Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The disappearance of a high-profile abbot in Cambodia, Venerable Tim Sakhorn, has evoked grave concern among ethnic Khmer communities around the world.
The abbot of Phnom Den pagoda in Takeo province was defrocked last week by the supreme patriarch of Buddhist monks in Cambodia, Venerable Tep Vong, for an alleged attempt to undermine the relationship between Vietnam and Cambodia.
The Khmer Krom are an ethnic minority group living in the Mekong Delta regions of southern Vietnam and Cambodia which used to belong to Cambodia before Vietnam acquired it under French colonialism.
The head of the Khmer Krom Buddhist Association, Venerable Yin Sin, told Radio Australia's Khmer News that four monks have already fled Vietnam, through Cambodia and now on to Thailand, through fear of persecution, and another 11 have gone into hiding.
"The Khmer Krom have been living in fear, some have left Vietnam for safety reason, and now they are being followed," he said.
The head of the Khmer Krom community in Cambodia, Thach Setha, also expressed concern after the Cambodia Daily newspaper quoted a statement by the Cambodian supreme patriarch saying that defrocking another 11 Khmer Krom monks was possible.
Venerable Tep Vong said the monks could be drefrocked if found to have been involved in a violent brawl with local monks in April this year during a march protesting the Vietnam government's oppression of the ethnic Khmer who live in neighbouring Vietnam.
A spokesperson for the Cambodian Ministry of Interior said the ministry was not aware of the threat to defrock another 11 monks, but said once defrocked, the monks would lose their immunity from prosecution.
They could then be charged for any alleged crime or any activity deemed to be illegal or harming national security.
Cambodia's Khmer community leader Thach Setha told Radio Australia's Khmer News the community is seeking help from international human rights groups, as well diplomats, in citing Cambodia for political oppression.
Vietnam has recently been cited by human rights groups for political oppression of the Khmer Krom.
The abbot of Phnom Den pagoda in Takeo province was defrocked last week by the supreme patriarch of Buddhist monks in Cambodia, Venerable Tep Vong, for an alleged attempt to undermine the relationship between Vietnam and Cambodia.
The Khmer Krom are an ethnic minority group living in the Mekong Delta regions of southern Vietnam and Cambodia which used to belong to Cambodia before Vietnam acquired it under French colonialism.
The head of the Khmer Krom Buddhist Association, Venerable Yin Sin, told Radio Australia's Khmer News that four monks have already fled Vietnam, through Cambodia and now on to Thailand, through fear of persecution, and another 11 have gone into hiding.
"The Khmer Krom have been living in fear, some have left Vietnam for safety reason, and now they are being followed," he said.
The head of the Khmer Krom community in Cambodia, Thach Setha, also expressed concern after the Cambodia Daily newspaper quoted a statement by the Cambodian supreme patriarch saying that defrocking another 11 Khmer Krom monks was possible.
Venerable Tep Vong said the monks could be drefrocked if found to have been involved in a violent brawl with local monks in April this year during a march protesting the Vietnam government's oppression of the ethnic Khmer who live in neighbouring Vietnam.
A spokesperson for the Cambodian Ministry of Interior said the ministry was not aware of the threat to defrock another 11 monks, but said once defrocked, the monks would lose their immunity from prosecution.
They could then be charged for any alleged crime or any activity deemed to be illegal or harming national security.
Cambodia's Khmer community leader Thach Setha told Radio Australia's Khmer News the community is seeking help from international human rights groups, as well diplomats, in citing Cambodia for political oppression.
Vietnam has recently been cited by human rights groups for political oppression of the Khmer Krom.
5 comments:
No Cambodian people would give a fuck about the Vietcong relation with Cambodia only a handful of Vietcong slave puppet mother fuckers who were installed in power by the Vietcong government since 1979!
If these fucken Vietcong slaves care so much about having good relation with the Vietcong why don't these fucken Vietcong slaves go to bed with the Vietcong in Hanio!
It is so frustrated to read and hear all the crap and bullshit from these fucken Vietcong slaves!
Yuon spies/secret agents everywhere in our unfortunate country. And the real murderers are all but Yuon secret agents/spies since 18th Century. But in 20th Century, murderous Communist Yuon Hanoian leaders changed their old tactics by using their Yuon citizens, who can speak, read and write Khmer much better than our Khmer peasants and farmers, used to live in Cambodia before 1970s, have brutally and secretly killed our family members during Vietnamese Hidden Faces Behind Killing Fields, 1975-1979, and from 1979 until now.
Beware of Yuon secret agents/spies, my Khmer compatriots!
3:06PM good points. You are talking about YOUN Hidden Faces Behind Killing Fields in the KR's era. They killed us than they come in to save us. What a one stone two birds. They made us respect, worship them and say Thank-You to them. I heard all the skulls that display in Phnom Penh was collected by YOUN agents from all over Vietnam when KR attacked them.
to 3:06 PM, You know they have planned to take Cambodia long time ago since 1800s. But they kept failing because the Khmer knew about them and get together kill them all. You know one of there general killed himself when he lost to the KHmer when he return to HANOI. Als the history of STUNG MEANCHEY used to be called Rondao kop YOUN (YOUN Burial grave). That time the Khmer don't have that much population but we were united and kick their asses. One of the old guy knew this from his forefather and pass on info's to me. I am so proud of KHMER back then. UNITED WE STRONG. KICK their ass. BRAVO KHMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you listened to RFA today, the YOUN's slaved monks, Tep Vong, changed his voice now. I am sure that the International communities and the foreign embassies in Cambodia already put pressured on the stupid government Cambodia which is a YOUN's puppet.
YOUN installed too much spies inside of Cambodia right now. Even the Cambodian King scared of them too. He always used the quote of article 7 in Cambodian constitution as an execute because he cannot interfer with the Cambodia government is even the Cambodia government going to kill his relatives and Cambodian Monks, UNREAL... The Thai King always stand up if there country has a problem. Our Cambodian King just freaks out and stayin his palace watching TV which is paid by the CPP. I rather live as a normal Khmer person to fight for the justice of our Khmer people instead of to be a King and using executed for denying helping his own people.
The YOUN killed people during the PolPot regime that why they built the Toul-Sleng to save it as an evident of Khmer killing Khmer. No one is stupid enough that after killing people, then save the evidents for other people later using it to against them. Only A YOUN did that so they can show to the world that Khmer Killed Khmer.
In Kampuchea Krom, there is a village in Swai Tong, called Ba-Chuc. The YOUN went to the Khmer temple took Khmer's skull from the grave and displayed it showing to the world that Polpot came to that village and killed the vietnamese citizen. If we do the DNA test, you will see that those skulls are Khmer's skull. I can bet my life on it because one of the skull there is my friend's grand grandfather. The Youn came to my friend's temple in 1979 ( after the evacuated Khmer Krom from swaitong to live in Kleang (Soc Trang) so they can take away Khmer Krom's properties) took away his grand grandfather's skill. This is a sad story and feel really sick when I heard my friend told me this story. the current YOUN communist government is the freaking sick government you know on this planet.
If they dont get whatever from you, they will use prostitute to sleep with you, this is a trick that most of the CPP leaders felt into their traps. Ask Hun Sen, how many YOUN mistresses that he currently have now in Sai Gon....
Cambodian, please wake up and get out of your house, let do a national demonstration to overthrow this current Cambodian government. If the whole nation do demonstration, it is noway the CPP party can control the country. Let do it together.......
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