Here it is again that we see people inserted Vietnamese into the blame for the Cambodian unfortunate. Whether Democratic of Kampuchea was under any influence of Vietnam or not, those leaders and followers were all Cambodians. They were destroying their own nation with their own hands.
Now, many people are saying the same thing about the current government. They are Cambodians. If the accusation is true, they are still Cambodians. If they are doing it wrong, it means that they are destroying their own country with their own hands. My friend, This is a mind set of Cambodians who cannot put themselves into their own responsibility. They only see Vietnamese who are to be blamed for anything occured in Cambodia. The bad part must be the Vietnamese. The good part must be the victims. I don't see it. What I've seen in the last centuries was the destruction in Cambodia by the hands of Cambodians themselves. Be honest with yourself. Sihanouk era suppress the poor by using social classification. Lon Nol Regime used guns to suppress their own people. Khmer Rouge ofcourse use all means to destroy their own nation. Now thereafter, Cambodians have returned to their own revolving door. Their game in self destruction continues. They still blame it on Vietnam. On Oct 5, 4:27 pm, "Bopha Angkor" <[email protected]> wrote: > While a savant can only pick a piece or few pieces of things but cant see or > draw the whole picture it is like a Khmer proverb said " a kvak steab domrei" > The most difficult for a man is not his capacity to digest a mount of savoir > (told/knowledge) but his discernment and mental capacity to make right > distinction between things and his capacity make his own idea of those > things in a right direction. > > Behind each action, there's hides ambitions or goals. It is difficult not to > fall in ambiguity but ambiguity is generally belongs to someone who missed > one own idea, or oneself in a space or at least has something to hide. Man > influenced and influenable. I believe in a fact that a book, a culture can > make a man who he is. Theory destroys, kills as it save. Hyena or chicken > cant give birth to lion and inversely. But people can believe what they want > to or think they should. That's their freedom. > > By joining Vietcong rank for whatever ambition, polpot did a lot of harm > against Khmer for yuon interest but polpot is not the creator of the practice > or theory led against Khmer. > > A lot hate polpot or those they hate but don't they think they are polpot or > those they hated themselves in some degree. Human is not a machine that can > only repeat, report or contain things or apply/obey a command or an order. > > You can hate me because I'm being honest. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: PuppyXpress > To: camdisc > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:27 PM > Subject: People must know they have power > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gaffar Peang-Meth <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:30 AM > Subject: People must know they have power > To: > > PACIFIC DAILY NEWS > October 6, 2010 > > People must know they have power > > By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth > > The Khmer blog KI-Media recently has been publishing in sections Gene > Sharp's > "From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation," by > the > Albert Einstein Institution, that provides significant guidelines to "assist > thought and planning" in the fight against dictatorship. > > Sharp hopes his study on "how a dictatorship can be disintegrated" would be > useful "wherever people live under domination and desire to be free." > > Sharp presupposes people who live under a dictatorship can distinguish > between a > dictatorship and a democracy, and there are those with a "desire to be > free." > > Enormous work and effort are required from fractious democrats and rights > activists who fight powerful ruling tyrants. In Cambodia, deeply rooted old > habits and thoughts stand opposite imaginative, creative and innovative > thinking. > > Some 70 percent of the people polled said Cambodia under autocracy is > headed in > "the right direction." Khmer and foreign partisans of political "stability" > ignore civil rights violations, while opponents of autocracy speak of > "people > power." > > Yet power doesn't exist until the people understand it is actually in their > hands; until democrats and rights activists help them to believe the truth > that > no power, force or barrier can withstand their determined efforts for > rights and > freedom. > > More than ever, Cambodians need democrats and rights activists to lead them. > Through enlightened and efficient leadership, the citizens become aware of > the > parameters of oppression and develop the confidence that will bring down any > dictator. > > 'Pigs don't fly' > > Some readers complain that I write a lot about better thinking but don't > tell > them what and how it will help defeat Cambodia's autocracy and keep Khmers > Khmer. In some ways, the complaint itself is evidence of a lack of > analytical > thought. > > I don't normally read comments posted by anonymous bloggers, whose > expletives, > racial slurs or demonization of opponents affirm the bloggers' true values, > but > every now and then I peruse them. > > Some people blog to relieve their frustration and unhappiness -- which is > useful > to detect the symptoms of a disease, if not the disease itself. > > A blogger took offense at my remarks that all minds can be taught, and > responded > with "pigs don't fly" -- i.e., some minds simply cannot improve, just like a > horse refuses to drink even if led to the water. There can't be change > without a > belief that it is possible. Are some unredeemable intellectually? > > Pigs don't fly. We know that. But human minds do develop and grow. We know > that, > too. > > Pol Pot decided that a people so "stupid" as to refuse his ways and thoughts > must be destroyed and re-educated through forced labor and "tbaung chawb" > (hoe > blade) to strike the necks of those with "incorrect" thinking. There is no > gain > to keep them, no loss to eliminate them, the Khmer Rouge said. Thus, Pol Pot > killed the nation. > > When I was a child, my father often reminded me that if I didn't use my > brain to > read and reflect, the brain's lack of exercise would kill me, just as if I > denied my stomach food, the stomach would contract and shrink and I would > die. > > Peasants, businessmen, the elite and those of royal heritage are human, each > with "one kilo of brain" that can think. Royals may know much about the > throne, > but peasants know much about the rice that feeds the royals. > > Pigs won't fly. But the human brain has taken man to the moon and back. > > True stories > > I had just passed my doctoral comprehensive examinations and defended my > dissertation proposal at the University of Michigan when Cambodia's > republican > regime tapped me to take a post at the Khmer Republic Embassy in Washington, > D.C. > > Long Boret, the foreign minister, who examined a political bulletin I > edited in > Ann Arbor, called me to join his delegation to the United Nations, observed > my > work, and I agreed to serve the republican embassy under Ambassador Um Sim. > Both > Boret and Sim gave me enough room to apply my creativity, innovation and > analytical thinking in my work. They saw some tangible change. Both were > interested in results and not gossip and backbiting. > > In his last words to me before the collapse of the republican government, > Long > Boret told me to prepare to join him in Phnom Penh. Boret was executed by > Pol > Pot's men on April 17, 1975. > > The situation was different after I joined the Khmer People's National > Liberation Front in the field in 1980. With a degree of freedom to think > and act > as a member of the front's executive committee, I applied my creativity, > innovation and analytical thinking. Objective observers could affirm some > positive change. > > But those qualities also gained me enemies, even within our ranks. My > problems > mounted. But that is a story for another day, if ever I have the desire to > share > my perspective. > > Better thinking > > I subscribe to Edmund Burke's philosophy that traditions link the dead, the > living and those to be born. But I distinguish those traditions that are > barriers to surviving in an advancing world -- like blind obedience and > unquestionable loyalty -- and those that uphold a people's culture and > integrity > -- like taking off shoes when entering home or clasping hands to say thank > you. > > It's anyone's prerogative to prefer one regime over another. But I think > it's > not good thinking to hate a monarchy or a republic. Professor Thomas Szasz > once > said, "A system is not stupid, the people in it are." > > A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D., is retired from the University of Guam, where > he > taught political science for 13 years. Write him at [email protected]. > > http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201010060300/OPINIO... > > -- > 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. 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