បងប្អូនតើគាត់និយាយចឹងត្រវអត់

 

Yes, the Khmers in former Khmer provinces all over Thailand need to wake up and demand self-rule or independence for themselves. The Thais know it would be difficult and even impossible to prevent were these indigenous Khmers to rise up and form a separate state which could comprise up to one-third of what is now Thai territory including coastal and sea areas. 

In the 1960s and 1970s Communist shells were active all over the North-East of Thailand with a large presence of ethnic Khmers living there. This is the least developed and most impoverished part of Thailand even today. 

The Thais decided to quell the Communist rebels not by force but by giving them lands to own and feed themselves. However, these lands never belonged to the Thais but to the Khmers and their ancestors from before recorded history. The Thais have similarly largely succeeded in brainwashing the Khmers by teaching their children their distorted version of history and telling them they are distinct and separate from their brothers in Cambodia. They have also bought Khmer leaders off who were and are willing to be their accomplices in this indoctrination and treason to keep the Khmers under their control and in subservience to them by giving the Khmers this false identity that many among them call: "Siem Surin" or "Siam Buriram" etc. 

The truth however will never change in terms of their roots, ancestry and DNA as Khmers. To even allow themselves to be considered "Siam Surin" is an ultimate affront to their Khmer ancestors who fought and sacrificed to preserve Khmer identity and territory from the Siamese/ Thais invaders and oppressors. They are also an affront to themselves and conscience by so doing and through their complicity in all the harm and violence that Thailand is committing against the people of Cambodia. 

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