On Aug 18, 4:33 am, Pheng Kim Ving <[email protected]> wrote: > Suorsdey Loork Khoar Chev, > > I have to disagree with you when you say the killings (genocide) > should be blamed on the Viets, Sihanouk, and the Khmer Rouge. I firmly > believe that the Khmer Rouge and the Khmer Rouge alone bear > responsibility for the killings. The reason is, during the genocide, > the Khmer Rouge leadership and the Khmer Rouge leadership alone had > total control over the country. The Khmer Rouge leadership didn't > include Sihanouk. If Vietnam had ordered or encouraged the Khmer Rouge > leadership to commit the genocide against their own people the > Cambodian people, the Khmer Rouge leadership could simply have > disobeyed the order or ignored the encouragement. >
You have to understand the irresponsibility of the Cambodian people. The greatness must be the products of Cambodians. The ugliness must be the products of Vietnamese. As I pointed out earlier, if Vietnamese really controlled what Khmer Rouge did, why did they have to invade Cambodia? > It's important to point out that no Khmer Rouge leader, be it Pol Pot > or Ieng Sary or Khieu Sampahan or even Duch, has ever accused Vietnam > of training or ordering or encouraging them to commit the genocide. > It's interesting to notice that the UN and the international community > have never accused Vietnam of playing a part in the genocide. Even the > US, who was hostile to Vietnam for having invaded Pol Pot's Kampuchea > to destroy his regime, for quite some time after the invasion, has > never accused Vietnam of being involved in the genocide. > Only Cambodians do that because Vietnamese are supposed to be responsible for the Cambodian illnesses. > My family and I escaped to Vietnam in about mid-August 1975, not in > April 1975. So I lived for about 4 months under the Khmer Rouge > regime. Although this may not be a very long time, I already witnessed > by my very own eyes the cruelty of the Khmer Rouge. At the very > beginning: they entered Phnom Penh and won the civil war about noon of > 17 Apr 1975, (I together with other people applauded them, not because > we welcomed their victory, but because we believed the war ended and > we were happy about that), at about 2:00 pm the very same day, they > started to force people out of the capital; my family (of course > including me) and all the people in my area were forced out at about > 11:30 pm; yeah, in the middle of the night. And that was only the > beginning. > Please tell them that truth. > It's not accurate to say that I love the Viets more than the Thais. > It's accurate to say that I experienced myself the facts that the > Viets treated the Cambodian refugees as human beings while the Thais > treated the Cambodian refugees as street dogs. Thus it's accurate to > believe that I like the Viets and dislike the Thais for their > treatments of the Cambodian refugees. However I'm still grateful to > Thailand for accepting Cambodian refugees, although unwillingly; it > was the UN and the > international community especially the US who urged it to do so and > who paid for the costs of handling the refugees. > You must acknowledge how great their leadership to lead in their own country for the interest of their own people in a democratic way. Cambodians can enjoy it. I would not choose Vietnam because it is not as far advance as Thailand. So Cambodia would benefit the most by joining Thailand as a great developping country. > In Toronto Canada where I now live, a racial group (I won't specify > who they are, for fear of being accused of racism and more seriously > for fear of putting myself in a possible danger) constitute only about > 10% of the population, but they commit about 90% of the reported > crimes. According to people who live here for 30 years or more, this > has been going on for at least about 30 years now. Why don't they > change themselves and abandon the lives of crime?? Because their > community leaders always blame on other races particularly the Whites > for the ills and the crimes of their members. They never look in the > mirror and try to find out what's wrong with them. This attitude of > the leaders is a license for the members to continue to commit crimes. > > Similarly, the Khmers who blame other nations for the Khmers killing > the Khmers have the same attitude as the leaders of the above- > mentioned racial group. If the Khmers don't look in the mirror and try > to find out what's wrong with them but instead they blame other > nations, they send a message to other Khmers that it's > ok to kill the Khmers (you're not at fault when you kill innocent > Khmers, it's the fault of other nations), a new genocide will likely > happen again, or a series of smaller-scale massacres will take place > again and again and again. I know what's wrong: it's hatred. The Khmer > Rouge committed the genocide against the Cambodian people because they > hated the Cambodian people. I don't need to read any book about the > genocide; I experienced the Khmer Rouge regime hands-on. > You have to understand the illusion. They want to promote their agenda. Look a few years back. Sam Rainsy went to Kg Chham, Kratie provinces on boat preaching about Hun Sen and his CPP. He was trying to make them as Vietnamese. I was here on this discussion group to point that out. Sam Rainsy knew full welll how Cambodians hate Vietnamese. He thought Cambodians would follow him when he can make cpp and hun sen as vietanmese. It didn't work. The Cambodian people knew very welll how bad that vision was. That's why Sam Rainsy and his cronies would never go anywhere. Today, he is depending on other nations. If you really look at it, Sam Rainsy have very little support in the country. He is preaching all over world about how bad cambodia is today. Do you think that foreign countries would praise him? They may go along with him. Yet, they are not going to go against Cambodia today because it is an independent country being lead by their own people. We are not saying how great it is. We just say that Cambodia today is the product of Hun Sen and cpp leadership. That's the truth. You can't deny that fact whether you like those people or not. The only way they can do now is to smear them. They are trying to make it as an invasion of Vietnam. They can't even prove it. > Besides, when a Khmer accuses other nations of making the Khmers kill > the Khmers, he/she implicitly declares, perhaps unknowingly or > subconsciously, that the Khmers are so silly that other nations can > make them kill other Khmers. > What have I been saying? -- 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. 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