By Kher Sonorng
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Soch
Click here to read the article in Khmer
On Thursday 07 April, officials at the audiovisual department of the ministry of Information (MoI) issued an order to Mam Sonando, the chairman of the Beehive FM105 station to stop selling broadcast time to the Khmer Post radio.
In a communiqué issued by the MoI to Mam Sonando on 07 April, it indicated that the department recently noted that Beehive station rented broadcast time to the Khmer Post (AM 9960) during its 10 to 11AM time slot. This is a violation of government edict 550 which consists of the MoI’s directives.
San Putheary, the director of the audiovisual department of the MoI, added about the issuing of the letter ordering the shutdown of the Khmer Post broadcast: “The authority’s directive indicated that all broadcast time slot sold must receive authorization from the MoI.”
Leng Kiri, an administrator for the Beehive station, indicated that his station has not made a decision on this issue yet and that this issue is being discussed. He added: “The MoI threatened Beehive, they told us to shut down the broadcasting of The Khmer Post radio. If Beehive dares broadcasting The Khmer Post again, the MoI will cancel our license, i.e. they will shut us down completely.”
Regarding this issue also, Ith Sokha, a representative for the Khmer Post, replied that the MoI’s order to shut down the Khmer Post seems to be issued in haste even though he already fulfilled all the legal paperwork. Ith Sokha added: “On the Khmer Post side, we are puzzled as to why this order was issued without prior directive first? If the Khmer Post broadcasted something that needs correction, then it would be done according to democracy, according to the information law. But, if we are shut down without prior information, this is very regrettable.”
A source indicated that the Khmer Post was broadcasted on the Internet for almost 2 years already, however, recently, it bought time from the Beehive station and it was operating for almost 1 week now. The Khmer Post program includes: local news, analyses, social issues related to development and human benefits, as well as the destruction of forest.
13 comments:
In reply to Ms. Rattana Keo about her Topic " Koh Tral must not be forgotten "
The island's history is as old as any Asian mainland. An 1856 record mentions the island: "... King Ang Duong (of Cambodia) apprise Mr. de Montigny, French envoy in visit to Bangkok, through the intermediary of Bishop Miche, his intention to yield Koh Tral to France (cf. “The Second [French] Empire of IndoChina”)". Such a proposition aimed to create a military alliance with France to avoid the threat of Vietnam on Cambodia. The proposal did not receive an answer from the French.
While the war between Annam, France, and Spain was about to begin, Ang Duong sent another letter to Napoleon III to warn him on Cambodian claims on the lower Cochinchina region: the Cambodian king listed provinces and islands, including Koh Tral, under Vietnamese occupation since several years or decades (in the case of Saigon, some 200 years according to this letter). Ang Duong asked the French emperor to not annex any part of these territories because, as he wrote, despite this relatively long Vietnamese occupation, they remain Cambodian lands. In 1867, Phu Quoc's Vietnamese authorities pledge allegiance to French troops just conquering HaTien.
After Cambodia gained independence from France, sovereignty disputes over the island were raised since there was no colonial decision on the island's fate. Dating back to 1939, the Governor-general of French Indochina, Jules Brévié had drawn a line to delimiting the administrative boundaries for islands in the Gulf of Thailand: those north of the line were placed under the Cambodian protectorate; those south of the line were managed by the colony of Cochinchina. Brévié made the point that the decision merely addressed police and administrative task, and that no sovereignty decision had been made. As a result, Phu Quoc remains under Cochinchina administration.
Phu Quoc has been a sleepy historical backwater most of its life. The temple on Cau rock was built in 1937. During the Vietnam War the island housed South Vietnam's largest prisoner camp (40000 in 1973, cf. Ngo Cong Duc, deputy of the Vinh Binh province, quoted in "Le régime de Nguyen Van Thieu à travers l'épreuve", Etude Vietnamienne, 1974, pp. 99–131).
After Mainland China fell under the control of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, General Huang Chieh led 30,000 Republic of China Army soldiers to Vietnam and they were stationed at Phu Quoc Island. Later, the army moved to Taiwan in June 1953. There is currently a small island in Kaohsiung, Taiwan's Chengcing Lake that was constructed in November 1955 and named Phu Quoc Island in memory of the fleeing Chinese soldiers in 1949.
In 1967, during the Sangkum Reastr Niyum, Norodom Sihanouk aimed to make the border internationally recognized; in particular, in 1967, the North Vietnamese government recognize theses borders. As written in an article from Kambudja magazine in 1968 (and quoted in the Sihanouk website), entitled "border questions", this border definition recognize that Phu Quoc island is in Vietnamese territory, even if Cambodian claims have been made later.
On May 1, 1975, a squad of Khmer Rouge soldiers raided and took Phu Quoc Island, but Vietnam soon recaptured it. This was to be the first of a series of incursions and counter-incursions that would escalate to the Cambodian–Vietnamese War in 1979.
By Dr. Hun Manet,
Fuck you Youn Dr. Hun Manet that doesn't explain why 10 000 km2 of cambodia to Vietcog clearly. Who did signed treaties from 1979 to 1985 that result in lost of 10 000km2 of cambodia from innocent khmer people?
Fuck you Vietcog!
Good to shut that son of the bitche down. Esp. that prostitute mouth of Meach Sovannara and Sourn Serey Rotha guys.
Meach Sovannara is a crook. He ripped off monies from the business owners in Long Bech, California. He then spent their monies in Cambodia.
7:31 AM,
Your comment tells me that you are a Vietnamese person using Dr. Hun Manet as a scapegoat to write this to gullible readers and bloggers who know very little about your Vietnam history and Cambodia history so that Vietnamese people like you can feel confidential and comfortable with your rewritten fake history about Phu Quoc of Vietnam which was renamed after 1979. It tells me that there are some Vietnamese spies and visitors exploring inside and around Cambodia, making sure the history books of Cambodia and Khmer Empire were destroyed and burnt down and that there was no name of Koh Tral in history books. It is not too late or no way that Vietnam can rewrite the fake Vietnam history to include Phu Quoc, The Cambodia/Khmer biggest island called Koh Tral in the gulf of Siam. I have studied the geography and history in high school Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1979 when I was 12 years old. I remember Koh Tral, Koh Ses, Koh Kut, etc. I was very shocked that Vietnam rewrote the history history to include Koh Tral by calling it Phu Quoc to part of Vietnam. My relatives and friends who are older than me are not surprised to hear about Koh Tral.
I will show this comment to my relatives and friends about Koh Tral has been recently taken by Vietnam. You are making all up about Vietnam history by including Koh Tral (Vietnam called it Phu Quoc). It is not right!!!
I don't think it is appropriate that rewritten Vietnam history after 1979 to include Koh Tral, the biggest island of Cambodia in the Gulf of Thailand.
I feel very stunning when you wrote this comment for readers and bloggers that you pretend to be Dr. Hum Manet. What are you doing, Yuon idiot?
I support you 10:29am.
Ah Meas Sovannara and also Ah Soun Serey Ratha are crooks. He ripped off monies from some individuals in Washington State such as Lok Hin Sithan etc....then Ah Soun Serey Ratha went to PPenh to get married a young girl.
Fuck you Ah Meas Sovannara and Ah Soun Serey Ratha.
Yes don't let any body talk but yourself so you can spread lies and rewrite the history like 11:21Am has mentioned to serve your Yourn master' s interst.
Khmer post not allowed to broadcast in Cambodia BUT Yourn radio station is allowed to broadcast?
11:59 AM,
What are you talking about? Are you trying to twist the comment readers and bloggers?
I am trying to protect Kah Tral, the biggest island of Cambodia in the Gulf of Thailand, belonging to Cambodia based on the history.
You supported 7:31 AM who supported who the Vietnam's interest. You are a Yuon idiot, a crook stealing everything from Cambodia.
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 10,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 10,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 10,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 10,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
11:59 AM,
I am confused with your English writing. Can you write clearly.
Sometimes, the reader like myself, may not understand what you are saying.
Please write carefully.
Thanks
Fuck you vietcog slaves who give cambodia to youn
In respone to Dr. Hun Manet by Ms. Rattana Keo,
KAMPUCHEA KROM AT A GLANCE
Kampuchea Krom is composed of 68,965 square kilometers, 21 provinces and municipalities, two large islands - Koh Tral and Koh Tralach, 171 districts, 1,368 communes, 14,778 villages, more than 13 million Khmers, more than 567 Buddhist pagodas and more than 20,000 Theravada Buddhist monks.
99% of populations are Theravada Buddhists.
The Khmer kings, governments, regimes and citizens have never relinquish (give up) this part of their country to foreigners.
Kampuchea Krom has been under an ongoing colonial control since her division from motherland, Cambodia.
June 4, 1949 is the date that the Khmer Kampuchea Krom citizens grieve. The Khmer Kampuchea Krom people have organized Buddhist Service annually to honor the fallen Khmer Buddhist monks and heroes, who sacrificed their lives for Kampuchea Krom and Theravada Buddhism.
Colonial France divided, ceded and transferred Kampuchea Krom to colonial Vietnam on this date. The freedom of Khmer Kampuchea Krom has been mostly stripped by the Vietnamese ruling regimes and governments since. The French colonial administration committed injustice upon the more than 13 million Khmers of this beautiful fertile land.
Justice remains elusive for Cambodia, Kampuchea Krom and her citizens.
And...The struggle to regain freedom and human rights by the Khmers in Kampuchea Krom continues as long as injustice commits by the ruling Vietnamese regime(s) has not produced a fruitful result.
Koh Tral (Tral Island)
in Vietnamese - Phu Quoc island
circa 1939 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
Koh Tral Island has an area of 567 square kilometers; about 62 kilometers long and between 3 kilometers and 28 kilometers wide. The island physically is located closest to Cambodia's Kep seaside city. Visitors can see Koh Tral Island from the coastline of Kep. It is about a 30-minute motorized boat ride.
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