Tuesday, January 20, 2009

More Groups Ready for Inauguration

By Taing Sarada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
19 January 2009


Cambodian embassy officials in Washington say they won’t hold a special event for the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama, but they have been invited to Tuesday’s event.

“The Cambodian Embassy, like the representatives all of the countries’ embassies based in the US, has been invited by the US State Department to join president Obama’s inauguration,” said Nay Meng Eang, deputy chief of mission at the Cambodian Embassy.

Cambodia is currently without an ambassador in Washington, following the exit of Ek Sereywath in late 2008. Hem Heng, the incoming ambassador, has yet to be recognized.

“We haven’t seen any confirmation yet,” Nay Meng Eang said.

Cambodian Embassy officials have also requested the establishment of a military attaché with the US, as well as a consulate office in Lowell, Mass., where many Cambodians live, but they have not received responses, he said.

Meanwhile, the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation, an advocacy group based in New Jersey, said it had sent a letter of congratulations to the incoming president.

Attached to the letter was an eight-page report on restrictions by the Vietnamese government against members of the Khmer Krom minority there, including the persecution of liberty, human rights and religion, said Thach Ngoc Thach, president of the group, who met with State Department officials last week.

“I think the new government will be able to continue the cooperation from [George W. Bush] administration’s work,” he said. “We strongly hope that the relationship between the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation and Obama’s administration will comprehensively continue.”

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why would to use double word like 'Khmer Kampuchea' Krom? Can you just use Khmer Krom or Kampuchea Krom?

Khmer Krom should watch the Rosa Park story and the Marin Luther King civil right movement in Vietname to rise against the Vietmanese government.

Anonymous said...

We should consider ourself lucky as cambodians...

In USA, americans have only one monkey to represent them.

In Cambodia, we have 3 monkeys to represent our peasant cambodians !

Anonymous said...

to 5:59AM

If my guess is correct. It has to be technically and politically correct. Kampuchea Krom alone is only the name of the territory, so Khmer Kampuchea Krom together are needed to identify/descript the ethnic Khmer people from the land of Kampuchea Krom. Khmer Krom word is a short hand writing (I think) is not a formal word.

Similarly I guess we can call Khmer Surin as is because Surin is the actual name of the the territory...etc, Khmer Canada, Khmer Amerik, Khmer Italy, Khmer Australy, Khmer New Zealand.

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Anonymous said...

These six things the LORD hates.
1.A lying tongue.
2.Hands that shed innocent blood.
3.A heart that devised wicked plans.
4.Feet that are sweft in running to evil.
5.A false witness who speaks lies.
6.One who sows discord among brethren.
I just want to say Congratulation to Mr.Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States.
May GOD lead you and your team to the right directions!!!

Anonymous said...

It's interesting to see pouk Ah Scam Rainxy trying to kiss Obama arse, when Pour vir rally people to vote for McCaine, hahaha, LOL, hahaha,....

Shame, shame, shame!