Originally posted by Khmer Krom Network
Selected transcripts released for 30 April 2008
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FACE GROWING CRISIS AS CLIMATE CHANGE, UNCHECKED ECONOMIC GROWTH, UNFAVOURABLE DOMESTIC LAWS FORCE THEM FROM LANDS, FORUM TOLD
SOMALIN MENG THACH, speaking on behalf of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation and the Montagnard Foundation, said all that her organization had ever wanted was for the Vietnamese Government to affirm her peoples’ rights. Although Viet Nam had accused them of pursuing a separatist agenda, she asked how her people could separate from their homeland. They had been there before and were still there after colonialism. Viet Nam had said the “KKF” were separatists, yet the Government would not even agree to meet with their group despite their requests. The statement made yesterday by a representative of Viet Nam suggesting that the “KKF” and the Montagnard Foundation were wasting the Forum’s precious time had been insulting. She asked for the support and solidarity of the world’s indigenous peoples and of the Forum’s members. Click here to see Live Video of this speech
SOPHAC THACH*, speaking on behalf of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Foundation, said the Khmer had borne the greatest burden of poverty in Viet Nam. Limited access to services and lack of representation were among the realities on which the “KKF” had compiled data. Yet Viet Nam had continued to deny the existence of the “KKF”. The “KKF” needed dialogue and proposals, including meetings, with the support of the Forum and the Government of Viet Nam, to begin to identify indigenous peoples. Click here to see Live Video of this speech
PHAM HAI ANH (Viet Nam) expressed concern that, while his Government limited it statements in many United Nations forums, the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Foundation and the Montagnard Foundation had essentially been repeating the same statement under a number of different agenda items in this Forum. He wondered how those organizations could claim they would like to have a dialogue with his Government. He also took issue, as he had at other sessions of the Forum, with the accuracy of those statements. They said indigenous peoples were not represented in Viet Nam’s Government, but that could easily be seen as incorrect by simply visiting the website of Viet Nam’s National Assembly.
VICTORIA TAULI-CORPUZ, Forum Chairperson, acknowledging that representatives from other Vietnamese groups had in years past participated in the Forum, said she encouraged that type of participation. It was understood that, because the speakers from the KKF and the Montagnard organization were based here in the United States, there were limits on how representative their statements could be. However, she encouraged all indigenous groups who addressed the Forum to be accurate when presenting their statements.
*Actually speaker on the day.
Source: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2008/hr4951.doc.htm
SOPHAC THACH*, speaking on behalf of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Foundation, said the Khmer had borne the greatest burden of poverty in Viet Nam. Limited access to services and lack of representation were among the realities on which the “KKF” had compiled data. Yet Viet Nam had continued to deny the existence of the “KKF”. The “KKF” needed dialogue and proposals, including meetings, with the support of the Forum and the Government of Viet Nam, to begin to identify indigenous peoples. Click here to see Live Video of this speech
PHAM HAI ANH (Viet Nam) expressed concern that, while his Government limited it statements in many United Nations forums, the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Foundation and the Montagnard Foundation had essentially been repeating the same statement under a number of different agenda items in this Forum. He wondered how those organizations could claim they would like to have a dialogue with his Government. He also took issue, as he had at other sessions of the Forum, with the accuracy of those statements. They said indigenous peoples were not represented in Viet Nam’s Government, but that could easily be seen as incorrect by simply visiting the website of Viet Nam’s National Assembly.
VICTORIA TAULI-CORPUZ, Forum Chairperson, acknowledging that representatives from other Vietnamese groups had in years past participated in the Forum, said she encouraged that type of participation. It was understood that, because the speakers from the KKF and the Montagnard organization were based here in the United States, there were limits on how representative their statements could be. However, she encouraged all indigenous groups who addressed the Forum to be accurate when presenting their statements.
*Actually speaker on the day.
Source: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2008/hr4951.doc.htm
7 comments:
The only thing the Khmer Krom are asking for is to live like any other human beings. Vietnam must be pushed back to its origin, or even out of existence altogether. Vietnam is bad and not entitled to existence because it is a cause of human misery and death. To convince yourself with the truth just look at the history in the neighborhood.
No, that is too much to ask. Ah Khmer-Yuon don't deserved to live like human being. They destroyed their home land and the region along with it, and they are responsible for their action, no excuse.
Vietnam is so scare of the truth that they are denying every little evident thereof.
Vietnam is running out of room to run and now it has to keep on barking and barking soon Khmer-Krom will be the master of this wild dog.
Keep up the good work Khmer people.
Well, the truth is Ah Khmer-Yuons are animals. Maybe that is what scared the Viet.
There can be so many denials that at the end Vietnam have to accept he truth.
Khmer-Krom will prevail!
Yeah, on Planet of the Ape.
What a come back 1:17am, that's what we mean continue denial of what's going to happen in the near future.
May lord Buddha find a good place for you and your Yuon souls.
In the mean time take good care of yourself and your cpp families.
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