Khmer Krom monks protesting at the Samaky Raingsey pagoda, to demand that the Cambodian authority bring back Monnk Tim Sakhorn back from Vietnam (Photo: Kim Pov Sottan, RFA)Khmer Krom monks demand the return of Monk Tim Sakhorn
17 August 2007
By Kim Pov Sottan
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Numerous Khmer Krom monks along with representatives of about 10 Khmer Krom organizations demanded, on Friday, that the Cambodian authority bring back Monk Tim Sakhorn, the former abbot of the Phnom Den North pagoda, from Vietnam.
The demand was made at the Samaky Raingsey pagoda, located in Stung Meanchey commune. About 50 Khmer Krom monks sat in meditation next to the demanding banners, they also recited prayers, and gave speeches in Cambodian, English, and Vietnamese, about the hardship faced by Khmer Krom people under the Vietnamese oppression and the violation of rights involved in the defrocking on Monk Tim Sakhorn.
Venerable Yoeung Sin, the leader of the Khmer Krom monks, gave an emotional speech during the occasion by saying: “They gave their children to the tiger to eat. Never before have parents taken such (barbaric) action. In the name of Khmer Krom monks, I’m very hurt by the sad fate faced by all Khmer Kampuchea Krom people. As you can see, wherever they live, in Kampuchea Krom, the Yuons (Vietnamese) said that Khmer are not allowed to join the Buddhist order, they do not allow Khmer Krom to study, they do not want them to follow the Buddhist rites. When we arrived in Cambodia, we are also oppressed without any mercy, without any pity.”
The director of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Coordination Committee (KKKCC) indicated that this is the last demand made to the Cambodian government to intervene in this case: “This morning is the last time for us to gather and make our demands. If the government leaders or (national) institutions … which include supreme patriarch Tep Vong and patriarch Non Nget, still remain indifferent in the case of Monk Tim Sakhorn, we will send a petition to the Phnom Penh municipality for the second time, to ask the permission to hold a demonstration in front of the Yuon embassy (in Phnom Penh).”
Trinh Ba Cam, a representative of the Vietnamese embassy, said that Monk Tim Sakhorn will be sentenced in Vietnam because he is a Vietnamese citizen.
Along with the demonstration to demand back Monk Tim Sakhorm in Cambodian, Cambodia people around the world, including those in France, Australia, Canada and the USA, have also demanded for the Vietnamese authority to release Monk Tim Sakhorm, as well as a large number of other Khmer Krom monks who are currently being jailed in Vietnam.
Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Ministry of Information, did not provide any comment yet on this affair.
The demand was made at the Samaky Raingsey pagoda, located in Stung Meanchey commune. About 50 Khmer Krom monks sat in meditation next to the demanding banners, they also recited prayers, and gave speeches in Cambodian, English, and Vietnamese, about the hardship faced by Khmer Krom people under the Vietnamese oppression and the violation of rights involved in the defrocking on Monk Tim Sakhorn.
Venerable Yoeung Sin, the leader of the Khmer Krom monks, gave an emotional speech during the occasion by saying: “They gave their children to the tiger to eat. Never before have parents taken such (barbaric) action. In the name of Khmer Krom monks, I’m very hurt by the sad fate faced by all Khmer Kampuchea Krom people. As you can see, wherever they live, in Kampuchea Krom, the Yuons (Vietnamese) said that Khmer are not allowed to join the Buddhist order, they do not allow Khmer Krom to study, they do not want them to follow the Buddhist rites. When we arrived in Cambodia, we are also oppressed without any mercy, without any pity.”
The director of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Coordination Committee (KKKCC) indicated that this is the last demand made to the Cambodian government to intervene in this case: “This morning is the last time for us to gather and make our demands. If the government leaders or (national) institutions … which include supreme patriarch Tep Vong and patriarch Non Nget, still remain indifferent in the case of Monk Tim Sakhorn, we will send a petition to the Phnom Penh municipality for the second time, to ask the permission to hold a demonstration in front of the Yuon embassy (in Phnom Penh).”
Trinh Ba Cam, a representative of the Vietnamese embassy, said that Monk Tim Sakhorn will be sentenced in Vietnam because he is a Vietnamese citizen.
Along with the demonstration to demand back Monk Tim Sakhorm in Cambodian, Cambodia people around the world, including those in France, Australia, Canada and the USA, have also demanded for the Vietnamese authority to release Monk Tim Sakhorm, as well as a large number of other Khmer Krom monks who are currently being jailed in Vietnam.
Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Ministry of Information, did not provide any comment yet on this affair.
3 comments:
KHMER PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. JUSTICE IS OWED TO US MANY FOLDS. NO DEMAND NO JUSTICE. IF WE DON'T UNITE, THE TIGER WILL EAT AND BEAT US ONE BY ONE.
NO JUSTICE , NO PEACE ! PLZ PASS THE INFORMATION AROUND. FROM INFO OF THIS SITE TO THE EDUCATION OF OUR YOUNGER GENERATION.
NO DEMAND, NO JUSTICE. LETS MAKE DEMANDS, LETS SHOW SUPPORT TO OUR BROTHER ANYWHERE. THE JEWS DOES IT. THE KOREAN DOES IT. WHY DON'T WE ???? LET NOT FIGHT EACH OTHER, BUT FIGHT THE ONE THAT BEAT US OR OUR BROTHER AND SISTER.
THERE ARE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES AND SUPPORT. BUT WE HAVE TO USE IT !
sometimes asking doesn't take to ears of people can change things. You have to demand them. Khmer Krom have been asking for a protest over 5 months now or so. Its time to take down the street and march with logos and banners in the name of Khmer Krom people's human rights. So what if they arrest us, this is just the type of thing they are doing in Vietnam, why must we be afraid of being arrested for demanding our rights?
The old and new devil axes is Vietnam that the United States forget to count ,but the worse one is Hun Sen and it regime,Cambodian folks have already known what steps we have to take in 2008.
Vote out Hun Sen the infected root from Cambodia,pick up the new government that carry out the policy similar with Israel,so the little piece of our mother land will belong to us and our next generation.
khmer pheas khloun
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