Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge Leaders in a train
as i mentioned in my previous post last week about Trails From The East, a Tv program of Australia Network, this week is about the train in Cambodia.
the title of the documentary is a bit scary, does Cambodia is really a scare country? maybe it’s true for sometime in the past, but a lot of things changed … Cambodia is on its way to welcome tourists and give them various leisure and safety trip.
not yet for the railroad, but i heard the Australian company TOOL have been selected for the railroad rebuild between Phnom Penh-Poipet and Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville. more information available at Cambodge Soir,
today no more train but recently a concert and party have been organized to keep people not to forget about the train station that if you used to go to Lyon, you might see how similar style they could make between Gare de Phnom Penh and Gare de Lyon…
On June 5, the Elsewhere party has taking place, i didn’t have chance to join but you can catch up some photo at Asian Life Guide Cambodia
the Khmer-French local band Mekong Pirates, has started to chill up the place, woke up all the train station employees, the beggars, the homeless people who using station as their home right now … and the dead trains themselves.
not only the people that work and live at the station, many people: experts, local Khmers, and others baranges (white people) joined and supported the events at that night… it was a really good action to recall the intervention from the authority.
the Cambodian railroad got a lot of history, i used to see Pol Pot sitting in a train somewhere and i have contact Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-CAM), and got the reply quickly from Youk CHHANG and Sopheak SIM, thank a lot to them for the original photo
so hope you don’t miss the real documentary about the train in Cambodia tonight, here is the schedule details:
Australia Network TV
Cambodia – Country of Scars
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 at 19:00
Cambodia – Country of Scars
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 at 22:00
Cambodia – Country of Scars
Thursday, 18 June 2009 at 12:00
Related Reading:
Reunification Express, a long train journey from Hanoi to Saigon
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Cambodia: Thai troops still in country – The Associated Press
Mekong River Raises Cost of Trans-Asia Railway
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The title is more scary for the bad grammar than anything.
ha ha right, but i like it that way … to prove my english level LOL, thank maybe we should put scary country right? let me know and i will change it …
maybe now the title is much better i guess, thank for your comment and correction Chinaren, appreciate your help.
of course not.
i don’t think Cambodia is a scarier place than USA.
well comparison ! how la France?
In some aspects, yes it is scare.
dun think cambodia is a scary country for us khmer, but maybe for foreigners?
why foreigner need to be afraid or frighten when being in Cambodia.
In USA, i never been there, i heard many crimes, like a Korean man kill many students in a class. I don’t mean Cambodia is safer than US but i mean that US is no more safer than Cambodia.
Want to test? Hand thousand dollar in your hand and walk through the street in US or in Cambodia. I bet your head welcome bullet in either case.
How about French or Belgium? We know alot about pickpocket there.
Cambodia may not compete with Swiss or any other top country in safety, but not such bad as hell.
correct, thank to Vichet for the clear message,
Cambodia is not no longer as what you think,
It’s a nice country, nice people, nice places … it’s one of the place you should visit before you die.
I don’t know about today Cambodia, but thanks to Pol Pot it has a scary reputation all over the world. When people think about Cambodia the first thing that comes in their minds is the Khmer Rouge and the terrifying stories about them.
i have did some and i will continue to do my best to keep update about Cambodia
i want people to know Cambodia today, it’s no longer the same Cambodia as you read in the book or watch the killing field.
there is more than word inside me and everybody to condemn Pol Pot for his crazy politic.
until today i still don’t understand about this man.
we all worked very hard to get back Cambodia as today.
hope you will find out more about us.