Source: Deum Ampil newspaper
Reported in English by Khmerization
The Phnom Penh Municipality has given permission to Khmer Krom community to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the loss of Kampuchea Krom, but forbid them from marching and rallying in public places, reports Deum Ampil.
Mr. Thach Setha, president of the Khmer Krom Association, said that he is very surprised about the permission given to his people because previous applications for such a permission had been repeatedly rejected in the past.
Kampuchea Krom was a former Khmer territory comprising 21 provinces and towns which was occupied by Vietnam long before the French established their Protectorates in 1863. Napoleon III promised with King Norodom that after France leaves its Protectorates in Indochina, Kampuchea Krom will be returned to Cambodia's control. But on 4th June 1949, the French parliament voted to cede Kampuchea Krom to the Vietnamese control, giving 21 Cambodian provinces to Vietnam.
Khmer Krom people around the world had commemorated the loss of Kampuchea Krom every year, but their permission to hold a commemoration anniversary in Cambodia had never been granted, until this year.
Some analysts and observations said that the Cambodian government acquiesced and made a concession because of the pressures from the participants of the Asean-EU Meeting that has been taking place in Phnom Penh at the time of the application for hold the commemoration service.
During the Asean-EU Meeting in Phnom Penh from 27-28th May, several Khmer Krom associations had made an appeal to the delegates to put pressures on Vietnam about the oppression and restriction of the freedom of Khmer Krom people by the Vietnamese authority. And at the beginning of May, the UN Human Right Council had reprimanded Vietnam for its human right abuses against the Khmer Krom people.
Reported in English by Khmerization
The Phnom Penh Municipality has given permission to Khmer Krom community to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the loss of Kampuchea Krom, but forbid them from marching and rallying in public places, reports Deum Ampil.
Mr. Thach Setha, president of the Khmer Krom Association, said that he is very surprised about the permission given to his people because previous applications for such a permission had been repeatedly rejected in the past.
Kampuchea Krom was a former Khmer territory comprising 21 provinces and towns which was occupied by Vietnam long before the French established their Protectorates in 1863. Napoleon III promised with King Norodom that after France leaves its Protectorates in Indochina, Kampuchea Krom will be returned to Cambodia's control. But on 4th June 1949, the French parliament voted to cede Kampuchea Krom to the Vietnamese control, giving 21 Cambodian provinces to Vietnam.
Khmer Krom people around the world had commemorated the loss of Kampuchea Krom every year, but their permission to hold a commemoration anniversary in Cambodia had never been granted, until this year.
Some analysts and observations said that the Cambodian government acquiesced and made a concession because of the pressures from the participants of the Asean-EU Meeting that has been taking place in Phnom Penh at the time of the application for hold the commemoration service.
During the Asean-EU Meeting in Phnom Penh from 27-28th May, several Khmer Krom associations had made an appeal to the delegates to put pressures on Vietnam about the oppression and restriction of the freedom of Khmer Krom people by the Vietnamese authority. And at the beginning of May, the UN Human Right Council had reprimanded Vietnam for its human right abuses against the Khmer Krom people.
4 comments:
kill all the french in srok khmer.
It is sad to hear that 21 Khmer provinces had been ceded to Vietnam and our Khmer Krom brothers and sisters are persecuted by the Viet everyday.
Don't be sad. The CPP gov't doesn’t even care about their own people in Cambodia. Why would they care about Khmer Krom or Khmer Surin? Every generation, our Khmer politicians are there to make them rich. Just look at the Lon Nol's gov't and his people, they got rich. Then came the Khmer Rouge, in which they disregard human life, culture, society, technology, and others. Then came, the Hun Sen's gov't, he and his CPP associates got very rich stealing from the Khmer people.
What can you and I do to help? none, I bet.
Right now, I donated some money to the Human Rights in Indigenous Language Education Program in Surin province, Thailand. It's a Khmer Surin group that try to teach Khmer language to Khmer Surin children.
Thanks
Jayavaraman VII
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