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Thursday 19 June 2014

Hanoi's impossible claims






Note by School of Vice


The Hanoi government employs around 1000 "opinion shapers" to attack, harass opposing views, and defend the status quo approved by it.

It would not surprise me in the least if the author of this curious piece is also among these vocal instruments of Hanoi, and benefits in some way from spreading this kind of misinformation.

It is beyond me that anyone could claim that a nation that had had to wipe another smaller nation [Champa] off the face of the earth completely before it could even go on to swallow up a large portion of another nation's territory [Cambodia's Kampuchea Krom/Mekong Delta] has any legitimate historical claim over an island [Koh Tral in Khmer, but re-named Phu Qoc in Vietnamese], locating just a few kilometers off the Cambodian resort of Kep.

The succession of names given to HCM City [Prey Nokor, as it has always been known to the Khmer people long before it became known as Saigon] alone should give one an indication of the historical timeline, and/of the roots of human habitation/occupation of these locations.

The Vietnamese are undoubtedly weary of their ill gotten territorial gains in recent past, and their determination to maintain a pro-Hanoi administration in Phnom Penh, the unprecedented access to and exploitation of Cambodia's land and natural assets of various kinds through 99 years land concessions or leases, not to mention the kidnapping of a prominent Khmer geographer, the assassinations and imprisonments of scores of Khmer activists and political leaders etc. are all hints of Hanoi's less than honorable intentions towards Vietnam's unhappy neighbours and its insatiable appetite for more and more of what it covets, and is able to acquire, by means of violence, intrigue, subversion, lies, deceptions and, indeed, concoction of facts and history - as mirrored in this curious, or amusing even, but otherwise specious and morally reprehensible instance of tendentious rewriting and construction.

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