Saturday, November 27, 2010
Your tear is our tear, your agony is our agony All Cambodian people must think that this is not an incident, this is a preventable cause but why it is not prevented? This is not an earthquake, volcano or natural disaster, this is human disaster that capable human can prevent it not to happen. Bang-skol ceremony organized by KKF in Pennsylvania, Florida, California and Canada Cambodian water festival will continue despite tragedy People place offerings and incense sticks for the victims of the stampede near the Diamond Gate bridge, site of a stampede late on November 22 which left nearly 350 people dead, in Phnom Penh on November 25, 2010 as Cambodia holds a national day of mourning. (HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) Paying a high price for cheap sex Prostitutes outside a brothel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photograph: Rob Elliott/AFP/Getty ImagesMAGAN' WORLD: Manchán Magan’s tales of a travel addict Saturday, November 27, 2010 IrishTimes.com HOW MUCH for a really good hooker in Cambodia these days? For a young one, just down from her remote mountain village. As a travel supplement aimed at helping travellers get the best from their holidays it would be remiss of us not to cover this important tourism growth area. After all, 22 per cent of foreign visitors to Cambodia in 2000 were there for sex; no doubt some may have been Irish Times readers. So, in the interests of catering to readers of all tastes, let’s seek out the best value for yam-yam and bam-bam. It might help first to take a quick glance at international sex trafficking statistics, as a large proportion of Cambodian sex workers are trafficked in from Vietnam and northern Thailand. The pretty little girl you buy is likely to have been either kidnapped by neighbours or sold by desperate relatives for a few hundred euro. She will probably have been held in the brothel you found her in, or in some squat belonging to the pimp from whom you bought her, but one needn’t think of it as imprisonment. She is, in theory, free to leave at any time, once she has paid back the expenses incurred in bringing her there. These debts aren’t as terribly crippling as you might imagine – a large proportion will have been cleared in the first few months, when she was first sold as a virgin for top dollar to a few lucky foreigners, after that her value quickly plummets, so that within a few months you could pick her up for less than €50 if you know how to bargain. Or even as low as €10 if you wait until she is strung out on heroin, and possibly infected with HIV. By then the brothel has little use for her, and would be glad to sell her freedom to you for a nominal fee to cover any remaining charges for room and board, or any abortions she may have had to undergo due to “carelessness”. It’s odd that although one may go to Cambodia seeking sex, one finds instead a last vestige of slavery, not the brutish, bewhiskered 19th century type involving scurrilous men in knee-length breeches and boots, but something more subtle and innocuous. The United Nations estimates that between 700,000 and 4 million people are cajoled from their homes and sold into slavery worldwide each year. Some 80 per cent are women, girls and young boys trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation. They are lured with false promises of low-skilled jobs in waitressing, modelling or domestic help, at ever younger ages: the average age of trafficked prostitutes in some Asian brothels is 14. There’s unlikely to be a famous Harriet Tubman or Frederick Douglass-type figure leading an heroic revolution of enslaved sex workers to liberty, because such is the debased status of women in many Asian societies that some will have voluntarily agreed to their enslavement to help feed a hungry family or provide medicine for a sick relative. Once the money has been earned, in theory they are free to return home, but in practise a village community is unlikely to allow them forget their act of generosity. They will be stigmatised, unable to marry. Their sacrifice is for life – although that might not in fact be very long: many die of Aids by their 20s, or are so severely afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder that they drink or drug themselves to an early grave. The leading causes of death among trafficked women are homicide, suicide, drug/alcohol related problems and HIV. In fact, the homicide rate among trafficked women is 17 per cent higher then the average. But, I’ve drifted off-topic. To get back to finding a really good prostitute in Cambodia. First off, I am told it’s best to say you are going on a golfing holiday. The US sellout of the KHMER PEOPLE IN CAMBODIA in 1975, THROUGH HENRY KISSINGER. WHAT DID HENRY KISSINGER DO THE KHMER PEOPLE IN CAMBODIA ? HIS AMBASSADOR MR. JOHN GUNTHER DEAN, LEFT THE COUNTRY , FROM THE ROOF TOP OF THE US EMBASSY BUILDING , TO CATCH AN HELICOPTER , LIKE A THIEF , IN APRIL 1975. WHAT DID HE SAY ? 3. WHO IS THIS MAN ? Kissinger, in His Own Words "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam" Henry Alfred Kissinger recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, so was his Vietnamese communist friend . LE DUC THO recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. THAT Nobel Peace Prize WAS AWARDED TO THEM FOR 1. THE ABANDONMENT, OF THE US ALLIED ,THE SOUTH VIETNAM ANTI COMMUNIST REGIME AND THE MURDER OF THE NGO DIHN DIEM FAMILIES. 2. THE US INVASION OF CAMBODIA, A NEUTRAL COUNTRY, A UN MEMBER COUNTRY, AN ALLIED OF THE US GOVERNMENT. 3. THE ABANDONMENT OF CAMBODIA TO THE COMMUNIST IN 1975. 4. THE KILLING OF OVER 600,000 CAMBODIAN INNOCENTS ( The 3,500 bombing sorties resulted in 600,000 deaths. The American bombing of Cambodia was a closely guarded secret primarily because the U.S. was not at war with Cambodia.) p140 FOR CAMBODIA Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. 10 UN RESOLUTIONS,(1979-1988) VOTED BY 116 UN MEMBER COUNTRIES ,CALL VIETNAM TO CEASE HER OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA & REMOVE ALL HER TROOPS FROM THE COUNTRY, ARE NOT RESPECTED AS OF TODAY. President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York,September 26, 1988. "Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops ...." As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops : 1. despite the call from the US President Reagan to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since 1988. 2. because America, under President Clinton,( Anti Khmer race ,like Henry Kissinger and his policy of bombing and invasion of Cambodia in 1970's) by 1995 and his group had reversed the Reagan adminstration 's compliance with the 10 UN resolutions. CAMBODIA today remains OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM 1979-2010. why ? Because of this act . AMERICA COLLABORATION WITH VIETNAM COMMUNISt WHILE VIETNAM CONTINUES HER OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA. WITH PRESIDENT CLINTON : US FOREIGN POLICY IS PARTNERSHIP WITH THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS , AND THE VIETNAMESE OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA . PRESIDENT CLINTON JUST FORGETS THE 10 YEARS EFFORTS FROM THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION BY IGNORING THE 10 UN RESOLUTIONS CALLING VIETNAM TO QUIT CAMBODIA. Did anybody from the US foreign policy makers team listen to his ? WALL STREET-President Bill Clinton COLLABORATION WITH THE VIETNAMESE OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA IN VIOLATION OF 10 UN RESOLUTIONS( CALLING VIETNAM TO QUIT CAMBODIA ) President Bill Clinton announced the formal normalization of diplomatic relations with Vietnam on July 11, 1995. Subsequent to President Clinton's normalization announcement, in August 1995, both nations upgraded their Liaison Offices opened during January 1995 to embassy status. As diplomatic ties between the nations grew. While Vietnam continues to occupy Cambodia as of today IN VIOLATION OF these 10 UN resolutions, THE CLINTONS ARE BECOMING THE PARTNERS ,collaborators with THE VIETNAMESE FORCES OF AGGRESSION OF CAMBODIA, AND ARE BECOMING BY NOW THE ANTI KHMER PEOPLE, BY THESE ACTS 3. revealing that AMERICAN GOVERNMENT has no CONSISTENT FOREIGN POLICY, TOWARD ANY COUNTRY AROUND THE WORD. 4. AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS becoming BY THIS ACT , a partner with the Vietnamese forces of aggression and occupation of Cambodia since 1979-2010 in violation of the UN charter . THIS INCONSISTENT US FOREIGN POLICIES, FROM PRESIDENT REAGAN TO PRESIDENT CLINTON TOWARD CAMBODIA, AND THE KHMER RACE, CONFIRMS,IN DEED, THAT THE US STATE DEPARTMENT IS FULL OF NON CAREER DIPLOMATS, IMMATURE IN WORLD DIPLOMACY. IT'S SO SAD INDEED FOR A GREAT COUNTRY TO BEHAVE IN THIS MANNER TOWARD THE POOR KHMER RACE . Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders. Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once. THE MOMENT , AMERICA , STOPS COLLABORATING WITH THE CAMBODIAN ENEMIES(THE VIETNAMESE OCCUPIERS) ALL KHMER COULD FIND INSTANTLY PEACE & JUSTICE. Bury Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:15:27 -0800 Subject: Teuk Dei Koh Pich (by Son Samrach) From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Please see attachment. 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