A pagoda of the Khmer community in Mekong Delta's Soc Trang provinceMonday, September 18, 2006
Vietnam gov’t urges improved living for Khmer people
Thanh Nien News (Vietnam)
Vietnamese deputy premier Nguyen Sinh Hung has told the southern provinces to focus on offering better living conditions for the Khmer ethnic minority community Sunday in Can Tho city.
Hung was speaking at a meeting held in the Mekong Delta city to review the 15 years of implementing the (Communist) Party Secretariat’s instructions on dealing with the Khmer people in the southern region.
Hung stressed the local authorities should concentrate on solving matters related to accommodations, land, and water supply to the Khmer families, located mostly in remote areas and faced many difficulties.
He also told the localities to help Khmer people promote farming production and fish raising to improve living conditions and contribute to developing the Mekong Delta into a focal economic region in Vietnam.
Bui Quang Huy, deputy head of the Mekong Delta Steering Committee, said since 2001 the Mekong Delta provinces had spent more than VND1 trillion (US$62.4 million) building infrastructure in Khmer residential areas.
The localities have also supported more than 60,000 Khmer people to build houses and provided VND150 billion ($9.35 million) in loans for farming production to over 100,000 Khmer households.
The assistance helped reduce the number of poor Khmer households from 35.66 percent in 2001 to 28.1 percent in 2004, according to the Mekong Delta Steering Committee.
There are now 1.2 million Khmer people living in the Mekong Delta, making up 6.9 percent of the regional population.
Source: Nguoi Lao Dong, Sai Gon Giai Phong – Translated by Thu Thuy
Hung was speaking at a meeting held in the Mekong Delta city to review the 15 years of implementing the (Communist) Party Secretariat’s instructions on dealing with the Khmer people in the southern region.
Hung stressed the local authorities should concentrate on solving matters related to accommodations, land, and water supply to the Khmer families, located mostly in remote areas and faced many difficulties.
He also told the localities to help Khmer people promote farming production and fish raising to improve living conditions and contribute to developing the Mekong Delta into a focal economic region in Vietnam.
Bui Quang Huy, deputy head of the Mekong Delta Steering Committee, said since 2001 the Mekong Delta provinces had spent more than VND1 trillion (US$62.4 million) building infrastructure in Khmer residential areas.
The localities have also supported more than 60,000 Khmer people to build houses and provided VND150 billion ($9.35 million) in loans for farming production to over 100,000 Khmer households.
The assistance helped reduce the number of poor Khmer households from 35.66 percent in 2001 to 28.1 percent in 2004, according to the Mekong Delta Steering Committee.
There are now 1.2 million Khmer people living in the Mekong Delta, making up 6.9 percent of the regional population.
Source: Nguoi Lao Dong, Sai Gon Giai Phong – Translated by Thu Thuy
4 comments:
Having killed off the Khmer Krom Movement in Vietnam, and successfully pressured its puppet government in Cambodia to do the same, the remaining Khmer Krom people should be in a manageable number in their ancestral lands to receive some scraps of Vietnam's riches.
I personally think what the Vietcong had done are too late or too little! For years the Khmer Krom suffered at the hand of the Vietcong! If these Vietcong think that they can improve the living condition of the Khmer and they need to encourage the million and million of illegal Viet population living in Cambodia back to Vietnam!
Now that Vietnam are better off than Cambodia and they need to reabsorb their own people back into Vietname!
Communist killed 2 miilions Cambodian. Communist destroyed Khmers lives in Kampuchea Khrom and there is no amount of money that Communists can ever repay back those precious lives and idennity of our own people. We need to tell them to shuff those money in their ... and leave South Vietman! Give back Kampuchea Krom to us Khmers and give back now!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I READ KHMER-KROM HISTORY and my blood boils. But I had to restrain mysefl for non-violence course.
http://khmerkrom.org/eng/?q=node/28
Since when did Khmer Krom become ethnic minority? Khmer Krom are the indegenous people living in their ancestrial land (current South Vietnam). The total number of Khmer Krom people there are at least 8000,000 living in 21 provinces and 2 islands, with 500 more temples. In some provances there are 90% of total population are Khmer people (eg; Preah Tapeang (Tra Vinh), Khleang (Soc Trung).etc...
Whenever there are pressure from international communities and active Khmer Krom organisations abroads, Vietname would put on the make up show of loving and caring for the Khmer Krom people. If they really are loving and caring for the Khmer Krom people, they should let them practice their Buddhism in their own way, let them learn the Khmer language at schools.
For 1000s of students Vietnam government sent to schoolarships abroads, not one Khmer Krom student was selected. Not that the Khmer Krom are not bright enough, but they are being systematically suppressed and bounded to farm rice/pigs/fish to feed the general Vietnamese population.
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