Hey Kangaroo, I guess the talkers and the non-performance individual will do the blaming games and wait for fruits to ripe. These people left the country when she needs us most. Instead of coming forward to defense her from Vietnamese or Thais, they take position to bring down whoever were there to defense her.
HS government needs our help to make Khmer better. To make it possible we must understand that we could only assist FIRST not lead FIRST. Most of the opposition parties wish to lead before assist and support. We need to work together, because we all have the same goal, which is Khmer Nation. I could point out HS government mistakes as well as all readers could, and at the same time I could point out as many mistakes that SR made as well. Is this good for Khmers? NO! Khmer Nation needs strong economy to defense herself from her enemies. Let's make Khmer's economy strong! We need to look beyond HS government era. Sombat -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kangaroo Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 6:37 PM To: Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org Subject: Re: "KHMER RICHE" Keep blaming everything on Vietnamese. I guess Cambodians have no false. Sam Rainsy preach the hate toward Vietnamese. He thought that the race card would lead him to be on the top. He thought wrong. Sam Rainsy race card backfired. He would never win. CPP has been marching forward with the majority of Cambodians for a very long time. What do you think that Cambodians would rethink about Sam Rainsy? Sam Rainsy is dead. On Jan 14, 3:35 pm, "Bopha Angkor" <[email protected]> wrote: > Called these vietcong pets as Khmer elites is an insult for Khmer as > those who are victims of yuons(hanoi) and yuon crimes over decades, if > not centuries. Khmers never chose these yuon tools to be their > leaders but YUONS DID and maintain its tools in power to destroy Khmer > and serve yuon interest through divert political maneuvers. People > may say, the Khmer rouge, this generation and last one, are so bad, > so barbarous, so savage, so inhuman and more.. Of course they are, it > is so evident but to understand people have to look to the animosity, > the violence and savagery in the culture, in the heart and in the > brain of those who influenced and conditioned these killing machines > to use them against Khmer people in order to exterminate Khmer people > to free land and resources for those who plan the killing against > Khmer. As well, to understand these people (yuon tools) as to > understand the current rules and culture in Cambodia, you have to > understand the culture and nature of those who dominate and influence Cambodia and these people over centuries specially these last decades. > > Of course Khmer have a responsibility in this crime. Their crime is > their inability to manage their effort against this reign of animal as to end it. > Yet many of our noble elders have sacrificed their life to fight > against this animal reign but they fell. And we fail again during > Khmer Republic revolt. But as long as one Khmer still alive he will > continue to fight against this animal reign because its aspect, its > nature is so opposite to our system of valor as human kind. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > On Jan 11, 4:18 am, "Sam Rainsy Party of North America" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >http://www.camnews.org/2009/12/31/khmer-riche/ > > > "KHMER RICHE" > > Written by Andrew Marshall > > Good Weekend Magazine for the Sydney Morning Herald Sunday 12/12/09 > > > They live in one of the poorest countries on earth, yet they drive > > flash cars, dwell in mansions and scorn their impoverished brethren. > > Andrew Marshall meets the rich sons and daughters of Cambodia elite. > > > The huge Phnom Penh mansion owned by Victor's parents, General Meas > > Sophea. (Good Weekend Magazine) > > > "I'm going to drive a little fast now. Is that Okay?" There is one > > place in Cambodia where you can hold a cold beer in one hand and a > > warm Kalashnikov in the other, and Victor is driving me there. We're > > powering along Phnom Penh's airport road with Oasis on his Merc's > > sound system and enough guns in the boot to sink a Somali pirate > > boat. Victor is rich and life is sweet. His father is commander of > > the Cambodian infantry. He has a place reserved for him at L'Ecole > > Speciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, France's answer to Duntroon. And, > > in his passenger seat, there is a thin, silent man with a Chinese handgun: his bodyguard. > > > "His name is Klar," says Victor. "It means tiger." > > > Victor is only 21, but when reach our destination-a firing range run > > by the Cambodian special forces-the soldier at the gate salutes. > > > Devastated by decades of civil war, Cambodia remains one of the > > world's poorest nations. A third of its 13 million people live on > > less than a dollar a day and about 8 out of every 100 children die > > before the age of five. But Victor-real name Meas Sophearith-was > > raised in a different Cambodia, where power and billions of dollars > > in wealth are concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite. This elite > > prefers to conceal the size and sources of their money-illegal > > logging, smuggling, land-grabbing-but their children just like to > > spend it. The Khmer Rouge are dead; the Khmer Riche now rule Cambodia. > > > I first met Victor at a fancy Phnom Penh restaurant called Caf Metro. > > Outside, Porsches, Bentleys and Humvees fight for parking spaces. > > The son of a powerful general, Victor has his future mapped out for > > him. He went to school in Versailles, speaks French and English, and > > now studies politics at the University of Oklahoma. "My mother > > wanted us to get a foreign education so we could come back and control the country," he says. > > The shooting range is where Victor and his friends go to relax. > > "I've grown up with guns and soldiers all around me," he says, > > laying out a private arsenal on a table: two automatic assault > > rifles, two Glock pistols, one sniper's rifle, one iPhone. > > > "My mother wanted us to get a foreign education so we could come > > back and control the country". Meas Victor Sophearith (above) is one > > of Cambodian's privileged elite. > > > Victor and his generation are Cambodia's future. Will they use their > > education and wealth to lift their less fortunate compatriots out of > > poverty? Or will they simply continue their parents' fevered pursuit > > of money and power? Britain's Department for International > > Development (DFID), which gave almost $US30 million of its > > taxpayers' money to the country in the last fiscal year, offered one > > answer in June, when it announced the closure of its Cambodia office by 2011. The official reason? > > "It was felt UK aid could have a larger impact . where there are > > greater numbers of poor people and fewer international donors," said > > a DFID statement. But the development agency might also have tired > > of throwing money at a nation where so much poverty can be blamed on > > a grasping political elite-and their luxury-loving children. > > (Australia clearly has > > not: it has allocated $61.4 million in development assistance to > > Cambodia for 2009-10.) > > > Depressingly, the Khmer Riche Kids sometimes seem indistinguishable > > from the old colonial ruling class. They were educated > > overseas-partly because their families' wealth made them targets for > > kidnapping gangs-and often speak better English than Khmer. They > > carry US dollars - only poor people pay with Cambodian riel - and > > live in newly built neoclassical mansions so large that the city's > > old French architecture looks like Lego by comparison. And their > > connection to the Cambodian masses is almost non-existent. > > > The "Paris Hilton of Cambodia", Sophy, daughter of a Deputy PM. > > Sophy's extravagantly decorated car. (Good Weekend Magazine) > > > Sophy, 22, is the daughter of a Deputy Prime Minister. Rich, > > doll-like and self-obsessed, she could be the Paris Hilton of > > Cambodia. She imports party shoes from Singapore, brands them "Sophy > > & Sina" (Sina is her sister-in-law), hen displays them in her own > > multistory boutique. It has six staff, no customers and a slogan: > > "It's all aboutme." Sophy's name is spelled out in sparkling stones > > on the back of her car, a Merc so pimped up that I have to ask her what make it is. "It's a Sophy!" she replies. > > > We meet at her hair salon, where she is prepping a model for a > > fashion shoot for a magazine she is starting up with her brother > > Sopheary, 28, and their cousin Noh Sar, 26,. All three were educated > > abroad and prefer to speak English together. Sopheary, who studied > > in New York state, seems both amused and slightly embarrassed by his > > wealth and privilege. "What can you do?" he asks. "Your parents give > > you all these things. You can't say no. If someone gives you cake, you eat it." > > > Talk to Sopheary and his friends, and Cambodia's tragic history > > seems very far away. The genocidal Khmer Rouge blew up banks and > > outlawed money before being driven from power in 1979. Later came > > the 1991 Paris Accords, and the plunder of Cambodia's rich natural > > resources-forests, fisheries, land -began in earnest. Cambodia's > > official economy largely depend on garment, exports, but there is a > > much larger shadow economy in which only the ruthless and the > > well-connected survived and prosper. "If you're doing business, you > > have to know someone high up, so he has your back," says Victor. > > > The closer you get to Hun Sen, Cambodia's autocratic Prime Minister, > > the better connected you are. Hun Sen staged a bloody coup d'etat in > > 1997 and has kept an iron grip on power ever since. Opponents have > > been silenced while loyalists have grown rich. This includes > > ministers, a handful of tycoons and generals. Cambodians are often > > driven from their land by soldiers or military police. Formerly a > > French possession, Cambodia has been colonized all over again, this time by its own greedy elite. > > > But the Khmer Riche have a problem. "None of them can answer a > > simple > > question: where does all your money come from?" says a Western > > journalist in Phnom Penh. Ask Cambodian ministers how they got so > > rich on a meager government salary, and they will reply, "My wife is good at business." > > > When I ask Noh Sar, whose father is a senior customs official, why > > he is so wealthy, he gives me a slight variation: "My mother works a lot." > > > Victor's mother is also good at business, according to "Country for Sale," > > an investigation into the elite published by the London-based > > corruption watchdog Global Witness in February 2009. "She is a key > > player in RCAF [Royal Cambodian Armed Forces] patronage politics, > > holding a fearsome reputation among her husband's subordinates on > > account of her frequent demands for money," says the report. "RCAF > > sources have told Global Witness that military officers sometimes > > bribe [her] in order to increase the chances of her "close connections" to a major timber smuggler. > > > It is only in the past few years that the children of Cambodian's > > elite have grown confident enough to show off their family's wealth. > > "If you want people to respect you in Cambodia, you must have a good > > car, good diamonds, a good cell phone," explains Ouch Vichet, 28, > > better known as Richard. "It's an I'm-richer-than-you competition." > > Richard is quite a > > competitor: he drives a $US150,000 Cadillac Escalade and wears a > > $US2,500 Hermes watch and a $US13,000 2.5-carat diamond ring. He > > doesn't have a bodyguard, although some friends keep them as status symbols. > > > "Crazy money": (above) Ouch "Richard" Vichet is surprisingly candid > > about his > > ... > > read more »- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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