Cambodian: A race on the verge of extinction

Naranhkiri Tith

20 April 2011
By Hassan
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Soch
Click here to read the original article in Khmer

A number of overseas Cambodian intellectuals researched and wrote that Cambodian is a race that is on the verge of extinction.

They based their claims on a number of facts, but nobody dare to speak directly due to a number of factors that could affect them personally.

What do these Cambodian-American intellectuals base their facts on? From Washington DC, Hassan is providing a short report on an article prepared by a former US university professor that will be presented at a meeting in France next month.

What former Economic professor Tith Naranhkiri writes for his seminar in France to be held in May 2011, some Cambodians may think that he wrote without knowing Cambodia too well, either that or he was writing in order to scorn his own race. In fact Dr. Tith’s writing reflects that he is a Cambodian who studied and now lives overseas, and it also shows his concerns for the future of the Cambodian people, a race that is inferior to their neighbors for a long period of time. Dr. Tith Naranhkiri used to teach at John Hopkins University and he used to work for the IMF in Washington DC, USA.