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2003-02-02 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-02-02 11:14 am|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good point Joe, but even more frightening is that it could stir the Cambodians to the point of rioting. I had hoped that, outside of Pakland, Nigeria, and other Islamic nutlands, that most were more societally progressed than that. It's enough to make me (more) cynical

Posted by Frank G 2/2/2003 4:38:48 PM|| 2/2/2003 4:38:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 A colonel in the Royal Thai Army is one of the moderators of another message board that I frequent. She explained that the rumor that started this chain of events started with a line (delivered by the actress in question, who did not in fact say any such thing offstage) in a Thai historical epic released two or three years ago. This movie, in turn, was based on the events surrounding the war between the Khmer Empire and the Thai kingdoms of Ayutthaya and Sukhothai in the 14th century. It seems that the consort of the Thai king at the time, Rama Thibodi, advised him that in order to force an end to the war with the Khmers, Angkor Wat (at that time the Khmer capital) should be taken and occupied until the Khmers cried uncle. This was done in 1369, the Khmers threw in the towel, and the Thais withdrew and went home. So, what was at issue here was that scene from the movie reproducing that conversation, and the lines that actress was speaking.

I have to say that I find this kind of suspicious. Why would somebody recycle some lines from a three-year-old movie to make it look like the actress who spoke them was in fact calling for Thai conquest of Angkor? Could it be that somebody was trying to stir up fresh trouble between Cambodia and Thailand, which have been, as we have seen, at loggerheads and often literally at sword's point for centuries?

Posted by Joe 2003-02-02 15:23:11|| 2003-02-02 15:23:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Good point Joe, but even more frightening is that it could stir the Cambodians to the point of rioting. I had hoped that, outside of Pakland, Nigeria, and other Islamic nutlands, that most were more societally progressed than that. It's enough to make me (more) cynical

Posted by Frank G 2003-02-02 16:38:48|| 2003-02-02 16:38:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Were you to review the resume of Hun Sen, the leader of Campuchea you would not find this crass manipulation too far fetched. Once a KR always a KR.

Posted by Condor 7 2003-02-02 19:58:01|| 2003-02-02 19:58:01|| Front Page Top

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