My god brother Ta Prum, Let try my finding: The birth of KHMER KRA:HAM.
Cheers and losing up everyone:-)) Here we Go, it's real no fiction... All I said in the camdisc. are my " try " to find any right way for our forum. Sometimes it is not all right because I'm still learning. I hope some of my finding would be a useful ones. Remember that, sometimes the westerners who studied the Khmer culture like history or politics etc... they were not all linguists. Most of the time, they did the "COPY"of any specific Khmer word from book to book. They didn't do the fields study of that term or that word. It can be right because they copied the right one, but there is a weak point too . They didn't really know the meaning or simply they were not in the linguistics major... Remember that linguistics are not like the mathematics, there are the variations and not exactly 2+2 = 4 ? Khmer linguistics is less absorbed the scholars than other major. There are more foreigners than the "Real Khmer(s)" to study the Khmer language ! ! ! This is one example: KHMER KRA:HAM The word "Khmer Kraha:m " was used to be translated into French "KHMER ROUGE" . The westerners prefered to use this term " KHMER ROUGE " than anything else. We the KHMER people called the Khmer COMMUNIST or KHMER KRA:HA:M. The word Khmer Kraha:m has a great impact on every aspect of the everyday life of our people. Now, try to find out when, where, and why the word "Khmer Kraha:m" come from ? Last time I saw in the camdisc. someone said it was from Sihanouk in the radio when he gave a speech. Sure, Sihanouk used this term to mean " the leftist group". We are the common people, we knew this word before Sihanouk used it especially among the high school students. We knew its origin and meaning differently from Sihanouk's . When this term was born ? The word KHMER KRA:HA:M is not a Pali, Sanskrit or a borrowing word from other country. It is a pure Khmer new word born at the end of the 50's or at the beginning of the 60's. Where this word was born ? Most scholars believed that it was born at Phnom Penh because Phnom Penh was the center of propaganda and it can spread out quickly among the students in the capital. It seems that this assumption is right, in reality it started from the province : KHET KAMPONG CHAM , at Lycee Preah Sihanouk. Sure many leaders lived at Phnom Penh like Salot Sar (Pol Pot), Lycee Kampubot was one of the center at that time, the news papers Vat Phnom or "Prachea Choun " was starting to do overt attack to the monarchy and the government, but the word wasn't born there (Phnom Penh). Why we call Khmer Kraha:m ? In the beginning of the 60's, there were infiltrations of the foreign books regarding to communism especially in French language. At the same time the news paper Prachea Chuon (Nong Suon, Director) started to spread out the communist ideology, the writer group started to produce some numbers of Khmer books like Kouli Kam-naen (The corvee people), Sim Bar La:n (Sim, the Chauffeur) , Mekhum Chea (Mr. Chea, the Chief district), Aoy Muoy Sen Tea Mouy Kak ( I loan you a penny, you pay me back a dime)etc.. Some parts of these books were inserted in the news paper Vat Phnom at the mid 50's. The leader of that kind of writing was Mr. Im Thok , former director of Vat Phnom news paper. Because the secret police of Oum Manorin was so tight at the Capital city, they started from the province (Kampong Cham) to spread out all these khmer books among the high school students. All these books weren't called Saey Phao Kraha:m, but the small book with a RED COVER with Mao Tse Toung picture at the front cover, written in French language. That book was "Les Pensee de Mao". It was small and it was easy to hide .It was easy to read especially among the high schoool students who liked to improve their French language. Among us, students, we called each other Pourk Khmer Kraha:m, the one who carried that small RED BOOK, the book of the Communist ideology. Most of students who had this small book and others in khmer language are the one who were called "Pourk Kon Ses Normal". These group of students wouldl be teachers when they graduated. They lived in group in the school dorm, ate and slept there.They are intern students,and this kind way of life had provided them the opportunity to access to all kinds of books especially the RED ONE. Tin Kim Hong was one who did the communication and the selling. The provider(s) were the teacher(s) like Koy Thoun, Kheang Choun, Tiv Ol, and later Mam Nay, the Natural Science teacher who had joined later the club. Kaing Keuk Eav, called Duch, the director of Kuk Tuol Sleng in the Pol Pot Era. Keuk Eav was from Kampong Thom like the student, Tin Kim Hong too. This is the origin of the word KHMER KRAHA:M and the rest of the story, our camdiscers knew better than I did. Have a great weekend everyone ! On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:22 PM, M Preuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The nomenclature "Khmer Khiev" did not exist under the SRN, the term > used to designate this group is: Khmer Serey (Free Khmer). For example, we > never called Preap In etc... as being Khmer Khiev, we called them Khmer > Serey. > > You may want to confirm with Sdech Ta on that. I think he uses "Khmer Bleu" > (Blue Khmer) only after 1970, to designate anybody that led to his demise > from power (i.e. Lon Nol group) - or maybe even more recently. > > Similarly, Sdech Ta was known as "Le Prince Rose" (the pink prince) because > of his leaning tendency towards communist while still being a playboy. > > In any case, some of the current princes and princesses should be called > "The Black Princes and Princesses" (Sdach Chet(?) Khmao) because of their > misuse of power and the sale of their souls that led to their demise from > power by Khmeng Khveal Ko (eg, Ranariddh). > > Just my personal opinion, > > MP > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Chetrasena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> The word Khmer Krohom was surely coming from former monarch Norodom >> Sihanouk during the SRN. Positioning himself as Neutral and non- >> alliance according to Bandung pact, he (former King) labeled two >> opposite groups, one was Khmer Krohom which born out of Communist >> Vietnamese and financed by China, and other Khmer Blue or Khmer Khiev >> who affiliated with Thiev/Ky regime of Saigon and Sarit/Thanat Khoman >> of Bangkok fully financed by CIA. There is no relationship between >> Krohom (rouge) and Krom (under or below ), two separated words and two >> different meaning.There is no question about that from the lowest to >> the highest we (Khmer) are duped by foreigners such as Vietnamese, >> Thai, China and American, we thought they are care and loved us more >> than we loved ourself. We invested our belief and lives to their >> causes then we tortured ourselves then we became nothing. >> >> On Oct 31, 1:31 pm, In Camdisc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Khmer Rouge and Viet Cong PROPAGANDA >> > Not much is known about Khmer Rouge leaflets during the war. A few >> leaflets have turned up in various archives over the years but they are >> extremely rare. This leaflet was taken from the body of a Khmer Rouge >> soldier in 1970, is all-text and says in part: >> > >> > TO ALL OUR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN >> > >> > Our people enjoyed peace for almost fifteen years, during which time the >> people of our neighboring countries suffered endlessly from the war brought >> about by the American imperialists and their lackeys. >> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. 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