Wow its Christmas again. Cannot believe that this year flew past so fast. Everyone are gearing up for Christmas and trees are up and decorations in town is shining their lights and the Rossouw’s tree is not even up yet, hahaha. Well Anton is here at least, so then everything can stand still. They do not get any days off over Christmas as in Malaysia it is not an official holiday. He went and asked if his classes are online and praise the Lord the lectors agreed to it and now he is here for the week. He is still attending online classes but that is nothing, according to him. It is a great time for him to be back in Cambodia, the place he loves so much. Off course we all sleep in one room now as we want the full experience of a full house again. There are some things culturally, from the Asians, we picked up over these years and that is that the whole family sleep in one room. We will have Christmas day with our family the Warrens here in Siem Reap. Looking forward to good food and great fellowship.
Not sure what you all hear about the war here in
Cambodia. This time it is serious as the Thai uses their F-16 to drop bombs
deep into Cambodia. Not a border dispute anymore but more of a destruction of
people’s property. Drones that shoot fire into the rice fields and all crops
lost is quite common. This leaves the people with nothing. They are already
poor and then they lose everything and need to flee the danger areas as well. They
say that this refugee crisis is the biggest since Pol Pot’s invasion.
We see that this is a political war and at this moment
the Thai people are playing with Cambodia. They got such a big army force with
Fighter jets as well as gun boats on the sea. Cambodia is totally over powered
by the Thai forces. I must say, these
Khmer soldiers are a tuff bunch when it comes to defending their country. With
barely any weaponry they stand up against a monster. The war is now in its 3rd
week and we hope there will be peace once more. Today marks another round of
peace talks and we are all ears what they say. Pray with us for peace. I
include some reading about the war if you are interested, on a separate document.
We wish you all a wonderful and Happy Christmas. May
the Lord be a beacon of light to you all in this time .
Love
Rossouw-clan
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