According to the historical dark ages of Cambodia, the historians interpreted the domination of Vietnam over Cambodia to mean Vietnam as "mother" and Cambodia as Vietnam's "child". Since the Vietnamese considered Cambodians as just "children", the Viets had every intention to change or challenge the Cambodian values or way of life. As a result, the Vietnamese viewed the Khmer people as barbarians to be civilized through exposure to Vietnamese culture, and they regarded the fertile Khmer lands as legitimate sites for colonization by settlers from Vietnam.
(Yuon) Lieutenant-General Phan Thach Van also calls Khmers "Ill-natured barbarians, ill-natured blood, Khmers have traits of stupidity, idiot, illogic. (Everything Yuons said was all but lying, everything Yuons have are nearly all the lootings. In fact, in front of the Farangse/Frenchmen, Yuon tried to be good in order to make the Frenchmen/Farangse hate Khmers but in secret places, Yuon walk as robbers, Yuon women became prostitutes are they all have ill-natured blood so!
From the Dark period to the Darkest Period, which all Cambodians were kept in a tiny pond of a frog as Khmer like to say, and from the vast land to have effaced on the World Map to become a very delicious sandwich on a silver plate being fiercely gulped up between the fugitives of Mongols, Siamese in the West, and the prisoners of Mongols, Yuonese in the East.
Until it fell prey to French imperialism in the eighteenth century, the Khmer empire had always been an independent state. Even in the devastating wars with Siam, the empire was never subjugated or annexed. Angkor fell several times, yet the King of Siam did not occupy it, but quickly withdrew with the spoils of war to the Menam river region. More than precious works of art with great aesthetic value, these spoil of war symbolized the privileged position that the Khmer empire enjoyed with the gods- the cult of the God King-and the occupied a revered place in the Siamese court. From the fifteenth century onwards, for thre hundred years, these spoil of wars changed hands several times, to the rhythms of victory and defeat of the Kingdoms and principalities of the region. In 1734, Burma defeated Siam and transferred such treasures to Mandalay, a political center in the northern Shan state, where they still resides today.
The Nguyen, who took over the territory, began a systematic advance by stages and soon brought almost all the former Cambodian territory under their control. They also built three military colonies beyond the Vietnamese frontiers, which were populated by retired soldiers and prisoners. Once a colony was well-established, it was then incorporated into the kingdom of Cochin China. Thus the frontiers of Cambodia, sandwiched as these were between the Nguyens and the Siamese, began to shrink swiftly and by mid 18th century, it had lost the lands of the Mekong Delta.
But the historical fear of Khmer leaders that their country would be swallowed up can scarcely have been acute than in April 1975. Thais and Vietnamese have always been trying so extremely hard to seal off Khmer National ID from outside world. In every book is being written by Siamese and Yuonese, always bullshitting to the world that there are only a few thousands of Khmers living on their land.
Cambodian people are so extremely kind, honest, trustworthy and friendly until their lands are getting smaller and smaller, are like a good sandwich, illegally and nicely eaten on the silver plate by Siamese and Yuonese everyday until today. And it's still happening today at Khmer-Siam and Yuon borders. Thais and Vietnamese always regarded themselves as civilized people in the South East Asia. But what sorts of civilized people are they? And the people in the outside world who still terribly misunderstood that Cambodia where there are full of killing fields, intimidations, and tortures...Yes, there are many killings, intimidations, tortures and environment destroyers, all but Vietnamese and Thais who are destroying everything Khmers had.
Look, around Tonle Sap, where there are at least one million illegal Vietnamese migrants who eat, sleep and shit into water. They completely are poisoning the water to kill all fish.
These armed men in here are NOT Thai soldiers stealing these peoples with little of what they have. And NO I do not agree with these few bad apples which I know existed. In general, they are OK. Yet, I have not seen any Khmer who said thanks to the Kingdom of Thailand for saving thier lives from Khmer Rouge .........
Charaht 3 years ago
Charaht, why don't you say thank you to the Khmer Rouge for protecting Thailand?
AhmekKhmer 3 years ago
I know my user name is Thai.But I am not Thai.I am white American who has spent time in Cambodia and Thailand.Now I have learned Thais think them selves superior to Khmers.Why is this? I don't get it.
thai1959 4 years ago
Thai elite gradually adopted the European model as the type of civilization most worthy of emulation. The rich sent their sons to be educated in England, Germany, and Russia; and the king recruited European expert advisers to help modernize the country.
AhmekKhmer 4 years ago