Wow, shocking news. Very shocking... I'm all the way over here but I can feel the sense of shock from people in Cambodia because when I was online yesterday these are the two things our friends told me about. They make major, major headlines. Our government is in deep grief for the loss of our chief of police and I'm sure some of us feel sorry for him, too. Let's see who's going to be replaced by his position. Net Savern? Only time will show.
Now, on the topic of DJ Ano's persecution, let me take a good few seconds to just say, whao.... :-/ I was so sad when I heard about it; I think maybe a little bit outraged, too. Seriously, that was the most horrible and terrifying thing ever to do to a human by a human. As Buddhists ourselves and to think that some high-rank official's wife did that was obnoxious, at least to me. I don't know much about the affair between the who-knows-who official and Ano, but no matter what happened, to chip someone's body head to toe with a razor 83 times and also shave her head is extraordinarily cruel and inhumane. It's just wrong, and I feel so much anger toward that because we can never do anything to whoever behind any crime in our proclaimed democratic Kingdom of Cambodia.
Piseth Pilika, Touch Sunnix, Tat Marina, Pov Panhapech - to name just a few - have been through this all. Yet till these days no one has been caught or sentenced to jail because of their crimes. I sometimes wonder why Samdech Hun Sen, who has a major role in governing our country - I suppose - never said a word in any of these incidents. But then I laid back and had a second thought about this. If we just bring up the shooting of Piseth Pilika in 1999 then it's pretty clear that why in the world our prime minister would want to say anything about these cases. With the evidence collected by Piseth Pilika's family and publicized by L'Express, a famous French magazine, enough has been said. To add the grenade attack in front of the National Assembly in 1997, that would make the argument even more solid.
Oh, well. I believe in karma and reincarnation - at least my family and our society have taught me to believe so - and I think what goes around comes around. The process of coming back around might not be here anytime soon but I think it will happen, and until that day we will see that being bad richly deserves sufferings and consequences.
Written by Sereyvicheth Kaing