What are you saying? Let me see. I can say Borak Obama is very bad. If I don't explain my opinion, then it doesn't mean anything.
On Oct 9, 7:18 pm, Vonglokruta Khema <[email protected]> wrote: > BECAUSE Youn is Ah Chor Chlean pean Ph'on Teuk Dey :Cham ,Lao and Khmers na > Cangkalooooo, > Have Good Brain?if u r The Khmers > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ---- > From: kangaroo <[email protected]> > To:Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) -www.cambodia.org > Sent: Sun, 10 October, 2010 7:22:44 AM > Subject: Re: Dear Meeng Thavary > > Here are some of my questions. > Many Cambodians here tell the world how bad Vietnamese are etc..... > > Why did Vietnam surpass Cambodia in just a few years economicallly? > Why did Cambodians keep running to Vietnam for help including the > belowed king sihanouk? > Why did it take a bad act of invasion by the Vietnamese to stop the > slaughter of the Cambodian people from the hands of their fellowed > Cambodians in Cambodia? > > We are not saying that Vietnamese are great. But we simply bring out > the fact and questions those who hate Vietnam for any reasons. > > On Oct 9, 10:33 am, Pheng Kim Ving <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Meeng Thavary, > > > I don't live in the US, I live in Canada, but in Canada this weekend > > starting Saturday Oct 9 is also a long weekend, but it's not because > > Monday is Columbus Day, d'ohh!! it's because in Canada it's > > Thanksgiving Day. > > > Dear Meeng, yeah yeah it requires a book to describe the escape of the > > Cambodians to Vietnam during 1975-1979 and their lives in Vietnam. > > However I can tell you here a few things about their escape and their > > lives in Vietnam: > > > - officially only people who could speak Vietnamese were allowed to > > enter Vietnam, no matter what their skin color was and no matter how > > they looked (Vietnamese, Khmer, Chinese, or whatever), as long as they > > could speak Vietnamese > > > - for my family, consisting of more than a dozen members, only my > > mother could speak Vietnamese fluently; so my mother had a strategy; > > we were in a group of about 20 families, arriving at the border; my > > mother`s strategy was that we would be the last family > > to be interviewed by the Vietnamese border guards (it was around mid- > > August 1975, there was no war yet between Vietnam and the Khmer > > Rouge); then after all the other families had entered into Vietnam, it > > was our turn for the interview; my mother talked to the border guard > > in Vietnamese, implored him to let us in, she wept, cried, wept, > > cried, ..., for about 15 minutes, begging him to let us in; then he > > asked to talk to other members of our family; when it was my turn, he > > asked me something in Vietnamese; I uttered eeh ooh eeh ooh ,,,, > > d'ohh, I didn't understand what he said and couldn't say anything in > > Vietnamese; so he asked me some questions in Khmer and I responded in > > Khmer, including that I was a university student in Phnom Penh; ..., > > then afterwards my mother talked to him again (in Vietnamese), > > imploring him to let us in; she wept, cried, wept, cried, ..; luckily, > > about 1 hour after the interview started, he let us in; note: every > > other family in the group took only about 3 minutes to be let in; my > > mother's strategy was this: being the last to be interviewed would > > give her all the time she would need to implore and beg him and make > > him have compassion for us and thus to make him let us in; fortunately > > it worked > > > - in Saigon, I met lots of other Cambodian refugees, including dark- > > skinned ones, who could hardly speak Vietnamese at all; I didn't know > > how they got in; I didn't ask them how, for fear they were upset; I > > could only guess that they entered through un-guarded areas; among us > > Cambodians we spoke only Khmer; some of the Cambodian guys I met in > > Saigon are now in Canada also, since more than 25 years ago, just like > > me > > > - we Cambodian refugees could live wherever we wanted to; the > > Vietnamese government didn`t harass us at all, it even gave us the > > right to maintain being Cambodian and the right to emigrate abroad; it > > issued us Cambodian ID cards, which were very valuable, because they > > gave us the right to move abroad, and virtually all the Vietnamese > > people in urban areas wanted to move abroard > > > - after the war between Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge broke out, some > > Cambodian families were rounded up into refugees camps by the > > Vietnamese government; my family and lots of others that we knew > > weren't, I didn't know why some were and some weren't; however the > > folks in the camps still had the right to be sponsored to emigrate > > > - the Vietnamese people in Saigon didn't hate the Cambodian people, or > > at least the Cambodian refugees back then, d'ohh!! they even liked > > us!! yeah yeah I had a couple Vietnamese girlfriends back then > > > - some Vietnamese who used to live in Cambodia up to 1970 even said > > they didn't like Vietnam or even the Vietnamese people in Vietnam, > > that they liked to live in Cambodia, that they would return to > > Cambodia once they could > > > - my own father, just a few months after we arrived in Vietnam, > > claimed he suspected Vietnam was behind the massacres of the Cambodian > > people by the Khmer Rouge; I opposed his view; yeah yeah back then, 35 > > years ago, I already opposed this view; I opposed his view, not him, > > he`s my father > > > - lots of Sin Si Samouth songs were brought to Vietnam by the > > Cambodian refugees, including my family; the songs have found their > > way back to Cambodia > > > All Right. Deer Meeng, this is only a brief summary of the story of > > the Cambodian refugees in Vietnam during 1975-1979. (There were also > > Cambodians who escaped to Vietnam after Vietnam destroyed the Khmer > > Rouge regime in January 1979). If you have questions, please feel free > > to ask. > > > Pheng > > -- > 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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