Another Khmer ( or yuon?) trying to teach Khmer not to speak Khmer language.
Twisted brain case. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:28 PM, rattanakiri <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks the professor for Cambodian history review but the professor's > preference of using the Khmer Rouge terms like "Khmer bodies but > Vietnamese heads" is puzzling and smacks his proclaim of his dislike of > khmer partisan demonizing each others. The question is does he believe what > the Khmer Rouge said about their opponents were true? > the statement like this "Now, Cambodians inside the country affirm that > one cannot distinguish who is Khmer and who is Vietnamese anymore: Khmers > speak Vietnamese and do business in Vietnamese language; and Vietnamese > speak Khmer and have Khmer names." > cannot be taken seriously. The prof should go to cambodia before he wrote > nonesense like this. This is again, is like the Khmer Rouge ideology which > always suspicious of fellow Cambodians as traitors or foreigners. > > > On 2/24/2010 7:38 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Cambodians oppressed, distracted, > divided<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/bmaW/~3/umhayMicER0/cambodians-oppressed-distracted-divided.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> > Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:24 PM PST > > <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_76xUgRgjZYM/StTUV4nOBsI/AAAAAAAAM0Q/lPf3hEEk7hQ/s200/Gaffar+Peang-Meth+A.+02.jpg>February > 24, 2010 > By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth > PACIFIC DAILY NEWS (Guam) > > Cambodians' public discussions of Cambodia's past, present and future churn > through cyberspace. A discussion that targets domestic political > developments, particularly the perennial tensions between those who advocate > civil rights and freedoms and those who support stability and economic > development, foments passionate debate. > > When the debate turns to Cambodia's external problems with her neighbors to > the east and west -- Vietnam and Thailand, both viewed historically as > "swallowers of Khmer land" -- the conversation has fallen to the depths of > racial slurs and intensified hatred. > > Premier Hun Sen's supporters and critics are deaf to each other's > arguments. Persuasion and compromise are foreign concepts. Those who comment > do so anonymously to more easily demonize the opposition. > > Hun Sen has successfully used governmental administrative machinery to keep > Cambodians intimidated and ignorant of their civil rights and the principles > of good governance. He dangled showy projects and physical improvements to > infrastructure, while many scavenge the city's dumps and live on rodent > meat. > > Of late, Sen has succeeded, with Cambodians' complicity, to divert > attention from his peoples' domestic plight to focus on the Thais, whose > leader Sen has cursed publicly almost every day. His call to protect > Cambodia's Preah Vihear Temple from the Thais brings many Cambodians to his > side, though they are mute over Vietnamese expansionism from the east. > > There is endless and mindless debate over the use of the term "Yuon," > because some non-Khmers say it's "racial pejorative." Yet, the authoritative > Buddhist Institute's "Dictionnaire Cambodgien," 5th edition, 1967, defines > "Yuon" as "Vietnamese," pure and simple. Sen's supporters love the debate: > it divides and distracts critics. > > I have written on the history of Vietnam's southward movement since the > Vietnamese ended their thousand-year bondage to China in 939. They > physically moved away from Chinese threat while seizing and absorbing > territories before them. Johns Hopkins retired professor Naranhkiri Tith's > Web site deals at length with the fundamentals of Vietnam's "Nam Tien" > (southward movement) and his proposed roadmap to save Cambodia from it. > > Vietnam's more recent attempts to integrate Cambodia into a Greater Vietnam > may be read in the Vietnam Workers' Party's (Lao Dong) political report to > its second congress in February 1951: "We must strive to help our Cambodian > and Laotian brothers ... and arrive at setting up a > Vietnam-Cambodian-Laotian Front" against the French. > > In March 1951, the "Joint National United Front for Indochina" was formed. > In November, the Lao Dong created the "Dang Nhan Dan Cach Mang Cao Mien" > (Revolutionary Cambodian People's Party) -- with name and statute drafted in > the Vietnamese language. > > Brian Crozier, a former Reuters correspondent, quoted a captured November > 1951 Viet Minh document: "The Vietnamese Party reserves the right to > supervise the activities of its brother parties in Cambodian and Laos." > Crozier also quoted a Viet Minh radio broadcast of April 1953: "The Lao Dong > Party and the people of Vietnam have the mission to make revolution in > Cambodia and Laos. We, the Viet Minh elements, have been sent to serve this > revolution and to build the union of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos." > > Viet Minh administrations with their own armed forces and system of tax > collection were established in Cambodia and Laos. > > But more than one reader has told me, "That was then, and this is now." > > Now, Cambodians inside the country affirm that one cannot distinguish who > is Khmer and who is Vietnamese anymore: Khmers speak Vietnamese and do > business in Vietnamese language; and Vietnamese speak Khmer and have Khmer > names. > > When the July 1954 Geneva Accords ordered Viet Minh forces to leave > Cambodia, they took with them between 4,500 (a conservative figure) and > 8,000 (reportedly claimed by Vo Nguyen Giap in 1971) Cambodians, mostly > young children, who were raised, cultured and given political and military > training. These Cambodians -- with "Khmer bodies but Vietnamese heads" -- > returned to Cambodia after 1970 to fight Lon Nol, and to unsuccessfully > wrest control of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from Pol Pot. > > Some were arrested, others purged. In May 1977, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge units > entered Vietnam's border towns between Ha Tien and Chau Doc, and by November > they operated as deep as four miles inside Vietnam and inflicted casualties. > > In response, the Vietnamese built up units in Tay Ninh and by December > operated as deep as 10 to 15 miles inside Cambodia. > > After Christmas 1977, eight Vietnamese military divisions, supported by > artillery, tanks and planes, invaded Cambodia, cut off the Parrot's Beak > area and advanced as far as Neak Loeung, 40 miles from Phnom Penh. Out of > fuel, they pulled back. > > On Nov. 3, 1978, Hanoi signed a 25-year peace and cooperation treaty with > Moscow. A month later, on Dec. 3, Hanoi Radio announced the birth of the > "Kampuchean National United Front of National Salvation," led by a 14-member > Central Committee under Heng Samrin, a former commander of the Khmer Rouge's > 4th Division. Hun Sen was a former chief of staff and regimental deputy > commander in Sector 21. > > On Christmas Eve 1978, 100,000 Vietnamese troops led 18,000 KNUFNS soldiers > across the border into Cambodia. They captured Phnom Penh on Jan. 7, 1979. > > On Feb. 18, 1979, Heng Samrin and Pham Van Dong signed a 25-year treaty of > peace, friendship and cooperation, a treaty that effectively integrated > Cambodia into a Greater Vietnam. I will discuss the treaty in my next > column. > > A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D., is retired from the University of Guam, where > he taught political science for 13 years. 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