Last Updated on 26 March 2013
Phnom Penh Post
By Meas Sokchea
Human Rights Party deputy president Son Soubert (pictured) said yesterday he had
been blocked from entering Vietnam on Friday despite having obtained
permission for the visit from the Vietnamese embassy.
Soubert
told the Post he had intended to visit a museum in Ho Chi Minh city for
archaeological research and visit family in Kampuchea Krom’s Preah
Trapaing province but was blocked at the Tay Ninh border checkpoint.
“We received all proper clearance [to enter Vietnam]. They prohibited me without giving a reason,” he said.
Soubert
added that if the Vietnamese ambassador did not respond to his request
for an explanation, Soubert would file a complaint to the United Nations
accusing Vietnam of human rights abuse.
The Vietnamese embassy declined to comment.
Independent
analyst Lao Mong Hay said this was not the first time Vietnamese
authorities had blocked Cambodians with proper paperwork from entering
the country, adding that such moves tended to target opposition figures
due to the two governments’ friendship.
To contact the reporter on this story: Meas Sokchea at
sokchea.meas@phnompenhpost.com
3 comments:
Yuons Hanoi roamed free in Scambodia but Khmer krom can not visit their friends and families in their ancestral's land (Maekong delta) what's a friendship for 1000yrs between Cpp Hun sen and Hanoi!!!!!What's kind of friendship was that? Hun sen,please tell the world why yuons Hanoi can come freely to srok Khmer while khmer krom can not goes visit their families&friends in their ancestral's land at Maekong delta=KAMPUCHEA KROM?
Kmenhwatt
Kmenhwatt,
You know Hanoi owns Traitor Hun !!!
Son Soubert has a Khmer Krom ancestry, so in a sense Kampuchea Krom is his ancestral land so he must be allowed to visit it. Vietnam likes to look down on Khmers and Hun Sen turned a blind eye - not saying a word.
It is absurd when Vietnamese are flowing into Cambodia illegally in their tens of thousands, but a Khmer Krom whose ancestral land is Kampuchea Krom can't even visit his parents' or grandparents' birthplace.
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