Radio Free Asia
By Sary Rath
28th January, 2009
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization
A Khmer monk residing at Wat Siri Oudom in Toul Ta Moak province (Kampuchea Krom) has claimed in a letter that the Vietnamese authority has confiscated lands from this temple.
The Ven. Kim Sisamnang, from Wat Siri Oudom in Village 4 of Long Hung commune, Loc Ninh district, Toul Ta Moak or Binh Phuoc province, has sent a letter dated 25th January, 2009 to Mr. Thach Setha, executive chairman of the World Khmer Krom Federation, that the Vietnamese authority in this province has come to cut off 950 square metres of lands from Wat Siri Oudom of 50 metres in length and 19 metres in width for the construction of a cultural centre for a meeting place of the local Vietnamese authority.
Ven. Kim Sisamnang said that those lands belong to the temple. In his letter, he added that the Vietnamese authority had tried unsuccessfully on several occasions to confiscate these lands.
Recently, the Vietnamese has secretly come to talk to the Temple Committee and forced the committee chairman, Mr. Lem Lay, to sign a document giving the lands to the Vietnamese authority for the purpose of building a local meeting place for the Vietnamese local officials.
Later, the Vietnamese authority came secretly to survey the lands without informing the temple or the monks residing there.
A man living near the temple said that, after they finished surveying the lands on the morning of 24th January, the Vietnamese authority deployed security forces around the temple and did not allow the monks to go in and out of the temple.
By Sary Rath
28th January, 2009
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization
A Khmer monk residing at Wat Siri Oudom in Toul Ta Moak province (Kampuchea Krom) has claimed in a letter that the Vietnamese authority has confiscated lands from this temple.
The Ven. Kim Sisamnang, from Wat Siri Oudom in Village 4 of Long Hung commune, Loc Ninh district, Toul Ta Moak or Binh Phuoc province, has sent a letter dated 25th January, 2009 to Mr. Thach Setha, executive chairman of the World Khmer Krom Federation, that the Vietnamese authority in this province has come to cut off 950 square metres of lands from Wat Siri Oudom of 50 metres in length and 19 metres in width for the construction of a cultural centre for a meeting place of the local Vietnamese authority.
Ven. Kim Sisamnang said that those lands belong to the temple. In his letter, he added that the Vietnamese authority had tried unsuccessfully on several occasions to confiscate these lands.
Recently, the Vietnamese has secretly come to talk to the Temple Committee and forced the committee chairman, Mr. Lem Lay, to sign a document giving the lands to the Vietnamese authority for the purpose of building a local meeting place for the Vietnamese local officials.
Later, the Vietnamese authority came secretly to survey the lands without informing the temple or the monks residing there.
A man living near the temple said that, after they finished surveying the lands on the morning of 24th January, the Vietnamese authority deployed security forces around the temple and did not allow the monks to go in and out of the temple.
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