PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) -- Cambodia will renew its annual Water Festival celebrations this November for the first time since 353 people were trampled to death or suffocated in a stampede on a bridge during the celebrations in 2010, a senior official said Wednesday.
"This year's Water Festival will be celebrated on Nov. 5, 6 and 7 after we have failed to hold it for a few years," Deputy Prime Minister and Royal Palace Minister Kong Sam Ol said during a preparatory meeting for the celebrations.
He asked all concerned ministries and the National Police to cooperate each other closely in order to run the festivities smoothly.
Water Festival is the largest annual festival in the Southeast Asian nation. Approximately 3 million Cambodians, especially those from rural areas, converge to Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, to enjoy the regatta.
The festival, which marks the Tonle Sap River's annual change of direction, has been canceled in the past three years due to floods in 2011 and 2013 and the death of King Father Norodom Sihanouk in 2012.
During the celebrations of the Water Festival in 2010, a stampede tragedy happened on Nov. 22 on a Diamond Island's bridge and killed 353 people. The investigation by the government's task force at that time found that the incident was caused by the panic which soon after led to the stampede.
6 comments:
Stampeding is an animal behavior. Why do Khmer folks have so many animal behaviors and thinking? You are the worst race in the world. Are you really humans at all?
-Drgunzet-
Every year, Vietnam conducted the Khmer water festivals in South Vietnam with no problem. In Cambodia, they only had it for a few times and they had a massive stampede.
If you want to be safe, you should ask the Vietnamese to rule and preside over the event for you. Vietnamese are superior and always get it right. Try to do it by yourselves, you will risk another stampede.
-Drgunzet-
To the Vietnamese poster named -Drgunzet-:
Where is your answer for your illegal Vietnamese gangsters who slit our innocent Khmer youth with a sharp sword,-Drgunzet-?
Don't be so hypocrite, flip-flopped and unreliable, Vietnamese cock sucker.
John
-Drgunzet- is also insulting his own stupid Vietnamese race because he representing his stupid Vietnamese gooks including Mike (a Yuon/Viet gook uses the Westerner name Mike making him looks like a stupid While-Vietnamese gook). Later, his Vietnamese gooks want to smash -Drgunzet-'s head because he has made his Vietnamese gooks so embarrassed.
Hate is one thing. Stupidity is not acceptable. I strongly ask my country men to stop saying Vietnam is behind the death of the water festival.
11 September 2014 4:46 pm is a real Yuon/Viet who killed Khmer people.
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