17 November 2007
By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
A source indicated that four Khmer Kampuchea Krom monks residing in Cambodia are currently facing forced defrocking and eviction from their pagoda in the near future. The four are accused of involvement and working for the US-based Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation in the world (KKF) movement.
The source claimed that the 4 Khmer Krom monks are currently residing in Wat O’Andoung pagoda, Banteay Neang commune, Mongkul Borey district, Banteay Meanchey province, in Cambodia’s northwest. The four monks were questioned by three cops in the evening of Saturday. The cops brought along a number of documents to accuse the 4 monks, and the cops were accompanied by a monk official.
32-year-old Monk Thach Kong Phuong, one of the 4 monks targeted by the authority, told RFA by phone from Wat O’Andoung pagoda on Saturday that the local police was questioning him and accusing him of involvement in working for the KKF movement. Venerable Thach Kong Phuong said: “Right now, I am being defrocked. A monk official came to defrock us.”
The other 3 monks facing this problem are: Ven. Phauk Phal Ang, Ven. Hor Phal Ang, and Cheng Chhay Eang. They all came to live in Cambodia since 2004.
Ang Chanrith, the director of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Human Rights Defense Organization (KKHRO) said in reaction to the police threat for defrocking: “The provincial cult department committee, the district governor, and the provincial governor have threatened Khmer Krom monks, telling them to quickly leave the Wat O’Andoung pagoda within 3-day. If they don’t leave the pagoda, or they still remain in Mongkul Borey district, they will be arrested and the charge brought on Ven. Tim Sakhorn will be applied to them.”
Regarding this problem, General Khieu Sopheak, spokesman of the ministry of interior, said that he didn’t receive a report yet on this issue. However, he stressed that the law in Cambodia does not allow monks to use the Cambodian territories as a base to distribute propaganda serving any organization or association with the aim of opposing the government.
It should be recalled that former Monk Tim Sakhorn, the abbot of the Phnom Den North pagoda, located in Kirivong district, Takeo province, was defrocked by force by the Phnom Penh regime, and he was handed over to the Hanoi regime which accused him of conducting activities to undermined the friendship and unity between Cambodia and Vietnam, because he (allegedly) served the KKF activities.
On 08 November, the communist Hanoi regime in An Giang sentenced former Monk Tim Sakhorn to one-year of jail time. Source claimed that the sentencing of Monk Tim Sakhorn was done without the presence of any defense lawyer.
The source claimed that the 4 Khmer Krom monks are currently residing in Wat O’Andoung pagoda, Banteay Neang commune, Mongkul Borey district, Banteay Meanchey province, in Cambodia’s northwest. The four monks were questioned by three cops in the evening of Saturday. The cops brought along a number of documents to accuse the 4 monks, and the cops were accompanied by a monk official.
32-year-old Monk Thach Kong Phuong, one of the 4 monks targeted by the authority, told RFA by phone from Wat O’Andoung pagoda on Saturday that the local police was questioning him and accusing him of involvement in working for the KKF movement. Venerable Thach Kong Phuong said: “Right now, I am being defrocked. A monk official came to defrock us.”
The other 3 monks facing this problem are: Ven. Phauk Phal Ang, Ven. Hor Phal Ang, and Cheng Chhay Eang. They all came to live in Cambodia since 2004.
Ang Chanrith, the director of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Human Rights Defense Organization (KKHRO) said in reaction to the police threat for defrocking: “The provincial cult department committee, the district governor, and the provincial governor have threatened Khmer Krom monks, telling them to quickly leave the Wat O’Andoung pagoda within 3-day. If they don’t leave the pagoda, or they still remain in Mongkul Borey district, they will be arrested and the charge brought on Ven. Tim Sakhorn will be applied to them.”
Regarding this problem, General Khieu Sopheak, spokesman of the ministry of interior, said that he didn’t receive a report yet on this issue. However, he stressed that the law in Cambodia does not allow monks to use the Cambodian territories as a base to distribute propaganda serving any organization or association with the aim of opposing the government.
It should be recalled that former Monk Tim Sakhorn, the abbot of the Phnom Den North pagoda, located in Kirivong district, Takeo province, was defrocked by force by the Phnom Penh regime, and he was handed over to the Hanoi regime which accused him of conducting activities to undermined the friendship and unity between Cambodia and Vietnam, because he (allegedly) served the KKF activities.
On 08 November, the communist Hanoi regime in An Giang sentenced former Monk Tim Sakhorn to one-year of jail time. Source claimed that the sentencing of Monk Tim Sakhorn was done without the presence of any defense lawyer.
23 comments:
Yes, we must must continued to route out all KKF agent monks and send them back to Vietnam for prosecution.
I just hope the Vietnamese will raise up the stake on these troublemakers and stop playing mr. nice guy.
Who is stopping the Vietcong from coming to Cambodia and beside AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave is ready to accept the Vietcong with open arm! Let have a repeat of the 1980 and if all your Vietcong know what I mean! Ahahhahhahahh!
The only good Vietcong is a dead Vietcong!
Okay, if you want the 1980's repeat, you better talk to China first because you don't want be caught with your pant down.
its ashame that the khmer government is hunting down its own people for other people. Look what the Khmers have been degraded too. We're hunting each other down to please others! How sick.
This is patriotism.
No, Ah KKF spy monks ain't no Khmer. We'll have to send them back to Vietnam for sabotaging the Vietnamese's "Unified Policy".
To 9:27AM!
I don’t need to talk to China because there is no more Soviet Union! The only you find my drop is when you turn around and bend over! Ahahahhahhahah
Well, don't let your eyes fools you, bro. The Soviet and China is as good as one, now days.
CPP and Khmer Kampuchea Kroms
Khmer Kampuchea Kroms are indigenous people who are originally Khmers and they are recognized by the Cambodian constitution whenever they are arriving Cambodia land.
Vietnam has taken profound advantage in cooperating with CPP to deprive Khmer Kampuchea Kroms. Vietnam has potential to get support from CPP in depriving Khmer Kampuchea Kroms through following factors:
1. Vietnam has used policy of cooperation with their former lackeys, the CPP, and their leaders, to maintaining influences and interferences internal politics of Cambodia. Many social, political and economical agreements have been signed by both Hanoi and CPP to strengthen their forever friendship without concerning neutrality and sovereignty of Cambodia.
2. Vietnam's effective mechanism to maintaining their former lackeys in place is to force CPP's elites to sign friendship agreements in all fields and institutions in Cambodia.
3. Through such traditional friendship and several treaty agreements, Vietnam has ensured that their interests inside Cambodia and their former lackeys cannot release themselves from political orchestration inside Cambodia especially to deprive Khmer Kampuchea Krom is effective.
4. Vietnam is smart to use the pretext in maintaining relationship and bilateral cooperation with CPP to protect security and interests of both countries by marginalizing Khmer Kampuchea Kroms.
CPP is considered as Khmers who have tremendously worked for Khmers and their nation, so what measurement that CPP is dealing with Khmer Kampuchea Kroms like nowadays? CPP should have their own political designation to deal with Khmer Kampuchea Kroms. CPP should not lower themselves and step on their political identity to follow Vietnam by depriving Khmer Kampuchea Kroms.
Doing so CPP is serving as:
1. CPP is opposing Cambodian national constitution.
2. CPP is considered totally as the ongoing lackey performer for Vietnam. This total lackey playing was fully performing during 1978-199.
3. Khmer Kampuchea Kroms are Khmer, so when CPP is helping Vietnam depriving Khmer Kampuchea Kroms, it means CPP is depriving Khmers all 13 millions inside Cambodia.
4. CPP is the government leader who is controlling an independent territory, but when Khmer Kampuchea Kroms have been depriving freely inside Cambodia, it means CPP has no power at all to maintain Cambodian national interests and her integral sovereignty.
The case of Monk Tim Sakhorn and this recent intimidation to four Khmer monks (not KKK because they are living in Cambodia) are underscoring the hard talk of sovereignty, integrity and independence of Cambodia while it led by CPP (former Vietnam's lackey).
All Cambodian people are feeling insecure and uncertain through current CPP's political standing with Vietnam especially the mechanism to deal with Khmer Kampuchea Kroms.
The solution is simple: many elite CPP's members, opposition parties and Cambodian people have seen this deprivation of Khmer Kampuchea Krom inside Cambodia as a harsh danger to the security and independence of Cambodia.
KY
You are sick, 2:56, the Khmer constitution does not automatically make any Khmer-Abroad a Khmer citizen upon arrival in Cambodia. They must apply for citizenship for that to happen. And even so, if you are messing around with Khmer National Security, the government is free to revoke your citizenship and deported you back to where you came from.
You are right 3:05,
I will check Cambodian constitution again, but look at Tim Sakhorn while he has been in Cambodia since 1979 and he become the abbot is not enough for him to become a Khmer citizen?
And when he is Khmer citizen, why government secretly sent him to be tried by Vietnam's court?
If you are Khmer, next time Vietnam will excuse you like Tim Sakhorn and try in their land...what do you think?
What you mean "you are messing around with Khmer National Security, the government is free to revoke your citizenship and deported you back to where you came from"?
Cambodian people are terrorists in the eyes of CPP?
3:51, What I meant by the government has the right to revoke your citizenship is universal. Every country reserved that right for people who jeopardized their national security. Which is what Ah KKF agent monks (Sakhorn) did by spreading hatred propaganda in Cambodia that could lead to war and destruction of Cambodia. Get it?
4:45,
Khmers people are wandering everywhere around the world. Some are in Vietnam, some are in Thailand, some are in Malaysia, some are in US, some are in Korea...etc
So those are possible to peel off their citizenship? And what government do to deal with those individuals? They have to be sent to be tried in alien country? I
This reflects only the weakness and incapability of the government to deal create the rule of law.
Tim Sakhorn must be justly kept in Cambodia because he has Khmer citizenship though he was born in Vietnam.
Only one case of Tim Sakhorn has severely intimidated all Khmer citizens and created fear for them because of the solution of government.
KY
Wrong 5:31, we did not deported anyone for any specific purpose, but to get them out of Cambodia. Whatever happened in Vietnam, Thailand, ..., or Laos, that is not our affair.
And I don't totally agree with you that we have to keep the KKF agent monk (Ah Sakhorn) in Cambodia for the serious crime that he did. For lighter crime that is non-violent such as scam, scandal,..., or pick pocket, yes.
Furthermore, we cannot look at this as a first offense by an individual either because he belong to KKF organization, and KKF should have known better.
5:54,
How do you accuse Tim Sakhorn as the agent of KKF? Or recent four monks also? And how Tim Sakhorn committed serious crime like what you accused?
Tim Sakhorn has gun in hand? He mobilized military to topple government?
Deporting or getting them out is the same, it is not different in abusing Cambodian individual. Especially, Tim Sakhorn who has been tried in Vietnam, it means Cambodia has no sovereignty independence at all.
This is a serious human rights violation on Cambodian individual by Cambodian government.
KY
5:54, the KKF agent monk is not a genuine Khmer citizen that is born in Cambodia. We was nice enough to let him stay in Cambodia and away from what he don't like in Vietnam, and he thank us by spreading KKF hatred propaganda that deepen tension in the region. We don't need that, here. Get it?
Furthermore, you are wrong if you thing the government has time to go around and without reason just pick on Ah Khmer-Yuon for the fun of it. No way, Jose, we can do without that.
It is time for retaliations and fucks all the Vietcong!
6:22 PM,
KKF is human rights-based organization, how they are jeopardizing Cambodia's security?
What they are doing is to request for the respect of human rights in KKK.
Are they creating hatred and tension while they are requesting basic rights respect for Khmer Kampuchea Kroms?
Do they see any military mobilizing by KKF to topple government?
Why Hun Sen leadership is insulting Khmer race, Khmer blood and Khmer brotherhood like KKK? Hun Sen leadership should have better strategy than this when dealing with KKK.
I say this not include everybody inside CPP.
Especially, why Hun Sen leadership doesn't care about the Cambodian constitution that assures the full Khmer citizenship for any Khmers who wish to live in Cambodia.
The case of Tim Sakhorn who has been tried by Vietnam's court is the sign of no independence at all for Hun Sen leadership and can lead to the total collapse of Cambodia.
KY
1:11, KKF is not human rights organization. They are troublemaker. They spread propaganda all over Cambodia and creating hatred in the region which opposed our foreign policy to maintain peace and prosperity in the region for the good of everyone.
Furthermore, Ah Khmer-Yuon has destroyed their land already, and they will not destroyed ours along with theirs, regardless what you say. No way, Jose. Get out of the Cambodia, if you want to exercise your rights that is conflicting with our interests. You will not do it here, period.
4:15 PM
If you say "KKF" is not civil society and human rights org., you truly mean the the US-based NGOs are illegal and troublemaker?
Peace and prosperity in the region? What is the sake of peace and prosperity with Vietnam when all suggestions from Vietnam to Cambodian government are approved, but all suggestions from Cambodian government to Vietnam are neglected or disapproved?
If you are Khmer, you have to check again all the agreements and treaties Cambodia made with Vietnam, who get more benefits than?
And for the survival of Cambodia to be fair with Vietnam is very low...and no potential to compete at all through current leadership of Hun Sen because they don't have the strengthening the rule of law, anti-corruption, illegal immigration efficiency and poverty alleviation...etc
Come on, if you are Khmer I hope you have brain...
KY
Indeed most of NGO in cambodia are troublemakers, 8:09. They are not doing their jobs.
And no, the government didn't approved anything just because it is vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Chinese, ..., or Westerner. We approved all ideas that work and had been proven. Plus, because Vietnam had been with us since day1, it is natural for us to adopt more of their idea than others, but still, our policy is not the same as Vietnamese, although I personally wished that we would be a bit more like Vietnamese because they are the most successful in recovering from the war. How many of you know anything about that, huh?
5:22 AM
You can not lie the public, government can take any style for the prosperity of the nation, but if just compare only two issues between Cambodian government and Vietnam; Cambodia is zero such as anti-corruption law and the limiting term of leaders....Cambodia is absolutely zero...so the competition capacity under Hun Sen leadership is zero if just compare with Vietnam, not with other advanced countries.
You are ignorant, not understand at all the main interdependence of collective partnership to develop a country. It is necessary to have government, NGOs, private sectors and individual's elites as the main stakeholders to development a country...this collective power is being used in every advanced political countries.
Your mouth is so ignorant..
KY
Well. that is what I meant by Vietnam is our boss. We don't followed all their advices as you have claimed; hence the differences as you've pointed out above. We Khmer are not Yuon, but when we see something that Yuon did that look good to us, then we will adopted their idea, just as we did with foods such as banh kan, banh chev, laut cha, ... and what have you. And again, personally, I whished we adopt more but it is not worthed for me to argue with the government because it would not have improved our economy all that much for the tension that I would created in the country.
And no, I am not ignorant, some of the NGO have help us greatly such as taking care of HIV/AIDS infected people, training people to avoid bird flu, search for land mines, ..., but they have not right to enter Khmer politic and interfered with our affair.
Yes, you are right, Vietnam is Cambodian current leaders'boss, not all Cambodians' boss. Don't mess up the word OUR here...at least not include me.
You are still ignorant because to imitate any good thing from Vietnam is good, but to serve as a lackey is dangerous for Khmer nation.
Why lackey? in case of Tim Sakhorn, for the sake of Vietnam, Cambodian authority (government) can violate Cambodian national constitution.
You have to learn more about the self-reliance that Khmers should deserve.
KY
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