Umbrella Revolution_or_The Umbrella War of 1942

Umbrella Revolution_or_The Umbrella War of 1942 

 After the French arrested Acha Hem Chieu and Nuon Duong on July 20, 1942, Son Ngoc Thanh, along with Pach Chhen, Bun Chanmol, Pang Khat and Khieu Chum, led hundreds of people. Hundreds of monks and nuns marched through Phnom Penh to demand their release. Son Ngoc Thanh is a Japanese military liaison. Son Ngoc Thanh told all protesters to join the demonstration peacefully and to be patient, even if they were beaten by the French, because the Japanese could help find the culprits if the protesters did not use violence. On the day of the demonstration, the monks came from all the pagodas near and far to gather at one of Wat Lanka, one of Wat Ounalom, and then marched in a procession to the French Residence west of Wat Phnom in an orderly manner. In front of the procession, there is a banner that reads: “Let Achar Hem Chieu and Mr. Nuon Duong be released and have a word of congratulations! Buddhism! And so on. Pach Chhen led the crowd. When they arrived at the French embassy, ​​they refused to open the consultation, and there was a mutual push. Protesters push French police forward, French police push back. Pach Chheun, who had fallen into the trap, was dragged away by the French. That caused the protesters outside to shout, "They have arrested us again, it is not negotiating with us, we have to go in and help liberate each other." At that time, there were more and more clashes, with the French side with sticks, the protesters with small children and the monks with umbrellas almost all of them fighting and running around. As the demonstration turned into anarchy and unplanned violence, the Japanese army did not dare to intervene. As hundreds of monks used umbrellas as weapons against French soldiers, the demonstration was called "Acha Hem Chieu" and "Nuon Duong". The demonstration was the first large demonstration of the Cambodian people, which failed because the demonstrators had never had such an experience. Not only could not Ary Hem Chieu and Nuon Duong be freed, but many of the leaders of the protesters were arrested by the French, such as Mr. Pach Chhen, then Mr. Pon Chanmol, monk Pang Khat. Etc. and then sent to meet at Koh Tralach Prison. Son Ngoc Thanh fled to Bangkok and then to Japan for a while. The younger generation did not know about this painful umbrella war on August 13, 1943 France forced the Khmer people to change the Khmer script into Latin letters like the Vietnamese script today ... If the Khmer people did not fight then, the Khmer children today will never know their own script, enough Khmer children who like to write in Khmer accent As a Latin, it has a patriotic spirit, in which each character is likened to the soul of an ancestor, in which the blood of the great Khmer ancestor is buried in a character that Thais call "Aksa Tep" because the Khmer alphabet is "Tep". The tone of every language of the Thai language in the world does not sound like Khmer because they copy Khmer). Thailand has tried to spy on the Thai alphabet, but it does not have the same power as the Khmer alphabet, Thailand values ​​the Khmer alphabet as the alphabet, what about the Khmer children? Is it very difficult to write? Is it harder than the pain of the great Khmer ancestors who took the life of fresh blood and struggled to keep this Khmer script? Is it harder for you to try to make Cambodians use Unicode? ... Do not want life too easily if you do not want to suffer later _ Suffer before tired, happy after, do not be happy before suffering!