Somalin Thach addressed the 8th Session of the UNPFII in 2009
By Somalin ThachKhmer Krom Youth Quarterly Vol. 9
I would like to say THANK YOU to our youths who attended the KKFYC 3rd World Conference in Philly for your great support and precious time from the very bottom of my heart. Also THANK YOU to the elders for their warm support with places for us to stay and food for us to eat while we were on our mission at the UNPFII.
Just like our people in our homeland facing oppression due to restrictions of the Vietnamese Government, we here are facing depression due to economic crisis. Everyone is busy trying to make ends meet and trying to over come daily challenges life have set forth for us. I hope these challenges can only bend our feelings and not break our feelings in support of our voiceless people back home in Kampuchea-Krom.
I have learned a lot from just participating in the UNPFII this year alone. I learn that there are still great fears that linger around people outside and inside Kampuchea-Krom. Why fear when we are only doing the things that are right? We only ask for what the Vietnamese Government signed up to become a member of the UN back in 1977 and promised to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. We just want to provide recommendations to help the Vietnamese Government achieve their goals.
On May 28, 2009 at the UNPFII, my tears unexpectedly shed in the middle of delivering the Future Work speech to the UN delegates. Can anyone answer why? You don’t need to tell me I had already guessed. Your tears would have dropped if you were in my position at that time delivering the truthful speech to the UN and to the Vietnamese Government. What you need to answer now is: What can we do and how can we help to save our identity from diminishing?
It is a fact that we can not open a Khmer school in Kampuchea-Krom. It is a fact that we can not practice our religion like our ancestors did in Kampuchea-Krom. It is a fact that we can not practice our culture. It is NOT a fact that we are not intelligent or a dunce like the Vietnamese government had assumed; it is because we are not given the opportunity to grow, to blossom and to challenge our minds.
In support of our voiceless people in Kampuchea-Krom especially for the women and youths, we need to join hands with KKF and KKFYC to help making our dreams a reality. To merge out of the oppressed condition we are forced to hold within and break free like many other Indigenous peoples around the world. We deserve our rights. We deserve equality. We are the Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Delta region. We are the Khmer-Krom people of Kampuchea-Krom. We want to be free! Let Freedom ring for Khmer-Krom!
Just like our people in our homeland facing oppression due to restrictions of the Vietnamese Government, we here are facing depression due to economic crisis. Everyone is busy trying to make ends meet and trying to over come daily challenges life have set forth for us. I hope these challenges can only bend our feelings and not break our feelings in support of our voiceless people back home in Kampuchea-Krom.
I have learned a lot from just participating in the UNPFII this year alone. I learn that there are still great fears that linger around people outside and inside Kampuchea-Krom. Why fear when we are only doing the things that are right? We only ask for what the Vietnamese Government signed up to become a member of the UN back in 1977 and promised to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. We just want to provide recommendations to help the Vietnamese Government achieve their goals.
On May 28, 2009 at the UNPFII, my tears unexpectedly shed in the middle of delivering the Future Work speech to the UN delegates. Can anyone answer why? You don’t need to tell me I had already guessed. Your tears would have dropped if you were in my position at that time delivering the truthful speech to the UN and to the Vietnamese Government. What you need to answer now is: What can we do and how can we help to save our identity from diminishing?
It is a fact that we can not open a Khmer school in Kampuchea-Krom. It is a fact that we can not practice our religion like our ancestors did in Kampuchea-Krom. It is a fact that we can not practice our culture. It is NOT a fact that we are not intelligent or a dunce like the Vietnamese government had assumed; it is because we are not given the opportunity to grow, to blossom and to challenge our minds.
In support of our voiceless people in Kampuchea-Krom especially for the women and youths, we need to join hands with KKF and KKFYC to help making our dreams a reality. To merge out of the oppressed condition we are forced to hold within and break free like many other Indigenous peoples around the world. We deserve our rights. We deserve equality. We are the Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Delta region. We are the Khmer-Krom people of Kampuchea-Krom. We want to be free! Let Freedom ring for Khmer-Krom!
15 comments:
Yeah, Cambodian is beginning to grow stronger. Go! Go! go!
Dear khmuoy Somaline,
We really need young cleaver people like you and others to carry our mission in obtaining self-determination of Khmer Kampuchea Krom.
Please keep up your consistency and perseverence in contributing time and efforts for our strugle.
Thank you.
Continue your good-intentioned missions.
I totally support you and your group.
One day I will try to kill Hun Sen and his Youn's group. Not all CPP are Youn's group, but Hunsen group.
Dear Somaline
Praise for your tiredless effort to assist disavantaged khmer krom, currently still being oppressed by vietnam govt.
Buddhist practice is core of living and moral values where our ancestors have practiced and maintained,are seen as root of our culture.
Wish you very best and luck to save Khmer krom.
Neang SA
I am a Vietnamese. I do not believe that Khmer Krom can do everything when they are just doing for one group for Tra Vinh team. The world will see the real face of this group because they work for one team from Tra Vinh, but not for Khmer Krom. If they really work for Khmer Krom, i also support all you while i get more info from South Vietnam.
Keep up the good work niece. The day with freedom will be arrived for us Khmer Krom. You've got to know the history of the Greece, they were under the Turks for +400 years and they managed to freed themselves out of the Turk's hands. Please continue to rebel until we achieve our goal.
Khmer-sralanh-Khmer,USA
Phearakech kaun chao khmer .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb84E71yiS4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htc4PbnssOE&feature=related
Great job, Somalin! Please continue to fight the viet oppression on khmer krom people for the freedom to exercise religious rights.
2:10pm. What make you think kill Hunsen will solved anything for Khmer Krom?
When a dunb ass Like you like to play ah youn's GAME you will always lose for hundred years to come.
Some of you so DUNB you play right into ah youn's GAME and don't event know it!
Khmer From Khleang.
Young Khmer Krom are now stonger. They try to get freedom for their homeland.
To help khmer krom, young khmer kandal have to wake up and push khmer Gov. (Hun Xen) to stop working under Youn (Vietcong).
Khmer Gov. is Kbal youn kloun khmer.
To my khmer brother and sister throughout the world! please help remind our people to stand up and fight against Vietnamese Gov't abusive....
www.khmer-heroes.blogspot.com/
To my khmer brother and sister throughout the world! please help remind our people to stand up and fight against Vietnamese Gov't abusive....
www.khmer-heroes.blogspot.com/
khmer krom people, just because you are presently under youn control, don't let that oppress you all. keep in mind that you are only separated from cambodia by political geography, however, don't forget you share the same language, culture, customs and etiquette, ancestors, etc with cambodia. you will overcome someday. just keep maintianing your khmer identity like khmer language, khmer education, khmer reading and writing, khmer custom and etiquette and so forth; you are always khmer in your hearts and souls. please don't forget your khmer legacy, khmer identity, etc..., although you are under youn gov't. you are always khmer in your identity. god bless khmer krom.
ps: please continue to learn from everybody and never always demand to keep a strong khmer identity like buddhist pagoda, customs and etiquette and khmer language always.
Khmerland includes Prey Nokor city(Saigon), Preah Suorkea(Baria),Raung Domrei(Tay Ninh), Motr Chrouk (An Giang/Chau Doc), Prek Reuskey (Can Tho), O Kap (Nha Trang/Vung Tau), Koh Tral (Phu Quoc) Island, Kampong Russey (Ben Tre), Preah Treapang (Tra Vinh), Khleang (Soc Trang), Tuk Khmau (Ca Mau), Pol Leov (Bac Lieu), Mei Sor (My Tho), Peam Barach (Long Xuyen), Peam Bantey Meas (Ha Tien), Koh Tralach (Con Son) Island, Long Hor (Vinh Long, Changva Trepang Sraka Trey (Bien Hoa).
All Khmers must recognize all these names and reclaim Khmer lands of Kampuchea Krom (Lower Cambodia) once and for all.
Long Live Khmerland and Khmer Nation!!!
Khmer Angkor
If all Khmer can ask the UN to demote Hun Sen then Khmer,khmer krom will have more freedom, and PPenh will never become the next Kampuchea krom.
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