NB: With all this shameless rewriting and concocting of history of the Khmer Krom by cowboy 'historians' of Vietnam one may yet live to see and read "history" of what remains of present-day Cambodia being re-invented along predictable and twisted lines? Let me take a wild, but not too far-fetched guess: Tonle Sap was completely "uninhabited and undeveloped when the Vietnamese "settlers" arrived in the 1980s right through to the 2010s"! And so were most parts of Kampong Chhnang, Rattanakiri, Prey Long, Mondulkiri, Kg Cham, and so on where hundreds of thousands of hectares of so-called Economic Land Concessions [ELCs] have all been firmly placed under Vietnamese control and ownership? What of Mr Heng Samrin's and several other villages being ceded to Vietnam? Ah, for one thing the inhabitants of those villages had seen the 'practical economic benefit in being integrated into Vietnam', just like their Khmer Krom brothers had done so historically? Haven't the Vietnamese authorities respected the Khmer Krom people's rights to properties, lands, political autonomy, freedom of choosing their preferred Khmer education and instruction? Aren't they not economically the most prosperous and politically well endowed minority in Vietnam today 'despite not having been 'indigenous' to this part of Vietnam to begin with'? Now, one can truly understand and agree with the sentiment that "history never repeats itself, only historians" . . . School of Vice
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