This has always intrigued me, the supposed contempt Khmers have for their Vietnamese neighbours, given the fact they were liberated by them.
Coincidentally an article Is Anti Vietnamese Sentiment On The Decline In Cambodia from SEA Globe.
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Post by kinard » Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:19 pm
This has always intrigued me, the supposed contempt Khmers have for their Vietnamese neighbours, given the fact they were liberated by them.
Post by Lucky Lucan » Fri Jan 08, 2021 6:25 pm
The delivery guy kept crashing it and eventually wrecked it.YaTingPom wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:19 amHow was it written off if he never drove it?Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:28 amI thought so too. My dad had a van like that around 1981, he never drove it - it was just for a business. Quite expensive at the time like 20,000 quid or something and was written-off within 18 months.
I used to drive one for work (later model, 2002?). Unbreakable.
Post by Lucky Lucan » Fri Jan 08, 2021 6:36 pm
The animosity goes back centuries. The Vietnamese occupation in the 1840s was remembered as a particularly low point in Khmer history. In the late 1940s and early 50s there were many massacres by both Khmers and Viets in the border areas.kinard wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:19 pmThis has always intrigued me, the supposed contempt Khmers have for their Vietnamese neighbours, given the fact they were liberated by them.
Coincidentally an article Is Anti Vietnamese Sentiment On The Decline In Cambodia from SEA Globe.
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Post by YaTingPom » Fri Jan 08, 2021 7:47 pm
Not supposed. Fact, even for young (under 30) Cambodians.kinard wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:19 pmThis has always intrigued me, the supposed contempt Khmers have for their Vietnamese neighbours, given the fact they were liberated by them.
Coincidentally an article Is Anti Vietnamese Sentiment On The Decline In Cambodia from SEA Globe.
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Post by Kimbo » Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:29 am
Shortly after the fall of the Khmer rouge the new authorities pulped the remaining books when there was a desperate need for paper.Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:34 amNobody thinks that because most of the books weren't destroyed other than a few on the ground floor.Kimbo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:48 pmMost people also think the KR destroyed the books in the national library but in fact it was the Heng samrin government that pulped the books.
Post by Lucky Lucan » Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:09 pm
Post by Kimbo » Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:43 pm
Page 284Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:09 pmNot saying you're wrong, but I can't find any reference to that, it does say on page 151 that the National Library and National Archives were barely touched during the Pol Pot regime and that on Milton Osbourne's visit in 1981 he found the archives mostly intact.
Henry Kamm in "Cambodia - Report from a Stricken Land" mentions visiting the library in 1979 and meeting Youk Kun who worked there rearranging the few books the Khmer Rouge had left, so there seem to be conflicting reports.
Post by Lucky Lucan » Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:05 pm
Post by Kimbo » Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:16 pm
I thought the same thing sir.Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:05 pmWell that explains the dismal collection of books I saw last time I was there, maybe 15 years ago.
Post by Lucky Lucan » Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:06 pm
The Vietnamese certainly did not help to foster confidence. In the three months following the occupation of Phnom Penh they had systematically plundered the capital. Convoys of trucks carrying refrigerators, air conditioners, electrical gadgets, furniture, machinery and precious sculpture headed towards Ho Chi Minh City. All these had been left behind by a population brutally evicted from the city in 1975 and had gone untouched by the Khmer Rouge rulers, who loathed these artifacts of bourgeois decadence. That booty from Phnom Penh might have brought some money to Hanoi's coffers, but it left a deep scar in the Khmer psyche; it reinforced prejudices against the detested yuon. I t would also remain a large blot on the Vietnamese role as "savior" of Cambodia.