Tim Sakhorn during his sham trial in Vietnam
Danh Ton (L) and Kim Muon (2nd from left) during their sham trial in Vietnam after they were forced to defrock
Danh Ton, Tim Sakhorn and Kim Muon prior to being re-ordained (All photos: VOKK.net)
Participants to the Khmer Krom monks re-ordainment ceremony
Re-ordainment ceremony
Danh Ton (L), Kim Muon (C) and Tim Sakhorn taking their vowsOn Monday 03 May 2010, three Khmer Krom monks who were forced to defrock in Cambodia and Kampuchea Krom, have been re-ordained again. The ceremony took place at Wat Soriyarainsey, Philadelphia, USA.
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I am very impressed with Khmer Krom people and their struggles for freedom from the tyrant Vietcongs and the Ho Chi Minh's communist doctrine.
Jey Yoh Jeat Khmer!!!Freedom to ALL KHMERS on Earth!
KHMER Angkor.
Dear brothers & sisters KKrom
Dear venerable Tim Sakhorn,
I admire your tenacity, but I failed to understand how monkhood will help advance the cause of KKrom.
Chey yo KKrom freedom.
Verry good,Chey yo khmer of the world
We thank so much to Our Lord Buddha!
"Fill your mind with compassion."
If all three Khmers come together ( kmher Krom Khmer Phnom penh and Khmer Surin) we can kick youn and siem ass out of our Cambodia territory.
Please khmer love khmer and help khmers. If we are fighting we are loose. If we join together we win.
It is very good for three those monks that were re-ordained.
Jey yo Khmer Krom. You are all from now on, You have heard in the UN and in the World.
yuons shit blackteeth scare khmerkampoucheakroms, tep vong hunsen scare yuon .
Chey yo khmerkrom...!
Chey yo preah put sana !
i strongly support khmerkom.
Outside of Vietnam and Cambodia, life is hard, different way but also hard, you have two choices, restart western life or remain monk for ever, that's long road to do.
Good luck brothers!
keep kicking bros
Khmer Krom people suffer first hand under
Viet control. Their suffering is one hundred more
times than those Khmer had suffer under the Khmer
Rough. For Khmer Krom, a complete liberation
fron Viet control is the only way to be from
suffering, opression and exploitation. Khmer's
relentless strugle should be set as a shining
example for all Khmer to fallow and it should
also be a catalyst for a bigger movement to
liberate all Khmer to build the second Angkor
era.
Because The core value of Khmer society
is mainly based on Budhist concept and value,
the monk is a prime candiate to jump start and
to lead the movement.
Khmer K
KKroms,
Buddhism is too soft and too disconnected from real life.
We'd rather switch back to Brahmanism or atheism.
Down with ho_chipmunkism.
The Vietnamese government and many Vietnamese people continue to torment Degar Christians. Not only do they beat up and murder our people in public, but they also abduct Degar Christians, taking them from their villages in order to kill them in secret. This is what happened to our Christian brother, Mup.
On the 26th day of August in 2008, our Christian brother, Mup, age 47, was found beaten to death 100 meters from the entrance to his village. Mup is a preacher in his village of Ploi Rong Khong, district of Dak Doa in the province of Gia Lai. This is what happened: Mup had been summoned by the Vietnamese security police three times to come to their headquarters in order to interrogate him regarding his religious activities, but because Mup had heard many reports of brutality by the Vietnamese officials against Degar Christians, he was afraid and decided not to show up for this summons. Many Christians have been beaten, tortured, imprisoned, poisoned and ultimately murdered.
Therefore, Mup knew the intentions of the Vietnamese and was afraid to answer the summons. On the day of his murder, Mup left his village to attend the funeral of a relative in the village of Ploi Bla. Upon returning to his village that evening, Mup was approached by Vietnamese officials. Degar villagers witnessed the officials talking to him. This was the last time anyone saw him alive. In the morning, his corpse was found about 100 meters from the village gate. The villagers who found his body carried him back to his home. Did the Vietnamese murder Mup because he did not answer their summons? Do they regularly murder everyone who fails to answer the summons? No! Of course not! Besides, it is more than likely that they intended to murder him during the interrogation for which he was summoned in the first place. This murder is the result of nothing more than sheer hatred by Vietnamese security police and soldiers towards our people. It seems as if they want revenge against the Degar people because our people sided with the Americans during the Vietnam War.
We are almost related to our Cambodian brother too. The YUON, they continue killing us and hate us because of religion.
Indigenous Montagnards tortured and Imprisoned
30 April 2010
Torture and Imprisonment:
On January 10th and 16th of 2010, at approximately 8 am, security forces whose names are Thin from Kontum and a local official named Nguyen Quan Hien went to the village of Ploi Bar Gok to arrest four Montagnard men. Prior to being taken to jail, the Montagnard men were brutally beaten. The security official named Thin repeatedly kicked the Montagnard man named A Biu until he fell to the ground bleeding. The other Montagnard men were also kicked repeatedly and punched in their faces before being taken to jail. On February 8 th of 2010, the Montagnard men were summoned to court without any representation or council. They were charged with the criminal offense of land deforestation and sentenced to prison. A Biu was charged with clearing lands for agriculture and sentenced to six years in the prison of Kontum. A Duan was severely beaten in his face and all over his body before being taken to jail. He was sentenced to five years in prison for the same crime as A Biu. A Kuin was sentenced to five years in prison and A Phol to seven years and three months.
Driven into poverty through Racism, Ethnic Cleansing and Marginalization:
These Montagnard men are farmers, who make a living out of what they can with their bare hands and willing hearts. They live on the lands that have been rightfully passed down from their ancestors. The only tools that they use to cultivate their rice fields are knives and metal hooks. It is ridiculous to charge these men with deforestation. Moreover, there are Vietnamese people who have farms next to those arrested Montagnards but the Vietnamese government has never arrested or harassed the Vietnamese farmers in any way – even though their fields are adjacent to where the Montagnards were working. Why does the Vietnamese government allow Vietnamese farmers to cultivate the land and arrest Montagnards who have been farming on that land for centuries before the Vietnamese ever invaded the highlands? What is the explanation for why the Government has imprisoned these men for harvesting rice on their own lands and charged them with deforestation while Vietnamese people who are not even native to the highlands continue to do the same thing? It seems obvious that the Vietnam government has fabricated these charges in yet another attempt to dehumanize and destroy the Montagnard people. This is more evidence that the Vietnamese government is applying an ethnic cleansing policy by using starvation to exterminate our Degar Race of people.
The four arrested farmers are from the village of Ploi Bar Yok, commune Sa Son, Xa Thay district, Kontum province, Vietnam
* A Biu is born in 1980 Sentenced to 5 years imprisonment
* A Duan is born in 1979 Sentenced to 5 years imprisonment
* A Kuin is born in 1978 Sentenced to 5 years imprisonment
* Phol is born in 1986 Sentenced to 7 years and three months imprisonment
THE MONTAGNARD FOUNDATION URGENTLY CALLS ON:
* Concerned Embassies, US State Department, European Commission, United Nations, Red Cross and other international humanitarian agencies to investigate the situation facing these four Degar Montagnards and do everything in their power to get them released from prison and protected from persecution.
* Concerned Embassies, US State Department, European Commission, United Nations, Red Cross and other international humanitarian agencies demand Vietnam release and account for all the hundreds of other Degar prisoners imprisoned in Vietnam.
Vietnamese Police Abduct Another Degar Montagnard Christian
16 February 2010
Prisoner is feared dead as he “disappeared” like the religious prisoner “Puih Hbat” who was arrested in 2008 for conducting illegal Christian prayer services
On 26 January 2010 two Vietnamese government security police handcuffed and abducted a Degar Montagnard Christian named Ksor Ju (age 37) for unknown reasons and took him away to an unknown prison. The security police had tied him to their motorcycle and dragged him away while his teenage daughter watched in horror. The same day approximately 30 security police searched and ransacked his house and threatened his family.
At this time we do not know of his whereabouts or whether ksor Ju is alive.
It is suspected that Ksor Ju’s arrest is linked to issues of religious freedom as for many decades now the Vietnamese communist government has brutally suppressed house Church Christians and Ksor Ju himself was a committed Christian. We note that Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the US International Commission for Religious Freedom have long acknowledged that hundreds of Degar Montagnards remain imprisoned in Vietnam for non violent activity including religious persecution. The US State Department has also confirmed a number of killings in recent years of Montagnards by Vietnamese authorities. Further details of the abduction of Ksor Ju are as follows:
In January 2010 Ksor Ju (age 37) was ordered to report to the police station in Song Hinh District, Phu Yen province for questioning. On 26 January 2010 at approximately 8 am our Christian Brother Ksor Ju with his 17 years old daughter, Nai H’Yam starting walking to the police station. Ksor Ju is from the village named Buon Sung, at commune Ea Bia, Song Hinh district, Phu Yen province, Vietnam. Half way there two Vietnamese security police riding on a motorcycle stopped and arrested Ksor Ju and handcuffed him. The police also tied him to their motorcycle with a rope and dragged him to the police station while his seventeen year old daughter watched in horror. His daughter cried and ran back to the village and told her mother. On this same day approximately 30 police men from Phu Yen province combined with police from Song Hinh district also ransacked Ksor Ju’s house. The police however, found nothing in his house and threatened his family. It is feared Ksor Ju will be tortured, falsely accused or even killed. To this date his family have no idea where he is or any details of his wellbeing and like the case of Puih H’Bat below the worst is feared.
The Disappearance of “Puih H’Bat” confirmed by the European Parliament
We also refer to the case of “Puih H’bat” a 44 year old Christian Degar Montagnard woman who was arrested and imprisoned in Vietnam in April 2008 for having Christian prayer services in her home. She has not been heard of since her arrest and it is feared that Vietnamese authorities murdered her. Details of her case are described below as quoted from a European Commission Parliamentary question.
H'BatE-6313/08EN Answer given by Mrs Ferrero-Waldner on behalf of the European Commission (20.01.2009): The information provided by the Honourable Member concurs with that collected by the commission. Indeed, according to reports by the Montagnard Foundation, Puih H´Bat was arrested on 11 April 2008 in her home a few days after she had been leading prayer services for Christians in her house in Ploi Bang village, Ia Chia commune, Ia Grai district, Gia Lai province. She has been detained since her arrest. She had refused to join the government-sanctioned Evangelical Church of Vietnam. According to other reliable sources contacted by the EU missions in Hanoi, Puih H´Bat was convicted of violating the law by “destruction of the unity of the people’s solidarity”. The accusation seems to refer to Article 87 of the Penal Code (in Chapter XI on “Crimes of infringing upon national security”) on “Undermining national unity policy”. According to these sources, Puih H´Bat has been sentenced to five years imprisonment in her home province. Representatives from the United States Embassy visited Puih H’Bat’s home commune on 15 October 2008. Following their visit, they wrote to the Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ia Grai district to enquire about the whereabouts of Puih H´Bat. They are still waiting for a reply.
Puih Hbat is pictured left and to this date her family has not heard from her. It is feared she has been murdered in custody by Vietnamese authorities. Her father served with the US Army during the Vietnam War.
THE MONTAGNARD FOUNDATION URGENTLY CALLS ON:
* Concerned Embassies, US State Department, European Commission, United Nations, Red Cross and other international humanitarian agencies to investigate the situation facing Ksor Ju and Puih Hbat and do everything in their power to get them released and protected from persecution.
* Concerned Embassies, US State Department, European Commission, United Nations, Red Cross and other international humanitarian agencies demand Vietnam release and account for all the hundreds of other Degar prisoners imprisoned in Vietnam.
* The US State Department including Ambassador Michael Michalak seriously review the hundreds of Degar Montagnards imprisoned in Vietnam and place Vietnam back on the ‘Country of Particular Concern’ watch list as recommended by the US International Commission of Religious Freedom.
When Khmer Krom rebel against YUON we the Degar people will rise also to kick the YUON out.
Montagnard Foundation Speaks at UNPO Conference in Rome: Persecution of Degar Montagnards
15 February 2010
On 5 February 2010 Mr. Kok Ksor, President of the Montagnard Foundation delivered the following statement in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome as part of a conference organized by UNPO titled: “Returning Refugees: Extradition to Torture – UNPO Panel in Rome. http://www.unpo.org/content/view/10670/81/
PERSECUTION OF DEGAR MONTAGNARDS
Firstly, I would like to express my deep appreciation to UNPO for the invitation to speak here today on behalf of my indigenous Degar people known also as Montagnards. Since 2001 over 1000 Degar refugees have been granted political asylum in the United States having fled across the Cambodian border to UN refugee camps. Thousands more of our people had also tried unsuccessfully to escape to Cambodia, however the Vietnamese and Cambodian authorities in co-operation with each other have sealed off the border and arrested – and befouled many hundreds of our people.
The reason for this exodus of our people seeking refuge is result of Vietnamese government policy, namely decades of ethnic, political and religious persecution. It also includes corruption and callously implemented transmigration policies and even the murder of our people by Vietnamese authorities. The persecution of Christian House Churches continues today and even as I speak now hundreds of our people languish in Vietnamese prisons. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the US International Commission for Religious Freedom acknowledge the hundreds of our people are unjustly imprisoned for non violent activities.
The sad thing is that these policies show no sign of abating. Vietnam has also tortured many of our arrested refugees upon their refoulment back to Vietnam and many were imprisoned. Due to restrictions on freedom of the press and repression by Vietnam’s security forces it is difficult to determine the exact fate of how many of our people are imprisoned as the authorities conduct secret one day trials without proper legal representation. We know however, that the US State Department has also confirmed some killings of our people, but our people inside Vietnam report many, more killings of their relatives by Vietnamese security forces who in many cases take revenge against our people.
On December 5, 2003 UN Special Envoy to Cambodia Peter Leupretch denounced the practice by Cambodian Police of forcibly returning Degar Montagnards back to Vietnam. In a statement to the Associated Press he said there were QUOTE “reasons to believe that there are people in the highlands on the other side of the border who have a justified fear of persecution by the Vietnamese government.” UNQUOTE.
In July 2005 approximately 100 Degar Montagnard refugees were detained and attacked by Cambodian police – some beaten unconscious and dragged on to buses and then deported to Vietnam. This was done under UNHCR supervision. On 21 July 2005 Congressman James Leach condemned this act stating in the US Congressional Record, QUOTE “From a humanitarian vantage, the repatriation of Montagnard families in these circumstances was unacceptable, and was carried out to the discredit of both Cambodian authorities and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees” UNQUOTE.dathe situation of the Refugees has died down somewhat in the press and Vietnam and Cambodian security forces have clamped down and sealed their borders. Inside Vietnam however, our people report ongoing persecution and the ongoing abuses continuing. I will provide one such example. On April 11, 2009 at 8am Vietnamese government forces burned down a Christian Church located at Plei Todrah village, in Pleiku province, Vietnam. Four of our people from this village were threatened by police and subsequently forced to flee to the jungle. The names of these four Christians are - Lo Ren So Blei, Lo Ren So Bro, Po Le Wok and Lo Ren So Hnup. We have no idea today if these people are alive or dead and they remain refugees inside Vietnam.
In closing I ask you to reflect on one more case. This is the case of Puih Hbat the wife of one of our people who escaped Vietnam as a refugee. Rahlan Hre himself was resettled in the United States a few years ago. His wife and family back in Vietnam however, were not so lucky and the Vietnamese security forces interrogated them many times and his teenage son was tortured. In April 2008 Rahlan Hre’s wife Puih Hbat was arrested for having prayer services in her home. In January 2009 the European Parliament confirmed in a parliamentary question that she had been arrested and imprisoned stating QUOTE “after she had been leading prayer services for Christians in her house”.UNQUOTE. Unfortunately Puih Hbat has not been heard of since and we believe that Vietnamese authorities may have executed her. We also believe she was targeted for revenge because the Vietnamese authorities wanted to punish her husband who had escaped to America. On behalf of the indigenous Degar Montagnard people we ask that efforts be made to account for Puih Hbat and the other hundreds of Degar Montagnard prisoners. We also ask that efforts be undertaken to protect our refugees in Cambodia but that efforts made to prevent the entire homelands of our people, the central highlands of Vietnam from becoming one large persecuted refugee camp. Thank you and God bless.
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http://www.bidness.com/dega/
We Khmer around the world not only support the Khmer Krom, but we have the right to support and assist the political movement of all other Khmer live on the former Khmer Empire territorial.
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I'm very interested in learning More about Dega people's history and strugle. This is my first time exposing to Dega people. Before this I never heard of Dega people before. I always thought that central Viet only copose of Cham people and they are the native people of that region. After reading the history on Dega website, I have great sympathy for what your people been through under the Viet opression. Yes, I agree with you that Dega people is 95% similar to Khmer. You can contact me at: jvarman_n@hotmail.com.
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May Buddhist bless all our Khmer people. I wish one day we'll get our land back and we all will have peace and freedom. Youn goes down, Khmer Krom will be powerful. I love Khmer Krom culture so much!
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