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On March 23, 1775, the great patriot and founding father Patrick Henry concluded his speech FOR CAMBODIA ? Vietnam, has not respected the UN CHARTER, the Paris Peace agreement with the US . A.. VIETNAM INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA 1978-2009. December 25, 1978 Invasion of Cambodia. Some 100,000 Vietnamese with 20,000 KUFNS troops, under the direction of It describes a Vietnamese as THIEF, A LIAR, A KILLER, A DECEIVER , a sleeper ...... B.. CHINESE INVASION OF VIETNAM (SHORT) Feb.. 17, 1979 "Teaching a lesson". Some 170,000 Chinese troops with 700 warplanes, and 250-300 tanks launched an invasion of Vietnam to punish it for invading of Cambodia. THE WORDS OF THE VIETNAMESE ARE PURE LIES : Study these words made by by PHAM VAN DONG, the Prime Minister of North Vietnam, his public statement, his promises made to Prince Sihanouk and his orders to launch an invasion of Cambodia. It reflects the Vietnamese culture of lies. It reflects also the Vietnamese race and national character based on dishonesty ,deception , and pure lies. . VIETNAM WORDS OF LIES : June 8, 1967 North VN PM Pham Van Dong makes a declaration of recognizing Cambodian independence, neutrality, sovereignty and territorial integrity. The declaration makes in response to Prince Sihanouk’s appeal for the recognition and respect of Cambodia’s territorial integrity. VIETNAM CRIMES AGAINST CAMBODIA : VIETNAM INVASION OF CAMBODIA 1978. Dec. 25, 1978 PM Pham Van Dong launched an invasion of Cambodia. Some 100,000 Vietnamese with 20,000 KUFNS troops, under the direction of Gen.Van Tien Dung, launch an invasion of Cambodia. VIETNAM OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA : Under Vietnam occupation of Cambodia in 10 years 1979-1989 : Under Le Duc Tho rule alone 1979-1989 an estimate 460 000 innocent Cambodian had died through TORTURE, BURIED ALIVE, SIMPLE EXECUTION, foced labor,famine ,stravation, malnutrition and sponsor starvation by the CPP regime recorded by Amnestry international and others. IT CONFIRMS BY THIS BOOK : on the behavior and character of a Vietnamese. BOOK " GIAI PHONG " by T Terzani. It describes a Vietnamese as THIEF, A LIAR, A KILLER, A DECEIVER , a sleeper ...... Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:42:07 -0700 Subject: Fwd: The tales of two freedom fighters From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gaffar Peang-Meth <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM Subject: The tales of two freedom fighters To: PACIFIC DAILY NEWS July 1, 2009 The tales of two freedom fighters A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D. A man becomes what he is as he accumulates knowledge, encounters personal and communal experiences, embraces the values and the beliefs passed down by his elders. This process of political socialization is the foundation of one's culture and shapes one's perceptions, thoughts, and actions. A fluid process, this continual learning causes us to be different at 30 than we were at 20, and changed again and again as we age. I have written in this space about two Cambodian men whom I have never met but whose past and present activities have compelled me to tell their stories as I know them. One is 38-year-old Serey Ratha Sourn, who earned political asylum in the United States in 2006. The other is 40-year-old Piseth Lem who earned political asylum in Norway in 2008. Both men's personal freedom and physical well-being were threatened in their home country. Sourn is chief of mission of the U.S.-based Cambodian Action Committee for Justice & Equity, which promotes popular participation in political action from grassroots to the national level, to build the ideals of republicanism. Sourn also is a poet and a historian. Lem has set up a weekly Free Press Magazine Online, to be launched officially in January 2010, in cooperation, he says, with other Cambodian freedom fighters in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, Thailand and Cambodia. The FPM is dedicated to freedom of expression, free press and equality for all Cambodians. The FPM Online in English is now available. It will publish in the Khmer language in six months. Sourn and Lem are two freedom fighters among many who say they love and miss their native land, its culture and traditions, their families and friends, and the people -- but they can't rest and freeload in their fight against dictators. What makes them do what they do so resolutely? Sourn, born to a poor farm family eight months after Cambodia underwent the 1970 historic regime change that brought down the once untouchable Khmer devaraja, grew up with Buddhist monks in a pagoda. He again lived with monks when he did his higher studies in Phnom Penh. His father and two uncles joined the Kansaeng Sar (White Scarf) fighting force to face communist Vietnamese forces that, in pre-1970, occupied 3,500 square kilometers of Khmer soil, and then emerged from their sanctuaries and moved westward into Cambodia's interior. Both uncles died during the war. The Sourns are fiercely nationalistic. Their perception of the Khmer monarchy and of Vietnam has been colored by the two countries' historical relationship: Vietnamization and the colonization of Cambodia's Prey Nokor, later named Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. The elder Sourns encouraged in the young Sourn a duty to continue the values and beliefs of the Kansaeng Sar, created in Cambodia by Khmers who fled Kampuchea Krom (southern Vietnam), and who believed in republican ideals. Piseth Lem was born to a well-educated family eight months before the country's regime change. His father was a professor of Khmer literature, his mother was a teacher. According to Lem, his father's friends were Khmer progressives who, upon Prince Sihanouk's ouster from power, prodded his father to join the maquis to fight Lon Nol. His father declined, still holding to the ideals of republicanism. Young Lem grew up living with Buddhist monks at Wat Tronum Chroeung in Kandal, and again with monks at Wat Sansam Kosal when he did his higher studies in Phnom Penh. According to Lem, after Pol Pot took power in Cambodia in 1975, there were Cambodians in Kompong Speu, Pursat and Koh Kong who joined an underground movement. By 1976, Lem, contacted by those based in Kompong Speu, was deeply involved. In 1977, he used his son, Piseth, as a conduit to close friends to join the movement. That year, the professor left his family behind. He and another professor friend walked from Kompong Speu to Koh Kong to meet some underground members, and moved on foot to the Khmer-Thai border where a base of the anti-Pol Pot "Khmer Sar" (White Khmer) was to be established. Lem's mother said her husband and his friend never made it to the border. En route they were captured and killed by Pol Pot's soldiers. In 1978, young Lem, then 9, barely escaped death by Pol Pot's youth corps, whose members lured him to come outside the house one night, jumped him, bound his hands behind his back, walked him to a ricefield and accused him of being an enemy of the regime. There was agitation to torture Lem, but a mysterious blow suddenly fell on the youth leader's head and someone whispered to Lem that he should run away and leave the village. He did. As adults, Sourn believes the power of the pen will bring forth a people power that will defeat the power of the guns, and Lem believes in the power of free press to promote democracy and human rights. By running such men out of the country, Sen and his party only enhance the fervor of those who are committed to the struggle against dictators. A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D., is retired from the University of Guam, where he taught political science for 13 years. Write him at [email protected]. http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200907010300/OPINION02/907010332 _________________________________________________________________ Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for you. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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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