Cheang Sokha
The Phnom Penh Post
AN ethnic Khmer Krom monk who says authorities are accusing him of distributing leaflets that deride the January 7 anniversary commemorating the fall of the Khmer Rouge said he has gone into hiding to flee arrest.
Liv Phally, 32, said that he and four other Khmer Krom monks – members of Vietnam’s Khmer minority – were accused by authorities of distributing leaflets that ridicule the government’s celebration of January 7.
“I am living in fear and am hiding because the accusation against me is serious and it is linked to Prime Minister Hun Sen,” Liv Phally said Sunday by phone, denying any involvement in distributing the leaflets. “I don’t even know the meaning of the leaflets.”
The anonymous leaflets caused a stir when police in Takeo province reported their discovery just days before January 7. A copy of one of the leaflets obtained by the Post asserted that January 7, 1979, should not be celebrated as a day of liberation, but rather remembered as the day that Cambodia became “abused and occupied” by neighbouring Vietnam.
An Interior Ministry official confirmed authorities were investigating the leaflets, but said officials have not threatened any Khmer Krom monks.
“They are scaring themselves,” said Major General Chhay Sinarith, director of the Internal Security Department at the Ministry of Interior. “We are still investigating this case and have not yet identified any suspects.”
However, one advocate for the Khmer Krom community said the allegations are strikingly similar to a 2006 case in which three Khmer Krom were arrested and accused of distributing anti-Hun Sen leaflets.
“I’m afraid that some Khmer Krom people are blamed,” said Ang Chanrith, the former executive director of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights Organisation.
Liv Phally, 32, said that he and four other Khmer Krom monks – members of Vietnam’s Khmer minority – were accused by authorities of distributing leaflets that ridicule the government’s celebration of January 7.
“I am living in fear and am hiding because the accusation against me is serious and it is linked to Prime Minister Hun Sen,” Liv Phally said Sunday by phone, denying any involvement in distributing the leaflets. “I don’t even know the meaning of the leaflets.”
The anonymous leaflets caused a stir when police in Takeo province reported their discovery just days before January 7. A copy of one of the leaflets obtained by the Post asserted that January 7, 1979, should not be celebrated as a day of liberation, but rather remembered as the day that Cambodia became “abused and occupied” by neighbouring Vietnam.
An Interior Ministry official confirmed authorities were investigating the leaflets, but said officials have not threatened any Khmer Krom monks.
“They are scaring themselves,” said Major General Chhay Sinarith, director of the Internal Security Department at the Ministry of Interior. “We are still investigating this case and have not yet identified any suspects.”
However, one advocate for the Khmer Krom community said the allegations are strikingly similar to a 2006 case in which three Khmer Krom were arrested and accused of distributing anti-Hun Sen leaflets.
“I’m afraid that some Khmer Krom people are blamed,” said Ang Chanrith, the former executive director of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights Organisation.
5 comments:
Why did they like to pick on the k k monks?.
All dogs do that to please their master.
Poor slaves, if you can, why don't you avoid to kiss Yuons ass.
90% of cambodian leader today is vietnamese that including HO NAM HONG, HONG KIM VA, HO LONG NHI THEY ALL GOT LAST NAME (HO) AS ( HO CHI MINH) SOME CAMBODIAN TODAY ARE SO FUCKING STUPID THEY DON'T EVEN KNOWN WHO RUN THEIR COUNTRY TODAY.The vietnamese are using cambodian to fight cambodian that including khmer krom, khmer kondal, and khmer leur, please be unite khmer people and fight the vietnamese out of our country, let help each other start something better for khmer people, only khmer that love khmer!!! we all got to do some thing now before is to late. The vietnames is taking over of everything in cambodia today and hun sen goverment let the viet do everything in cambodia land today and millions of viet illigal immigration comming in everyday. KHMER PEOPLE PLEASE OVER YOUR EYE AND TO WHAT BEST FOR OUR PLEASE!
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Khmer Krom nationalists across the generations have had to face the charge of harbouring 'subversive tendencies' or engaging in 'activities detrimental to national unity and security' of Vietnam. Such fictitious charges and the resulting arrests, persecutions and discriminations of an indigenous people under the same specious pretexts have long been part of an historically pitiless, mechanical process that not only deprives a people of their basic cultural endowments as human beings with regard to inherited beliefs and customs, but also must be seen rightly, as an onslaught upon their chances of long term physical survival as an ethnic entity itself.
The racial, cultural 'melting-pot' phenomenon can be a welcome insurance from, and safeguard against, racial divisions and insularity that nationalism and racial sentiment have tended to inspire and foster. Yet where national or social institutions are either impotent, dysfunctional, or even just partially racialised (i.e. structured ethnically in favour of any given dominant ethnic group), or indeed a combination of both, minority groups stand every chance of being degraded and eventually annihilated altogether as distinct cultural and physical species. There is no shortage of past illustrations of the violence committed against ethnic minorities in history; from the Turks' massacre of the Christian Armenians, the genocide of the Aborigines of the Australasia, the natives of North and South Americas, the Jews across Europe, and more recently, the killing of ethnic Kurds in Irag under Saddam Hussein.
On the other hand, in terms of institutional development, ASEAN are still light years behind the EEC, as well as the melting pots of Australia and North America. The major European states such as France, Italy, Germany and Britain have only cautiously, and with all kinds of clauses inserted into social legislations, acceded to their uneasy notion of a common market, with Britain still retaining its pound sterling instead of the 'single' Euro currency. Economic integration can be beneficial to all countries in ASEAN, but this should make due allowance for conditions and concerns particular to each nations, specifically, smaller ones. I'm not sure if the PP regime is sophisticated enough to see through much of the glossy marketing brochure literature presented to them. For the larger nations hungry for raw materials and energy to fuel their economies, economic integration could be a blessing; for VN it could just be another expedient stepping stone towards consolidating its long-term demographic and political hegemony over the heartland of SEA in counter to growing Chinese threat.
Meanwhile, it is to Cambodia’s interest to look beyond the narrow confines of ideologies and party politics and begin investing in and channelling those potent forces that have hitherto been made to lie dormant and prostrate through foreign suppressions and conquests. If the current regime is not too intoxicated with its blind, narrow-minded pursuits and come round to acknowledge its true essence as part of the Khmer Household, it could provide a timely relief for the nation in respect of the present crisis. If not, the Khmer people will have to make do without them by showing solidarity with their brothers and cousins from across the Mekong Delta to the Korat Plateau.
MP
Do as Master Vietcongs say!!!That is to chase and kill Khmer to no end.
Hanoi new policy of ethnic cleansing--killing Khmer Krom outside Kampuchea Krom by proxy using the Hun Sen' dogs.
Khmer Angkor.
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