Thach Setha, President of the Khmer Krom Association in Cambodia (Photo: RFA)26 April 2007
Khmer Krom Association deceived by Cambodian Parliament leaders
By Sok Serei
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
On Thursday, a group of associations for Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Human Rights Defense have issued one after another their deception on the standing adopted by the Cambodian National Assembly president who rejected the request for him to negotiate the Khmer Krom issue with Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam Assembly chairman, during the latter’s visit in Cambodia.
Thach Setha, President of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Association in Cambodia, reacted by saying: “I am very deceived by the attitude of Heng Samrin, the president of National Assembly, who considers the Khmer Kampuchea Krom issue as not being a Cambodian issue, but rather a Vietnamese internal affair. I believe that this a serious mistake because according to the Constitution [of Cambodia] and the Nationality law, Khmer Krom people are truly Cambodian citizens.”
Monk Yoeung Sin, President of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Monks Association based in Phnom Penh, reacted by saying that all his hopes have evaporated. “Talking about Khmer people, wherever they are born, they are supported, and legally recognized by the [Cambodian] Constitution.”
A source indicated that during the meeting held between Heng Samrin and Nguyen Phu Trong on Thursday, the Khmer Krom issue and the border affair were not discussed, and that only bilateral signing for the strengthening of the cooperation between the Vietnamese and Cambodian parliaments took place.
Prior to this meeting, Heng Samrin told reporters that the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom issue is a Vietnamese internal affair. “The Kampuchea Krom monks is an internal affair of their country, it’s not a Cambodian issue, we are not interfering in the internal affair of another country…”
One source also indicated that 5 Khmer Krom monks fled Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam) and they have reached Cambodia on Thursday. The 5 monks have been in hiding from the Vietnamese authority which wants to defrock them.
There is no indication of protest by Khmer Krom monks in Phnom Penh during the 3-day official visit of Nguyen Phu Trong in Cambodia. The associations for the Khmer Krom Human Rights Defense have recently sent a joint statement demanding that Cambodian Parliament leaders discuss with their Vietnamese counterpart, the Khmer Krom issue.
Recently also, peaceful demonstrations have been held in several countries, the USA, Australia, France and Cambodia, by Khmer Krom people and Khmer Krom monks, to protest against the defrocking of 16 Khmer Krom monks by the Vietnamese authority, and the jailing of 5 other monks who have been demanding for their freedom of Buddhist religious belief according to Cambodian custom.
The Vietnamese Assembly chairman who is currently visiting Cambodia, also plans to meet with Chea Sim, the Senate president, Prime Minister Hun Sen, and King Norodom Sihamoni.
Thach Setha, President of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Association in Cambodia, reacted by saying: “I am very deceived by the attitude of Heng Samrin, the president of National Assembly, who considers the Khmer Kampuchea Krom issue as not being a Cambodian issue, but rather a Vietnamese internal affair. I believe that this a serious mistake because according to the Constitution [of Cambodia] and the Nationality law, Khmer Krom people are truly Cambodian citizens.”
Monk Yoeung Sin, President of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Monks Association based in Phnom Penh, reacted by saying that all his hopes have evaporated. “Talking about Khmer people, wherever they are born, they are supported, and legally recognized by the [Cambodian] Constitution.”
A source indicated that during the meeting held between Heng Samrin and Nguyen Phu Trong on Thursday, the Khmer Krom issue and the border affair were not discussed, and that only bilateral signing for the strengthening of the cooperation between the Vietnamese and Cambodian parliaments took place.
Prior to this meeting, Heng Samrin told reporters that the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom issue is a Vietnamese internal affair. “The Kampuchea Krom monks is an internal affair of their country, it’s not a Cambodian issue, we are not interfering in the internal affair of another country…”
One source also indicated that 5 Khmer Krom monks fled Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam) and they have reached Cambodia on Thursday. The 5 monks have been in hiding from the Vietnamese authority which wants to defrock them.
There is no indication of protest by Khmer Krom monks in Phnom Penh during the 3-day official visit of Nguyen Phu Trong in Cambodia. The associations for the Khmer Krom Human Rights Defense have recently sent a joint statement demanding that Cambodian Parliament leaders discuss with their Vietnamese counterpart, the Khmer Krom issue.
Recently also, peaceful demonstrations have been held in several countries, the USA, Australia, France and Cambodia, by Khmer Krom people and Khmer Krom monks, to protest against the defrocking of 16 Khmer Krom monks by the Vietnamese authority, and the jailing of 5 other monks who have been demanding for their freedom of Buddhist religious belief according to Cambodian custom.
The Vietnamese Assembly chairman who is currently visiting Cambodia, also plans to meet with Chea Sim, the Senate president, Prime Minister Hun Sen, and King Norodom Sihamoni.
23 comments:
LOL, KK is khmer by our
constitution. Give it up
motherfuckers. You are born in
Vietnam and you are Yuon, period.
Same go for the French in canada.
They are Canadian not French. And
that goes for the Chinese born
in Cambodia. They are Cambodian,
not Chinese. Go and get your
fucking head examined, will ya?
Gee, you are smart Lol.
But why do people still call me Ah Chen when I was born as Chinese in Cambodia, why don't they accept me as Kaun Khmer?
Would you call me a Xmer when I was born in Cambodia as Ah Youn?
What say you when the US government deports fellow Cambodian Americans to Cambodia?
dear compatriots
This is comment 4:19pm yuon communist vietcong.
For Khmer, those who have Khmer blood are Khmer anywhere they are born
4:19 PM hahahahaha this motherfucker is now trying to be like me. I'm the one who only use the word motherfucker. So stop confusing people motherfucker. Look moron let me enlight you something. If you are Khmer Krom and born in South Vietnam you are Khmer Krom Vietnam born. As for you the motherfucker of all, you are Ah Jen Cambodian born, get it fucker. If you want to be Khmer you need to earn the title and not being a fucking moron just like your generation has done. I guess you have too many western education.
As for 4:56 PM if you are a good person it doesn't matter where you come from as long to love where you are. Some people are called Jen because they are greedy people and always look down on the poor. But not all Jen are bad there are good people who love Khmer more than their native land because Cambodia is their new home to make a better life and help each other. I'm the one who say motherfucker all the time.
Okay, lok kru (5:27), but we are
talking about the constitution,
and if we go by Ah Khmer-Yuon's
theory, the Canadian is a French
citizen by the French Constitution,
and that is totally stupid. Am I
wrong? I mean KK to K is as
Canadian to French. Is that a bad
analogy?
Re: comment @ 4:19PM
Observingly and interestingly enough, the YUON/Vietcongs pretending to be Khmer, disrespecfully abusive of the freedom of speech, walk all over Khmer's head here on KI-Media. And as a political news blog, there isn't a DAMN thing KI-Media can do about it! What a shame!
Dear Compatriot Thach setha,
XIHANOUK always wants to divide Khmer.
He had named:
- Khmer in Srok Khmer (khmer kandal).
- Khmer who live in Rattanakiri and Mondolkiri (Khmer leu)
- Khmer who come from Cham (Khmer Islam).
- Khmer who lives in Prey Nokor (Khmer Krom).
From now we must call all the above only Khmer.
Mr Thach Setha, please, you should change (Khmer Krom Association) by Khmer PREY NOKOR ASSOCIATION
AH Heng Samrin is an animal!!!This animal is incapable of having high reasoning or thinking!!!This animals will never have a special place in Cambodian history!!!This animal will die the way of other animal before it and no animal will go to heaven!!!!!
to 4:19 I'm telling you mother fucker you're an idiot asshole, stop lying khmers ok? most chinese born in canada their parents teach them how to love china and they don't consider canada as their own country ,just like youn born in srok khmer all of them go to join fuck ur mother vc. okkkk idiot.../
Maybe some folks are illiterate of Cambodian constitution. But the constitution of Cambodia is not the Constitution of Canada, French or U.S.
It does state that any Khmer person, born in Vietnam etc. that have enter Kampuchea are automatically treated as citizens.
If you don't know the constitution don't go around comparing.
This has been on the ground why UNHCR have been rejecting Khmer Krom request for asylum in third country, because it considers Khmer Krom Cambodian by the Cambodian constitution once they enter srok Khmer. There argument is that Khmer are citizens of Cambodia now, the Cambodian government takes care of citizens. lol. as experience as they are, these NGOs can be so naive.
In America there is a similar constitution, but it affect only one country from the Carribean. If they flee by sea and touch American soil, they are legally a Citizen. Why America does that? I don't know, those people are not even English. But our constitution, reflects that Cambodia and Khmer Krom our united in our heart, but that leaders are unwilling to accept it because it is under Foreign control.
7:27 you're saying the same thing. You want to not label, but you gave another label to Khmer Krom which are even Narrower. At least former King's description were more accurate then yours.
Khmer Prei Nokor? What the heck. You think our Khmer people live only in Saigon? You know how many cities and provinces are in former South Cambodia? That is why we call Khmer Krom. Calling Khmer Prei Nokor means you represent only Saigon Khmer, the vast majority lives around, South and North of Saigon.
When ah 3 yuons got shot the other day,vietnameses have asked for investigation. When kk get deprive of all the basic freedom ,ah khmer choy mray here said it's not his business. so ashame. wHY DON'T YOU MOTHERFUCKER HANG YOURSELF.
khmers krom are khmer. They have lived in a territory that was part of Canbodia and was unfairly given to vietnamese by the french not too long ago.Anybody dispute that can kiss my ass and go straight to hell....
it was part of khmer and IT IS STILL KHMER AND BELONG TO KHMER.
You idiots (10:37), that is for
Khmer citizens who worked abroad
only. If they bear a child abroad,
the child is a Khmer citizen.
You got to be brain dead, to think
Cambodia is wealthy enough to feed
and educate the 14 millions in
South Vietnam, not to mention,
none of those idiots have paid a
single cent worth of tax. They are
not Khmer citizen. They are Yuon
citizen, and the Yuon is
responsible to provide them with
Yuon Education... . They are not
Khmer responsibility.
Dear KI-MEDIA friends et al,
Let's do it by asking each and everyone of us, friends and families and relatives to write/email to our scholars, doctors, lawyers, intellectuals and the like to, in turn, write/email to SAM RAINGSY, KEM SOKHA, RANARITH, THOMICO and other political figures to please set their personal interest asides and join in with one another to form one single democratic party to vote HUN SEN and his regime out of power in the general election of 2008.
Let's do it on a grand scale as this is may be our last chance to save our homeland and little of what we have left during this more than a three decade long of HUN SEN pro-viet regime control of CAMBODIA. Let's see that it happens and disseminated it on every Khmer site on the internet. Below is my email to Dr. Lao Mong Hay. Please help by writing yours right now. Thank you so very much for helping save Cambodia and ourselves.
Very sincerely yours,
Crazy Glue
Dear Dr. LAO Mong Hay,
I am writing to implore your understanding to write/email to SAM RAINGSY, KEM SOKHA, RANARITH, THOMICO and other KHMER political figures alike to please set their personal interest asides to join in and form ONE SIGNLE DEMOCRATIC party to vote HUN SEN and his regime out of CAMBODIA in the general elction of 2008 since this may be the only chance Camdodia has for her existence.
Very respectfully yours,
Crazy Glue
By saying that the Khmer Krom issue is Vietnam's internal affair, Heng Samrin, former President of the People's Republic of Kampuchea, proves to the world the following:
1- He is ignorant and blind and has no slightest knowledge of Kampuchea Krom's history,
2- He has no heart, nor he has compassion for Khmer Krom people wo have been through neglect, mistreatment, persecution, abuses and Hanoi's ethnic cleasing scheme for almost 60 years now,
3- He's been working tirelessly with his CPP apparat for total annexation of Cambodia by Vietnam,
4- He is a valet of Hanoi,
5- He is a traitor.
To address the Heng Samrin issue, decent Khmer people should do the following:
1- Stand up, unite and help our brothers and sisters in Kampuchea Krom by all means,
2- Do whatever it takes to bring down Hanoi's influence on its valet, the CPP, and the CPP itself,
3- Rise up in the form of PEOPLE'S POWER to take full responsibility in steering NEAVEA KAMPUCHEA to a brighter future, a future full of promise, national pride, dignity, territorial integrity, sovereignity, mutual respect, progress and hope.
The hardest question is this: CAN WE SUCCEED?
The simplest answer is this: OF COURSE, WE CAN!!!
Sure, but only in text book or
fantasy.
PLEASE STOP LISTEN TO AH YUONS IN SROK KHMER WHOSE ONLY PURPOSE IS TO CONFUSE TRUE KHMER. KHMER MUST LEARN FROM THE JEWISH PEOPLE. THE JEWISH PEOPLE NEVER FORGET THEIR ROOTS AND THE JEWISH ALWAYS STAND UP FOR THEIR NATION DOES NOT MATTER WHERE THEY LIVE IN THE WORLD--WHETHER JEWISH-AMERICANS OR JEWISH-CANADIAN OR JEWISH-BRITISH, ETC. THE JEWISH PEOPLE ALWAYS KNOW WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY STAND FOR.
ALL KHMER SHOULD LEARN FROM THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
Sorry dude, but the Chinese have
beaten you to that already. I have
heard many people have stated that
Chinese is the "Jew of Asia".
Hey, samdech KBAL ACH heng samrin,if you're so afraid of yuons why don't you just resign.
Why do you say he's afraid of
Yuons?
Hey Lol
You seen to be smart but I never think that there is still be someone whose rude and non education such living in Cambodia. The rude words are using for your mother not for the Khmer Krom. If you want to fucks, let fuck your mother and go home!. Or if your thinks that you have no strenge to fuck your motherlet tell me I will send a dog to help you.
The Khmer Assembly is a Kbal Arch assembly, they are pro-youn. They dont know who is Khmer Krom adn who is Khmer. Even their mothers are youn too.
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