12 May 2007By Kim Pov Sottan
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
The USA plans to send human rights activists to Kheang province (Soc Trang in Vietnamese), Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam), in the near future after it was reported that recent jail sentences were handed down to Khmer Krom monks.
Following his meeting with US Senate and the US Committee in charge of Human Rights, Thach Ngoc Thach, the leader of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF), said: “We met with the committee, it will send another delegation committee to Khleang province within 6 months, in order to meet with our monks and Khmer Krom people one more time, in order to obtain factual information on the sentence and the oppression perpetrated on Khmer Krom monks and population in Khleang province.”
The meeting was urgently set up following the 2 to 4-year jail sentences handed down by the Vietnamese authority in Khleang province on Khmer Krom monks on 10 May. Khmer Krom monks were demanding for their religious freedom.
Thach Ngoc Thach added that the US human rights office, and the US religious affair have supported the activities of Khmer Krom monks, and that KKF in the world is also pursuing this case with the European Union Parliament in order to obtain pressure on Vietnam.
On the same day, about 10 associations of Khmer Krom people in Cambodia have issued a joint statement condemning the Vietnamese authority and called on the international community to review this case.
Monk Yoeung Sin, President of the Khmer Krom monks Association, said: “Does the [Vietnamese] authority have the right to take such action against religious belief? Any country respecting human rights, and Vietnam, in particular, who adheres to the UN convention on human rights, and in whose constitution stipulates in Section 67-68, the respect of individual rights to religious freedom, and activities normally conducted by any human in the world, as a citizen of Vietnam.”
At the beginning of February, several hundreds of Khmer Krom student-monks at the superior Pali school in Khleang province, held a demonstration against the Vietnamese authority which prevented them from leaving the pagoda to go beg for their daily alms. Later on, the Vietnamese authority arrested and defrocked several of the monks. Recently, 5 monks were sentenced to 2 to 4-year jail for creating disorder.
In the upcoming 14-25 May 2007, a UN meeting for native people will also be organized. Khmer Krom leaders in the world claimed that they will raised during this meeting the issues of land grabbing from Khmer Krom people in Vietnam, and the oppression of Khmer Krom monks.
Following his meeting with US Senate and the US Committee in charge of Human Rights, Thach Ngoc Thach, the leader of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF), said: “We met with the committee, it will send another delegation committee to Khleang province within 6 months, in order to meet with our monks and Khmer Krom people one more time, in order to obtain factual information on the sentence and the oppression perpetrated on Khmer Krom monks and population in Khleang province.”
The meeting was urgently set up following the 2 to 4-year jail sentences handed down by the Vietnamese authority in Khleang province on Khmer Krom monks on 10 May. Khmer Krom monks were demanding for their religious freedom.
Thach Ngoc Thach added that the US human rights office, and the US religious affair have supported the activities of Khmer Krom monks, and that KKF in the world is also pursuing this case with the European Union Parliament in order to obtain pressure on Vietnam.
On the same day, about 10 associations of Khmer Krom people in Cambodia have issued a joint statement condemning the Vietnamese authority and called on the international community to review this case.
Monk Yoeung Sin, President of the Khmer Krom monks Association, said: “Does the [Vietnamese] authority have the right to take such action against religious belief? Any country respecting human rights, and Vietnam, in particular, who adheres to the UN convention on human rights, and in whose constitution stipulates in Section 67-68, the respect of individual rights to religious freedom, and activities normally conducted by any human in the world, as a citizen of Vietnam.”
At the beginning of February, several hundreds of Khmer Krom student-monks at the superior Pali school in Khleang province, held a demonstration against the Vietnamese authority which prevented them from leaving the pagoda to go beg for their daily alms. Later on, the Vietnamese authority arrested and defrocked several of the monks. Recently, 5 monks were sentenced to 2 to 4-year jail for creating disorder.
In the upcoming 14-25 May 2007, a UN meeting for native people will also be organized. Khmer Krom leaders in the world claimed that they will raised during this meeting the issues of land grabbing from Khmer Krom people in Vietnam, and the oppression of Khmer Krom monks.
11 comments:
Halaluya! & Thank you America!
Glad to see you're happy, but don't
come here to make a mess, okay?
Cambodia not belong 2 u mother fucker 7:45, Cambodia 4 every Khmers
ler Khmers Krom, khmer surin. except ur ancestors must move back to Hanoi or youn' pussy .
former elementary school in Phsa Tauch Kilo # 6 Phnom Penh
b 4 1975.
Well, they may come, but not to create war here. You got that?
7:45PM
We need to send you back to reeducate camp in Hanoi for more Hanoi doctrine. Why don't Khmer people see the situation happened in their own nose that what Hanoi do presently to Cambodia including all Khmer leaders?
Khmer Krom needs to strengthen their rights and fight for their country back. If they claim Kampuchea Krom from Youn, Sihanouk and Hun Sen can't grab these land from them.
Nowaday Youn grabs land from Khmer and Khmer kroms where Hun Sen grabs land from Khmer people.
One day We will have our dream to kick all those youns hanoi from Kampuchea and Kampuchea Krom.
It's good for Khmer Krom people united. They're better than Some Stupid Khmer Kandal who don't see black and white.
3:49 you are walking on a fine line. So, control urself. Anger don't get us any where.
3:49, Ah Khmer-Yuons don't have
any land for anyone to grab. Stop
dreaming, Dude.
Don't forget that Vietnamese are Chinese, they will merge to ONE China, and Vietnam no more.
Possible, but it is not our affair.
China affair is to take all South East Asia. Since Cambodians are the most stupidest people, they don't need land to govern.
Hey, if they can turned Cambodia
to the New Hong Kong, I don't think
too many people would mind that. Do
ya?
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