MAP OF KAMPUCHEA KROMOriginally posted at: Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community.
Kampuchea Krom is rich in history and civilized culture before the Vietnamese settlers arrived on the northern border with Champa Kingdom.
Kampuchea Krom is the oldest land in Southeast Asia.
The Khmers called this part of the Khmer Empire [Present day Kingdom of Cambodia], Kampuchea Krom. Kampuchea Krom is also known as Lower Cambodia, Mekong Delta, or Cochin China. The Khmer populations of this beautiful landscapes share the same race,
religion, national language, culture, custom, tradition, and great history as the Khmers in Cambodia. Kampuchea Krom is slightly smaller in size than her motherland, Kingdom of Cambodia.
Kampuchea Krom or Cochinchina becomes part of French Indochina on October 17, 1887.
KAMPUCHEA KROM AT A GLANCE
Kampuchea Krom is composed of 68,965 square kilometers, 21 provinces and municipalities, two large islands - Koh Tral and Koh Tralach, 171 districts, 1,368 communes, 14,778 villages, more than 13 million Khmers, more than 567 Buddhist pagodas and more than 20,000 Theravada Buddhist monks.
99% of populations are Theravada Buddhists.
The Khmer kings, governments, regimes and citizens have never relinquish (give up) this part of their country to foreigners.
Kampuchea Krom has been under an ongoing colonial control since her division from motherland, Cambodia.
June 4, 1949 is the date that the Khmer Kampuchea Krom citizens grieve. The Khmer Kampuchea Krom people have organized Buddhist Service annually to honor the fallen Khmer Buddhist monks and heroes, who sacrificed their lives for Kampuchea Krom and Theravada Buddhism.
Colonial France divided, ceded and transferred Kampuchea Krom to colonial Vietnam on this date. The freedom of Khmer Kampuchea Krom has been mostly stripped by the Vietnamese ruling regimes and governments since. The French colonial administration committed injustice upon the more than 13 million Khmers of this beautiful fertile land.
Justice remains elusive for Cambodia, Kampuchea Krom and her citizens.
And...The struggle to regain freedom and human rights by the Khmers in Kampuchea Krom continues as long as injustice commits by the ruling Vietnamese regime(s) has not produced a fruitful result.
The followings are Khmer provincial, municipal and island names that the Vietnamese authorities have changed repeatedly.
1. Preah Trapeang province
in Vietnamese - Tra Vinh
(Vinh Binh)
circa 1731, 1840 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
2. Khleang province
in Vietnamese - Soc Trang
circa 1758, 1840 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
3. Mort Chrouk province
in Vietnamese - Chau Doc
circa 1715, 1757 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
4. Kramuon Sor province
in Vietnamese - Rach Gia
circa 1715, 1757, 1758 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
5. Pol Leav province
in Vietnamese - Bac Lieu
circa 1840 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
6. Tuk Khmau province
in Vietnamese - Ca Mau
circa 1840 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
7. Peam Banteay Meas province
in Vietnamese - Ha Tien
circa 1715 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
8. Prek Russey province
in Vietnamese - Can Tho
circa 1758, 1840 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
9. Long Hor province
in Vietnamese - Vinh Long
circa 1731 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
10. Peam Barach province
in Vietnamese - Long Xuyen
circa 1715, 1731 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
11. Raung Domrei province
in Vietnamese - Tay Ninh
circa 1770 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
12. Prey Nokor city
in Vietnamese - Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon)
circa 1696 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
13. Tuol Tamoak province
in Vietnamese - Thu Du Mot
circa 1696 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
14. Phsar Dek province
in Vietnamese - Sadec
circa 1757 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
15. Changva Trapeang Sraka Trey
province in Vietnamese - Bien Hoa
circa 1651 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
16. Me Sor province
in Vietnamese - My Tho
circa 1731 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
17. Preah Suorkea province
in Vietnamese - Baria
circa 1651 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
18. Koh Koang province
in Vietnamese - Go Cong
circa 1731 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
19. Kampong Russey province
in Vietnamese - Ben Tre
circa 1732 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
20. Kampong Kou province
(New name) in Vietnamese - Tan An
circa 1669 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
21. O Kab province
in Vietnamese - Vung Tau
circa 1651 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
22. Koh Tralach (Tralach Island)
in Vietnamese - Con Dao (Con Son)
circa 1765 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
23. Koh Tral (Tral Island)
in Vietnamese - Phu Quoc island
circa 1939 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
Koh Tral Island has an area of 567 square kilometers; about 62 kilometers long and between 3 kilometers and 28 kilometers wide. The island physically is located closest to Cambodia's Kep seaside city. Visitors can see Koh Tral Island from the coastline of Kep. It is about a 30-minute motorized boat ride.
4 comments:
Very sad news that we lost this part of lands without a fight! If we were to lost this lands because of fighting, we'd except it.
Cry,
Koun Khmer
Chor Siem mistreated Khmer refugees
Cambodian suffered enough by chor Siem To those who said Thai help Cambodian a lot is a wrong claim. Thais attitude to the refugees who escaped Cambodia, under Khmer Rouge, were sent back to the Khmer Rouge’s killing machine. . . . The second wave, in 1979, gethering refugees, robbed them and send back down Phnom Dangrek resulted thousands death by steppin on landmine, some were executed by thai soldiers on the top. Refugees who lived along the border have disputed with Thai people about their trade were bombed by military airplane and shelled by Thai artillery. As refugees living in the camp, set up by UNHCR [United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees], was surrounded by barbed wire made by Thai soldiers and Khmer refugees in there were mistreated by Thai authority, some was kicked, some was beaten just learning English or holding English book in their hand. The new refugees who tried to get in the camp were shot to death. There were many mistreatment beyond description that Thai did to Cambodian. Even currently, along the border there were incidents had happened many time, Cambodia was shot to death and blamed as robbers . . . . This just few example that Thai must review their attitude and stop looking down the people of your neighbors and act arrogant.
Along with a reference to the 2002 ‘landmine trap’ incident, ‘To Thai’ remarks upon an infamous event – ‘khmer kickboxer, kun khmer’ refers to it as ‘the dangrek genocide’– that took place at the Preah Vihear border crossing on 8 June 1979 after tens of thousands of Cambodians had crossed into Thailand seeking asylum. On this day, Thai soldiers began deporting 45,000 of these refugees, who were forced at gunpoint down the heavily mined and booby-trapped mountain below Preah Vihear. Many of the
Cambodians were killed or injured during their descent down the ravine; some were even robbed or shot by Thai soldiers. As ‘To Thai’ notes, those Cambodians who were allowed to remain on Thai soil in camps were sometimes abused by their Thai guards and administrators, who wielded enormous power over them and, ironically, often profited from local trade and the international aid pouring into the camps. Thai soldiers and
businessmen also benefited from trade with various Cambodian ‘resistance groups’, including the Khmer Rouge, who sometimes operated from Thai soil and were receiving international support to battle the PRK regime.
source:Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 37 (3), pp 445–468 October 2006. Printed in the United Kingdom.
© 2006 The National University of Singapore doi:10.1017/S0022463406000737
Kampuchea Krom must be returned to unite with its homeland Cambodia (Kampuchea).
Israel people lost their home land for almost 2000 years ,yet they don't give up and managed to create their country once again in 1946,just after the second world war. At that time, Israelis was just merely a few millions.
Kampuchea Krom,technically speaking, is just 62 years after it been given to Vietnam by the French government.It is a case that we must do in the UN court and in the battle to take it back.But we must be strong and modern in technology in defence and ruthless just like Israel people.
This is the reason why Hanoi's puppet try to prevent others parties to run Cambodia,because Kampuchea Krom case is very sensitive.
Before 1975,Kampuchea Krom was under its home rule although it was under Vietnam. Khmer Krom got her own armed forces and controlled their home land by her own people.
It is a case to fight for as our brothers and sisters are suffering so much under Hanoi's treatment.
True Khmer
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