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Monday, 21 May 2012

The Chhlong and Samlaut Uprising: History repeated itself

Anonymous said...





This is Samlaut Uprising repeated. In 1967, the authority cracked down on Samlaut people, confiscated their land, beat them and jailed them. The result was, the victims fled to the jungle and that was the birth of the Khmer Rouge. If Hun Sen kept on cracking down on people mercilessly like this, another Samlaut Uprising might take place.
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The Samlot Bloodshed is to the Sangkum Reastre Niyum, while the Chlong Bloodbath is to Hun Sen's regime

By a former leader of Student Movement for Democracy 
Subject: Serial killing by authorities

Net Savoeun and Sar Kheng are trying to outdo Sihanouk in killing their own people and in carrying out forced evictions, which ca be described as "The Samlot Bloodshed is to the Sangkum Reastre Niyum, Chlong Bloodbath is to Hun Sen's regime".

Sihanouk had ordered the Sangkum's police forces to kill and arrest people in Battambang's Samlot District in 1967 and now Hun Sen's henchmen killed and arrested people in Kratie's Chlong district with similar accusations that they are "secessionists". It is time for all Khmers to wake up and take revenge!


Hun Sen's henchmen have no other explanations to the senseless killing except that it was UNINTENTIONAL, RECHOCHET, SELF-DEFENSE. When they used these words, it means that UNINTENTIONAL is equal to PREMEDITATED, RECHOCHETED=AIMED THE GUN AT, SELF-DEFENSE= ATTACKS BY USING EXCESSIVE FORCE AT WILL.

This killing is, of course, a premeditated assassination with excessive force which is punishable by law. Sar Kheng, Neth Savoeun and the hitmen are subjected to prosecutions by national courts for crime and prosecution by International Criminal Court for crime against humanity (killing a group of people or race is defined as crime against humanity or genocide). Please historians, keep good records of these atrocities for International Criminal Court in the future.

The serial killing committed by the authorities is the jink for the Hun Sen Regime. If the regime were to be placed on the S-curve, it must be at the top end of the S that is about to decline.

After the Samlot Massacre in 1967 by the Sihanouk's Sangkum Reastr Niyum regime, the people in Samlot and their relative nationwide vowed to take revenge to their graves and of cause they did, by forming their own movement and joining the Khmer Rouge. To some people, the Samlot Uprising was the beginning or the birth of the Khmer Rouge movement.

Sihanouk has faced the consequence ever since and now he is suffering more than death. He's not allowed to write in the name of Ruom Rith, not allowed to speak...so, death is better than to be alive for him.

If compare to the Samlot Massacre, the Chhlong killing would be the signal of the end of the Hun Sen Regime. The people in Chlong, Borei Keila, Boeung Kak Lake would seek revenge to their graves. Only time would tell when they find a strong link and combine forces. Hun Sen would be able to run to the end of the world, but he could not escape from the power of the GRUDGES of the embedded in the hearts and souls of the Khmer people who have been suffering from this BLOOD BATH.
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 Hun Sen: He who lives by the swords will die by the swords

By True Khmer 

They were very brave to stand in the eye of the storm, of Hun Sen's henchmen, who used guns to kill in order to force people from their land and livelihood. It’s a barbaric act. It’s subhuman behaviour.

Our innocent farmers, young and old, felt enough is enough. They were pushed to the edge that they got no choice, but to fight back, whether they live or die. They were simply standing for their simple basic rights to protect their land and livelihood, never mind their dignity as human beings. After all, what can they do to survive if they have to lose those little belongings?

We all Khmer had never seen any injustice like this before. We had never seen any previous governments or regimes evicted hundred of thousands of people from their land for their pockets. We had never seen our fellow people in mass migration to seek for jobs outside our own country, risking their lives, hundreds were killed and abused, beyond our belief. We had never seen any government on the planet that had sold almost every natural resources in country to foreign investors.

So far, 7 million hectares of farmland, sold for 99 years for 10 millions dollars per years, one hectare of land is just $1 per year. It is so ridiculously cheap. It’s a joke and an insulting to all Khmers. In Hun Sen's mind, he thinks that everyone of us can't do simple maths. I am talking about the value of trees that were cut down and sold as timbers, in value of hundreds of thousands of US dollars on market price, on each hectare, even before they clear those land into their so called concession land for 99 years.

Simply, this is their cheap excuse to produce their legal licences for a pure purpose for their corruptions, for their daylight-robbery, immorally collaborated between Hun Sen, his cronies and their get-rich-soon or opportunistic businessmen.

Furthermore, Hun Sen not even afraid of or feels shame to display his true evil colour to the world by hiding murderer Chhouk Bandith, governor of Bavet district, who cowardly shot poor women protesters, free from prosecution. Poor Khmer fellow factory workers were shot, just because they were trying to protest for the increase of their salary that was so ridiculously cheap from $15 per month to $60/month? Where are their rights? Are they not humans?

Does Hun Sen know all about these? Yes, he does. If he knew all about his generals having affairs with karaoke girls, so he knows everything, but he just simply ignores it. He simply doesn't care, because he is now living in a life that he once could never dreamed of as Prime Minister. His world is now higher in the sky, surrounded by thousands of bodyguards and hundreds of spin and twisted advisers that make him so blind and distant himself from reality. His ego is so high that he felt that nothing could bring him down. He simply becomes an untouchable.

Ironically, his world is now so dissolute, which is far away from where he came from, when he once used to be a pagoda boy. He forgot that he once used to live off the left over food, eaten by the monks.

Empathy, morality and ethical thinking are not in his mind. Does he feel that those young teenagers, who were killed, were real humans? They were real just like his beloved daughters or his beloved sons. Does he feel sad about them? Certainly not, But yes, if someone had touched his family, he would be very mad.

Hun Sen is a man who has no morality or conviction beyond his roof. He has no sense or sensibility or ethics. He doesn't know that all his powers, his millions of dollars in his accounts; his mansions; his beds that he sleeps in; his meals that he eat every day are made of fresh bones; fresh blood of ordinary Khmer people.

Our people have just come out of the dark chapter of their lives of cold war, of genocide regime, of foreign occupation, Hanoi. They have lost everything, not just members of their loved ones, but also their will to survive is also poor.

After all of those years of trauma, they are exhausted. They got no skills and on top of that the oxygen in which they breathe and their hope of survival is being taken away.

Those who committed crimes against her own people are simply traitors.

Those who live by the swords will die by the swords.

All my heart-felt condolences to all the  victims’ families. Your sadness is ours. May your soul rest in peace.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

It seems the person who sees such event and tries to link it to historical past is hoping for a destabilized Cambodia so they can see their political opponents go down. What these idiots don't realize is they are a modern day examples of how Cambodia became a self-destructing state.

You are no one's freaking hero, buddy. Just another scum that puts one's own political agenda and gain above the country's well-being.

Robin Hood mythological character steals from the rich and gives it to the poor. Tell me if your character isn't stealing from anyone and giving it all to yourself?

Anonymous said...

England's Robin Hood was stealing from the rich to give to the poor, where as Cambodia's Robber Hood (Hun Sen the robber) is now robbing from Cambodia's poor to give to the rich foreign businessmen. The bare hand poor people could not have destabilized Hun Sen's regime. Hun Sen has just invented his so-called "rebels" or "separatists" in order to crack down on oppositions or simply trying to intimidate the oppositions during the oppositions. Hun Sen want to invent his own destabilization, so he has reasons to not step down if he loses this commune election or national election in 2013. Remember he said he will step down if party won less than 60% in this election or next year's election.

A peasant uprising, similar to the Samlot Uprising could occur anytime due to the prevalent brutal or forced evictions that are occurring in Cambodia today. I hope not, but if it happened Hun Sen has only himself to blame, but don't blame that someone or some groups are trying to destabilize him.

Anonymous said...

I never heard about Samlot Massacre.

Anonymous said...

The birth of the Khmer Rouge was happend long before 1967. 1967 When Vietnam War was reaching the peek.

Anonymous said...

I never heard Sihanouk had ordered the police forces to kill and arrest people in Battambang in 1967. Actuaclly, the birth of the Khmer Rouge was happend at the border with Vietnam. Battambang is border with Thailand. I'm not sure about his facts.

Anonymous said...

The guy is making up the whole story. It never happend in Battambang. Battambang was used to be a very larg province which has border with Thailand. I never heard about Samlot people or Samlot Massacre what-so-ever. Khmer Rouge fighters reached up to Battambang in later year. I believe in 1973 when we really noticed their influence and their ability. Battambong was the last province to surrend to the Khmer Rouge. Three days after Phnom Penh fall. Can people stop making up story?

Anonymous said...

it did happened.

Anonymous said...

doesn't matter if it happen or not but a revolution/reveng is very much possible.

Anonymous said...

Samlaut Uprising happened. Many people and soldiers were killed, houses were burned down and many villagers fled to Phnom Veay Chap and started to join the Khmer Rouge who set up their bases there earlier. The Khmer Rouge were actually formed earlier, but they were not well-organized yet. Pol Pot, Ieng Sary and Son Sen fled Cambodia into the forests in 1963 to form the Khmer Rouge movement after fearing for their lives. Afterward, Khieu Samphan, Hou Youn and Hu Nim fled in 1967 after Sihanouk accused them of inciting the villagers in Samlaut to rise up and revolted against the government. So, in effect, the Samlaut uprising can be said as the birth of the Khmer Rouge.

But, the Khmer Rouge will be nothing if it wasn't for the 1970 coup and without Sihanouk. The 1970 coup and the Sihanouk were the drawcards and the magnets that gave strength to the KR movement, but the Vietcong were the ones that really defeated the Lon Nol army. Read below if you want to know about the Samlaut Uprising:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samlaut_Uprising

Anonymous said...

it does matter if half of your family been clubed to death. it is the single event in our dark history that brought about the horror that was year Zero and the Angka. It is not that long ago...oh god help us Khmer, in just less than half of a generation and the people have already forgotten.......if hell exists, it was in Cambodia during the KR era, in the late 70s. Even dogs in the West had a better life than the khmer people during that dark period. Thanks to the RSCPA but we as Khmer were not as lucky.