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Most ethnic Vietnamese cannot buy land so they live in floating villages in Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia's largest lake.
Vincenzo Floramo and Laura Villadiego Last updated: 10 Aug 2014
| Tonle Sap, Cambodia - All that 61-year-old Thou Yien Son owns floats on water. His house is a precarious wooden platform tied to a bamboo raft and his income comes from a boat that he uses to catch fish and bring it to the local market. Yien Son doesn't have anything else, not even Cambodian citizenship. He is one of the 700,000 ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia, a country that doesn't consider them as citizens even though they've lived in the country for generations. Most of the ethnic Vietnamese arrived in Cambodia during the French Protectorate (1863- 1953) to work in administration positions and in the countryside. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge took power and the Vietnamese were forcibly deported to Vietnam or killed. During the exile, most of them lost the papers that proved their Cambodian origin. On their return in the 1980s, they were considered migrants and became stateless. Without papers, ethnic Vietnamese cannot buy land and most of them live in floating villages in Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake, located deep inside Cambodia. Yien Son, told Al Jazeera: "I came back because my grandparents and my parents were born and died here. This is my land." But there is one hope for the ethnic Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge Tribunal opened a new case against the top leaders of the regime, that will judge, among other crimes, the genocide committed against the Vietnamese community, which ethnic Vietnamese civil society leaders hope to use to gain repatriation. This same tribunal just condemned Nuon Chea, the second most senior leader in the Khmer Rouge, and Khieu Samphan, the former head of state, to life in prison for crimes against humanity. |
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Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake, Tonle Sap, is home to most of the ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia.
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4 comments:
Dear Khmer and worldwide readers online,
-Drgunzet- is a former secret Yuon/Vietcong who used to hide in Khmer Rouges uniform during the Killing Fields from 1975 to 1979 along with hundred of thousands of secret Yuon/Vietnamese agents from Hanoi hiding in Khmer Rouges uniforms to fool gullible innocent Khmer people. They (secret Yuon/Vietcong agents and -Drgunzet-) have created secret "Angkar Leur or Cap Tren to scare helpless and voiceless innocent Khmer people and children. That is why a few millions of innocent Khmer people and children have been varnished or put to death before the evil Yuon/Vietcong and -Drgunzet- tried to steal the land of Cambodia and created false history of Vietnam by saying Cambodia belong to Vietnam along time ago including Southern Cambodia/Khmer Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam), belonging to Vietnam a long time ago or their ancestor. Vietnam is fake, their language was created by French after stealing the Latin alphabets in writing. Vietnam and Vietnamese people are disgusted and hypocrite.
-Drgunzet- and his evil Yuon/Vietnamese agents are so cruel and murderous.
Leave the poor people alone.
-Drgunzet-
These reporters only scratch the surface when they talk about the illegal Vietnamese immigrants in Cambodia. They have a lot more to learn.
-Drgunzet-
You need to leave Cambodian blogging site alone then. You need to go back to your Mother's womb in Hanoi.
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