Dear Kon Khmer, Lok MR, Thank you KK for your report. I hope you and your family had a good Pchum Ben celebration anyway.
It's very sad to hear about the drought in Takeo. I heard the same thing about my relatives from there also. Lok MR, during the Sangkum Reastr Angkuy Yum, Takeo was "relatively" prosperous. We were not filthily rich like others in Battambang or anywhere else, but nobody (at least in my village close to the Yuon border) starved back then. But, indeed, I was really disappointed that some of my relatives still left in the village have rooted for the CPP. The main reason for that is because a couple of our villagers obtained high positions within the CPP rank and file, so they came back and built these enormous "chedey" for their parents and since then all the villagers believed that to be associated with the CPP is a good thing. Others went in and used state money to improve the access road to the village, then they went on to advertise to the villagers that it was the CPP gift instead. Needless to say, that even the name of the small village hospital built during the Sangkum Reast Yum now also bears Hun Sen's name. Best regards, MP On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Mekong River <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Kon Khmer > > Thank you for your report from Takeo on the festive pchum ben, full of > despair. It is very insightful. Becuase 80% of the Takeo siders, like the > whole country, voted for our dear leader, Hun Sen, I would urge you all to > be more patient for upcoming develoment- only until the horse grows the > horns. > > The opposition only won 2 seats in the recent election in the province. So > you can help the people there by asking them to keep voting for the CPP so > that in the next five years 100% of the villagers will generate Toek Thnoat > Chou from the local electricity plant, donated, not provided for by the > government, but by the CPP. > > Since I was born, I have known Takeo as one of the poorest provinces in > srok khmer, anyway. Others who come from other so-called rich provinces tend > to look down on Takeo people. Yet, this poor province has been unique in > its rich ancient history - the birth of the khmer nation, the birth of > modern Communist Khmer revolution, the birth of anti-french colonialism, and > the birthplace of Ta Mok - the laughing and smiling butcher. > > Not long ago, I provided 6 wells in Tramkak, but the villagers thanked the > CPP instead for opening up the country so that overseas khmer, ( called > Anekachun by sheer ignorance of their own language), could come and lend a > small hand. > > I feel sorry for my own khmer people but I have no more tears these days to > cry for them. > > I pray for the siam and yuon to have mercy for khmer so they can spare a > small plot of land for them catch some rats to fry. > > Kon Khmer, please send us some more news although I know no news is good > news. > > Regards > MR > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Kon Khmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Khlean + Khlao + Khlach = Khmer >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. 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