Khmer Krom Buddhist monks harvesting rice in their ancestral lands in Kampuchea Krom.10 Sept 2009
By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Reported in English by Khmerization
The Vietnamese authority has deployed nearly 600 troops and police to crack down on 40 Khmer Krom farmers in Tinh Bienh [Krobao in Khmer] district of An Giang [Motr Chrouk in Khmer] province who planned to stage a protest against the digging of a canal cutting through their rice-fields.
A Khmer Krom from Ang commune in Tinh Bienh district of An Giang province, who is one of the 40 protesters who is in hiding for fear of arrest, has told RFA that the Vietnamese authority had brought a large number of machinery to dig the canal. "Our people just sit there and watch them dig the canal and they blocked the view of the area where they are digging. Wherever they dig, they block the view in that area. They have deployed 330-350 troops, 230 policemen and 5 dogs", he said.
The troop deployment took place after 8 Khmer Krom farmers went to see the Vietnamese authority on 9th September to enquire about compensation but was told that there won't be any compensation and there will be a crack down if people resist or disturb the canal works.
Another Khmer Krom has appealed for intervention from the international community. "I am appealing to the international community to help me because that land (that they confiscate for the canal) is the only land I had. If the authority does not pay me compensation I have nowhere else to live and I have nothing to feed my family because I have 7-8 family members", he said.
A Khmer Krom Buddhist monk who is a spokesperson for those 40 farmers affected by the canal digging said those people will not agree to let the Vietnamese take their lands without compensation. "The Vietnamese does not pay attention to the plight of the Khmer Krom people, so that's why our Khmer Krom people will never agree (to let them take their lands)", he said.
The Vietnamese plans to dig a 50-metre-wide 10-kilometre-long canal cutting through 400 hectares of ancestral lands owning by 400 Khmer Krom families without any compensation.
Mr. Trinh Ba Cam, spokesman for the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh, cannot be reached for comments as a telephone call to his mobile went unanswered.
A Khmer Krom from Ang commune in Tinh Bienh district of An Giang province, who is one of the 40 protesters who is in hiding for fear of arrest, has told RFA that the Vietnamese authority had brought a large number of machinery to dig the canal. "Our people just sit there and watch them dig the canal and they blocked the view of the area where they are digging. Wherever they dig, they block the view in that area. They have deployed 330-350 troops, 230 policemen and 5 dogs", he said.
The troop deployment took place after 8 Khmer Krom farmers went to see the Vietnamese authority on 9th September to enquire about compensation but was told that there won't be any compensation and there will be a crack down if people resist or disturb the canal works.
Another Khmer Krom has appealed for intervention from the international community. "I am appealing to the international community to help me because that land (that they confiscate for the canal) is the only land I had. If the authority does not pay me compensation I have nowhere else to live and I have nothing to feed my family because I have 7-8 family members", he said.
A Khmer Krom Buddhist monk who is a spokesperson for those 40 farmers affected by the canal digging said those people will not agree to let the Vietnamese take their lands without compensation. "The Vietnamese does not pay attention to the plight of the Khmer Krom people, so that's why our Khmer Krom people will never agree (to let them take their lands)", he said.
The Vietnamese plans to dig a 50-metre-wide 10-kilometre-long canal cutting through 400 hectares of ancestral lands owning by 400 Khmer Krom families without any compensation.
Mr. Trinh Ba Cam, spokesman for the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh, cannot be reached for comments as a telephone call to his mobile went unanswered.
11 comments:
Evil by nature: vietnam
no sense of goodness, right or wrong.
They steal, kill, and worst than animals.
Violated
Intruder
Enemy
Taker
Nowadays
Attempted
Murderer
បើគេមានការធ្វើពួកអាឆ្កួតឯងថាគេឡប់។អាពួកនេះទាល់តែប្រដៅវាហើយពីអាពួកនេះវាកើត
មកមិនដែលបានឃើញម៉ែវាទេទើបបានវាពុំដឹង។
This is yet another worst human right abuse by the Viet govt. Khmer Krom have suffered this kind of persecution for many centuries. The Viet have no sense of humanity in them, they are savages.
International community, especially the UN Human Right Office, must intervene of some sort so they can get some sort of compensation.
Nguyen ko Thach said,
This is what i felt so proud to be vietnamese.We have no illusion about the minority .We have the vision that we should not trust khmer krom.Thanks to our brothers HUN SEN,CHEA SIM,HENG SAMRIN and all the CPP members for keeping khmer krom in control for us.And our profound thank to them also for letting our compatriots lived freely in your soil.Hey, WE love you all.
talk about human rights violation. the human rights group should examin vietnam, too, for their abuse and human rights violation of khmer krom indigenous people and lands.
Siem took the Khmer land and you din't say nothing.S what matter with with you asshole?
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To all khmers please joint me to CURSES ah Chuor youn, make them living Hell and these youn Evil wipe out off this earth, because the evil crimes they are doing to the others.
Curses to ah chuor youn bad Karma hit them hundred times more than they have done to others.
Curse to ah Chuor youns disasters hit them ten times more than they have done to the others.
These Curses will hit the bad youns
just like shits hit the fans.
Yeah, Ah Yuon wiped out CHAMPA.....
We should work together to help our dear Khmer Krom so that they may get back their freedom of culture, religion, education, and communication between them and other Khmers. I would like to ask KK assiociations to work harder to mobilize spiritual and financial support for our brothers and sisters suffered from the oppression. KhOpen,
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