Re: Cambodian boy suckles from cow to survive after parents leave to look for work in rural areas
The picture above is real image of poverty and deprivation of majority of Cambodian farmers in the rural areas. It is sign of a social failure, uncared society. It is a picture of far cry contrast of rural people and the get-rich-quick elite in Phnom Penh.
Thousand of hectares of rubber plantation land have been sold to Hanoi. Hun said,"it is good for the economy". Can't we grow them by our selves?
Cambodia have been reduced to nation that our people become slaves or refuges in our own country.
Now we have learned that one million Cambodian people have been working as slaves in Thailand and Malaysia. MANY WERE ABUSED AND EVEN KILLED. This is clearly a direct effect of Hun Sen's politics of "A COUNTRY FOR SALE". The Cambodian people have been pushed to meet extreme poverty and Tha Sophat's, little 20 months boy's, family is one among those millions that have been suffered by Hun Sen's politics.
Is Cambodia still be called a golden country? A kingdom of wonder?
10 comments:
True Khmer. YOu are studid. This cute boy just enjou sucking milk cow when his mother away. It has nothing to do with golden country or kingdom of wonder
Did the old man suckle from the cow too "True Khmer?". If the old man can live off the solid food which he himself eat, don't you think that he can also feed the little boy too? The boy is 18 months old, and he can also walks on his feet. At that age, he is more than able to survive on the same solid food as his grandfather survive on. This is nothing more than publicity stunt; just another excuses to point a finger of blame at some body.
This is the reality when people are poor as a result of bad government policy that only looks after rich people. We can see that poor people are crying everyday because the government gives their land to the rich and foreign investors who in turn evict them from their land. This is called robbing from the poor to give to the rich.
To 9:42 PM:
I Personally knew of some Khmers who inherited lands form their parents and yet chose not to even farm it but went off trying to look for work somewhere else. Some got drunk; some beat their wives and kids, some spent their time with hookers and some gambled all of their hard earned money. Do you blame all of those ills on Hunsen too? Those who uses the excuses to blame others are "losers", they blamed the whole wide world for their problem " all except for themselves". Some of them, when give works; they flatly refused it because it hurts their pride to work.
Whatever the people want to do with their land is their choice. Whether, they just simply left it alone or farm it, that is not the point. The point is, government or authority can't just simply rob people of their land and resell to some corrupted business tycoons or some foreign invests who must have that piece of land. This is an epidemic in Cambodia. It's a disgrace. For the government, it's a failure to look after the people. That is not democracy. I assume Cambodia is a democratic state, no a communist dictatoship.
In Cambodia, if some body fort, they blam Hun Sen. Every country in this world has homeles, poor etc. In Cambodia, every issues we blame Hun Sen. There are homeless sleeping on the door step of the white house, why don't you blame president o'bama for that?
Warrior Blood
Poverty in America is nothing compare to Cambodia because America is rich and Cambodia is poor. Poverty in Cambodia involve government negligence, not people being lazy of not wanting to work or find works. There is a damn big different. Obama does get blame for everything that is not going right in America. As a leader you are a target of praise and criticism. If you make your country strong and your people happy, you are a good leader. If you're sucks at your job. You will hear from your people. As far as Hun Sen, he will get blame for many things as much as he gains from many things under his power. When Hun Sen fart, he didn't hear himself, when oppositions fart, he silence them. Warrior Blood, I hope you don't try to silence my fart.
C-clo Peddler
12:36 AM, that is called social ills and when there are social ills normally people and media blame the leaders. It is because of the poverty, social problems, lack of works, lack of medical care, that's why people are having social ills. If you live in the West, like America or the UK, when there are social ills where people committed crimes, drunk, having mental illness, become violent, people and the media blame it on the government for not doing enough for the country and the society. I don't believe you that people refused a job because job is the only mean for them to survive and there is not enough jobs around in Cambodia because of Hun Sen's negligence and incompetence, plus because of corruption and land evictions. Talking about people selling their ancestral land, it is true but you have to ask why did they sell off their land? It is because they are in debt. You have to know everything Cambodia is not free like in the West. Medical care, hospitalizations and so on cost heaps and people have to pay for all government services plus bribery to get things done. Everything you have to bribe the officials to get it done. This is why many people went bankrupt and have to sell their property. Also their houses and land have been confiscated so they have to sometimes mortgage their other assets to survive.
I'd like to see Warrior Blood return penniless to Cambodia and living under Hun Sen's rule for a few years and see how he experience it and to taste Hun Sen's rule that he has so long defended. It is easy for him to blame to the poor as lazy when he is enjoying his wealth created by America and its people for more than 300 years.
8:29 AM,
I use to read a poem which goes something like:
"I bargain with life for a penny
and life would pay no more
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store
But life is a just employer
It gives you what you ask
But once you have set the wages
Why, you have to bear the task
I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to find dismayed
That any wage I had asked of life
Life would have gladly paid"
Poverty, from my experience in life is the result of a person's inability to have vision, to set specific goals and have proper plans on how to could achieve those goals. It has nothing to do with the government. It is what you ask of your life.
If one just sit and whinges all day, and blame other people all night and took no action to solve his or her own problem, you will face with poverty.
I was poor and destitute once; it was not the government who caused it; It was me. I wasted too much time not taking proper action to change my own lot in life.
There was a girl who's place burned down in Cambodia. She lost everything, and left with nothing but a pair of clothes on her hips. She crapped whatever she's got and started a small business selling Cambodian con-gee, on the street and now she had her family, a husband and children and a large house! She didn't sit and whinges about her lot in life, but took definite action to resolve her issues.
If you just sit and wait for your mother, your father, your husband, your wife or the government to change your lot in life, sure you're in for a disappointment. But if you start by doing something for yourself, then there will be no body to blame.
I think true Khmer used to suck cow mild. Please dont compare USA and Cambodia.
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