Dear Khmerization,
Today, I've read one news about the Thai prime minister launching new site to promote how much Thai love their country.
http://www.ilovethailand.org/When I visited that site, I had found one video they posted on this site, titled " Lost territory ". I couldn't read Thai language. As far as I understand it, the video mentioned that Thailand today has lost some parts of their country during past and influenced by colonialism.
http://www.ilovethailand.org/
I am writing to request you, would you please raise the issue of this video among Khmer society and Khmer government. This is the Thai official website (prime minister's website), they are trying to teach fake history. What this video was trying to say is that parts our Khmer territory today is part of Thailand in the past.
As a Khmer person, I think that this video is not acceptable to any Khmer people. We are the original owner of this land in the past 1000 years ago.
Please raise this issue with Khmer government and Khmer Foreign Ministry to write any official letter to the Thai government to remove this video from this site.
Best regards,
DN_----------------------------------
Dear DN,
Thanks for bringing this news to our attention. Khmerization will do its best to publicise about these Thai claims. Anyone who is proficient in the Khmer history will attest to the fabrication of history by the Thai people. Cambodian people inhabited the areas of present Cambodia and Thailand for more than 2000 years. The T'ai (Thai) people migrated from Nanchao in Southern China to the present location of Thailand only in the 13th century and settled in the northern part of today's Thailand. Then they expanded their territories south to Malaysia and west to Laos and Cambodia as they grew stronger and stronger militarily.
Khmerization
Khmerization
2 comments:
Siem(in Khmer means thieves, pirates, or rebels), the west call them Siam. Siem or Tai one time has no land. They(Tai of China) were refugees from southern China provinces seeking shelter with Khmer from the invading Mongols who had created chaos in China. Sometime later, the Tai became Khmer and adopted Khmer identity. This is why Thai culture, tradition, and language are very similar to Cambodia.
After Khmer Empire became weak, Siem fought for their own territory and independence. Thialand history started right after Khmer Empire weaken. Siem glorified the wars waged against the Khmer. Along with the torritories and the Khmer pupulations captured. Siem converted Khmer to become Siem. Siem incorporated their own manipulating historical facts. In 1939, Siem called themselves Thai or Thailand or "Land of the Tai tribe" refering to the ancient Tai people of southern China.
All of the territories of Thailand once belong to Khmer(Cambodia). What past is the past. Cambodia do not want to bring up the past issue of losing her territory, yet Thailand wants to bring up the issue of losing her up? Thailand owes great gratitude to Cambodia for the territories she obtain up to date. Remember; the Tai started out with nothing.
As far as I can understand the Video only talk about the losses of Thai territory only in the 20th century and onward.
By the The time most of Lanxang territory was already part of the Siamese kingdom and some part of Cambodia have long been annexed. So factually, I see nothing wrong with the "losses of territory" video. They didn't claim that the land wasn't belong to Cambodia to begin with isn't it?
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