On Aug 17, 6:29 am, [email protected] wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Gaffar Peang-Meth <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Aug 17, 2010 7:46 am > Subject: CAMBODIA: "Cambodians can remain pawns, or can hang together against > Sen's autocracy" > > FOR PUBLICATION > AHRC-ETC-007-2010 > August 17, 2010 > An article by Dr. Gaffar Peang-Meth published by the Asian Human Rights > Commission > CAMBODIA: "Cambodians can remain pawns, or can hang together against Sen's > autocracy" > August 15, 2010 > > Two weeks ago, I presented in this space a contrast of reporter Benoit > Bringer's "Cambodge: Les enfants de la decharge" (Cambodia: The Children of > the Garbage Dump), a five minute video, and his gallery of photos, showing > how Cambodians scavenge Phnom Penh's public garbage dump just to survive; and > Andrew Marshall's "Khmer Riche," published in the Jan 12 Sydney Morning > Herald, showing the life at the opposite end of Cambodians' economic spectrum > – Cambodia's "rich kids" who can spend "$2,000 on drinks in a single night" > and whose parents' "newly built neoclassical mansions (are) so large that > (Phnom Penh's) old French architecture looks like Lego by comparison." >
So you are saying that only this era that people should not spend any money while others are so poor. I don't what world you are coming from. It always happens on this earth whenever people join capitalsim. I really don't understand why you are saying it. People also say something like that here too in the US. We call them communism. Capitalism spend money no matter what. By the way, the Khmer Rouge view was similar to those who hate to see rich people spending money. They see them using money to suppress others. Do you know what happen when those people stop spending money? You are right. They are not going to be poor. Only the poor are going to be poorer unless you order the rich to spread their wealth. Then we can call it as socialism or communism. Are you getting it? > The contrast serves to forecast Cambodia's unpleasant future, a future the > international community sought to avoid when it established the 1991 Paris > Peace Accords and invested $3 billion to set Cambodia on a productive course. > The current situation in Cambodia and the future it foretells represent an > international failure. > What do you think they do? Do you keep blaming this and that? Do you call that productive? > Economic Inequality, Conflict, Revolt > As long as you embrace capitalism, you will never find economic equality. That's not what capitalism is designed to be. As long as you think that this group is bad, and your group is better. Then you are asking for conflicts. Look at Sam Rainsy and his clan. They have no intention to unite their nation for their common interest. Instead, they want to unite Cambodians together for the Sam Rainsy interest, and destroy other opposition. Today they are weak. Unfortunately, that's what we see from Sam Rainsy's camp. They want their own way. Their way, or the highway. Now you are talking about revolt. Khmer Rouge peasants spent most of their lives suppressed by the rich. They passed on their poverty from one generation to another. Do you know how they revenged ? That's right. They killed their own people in millions when the Khmer Rouge regime put them in the superior seats. Do you get it? It's not the Vietnamese who orchestrate the killings. It was the revenge. > Theories abound about economic inequality and its linkage with dissent, > unrest, and rebellion by the disadvantaged. > > Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) had linked the well-being of a > political community with the well-being of the citizens who make it up, and > economic inequality with the revolt of the disadvantaged. His analysis on the > causes of revolution—"The passion for equality is at the root of revolution," > Aristotle said--has inspired students of politics and theorists until today. > Communists always think about equality. Capitalism makes it inpossible to find equality. Are you telling me that Cambodia should be a communist country? > One of Aristotle's often-quoted statements reads: "It is in the interest of a > tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the > cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so preoccupied with their daily > tasks (subsistence) that they have no time for rebellion." > Now, please tell us how you go about it. You want to stop the society to be in different stage. That's not capitalism. You will never find equality today on earth. -- 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 at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org
