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PHNOM PENH, Dec 8 (CEN) - The Vietnamese Embassy refused to accept a petition submitted by Kampuchea Krom associations to Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam who is on a three-day state visit to Cambodia, an activist said Thursday.
Soeurn Chumchourn, president of the Khmer Krom Youth Association, said the main purpose of the petition was to demand that the Vietnamese government solve problems faced by ethnic Khmers living in southern Vietnam.
Click the links to read the Khmer Krom NGO letters:
KKHRD to VN KH1
KKHRD to VN KH2
KKHRD to VN KH3
KKHRD to VN En1
KKHRD to VN En2
KKHRD to UN En1
KKHRD to UN En2
KKHRD to Spec. Rapp KH1
KKHRD to Spec. Rapp KH2
KKHRD to Spec. Rapp KH3
“The Vietnamese government has denied the Khmer Krom petition and our requests. This shows that Vietnamese government discriminates against Khmer Krom people."
"We Khmer Krom people will advocate internationally, insisting the Vietnamese government give full freedom to people in Kampuchea Krom,” he added
Soeurn Chumchourn noted that the refusal coincided a visit to Cambodia by Surya Prasad Subedi, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Human Rights.
In a two-hour meeting on Wednesday, Khmer Krom representatives submitted a petition to the UN official to request the Vietnamese government to respect human rights and the freedom of ethnic Khmer people in Vietnam.
Krom refers to the lower part of the Mekong Delta where many ethnic Khmers still live. Cambodia lost administrative control of the area more than 300 years ago.
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