Friday, 09 November 2007By Sakura
Sralanh Khmer newspaper
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy and Socheata
The Mort Chrouk (An Giang in VN) tribunal already held a hearing to sentence former Monk Tim Sakhorn, at 7:00 AM on 08 November 2007, at the Bareach (Long Xuyen in VN) provincial court. At the end of the sentence, where no defense lawyer was present, and only with the presence of 2-3 Cambodians and about 10 Khmer monks who have been summoned by the Yuon authority to hear the handing down of the sentence, the judge sentenced the former monk to one year of jail after VN allegedly found that he cooperated with the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) in the world, and that Monk Tim Sakhorn allegedly conducted activities to undermine the Cambodia-VN friendship.
However, after the sentencing, the leader of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Community (KKC) in Cambodia issued his reaction by saying that this is a proof that the Cambodian government is fully under the political pressure exerted by the communist Vietnamese regime, just like the puppet (People’s Republic of Kampuchea – PRK) regime was in 1979. Furthermore, this action taken by the Cambodian leaders is tantamount to allowing the Vietnamese to continue their policy of destroying the movement demanding freedom by Khmer people living in Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam).
Khmer Krom monks and people whom Sralanh Khmer contacted by phone from Motr Chrouk province, yesterday afternoon, recounted the activities in the hearing held by the Communist Vietnamese courtroom. The hearing started at 7:00 AM on 08 November 2007, in Bareach city (Long Xuyen). The courtroom was attended only by 10 monks representing the 10 pagodas (one representative monk from each pagoda): 4 pagodas from Krobao district (Tinh Bien in VN), and from 6 pagodas in Svay Tong (Triton in VN), and about 4-5 Khmer people, including Chau In who was summoned by the Communist VN authority, and expressly ordered to attend this hearing, so that he can act as a witness in the charges leveled against Monk Tim Sakhorn.
A Khmer Krom source from Motr Chrouk added that there was no defense lawyer during the hearing, there were only the Yuon cops who questioned Monk Tim Sakhorn in the past, and they were the ones who read the alleged information extracted from the monk to the judge. After hearing the cops declaration, the judge proceeded immediately to issue a decision in the case by stating that he (the judge) found Monk Tim Sakhorn guilty of undermining the Vietnam-Cambodia solidarity, and sentenced him to one year of jail, starting from the day of his arrest on 30 June 2007.
The Khmer Krom source was in fact a Khmer Krom monk, and he confirmed to Sralanh Khmer that he saw Monk Tim Sakhorn declaring to the court that he does not know anything about the law setting up the friendship between Cambodia and Vietnam. Furthermore, Monk Tim Sakhorn said that he has no intention of undermining this friendship either. He said that last year and the year before that, a group of KKF leaders visited his pagoda in Phnom Den, they then invited monks to participate in human rights activities and in demanding freedom for Khmer Kampuchea Krom people only.
The Khmer Krom source confirmed that, immediately after the confession of Monk Tim Sakhorn, the communist judge from Motr Chrouk province immediately declared that, according to Article 87 of the VN criminal code, Monk Tim Sakhorn will be sentenced to 15-year of jail, however, because he does not understand the Vietnamese law, and he was unknowingly under the influence of the KKF, therefore the court had decided to lighten his sentence to one year jail time only.
Other witnesses who spoke to Sralanh Khmer told us that, to tell the truth, they don’t even know that Monk Tim Sakhorn was jailed or that he was tortured or not, or whether he was forced to confess by some means or not, but judging from their listening to his confession, these witnesses believe that the former monk seems to be normal.
The VN cops told Khmer Krom people who were present in the hearing that they did not jail Monk Tim Sakhorn at all, and that they never tortured him. They said that Monk Tim Sakhorn was allowed to live in a decent place during the investigation prior to the hearing only.
The hearing was concluded at noon on that same day. Almost all of the Khmer Krom monks and people who attended the hearing, told Sralanh Khmer that they never knew who Monk Tim Sakhorn was (before the day of the hearing). Chau In who was forced by the Yuon authority to act as a witness in this case, complained that he did not know about the issue involving Monk Tim Sakhorn.
One day prior to the hearing, at the Wat Sangker No. 1 pagoda, located in Po commune (An Cu in VN), Krobao district (Tinh Bien), Motr Chrouk province (An Giang), Son Song Son, the communist party cadre in the Khmer Krom area, summoned several hundreds of Khmer Krom people to a meeting to explain about the results achieved by the communist regime during the past 30 years of occupation. Son Song Son also reminded Chau In during the meeting for him to attend the hearing held for Monk Tim Sakhorn on 08 November based on the provincial court summon. At that time, Chau In proposed that he will attend the hearing only if all Khmer people in the village attend as well, however Son Song Son rejected this proposal.
According to all Khmer Krom sources who attended this meeting, the reason Son Song Son rejected this proposal was because he was afraid that Khmer Krom people could create havoc in court, and undermine the hearing. Instead, Son Song Son turned around and invited 10 monks, one from each pagoda in 2 districts, to participate in the hearing.
Venerable Thach Binh, the Secretary-general of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Monks Association in Cambodia, said that the hearing of Monk Tim Sakhorn was conducted based on the Vietnamese authority’s whim only, and furthermore, there was no defense lawyer present in the hearing either, no family members of Monk Tim Sakhorn present there. The major in justice committed in this case is the fact that Monk Tim Sakhorn, a Cambodian citizen, was deported to be sentenced in Vietnam instead of Cambodia. Ven. Thach Binh said that this is a typical communist-style travesty of justice, and it also shows the Yuon’s supremacy over Khmer people, even on those living in Cambodia, i.e. not only do the Yuons have full control over Khmer people in Kampcuchea Krom, they are also foolishly violating the sovereignty and the independence of Cambodia as well.
Thach Setha, KKC President, added to Ven. Thach Binh’s declaration, by telling Sralanh Khmer that, the sentencing of Monk Tim Sakhorn by the Yuon tribunal in Motr Chrouk province is a serious legal violation of the kingdom of Cambodia. In the sentencing of a Cambodian citizen (Monk Tim Sakhorn), the Hun Sen’s regime in Cambodia did not even send its representative to follow up in this case. This is tantamount to a Cambodian leader carving a piece of his own meat to offer to the Yuon tiger.
Thach Setha, who was a former Senator, said that the sentencing of Monk Tim Sakhorn is a clear proof that the Cambodian government is unable to defend its own citizens, and that the Cambodian leaders are living under the Yuon political influence, just like how they did in 1979.
Regarding the defrocking of Monk Tim Sakhorn on 30 June 2007 at Wat Siha Ratanaram pagoda (the pagoda of residence of the Takeo provincial monk chief), a source from Takeo told Sralanh Khmer yesterday that since the day the “Tep Vong 07 January” monks (07 January is the date of the Vietnamese army invasion of Cambodia), accompanied by several dozens of killer-bodyguards, defrocked Monk Tim Sakhorn in that pagoda, the pagoda members no longer became generous to the monks as they used to be. Buddhist laymen and laywomen who usually pray at the pagoda during holy days, stop coming to the pagoda, and during the recent Kan Ben and Pchum Ben festival, members of the pagoda decided to celebrate the occasion at other pagodas instead, and the Siha Ratanaram pagoda was very quiet during this major Buddhist festival.
Similarly to Siha Ratanaram pagoda in Takeo, the Unalom and Langka pagodas which serve as refuge to the 07 January monks who came out to beat up peaceful Khmer Krom demonstrating monks in April of this year, and who followed the Yuon orders to defrock Monk Tim Sakhorn and handing him over to VN to be jailed and sentenced there, these 07 January monks were rejected by Buddhist followers. Even monks who came out of these two pagodas in Phnom Penh – where the 07 January monk-king (Tep Vong) and his 07 January subordinate (Sao Chan Thol) reside – to beg for alms, Buddhist followers would avoid giving alms to them. Buddhist followers noted that the 07 January monk leaders are nothing but evil and morally wicked.
However, after the sentencing, the leader of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Community (KKC) in Cambodia issued his reaction by saying that this is a proof that the Cambodian government is fully under the political pressure exerted by the communist Vietnamese regime, just like the puppet (People’s Republic of Kampuchea – PRK) regime was in 1979. Furthermore, this action taken by the Cambodian leaders is tantamount to allowing the Vietnamese to continue their policy of destroying the movement demanding freedom by Khmer people living in Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam).
Khmer Krom monks and people whom Sralanh Khmer contacted by phone from Motr Chrouk province, yesterday afternoon, recounted the activities in the hearing held by the Communist Vietnamese courtroom. The hearing started at 7:00 AM on 08 November 2007, in Bareach city (Long Xuyen). The courtroom was attended only by 10 monks representing the 10 pagodas (one representative monk from each pagoda): 4 pagodas from Krobao district (Tinh Bien in VN), and from 6 pagodas in Svay Tong (Triton in VN), and about 4-5 Khmer people, including Chau In who was summoned by the Communist VN authority, and expressly ordered to attend this hearing, so that he can act as a witness in the charges leveled against Monk Tim Sakhorn.
A Khmer Krom source from Motr Chrouk added that there was no defense lawyer during the hearing, there were only the Yuon cops who questioned Monk Tim Sakhorn in the past, and they were the ones who read the alleged information extracted from the monk to the judge. After hearing the cops declaration, the judge proceeded immediately to issue a decision in the case by stating that he (the judge) found Monk Tim Sakhorn guilty of undermining the Vietnam-Cambodia solidarity, and sentenced him to one year of jail, starting from the day of his arrest on 30 June 2007.
The Khmer Krom source was in fact a Khmer Krom monk, and he confirmed to Sralanh Khmer that he saw Monk Tim Sakhorn declaring to the court that he does not know anything about the law setting up the friendship between Cambodia and Vietnam. Furthermore, Monk Tim Sakhorn said that he has no intention of undermining this friendship either. He said that last year and the year before that, a group of KKF leaders visited his pagoda in Phnom Den, they then invited monks to participate in human rights activities and in demanding freedom for Khmer Kampuchea Krom people only.
The Khmer Krom source confirmed that, immediately after the confession of Monk Tim Sakhorn, the communist judge from Motr Chrouk province immediately declared that, according to Article 87 of the VN criminal code, Monk Tim Sakhorn will be sentenced to 15-year of jail, however, because he does not understand the Vietnamese law, and he was unknowingly under the influence of the KKF, therefore the court had decided to lighten his sentence to one year jail time only.
Other witnesses who spoke to Sralanh Khmer told us that, to tell the truth, they don’t even know that Monk Tim Sakhorn was jailed or that he was tortured or not, or whether he was forced to confess by some means or not, but judging from their listening to his confession, these witnesses believe that the former monk seems to be normal.
The VN cops told Khmer Krom people who were present in the hearing that they did not jail Monk Tim Sakhorn at all, and that they never tortured him. They said that Monk Tim Sakhorn was allowed to live in a decent place during the investigation prior to the hearing only.
The hearing was concluded at noon on that same day. Almost all of the Khmer Krom monks and people who attended the hearing, told Sralanh Khmer that they never knew who Monk Tim Sakhorn was (before the day of the hearing). Chau In who was forced by the Yuon authority to act as a witness in this case, complained that he did not know about the issue involving Monk Tim Sakhorn.
One day prior to the hearing, at the Wat Sangker No. 1 pagoda, located in Po commune (An Cu in VN), Krobao district (Tinh Bien), Motr Chrouk province (An Giang), Son Song Son, the communist party cadre in the Khmer Krom area, summoned several hundreds of Khmer Krom people to a meeting to explain about the results achieved by the communist regime during the past 30 years of occupation. Son Song Son also reminded Chau In during the meeting for him to attend the hearing held for Monk Tim Sakhorn on 08 November based on the provincial court summon. At that time, Chau In proposed that he will attend the hearing only if all Khmer people in the village attend as well, however Son Song Son rejected this proposal.
According to all Khmer Krom sources who attended this meeting, the reason Son Song Son rejected this proposal was because he was afraid that Khmer Krom people could create havoc in court, and undermine the hearing. Instead, Son Song Son turned around and invited 10 monks, one from each pagoda in 2 districts, to participate in the hearing.
Venerable Thach Binh, the Secretary-general of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Monks Association in Cambodia, said that the hearing of Monk Tim Sakhorn was conducted based on the Vietnamese authority’s whim only, and furthermore, there was no defense lawyer present in the hearing either, no family members of Monk Tim Sakhorn present there. The major in justice committed in this case is the fact that Monk Tim Sakhorn, a Cambodian citizen, was deported to be sentenced in Vietnam instead of Cambodia. Ven. Thach Binh said that this is a typical communist-style travesty of justice, and it also shows the Yuon’s supremacy over Khmer people, even on those living in Cambodia, i.e. not only do the Yuons have full control over Khmer people in Kampcuchea Krom, they are also foolishly violating the sovereignty and the independence of Cambodia as well.
Thach Setha, KKC President, added to Ven. Thach Binh’s declaration, by telling Sralanh Khmer that, the sentencing of Monk Tim Sakhorn by the Yuon tribunal in Motr Chrouk province is a serious legal violation of the kingdom of Cambodia. In the sentencing of a Cambodian citizen (Monk Tim Sakhorn), the Hun Sen’s regime in Cambodia did not even send its representative to follow up in this case. This is tantamount to a Cambodian leader carving a piece of his own meat to offer to the Yuon tiger.
Thach Setha, who was a former Senator, said that the sentencing of Monk Tim Sakhorn is a clear proof that the Cambodian government is unable to defend its own citizens, and that the Cambodian leaders are living under the Yuon political influence, just like how they did in 1979.
Regarding the defrocking of Monk Tim Sakhorn on 30 June 2007 at Wat Siha Ratanaram pagoda (the pagoda of residence of the Takeo provincial monk chief), a source from Takeo told Sralanh Khmer yesterday that since the day the “Tep Vong 07 January” monks (07 January is the date of the Vietnamese army invasion of Cambodia), accompanied by several dozens of killer-bodyguards, defrocked Monk Tim Sakhorn in that pagoda, the pagoda members no longer became generous to the monks as they used to be. Buddhist laymen and laywomen who usually pray at the pagoda during holy days, stop coming to the pagoda, and during the recent Kan Ben and Pchum Ben festival, members of the pagoda decided to celebrate the occasion at other pagodas instead, and the Siha Ratanaram pagoda was very quiet during this major Buddhist festival.
Similarly to Siha Ratanaram pagoda in Takeo, the Unalom and Langka pagodas which serve as refuge to the 07 January monks who came out to beat up peaceful Khmer Krom demonstrating monks in April of this year, and who followed the Yuon orders to defrock Monk Tim Sakhorn and handing him over to VN to be jailed and sentenced there, these 07 January monks were rejected by Buddhist followers. Even monks who came out of these two pagodas in Phnom Penh – where the 07 January monk-king (Tep Vong) and his 07 January subordinate (Sao Chan Thol) reside – to beg for alms, Buddhist followers would avoid giving alms to them. Buddhist followers noted that the 07 January monk leaders are nothing but evil and morally wicked.
21 comments:
Sralanh Khmer news? hahaha, LOL, hahaha. It is better to call it "Sralanh Ah Khmer-Yuon Ciminals" new.
Anyway, 1 years is unfair; thus, we demand the full 15 years according to the law. He know exactly what he did, and he just playing dumb.
All Ah pouk yuon chos noh rok tieng pouch!!!
Vietcong and cpp is soon done with.
Evil only bring shame upon themself. Evil is plainly dumb character, and very foolish game lead only to destruction.
Vietcong and CPP. There will be no defend when it come to judgement day. You will pay back for the evil done to the innocent " ten folds "
I curse you all vietcong and cpp members.
THis Trial in Vietnam clearly cofirms that Hun Sen and his government are living under the Buttock of Hanoi leaders.
Sir Majesty, Does Hun Sen really deserve the title Moha Decho?
We prefer call him AH CHO (Thieft) or AH CHKUOT (the Crasy) or AH khnom yuon (valet of Vietnameses).
The same for the Skin heads AH Tra Ngol AH TEP VONG and AH LONG NGET.
Cambodia under ah-choh HUN SEN and his mafia members is like a 'house with no doors or walls'!!!
Ah Yuons (Viets) can come to and leave Cambodia at free will. Ah Yuons can kill any Khmer they want. Ah Yuons can steal properties and lands they want. Ah Yuons can destroy any forest they want. Ah Yuons can catch any fish in Tonle Sap they want. Ah Yuons can move in any Cambodia border they want.
Under Hun Sen's rule, Cambodia is just a shell, while fruition is in Yuons' murderous and genocidal hands!!!
'house with no doors or walls'!!! -- 10:45
That is what we called freedom instead of prison.
THAT IS INJUSTICE FOR MR.TIM SOKHORN Ah youn and AH HUN SEN are fukced up.
This is the evident of stupid Khmer leaders including Khmer low class royal family. They are all stupid. When you have real Khmer lead the country, you will end up like this. It's time for regime change. No CPP and No Royal family in Cambodia. They're all useless and work for Hanoi. We need to stand up against Youn's aggression either by force or by people power. This regime works for Youn. Ah Khmer leaders are always acting stupid and moreon. No wonder our land becomes smaller and smaller because these idiot leaders.
The Vietcong are coming and they are using Monk Tim Sakhorn as an example!
The Vietcong are coming!
The Vietcong are coming!
The Vietcong are coming!
Please destroy all roads, bridges, and burn the fucken Vietcong embassy!
Nope, Ah KKF agent monk (Sakhorn) is not an example because he only got 1 year sentence when he should have gotten 15 years according to the Vietnamese laws. That is outrages! I am pissed. I never heard of 1,000%+ sentence reduction before. The Vietnamese administration must take such a crime against Vietnam more serious.
The fucken Vietcong can give Monk Tim Sakhorn 100 years if they want but the fact is Monk Tim Sakhorn is a Khmer citizen and the fucken Vietcong have no right to judge any Khmer people by the Vietcong law!
The Vietcong population can only be judge by the Vietcong law!
Monk Tim Sakhorn has never committed any crime in Vietname and what the Vietcong leaders has done so far is in the name of politically and racially revenge on the Khmer Krom people for fighting the Vietcong government for their freedom!
this is a good example why the accusation that KI and the Khmer hear are youn racist are untrue.
The Khmer people are simply reacting to a domination and resisting an condemned aggression by the Vietnamese people.
Who in the right mind sits by and watch their country and people become slowly engulf into another nation without expression any feelings of fear, animosity, and resentfulness???
Tim Sakhorn is a good example of the Vietnamese crooks intention for the Khmer people and Khmer Krom people subordination.
I tell you foreigner, we come from line of proud people. Line of magnificent kingdoms, we will die under our own sovereign shade and land of our ancestor.
To the last drop of blood and vein of our conscious, we Khmer people will defend our nation and identity, from all foreigners who want to control us and dominate us and take away our freedom and pride.
You are a chke, a dog, you have no understanding of what freedom and pride means beside that you are a chkout who can come online and bash the self-survival mode of the Khmer nation people against the agression of your foreign nation.
Leave us. Let me tell you something, I don't hate youn people. But I sure hate a youn person like you from the gut! Just like a i hate a traitor to the khmer people, such as a kluon khmer kbal youn, people like monk king, keat chon, hun sen, etc.
resisting an uncondemned** correction. This occupation of Vietnam to Cambodia and Laos is not condemned and not known by the world.
1:04, if you want to continue to fight for whatever, then you must formally declare war against the Vietcong in Vietnam and get over with, but don't be sneaking around in Cambodia and drag innocent children and people to support your stupid causes. We are not interested in any criminal activities. You got that?
Leave us, 1:07? hahaha, LOL, hahaha.
To 1:29PM!
You fucken Vietcong used mechanics, shopkeepers, prostitutes,Vietcong slave government officials, your wife?,Vietcong double agents, Vietcong civilians...
Hey! It is a fair game! The Vietcong had been known to fight dirty wars such as using chemical weapons to kill Cambodian resistance fighters in the 1980 along Thai-Cambodian border!
The Vietcong stay in Cambodia and they will die!
Time out, 9:00, Vietcongs are not into those things like pimps and prostitutes or whatever. you got it all backward, dude. It is Ah Khmer-Yuons who are into pimps and prostitutes. Right now they are restless because they are not allowed to pimp in Vietnam.
we are now 1:29pm
Your stupit Ah khbal yuon , cambodia is every khmer's motherland. You just live with your enemy yuon ok. but, we dont.
Every khmer have their own determination and their will.
Just like Ah Yuon Vietcong have their determination to swallow Khmer. but stucked its neck by Pol Pot. ha...ha...ha ah chkae yuon.
Yeah right, any one who refused to be involved with you criminal activity is Ah Khbal Yuon. Khmer is Ah Khbal Yuon, Chinese is Ah Khbal Yuon, French is Ah khbal Yuon, ... . Stop embarrassing yourself before the thousand of Khmer readers here, will ya?
Enjoy your democracy while it last!
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