By Men Kimseng, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
11 June 2009
Worldwide members of the Khmer ethnic group from southern Vietnam will meet in Paris on Saturday to mark the loss of territory from Cambodia to Vietnam in the colonial period and push for greater freedoms under Vietnamese authorities.
Maggie Murphy, project coordinator for the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization and one of the organizers for the weekend conference, said that 60 years after Khmers lost the land, they are now living in poor conditions, with few rights.
“There is a lot of oppression,” she told VOA Khmer from her group’s office in the Hague. “There is a lack of ability to express one’s religious freedom, and the socio-economic situation of the Khmer Krom is not what it should be. It is far below that of the ethnic Vietnamese.”
Participants of Saturday’s conference will include French authorities, the secretary-general of Murphy’s organization and an Italian member of the European Parliament.
Kampuchea Krom was awarded by the French to Vietnam on June 4, 1949, when the countries were part of Indochina, a partitioning that nettles many Cambodians today and is a focal point for nationalistic rhetoric.
Millions of Khmer Krom now live without freedom of expression or religion, according to the US-based Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation.
Vietnamese authorities impose restrictions on all forms of protest. Recently, they arrested a Khmer monk for hostile acts against good relations between Cambodia and Vietnam.
“In the future, the main purpose of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation is to properly prepare legal work to demand more [work against] human rights violations by the Vietnamese authorities,” Thach Ngoc Thach, president of the federation, told VOA Khmer by phone. “Our purpose is to move toward in what we call a journey toward self determination.”
Maggie Murphy, project coordinator for the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization and one of the organizers for the weekend conference, said that 60 years after Khmers lost the land, they are now living in poor conditions, with few rights.
“There is a lot of oppression,” she told VOA Khmer from her group’s office in the Hague. “There is a lack of ability to express one’s religious freedom, and the socio-economic situation of the Khmer Krom is not what it should be. It is far below that of the ethnic Vietnamese.”
Participants of Saturday’s conference will include French authorities, the secretary-general of Murphy’s organization and an Italian member of the European Parliament.
Kampuchea Krom was awarded by the French to Vietnam on June 4, 1949, when the countries were part of Indochina, a partitioning that nettles many Cambodians today and is a focal point for nationalistic rhetoric.
Millions of Khmer Krom now live without freedom of expression or religion, according to the US-based Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation.
Vietnamese authorities impose restrictions on all forms of protest. Recently, they arrested a Khmer monk for hostile acts against good relations between Cambodia and Vietnam.
“In the future, the main purpose of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation is to properly prepare legal work to demand more [work against] human rights violations by the Vietnamese authorities,” Thach Ngoc Thach, president of the federation, told VOA Khmer by phone. “Our purpose is to move toward in what we call a journey toward self determination.”
12 comments:
The local law enforcement officials must clear these people out of the streets before they cause any disruption.
PPU
Don't these people have anything better to do these days?
This is unclaimable territory. Why can anyone heed the PM's warning?
PPU
Ah PPU mother is Viet-Whore bitch from Hanoi brothel...
This is unclaimable territory.
Heed the warning!
Pi Anh: PPU
PPU (Piss,Poor and Uneducated.)Do you understand Khmers Krom are the rightful owner of the territory!
Viet had to killed millions of Champs people took over Champa Country before the Viet came to Khmer Krom's land.
Khmer Khet-Kromuone Sor
Champa is a thing of the past. It's history. Move on! Don't create this issue as a major drag and put the onus on Khmer people, because Khmer Krom is the unclaimable terrority.
PPU
PPU=Pee Poop Urine!!!
អាPPUនេះវាជាមនុស្សថោកទាមជាទីបំផុតគា្មនឆ្កែ
ណាផ្ទឹមបានទេ។អាមួយនេះបានតែធ្វើដួចជំនាន់ខ្មែរ
ក្រហាមទេ។ទុកវាក៍មិនចំណេញដកចេញក៍មិនខាត។
ពីខ្ញុំខ្មែរដើម្បីខ្មែរ។
PPU=Pee Poop Urine
Don't speak on behalf of Khmer. You are not fit in Khmer character. We rejecting you as you're not belong to the Khmer. Khmer don't have that kind of person. If we chose to keep you we might as well keep HUN SEN over you. Hun Sen will soon later realize that he didn't do much help to help the Khmer. If he is one of Khmer leader he shouldn't spit the word "free coffin" whoever wants to liberate Khmer Kampuchea Krom. How on earth we have such a person like you and a leader like him to disgrace its own citizen. Go study some more about Khmer Kampuchea Krom and you will learn that the land is still belong to the Khmer.
Khmer for Khmer
អាPPUនេះបានយកវាបោះទៅឲ្យក្រពើឆីទេ។
The YOUN is so scare of what's going to happen to them in the future and they have been sending these so call YOUN spies all over the places to try stop the unstoppable snowball coming down the Hanio hill. They will be crushed if they stand in the way!
khmer krom will always have ties with cambodia. god bless khmer krom indigenous people.
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