By: Voice from Cambodians
Phnom Penh: The relationship between Cambodia and Vietnam is like “One Thousand and One Nights” folk tales, and if we talk about the history of Cambodia, it is more painful than what can be accepted.
There is a nation in a neighboring country, a nation that is greedy and knowledgeable, but immorality has made Cambodia suffer, continue to suffer and endless insults.
History is not able to go back, it does not flow back like the Tonle Sap, which flows in during the high-water season and flows out during the low water season.
First message
This is the first message from Samdech Techo Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of Cambodia, who reacted strongly to General Hoang Xuan Chien, Deputy Minister of National Defense of Vietnam, at the inauguration ceremony of National Road 11, December 6.
PM’s reaction to the general came after he accused Cambodia at a conference on fighting diseases across the Vietnamese-Cambodian border, saying that if Vietnamese people were not cautious enough, Covid-19 virus in Cambodia would spread into Vietnam like flooding from the Mekong River.
“I slept thinking and thinking why this general said this.” “I asked the Vietnamese Prime Minister to demote this general, but he was promoted to Lieutenant General and now he becomes a Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defense,” he said.
“Now there is time to apologize, I just tell you,” PM continued.
PM continued that the statement of General Hoang Xuan Chien is unacceptable, which requires him to come out and fight back to protect the honor of the country and the people of Cambodia from this contempt.
He added that he singled out only General Xuan Chien for expressing the baseless speech and that he did not blame the Vietnamese government or Communist Party of Vietnam over the remarks.
“Do not confuse my words, not to criticize the whole of Vietnam, but to criticize only General Hoang Xuan Chien. PM said, ‘Cambodia is small, but not a source of infectious diseases “to Vietnam, Thailand or Laos.”
“Today I am speaking to show the pride of Cambodia,” PM added.
Lack of professional ethics in the Press
After General Hoang Xuan Chien’s remarks were widely reported by Vietnamese newspapers, without considering the words of a person who spoke for profit, but forgetting ethics as a leader.
Not only this issue, but the media of this neighboring country of Cambodia and many other media organizations in the world have regularly slandered Cambodia, even though they know they are writing unethical. But they still write emotionally and deviate from the basics of ethics in a career that should be judged instinctively and devoid of values as human beings.
The spirit of the Cambodian nation
In recent history, no need to recall hundreds of years ago, but only the last 100 years, history has recorded many stories of Vietnam invading Cambodia and many inhumane acts against this nation. Contrary to the kindness of the Cambodian nation, which always adheres to the ethics, truth and values of its neighbors.
Former King Norodom Sihanouk had helped Vietnam to use its territory through the Ho Chi Minh Trail and through many other aids. Without Cambodia making such concessions, North and South Vietnam would not be able to unite.
This is just a small part of the concessions and kindness that Cambodia has for Vietnam, but as a nation that France considers the most diligent and smart in Indochina, it has never seen the value and gratitude of Cambodia.
Indochina swallowing intentions persist
The former Vietnamese leader’s Indochinese intension continues to live on in the hearts of the Vietnamese people and leaders who use all tactics to swallow Laos and Cambodia by sowing an ideology called “softening the bones to swallow the whole.” ” Taking Hinayana Buddhism to soften the Khmer and Lao mindset and swallow it one day.
The ideas and concepts that the former Vietnamese leader has been using and gradually integrating into Indochina. By the end of the 19th century, two neighboring countries of Cambodia had already drawn the Cambodian border, using the Mekong River as their borders.
The idea of swallowing up territory and invading a country is not the idea of civilization, and it is outdated for the 21st century because the world has been uniting as a common community such as the European Union and the ASEAN Community, which aim to strengthen and expand harmonization together as a noble and civilized nation.
General Hoang Xuan Chien should be promoted to President
During the conference on the fight against communicable diseases along the Cambodia-Vietnam borders, some irresponsible and insulting remarks were made by General Hoang Xuan Chien, but the Vietnamese military leaders promoted him from the border to Hanoi, to Lieutenant General and Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defense.
Whatever the reason, the promotion already means the Vietnamese leader values this elegant individual, but in a writer’s opinion, such a person should not have been promoted to Deputy Minister of National Defense but to “Vietnamese President” in 24 hours. This is what he deserves.
On behalf of the Cambodian people, the writer would like to send a Khmer most memorable saying to Mr. Hoang Xuan Chien that “your speech reveals your characters and personalities”.
