Son Chen Chon before (L) and after (R) he was forced to defrock by the Communist regime of Vietnam (Photo: Khmer Krom Network)Note: Son Chen Chon is currently seeking refuge in Cambodia. If you would like to send words of encouragement or help him please send your email to:
help@khmerkrom.org
help@khmerkrom.org
October 11th, 2007
By Sothy Kien
Khmer Krom Network Editor
As one reads through the report of Mr. Chon Son’s report, one cannot help but be broken hearted to see what he has gone through at the hands of the Vietnamese government.
At the United Nations Permanent Forum every year, Vietnam government representatives claim that all is well in the Mekong Delta. Like a series of missionary statements, their document to the Permanent Member describes the Khmer Krom as people who are more privileged than most others, receiving all the benefits of medical aid, health care and education.
And yet, testimonies by the victims of the oppression describe a more compelling and realistic reality which is disturbing different that the one that Vietnam attempts to portray to the outside world.
Is no news good news? With a one party communist system, Vietnam has attempted to use it power to control all media output. Even reports by independent journalist are rare and between and the struggle and oppression of Khmer Krom barely audible to the international community.
The Khmer Krom websites are blocked inside of Vietnam, access only by government officials from Hanoi. Daily reports from Radio Free Asia and Voice of America are prohibited, forcing thousands to listen secretly. Newsletter and detailing the human rights activities of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation are forbidden. If a monk is apprehended in possession of these articles, they will be disrobed and imprisoned. At least five Khmer Krom Buddhist monks are a prime example of that consequence.
Why is the Vietnam government denying these human rights oppression allegations?
Is it merely because it does actually believe that such things are not happening in Vietnam?
Is the fear of international attention forcing it to dig further into bed of lies by forcing Venerable Tim Sakhorn to admit to something that he did not do?
Is it merely playing dumb and wants to see if the international community has any real power to help these human rights activists?
Why has Vietnam not established a human rights organisation? Is it because there is so much violation that it would rather deny than accept the real issues?
With all the international attention now focused on former monk, Tim Sakhorn, Vietnam is resorting to its old tactics of using Khmer people against one another. Tim Sakhorn was supposedly an issue of Cambodia, why is Vietnam imprisoning him?
Why did Vietnam pay a visit to Cambodia last week and finally a late letter comes out from the Hun Sen government?
Working together to make life difficult for the Khmer Krom and to dampen any human rights activities is the sole purpose of the both countries.
With all the media attention on statements by Cambodian authorities and Vietnamese officials for the last fourth months, where is Tim Sakhorn’s say in all this?
At the United Nations Permanent Forum every year, Vietnam government representatives claim that all is well in the Mekong Delta. Like a series of missionary statements, their document to the Permanent Member describes the Khmer Krom as people who are more privileged than most others, receiving all the benefits of medical aid, health care and education.
And yet, testimonies by the victims of the oppression describe a more compelling and realistic reality which is disturbing different that the one that Vietnam attempts to portray to the outside world.
Is no news good news? With a one party communist system, Vietnam has attempted to use it power to control all media output. Even reports by independent journalist are rare and between and the struggle and oppression of Khmer Krom barely audible to the international community.
The Khmer Krom websites are blocked inside of Vietnam, access only by government officials from Hanoi. Daily reports from Radio Free Asia and Voice of America are prohibited, forcing thousands to listen secretly. Newsletter and detailing the human rights activities of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation are forbidden. If a monk is apprehended in possession of these articles, they will be disrobed and imprisoned. At least five Khmer Krom Buddhist monks are a prime example of that consequence.
Why is the Vietnam government denying these human rights oppression allegations?
Is it merely because it does actually believe that such things are not happening in Vietnam?
Is the fear of international attention forcing it to dig further into bed of lies by forcing Venerable Tim Sakhorn to admit to something that he did not do?
Is it merely playing dumb and wants to see if the international community has any real power to help these human rights activists?
Why has Vietnam not established a human rights organisation? Is it because there is so much violation that it would rather deny than accept the real issues?
With all the international attention now focused on former monk, Tim Sakhorn, Vietnam is resorting to its old tactics of using Khmer people against one another. Tim Sakhorn was supposedly an issue of Cambodia, why is Vietnam imprisoning him?
Why did Vietnam pay a visit to Cambodia last week and finally a late letter comes out from the Hun Sen government?
Working together to make life difficult for the Khmer Krom and to dampen any human rights activities is the sole purpose of the both countries.
With all the media attention on statements by Cambodian authorities and Vietnamese officials for the last fourth months, where is Tim Sakhorn’s say in all this?
10 comments:
Please don't lie because you will lie some more to cover your previous lie and that what AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave and the Vietcong government had been doing on the issue of Khmer Krom people in front of international community! It is so obvious!
Ah Hun Sen has no jurisdiction over Vietnam. There is nothing he can do for any anti-commie political monk.
A yuon kompong leng ok chea moy Khmer. A yuon teanh sess mouk okk Hun Sen, Hun Sen teanh Touk mouk okk Sdach oy nov sgeam, huey Hun Sen teanh neang mouk si Khmer Krom.
That's Yuon Strategies.
Oh stop crying. No one told you to go out and play with yuons. You did it on your own, so don't blamed other people for your own foolishness, okay?
Shut up,that is the youn who cause all chao to Cambodia ,Cambodian they like to live in peace and harmony but there criminal neighbors have never let them at peace so time is coming,we have to sacrifices lives to have lives that normal thing since the earth is starting why we are waiting for?
Yes, but before we can get peace and harmony in Cambodia, we must deported all Ah Khmer-Yuon asses back to their own independent country.
Ah Yuon or Ah dog Yuon, You are not just the invader the Champa and Khmer, Ah yuon also invade this blogg too. Look how your barbarians to Khmer people. Ah Yuon is the most barbarians in the planet. The world is seeing Ah yuon & its servants' tricks now. The neo-genocidal and atrocities that Ah Yuon and its servants have had committed to Khmer people, we are not going to stand still like thought dogs.
we will use all the our disposals to fight you back dogs. you'll see!
shut up and go to work. you all idiot
Khmer, Laos, and Champa should be united to fight against the aggressor Vietnamese.
Annam is the piece of land surrounding Hanoi only, and is the Vietnamese only land.
Vietnamese have no business in Champa Kingdom (central Vietnam),no business in Kampuchea-Krom (south Vietnam), no business in Lao, and no business in Cambodia. Khmer, Laos, and Chams must be united to fight the murderous Vietnamese!!!
Well, if you don't want yuons in indochina, then pack your bag and get out of their land. They were here first, despite been low in number and was massacred by your people.
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