The 63rd Annual Kampuchea Krom Loss

The 63rd Annual Kampuchea Krom Loss

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The 63rd Annual Kampuchea Krom Loss Commemoration and the Buddhist Offering Ceremony to 1,949 Buddhist Monks to honor Khmer heroic Budhdist monks, heroic emperors, heroic kings, heroes, and servicemen and women, on Sunday the 13th Waning Moon of Jeṭṭha BE2556, June 17, AD2012, held at the former SRP HQs, Tonle Basak commune, Chamkar Mon district, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia

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Slideshows​: The 63rd Annual Kampuchea Krom Loss

The 63rd Annual Kampuchea Krom Loss

Commemoration and the Buddhist Offering Ceremony to 1,949 Buddhist Monks to honor Khmer heroic Budhdist monks, heroic emperors, heroic kings, heroes, and servicemen and women, on Sundau the 13th Waning Moon of Jeṭṭha BE2556, June 17, AD2012, held at the former SRP HQs, Tonle Basak commune, Chamkar Mon district, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia

Sunday the 13th Waning Moon of Jeṭṭha BE2556, June 17, AD2012 Year of the Dragon

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Phnom Penh Municipali​ty denies KKC's Venue Request to organize the 63rd Annual Kampuchea Krom Commemorat​ion

Source: Khmer  Kampuchea Krom Community

The Phnom Penh Municipality denies the venue request, to be held in front of Wat Botumvatei, of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community, KKC, to organize the 63rd Annual Kampuchea Krom Commemoration, where colonial France ceded Khmer land, Kampuchea Krom, to Vietnam on June 4, B.E.2493, A.D.1949 to continue colonizing her until today and an Offering Buddhist Ceremony to 1949 Buddhist Monks in order to honor heroic Khmer Buddhist monks, heroic emperors, heroic kings, and heroes, heroines, and braved armed forces personnel and the courageous unknowns.

This is a serious violation of the fundamental rights of the Khmer citizens. The motto of Cambodia is Nation, Religion (Buddhism), and King.

Every year the king of Cambodia sends His Highest Royal Representative to preside over this auspicious Buddhist ceremony since B.E.2544, A.D.2000.

This ceremony is to remind the Khmers of Kampuchea Krom and all Khmers in Cambodia and worldwide to remember their history so that we do not walk the same path.

Is there patriotism in Phnom Penh City Hall?

Does Phnom Penh City Hall respect the Buddhist monks and the king?

Are they serving the Cambodian nation?

Cambodia is a signatory to the Charter of the United Nations, U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, other international covenants and treaties on human rights: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and more.

Remember Khmer Heroes: Oknha Son Kuy

Remember Khmer Heroes

Mon the 15th Full Moon of Jeṭṭha BE2556, June 4, AD2012 Year of the Dragon

Appeal - The 63rd Annual Kampuchea Krom Commemorat​ion

Appeal - The 63rd Annual Kampuchea Krom Commemoration

Sat the 14th Waning Moon of Visakha BE2556, May 19, AD2012 Year of the Dragon

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A 2556 New Year Message to Khmer Krom Buddhist monks and people from Senator Thach Setha

A 2556 New Year Message to Khmer Krom Buddhist monks and people from Senator Thach Setha

Wednesday the 5th Waning Moon of Citta BE2555, April 11, AD2012 Year of the Rabbit

Hon. Thach Setha

Senator-reelect of Cambodia and

Executive Director

of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community

A 2556 New Year Message from the Honorable Thach Setha

KKC strongly supports the 1991 Paris Peace Accord on Cambodia

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Appeal for Funds to Help Complete the Building of a historic Kampuchea Krom community center

Saturday the 14th Waxing Moon of Sāvana, BE2555, August 13, AD2011
Year of the Rabbit

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For U.S. residents and other countries, please kindly make payable personal check or traveler’s check and send it to:

Ra Thach,

P.O. Box 37502,

Philadelphia, PA 19148

USA

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For Canadian residents, please kindly make payable personal check or traveler’s check and send it to:

Suvong Kim

25 Galsworthy Avenue,

Scarborough, Ontario M1R 2N5

Canada

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For residents of Cambodia and Kampuchea Krom, please kindly contact us at an address below:

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community (KKC)

House No. 10B, Street 234, Tuk Laak 3 commune, Tuol Kork district

Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia

Phones: 011 855 12 908 882 or 011 855 090 477 007

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KKC condemns Phnom Penh City Hall's Racial Discrimination against Khmer Krom Buddhist Monks and People

A Condemnation Statement of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Organizations-Associations on the Phnom Penh City Hall for Racial Discrimation Against Khmer Krom Buddhist monks and people. PP City Hall Bans Khmer Krom from commemorating June 4, 1949 France gives Kampuchea Krom to Vietnam.

Saturday the 3rd Waxing Moon of Jeṭṭha BE2555, June 3, AD2011 Year of the Rabbit

STATEMENT

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom organizations and associations express our unhappiness and deploring the Phnom Penh City Hall authority for banning the Khmer Kampuchea Krom organizations-associations from organizing an Offering Buddhist Ceremony to 1949 monks in a public square. This ceremony receives a support and donation from the Khmer monarch by providing Their Highest Representative to preside over the ceremony every year without a miss.

Since [the new millennium] 2000, the Khmer Kampuchea Krom organizations and associations granted to organize the ceremony at the Field of Meru by the Royal Palace Ministry. On the contrary since Hon. Kep Chuktema becomes the Governor of Phnom Penh, our ceremony has been met with difficulty every year.

Phnom Penh City Hall's action is a serious religious right violation, racial discrimination on the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Buddhist monks and people, highly disrespectful upon the heroic Khmer Buddhist monks, heroic monarchies, heroes, heroines, heroic armed forces servicemen and women and highly disrespectful upon the king without a doubt.

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom organizations-associations condemn the Phnom Penh Governor in the strongest language for not complying with the Constitution, the supreme law of Cambodia, numerous international religious rights treaties, sub-treaties and covenants and declaration on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination.

Phnom Penh, June 3, 2011

[KKC Seal]

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Organizations-Associations

Contact Info.:

012 908 882

012 481 161

090 477 007

E-mail: thachsetha@gmail.com

Slideshow: A Groundbrea​king Ceremony for the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community Headquarte​rs

 

A Groundbreaking Ceremony for the

Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community Headquarters

Monday the 15th Full Moon, Day of Abstinence, of Citta, BE2554, April 18, AD2011
Year of the Rabbit 

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Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community's Statement on the Thai invasion

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Khmer Krom associations to commemorate the dead of Nov. 22 stampede tragedy

Phnom Penh City Hall permits the Khmer Kampuchea Krom associations and organizations to hold a 347-Buddhist monks commemoration for the dead at Koh Pich Bridge, the site of the Nov. 22 historic tragedy, and to wish for the injured to recover soon, this coming Sunday Nov. 28 at 8:00AM.

KKC leaders pay homage to the late Ven. Vijaratanapanna Maha Yoeung Sin

Monday October 4, B.E.2554, A.D.2010 Year of the Tiger

Ven. Vijaratanapanna Maha Yoeung Sin lies in state at Wat Samakkiraingsey until October 29, 2010. He passed away on Tuesday the 5th waning moon of Potthapāda B.E.2554, September 28, A.D.2010.

KKC leaders lay a wreath at the Extraordinary Funeral Service for the late Ven. Vijaratanapanna Maha Yoeung.

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KKC deplores the sentence handed down on Khmer Krom and Licadho's employee by the Takeo provincial court

Leang Sok Choeun (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post)
Thach Le (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post)

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The Statement

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community, KKC, strongly deplores the decision of the Takeo provincial court for convicting Mr. Thach Le, Mr. Thach Vannak, Mr. Leang SokJoeun, NGO LICADHO employee, to 2 years term and 2 million riels fine to each, and tried the Venerable Thach Kong Phuong in absentia to 3 years and 6 million riels fine (U.S. $1,430) on August 30, 2010 for disinformation for their alleged roles in distributing leaflets opposing the January 7th.

According to the 1993 Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia, article 41 stated as followed:
Khmer citizens shall have freedom of expression, press, publication and assembly. No one shall exercise this right to infringe upon the rights of others, to affect the good traditions of the society, to violate public law and order and national security. The regime of the media shall be determined by law. The charges by the Takeo provincial court levied upon Thach Le, Thach Vannak, Leang SokJoeun, and Ven. Thach Kong Phuong are unjust and not acceptable, because the entities that oppose the January 7th, the day Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia, are the national and the international community that led the international community to pressure Vietnam to withdraw its troops from Cambodia and armed resistance along the Khmer-Thai borders to oppose the January 7th day and ultimately led to the October 23, 1991 Paris Peace Accord. Currently, the opposition party and media strongly criticize the January 7th day. Why they are not being penalized?

On the contrary, Thach Le, Thach Vannak, Leang SokJoeun and Ven. Thach Kong Phuong oppose the January 7th day to gain what benefit, because they are not the opposition party, not even a movement to topple the government?

Based on the investigation conducted by the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community, all the accused are not related to the charges levied by the Takeo provincial court.

KKC appeals to the Appeals Court and Supreme Court to re-examine the decision of the Takeo provincial court and to dismiss the charges against Thach Le, Thach Vannak, Leang SokJoeun and Ven. Thach Kong Phuong.

Phnom Penh, August 31, 2010

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The Secretariat
The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community

KKC requests King Norodom Sihamoni to help ease the situation of Khmer citizens in Kampuchea Krom

KKC requests King Norodom Sihamoni to help ease the situation of Khmer citizens in Kampuchea Krom when His Majesty is expected to meet visiting VN president Nguyen Minh Triet

Tuesday August 24, B.E.2554, A.D.2010 Year of the Tiger

KKC Letter No. 39/10

KKC, on behalf of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom associations-organizations, on Aug. 24, 2010 writes to King Norodom Sihamoni to discuss 3 Khmer Krom issues with the planned three-day, Aug. 26 - 28, state visit of VN president Nguyen Minh Triet to the Kingdom of Cambodia.

The Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam:

1. Releases all Khmer people being detained and imprisoned in land dispute and freedom of expression cases.
2. Allows Khmers to establish associations and civic organizations on their own land.
3. Allows Khmers to study Khmer language, literature, practice their custom and eliminate all forms of intimidation and harassment.

Original text in Khmer (Cambodian)

KKC denounces the detention of former Khmer Krom Monk Thach Sophon by Vietnam

The Statement

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community, KKC, strongly condemns the authorities of colonial Vietnam for detaining Mr. Thach Sophon, former Buddhist Abbot of Wat Kampong Khsanda in Preah Trapeang provincial town (Vietnamese renamed Travinh), on July 29, 2010, after His Venerable freshly left the monkhood, by accusing him of working for the Khmer Kampuchea Krom movement to oppose the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. At the present time, Mr. Thach Sophon is being detained and tortured in the Preah Trapeang provincial prison of southern region of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Since the day of his arrest up to now, the authorities of colonial Vietnam does not allow his family to visit him or notify them the detaining location of Mr. Thach Sophon. This is a serious human right violation committing upon the Khmer Kampuchea Krom people, the indigenes of Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam).

KKC appeals to the authorities of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to release Mr. Thach Sophon unconditionally so that he is free to reunite with his family, and the Royal Government of Cambodia, and the national and international organizations to intervene through legal means to have the authorities of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to release Mr. Thach Sophon immediately and unconditionally.

KKC, both in the kingdom and abroad, reaffirms that our activities fall under the legal human rights framework as stipulated in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the United Nations Charter, is not using political or military force to oppose or overthrow the Hanoi government.

Phnom Penh August 22, 2010
KKC Executive Director
[ Signed & Sealed ]

Thach Setha
Phnom Penh Councilman
Senator of Cambodia, 1999-2006

Video on the 61st Kampuchea Krom Loss by the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community

The 61st Kampuchea Krom Loss Memorial Buddhist Service to honor past heroic Khmer Buddhist leaders, clergies, heroes and fallen armed forces personnel and Commemorate June 4, 1949 France gives Khmer land, Kampuchea Krom, to authorities of colonial Vietnam until today.

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http://www.khmerkromngo.org/multimedia/kk61Loss.htm

Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Communitty Press Release

Press Release

For Immediate Release
Philadelphia, United States of America
June 24, 2010

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community (KKC) has an honor to cordially invite you, the eminent venerable Buddhist monks, compatriots, youth and students, inclusive and non-discrimination to political affiliations and religions, to participate in its convention with the Honorable Thach Setha, KKC Executive Director, Phnom Penh Councilman, and former Senator of Cambodia, in Toronto city, Canada.

• Date: July 3 – 4, 2010
• Venue: 25 Galworthy Avenue, Scarborough, Ontario, M1R 2N5 Canada.

The Secretariat
KKC-North America

Contact information:
- 978.328.4435
- 416.720.0842
- 267.242.3608
- 401.699.5320

KKC deplores and seriously concerns about the denial of Khmer nationality identification cards to the 22 Khmer people of Kampuchea Krom

KKC Press Statement

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community, KKC, deplores and seriously concerns about the denial of Khmer nationality identification cards to the 22 Khmer people of Kampuchea Krom, who were deported and handed by the Thai authorities to the Cambodian authorities recently.

The denial of Khmer nationality identification cards to the Khmer people by the Royal Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia is a severe violation of their rights as inscribed in the Constitution in section 33 and Nationality Law in sections 2, 3, and 4. This act contradicts the legal principle and the proclamation made by the RGC that recognizes the Khmer people of Kampuchea Krom as the legal Khmer citizens [of Cambodia]. This is not the first time that the present Royal Government of Cambodia has shown her negative stance on the Khmer Kampuchea Krom people.

In this case, if the Royal Government of Cambodia recognized the Khmer people of Kampuchea Krom as Khmer citizens as inscribed in the Constitution and Nationality Law as the RGC representative had claimed more than one times in the past, the Royal Government facilitates the nationality paper work for the Khmer people with no condition. Even though the Khmer people in Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam) living under the power of colonial Vietnam in the past several hundreds of years and Kampuchea Krom had been colonized by France, then transferred this land to the authorities of [another] colonial Vietnam to continue colonizing [the land and the Khmers] until today, the Khmer people living there had not and have not surrendered their Khmer nationality, citizenship and identity in betrayal of their ancestors even once. Even the authorities of Vietnam issue the identification cards to the Khmer people still recognize them as Khmers. All royal Khmer governments, except the authoritarian communist Khmer government, had and continue to facilitate and encourage the Khmer Kampuchea Krom people in all aspects of their need.

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community appeals to the Royal Government of Cambodia to provide the legal nationality paper work to the Khmer people of Kampuchea Krom as inscribed in the Constitution and Nationality Law without condition.

Phnom Penh February 22, 2010
KKC President
[ Signed ]

Thach Setha

Video of the 60th Kampuchea Krom Loss Memorial Buddhist Service

Source: Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community

The 60th Kampuchea Krom Loss Memorial Buddhist Service to honor past heroic Khmer Buddhist leaders, clergies, heroes and fallen armed forces personnel and Commemorate June 4, 1949 France gives Khmer land, Kampuchea Krom, to authorities of a new imperialist Vietnam until today

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