឋប្រជាធិបតេយ្យវៀតណាម ដែលប្រទេសវៀតណាមបច្ចុប្បន្នបានស្នើ យាងខ្ញុំព្រះករុណាខ្ញុំទៅបំពេញព្រះរាជ ទស្សនកិច្ចរយៈពេលប៉ុន្មានថ្ងៃមួយនៅទីក្រុង ហាណូយ ។
ក្នុងឱកាសនៃការស្នាក់អាស្រ័យនេះ ខ្ញុំព្រះករុណាខ្ញុំនឹងទទួលជួបយ៉ាងស្និទ្ធស្នាលនា ទីក្រុងហាណូយជាមួយឥស្សរជនជាន់ខ្ពស់ វៀតណាមជាច្រើនរូប ។ ប្រជាជនវៀតណាមជាបងប្អូន ក៏នឹងសំដែងការអបអរសាទរចំពោះខ្ញុំព្រះករុណាខ្ញុំដែរ ៕
It is as a former (and faithful) Friend (comrade-in-arms) of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam [KI-Media note: Viet Cong government] and of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that the current Vietnam invites me to perform a few days stay in Hanoi.
During my stay, I will receive, in Hanoi, the cordial visit of several high-ranking Vietnamese officials. The brave Vietnamese People-Brethren will equally want to salute me.
(Signed) Norodom Sihanouk
កាលពីថ្ងៃទី១៤ មិថុនា ឆ្នាំ២០១០ សម្ដេចឪព្រះមហាវីរក្សត្រទ្រង់ចេញសេចក្ដី ប្រកាសមួយទាក់ទិនដល់ព្រះរាជទស្សនកិច្ច របស់ព្រះអង្គក្នុងប្រទេសវៀតណាម ។ សេចក្ដីប្រកាសនេះកោះសន្ដិភាពសូមបកប្រែក្រៅផ្លូវការដូចតទៅ ៖
ដោយខ្ញុំព្រះកុរណាខ្ញុំចូលនិវត្ដន៍ ហើយលែងធ្វើនយោបាយ ឬកិច្ចការងារទូតទៀត ដំណើរនិងការស្នាក់អាស្រ័យរបស់ខ្ញុំព្រះ ករុណាខ្ញុំនៅសាធារណរដ្ឋសង្គមនិយមវៀត ណាម នឹងជាទស្សនកិច្ចមានលក្ខណៈឯកជនសុទ្ធសាធ ។ គឺក្នុងឋានៈជាអតីតមិត្ដដ៏ស្មោះ ត្រង់ម្នាក់ (មិត្ដរួមអាវុធ) របស់រដ្ឋាភិបាល បណ្ដោះអាសន្នវៀតណាមខាងត្បូងនិងរបស់ សាធារណរដ្ឋប្រជាធិបតេយ្យវៀតណាម ដែលប្រទេសវៀតណាមបច្ចុប្បន្នបានស្នើ យាងខ្ញុំព្រះករុណាខ្ញុំទៅបំពេញព្រះរាជ ទស្សនកិច្ចរយៈពេលប៉ុន្មានថ្ងៃមួយនៅទីក្រុង ហាណូយ ។
ក្នុងឱកាសនៃការស្នាក់អាស្រ័យនេះ ខ្ញុំព្រះករុណាខ្ញុំនឹងទទួលជួបយ៉ាងស្និទ្ធស្នាលនា ទីក្រុងហាណូយជាមួយឥស្សរជនជាន់ខ្ពស់ វៀតណាមជាច្រើនរូប ។ ប្រជាជនវៀតណាមជាបងប្អូន ក៏នឹងសំដែងការអបអរសាទរចំពោះខ្ញុំព្រះករុណាខ្ញុំដែរ ៕
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
In defense of then-Prince Sihanouk
Dear Readers,
KI-Media encourages civilized exchange of opinions on political issues related to Cambodia. The following are rebuttals from anonymous readers to Dr. Peang-Meth's article:
KI-Media encourages civilized exchange of opinions on political issues related to Cambodia. The following are rebuttals from anonymous readers to Dr. Peang-Meth's article:
Dr. Peang-Meth, beside trying to idolize and promote his good friend Dr. Tith Naranhkiri, is trying to attack the king with yet another of his lop-sided writings. His article here will surely influence the young generations who have not experienced and learned about the real cause of the real tragedy. Many historians have put the blame squarely on the 1970 coup that toppled Sihanouk. Without the coup, the Khmer Rouge will be a footnote to history. The coup and Lon Nol's incompetence and corruption led many peasants to join the KR, even without Sihanouk's cooperation, the KR will grow in strength because of Lon Nol's corruption and abuses against peasants. About letting the Vietcong stay in Cambodia, who was the defense minister and armed forces commander? It was Lon Nol who was the one selling and transporting military equipments to the Vietcong from Kampong Som, even after he ruled the country the business with Vietcong still take place right through to 1973.
It was hardcore republicans like Dr. Peang-Meth should be the ones to be blamed for ruining Cambodia and caused the death of 2 million lives. Without their stupidity, Cambodia would be on par with Thailand because during the Sangkum Reastr Niyum, Cambodian teachers earned more than Thai teachers, Cambodian movies are as good as Thai movies and people live in abundance and peace. Dr. Peang-Meth and Dr. Tith should be thankful that their fathers, a senior civil servant and a minister, thrived under Sihanouk and that both of them had a chance to get an education overseas because of Sihanouk's excellence education system.
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As much as I respect the Khmer scholars or other scholars like Dr. Peang, I have to say this:
-Dr. Peang and some of these Cambodians who lack of understanding about politics and a very long conflicts between Vietnam and Cambodia since the past centuries until today are playing Hanoi's games to tear Khmer society apart.
Dr. Peang writing seemed to shift blame on the King but not the Yue Nam (Yuon) who have been presence in Cambodia for about 500 years.
Gen Lon Nol and the King were working together to free Cambodia from the Yuon, but the Gen's strategy was destroyed due to too many Yuon espionage were among his army, so the King had to carry on.
Dr. Peang didn't write at least two big reasons: 1) Cold war and Stalin instructed China to supervise Ho Chi Minh to take Cambodia and Laos at all cost; 2) Yuon's expansionism marching toward South now toward west must not stop (copied from Genghis Khan, Marching until the end of the earth), and without China to stop these aggressive Yue Nam (Yuon), no one could.
It seems that Dr. Peang, as a Khmer son, is after all playing Yuon's card. Look at his PhD's friend named Naranhkiri Tith. He too also serves the interest of Yuon because in all his writings are nothing more but to split Khmers apart.
What the answers? Do Dr. Peang and his friend Dr. Naranhkiri Tith know how?
It was hardcore republicans like Dr. Peang-Meth should be the ones to be blamed for ruining Cambodia and caused the death of 2 million lives. Without their stupidity, Cambodia would be on par with Thailand because during the Sangkum Reastr Niyum, Cambodian teachers earned more than Thai teachers, Cambodian movies are as good as Thai movies and people live in abundance and peace. Dr. Peang-Meth and Dr. Tith should be thankful that their fathers, a senior civil servant and a minister, thrived under Sihanouk and that both of them had a chance to get an education overseas because of Sihanouk's excellence education system.
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As much as I respect the Khmer scholars or other scholars like Dr. Peang, I have to say this:
-Dr. Peang and some of these Cambodians who lack of understanding about politics and a very long conflicts between Vietnam and Cambodia since the past centuries until today are playing Hanoi's games to tear Khmer society apart.
Dr. Peang writing seemed to shift blame on the King but not the Yue Nam (Yuon) who have been presence in Cambodia for about 500 years.
Gen Lon Nol and the King were working together to free Cambodia from the Yuon, but the Gen's strategy was destroyed due to too many Yuon espionage were among his army, so the King had to carry on.
Dr. Peang didn't write at least two big reasons: 1) Cold war and Stalin instructed China to supervise Ho Chi Minh to take Cambodia and Laos at all cost; 2) Yuon's expansionism marching toward South now toward west must not stop (copied from Genghis Khan, Marching until the end of the earth), and without China to stop these aggressive Yue Nam (Yuon), no one could.
It seems that Dr. Peang, as a Khmer son, is after all playing Yuon's card. Look at his PhD's friend named Naranhkiri Tith. He too also serves the interest of Yuon because in all his writings are nothing more but to split Khmers apart.
What the answers? Do Dr. Peang and his friend Dr. Naranhkiri Tith know how?
Sacrava's Political Cartoon: Khmer-Vietnam Militant Brotherhood
Click on the song to zoom in(Cartoon by Sacrava, on the web at http://sacrava.blogspot.com)
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