Wednesday 28 January 2009

Khmai twer baap Khmai

Translates as: Khmer treat each other with violence and evil. The
inference is that Khmer are somehow broken as a people and are the
only ones who do despicable things to their own people.

While it's true that some Khmer do treat other Khmer horribly, it is a
lie that this is the case only of Khmer.

I have heard this saying repeated over and over by the former
residents of Dey Krahom. And each time my response is: this is true of
all people, it is the way people treat each other, and the point is
that evil, and good, is a choice. We can choose the road to peace or
the road to violence. And its not just a choice for Khmer to make, but
Australian, American, Nepali, and every other nationality and
ethnicity.

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