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Sunday 20 December 2009

Khmer Riche [The rich children of the Khmer elites]

By Andrew Marshall
The Good Weekend Magazine
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia



Read this article in a text format here.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

They are the leeches of the Cambodian society. They sucked the blood of the Cambodian people. They got rich not because they work hard, but because they steal from the Cambodian nation and the Cambodian poor. Their salary is not much, how can they afford a $500,000 car and a house more grand than the White House?

Anonymous said...

exactly what we khmers need. more rich khmers. but hopely they stay in srok khmer and create jobs. i'm sure the poors can not create jobs or make srok khmer better in the future. its these kind of people that can help or destroy srok khmer. the more rich khmers the better.

Anonymous said...

This is what Cambodia does not need. These children of the elites are getting rich because their parents have stolen the from Cambodian nation and the poor Cambodians.

Cambodia and the poor Cambodians will survive better if these corrupt officials and leaders did not steal through their corruption.

In the future, if these kids follow their parents' footsteps by committing corruption on a grand scale like their parents, Cambodia and the Cambodian people will be poorer forever.

The salary of an army general like Gen. Meas Sophea and a salary of a member of parliament is around less than $2000 a month. How can Gen. Meas Sophea afford this grand mansion and able to give his son and daughter more than half a million dollars each to spend as they want?

Anonymous said...

R u stupid are what 1009 . Do you want every Khmer to be poor or what. Like they say ,if you act fast you get rich and if you slow you eat dirt. I think every leaders deserve some pie especially from year zero. I use to believe like you but since I have kids and know more things and care for srok Khmer Future more . Now I start to look up to this kind of people that make quick decisions to make alots of money.why are so against these rich people????

Anonymous said...

No body is against rich people. We are against corrupt people and thieves like Hun sen, Gen. Meas Sophea Sok And etc, who stole from the Cambodian nation. If they get rich because they work hard and earn their money through legitimate business I will congratulate them.

8:25 PM, You must be one of them or of of their children that's you have already learned to be corrupt like them. You have a very corrupt mind already.

These people stole from the Cambodian nation and the poor Khmers. They didn't work hard to get this rich.

Anonymous said...

The argument is not about we need these rich kids or not, but about how and where they got the money from because it's the sources of their money that creates current problems of poverty and social ills in Cambodia.
It does not matter if these kids stay in Srok Khmer and create jobs. If they continue to hold such behaviors and support corrupt practices of their parents and cronies, we're gonna see the problems getting more severe.

So young rich kids, earn yourselves credits and respect (not only among the locals, but also internationally)for doing good for the mass and the country. After all it's your people and your country, isn't it? Do you care? I do!

Anonymous said...

Oh, Mister Hunsenist or sok anist ,robb money from country, sell land without any permission to youn,china or singapour people.
One day will come, like Pol Pot, die like a dog.

Who are against rich people, but this kind of rich is come from corupption from country .
Shame to say that this ? a little brain .

Anonymous said...

they did get rich thru businesses. that is what some of them said on an article. we should not discourage them not to be ruthless when it come to khmers making money. we khmers need more rich people even tho thru little corruptions and at the same time move srok khmer to the future. it is not that they take the money and run to other country and built a mansions there. these were all happen in srok khmer. am sure these riches people aren't stupid enough not to help srok khmer in the futures.

Anonymous said...

one day after the generation of corrupted government have died, their children will be worthless to the society, their properties will be reposessed and violated by another corrupted govenment. since those rich kids are spoiles and poor educated. for that reason why the corrupted governement sent their children to usa, new zeland in hope they've sent them to a safehaven before their fortune melt down like a rushed iron and their children turn from a wealthy pple to a homeless.

Anonymous said...

Not all are going or willing to be that stupid to eat dirt. We only need 1 off 5 of good kids but if we have only 2 rich kids then we srok Khmer are screwed aren't we? I don't think 439 is Khmer.Real Khmer don't use the term leeches against Khmer. It's reserved term to yuon only.!!!

Anonymous said...

23 December 2009 6:18 AM, getting rich through corruptions is an obstacle to moving cambodia forward. the money that these people stole can be used to develop the country for the whole people, not for individual corrupt few.

these rich people hordes that money in foreign banks and foreign countries. most of mr. hun sen's., sok an's and other corrupt officials' money are hidden in foreign banks somewhere in switzerland or singapore, not used to develop cambodia.

they can be ruthless in making their money as long as they don't steal from the cambodian nation or earn their money in a way that impede the development of cambodia like through corrupt land concessions or illegal logging and land-grabbing etc.