Rattanakiri, I never saw or heard Lon Nol generals & army officers ate dogs. That doesn't mean it didn't happen though. However I knew there were some high-school students who organized parties "to eat dogs"!! They simply wanted to know "how dogs tasted"!! However the eating of dogs was still very rare at that time.
Soriya On Sep 14, 5:05 pm, rattanakiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich Lon Nol generals and army officers loved to eat dog meat with Teuk Tnouk > soo. I do not think they were starving. They loved it. > Soriya wrote:Mekong River, My article clearly implies that in Cambodia, > before 1970 the eating of dogs was virtually non-existent, & during the war > years 1970-1975 it was out of poverty & for pure survival. Soriya On Sep 13, > 6:20 pm, "Mekong River"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:You have to distinguish > eating dog meat as a culture and doing it out of poverty and for pure > survival. Although the overwhelming majority of Khmer don't eat dogs, you are > bounded to find a small group of Khmer who indulge in the practice. I know > one guy, a Khmer, who confides to me he likes it, and he would take the > opportunity to join in the party with other friends in doing so. Having said > this, compared to the yuons, the Korean and Chen, most Khmers don't regard it > as a national culture. On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Soriya<[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>wrote:In Phnom Penh in the late 1960's when I was an early > teenager I heard that the Vietnamese in Vietnam ate dogs, openly. Although I > was still young I immediately believed that this practice was a result of a > lengthy war. War makes lives of all ordinary people a very difficult > struggle. People need to eat. If they have nothing to eat & they have dogs or > can afford to get them, they'll inevitably eat them.Surely enough, in > Cambodia, starting from 1972, only 2 years after the war started, the eating > of dogs began.A story. In Phnom Penh, 1 day in 1974, about 6 pm, I was with a > group of people in an open-air market, which was already almost empty, just > east of the Soriya cinema (not my cinema!! d'ohh!! ha haaaaaaaaa!!). Then we > heard the painful scream of a dog. We looked in the direction of the scream. > We saw a man, about 50 years old, sitting on his bed in his tiny home on an > edge of & inside the market, at a distance of approximately 30 metres from > us, holding the top of a closed big bag containing something in it in his > left hand, the bottom of the bag resting on the ground, & a big stick on his > right hand. There were a few other people in his home, who we believed were > members of his family. We knew right away that that something in the bag was > a dog & that he was killing it for food. Realizing that we looked at him, he > appeared to be a little ashamed, & stopped beating the dog, which was > probably already unconscious because there was scream no more. Realizing his > emotion, understanding his miserable conditions, & having compassion for him > & his family, we turned our eyes away from him & pretended to see & hear > nothing. He & his family must have been a few of the 100s of 1,000s of war > refugees in Phnom Penh. I believed that he felt a little ashamed because at > that time the eating of dogs was still a new routine & as yet not very many > people did it.That's a personal story. As of now I still have compassion for > him whenever I recall that story, even though I never knew him. In general, > it was well known that more & more people ate dogs, in Phnom Penh or > elsewhere in Cambodia.Before 1970, there were also people in Cambodia who ate > dogs & even cats. But there were so few of them that practically their number > could be & was considered as negligible.People who're against eating dogs > should consider these:- If you can eat cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, fish, > etc, then why can't other people eat dogs??- If dogs are your pets, then > cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, fish, etc, are other people's pets. Cows are > even more than pets: they've been helping man in his agriculture all over > the world & throughout history, & still so even today in many countries. > They're so important to man that Hinduism even "promoted" them to the status > of a "god", clearly to frighten people into respecting & not eating them!!- > If you love dogs, then other people love cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, fish, > etc.- If you're a vegetarian, you shouldn't try to impose your beliefs & > values on other people, as you have no right to do so.- Some people shed > their tears for the freedom of whales & dolphins but when they come home > they eat cows or pigs or even fish like tunas or salmons or mackerels. > They're hypocrites.- Some people even demand that fishermen on the high seas > who catch tunas must avoid touching whales & dolphins, which now are no > longer endangered species!! How hypocrite that is!!As if the life of a whale > or a dolphin were more precious than that of a tuna or a cow!! That's a > discriminatory attitude!! Which is a part of the root of racism.I don't eat > dogs. However I don't try to impose my habit of not eating dogs on other > people.Soriya-- MR, Khlean + Khlao + Khlach = Khmer- Hide quoted text - - > Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
