Re: How Both Sides Got Cambodia Wrong [foreign hubris then, Cambodians suffered; foreign hubris now, Cambodians suffer]
The Daily Beast | 4 September 2016
Commentary by Ms. Theary C. Seng -- the misguided non-Cambodians
Seen and heard on Ms. Theary C. Seng's Facebook accounts:
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
Recycled,
repeated language of racism charges established during the 1980s
occupation, enduring to this day. To divert attention from crimes of
Vietnam and its puppets, i.e. Hun Sen and his cronies against the barely
surviving KR survivors. An effective, diversion method to this day.
For
example, the changing of Khmer language, the most damaging is the
replacement of neutral word "Yuon" with a new word "Vietnam", forced
into the Khmer lexicon, an act of pure political will that the former is
"derogatory".
The
mindless repetition has been made ever since by foreigners who are
wilfully ignorant of Cambodia and its history, save the Khmer Rouge
period. Many often in the country for brief excursions and only since
the 1990s, often young with immense power as opinion makers in this
fragile society. A society riddled with manipulation and obfuscation,
an attractive destination and home for con artists and genocidaires,
both Khmer and non-Khmer.
It is
not the first time whereby the almost unanimous opinions and feelings of
Cambodians are outright dismissed and not believed. It happened during
the dark years of the Khmer Rouge and its immediate aftermath and the
ten years of occupation and their aftermath. One of the reasons has
been the blithe, ignorant repeated charges of "racism" by misguided
non-Cambodians.
This
current Cambodian government led by Hun Sen, propped up by Vietnam, has a very transparent reason to focus on the racism charge.
- Theary Seng, 22 September 2015 AM
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