Vietnam Seizes Cambodian Passport & Threatens to Defrock Khmer-Krom Monk
PRESS RELEASE: 17 June 2010
Pennsauken, NJ, USA
Venerable Soeun Ty, born on August 19, 1984, had left his home town of Khleang (renamed Soc Trang) to live in Cambodia since 2003. He became a legal Cambodian citizen in 2004 and currently resides at Angtaminh Temple, Sangkat Khokchombok, Khan Dongkor, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
On 27th May 2010, Ven. Ty was visiting his parents in Khleang when local Police seized his Cambodian passport and subjected him to full day of interrogation. He was released later that day and was told to pick up his passport four days later, on 31st May, 2010. When Ven. Ty attempted to pick his passport, he was once again subjected to another full day of intense interrogation. While he was later released, his parents continue to be harassed by police, forced to go local police station almost daily. According to inside reports, the police are applying pressure to Ven. Ty’s parents to force Ven. Ty to voluntarily defrock. They threaten to defrock their son and imprison him if they do not comply with their orders.
The reason behind Ven. Ty intense interrogation by Vietnamese authorities remains unknown. He is currently residing at Pem Boun Temple, Kinh Ngang Hamlet, Dai An2 Village, Long Phu district, Soc Trang Province under heavy surveillance.
On behalf of Ven. Ty and his parents, we, the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, would like to seek your assistance to intervene on this matter immediately. We believe that all Khmer-Krom individuals in Cambodia should feel safe and able to freely visit their ancestral homeland without fear or discrimination from Vietnam. We sincerely hope that Ven. Ty will not become another Tim Sakhorn case.
In this regards, we would like to:
On 27th May 2010, Ven. Ty was visiting his parents in Khleang when local Police seized his Cambodian passport and subjected him to full day of interrogation. He was released later that day and was told to pick up his passport four days later, on 31st May, 2010. When Ven. Ty attempted to pick his passport, he was once again subjected to another full day of intense interrogation. While he was later released, his parents continue to be harassed by police, forced to go local police station almost daily. According to inside reports, the police are applying pressure to Ven. Ty’s parents to force Ven. Ty to voluntarily defrock. They threaten to defrock their son and imprison him if they do not comply with their orders.
The reason behind Ven. Ty intense interrogation by Vietnamese authorities remains unknown. He is currently residing at Pem Boun Temple, Kinh Ngang Hamlet, Dai An2 Village, Long Phu district, Soc Trang Province under heavy surveillance.
On behalf of Ven. Ty and his parents, we, the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, would like to seek your assistance to intervene on this matter immediately. We believe that all Khmer-Krom individuals in Cambodia should feel safe and able to freely visit their ancestral homeland without fear or discrimination from Vietnam. We sincerely hope that Ven. Ty will not become another Tim Sakhorn case.
In this regards, we would like to:
- Ask Vietnam to stop the unjustified interrogations and harassment of Ven. Ty and his parents without legitimate reason.
- Ask Vietnam to release Ven. Ty’s passport and drop all charges against him.
- Ask the help of the Cambodian government to investigate this case against its fellow citizen and secure for his safe return to Cambodia.
- Seek the help of Foreign Embassies and human rights agencies within Cambodia and around the world to closely monitor the situation of Ven. Ty.
6 comments:
That is Youn strategy? but are still silence ?
Shame on Ah Sihanouk, Ah Sihamoni to visit Ah Vietcongs, while Khmer Krom people are being oppressed/imprisoned/killed by the Vietcongs.
Shame on Ah Sihamouk Ah Sihamoni, Ah kwack Hun Sen, and those Khmer Nation sellers.
I hope one day, the Vietcongs will jail ah Sihamoni, ah Hun Sen, Ah Hun Sen's children, all those that support Vietcongs domination on Khmer soil.
KHMER Angkor.
Yee! I thought they took pasport from Shihanouk and make him Vietnamese~!
Didn't you realized that their ah Sihamoney is half Khmer/Yuon.
AH YOUN ROLEAY TAI HAONG...SOAM AOY POOCH SAS HAENG AOY MEAN VET TAH NEAR VINH.
The only way to stop ah youn chlean pean teuk dey khmer is to take back kampuchea krom that belong to us to begin with.
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