Friday, September 07, 2007

VN newspaper shows a picture of Monk Tim Sakhorn

The arrow shows former Monk Tim Sakhorn being questioned by the Yuon cops (Photo published by Sralanh Khmer newspaper)

06 September 2007

By Mayarith
Radio Free Asia

Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy

A Vietnamese newspaper from An Giang province published a picture showing former Monk Tim Sakhorn sitting in front of Vietnamese cops during his questioning.

The picture (see above) shows Monk Tim Sakhorn pointing to a document in front of Vietnamese cops. This is the very first time that a picture shows that former Monk Tim Sakhorn is still alive.

The VN newspaper dated 28 August reported that former Monk Tim Sakhorn is accused of inciting minority people in VN to demonstrate against the Hanoi regime. The newspaper also reported that former Monk Tim Sakhorn distributed Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) documents, as well as VCDs and information bulletins which oppose the VN regime.

The Vietnamese state-owned newspaper quoted Monk Tim Sakhorn as providing the names of at least 6 KKF leaders involved in activities opposing the communist Hanoi regime.

The alleged names of the 6 KKF leaders are: Chau Rieb, Tran Manh Rin, Thach Ngoc Thach, Prak Sereivudh, Mrs. Son Thidit, Trung Giap, and To Kim Thong. The 6 are accused (by Hanoi) of providing money and documents to former Monk Tim Sakhorn so that he can lead anti-Hanoi activities.

Mrs. Son Thidit, the KKF representative of Khmer Krom women, reacted on this newspaper report, from her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, by saying: “Based on the (recent) Vietnamese report, before that we did not know where Monk Tim Sakhorn was, but now with this newspaper report, we know exactly that Monk Tim Sakhorn is really in Vietnam. However about the alleged claim made by Monk Tim Sakhorn, this may not be true because he never participated in any KKF committee meetings, and if Monk Tim Sakhorn helped published (KKF) information, this is his individual freedom rights. The Vietnamese newspaper report was made with the intention of discouraging (Khmer Krom) people from demonstrating about their land disputes, and they (Vietnamese) are doing it also to create discords among the Khmer Kampuchea Krom communities in Kampuchea Krom, and also among the Khmer Krom communities in Cambodia and those in Kampuchea Krom.”

Mrs. Son Thidit said that she met former Monk Tim Sakhorn in Cambodia when she visited Cambodia in February of this year. However, she maintained that former Monk Tim Sakhorn is not a KKF member. She said that the action taken by Monk Tim Sakhorn was done to preserve the freedom rights of Khmer Kampuchea Krom people who are currently being oppressed by the communist Hanoi regime.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

i think MTS is VietCong spy agent??? thats why he got kicked out from Cambodia!!! many VC agents working in Cambodia..be aware..freakin VC..down go the VC!!!

Anonymous said...

No, Tep Vong is actually a Vietcong spy. He is the one who should be stripped of his Buddhist robe for committing unholy acts while claiming to be a Buddha's disciple. He and his accomplice even issued a Buddhist order in Vietnamese to have MTS arrested and sent to Kampuchea Krom.

Spy agency does not arrest their own people and send them to jail. Come on 9:00 AM, even kids in elementary school can work that out!

Anonymous said...

These fucken Vietcong are weak because they chose to interrogate an innocence monk!

Go around kidnapping Cambodian people is the tactic of the Vietcong and nobody know more about this tactic than Pen Sovann the first Prime Minister of Cambodia installed by the Vietcong in 1979 and who is now the President of Human Right Party because he was the victim of kidnapping by the Vietcong too!

Anonymous said...

i'm looking for Ah DereCHHan TEp Vong& NOUN NGET ANYone know where they live....?

Anonymous said...

I am crying and crying ,asking my self does any body in any nations have a lot sin like us born to be khmer and khmer kam puchea krom? But I step aside and take a look in the past and now Cambodia has very bad leaders,is the leaders that hasn't have any professional of leading skill to lead it Country from the king to the prime minister at the present time, they do not care about their own citizen, they power greed and blood thirst, like monk Tim Sakhorn was kidnapped and send to Vietnam by Cambodian police military ,(they take their own kid to feed the tiger) and every one of them Seihaknouk ,Seihakmony, Hun Sen they not even care about Mr.Tim Sakhorn fate ,who if the real leaders when they are going to show up to kick all the devils out of Cambodia so we'll have a hope to live our lives in peace with out Vietnam oppression and dictator.

Anonymous said...

Hey! Ah choy-maray yuon cops release monk Tim Sakhorn back to his homeland immediately where you kidnapped him. Don't wait until the terrible thing happen. He is a Cambodian not like what pouk ah yuon choy-maray accused him that he is a Vietnamese citizen and entering Vietnam illegally. All Khmer nationality, please don't pay attention to pouk ah chhkuot leaders in Cambodia(CPP). Pouk vear chear pouk ah kbot-cheat aing te. They serve ah yuon Hanoi instead of serving their own people. That include sdech Sihanouk and all his families too. CPPs sell our nation to ah yuon now. Wake up Khmer and open your eyes. Don't let this situation goes out of hands.

Anonymous said...

Months after monk Tim Sakhorn disappeared from his homeland,Khmer Krom people keep fighting for his release. Khmer Krom beg the world community to help intervene and even gathered protests to show the world that Vietnamese treated Khmer like animals and still nobody cares about them. I don't understand why when it happens to other parts of the world, say for example in Africa or in Europe, people suffered from famine and war, the world community stepped in to help them right away. Why not us Khmer?
I believe this may be the reason that Vietnamese keep bombarded
persecution against Khmers.