Dear Bopha et al; Thank you very much for your kind message. Your alarming has always been true. I am aware of ramifications of writing the article too. And this is not first time I have been personally attacked although the articles have been fairly weighted.
I don't know Kangaroo and Heng Sombat, but I know Mr.Mony Nou and Mr.Savouth Chea fairly well. - Mr.Mony is a respectful person in Hawaii http://lending808.com/about_us . Once, when I was a monk he spread the words throughout the island that I flirted his daughter. I was astonished after realized this. But until now I still have full respect for Mr.Mony. - Mr.Savout is right regarding my first time in Hawaii. He is a prolific community leader in Hawaii. You can know him via this website: http://hawaii.cambodiaworldwide.com/officers.html But when I founded the Cambodian-American Buddhist Association of Hawaii (CABAH) http://www.dhammaram.info/about_us.html , I am realized that he disappointed and got mad at me. My articles have always outlined general perspective and didn't abuse any one personally (you can read both articles again and again and please help give me honest feedback). I am interested why my articles have turned other people to attack me personally (may be not academically or professionally). I assure that all those "given information" about me are not true. I don't need to clarify and counter-argue about this. I would like the readers to further research more about me. I am really regret about this incident. If Mr.Mony & Mr.Savouth can accept my apology, I am honestly wanting to say "SORRY" in front them both. All my works, I have only one intention is to bring unity for all Khmer compatriots and serve the benefits of our motherland. Currently, I am a student in the department of political science http://www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/pages/directory.html and I will be back to Hawaii to defend my dissertation. With Kind Regards and Wish You All Have a Peaceful Day! Sophan On Jan 9, 2:18 pm, "Bopha Angkor" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Lok Sophan, > > Thank you a big deal. I enjoy reading your article below even I don't share > some of your thoughts here. I found your input here very interesting to > learn, abstract and large sense. I encourage you to continue to express your > concerns and your opinions considering as useful for humain society, yours > and theirs in spread of political or personal threat and intimidation that > you may victim of. As I wrote some days ago, "Freedom is not free. It's a > constant fight. To live free, people fight and die for it in order to allow > their children to enjoy of it. They don't just pray gods or beg tyrants for > some mercies or to live free." > > In Greco antiquity, many Greco intellectuals were sentenced to die by Athens > authorities and tyrants' accusing being "trouble markers". Socrates for > example was sentenced to die accusing being trouble marker in public place, > rejecting of old belief (gods) and corrupted young people with his teaching. > Hanoi via CPP, after many years of killing and violence against those who > stand against its neo-colonial and totalitarian regime now passed to the > criminalization of a famous (imported) French law "defamation" to threaten, > prison and repress those who stand against this vn neocolonial and its > tyrannical (tool) regime. > http://amekhmer.free.fr/khcrucial-event/sihanouk-crime/1cambogeno1.html > > USA liberated Germans and Europe people from Nazis is another question which > , I considered, as quite different from that of vn via Khmers. History and > past errors are there for us to learn and take a lesson from it to prevent it > to repeat over and over. This fact, we must not ignore it or run from it but > face to it. Specially we should not allow the murderers and its partners to > use it against us or victims endlessly. The question is, do Khmers need to > thank vn for creating a group of Khmer rouge to exterminate Khmers for its > expansionist and genocidal empire and created another group to serve Khmer > just to definitively install its neo colonial empire over Cambodia as today? > > Regards > > Bopha Angkor > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of S. Sophan > Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 6:15 AM > To: Cambodian Community of Canada > Subject: The Delusions of the January 7 Debates - Letter to Editor of PPP > > The delusions of the January 7 debate > Thursday, 07 January 2010 15:01 Sophan Seng > > Photo Supplied > > A propoganda poster from the Khmer Rouge era calling for solidarity between > the citizens of Cambodia and Vietnam. > > Dear Editor, > > Your article "PM blasts January 7 detractors" (January 5) didn't > demonstrate anything new for Cambodian politics. Leaders have always > pronounced strong political rhetoric to create a clear dichotomy of pro- and > anti-groups when this day has arrived. In reality, the government has > consolidated full power to exercise over everything, including whether to > celebrate this day or not celebrate. The current political environment in > Cambodia has not given any clue of the possible threat to the stability of > government at all. But why every year, when January 7 arrives, is there a > flowering of incidents and controversial public speech in Cambodia? > > The answers might be diverse. But I am impressed by the Khmer proverb which > states: Veay tiek bong-erl trey, or, "to stir the water to see the fish > clearly". It has been 31 years since Vietnamese troops encroached on > Cambodia's borderlands, accompanied by Khmer Rouge defectors, to topple the > Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot. The argument since has been endless. > Vietnamese troops are presented in Cambodia as either liberators, or > invaders, or both. In the past decades, the two debaters carried guns and > ammunitions to fight against each other, at least between the Khmer > nationalists based along the border and the Khmer troops based in Phnom Penh, > and backed by a hundred thousand Vietnamese troops. But after the Paris Peace > Accords of 1991 and the subsequent power consolidation of the Cambodian > People's Party, the debate remains only on lips and tongues. > > Hence both guns fighting and lips quarreling have significantly divided > Khmer society. It has shown division over unity, disadvantage rather than > advantage, and myopia rather than long-sightedness. The more we hate the past > atrocities of the Khmer Rouge, the more shameful we are as the same Khmer. > The more we praise foreign intervention, the more we lose national identity > to those foreigners. Thus, what inputs should we welcome and what outcome > should we expect? Can Cambodian people come to a joint beneficial solution to > this disgraceful quarrel? > Of course, from these 31 years, Cambodian people both old and young have > focused on their living standards, schooling and future cultivation. The past > has become a good lesson for them. The Khmer Rouge regime will never come > back again for sure. The trial of the Khmer Rouge is going on to respectively > bring national reconciliation and the healing of trauma. All Cambodian > parties and individuals have to join this trial and be courageous to show up > at the courtroom as the primary witnesses if you really need the genuine > outcome of justice. Cambodian people have to look forward to determine the > broader interests of the nation. They should not entrap themselves in a "quid > pro quo" of this delusional date, January 7. Take Germany as an example: They > have never taken as a big deal or celebrated the day the Allied Forces, led > by the United States, liberated them from Hitler's brutal Nazi regime. That > tragic past and the liberation of the Allies has been buried deeply in > Germany. > > Sophan Seng > University of Hawaii at Manoa > United States > > See full > link:http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010010730677/National-news/th... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/camdisc > Learn more -http://www.cambodia.org
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