Pen Sovann's interview on the Khmer Post Radio regarding Hun Xen's comment

Pen Sovann (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post)

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Viet invaders sent back home in coffins

A ceremony held in Kongpong Chnang Province, Cambodia, to repatriate the remains of Vietnamese soldiers missing in action during the war against the Khmer Rouge regime.

Cambodia repatriates Vietnamese MIA remains

6/23/2011
Thanh Nien News (Hanoi)

Cambodia on Tuesday repatriated the remains of 11 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who died during the war against the Khmer Rouge regime.

It was the last repatriation under an agreement signed between the Vietnamese and Cambodian governments to search for the remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and military experts between 2003 and 2011.

So far the remains of 240 soldiers have been found and sent back to Vietnam.

It's past 02 December, did you know: "Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia"?

Dear Readers,

One day after the anniversary of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia on 02 December 1978, we are pleased to provide below a Khmer translation of the book "Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia" written by Stephen Morris and translated to Khmer by Nuon Sok Vang.

We would like to thank Mr. V.S. for scanning this book and his friend M.P. for sending it over.

KI-Media team

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Not only does it oppress Khmer Krom people, Vietnam now wants to obliterate the history of Kampuchea Krom as well

SRP MP Son Chhay (Photo: RFA)

Map of Kampuchea Krom taken over by Vietnam with France collusion (Map: www.khmerkromngo.org)

Son Chhay reacts to Vietnamese article

09 August 2007
By Kim Pov Sottan
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

SRP MP Son Chhay sent an official reaction demanding that the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs resolve a problem with Vietnam whereby a Vietnamese national news agency published a claim that the land of Kampuchea Krom is Vietnamese land, and that it was not obtained from Vietnam’s invasion on Cambodia.

In a letter sent to the president of the National Assembly on Thursday requesting that the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs resolve this issue, Son Chhay who is in charge of the foreign affairs committee of the National Assembly, calls the Vietnamese claim a rewriting of history by Vietnam, and an insult on past Cambodian kings. He also said that the Vietnamese claim inflicts additional anger and suffering on Khmer Krom people.

Son Chhay said: “We can see that in Southeast Asia, there is a move to strengthen the mutual recognition. It is not right that, at this time, Vietnam is fabricating fake history that affects the honor of (past) Cambodian kings, and affects the truth. This action is not acceptable by Cambodians. It is time that Cambodia stands up to defend what belongs to our nation.”

At the beginning of this week, the Vietnamese website www.baocantho.com.vn posted for the world to know that Khmer Krom people, who are currently living in South Vietnam, are mere ethnic minorities. The website went on to claim that these Khmer Krom people fled Cambodia to avoid the genocides perpetrated by the past Cambodian kings.

The article was prepared by the committee of the southwest zone commandment of the Communist Party of Vietnam. The article also provided a summary which claims that the southern portion of Vietnam was obtained by land clearing made by Vietnam only, and that this land has nothing to do with Cambodians.

This type of articles had been rejected by Cambodian historians who said that during its apogee, the Khmer empire extends all the way to the China Sea. It was not until the 16th century that the more powerful Annam kingdom swallowed the entire kingdom of Champa. Annam then moved southward and aggressed Cambodia until it took over the Kampuchea Krom lands bordering the lower Mekong River. It was not until 1949 that the entire 16 provinces and cities of Kampuchea Krom fell under the occupation of Vietnam at the end of the French colony in Indochina [KI-Media: it was in fact colonial France which unfairly turned the ownership of Kampuchea Krom to the Vietnamese in 1949].

RFA tried to obtain clarification from the minister of education (Kol Pheng) on this historical issue, but he said that he cannot comment about it yet. Up until now, the Cambodian ministry of information did not react yet to this (false) claim made by the Vietnamese authority.