OUDAM.COM

Hi Everyone,

We’re launching a campaign to raise public awareness about the current standoff between Cambodia and Thailand involving Preah Vihear and to protest Thailand’s aggression on Khmer sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Please visit the following URL to join the group if you have not already.

http://www.khmercity.net/group/khmer

I invite everyone to join the group and participate in the group discussions.

Since this is a group effort, my role in this campaign is simply to gauge public opinion, moderate group discussions, and provide technical and marketing expertise to build public support for the initiative.

Thanks for your kind consideration!

Oudam

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Oudam’s Comments:

Granted, this video takes a one-sided and simplistic view at Indochinese history and itself borders on racism. There is no way that red-blooded Khmer people are going to rally around the expansionist aspirations of Ho Chi Minh. He may be a hero to some Vietnamese. He’s not our hero.

The video does, however, make the point that as pawns in the game of chess played by much more powerful external forces, much of our history was beyond our control.

Perhaps the best way to understand the Cambodian tragedy is to liken our country to ant mound lying in the path of warring elephants. When the giant elephants fight, it’s the tiny ants that bear most of the destruction. No matter which way the ants run to try to avoid the conflict, they may get crushed anyway because they are simply too small to cover much ground.

So, the most important lesson to take from the video is not to hate the “white devils” for what they had done to us, but to understand the pettiness of our internal conflicts and to work together toward greater Khmer unity, strength, reconciliation, sovereignty and prosperity.

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