Great message, thank Pou. Happy 2012 for you and your loved ones
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From: "sacrava" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: Khmer Conscience
Khmer is Khmer.
Xmer is not a Khmer.
Xmer love to live under Yuon.
Xmer are slave Yuon forever !
I'm 4 generation of Chen background, but I was born in Cambodia 60 yrs ago.
Cambodia is Country of Khmer, ruling by Khmers ....not under Yuon ,Siem or
others nation......
In Australia there are more than 100 nationalities who live
harmony,prosperety under Australian
Government & its People .No one comes to Australia to conquer the country.
it's unlike Cambodia
Hanoi colonizes & suppress Khmer People and robbe its weath everyday though
Hun Xen & his government.
Khmer has to think & act as a Khmer, not a slave for life of Hanoi or
Bangkok and others nations.
Cheers,
Ung Bun Heang
Dear fellow Khmer.
I am also one Khmer, but I see different fates from the past.
Khmer is racist and racism is a thrinking ideolody. Look! khmer empire
had been fragmented and creating Thailand, Laos, South Vietman, in
each one of which has million khmer in there.
Why? One sole race in one nation could not be be big, but it would be
small and weak like cambodia. If we want its to be strong, we need to
allow other nations to come and invest on every things. So that Khmer
would have jobs and educations and we could have good faces toward
globalizatoin. This is the only way we could do, if it's not, all
Khmer would stay barbarians for ever and will disappear from the map.
With my best regards from Kampuchun.
On Dec 23, 12:32 am, Davan Long <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Compatriots,
As most of us living in the West, I left Cambodia in the 80’s and could
hardly remember the last time I wrote something in Khmer. All my
schooling
and professional training over the past twenty five years were in either
English or French. However, during my early childhood in Cambodia and
refugee camps, I had great passion for reading and I read every Khmer
books
I could put my hands on – after all, there was nothing else to do in
refugee camps.
A few months ago, at the height of the Boeung Kak protests against forced
eviction, I exchanged my view with others on Facebook. Most people posted
their comments in Khmer while I wrote mine in English. Interestingly, one
poster labelled me as a foreigner because of my English writing, and said
that a true Khmer person should write in Khmer when exchanging view with
other fellow Khmers, especially with those in Cambodia. He was right, and
I was embarrassed, if not ashamed, for not being at ease with my mother
tongue language. Since then, I’ve spent some precious times to relearn
Khmer. As part of the learning process, I decide to write a poem which I’d
like to share with you all.
Attached are fragments of my poem entitled: “Uwat Reas”. It is not
complete yet, and I plan to keep writing it to reflect new realities as
they happen in Cambodia. I hope you find it worth reading, and would
welcome any comments you may have.
Last but not least, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all
a
safe and happy holiday season.
Best wishes,
Davan Long
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Chers Compatriotes,
Comme la plupart d'entre nous qui demeurent en Occident, j'ai quitté le
Cambodge dans les années 80 et pouvait à peine me rappeler la dernière
fois
que j'ai écrit quelque chose en khmer. Toutes mes études et formation
professionnelle au cours des vingt cinq dernières années ont été en
anglais
ou en français. Cependant, durant mon enfance au Cambodge et dans les
camps
de réfugiés, j'avais une grande passion pour la lecture et j'avais lu
tous
les livres Khmer je pourrais mettre mes mains sur - après tout, il n'y
avait rien d'autre à faire dans les camps de réfugiés.
Cet été, durant le sommet des protestations contre des expulsions forcées
à
Boeung Kak, j'ai exprimé mon point de vue avec les autres dans Facebook.
La
plupart des gens ont affiché leurs commentaires en khmer alors que moi
j'ai
écrit la mienne en anglais. Fait intéressant, un interlocuteur me prenait
pour un étranger à cause de ma rédaction en anglais, et il disait qu’ un
vraie Khmer devrait écrire en khmer lors de l'échange avec les autres
Khmers, surtout avec ceux qui résidaient au Cambodge. Il avait raison, et
j'ai été embarrassé, sinon honteux, pour ne pas être à l'aise avec ma
propre langue maternelle. Depuis lors, j'ai passé des moments précieux
pour
réapprendre khmer. Lors de cet apprentissage, je décide d'écrire un poème
que je voudrais partager avec vous tous.
Ci-joints sont des fragments de mon poème intitulé: "Uwat Reas". Il n'est
pas encore complété, et je prévois de continuer à écrire encore pour
quelques temps pour qu’il contienne les nouvelles réalités comme ils se
produisent au Cambodge. J'espère que vous trouverez qu'il vaut la
lecture,
et j’accepte avec plaisir tous les commentaires que vous pourriez avoir.
En terminant, je voudrais profiter de cette occasion pour souhaiter à
tous
une saison des Fêtes remplie de joie et de bonheur.
Meilleurs voeux,
*Davan Long*
Uwat Reas 2011-12-23.pdf
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