Press conference held by EU MPs Marco Panella and Marco Perdula at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh (Photo: Pring Samrang, Cambodge Soir Hebdo)Two EU MPs prevented from flying to Vietnam
24 Dec 2008
By Leang Delux
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
Click here to read the article in French
Marco Panella and Marco Perdula, EU Members of Parliament, were banned from boarding a Vietnam Airlines flight from Phnom Penh to Hanoi on Tuesday 23 December. The reason for this ban: to preserve the security for the two EU MPs –sic!–.
The two MPs held a press conference in the afternoon following the incident at Le Royal Hotel in Phnom Penh. “Agents of the [airline] company told us that they received information from their government whereby demonstrations were waiting for us at our arrival. They said they do not wish to put us in a dangerous situation,” Marco Panella revealed before showing his passport bearing the visa issued by the Vietnamese embassy in Italy. But, according to Marco Panella, “the real reason for this ban is because we support the rights of Khmer people from Kampuchea Krom.”
In fact, on Sunday 21 December, the two EU MPs met with representatives of the Kampuchea Krom community in the suburb of Phnom Penh. The two MPs encouraged Khmer Krom people to pursue their peaceful demand.
According to Marco Perdula, the EU MPs’ visit to Vietnam would include meetings with Vietnamese government officials, Vietnamese MPs, as well as visits to Montagnard people and catholic religious people. The pair would also look into the case of Khmer people from South Vietnam, i.e. Kampuchea Krom.
The two MPs held a press conference in the afternoon following the incident at Le Royal Hotel in Phnom Penh. “Agents of the [airline] company told us that they received information from their government whereby demonstrations were waiting for us at our arrival. They said they do not wish to put us in a dangerous situation,” Marco Panella revealed before showing his passport bearing the visa issued by the Vietnamese embassy in Italy. But, according to Marco Panella, “the real reason for this ban is because we support the rights of Khmer people from Kampuchea Krom.”
In fact, on Sunday 21 December, the two EU MPs met with representatives of the Kampuchea Krom community in the suburb of Phnom Penh. The two MPs encouraged Khmer Krom people to pursue their peaceful demand.
According to Marco Perdula, the EU MPs’ visit to Vietnam would include meetings with Vietnamese government officials, Vietnamese MPs, as well as visits to Montagnard people and catholic religious people. The pair would also look into the case of Khmer people from South Vietnam, i.e. Kampuchea Krom.
24 comments:
The issue with Vietname covreing the truth is spot on.
It time Khmer Krom people reclaim what is belong to Cambodia since the French handover to the Viet post WW2.
Mon dieu mais que faire Samdach Ta et sa Majeste la Reine de sang Viet IZZI MONICA et Samdach DECHO
vietnam is one of the most secret terrorist country in the region and around the world.vietnam is using its dirty tricks for its territorial expansions by killing off the indigenous people who living among them without bloodstains from century to century without knowing by the United Nations and by the international communities.
For real example:Champa,Kampuchea Krom(changed to sout vietnam in 1949),Lao is recently controled by vietnam(90% government official are vietnamese,but bearing Lao plaque).
Now vietnam is working toward the kingdom of Cambodia by creating the infamous killingfield in 1975-1979 by its thousand of secret agents who hiding in Pol Pot regime and now in Hun Sen government which administrating by these secret agents behind Hun Sen.
Before 1970,there were only 200,000 vietnames in Cambodia but now more than 5,000 000.
vietnam is oppressing the indigenous people not to maintain their identities and their rights their religion and their believes.Thank you Marco Panella and Marco Perdula for understanding our centurial plight.
Hey hey, don't start trouble here. There is no such thing as Khmer Krom. There is only Yuon in Vietnam, just as there is no such thing as Khmer Leu. There is only Thai. Remember?
Congratulation to the Khmerkrom community from around the world. The whole khmerkrom things is spreading fast around International media and the whole world getting to known khmerkrom people better day by day. Right now the Communist vietnam goverment can not hide the true about khmerkrom peoople anymore, I belive khmerkrom will have it own goverment very soon and the whole world will support the truggle of the kampuchea krom people. Once again thanx to the world Media that including KIMedia...thank you very much!!
Cambodia
sok phoun
There goes another idiot (3:14) on crack who hallucinated Khmer in Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos.
These khmerkrom people never learn their lesson. They want to have their own goverment inside vietnamese government. This time vietnamese will cut their heads off and will not through them in jails anymore. Sok phoun you are not going to be Sok and you can't phoun neither.
Khmerkrom will never back down.The VN regim trying all it can to put down the KKF and other khmerkrom community in cambodia. Honoi can not stop the spreading words of the khmerkrom truggle, and will never be stop by VC regim.
3:10,
you are the stupid idiot.
you think ur in a 5th grade class room fooling your stupid kids?
no way you youn slime by nature.
get back into the water where u belong.
pround to be khmer extremist! ah kun top( diaper)(youn) will burn to hell! the VC embassy in the kingdom of cambodia will fucking burn to ash. Warning to all of the fucking Youn in Cambodia, STay the fuck out of cambodia or burn to hell.
please keep pushing and demanding for the rights and freedom of all indigenous khmer krom people. who told them (vietnamese thieves) to annex khmer krom lands and people in the first place? of course, with any annexation comes the full responsibility to take care of all the people there. it doesn't come free! god bless you and all khmer krom people.
I still say there is no such thing as Khmer outside of Cambodia, any argument, ..., objection?
510
There is no objection, these people are the vienamese citizen.
they are speaking like vietnamese singing.
Big congrats to KKF's effort on internationalization of Khmer Krom's suffering.
Khmer Krom are people too, hence Vietnam must respect Khmer Krom's rights to ancestral lands & properties, religion, history, education, natural resources (oil and gas in the Mekong basin).
Vietnam has benefited so much from Khmer Krom's homeland such as Rice cultivation, tropical fruit plantations, fishery industry, and last but not least the exploration of OIL and GAS in the Mekong Basin.
What is Khmer Krom get in return from Viets' exploitation of Khmer Krom's resources?
All we KK want is our God given freedom and liberty. The suppressive Viets must be defeated and stampeded. The table will turn and the viets will be pushed back to where they once were - to the north next to the China border and they will eventually evaporate into thin air.
Dream on, stupid (6:57), and stop posting bullshit on Khmer's website. Again, there is no such thing as Khmer Krom or Khmer Leu or whaever. There is only Yuon, Thai, and Ah Pleu-oversea. You got that?
Dream on, stupid (6:57), and stop posting bullshit on Khmer's website. Again, there is no such thing as Khmer Krom or Khmer Leu or whaever. There is only Yuon, Thai, and Ah Pleu-oversea. You got that?
THIS MOTHER FUCKER, UNEDUCATED SHIT MUST HAVE GOTTEN FUCKED A LOT BY THE (KA-THORP) HANOI SHIT. OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES AND LOOK AROUND YOU.... KKF ARE GROWING STRONGER EACH FUCKING DAY.... STOP FULLING PEOPLE IN HERE... YOU AINT SHIT.... AH CHKAE YOUN .... BEUR ANG KERNG AHANG.... ANG NUNG BAEN KBARL AHANG NUNG PLEAM ... EVEN THOUGHS ITS CAUSE THE LOST OF MY LIFE. PEOPLE LIKE YOU BELONG BEHIND BARS. FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT. MAY YOUR FAMILIES AND YOU GO TO HELL.
Yeah, and KKF got richer and richer from scamming people about Khmer Krom that doesn't exist. Again, there is only Yuon in Vietnam just as there is only Thai in Thailand. Get it now, Ah slut?
you fucking trouble make Youn. Please stay the fuck out of this forum you ass hole! don't need you fuck (ah kun top) in here. con me may thang bot nguoc, sinh may ra khoi chang nai. do ma thang (diaper) con me may thang cong xan xa hoi vietnam.
There is no Khmer in Vietnam. This is all KKF's Scam.
There is very interesting article by kohsantephepdaily regarding this matter. Khmer Krom vs. Khmer Krom.
No surprise, it's in the blood for Khmer to seek independence of each other.
Free the Khmer Krom now!
They are not prisoners. If they exist, they can go back to Cambodia anytime they pleased.
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