The Vietnamization of Cambodia

Silent Cultural and Racial Genocide Against the Khmer Race

After suffering from an unnameable crime perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge, a communist party that was brought to power by Hanoi and Beijing in April 1975, the Khmer race, as written by Prof. Naranhkiri Tith, is on the verge of extinction (read his article below).

This danger of extinction is a direct result of a very long and repeated process but never clearly and widely revealed or taught in today’s Cambodia.

So those who have taken and still take until today the lead of this process know perfectly what they want to do, but the majority of Cambodians are regrettably not well infformed about it. Due to this asymmetry of information / knowledge, some of Cambodian leaders from the past until the current days contribute intentionally or not intentionally to this tragic process of destruction.

After invading Cambodia on the 7^th of January 1979, Hanoi and the Phnom Penh regime celebrate every year this event as a so-called liberation just to remind Khmer people their “eternal debt of gratitude” toward Hanoi. This date clearly marked the final transformation of Cambodia into the “Indochinese Federation” under the tight control of Hanoi. This final transformation has enabled Hanoi to proceed in a very large scale to a vietnamization of Cambodia through political and demographic conquest. The Vietnamese settlers, politically encouraged by Hanoi, have reached a dramatic part, representing more almost 40% of the Cambodian total population. After this insidious strategy of political and demographic colonization, Hanoi implements openly a process of economic colonization of Cambodia. All sectors of the Cambodian economy are under tight control of Hanoi through the Vietnamese population in Cambodia. The Vietnamese communist leaders publicly announce that trade exchanges with Cambodia are on the vibrant track to reach 2 billions US dollars and their direct investment mounted nearly 1 billion US dollars. This is just to purposedly show the international community that, after the so-called liberation of Cambodians in January 1979, Hanoi is contributing to the Cambodian development. That is a new political strategy of Hanoi.

All these statistics are just an embellishment on the paper. No Cambodian has really benefited the spillover effects from these supposedly trade exchanges and investment. In the contrary, they continue to suffer from the new form of crime that is the silent cultural genocide through political “man made” poverty and ignorance (read below the comments made by Sophie and Jean Claude Santerre). Because in real, the financial counterpart of the so-called export of Cambodian products to Hanoi reminds, as it was outlined by Prak Soeurn in her article “La Coopération Economique entre le Vietnam et le Cambodge” in the Revue d’Etude Politique, Conflits Actuels : Cambodge, Drames et Reconstruction, n° 20, 2007, unexplored topics. It is the same for the so-called Vietnamese direct investment. Is there a real entry of Vietnamese financial flows in Cambodia or just merely virtual statistics.

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