Around the time of this filming the Vietcong and North Vietnamese soldiers had already built the bunkers along the border inside Cambodia. They used counterfeit 500 riels Khmer banknotes to buy good and food from the Khmer farmers, it destroyed Cambodia’s economy – Sihanouk badly needed the money for his government so he opened a casino at the current day Cambodiana Hotel.
Things like that 7:30 am, people of the younger gen, myself included, never knew about it except through reading...that's what makes it precious and memorable just like SOV's GM...Wish that each and everyone of us continues to share...Thanks for taking the time to jot it down for us get emotional about... ខាល
The Vietcongs were building their jungle huts and forming sleeping cells or training camps in most parts of Cambodia even before the French had left Indochina as colonial rulers.
The Vietcongs even had their presence in Thailand, particularly, in the regions bordering Cambodia's North-West where pro-Vietminh elements within the KR military such as Tea Banh and others later retreated to for sanctuary under threat from Pol Pot's purges directed at these “Khmer-Vietminhs”.
It came as no surprise that even Ho Chi Minh himself had spent some time in Siem Reap, and later in Thailand as a Buddhist monk. Imagine that!
Read Bun Chan Mol's account about his imprisonment on Trolarch island during French colonial rule and what he thought of his fellow Vietnamese inmates. He noted how the Vietnamese prisoners sought to earn the trust of the Khmers in the prison by going out of their way to be generally helpful towards them. However, Chan Mol recalled the words of the Khmer Krom regarding the true colour and price of Vietnamese "friendship"; i.e. that before putting one's trust in them, try having a live tiger as one's pillow first!
The Vietcongs and their Khmer Rouge allies befriended the Khmer peasantry in the same way, just as they had done towards KR defectors who they later put in power [after 1979] to serve them (Vietnamese) and betray their own people.
As for the deceived Khmer peasantry (along with so many naive, disaffected youths and so-called "intellectuals"), well those mass skulls are grim reminders of their trust in Vietcong solidarity and friendship.
Not that those intoxicated puppets of Hanoi in the CPP today have seen anything unusual or learned anything useful out of all this...
Thanks 10:07 am for more of what we want to know/learn...The more the merrier for us, in a simple language [that we can understand/comprehend] like that! As Khmer, How much can we thank you?
Yes, he would say that wouldn't he? It would of course be wrong to judge or condemn a person for crimes he did not commit.
Cambodia still had plenty of forest cover [over 60 - 70 percent of her overall land mass had been covered with forest] before his rapacious rule began almost four decades ago today.
He also maintained that he was not even born yet when Cambodia "lost" Koh Tral to Vietnam, and yet threatened to get rid of the monarchy unless the 2005 Treaty involving the island's ownership was signed by the King. The question then is: If the island had already been lost to Vietnam, why would the Vietnamese insist on him and his regime signing that treaty and the island as Vietnam's property?
One can't always put to right or retrieve what had gone wrong or been lost before one's birth. However, the least one can do is preserve and protect by all means necessary whatever are retrievable - legally or otherwise - and in one's very own lifetime, particularly, when one is in power and claims to be better placed than all the rest to manage the country's affairs and represent its interests.
Does this make sense? Possibly not to the man himself, eh?
Remember also the likes of Pen Sovann who refused to put personal stake [even their own lives] above their nation's dignity and interests, and not only over matters occurring during their lifetime.
10:54 am, don't bullshit like that, I've had enough with Hun Sen and the CPP. Quit making excuses for them HUN SEN and CPP anymore please? Irish coffee or a big gulp of Phu Quoc fish sauce, anybody? ខាល
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Yellow River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGoHQ7c5I2I
It must have been the era of the "Joie de vivre"? Non? Mais oui, love the it, love it!!! Thanks SOV for the memories..Portes-toi bien mon pote!!!
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Around the time of this filming the Vietcong and North Vietnamese soldiers had already built the bunkers along the border inside Cambodia. They used counterfeit 500 riels Khmer banknotes to buy good and food from the Khmer farmers, it destroyed Cambodia’s economy – Sihanouk badly needed the money for his government so he opened a casino at the current day Cambodiana Hotel.
Things like that 7:30 am, people of the younger gen, myself included, never knew about it except through reading...that's what makes it precious and memorable just like SOV's GM...Wish that each and everyone of us continues to share...Thanks for taking the time to jot it down for us get emotional about...
ខាល
The Vietcongs were building their jungle huts and forming sleeping cells or training camps in most parts of Cambodia even before the French had left Indochina as colonial rulers.
The Vietcongs even had their presence in Thailand, particularly, in the regions bordering Cambodia's North-West where pro-Vietminh elements within the KR military such as Tea Banh and others later retreated to for sanctuary under threat from Pol Pot's purges directed at these “Khmer-Vietminhs”.
It came as no surprise that even Ho Chi Minh himself had spent some time in Siem Reap, and later in Thailand as a Buddhist monk. Imagine that!
Read Bun Chan Mol's account about his imprisonment on Trolarch island during French colonial rule and what he thought of his fellow Vietnamese inmates. He noted how the Vietnamese prisoners sought to earn the trust of the Khmers in the prison by going out of their way to be generally helpful towards them. However, Chan Mol recalled the words of the Khmer Krom regarding the true colour and price of Vietnamese "friendship"; i.e. that before putting one's trust in them, try having a live tiger as one's pillow first!
The Vietcongs and their Khmer Rouge allies befriended the Khmer peasantry in the same way, just as they had done towards KR defectors who they later put in power [after 1979] to serve them (Vietnamese) and betray their own people.
As for the deceived Khmer peasantry (along with so many naive, disaffected youths and so-called "intellectuals"), well those mass skulls are grim reminders of their trust in Vietcong solidarity and friendship.
Not that those intoxicated puppets of Hanoi in the CPP today have seen anything unusual or learned anything useful out of all this...
Thanks 10:07 am for more of what we want to know/learn...The more the merrier for us, in a simple language [that we can understand/comprehend] like that! As Khmer, How much can we thank you?
And what do you think of something like this in a piano bar [alone] on our very home land, eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hdaYAJCTec
For one's eyes/ears only!!!
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School of Vice, I like your comment and knowledge of history.
But Hun Sen would respond to them differently:
“Don’t blame me! I was not born yet!”
10:33 am, does that name "Yu Bin" in Yu Bin - បងខឹងរឿងអ្វី? Bong Khueng Reung A Vey? mean anything to you, you jack ass?
10:54 am
Yes, he would say that wouldn't he? It would of course be wrong to judge or condemn a person for crimes he did not commit.
Cambodia still had plenty of forest cover [over 60 - 70 percent of her overall land mass had been covered with forest] before his rapacious rule began almost four decades ago today.
He also maintained that he was not even born yet when Cambodia "lost" Koh Tral to Vietnam, and yet threatened to get rid of the monarchy unless the 2005 Treaty involving the island's ownership was signed by the King. The question then is: If the island had already been lost to Vietnam, why would the Vietnamese insist on him and his regime signing that treaty and the island as Vietnam's property?
One can't always put to right or retrieve what had gone wrong or been lost before one's birth. However, the least one can do is preserve and protect by all means necessary whatever are retrievable - legally or otherwise - and in one's very own lifetime, particularly, when one is in power and claims to be better placed than all the rest to manage the country's affairs and represent its interests.
Does this make sense? Possibly not to the man himself, eh?
Remember also the likes of Pen Sovann who refused to put personal stake [even their own lives] above their nation's dignity and interests, and not only over matters occurring during their lifetime.
Com'on give me a freaking break 11:14 am? Yuon's name or what not, just give me a freaking break Man...
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10:54 am, don't bullshit like that, I've had enough with Hun Sen and the CPP. Quit making excuses for them HUN SEN and CPP anymore please? Irish coffee or a big gulp of Phu Quoc fish sauce, anybody?
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James Sok needs to take his mental pills regularly.
People should call James Sok "Mer Thmub James Sok".
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