KI Media: “Speak Truth To Power ("Courage Without Borders") Series in KI-Media - The Dalai Lama (Tibet) “Religious Freedom”” plus 21 more

KI Media: “Speak Truth To Power ("Courage Without Borders") Series in KI-Media - The Dalai Lama (Tibet) “Religious Freedom”” plus 21 more

Speak Truth To Power ("Courage Without Borders") Series in KI-Media - The Dalai Lama (Tibet) “Religious Freedom”

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 02:57 PM PDT

"May I become at all times both now and forever
A protector for those without protection
A guide for those who have lost their way
A ship for those with oceans to cross
A bridge for those with rivers to cross
A sanctuary for those in danger
A lamp for those without light
A place of rugs for those who lack shelter
And a servant to all in need."


http://www.box.net/shared/nvb1gaszzpdqg1ilptut

Chomney Khuor (Brain Food): Sasna Noeung Prates Cheat (Religion and Nation)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 02:53 PM PDT

On Facebook- Exploring the Political Will of Hun Xen: Will Hun Xen give up power if he loses election in the future?

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 10:46 AM PDT

(មិត្តភាពម៉ឺនៗណាំ!!!Thousand years of frienship)

Thank you my dear friends for this week we have been actively shared ideas on some topics, particularly, on whether Hun Xen will resign or not if he loses the election in the future (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150328000333210&set=a.455272048209.237781.680378209&type=1&theater). To my conclusion, most of us agree that he will not give up power and the best point in our debates is that we all don´t want WAR or BLOODSHED to happen again in our motherland.However, I am not satisfied yet with the comments given on that topic which I will explore more to share with us all again.I ,too, strongly believe that: "He will never give up power because HE IS SO INSECURED."
REASONS:
  1. Egoist: He always sees himself as the motivation to maintain and enhance favorable views of self to the point of being self-destructive. With this, he clearly used to say that ONLY Hun Xen can lead Cambodia and without him Cambodian will be in chaos (Note: He said that in Siem Reap, 2005 and PP, 2007)
  2. Dictator: He assumes sole power over the state. He holds or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power, especially the power to make laws without effective restraint by a legislative assembly. He gains power through cheating, vote buying, threat, violence and killing. Cases have been witnesssed daily.
  3. Traitor: He violates his allegiance and betrays his country. Having installed vy Vietnam to power in 1980s, he signed the 1980s illegal treaties and the illegal supplemental treaty on 15 October 2005 with Vietnam.The treaties are against the spirit of the 1991 Paris Peace Accord and the Cambodian constitution 1993. These treaties have undermined our country´s full independence and the loss of territorial integrity so far.
  4. Criminal: We all clearly know that he has been accused of involving in many criminal cases like: 1) His bloody hands in KR regime, 2) K5 policy which caused the deaths of 200,000 people, 3) Coup d´eta 1997, 5) Granade attack in 1997 which his bodyguards were allegedly involved in the attack, 6) Piseth Pilika, and 7) Corruption (particularly reported by Global Witness).
  5. Self-value: His self-value is seen as negative way because he gains it from threat, killing, power, money, and being a puppet to other nation. Without power , no one will ever respect him at all.
The above mentioned tell us clearly that he wont resign for without power he and his family will be disappeared. They will see their future even worse than Suharto of Indonesia and Marcos of the Philippines.

Realizing this plight, he tries his best to steal more national resources to be able to supply his increasing bodyguard numbers and upgrade them up-to-date weapons to protect his skin and power if the he loses in any election or whatever happens in the future.

BUT he ABSOLUTELY WON´T BE ABLE TO DO SO BECAUSE NO ONE CAN WIN THE MAJORITY WILL OF THE PEOPLE OF CAMBODIA.

"Yuon Plonn Dei Srae Puk Mae K'nhom" a Poem in Khmer by NhiekKiri

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 08:10 AM PDT

Brain Food

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 08:05 AM PDT

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

- Book of Proverbs (the Hebrew Bible)

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 08:02 AM PDT

Convention on the Rights of the Child
Ratified by UNGA in Nov. 1989, entered into force 1990

Cambodia ratified this Convention on October 15, 1992
PART I
Article 37

States Parties shall ensure that:

(a) No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offences committed by persons below eighteen years of age;

(b) No child shall be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily. The arrest, detention or imprisonment of a child shall be in conformity with the law and shall be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time;

(c) Every child deprived of liberty shall be treated with humanity and respect for the inherent dignity of the human person, and in a manner which takes into account the needs of persons of his or her age. In particular, every child deprived of liberty shall be separated from adults unless it is considered in the child's best interest not to do so and shall have the right to maintain contact with his or her family through correspondence and visits, save in exceptional circumstances;

(d) Every child deprived of his or her liberty shall have the right to prompt access to legal and other appropriate assistance, as well as the right to challenge the legality of the deprivation of his or her liberty before a court or other competent, independent and impartial authority, and to a prompt decision on any such action.

Brain Food

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 07:59 AM PDT

I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

UN Convention Against Corruption

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 07:47 AM PDT

United Nations Convention Against Corruption
(UNCAC)

In accordance with article 68 (1) of resolution 58/4, the United Nations Convention against Corruption entered into force on 14 December 2005. A Conference of the States Parties is established to review implementation and facilitate activities required by the Convention.

Cambodia acceded to the UNCAC
on 5 September 2007

General Assembly resolution 58/4 of 31 October 2003

United Nations Convention against Corruption

The General Assembly,


Recalling its resolution 55/61 of 4 December 2000, in which it established an ad hoc committee for the negotiation of an effective international legal in­strument against corruption and requested the Secretary-General to convene an intergovernmental open-ended expert group to examine and prepare draft terms of reference for the negotiation of such an instrument, and its resolution 55/188 of 20 December 2000, in which it invited the intergovernmental open-ended expert group to be convened pursuant to resolution 55/61 to examine the question of illegally transferred funds and the return of such funds to the countries of origin,

Recalling also its resolutions 56/186 of 21 December 2001 and 57/244 of 20 December 2002 on preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such funds to the countries of origin,

Recalling further its resolution 56/260 of 31 January 2002, in which it requested the Ad Hoc Committee for the Negotiation of a Convention against Corruption to complete its work by the end of 2003,

Recalling its resolution 57/169 of 18 December 2002, in which it accepted with appreciation the offer made by the Government of Mexico to host a high- level political conference for the purpose of signing the convention and re­quested the Secretary-General to schedule the conference for a period of three days before the end of 2003,

Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 2001/13 of 24 July 2001, entitled "Strengthening international cooperation in preventing and com­bating the transfer of funds of illicit origin, derived from acts of corruption, including the laundering of funds, and in returning such funds",

Expressing its appreciation to the Government of Argentina for hosting the informal preparatory meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Negotiation of a Convention against Corruption in Buenos Aires from 4 to 7 December 2001,


Recalling the Monterrey Consensus, adopted by the International Con­ference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico, from 18 to 22 March 2002,[1] in which it was underlined that fighting corruption at all levels was a priority,


Recalling also the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development, adopted by the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002,[2] in parti­cular paragraph 19 thereof, in which corruption was declared a threat to the sustainable development of people,

Concerned about the seriousness of problems and threats posed by corrup­tion to the stability and security of societies, undermining the institutions and values of democracy, ethical values and justice and jeopardizing sustainable development and the rule of law,

1. Takes note of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Negotiation of a Convention against Corruption,[3] which carried out its work at the head­quarters of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, in which the Ad Hoc Committee submitted the final text of the draft United Nations Convention against Corruption to the General Assembly for its consideration and action, and commends the Ad Hoc Committee for its work;

2. Adopts the United Nations Convention against Corruption annexed to the present resolution, and opens it for signature at the High-level Political Signing Conference to be held in Merida, Mexico, from 9 to 11 December 2003, in accordance with resolution 57/169;

3. Urges all States and competent regional economic integration organi­zations to sign and ratify the United Nations Convention against Corruption as soon as possible in order to ensure its rapid entry into force;

4. Decides that, until the Conference of the States Parties to the Conven­tion established pursuant to the United Nations Convention against Corruption decides otherwise, the account referred to in article 62 of the Convention will be operated within the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Fund, and encourages Member States to begin making adequate voluntary contributions to the above-mentioned account for the provision to developing countries and countries with economies in transition of the technical assistance that they might require to prepare for ratification and implementation of the Convention;

5. Also decides that the Ad Hoc Committee for the Negotiation of a Convention against Corruption will complete its tasks arising from the negotia­tion of the United Nations Convention against Corruption by holding a meet­ing well before the convening of the first session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention in order to prepare the draft text of the rules of procedure of the Conference of the States Parties and of other rules described in article 63 of the Convention, which will be submitted to the Conference of the States Parties at its first session for consideration;

6. Requests the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention to address the criminalization of bribery of officials of public international organi­zations, including the United Nations, and related issues, taking into account questions of privileges and immunities, as well as of jurisdiction and the role of international organizations, by, inter alia, making recommendations regarding appropriate action in that regard;

7. Decides that, in order to raise awareness of corruption and of the role of the Convention in combating and preventing it, 9 December should be designated International Anti-Corruption Day;

8. Requests the Secretary-General to designate the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to serve as the secretariat for and under the direction of the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention;

9. Also requests the Secretary-General to provide the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime with the resources necessary to enable it to promote in an effective manner the rapid entry into force of the United Nations Con­vention against Corruption and to discharge the functions of secretariat of the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention, and to support the Ad Hoc Committee in its work pursuant to paragraph 5 above;


Further requests the Secretary-General to prepare a comprehensive report on the High-level Political Signing Conference to be held in Merida, Mexico, in accordance with resolution 57/169, for submission to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session.


[1] Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18-22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.

[2]Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August-4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A. 1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.

[3]A/58/422 and Add.1.

អ្នកសំលាប់ជាវិជ្ជា ដោយ ឆាំ ឆានី (The Killer of Chea Vichea by Chham Chhany)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 04:37 AM PDT

Die for the country and your widow will receive … $1.88 per 3 months from the government, when she can at all

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 01:55 AM PDT

Mrs. Et Khamta is showing the meager benefit she receives from the government.

Thursday 04 August 2011
[Pro-CPP] Koh Santepheap Daily
Translated from Khmer by Botum Soriya

Stung Treng – On 02 August, a woman who was leaving the provincial office of the welfare and veteran affairs department was complaining that the office paid her only a meager 7,500 riels ($1.88) per 3 months for the loss her husband, a soldier who was killed on duty by the KR in the 80s.

63-year-old Et Khamta was the elderly woman above. She lives in Phluk village, Phluk commune, Sesan district. She said that Nou Orn, her husband, joined the militia in Phluk village during the People's Republic of Kampuchea era (Heng Samrin's puppet regime). During his patrol in Sesan district, Nou Orn was killed a KR sniper. His name was registered in the welfare and veteran affairs department, but she did not how much the benefit she can obtain, only that every three months, the department of welfare sends her the money through other villagers.

She added that on 02 August, she went to cash out the benefit money directly from the welfare department. She received 7,500 riels ($1.88) after paying the association due. She complained that with 7,500 riels, she couldn't even pay the bus fare back home because they charged her 15,000 riels ($3.75). Furthermore, in order to come and cash the benefit, she had to sell one of her chickens which earned her an income of 25,000 riels ($6.25) for the trip expense. She said that for 7,500 riels in benefit, she cannot afford to come and cash it anymore because, at the end, she has nothing left.


Regarding this issue, Sea Kim Ser, the director of the welfare and veteran department, indicated that the benefit for each soldier killed on duty amounts to 6,000 riels ($1.50) only per month, but the department orders that the family of the deceased veterans must produce a death certificate issued by the local authority, with that these families must become a member of the veteran association which is chaired by no other than Hun Xen himself.

Sea Kim Ser added that, out of the 6,000 riels paid in monthly benefit, a due of 3,500 riels must be paid to the veteran association, so that only 2,500 riels ($0.63) is left each month for the family of the soldier killed on duty. Therefore, his department can only pay to the soldiers' families once each trimester, i.e. each family that filled in all the paperwork requirements only received 7,500 riels ($1.88). Sea Kim Ser said the contribution by family of the soldiers killed in duty to the association is used to pay a planned amount of 4,000,000 riels ($1,000) per family.

SRP MP Son Chhay and SRP team visiting Mondulkiri

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 12:42 AM PDT


SRP MP Son Chhay (front row) and SRP activist Keo Phirum (standing in the back) took a picture with SRP councilors in Mondulkiri. The photo was taken on August 6 during a workshop on public health conducted by SRP team led by Son Chhay with assistance of Keo Phirum and Seng Mardi in Keo Sema district Mondulkiti province. The workshop is being conducted in 4 northeast provinces to study the health and land-grabbing problems faced by indigenous people such as Punong and Jarai etc.

The team is also working on a video documentary on the loss of indigenous ancestry land to the foreign companies. The video will be shared online sometime soon.

Son Chhay with 81 years old Owv at Punong village outskirt of Sen Monorom town of Mondulkiri province.

SRP MPs discuss healthcare issues with Kratie and Stung Treng commune councilors

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 12:32 AM PDT


SRP MPs Long Ry (left), Son Chhay (center) and Men Sothaverin (right) discuss health care issues with commune councilors from Kratie and Stung Treng provinces on August 7 in Kratie. Around 100 councilors took part in the discussions where many abuses in public hospitals and health center were uncovered.

A policy on free health care will be drawn up by the SRP before coming elections.

A SRP commune councilor spoke during the workshop

Son Chhay

Battambang villagers seek intervention from Sar Kheng and Hun Xen in land dispute

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 12:24 AM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XHv3c7UPE&feature=player_embedded

Display of Cambodian maps dating from the 19th century ... before it was shrunk to today's area under Hoon Xhen

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 12:21 AM PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWw6P4p_GzU&feature=player_embedded

Thailand's human trafficking draws UN attention

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 11:18 PM PDT

Aug 7, 2011
By Peter Janssen
DPA

Samut Sakhon, Thailand - Ei Phyo, 18, from Myawaddy, Myanmar, arrived in Samut Sakhon four years ago to work in a fish-ball factory in the coastal city 30 kilometres west of Bangkok.

Like most illegal migrant workers in Thailand she could not afford to pay the 16,500 baht (550 dollars) in transport and police checkpoint bribery fees that feed the multimillion dollar human trafficking trade.

Ei Phyo worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for 4,000 baht (133 dollars) a month with 1,000 baht deducted to repay her debt to the factory owner for advancing her entry fees.

'For two years I never left the factory once,' Ei Phyo said. 'Even when I had paid back the debt they wouldn't let me go outside because the boss said it wasn't right to take a break right after paying him back.'


Finally she managed to escape by putting her regular clothes on under her uniform and shedding her factory outfit after taking out the trash through a back exit.

'Now that factory has built a taller wall around it to make sure no one gets out,' said Ei Phyo, who currently has a better job in Samut Sakhon and has joined Thailand's registered workforce of migrant labourers, who number close to 1 million.

Her tale of modern indentured servitude is mild compared with some others.

Horror stories of Cambodian and Burmese labourers virtually enslaved for years on Thailand's armada of small fishing vessels abound.

'I ran away after one of my friends lost his arm in one of the boat's machines,' said Nai, 25, a Burmese migrant.

He has spent the past six years in Thailand being 'sold' by agents, usually compatriots, to one factory or fishing boat after another until ending up in Samut Sakhon, home to an estimated 300,000 Burmese.

'No matter how many problems I have in Thailand I have to stick it out because I still haven't made enough to pay back my debts at home,' Nai said. He had to borrow 6 million kyats (750 dollars) to pay an agent to get him into Thailand six years ago.

'An assessment of the cumulative risk of labour trafficking among Burmese migrant workers in the seafood industry in Samut Sakhon, Thailand found that 57 per cent of these workers experience conditions of forced labour,' said the US State Department Trafficking in Persons Report 2011, released on June 28.

The report placed Thailand in the Tier Two category for the second consecutive year, along with such countries as Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, Russia and Zambia.

The UN's special rapporteur on human trafficking will be in Thailand from Monday to August 19 to assess the kingdom's progress, or lack thereof, in tackling the illicit trade.

'During my mission, I wish to reach out to a wide range of stakeholders and trafficked persons themselves, so that their voices are heard and can be considered in the network of laws, policies and measures related to trafficking in persons,' Joy Ngozi Ezeilo said.

The Thai government has welcomed the trip.

'We are concerned about being on the Tier 2 watch list,' Foreign Ministry spokesman Thani Thingphakdi said. 'We have made serious efforts to address the human trafficking problem and we feel that a lot of progress has been made.'

Thailand's dynamic and diversified economy has been a magnet for illegal and legal migrant labourers from less-developed neighbours - Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar (also called Burma) - for decades.

This underclass of more than 2 million migrants now man the jobs Thais increasingly shun in the country's vast plantations of rubber and palm oil, on construction sites, as domestic servants and aboard thousands of small fishing vessels.

Thailand has made efforts to legalize the migrant labour force, having registered some 996,276 Cambodians, Lao and Burmese as of August 1 under its nationality verification process.

On June 14, the Labour Ministry proposed establishing a private insurance fund to cover migrant workers for work-related accidents or illness. For other ailments, registered migrant workers can benefit form the national universal health plan.

But abuses of migrant labourers abound and prosecutions are few and far between.

'Corruption remained widespread among Thai enforcement personnel, creating an enabling environment for human trafficking to prosper,' the US State Department noted in its report.

Hun Xen's banana kingdoom: The Viets enjoy full freedom and Cambodian citizenship in Cambodia ... while Khmer Krom are oppressed in South Vietnam

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 10:48 PM PDT

Mistreatment and violence against Khmer Krom  monks by Hun Xen's Xmer cops
Vietnamese Cambodians convene first congress

07/08/2011
VOV News

The Association of Vietnamese Cambodians in Kongpong Chhnang province held its first congress for the 2011-2014 tenure on August 6 with the participation of 90 delegates.

Charge d'Affaires of the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia Ha Quang Tuan and President of the General Association of Vietnamese Cambodians Chau Van Chi also attended the congress.

The congress elected the association's executive board for the 2011-2014 term led by Bui Van Be. According to Be, Kongpong Chhnang is now home to 3,000 overseas Vietnamese households with 15,000 heads.

The association has so far organized three Vietnamese and Khmer teaching schools with a total of nearly 600 students.

Slave-like condition for a Cambodian maid in Malaysia

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 10:25 PM PDT

Maid given a meal and forced to work 17 hours

Saturday, Aug 06, 2011
New Straits Times

KUALA LUMPUR - The Cambodian maid rescued from a house in Taman Sri Sinar, Segambut, on Wednesday was not only abused by her employer but was also forced to work 17 hours at two different locations.

Police investigations revealed that the 25-year-old woman, identified as Neak Ban, was also given only one meal a day.

Sentul deputy police chief Superintendent Othman Abu Bakar said three suspects -- a 52-year-old man and his two daughters, aged 20 and 23 -- were arrested at their house on Wednesday.

"Initial investigations revealed that the victim who started work in May last year, had to work from 8am to 6pm at the house in Taman Sri Sinar, before she was taken to Sungai Buloh to continue until 1am."


Apart from being overworked, Othman said the victim claimed she was not well fed and constantly assaulted by all three.

"She said her employers used to slap, punch and beat her, sometimes even using high-heeled shoes and sticks."

He added that Neak Ban's hands, face, ears and her right eye were badly bruised when they rescued her. Police also found old scars on her, believed to be marks from earlier assaults.

He said the victim was currently being looked after by the Women's Aid Organisation.

"We are now waiting for the victim's medical report before proceeding further in the investigations."

The remand order on the three suspects ends today.

Sakrava song, composed by King Sisowath

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 09:59 PM PDT

The confused identity of those Khmer

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 09:41 PM PDT

Khmer Krom refugees after they were expelled by Thailand
8/06/2011
Written by Child Khmer
http://21provinces.blogspot.com/2011/08/confused-identity-of-those-khmer.html

As Khmer and their country got weaker, foreigners have been manipulating them into losing their own identity.

Khmer Surin in Thailand do not want to revolt, in case it doesn't work they would be worst off. They know they could not rely on Khmer Cambodia which is having an identity crisis. Khmer Krom in South Vietnam do not want to revolt either, they know they could not rely on Khmer Cambodia for help. If you do not know yourself, how would you know others?

Long ago the Khmer used to live in harmony did not have any enemy, until the Mongol leaded by Genghis Khan invaded China and it changed everything. As the Mongol pushed into China, it also pushed a few groups of southern Chinese tribes from southern China downward to Khmer land.


There were so many warring tribes in China and they knew the tricks to warfare. At first they were under Khmer control until they learnt Khmer weakness points such as kindness and generosity which they were able to take advantage off easily.

There are more Khmer living in Thailand and South Vietnam than in Cambodia. Some are already lost their identities and some are struggling. Still the majorities are still waiting to be united again. Khmer land shrink from a ratio from 3 to 1. The land covered much of South Vietnam, Thailand and southern Laos.

The people who took over Khmer land knew very well that as long as Cambodia exists, and one day powerful again, Khmer are a threat to their existent especially since there are more Khmer people in their countries than in Cambodia.
Vietnam has been trying hard to stir Cambodia up and used Khmer against Khmer in order to take their mind off about the fate of Khmer Krom in Kampuchea Krom. It has been preaching Khmer Cambodia that nationalism could return Cambodia to a regime like Pol Pot again and result in millions of people die. The intention was to disunity the Khmer people.

Those Khmer people who felt proud as Khmer are bad as it could lead to extremist nationalists like the KR which would have a bad image. You speak Khmer but should not call yourself as a Khmer. Individuals should call themselves a Cambodian or simply a citizen of Cambodia, and drop the word Khmer as an identity in order to avoid the birth of nationalism in Cambodia again. The intention aim was to confuse and change Khmer identity.

Many times Khmer Krom victims escaped from South Vietnam (Kampuchea Krom) to Cambodia, yet the Cambodia government refused to help their own Khmer brothers and sisters who face persecutions because they stand for their human rights. They handed the victims back to Vietnam every time for fearing it might make them look like a Khmer patriotic. Khmer are being manipulated into against other Khmer.
In short, Cambodia is being brainwash from the top, especially the members of the ruling government who regularly go to Hanoi for strategy study to think that a Khmer nationalist is like a terrorist and racist. As such the Cambodian government refuses to talk or stop the Vietnamese settlers who come to Cambodia illegally. While the Cambodia government has been having false fear, the country is being filled up with the illegal people.

Often the Khmer Cambodia would say the illegally settlers have more rights than themselves and maybe they are right especially if members of the ruling government, the CPP have been brainwash this bad. With or without the government, Khmer people can live independently as they know that they could not rely on their own brainwashed government.

Next time when you see members of the ruling government go to Hanoi to study a further brainwash to eliminate their own Khmer identity, beware of their next speeches. This is often described as use Khmer to kill Khmer.

On the Thai side it has its own way of doing things, it's giving lesson to their citizens that Angkor Wat belongs to them. The Khmer King Jayavarman VII is their king and so on. The purposes have been very meaning full to the Thai ruling elites. Sometimes the Thai especially the intellectual elites pretend to be Khmer in order to avoid Khmer and Khmer Surin in Thailand revolt and overthrow the Thai regime.

"Case 003 and 004, civil war or not?" - Op-Ed by Sing Song

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 08:02 PM PDT

Brain Food for Christians (also for non-Christians, no?) - Jesus warning against hypocrisy

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 07:24 PM PDT

A Warning Against Hypocrisy
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

"Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called 'Rabbi' ['Excellency', 'Dr.', 'Chumtiev'] by others.

"But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.

"Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.' You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? You also say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.' You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!

"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"

A tribute of Ms. Huoy Meas

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 05:41 PM PDT

Ms. Huoy Meas
Karaoke actress Meas Somavatey is allegedly Ms. Huoy Meas' daughter
 
Sunday, August 07, 2011
By P. from Long Beach

Every time I think about Huoy Meas, I couldn't help but remembering watching her on a black and white TV set sometime in the 60s. I was not sure why, as a young child, I was so smitten with her, a woman who could easily be my mother. Come to think of it, maybe it was her voice with that sweet Battambang accent that always made swoon. You see, my father was also from Battambang, near the border with Thailand in what is now known as Banteay Meanchey province. In those days, when school was over, my father would send us to spend a few weeks with my Grandfather (in fact, my Great-Grand Uncle) there. Usually, in the morning, my grandfather would take me along with him to the pagoda. On the way, we sometime stoppped by the market to buy some boiled taro and then, we would rest by a shady tree nearby the road. There, he would pull out some granular sugar wrapped in a old sheet of newspaper that he brought with him from home and we would sit there to peel the taro skin, dipping it in the sugar and stuffing ourselves while gawking at the bustling hubbub in the market. It was most likely that idyllic image that I kept from my childhood in Battambang that made me so fond of Ms. Huoy Meas.

To those of you who are too young to know Ms. Huoy Meas, there's a chance that you may have heard about Meas Somavatey, the karaoke actress in the 90s and early 2000s. I was told that Meas Somavatey is Ms. Huoy Meas daughter, although, I wouldn't be able to tell that they are related to each other because it is seem to me that Somavatey does not look much like her mother at all.

Beside her singing career, Ms. Huoy Meas was also a very popular "soap" story ("Pheak Nitean") actress broadcasted on radio in the late 60s and 70s. After 1970, she also worked as a DJ on Cambodia's national radio.

I am not sure what happened to her after the KR took over Phnom Penh in 1975, until somebody posted the following snippet on the Camdisc bulletin board: "Bang Huoy Meas was with me in Khmer Rouge time in Battambang. She was taken away and never returned in the early 1977, the same year when the Yuon-trained Khmer Rouge tied my mother's arms and pulled her to the mass grave and beat her to death." When asked where Ms. Huoy Meas was killed by the KR, the same author added: "Yes, I was in the Youth Mobile Team (Kang Yuveak-Jun Cha-latt) in Phum Chrey, Srok Maung Russey, Battambang after a long train-ride from the Eastern part of Cambodia. You're right, Bang Huoy Meas was taken to Wat Soriya. The last word she told me was that the Angkar Leu invited her to sing for the Radio. We didn't know the Khmer Rouge have mastered the skills of lying from somewhere. Hun Sen, Pen Sovan, Chea Sim, Nuon Chea, Heng Samrin, Khiev Samphan and some people here in Camdisc probably can tell us whom they've learned to trick, to cheat, and to lie from."

The same author also provided a glimpse of Ms. Huoy Meas tempestuous marriage to Yel, a drummer in the national radio band: "When I was eleven, I biked to see my girl friend who lived next door to Pou 'Chel or Yel', the drummer for the 'Vithiyuk-Jeat-Dantrey', who was Bang Huoy Meas' husband. We saw them fight (verbally) over jealousy. A week later, Pou Yel wrote a song titled 'Srey Ka-ngok Meas' for Im Song Seum to sing. Bang Huoy Meas returned with 'Chet Khos Pi Mun' to Pou Yel. Im Song Seum sang another one for Pou Yel (I forgot the name of it), then, Bang Huoy Meas launched 'Sam-Dei [Boross?]', then, 'Kaun Nouv Et Pa' ... When Pou Yel got a new girl friend, a beautiful blond Khmer-mix Barang, selling flower at 'Phsar Chass', he cooled down."

In dedication to the memory of Ms. Huoy Meas, please find below a few of her oldies song.

Until next time, fare well!

P from Long Beach

Huoy Meas - Neuk Heuy Neuk Tiet (Missing you over and over)

A word about "Neuk Heuy Neuk Tiet": The original song (1962) was interpreted by French singer Johnny Haliday in the movie "Sophie" with Catherine Deneuve, a clip of which is shown below.

"Retiens la nuit" (Hold the night) by Johnny Haliday
Retiens la nuit … avec toi, elle parait si belle
(Hold the night … 'cause with you, it's so marvelous)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sl7yzLuK_g

Huoy Meas - Somdey Boross (Man's words)

Huoy Meas - Sneha Del Ke Boss Bang (Spurned love)

Huoy Meas - Meul Moat Tonle (Gazing at the river bank)

Huoy Meas - Komsan Srah Srang (Visiting Srah Srang in Siem Reap)

Huoy Meas - Chit Kramom (A damsel's feeling)

Huoy Meas - Chumrieng Reatrey (Song of the night)

Huoy Meas - Sa'ek Heuy Sa'ek Tiet (The morrow, again and again)

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