Dear Lok Sophan,
Thank for your feedback. I think it is so evident, these people trace and
threaten to your privacy and get you to personal because they don't like
what you posted on PPP which doesn't serve their pro regime in PP. They also
suspect you to work for Rainsy or pro Rainsy and not their samdach hun sen.
Those are the main reasons. It is you alone who can decide if you will
continue or not for what you stand for in spite of traces and threats to
your life or privacy.
Remember, you live in a democratic country, you have freedom and resources
to stand your beliefs and fight against some kind of injustices yet you are
still being threatened and scare for your life. How about millions of Khmer
people living in permanent threat and have nothing in hands to fight against
those who kill them slowly and condemn them to live in some kind of living
hell in Cambodia?
Regards
Bopha Angkor
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From: "sophan" <[email protected]>
To: "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org"
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Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: The Delusions of the January 7 Debates - Letter to Editor of
PPP
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...
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