After 4 weeks of visit in Cambodia. The plane landed safely at Seatac Airport at 1:30PM ... The trip to Cambodia was the memorable in many respects, even though I made so many trips before.
It was hot very hot those April days, hotter that the average. The temps climb to over hundred degrees, drying up small rivers streams and ponds, killing fishes and aquatic life. The water supply is also badly affected.This is the year that drought hits Cambodia, but this one is the worse.
The political climate is also heightened with the government going after members of opposition and a NGO on a case of corruption that it is hard to explain.
For me it is a special occasion that my wife and me were having the opportunity the celebrate our traditional New Year at home with relatives and friends. We shared stories of how we escape from Cambodia on the 17 & 18 of April 41 years ago. It was sad ... love ones were losing ...
3 brothers and sister from America were also visiting and 4 cousins from France joined us in a memorable Family Reunion.
We wish and we hope that true Peace will prevail in Cambodia so there will be no more separation and no more refugees.
I hope that all politicians in Cambodia share the belief that, in the words of Martin Luther King Jr,,
"Peace is not merely the absence of conflicts but the presence of Justice." And we shall fight for true and genuine Peace for all time, "not the Peace of the graves or the security of the slaves" as the late President Kennedy put it. This is a difficult task, and it was too bad that he did not even a chance to complete his term, being assassinated ...
6 May is day in 1947, 69 years ago that the Kingdom of Cambodia under the reign of King Norodom Sihanouk promulgated the First Constitution making Cambodia a constitutional monarchy. It was a historic day, the birth of democracy of some sort. We should look and how Democracy in Cambodia evolve since then.
