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Monthly Archives: December 2018

VI..N.. – VI..N.. Monument

30 Sunday Dec 2018

Posted by KhmerPAC in Culture, Event, Social

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My dear Kacvey,

Have you received an invite to the 29 December inauguration of that useless and horrendous monument?

What monument?

The VI..N..-VI..N.. Monument?

It’s the Win-Win Monument, as they call it!

They can call whatever they want, but it’s the VI..N..-VI..N.. Monument?

Please explain.

Easy: “Win-Win Monument” and “VI..N..-VI..N.. Monument”, same phonetics, right?!

Right. But why “VI..N..-VI..N.. Monument”?

Oh, fill up the dots with these letters: E, T and A, M, and you see how the weak strongman pays his debt to Vietnam for his return to Cambodia on 7 January 1979.

Get it! Even the top of the spike has the shape of the letter V.

Kacvey, please tell your students to focus their camera on the tip of the spire when photographing it.

Why then the weak strongman doesn’t dedicate the monument to himself?

Here could be a few possibilities:

  • He must have learned that many Lenin statues in the world were torn down when communism was over, or Saddam Hussein’s when his regime collapsed at beginning of Iraq war;
  • He wouldn’t dare glorify himself so much in the face of his Vietnamese backer, because without Vietnamese troops he would never be where he is now;
  • He would not dare affront the spirit and soul of Sihanouk and his statue near the Monument of Independence;
  • He has some complex vis-à-vis 2 guys with whom he was painted on billboards throughout the country; there were 3 guys then, but now only two after, the death of one them on 8 June 2015;
  • He wants the Khmer people to forget his genocidal Pol Pot-Khmer Rouge background and see him through a different prism;
  • Last but not least, he knows that not only his popularity has been dwindled downwards like the level of the Tonlé Buon Mouk in the dry season, but he also has started to feel uneasy of himself in the leadership role of his party and his clan of regroupees who left for Vietnam in 1977.

Therefore, before it’s too late, he seems to decide to concretize the end of his journey in block of concrete, as a symbol of his senseless vanity and egoism.

What and how that so-called monument will be or look like after the inauguration is over?

Dogs will roam around and lift their hind against the walls, homeless will use as shelter against rains, graffiti artists may love to express their natural talent, loiterers hanging out in illegal or illicit nocturnal trades, garbage uncollected etc…

The “VI..N.. – VI..N.. Monument”, a monument to his vanity, will also be for Vietnam like the Chinese casinos in Kg Som and the Chinese resort in Koh Kong will be for China, the masterpieces that the weak strongman has so far designed for and dedicated to his 2 lords.

Would the strongman come back on daily basis to meditate? Doubt it. How would that mute and inert concrete interact with the Khmer people whose life is like a “Lose-Loose Monolith” that they carry on their shoulder and back?

With this “VI..N.. – VI..N.. Monument”, the weak strongman seems definitely outgunning Chéy Chetha II, with not only a historical legacy of Cambodia eternally indebted to Vietnam but also a monument to the glory of his master.

The Big Mess in the City of Tonlé Buon Mouk

20 Thursday Dec 2018

Posted by KhmerPAC in History

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My dear Kacvey,

Are you ready to take a little break during the Year-End festivities or are you still caught up in the big mess – Repeat: BIG MESS! – in the City of Tonlé Buon Mouk?

What BIG MESS?

Oh, guess you don’t see it because either you’re like the nose being to close to the eyes so the latter can’t see or you live in the middle of the City of Tonlé Buon Mouk that you become so immune to the chaos in both political streets and real streets around Phsar Thméy, Phsar Olympic, Phsar Toul Toumpong etc …

Please elaborate!

Oh, It’s easy:
1) The weak strongman trips to New York, Brussels and Geneva turned out to be useless as no one paid attention to him or to what he was saying about EBA. On the way back home, he had a state dinner in Turkey but nobody cared or talked about him.
2) Then, he was off to Singapore and Port Moresby where he was quiet like a mouse in a rat hole;
3) Then, he was off again to Kathmandu just to show to his sycophants that he has done something on his own. Wondering why he didn’t ask Nepal to provide aid and assistance to escalate Mount Everest?
4)Then, off again to Vientiane to get a lesson on how 30 Lao soldiers could occupy a swath of land in Stung Trèng without any resistance from his border troops. After Vientiane, he continued to Hanoi to pay respect to the new leader of Vietnam, the country to which he owed his nowadays fortune as an autocrat, the same country that sheltered and indoctrinated him since 1977 and brought him back to the City of Tonlé Buon Mouk on 7 January 1979.
5) While the weak strongman was on those foreign cities, his kangaroo court has freed a number of critics and/or opposition activists from jail. Those freed activists, fearing that they would be arrested or jailed again have left Srok Khmer to seek asylum in foreign countries. Only the head of the opposition still remain under house arrest in his private residence in the City of Tonlé Buon Mouk.
6) While the weak strongman is struggling on how to meet the conditions set up by the European Union in order for Cambodia to continue to benefit from the favorable tariff, his sycophants have been instructed to send out some trial balloons in the open sky, first in the form of amending certain legal dispositions that the same sycophants adopted before the July 2018 election, and second towards The Cambodia Daily, Voice of America or Radio Free Asia to “return” and operate again in Cambodia; while the ink has not dried yet, those organizations have responded by “shooting” straight at those balloons as practice targets. How can they trust a robber disguised as a Samaritan?
7) Meanwhile the opposition held a world congress in Atlanta to be followed two weeks later by another one in Paris for the purpose of “appointing” an interim leader while the real leader is still under house arrest in his private residence not far from Takhmau. The appointment of an interim leader turned out to be a spark that ignited the internal war between the two factions that formed and animated the opposition. The two leaders of the opposition claimed that they are “one”, but their respective supporters don’t want to hear anything of it.
8) Meantime, the weak strongman and the ex-opposition leader in exile engaged each other through Facebook not only in war of words but also in placing wager on the status of the opposition leader under house arrest.
9) The weak strongman, not to be outdone by the opposition in term of “congress” and the images from Atlanta and Paris, called up the meeting of the 41st Congress of the Central Committee of his party. Mark Twain, once, said: “Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”
10) Last but not least, one of the weak strongman sons has shed his civilian/military clothes as intelligence honcho for a Buddhist saffron robe. Once a monk, always a monk? Saint basil, once, said: “First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.”

So, this is the state of affairs in the City of Tonlé Buon Mouk that looks chaotic and messy?

Inside the country, the weak strongman must solve the “outside” EU/EBA equation regarding not only the constitutional and legal status of the opposition leader under house arrest but also with regards to respect of democracy, rule of law and human rights that the weak strongman himself has so far trampled under his feet. The weak strongman played hard ball against democracy and the opposition before the election by using his rule or changing it as he moved along. Through vanity and greed for power, he made the sand box into a quicksand box out of which he must find his way out. When in Brussels and Geneva, he saw with his own eye how the EU is serious about its stand vis-à-vis his autocracy that he imposed upon the Khmer society and people. To believe and blindly trust that China has the magic wand to come and rescue him from his own machination against EU/EBA is an exercise of ignorance of Chinese hidden long-term goal over the land and water of Cambodia.

Why is the weak strongman so stubborn?

Well, it could come from his early age learning under the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge regime where surrender must never be an option:
– he joined Pol Pot, and Pol Pot won in 1975;
– he escaped Pol Pot in 1977 and went to Vietnam and returned to Cambodia as a victorious in 1979;
– he threatened the return to war after he lost the 1993 UNTAC election;
– he orchestrated a kind of coup d’état against his co-premier in 1997;
– he won every election, by hook or by crook;
– sensing a defeat that could be coming in July 2018, he orchestrated the whole machination to win the sham election, and
– he even have a win-win monument built to his glory.

Kacvey, if you have better vision from the inside, please illuminate.

Crude Man, Crude Language

02 Sunday Dec 2018

Posted by KhmerPAC in Culture, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Social

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My dear Kacvey,

Hope that your students, in their dealing with their family, friends and colleagues possess higher standard of character, courtesy, respect, consideration and vocabulary towards their interlocutor than the lowly educated ex-KR and weak strongman.

This passage extracted from an article published by Radio Free Asia shows how crude and rude the weak strongman is in his public speech: «ហ្អែង​ចង់​ដឹង​ពេល​ហ្នឹង​ហា បើ​មិន​ហ្អែង​មិន​គេច​ទាន់​ទេ ពេលនេះ គឺ​ធ្វើបុណ្យ​ខ្មោច​ហ្អែង​បាត់​ទៅ​ហើយ តែឯង​ពូកែ​រត់ ពូកែ​ស្រែក ហើយ​រត់​ក៏​លឿន តែ​គ្រាន់តែ​គេ​មិន​ដេញ​តាមតែ​ប៉ុណ្ណឹង​ទេ​ឲ្យ​ឯង​រត់​សិន អញ​ក៏​មិនទាន់​ចង់​សម្លាប់​ហ្អែង​ដែរ ព្រោះ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​មួយ​មិន​ឲ្យ​មាន​ការ​ចង់​ផ្ដួល​រំលំ​តាម​ចិញ្ចើម​ផ្លូវ​នោះ​ទេ»

How could a man who considers himself a statesman use such a foul and repugnant words such as ហ្អែង​, បុណ្យ​ខ្មោច​ហ្អែង​, អញ​, អញ​ក៏​មិនទាន់​ចង់​សម្លាប់​ហ្អែង​?! The only and possible explanation would be that he is by nature rude, rough, crude, raw and lacking in social refinement; it could also suggests ignorance of or indifference to good form and plain and intentional discourtesy.

On the contrary, Radio Free Asia, in its English program, provided a better and polite version to cover him in front of the international public: “I want to let you know that if you hadn’t fled Cambodia, you would already have had your funeral,” and “We didn’t pursue you because we didn’t want to kill you at the time”.

With such character and outside his realm of corrupt sycophants, who can give him respect? Mark Twain had the answer when he said: “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”

Kacvey, you have good students who “learn”!

History in Lexicon

02 Sunday Dec 2018

Posted by KhmerPAC in Culture, Event, History, International, Politics, Social

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My dear Kacvey,

Your students must certainly have read this online information from both VODhotnews and The Cambodia Daily. Since the relationship between the Khmer communists and the Vietnamese communists went as far back as 1946 – quite possibly your students’ great-grandparents or grandparents generations – and still continue to influence the current conduct of the Khmer Rouge and ex-Khmer Rouge that rule the land of the Khmer since 1975, the visit should not be without controversy and your students’ attention and focus should be armed with some background awareness:

  • Ho Chi Minh (original name: Nguyen Sinh Cung) was the founder and a revolutionary leader of the League for the Independence of Vietnam or the Viet Minh, who led the Viet Minh Independence movement in 1941, and was president of Vietnam democratic republic in 1945.
  • Since the end of the Vietnam War and the reunification of Vietnam, between 1976 and today, Vietnam has had 7 presidents and 2 Chairmen of the Council of State.
  • Meanwhile, in 1975 Cambodia was led by Khmer Rouge and genocidal Pol Pot.
  • In 1977, the weak strongman (original name: Bunal or Nal) left his Khmer Rouge group and fled to Vietnam for protection and reorganization similar to the mold of the Khmer Viet Minh in 1954.
  • In 1979, he returned to Cambodia with the support of Vietnamese troops and became Cambodia solo prime minister since 1985 until today.
  • Would the trip to Vietnam under its 9th president who took office in October 2018 look like to pay homage and to recognize the eternal debt the weak strongman has contracted for his power as a subordinate ruler in Cambodia?
  • Would future history confirm its past?

Here are some historical lexicons that your students might wish to have in their notebooks:

  • COOC: Central Office of Cambodia
  • Lao Dong: Vietnamese Workers’s Party (founded by Ho Chi Minh)
  • Nam Bo: Southern Department
  • COSVN: Central Office of South Vietnam
  • CCP: Cambodia Communist Party
  • Ban Can Su: Cadre Affairs Committee
  • KC: Khmer Communist
  • KCP: Khmer Communist Party
  • Son Ngoc Minh: Khmer Communist leader during pre-and-post-Independence
  • KCPC: Khmer Communist Party Committee
  • Region 203: Southeast region of Cambodia
  • Muoi Cuc (Ten chrysanthemums?): (Possibly a.k.a Nguyen Van Cuc or Nguyen Van Linh) Head of COSVN in 1954 and Chief advisor of Khmer Communists
  • CLA: Cambodia Liberation Army, formally known as Cambodia National People’s Liberation Armed Forces
  • CCKL: Central Committee for the Khmer Liberation
  • Nguyen Thanh Son: Chief of Nam Bo’s Foreign Affairs Section
  • Training Camps and Ethnic Minority Training Camps: in Hanoi area for training regroupees of Khmer Communists
  • Regroupees: Khmer Communists who were relocated to Vietnam after Independence
  • Son Thay Military Academy: where best KC were trained
  • Nguyen Ai Quoc School: Where KC senior cadres were trained
  • Khmer Viet Minh: Khmer Communists indoctrinated and trained in Vietnam
  • GVN: Government of (South) Vietnam
  • NLF: Vietcong’s National Liberation Front
  • CCFAF: Central Committee to Fight Against Fraud (the group chaired by Lon Nol to oversee shipments of rice to Vietcong
  • CCC: Cambodian Communist Central Committee
  • Red Khmer or Red K: Khmer Krâhârm, Khmer Rouge (coined circa 1962)
  • Khmerization: (1) use of Khmer language (instead of French); (2) conversion of Khmer Leu (Northeastern Khmer) into Khmer
  • B3 Front: Vietcong military command based in Rattanakiri
  • CPK: Communist Party of Kampuchea
  • Don’t spill the tea: Warning that the tea being boiled for the master is more important than the life of the oppressed.

Last but not least, let keep this definition in the back of the mind if the weak strongman doesn’t realize his bounded vassalage because of blindness or ignorance:
“The definition of a vassal was someone in feudal times who received protection and land from a lord in return for allegiance and performing military and other duties, or someone who is subordinate.
“An example of a vassal is a person who was given part of a lord’s land and who pledged himself to that lord.
“An example of a vassal is a subordinate or servant.”

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Update:
On 5 December 2018, The Cambodia Daily online published this piece: មេដឹកនាំ​ខ្មែរ​នឹង​ទៅ​ទស្សន​កិច្ច​ក្នុង​ប្រទេស​វៀតណាម​អម​ដោយ​មន្រ្តី​ កំពូលៗ​ជាច្រើន​មិន​ធ្លាប់​មាន​ពី​មុន​មក​

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