20 April 2011
By Hassan
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Soch for KI-Media
Click here to read the original article in Khmer
A number of overseas Cambodian intellectuals researched and wrote that Cambodian is a race that is on the verge of extinction.
They based their claims on a number of facts, but nobody dare to speak directly due to a number of factors that could affect them personally.
What do these Cambodian-American intellectuals base their facts on? From Washington DC, Hassan is providing a short report on an article prepared by a former US university professor that will be presented at a meeting in France next month.
What former Economic professor Tith Naranhkiri writes for his seminar in France to be held in May 2011, some Cambodians may think that he wrote without knowing Cambodia too well, either that or he was writing in order to scorn his own race. In fact Dr. Tith’s writing reflects that he is a Cambodian who studied and now lives overseas, and it also shows his concerns for the future of the Cambodian people, a race that is inferior to their neighbors for a long period of time. Dr. Tith Naranhkiri used to teach at John Hopkins University and he used to work for the IMF in Washington DC, USA.
Cambodians do not understand the Viet strategy and they have many internal conflicts
Dr. Tith Naranhkiri raised a number of issues showing why Cambodia remained under the inevitable influence of Vietnam. These include the fact that Cambodians do not look deeply into the Vietnamese strategy: Vietnam maintains order and rule, Vietnam knows how to organize the ruling institution, and it also holds a long vision into the future, etc… As for the Cambodians, they have a lot of internal enemies, their society is weak and they can never respond quick enough to any change.
Furthermore, he said that there is also the issue of the king who assumes a very heavy and dangerous burden for the dictatorial regime – a regime that irresponsible, that is immoral, that is selfish, a regime whose leaders only think about their own interest. The Cambodian administration is filled with high ranking officials at the top, but it lacks middle men below them. The law and justice are unclear and high ranking officials can say whatever they want as long as they do not get involved in lese-majesty. Cambodia’s borders with neighboring countries are not well delimited. Officials’ promotion is not done based on merit and knowledge, but it is rather done through family and clan ties, through praises heaped on higher ranking officials. These are all traits that the Vietnamese do not follow, quite contrary to their Cambodians counterpart.
Barbaric and not advanced
Dr. Tith Naranhkiri quoted a Vietnamese author, Nguyen The Anh, who claimed that Cambodian is a race that is not very advanced, a race that is barbaric. Yang Bao Yun, a Chinese intellectual, and French author Jean de la Croix (known in Chinese as Joao da Cruz), wrote on the Vietnamese expansion, starting from the Annamite Nguyen dynasty in 1670. Based on these last two authors, Champa was the first kingdom that fell victim to this Viet expansion. Dr. Tith also brought up a number of examples involving the loss of [Cambodia’s] national sovereignty in subsequent years, and through them, he views that Cambodia is placed under the hidden yoke of the Vietnamese Imperialism and Communism with the tacit support of former hero-king Norodom Sihanouk and prime minister Hun Xen: first through the tight alliance between the ex-hero-king and North Vietnam, and second through the tight alliance between the hero-king and the Khmer Rouge, as well as the tight alliance between the ex-king and Hun Xen.
Dr. Tith Naranhkiri indicated that, since the day Vietnam invaded and occupied Cambodia in order to topple the Khmer Rouge regime, the Hanoi regime had taken all means to put into application its ethnicide or ethnocide policy, i.e. the elimination of a race through the destruction of its culture.
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