Khmer Circle រង្វង់ខ្មែរ: Sihanouk on the scheming "yuons"

Friday, 13 July 2018

Sihanouk on the scheming "yuons"

Khmer Circle: We challenge the Phnom Penh Post to report this speech of the late Sihanouk without noting how the term "yuon" used by him [reference to the Vietnamese] is "pejorative", "derogatory", "xenophobic", "racist" etc.!

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The long tragedy of Cham history

“The process [‘Nam Tien’ or Vietnamese southward expansion] was well defined by Léopold Cadière in 1911: “As soon as they feel themselves able, they drive off the first inhabitants, whether in a peaceful manner, by taking over the land, clearing it and “planting the bamboo” – the hedges that to this day still surround Annamese gardens and villages – or by violence, then they fight with the Chams, destroying their temples and mutilating their statues.” In short, there was no room left for the Chams.”