Hello, Khmers neak srolanh Khmers and their lovely nation. Kon Khmer had spent a short time during Pchum Ben at Takeo Province (homeland). It was very happy and exciting for me. People are very sociable and friendly and It was a very important and valuable opportunity for me to meet my grand pa, my parents, my brothers and sisters , my relatvies , my former friends and my poor villagers. I had been ivited to have a few small parties at their households in the native village and especially I had discused and shared information about life in the city and life in the rural countryside. I was given alot of information from villagers' living standard nowaday. We spent much of the time talking about difficulties and real broplems that have effected to villagers'living standard. These are some matters and my villagers as well as my family still fact in their lives and their family. 1. Almost 85 % of my villagers have been living in poverty and starvation. They have nothing to do but only sitting and playing card and drinking white wine all men and women as well as young adults. 2. Their ricefields were dry with very little raindrop to cultivate their rice product eventhough it's a rainy season. They do farming apending on the sky that might give them any drop of rain to make their rice field wet for planting rice. 3. Almost 80% of my villagers have been the victims of Micro - comercial banks who lent their loan to those with land and households security deposit contract. Most of my villagers complained that they have no money or any property to pay back their debt to those banks because their annual income is depending to farming produts to enable to pay back their debt to the banks. Some of them they expect the daughters or sons who work in the factories to save some money to help their families. 4. Their lawmakers promise to develop their villages but noone visit them and do what they promise during the election campaign last few months. Now they are waiting to see what their leaders especially their voted owners will do for them. 5. My people have a very little hope to have an irregation system and electricity supplies like what their vote owner promise to do it for them in this fourth mandate. 6. They are waiting to see the corruption law that might be passed and implemented by theirl leaders in this fourth mandate. 7. They are waiting to see somechanges from their new government leaders'mind to show love and faith to their people. 8. They wondered that why their leaders have millions of dolars in the banks while they have only 10$ in the family. 9. They said to Kon Khmer that for the next mandate if their leaders break their promise they will change their mind and concider to choose new leaders to make their living standard be better than current living standard. 10. Most of my villagers doubt that Cambodian government has recieved million of dolars every mandate to develop the country especially to help to develop the countrty side why they see nothing in their hometowns with any new changes, but new buildings and factories ony around Phnom Penh areas? 11. My villagers asked me that why PM Hun Sen with his new government lawmakers want to change the names of someprovinces and town such as Preah Sihanouk ville to be Kampong Som province, Battambang Province to be Battambang town, Kampong Cham Province to be Kampong Cham town withouth asking public discussion or ideas. Why doesn't our government ask students through universities , Nongovernment Organizations and other civil institutes to discuss this matter?
For Kon Khmer think that new government should carries out any prior strategies to discuss in its mandate such as corruption law amemdment, poverty reduce, irregation system development, electric power supplies, roadline constructions, landcrabing matters, agrecultural product market, unemployment matter, Vietnamese and other immigrant issue and especially unjustice and serious corruption activities among Cambodian court system in our nation and Preah Vihea temple dispute. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
