Cambodia Apes Vietnam in Its War on Religion
By Michael Benge
The axiom "monkey see, monkey do" comes to mind in
a recent incident at the Buddhist Temple Wat Kanteyaram (Eastern United Temple
Foundation of Jacksonville Inc.). The
Cambodian Buddhist community rallied in Jacksonville Florida on November 29
through December 1, 2013 to protest "The Great Supreme Patriarch,"
Tep Vong, who was to officiate at the Temple's sacred Seima Kam Buddhist
sanctification ceremony. The community
was adamant that the sanctification would be desecrated by Tep Vong's presence,
since he stands accused of a litany of human rights abuses that make him
ineligible to preside over the ceremony.
Prime Minister Hun Sen had honored him with this ostentatious title as
head monk in Cambodia as a reward for his loyalty to the communist kleptocracy
there.
The Jacksonville temple's Abbott, Yieng Meng Kry, who
invited Tep Vong to officiate at the ceremony, is his adherent and received his
appointment at Wat Kanteyaram by him.
The abbot reports on all temple activities and any rumors that might be
overheard there to Tep Vong in Cambodia.
Tep Vong reportedly held the position of the intelligence
and religious operations officer for the "Vietnamese Khmer
Rouge." The group, whose loyalty
was to Hanoi, occupied the Eastern zone of Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge's
reign of terror and genocide. Although
most of the atrocities have been allegedly committed by the Pol Pot faction of
the Khmer Rouge in the Western zone, this is not true; an ample number were
also committed by the Vietnamese Khmer Rouge who commanded the Eastern Zone.
'Vietnam has Fatherland Front associations in every provincial capital in Cambodia and has advisors in every division of the Cambodian government, including the Ministry of Religion. Vietnam provides training for Achas (who liaise between the public and the monks in Cambodian temples) as well as for false monks sent by Tep Vong to infiltrate all temples in Cambodia and many overseas, such as the one in Jacksonville.'
During the Khmer Rouge reign of terror, nearly all the
Cambodian Monks were murdered, and the Buddhist religious structure was
destroyed. In 1979, Vietnam invaded
Cambodia in an attempt to colonize that country and occupied it for 10
years. Just before retreating, the
Vietnamese occupiers had Tep Vong ordained by two Vietnamese "faux"
monks from a different Buddhist discipline.
He was subsequently appointed as the head monk in Cambodia. Tep Vong's first proclamation was that
"religion is at the service of the Party" (i.e., communist
regime). The irony is that with the
exception of the "false flag" Buddhists and their so-called
"temples," the Vietnamese communist regime does not recognize
Buddhism as a legal religion.
Tep Vong's more recent human rights violations include:
- Betrayal of his vows and of the Buddhist Canon by ordering the arrest of the Venerable Tim Sakhorn, Abbot of the North Phnom-Denh temple in Takeo province on June 30, 2007, on false charges, and delivering him to a foreign country (Vietnam). The charge was that Tim Sakhorn gave refuge to Khmer Krom refugees fleeing persecution in Vietnam, which supposedly endangered the national security of that country. At the request of the Vietnamese, Tep Vong defrocked Tim Sakhorn and delivered him to them. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, tortured repeatedly, and deprived of adequate substance. After 22 months, Tim Sakhorn escaped to freedom.
- Collusion in the murder of Venerable Eang Sok Thoeun and prohibiting his funeral from being held in any of the temples.
- Failing to respond to the murder of 27 monks in 1997, and to the more recent beatings, disappearances, and murders of monks throughout the country.
The Cambodian community in Jacksonville considered it heresy
to have such a person as Tep Vong consecrate this temple.
The adage, "As Vietnam goes, so goes Laos and
Cambodia" evolved during the Vietnam War due to the large number of
Vietnamese troops stationed in both countries, with Vietnamese "advisors"
who controlled and commanded indigenous troops fighting and manipulated the
politicks of those countries. "The
more things change, the more they remain the same."
Communist Vietnam created a similar crisis in July 2012
among Montagnard Protestants in North Carolina.
There, a Vietnamese communist government agent named Siu Kim ingratiated
himself with the South Atlantic district superintendent of the Christian and
Missionary Alliance Church (CMA), who then appointed Siu Kim as the pastor of
the First Montagnard Alliance Church (FMAC) in Raleigh, NC. CMA did this without consultation with church
elders, thus disregarding church bylaws.
Using the Church as a bully pulpit, Siu Kim began denouncing leaders
within the Montagnard community, as reported in a previous American Thinker
article.
Preaching with venom from the pulpit, Siu Kim verbally
attacked the members of the Montagnard Human Rights Organization, composed
largely of former resistance fighters, stating that "MHRO works for the
devil." Montagnard refugees and
church members in North Carolina who had participated in the peaceful 2001
protests in the Central Highlands for religious freedom and against human
rights abuses knew that Siu Kim was part of the draconian religious police
apparatus in the Central Highlands and was the pastor of the
"Potemkin" communist-controlled church in Pleiku. According to government regulations, to
become a pastor, a person must pledge to put the State (i.e., communism) before
God.
Several had witnessed as Siu Kim joined with police and
government officials in raiding and burning House Churches (i.e., members'
homes) in Pleiku province, and in conducting searches for Montagnards who had
participated in the mass protests. For
several years, Siu Kim had also provided disinformation to the American Embassy
and the department minimizing the extent of the religious persecution of the
Montagnards.
The Montagnards abandoned the CMA-controlled FMA Church and
formed a new independent one named Anak Cu Chiang (Children of the Mountains
Church).
Few people realize that Ho Chi Minh was not a Vietnamese
nationalist, as touted, but was a Comintern agent sent from Moscow with orders
to create communist movements throughout S.E. Asia -- among them the
Indochinese communist party (not just a Vietnamese communist party). Under this banner, he and the other
Vietnamese party members created the Khmer Rouge. Later, the Khmer Rouge split into two
factions, one controlled by the xenophobic Pol Pot, who took control of the
region west of the Mekong, and the "Vietnamese Khmer Rouge" loyal to
Hanoi, which controlled the Eastern Zone.
The latter group was a mix of former Vietminh forces (mostly Vietnamese)
and Khmer Krom conscripts from the Mekong Delta region of southern Cambodia,
which had been ceded to Vietnam by French colonial authorities in 1949, and
Vietnamese, Khmer, and mixed-blood Vietnamese-Khmer living in Cambodia. All were taken to Hanoi for indoctrination
and military training, armed, and sent to operate in Eastern Cambodia. During the Vietnam War and the reign of
terror, Hanoi maintained three divisions of "Vietnamese Khmer Rouge,"
which received supplies and troop replacements from Vietnamese mainline forces,
to fight non-communist forces in Cambodia.
The author interviewed a number of Cambodian refugees who
escaped the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge's Western push of Phnom Penh's residents by
fleeing east toward Vietnam. They
reported sleeping in a number of "killing fields" in the Eastern Zone
as they escaped.
In an October 30, 1989 "Taking Exception" article
in the Washington Post, one of these refugees, Saren Thach, told of the murder
of his brother, wife, son, and baby daughter in one of these killing fields by
Eastern Zone troops under "Vietminh Khmer Rouge" commander Heng
Samrin and regimental commander Hun Sen (the present prime minister of
Cambodia), who operated in the Northeastern province of Kompong Cham. Their murder was witnessed by his wife's brother
who later managed to escape. "In
July 1973, during the battle to relieve the provincial capital, my Special
Forces unit was sent to relieve the garrison at Kompong Cham, which had been
under siege by Hun Sen's troops for three weeks. They discovered hundreds of bodies of men,
women and Children, young and old, including Buddhist monks, from villages near
the provincial capital who had been first tortured and then killed - some
executed by a gunshot to the back of the head, others chopped to death with
hoes, still others strangled to death or suffocated by plastic bags tied over
their heads."
According to the Washington Post (Sept. 10, 1973),
"[f]rom day one, they and the troops under their command killed
indiscriminately anyone in their way, and when overrunning two hospitals, Heng
Samrin's and Hun Sen's troops threw hand grenades and later slit the throats of
critically ill patients."
In 1981, Heng Samrin became the secretary-general of the
People's Revolutionary Party; however, when Hun Sen became Prime Minister in
1985 Heng was demoted to the post of honorary chairman of Hun Sen's Cambodian
People's (communist) Party.
Vietnam has Fatherland Front associations in every
provincial capital in Cambodia and has advisors in every division of the
Cambodian government, including the Ministry of Religion. Vietnam provides training for Achas (who
liaise between the public and the monks in Cambodian temples) as well as for
false monks sent by Tep Vong to infiltrate all temples in Cambodia and many
overseas, such as the one in Jacksonville.
To adhere to Cambodian Buddhism, monks who are assigned to temples
outside of the country must first have the approval of the head monk in
Cambodia, who unfortunately at the present is Tep Vong.
And the band plays on.
6 comments:
why not? USA gives security to supreme tep vong for his visit.,
why not? abbott in jacksonville, FL, asks support from USA authority for supreme tep vong visit..
it is harrasement matters, USA has the law's for this to defense supreme tep vong.
ចុចអានរដ្ឋសភាវង្វេងច្បាប់ រីឯបុរសខ្លាំងបិទភ្នែកឲ្យអនុក្រឹត្យរបស់រាជរដ្ឋាភិបាលក្លាយជាក្រដាសអនាម័យ
ចុចអាននៅសប្ដាហ៍ក្រោយនេះ យួនបានហៅ លោក ហ៊ុន សែន ទៅចាក់ថ្នាំ!!
ចុចអានអ្នកសង្កេតការណ៍៖ ការឆ្លើយតបរបស់លោកហ៊ុន សែនជាការគួរឱ្យខកចិត្ត
ចុចអានលោក ហ៊ុន សែន បដិសេធមិនចុះចេញពីតំណែង
ចុចអានហ៊ុន សែន៖ គ្មានការបោះឆ្នោត គ្មានការលាលែង ពីតំណែងជានាយករដ្ឋមន្រ្តី
Tep Vong is a stupid monkey. He should be living in Vietnam to enjoy his lifestyle as a male prostitute for youns' cadres. Get all your January 7th monks with you to Hanoi, and then open a big brothel.
What are these 4 top dogs are doing there? Do they just patting each others just like wild animal in the Jungle of Africa or they just want to show their ugly faces to remind Cambodian people that they are in control. Remember your days of going down to hell are coming so nearer and nearer.
Jacksonville Buddhist temple have Hun Sen & Tep vong Spy as abbott.
I hope their members have knowledge of that.
Remember the day that the Army had taken an oath of allegiance to ah Kwak and his family. It is an absolute abuse of the military institution. Perhaps only in Cambodia, and in Vietnam which is the country that "Ach Pkay 4", Pol Saroeun was studying his military courses. There is no such practise some where else in this world. However, in this special case of the real coward prime minister of Cambodia, it was an appropriate for that "5 Ach Pkay general" took a comfort in believing that his day in the office is not going to be over as easy as peeling bananas. For god sake, he would be hiding behind the Army all the time. The devil will find you and punish you, for whatever you have done to the Buddhist monks such as kicking and striking the monks' heads with clubs, and other electronic devices to shock them alive. You are a crocodile now, remember once you were staying in a pagoda to pursue your education, and the monks had taken good care of you and now you become the Prime Minister and then you treat the Buddhist monks like a criminal. The bad deed will catch you up.
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