Understanding why Khmer abroad are so divided. Cambodia’s inhabitants should be called in English “Cambodian”, and in Khmer “Chun-Kampuchea” or Kampuchun.This way every Cambodian would agree and accept Cambodia’s citizenship, regardless of Khmer or none Khmer ethnic exclusion.
But when we call them Khmer, only a fraction of them has believed its but majority thinks no: I’m none Khmer individuals; I’m hybrid with new face Cambodian. They know for sure they can not change their own race to Khmer’s even though they want to. People can change citizenship, but never be able to get done on origin. For now most Cambodian in the country are politically forced to be self-proclaimed Khmer or in other words compelled to be Khmer due to the malicious Cambodian constitution, that has wrongly been translated and adopted from certain English clauses from international Paris’s accord text on Cambodia in1991, causing false “Khmer citizen” in place of “Cambodian citizen”, which has been internationally nominated for adopting to Cambodia’s social evolution. Calling Khmer citizen in English term is none sense, as Khmer is not the official name of the country, for which the sole title is Cambodia, its people is Cambodian with no exception. Cambodian is mainstream inhabitant, which has never accepted to be of what is not his own kind. But they are politically obligated to keep quiet and apprehensive of what they are forced to be bearing. They have a doubt security on where they are living, because they feel foreigners on their own homeland. This is the reason why people just want to immigrate for living in other countries, where there is more acceptances with more freedom of expression. If it’s impossible to do so, people will be eager to get corrupted for a quick-rich or a quick-powerful so that they could make money they may possibly send their kids oversea for better education in a real freedom ship environment experience. When they’ll be back, they would be in the top team, so that they could make themselves top politicians, for helping change the country for bringing back Cambodian citizenship to its own place in Cambodian constitution. There have been more than 3/4 million Cambodian living abroad. They fled the country following Khmer rouge’s purge 1975-1979. Now they have been generated to at least 1and1/2 million. 80% of their children are high school graduated and at last 20% of them have collage degree. 99% of them are becoming citizens of the country they are living, where there are adequate health care along with freedoms of expression, freedoms of choice, and freedoms of belief. Most of them even dare to pronounce things louder than ever. A lot said: I don’t like to participate where there are a lot of ethnic Khmer, although I’m used to be self-proclaimed Khmer, but me’m not. Unlike flourishing Lao’s, Thai’s, Vietnamese’s, Korean’s and Chinese’s associations, Khmer organization are always troublesome due to the fact they name themselves “Khmer”, which does not represent a broad range of all integrated Cambodia’s inhabitants namely Cambodian. This is a clear persistent weakness of one nation that had never adjusted calling word Khmer from a Great Hinduism empire to a small Cambodia’s Buddhism state, in which diverse Cambodia’s inhabitants had already been integrated in one sole Cambodian. If this permanent weakness is left unfixed, its will turn catalyst monster that would be disintegrated completely our whole Cambodian Nation. Likewise had done Canthabury, Chanthabun, Surin and Kampuchea Krom. For now, we the people of Cambodia need a strong leader with strong expertise for analyzing all social and political stalemate as hidden gigantic corruption, which has been impacting on Cambodian daily live. On Dec 22, 11:09 pm, Chamnap Keo <[email protected]> wrote: > the term Chun Kampuchea is a new legal term, never used in the past, and > should never be used after Hun Sen, period. > It is a term marred with neocolonism ambitions, a word that is meant to > whitewash the Vietnamization of Cambodia and allow the free flow of > undocumented aliens from both Vietnam, China, and other countries. > > The term Chun Kampuchea is coined precisely for this purpose and its > arguments of inclusion is cloaked behind an ulterior motive of racist > tendency to dominate the Khmer culture by foreign neighbors. To subjugate > her and her people and reduced them into minority groups in their own > ancestral land. This group of alien extremist will go far and paint Khmer > as racist for not accepting a term that has been shoved down their throat in > the name of "friendship", "inclusiveness", and "unity" when in fact the real > design is far less lofty then they will admit, to themselves, and to the > world and especially not to the Khmer people of Srok Khmer. > > So you are born in Cambodia, congratulation, I welcome you into our Khmer > ancestral homeland. However, don't presume now that since you're Cambodian, > you have the right to strip all other Khmers of their cultural identity and > heritage and ancestral claim to their homeland. We accept you as Cambodians, > but you don't need to call yourselves Khmer if you don't follow the custom, > but you should realize that Cambodia is first and foremost the land of Khmer > people. As such, we will not deny any connections made by Khmer around the > world whether in Thailand or Kampuchea Krom to our shared history and > identity. > > To severed this tie is the wish of these neighbors, [Thailand and Vietnam], > for centuries. The sooner Cambodia can relinquish that connection, the > sooner their programs of total assimilation of the people of Khmer descent > in their annexed lands can take place. The problem is as long as Cambodia > still accepts these populations as having shared connection, any attempt to > forced the assimilation policy can be argued as cultural and social > genocide, a human rights violations that the world community frowns upon. > > Chun Kampuchea, should be relegated to the bygones of era of "Mit" and > Comrade and Hun Sen's Mitaphum days. The decade for foreign imposed > ideological systems in Cambodia should now be set aside, it is time that > Cambodia should now progress by the will of its native people and let them > take the helm at their own country's destiny. > > In conclusion, Srok Khmer welcomes Cambodians, and all regardless of race > can be Cambodian. Having Cambodian citizenship however, don't presume > yourself to hold also the key to spiritual and ancestral connection that are > rightly belongs to the natives of this land. Attempting to cut off > connections of the Khmer people to their brethren, whether in Thailand or > Vietnam, is nothing short of a racist discrimination policy aimed to destroy > an actual unique social identification and to deprived them of rightly > spiritual and social connections as such distinct group of people in this > diverse world. This policy is nothing short of a human rights violation! > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Neak Kampuchea > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Khmer nation itself has been creating Khmer culture extremism and > > corruption with impunity, thousand years before Mr. Hen Sen’s birth > > date. > > > Please be understood that Cambodian is not a race as certain > > individual has thought. One should thinks this English word meaning is > > not the same as Khmer language, which has not been adjusted for > > decades along with social evolution or in others words along with > > multi-ethnic integration. > > > Every English word we speak has been up dated. So please be careful to > > catch-up this English word Cambodian, which is designated for all > > inhabitants within Cambodia, without discriminating of Khmer or other > > origins of birth, races, sex, color, belief, and political tendency, > > but not exceeding to be illegally added with Khmer ethnic of Vietnam > > and Khmer ethnic of Thailand. Cambodian is nominated for people, only > > within Cambodia’s legal boundary. > > > The Cambodian constitution, it self, has truly been creating Khmer > > extremist movement, culture of corruption and impunity due to Khmer > > extreme religious nationalism with misjudgment for Cambodian > > sustainable social evolution stability. > > > Look, Cambodia is the official name of the country, its inhabitants > > should be called Cambodian, which is none relevance for Khmer > > citizen? > > > Now, please examine Sam Rainsy’s party and Rong Chhun’s union worker > > leader; they do politics in the name of Khmer in the constitution, > > which has some English words mistranslated into Khmer clause: “We the > > people of Cambodia are Khmer citizen” in place of Cambodian citizen. > > (Pulrath-Kampuchea or Chun-Kampuchea). These two men, their teams and > > Ms.Musochea have never called Cambodian people in Khmer word Chun- > > Kampuchea as Mr. Hun Sen did. > > > This is the reason why there is extremist Khmer movement that has been > > pushing thousand and thousand Khmer Krom of Vietnam and Khmer Surin of > > Thailand to coming to Phnom Penh for claiming their Khmer citizenship, > > because they said they are also Khmer like the others in the country. > > And no doubt, there is a strong support from SRP and Union leader Rong > > Chhun for their political gain. > > > This potential problem will last, and has extended to make Cambodian > > instability threat, until some day Cambodian Government will > > understand and decide a decisive reform those malicious constitutional > > clauses, in which there is democracy principal flaw as “all human are > > created equal with freedom of expression. > > . > > Mr. Hen Sen knows all of that, but he thinks this is not the time yet, > > until next young Cambodian generations will become more educated as > > needed in the majority Cambodian. > > > For now, he and his government official have a full power to > > unconstitutionally cross over, order of doing anything and calling all > > Cambodian in Khmer word,”Chun-kampuchea” as for teaching ahead of the > > time needed, and also expressing a willingness for avoiding > > discrimination of origin of birth of all inhabitants in Cambodia in > > the face of UN human right, NGO groups, domestic and oversea Cambodian > > as well. This is what, CPP is doing about. > > > We the people of Cambodia need Constitutional reform: > > > 1-We the people of Cambodia are Cambodian citizens for replacing old > > version “Khmer citizen”. > > 2-The government of Cambodia is from Cambodian for Cambodian. > > 3-The state is separated from religion, which is belonging solely to > > the people. > > > If religion continues to belong to the state, Cambodia could never be > > able to alleviate corruption, which is invisibly on the rise, legally > > hiding behind the power of Cambodian government itself. > > > Believe or not except to you, but please just try to take a look as > > the following: > > > If one of ministers, one provincial governor, one state or a > > provincial prosecutor, or just a district councilor president or > > national assembly president, or senator president, will plan to do for > > example: Kathenatien, Haih-Phkar, Kanben, or Acpisech preah, the whole > > staff under the one who does one of those religious ceremonies, must > > be serenely forced to put some money for taking part with theirs big > > bosses, not for belief season, but instead for loyalty as keeping > > their job security. > > > As Cambodia has no none-profit organization laws to ruler over every > > association > > (more than two persons get involve) in the country, who is going to > > dare asking for transparency and accountability? So what is about the > > big amount of money? > > > If the same boss will do one ceremony two or three time a year, their > > staffs need two or three times money input lost, perhaps the total > > amount is enough for buying clothes needed the whole year for their > > children. > > > How about military and police generals, or Commanders, who controls > > thousand soldiers, or thousand police officers? Are they done same > > religious ceremonies like civilian ministers did? Yes we are sure, > > because we have seen them done. And then, we even know that police and > > military boss do not wait for their staff’s money to come voluntary, > > but they just cut some amount of money from their pay-roll without > > asking them. Who is going to dare to ask? > > > But I’m sure those victims are going to whisper anywhere. > > > There are all over the country, thousand and thousand influential > > private Cambodian business middle classes, which have been doing the > > same religious ceremonies? > > > Yes! They did more than government officials do, as they have more > > free times. How about the big money they have collected from hundred > > innocent Cambodian Buddhist believers following them? Who is going to > > be sure they did not corrupt? > > This is an easy way to make easy money any time as needed. > > > One more thing to finalize a very painful of low class government > > officials: > > > Some big guys did the same thing not only for religious ceremonies, > > but for offering large amount of money to Cambodian RED CROSS of which > > First lady Bunary Hun Sen is the president, for helping Cambodian > > disaster victims. > > > Those big guys did get big money from the cut of pay-roll of their > > staffs far differently from civilian who did get money voluntary from > > their subordinate officials through their job security worrisome. > > > These way big guys can show their faces to the First Lady Bunary, just > > to make his loyalty known to Mr. Hun Sen at the expense of their > > suffering anonymous staffs. > > > Those entire painful example stories mentioned above is an > > imperceptible gigantic corruption, good Cambodian government needs to > > find an adequate win-win strategy to legally control and overcome them > > through expertise, from the US is best. > > > But this could happen only from Mr. Hun Sen political will, as he is a > > very powerful Cambodian leader of our modern > > ... > > read more »- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. 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