Note by School of Vice
No one has the right to amputate national sovereignty in any
deal with any foreign power without due transparency, democratic consultations
or processes.
It is this kind of national betrayal and reckless treasonous
acts committed in the past that had been the causes of so much agony and
bloodshed over the last four decades. The irony is that the very individuals
who decry and warn against 'extremism', 'radicalism', 'ultra-nationalism', ‘xenophobia’,
violent civil-war and the like are most likely to be the very people today
either lending their support to, or actively sowing the seeds for these
'ominous' reactive movements and extremism.
Why is it so hard for some to accept that as neighbours we
should thrive to live peacefully side by side, that we have limitless scope and
potential in helping one another to overcome our mutual short-comings and needs
without consciously violating or transgressing one another's sacred rights and
dignity, which is what this national sovereignty issue is about? What kind of
relationship is Hanoi cultivating between itself and the Khmer people through
its ever compliant hand-picked counterparts in Phnom Penh - men like Hun Sen
and many others who owe their political existence and unheard of material
wealth to Vietnam's patronage; who keep recalling in gratitude the gracious
hospitality they had received from their Vietnamese hosts during their exile in
Vietnam? Are what we are seeing or have been witnessing before us instances of
Vietnam's "impeccable moral character" as claimed by these CPP
stalwarts, or are they indisputable telling signs and proofs of something else
of quite the reverse nature?
In any case, the weaknesses and or failings of Cambodia's
own policy-makers and traitors alone cannot account for all of this one-sided
dealing or contractual arrangement. The party who knowingly impinges upon the
rights and sovereignty of 'the other party' despite or because of the latter's
circumstantial impediments, physical handicaps or simply plain stupidity is
just as in the wrong in this case and therefore as answerable for all the
concrete outcomes and calamities that emanate, or are destined to materialise
at some point in time in the history to be made. This weight of culpability and
guilt would appear to gravitate to the party that have through deliberate
deception or dishonesty and, driven by sole self-interest, had groomed the
other party or misled that party into this unwholesome contractual obligation
from ‘the start’ - that would be the moment Vietnamese settlers and soldiers
walked into territories that had then been part of Cambodian territory and
jurisdiction.
2 comments:
Very sad,unbelievable that Cpp regime did not respect the souls of the Khmer's patriotism whose fought lost their lives defend mother's land, integrity and sovereignty of our nation[Cambuja] Yuon always be on the top of Khmer in any generations,except Ankorian era!...
It make me cry to see all this happen in my life time because of Fucking dumb gratitude of the dumbes-Ass Khmer's leaders like Huncent or Heng Samrin,Svar Kim Hoang,if you don't sign Yuon can not do shit to your land,if Yuon try to force Khmers out of their land it is against International's laws,Yuon will can't do that.
SOV,
A great and well-argued article. Write some more.
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