Tep Vong orders the defrocking of of 11 other Khmer Krom monks whom he accused of beating up "his group of monks"Tuesday, July 03, 2007
KI-Media News Brief
Today’s edition of the Sralanh Khmer newspaper reported that supreme patriarch Tep Vong said on Sunday that he had accused Khmer Krom Monk Tim Sakhorn for the latter’s persistence in destroying of the achievements of the 07 January 1979 (celebration date of the invasion of Cambodia by Vietnam). During that period, comrade Tep Vong was a member of the communist politburo and vice-president of the Assembly of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea, the communist regime installed by the invading army in 1979. Tep Vong also told The Cambodia Daily, on Sunday, that he ordered the defrocking of 11 other Khmer Krom monks and their deportation back to Vietnam. Tep Vong claimed that the 11 monks beat up his group of monks (during the April 20 clash between Khmer Krom monks and a group of agent provocateur monks sent over by Tep Vong as he now admits) and accused him of being a puppet monk and a monk sold out to the authority. Tep Vong said that these accusations were baseless.
