In Vietnam’s Long Phu district, the humanitarian aid organization CARE Denmark is working to help the poor Khmer ethnic women by improving their farming skills and their knowledge on family care.
By Theis Broegger
ScandAsia 2006-08-12
Lately many of the poor women from the Khmer ethnic minority in the district of Long Phu in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang[Khleang in Khmer] have been benefiting from special training offered through a project funded by the help organization CARE Denmark.
The training has helped improve the Khmer-Krom women’s farming skills as well as their knowledge on family care. The project – officially named the Participatory Community Development (PACODE) – has set up 124 groups with more than 2,000 members. The members are all Khmer-Krom women from the communes An Hiep, Thuan Hoa, Truong Khanh, and Lich Hoi Thuong. The groups meet regularly to learn about safe water, environmental hygiene, and community health care under the instruction of PACODE lecturers.
The Khmer Krom women also share skills concerning farming and raising animals. The Soc Trang province is home to no less than 350,000 ethnic Khmers[based on Vietnamese figures?], most of whom mainly live in the districts of Vinh Chau, My Xuyen, Long Phu, and Thanh Tri.
Vietnamese Government's fraudulent scheme
July 7,2006
source: VOKK
News released from our homeland, Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam), said that there is a new case of the state of Vietnam has committed another deceitful act on the innocent and defenseless Khmer Krom residents.
The scheme has involved State's project funded by the foreign funds, whereby the authorities are building houses for the Khmer Krom poor. Deceitfully, the houses the Vietnamese authorities are building for Khmer Krom poor families were structured by wooden and or bamboo support mixed with cements and gravels, instead of the normal engineered way with metal materials.
Many Khmer Krom recipients of these housing projects are afraid to live in these houses for fear of collapsing, but accepted it anyway in concern of State's reprisal for not accepting.
source: VOKK
News released from our homeland, Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam), said that there is a new case of the state of Vietnam has committed another deceitful act on the innocent and defenseless Khmer Krom residents.
The scheme has involved State's project funded by the foreign funds, whereby the authorities are building houses for the Khmer Krom poor. Deceitfully, the houses the Vietnamese authorities are building for Khmer Krom poor families were structured by wooden and or bamboo support mixed with cements and gravels, instead of the normal engineered way with metal materials.
Many Khmer Krom recipients of these housing projects are afraid to live in these houses for fear of collapsing, but accepted it anyway in concern of State's reprisal for not accepting.
Defenseless Khmer-Kroms tortured by Vietnamese Authorities
July 07,2006
Source: KKF
The local Vietnamese authority led by Nguyen Van Hieu has involved in the interrogations, tortures, and disappearance of the Khmer Krom people in An Giang province, south Vietnam.
The three victim names are as follow:
- Mr. Chau Sok Kha born in1978, Phothi village, An Cu commune, Tinh Bien district, An Giang province.
- Mr. Chau Siem born in 1971, Phothi village, An Cu commune, Tinh Bien district, An Giang province.
- Mr. Chau Chien born in 1985, Phothi village, An Cu commune, Tinh Bien district, An Giang province.
On May 15, 2006, the above three Khmer-Krom individuals were watching at home the VCD materials produced by Khmers Kampuchea Federation (KKF). The VCD showed the KKF members’ participation at the Fourth Session United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) at the United Nations Headquarters, New York from 16 to 27 May 2005. The three Khmer-Krom individuals were delighted and overjoyed to see the materials with hope. The three had planned to share the VCD materials with their fellow neighbors about the recent successes of the Khmer Krom overseas who have made great strides to be part of the UNPFII forum and represented the million Khmer-Kroms’ suffering voice in their homeland at the United Nations’ forum. At the forum, KKF’s representatives seeked for the respect Khmer Krom human rights in south Vietnam, and presented our Khmer Krom’s views on issues of Khmer Krom poverty, religious oppression, and cultural issues in south Vietnam.
The local Vietnamese authority later found out the case and summoned the three Khmer Krom individuals who had possessed and had seen the VCD materials, to the local Vietnamese police station for question. The interrogation began with torture, beaten to unconsciousness and forced confessions to no longer possess any publicized KKF materials, neither listening to the Voice of America Radio in Khmer, Radio Free Asia Radio in Khmer, Voice of Khmer Krom (VOKK) radio in Khmer in the future . After hours of interrogation the three Khmer Kroms were dismissed to go home.
On May 30, 2006, Mr. Chau Sok Kha was summoned once again and the interrogation led by the same local policeman Nguyen Van Hieu. Mr. Chau Sok Kha was detained for a day without foods or water, and was tortured to broken rips, arms, and legs. On May 31, 2006, with his family’s assistance, he escaped to Cambodia in search for protection, and is currently seeking refuge from the UNHCR headquarters in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh. On June 01, 2006, Mr. Chau Sok Kha first approached the ADHOC, an NGO of Cambodia in Phnom Penh. Next day he approached the UNHCR in Phnom Penh to seek the protection.
The other two Khmer-Krom individuals are still reported missing. Perhaps, the two men are currently in the Vietnamese’ detention, facing the same form of torture and their lives are still in grave danger.
We, Khmer Krom, desperately seek your immediate intervention on this matter and call for the state of Vietnam to stop their atrocious acts of violating Khmer Krom’s rights to freedom of information, and freedom of expression and association.
We work in accordance to the international law and the promotion of human rights and peace in the region. We demand the same respect from the government of Vietnam when it comes to dealing with our Khmer Krom people in south Vietnam, our homeland. Only this current case, there are many other cases on the rights violations of our Khmer Krom people, such as the land-grabs cases of many Khmer Krom farmlands and the mistreatments of thousands of Khmer Krom blindness case in provinces of Soc Trang and Bac Lieu
Majority of the Khmer Krom people practice Theravada Buddhism and in particular the Khmer Krom venerable monks have dedicated their whole lives to Buddhism. On contrary the state of Vietnam have forced our every Khmer Krom Buddhist monk to register as "none religion" status on their social identification card.
Khmer Krom worldwide would like to request for all governments and NGOs to put pressure on the current government of Vietnam to immediately cease any rights violation against our defenseless Khmer Krom in our homeland and respect the United Nations’ Universal Human Rights Charter where Vietnam is signatory of.
Khmer Krom's Memorial Day: June 4
May 28, 2006
Source: KKM Writer
On June 4, 1949, was the day that the former French colonial administration of Indochina region signed away the land of Kampuchea Krom to the state of Vietnam, without the acknowledgement nor formal consent of the indigenous Khmer Krom people.
Kampuchea Krom(south Vietnam) is the homeland of the Khmer Krom indigenous people which catrastrophically and unfortunately not too many outsiders know about it.
The on-and-off invasions of the Vietnamese north of the Khmer Krom's homeland started right after the Vietnamese completely annihilated the Champa State in today central Vietnam. The Vietnamese' expansionism policy started from the north (southern China). Then, the Vietnamese were trouble-makers and were the minority group of China. As the consequence of the Vietnamese trouble-makings, China expelled the Vietnamese from China at once. Only a few still remain in southern China today.
Even today north Vietnam, used to belong to other indigenous groups.
To conclude that Vietnam solely building on others' lands and waters is precisely the case. However, to this day Vietnam refuses the facts and accepts the true events of its history: that its lands are other peoples' lands and its behaviours are in total violations of the international law.
The many victims of Vietnam's gross violations are all calling for the injustice and seek the International Law body such as the United Nations, the World Court, etc. 's to stop the violations and bring justice for all victims such as the indigenous Khmer Krom in south Vietnam. We Khmer Krom people are here not deny Vietnam, but to right Vietnam's past and present wrongs.
Source: KKM Writer
On June 4, 1949, was the day that the former French colonial administration of Indochina region signed away the land of Kampuchea Krom to the state of Vietnam, without the acknowledgement nor formal consent of the indigenous Khmer Krom people.
Kampuchea Krom(south Vietnam) is the homeland of the Khmer Krom indigenous people which catrastrophically and unfortunately not too many outsiders know about it.
The on-and-off invasions of the Vietnamese north of the Khmer Krom's homeland started right after the Vietnamese completely annihilated the Champa State in today central Vietnam. The Vietnamese' expansionism policy started from the north (southern China). Then, the Vietnamese were trouble-makers and were the minority group of China. As the consequence of the Vietnamese trouble-makings, China expelled the Vietnamese from China at once. Only a few still remain in southern China today.
Even today north Vietnam, used to belong to other indigenous groups.
To conclude that Vietnam solely building on others' lands and waters is precisely the case. However, to this day Vietnam refuses the facts and accepts the true events of its history: that its lands are other peoples' lands and its behaviours are in total violations of the international law.
The many victims of Vietnam's gross violations are all calling for the injustice and seek the International Law body such as the United Nations, the World Court, etc. 's to stop the violations and bring justice for all victims such as the indigenous Khmer Krom in south Vietnam. We Khmer Krom people are here not deny Vietnam, but to right Vietnam's past and present wrongs.
The State of Vietnam indirectly kills Khmer Krom farmers
April 06,2006
Source: KKM writer
According to the local Vietnamese media reported this week, now is the season of major rice harvest in Vietnam and rice farmers are facing the falling price of rice in Vietnam, in contrast to the international pricing of rice has been on the rise this year so far.
Kampuchea Krom is the "bread baskets" of Vietnam's rice production. While the 2005 statistics indicated Vietnam exported more than 5 millions tons of rice which was worth $1.4 billions US, the nation farmers are still struggling to make ends meet due to low price of rice during harvesting seasions.
Per Khmer Krom's impact by low price scheme in Vietnam, the Khmer Krom are mostly farmers and taken a big hit by the State's manipulated and unprotected pricing. Many Khmer Krom farmers could not make enough funds to repay their loans, even though they received high yield from their rice harvest. As a result, many Khmer Krom farming families ended up selling their farmlands and abandoned their traditional employment to seek odd jobs in the Vietnamese urban centers.
This trend is very catrastrophic to the Khmer Krom's way of life and their agricultural business.
Source: KKM writer
According to the local Vietnamese media reported this week, now is the season of major rice harvest in Vietnam and rice farmers are facing the falling price of rice in Vietnam, in contrast to the international pricing of rice has been on the rise this year so far.
Kampuchea Krom is the "bread baskets" of Vietnam's rice production. While the 2005 statistics indicated Vietnam exported more than 5 millions tons of rice which was worth $1.4 billions US, the nation farmers are still struggling to make ends meet due to low price of rice during harvesting seasions.
Per Khmer Krom's impact by low price scheme in Vietnam, the Khmer Krom are mostly farmers and taken a big hit by the State's manipulated and unprotected pricing. Many Khmer Krom farmers could not make enough funds to repay their loans, even though they received high yield from their rice harvest. As a result, many Khmer Krom farming families ended up selling their farmlands and abandoned their traditional employment to seek odd jobs in the Vietnamese urban centers.
This trend is very catrastrophic to the Khmer Krom's way of life and their agricultural business.
Viet authorities jailed Khmer Krom and intimidating Khmer Krom in border area
Source: VOKK
Date: March 25, 2006
Border area of Kampuchea Krom(south Vietnam)-Cambodia, a Khmer Krom person, named Chau Sokha, has been jailed on the allegation that he is bringing over the border from Cambodia the Khmer Krom music songs, Khmer Krom documents which related to Khmer Krom overseas' peaceful campaigns for 'Free Kampuchea Krom'.
The State of Vietnam rules these Khmer Krom materials illegal in Khmer Krom's homeland--Kampuchea Krom(south Vietnam). The State's authorities have intensified these areas to further prevent the Khmer Krom's freedom of movement, freedom of speech and expression, and Khmer Krom's rights to their identity.
These activities have taken place in Tra Bau village, Mot Chrouk (An Giang) province, Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam).
Date: March 25, 2006
Border area of Kampuchea Krom(south Vietnam)-Cambodia, a Khmer Krom person, named Chau Sokha, has been jailed on the allegation that he is bringing over the border from Cambodia the Khmer Krom music songs, Khmer Krom documents which related to Khmer Krom overseas' peaceful campaigns for 'Free Kampuchea Krom'.
The State of Vietnam rules these Khmer Krom materials illegal in Khmer Krom's homeland--Kampuchea Krom(south Vietnam). The State's authorities have intensified these areas to further prevent the Khmer Krom's freedom of movement, freedom of speech and expression, and Khmer Krom's rights to their identity.
These activities have taken place in Tra Bau village, Mot Chrouk (An Giang) province, Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam).
Cambodia's King visit to Hanoi an Insult to Khmer Krom
Written by KKM Writer
March 20, 2006
His Excellency King Sihamoni's visit to Hanoi and paid a floral tribute to Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum on March 18, 2006 is to fundamentally disregard Khmer Krom's sufferings all together. It is such a bitter pill for Khmer Krom to swallow. The King chose to ignore our call for justice in Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam). The King chose to walk on the Vietnamese red-carpets that lay on the Khmer Krom's bloods and Khmer Krom's corpses, at the bloody hands of the Vietnamese communists.
We Khmer Krom were hopeful for our new King when He first throned. Now we are in disarray and speechless again for the recent developments and His involvements in border signings and this visit to Vietnam. We Khmer Krom seek only the path that King Father Sihanouk day-and-night has created: by requesting the State of Vietnam for the protection of Khmer Krom and by providing the shelters to the fleeing Khmer Krom in Cambodia.
The State of Vietnam never, in its history, once protects its neighbours. Vietnam only annhilates them and steals their lands and properties. Ho Chi Minh himself and his followers have killed thousands of Khmer Krom since the fall of US-backed government in Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam).
Even worst yet, the older Khmer capital city, Prey Nokor city has been renamed to Saigon and now to Ho Chi Minh city. Saigon in Vietnamese was a close resemblance of Prey Nokor in Khmer language. Here the Vietcongs had unilaterally renamed Khmer's old city to Ho Chi Minh city, whose legacy and regime is to kill all Khmers in their homeland. This Ho Chi Minh's name is literally to erase the Khmer's historical trace on the land of Kampuchea Krom once and for all
March 20, 2006
His Excellency King Sihamoni's visit to Hanoi and paid a floral tribute to Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum on March 18, 2006 is to fundamentally disregard Khmer Krom's sufferings all together. It is such a bitter pill for Khmer Krom to swallow. The King chose to ignore our call for justice in Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam). The King chose to walk on the Vietnamese red-carpets that lay on the Khmer Krom's bloods and Khmer Krom's corpses, at the bloody hands of the Vietnamese communists.
We Khmer Krom were hopeful for our new King when He first throned. Now we are in disarray and speechless again for the recent developments and His involvements in border signings and this visit to Vietnam. We Khmer Krom seek only the path that King Father Sihanouk day-and-night has created: by requesting the State of Vietnam for the protection of Khmer Krom and by providing the shelters to the fleeing Khmer Krom in Cambodia.
The State of Vietnam never, in its history, once protects its neighbours. Vietnam only annhilates them and steals their lands and properties. Ho Chi Minh himself and his followers have killed thousands of Khmer Krom since the fall of US-backed government in Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam).
Even worst yet, the older Khmer capital city, Prey Nokor city has been renamed to Saigon and now to Ho Chi Minh city. Saigon in Vietnamese was a close resemblance of Prey Nokor in Khmer language. Here the Vietcongs had unilaterally renamed Khmer's old city to Ho Chi Minh city, whose legacy and regime is to kill all Khmers in their homeland. This Ho Chi Minh's name is literally to erase the Khmer's historical trace on the land of Kampuchea Krom once and for all
Viet's Political Games on Khmer
source: KKM Reporter
Date: March 12, 2006
KKM reporter interviewed a former Khmer Krom army commander under the former US-backed south Vietnam government. The KK commander who requested to be anonimous under this interview on what he has personally learned from the Vietnamese' Rach Gia labour camp, southern Vietnam. He was imprisoned after the Vietcongs invasion of south Vietnam in 1975 and after the withdrawal of the US troops. This KK commander was captured and sent to the labour camp from 1975 to 1985, and was released after numerous extortions from his whole family properties. Upon his release, he and his family fled to the refugee camp the Cambodia-Thai borders. He now lives in Canada.
During the KK commander's training at the labour camp, here is what KKM interviewer learned from the commander about the Viet's secret plan:
"In order to put a lid on Khmer Krom's matters, we Vietnamese must take control of Cambodia at all costs. Cambodia is the launching grounds for Khmer Krom to free their homeland--Kampuchea Krom," the commander quoted from the training materials.
He continued, "for Khmer Krom, in order to free Kampuchea Krom, we must seek the help from Cambodia". He said, "this is no difference from Palestine seeking help from the Arab world and the Kashmir seeks support from Pakistan." He expressed regret that up-to-now that we Khmer have not had a full control of Cambodia: it is still heavily under the foreign influences, in particular by the Vietcongs in Hanoi.
Date: March 12, 2006
KKM reporter interviewed a former Khmer Krom army commander under the former US-backed south Vietnam government. The KK commander who requested to be anonimous under this interview on what he has personally learned from the Vietnamese' Rach Gia labour camp, southern Vietnam. He was imprisoned after the Vietcongs invasion of south Vietnam in 1975 and after the withdrawal of the US troops. This KK commander was captured and sent to the labour camp from 1975 to 1985, and was released after numerous extortions from his whole family properties. Upon his release, he and his family fled to the refugee camp the Cambodia-Thai borders. He now lives in Canada.
During the KK commander's training at the labour camp, here is what KKM interviewer learned from the commander about the Viet's secret plan:
"In order to put a lid on Khmer Krom's matters, we Vietnamese must take control of Cambodia at all costs. Cambodia is the launching grounds for Khmer Krom to free their homeland--Kampuchea Krom," the commander quoted from the training materials.
He continued, "for Khmer Krom, in order to free Kampuchea Krom, we must seek the help from Cambodia". He said, "this is no difference from Palestine seeking help from the Arab world and the Kashmir seeks support from Pakistan." He expressed regret that up-to-now that we Khmer have not had a full control of Cambodia: it is still heavily under the foreign influences, in particular by the Vietcongs in Hanoi.
Khmer Krom refugees' letter to Vietnam's visiting PM Phan Van Khai
Source: VOKK
March 10, 2006
Khmer Krom refugees in Cambodia, numbered around one million, have sent a letter to the Vietnam's PM Phan Van Khai on his trip to Cambodia this week. The letter seeks the following demands to be fulfilled in their homeland Kampuchea Krom:
March 10, 2006
Khmer Krom refugees in Cambodia, numbered around one million, have sent a letter to the Vietnam's PM Phan Van Khai on his trip to Cambodia this week. The letter seeks the following demands to be fulfilled in their homeland Kampuchea Krom:
- Respect Khmer Krom indigenous rights
- Provide fund to many Khmer Krom schools that have been run by Khmer Krom in many temples
- Respect Khmer Krom religious rights to practice freely
- Permit Kleang (Soc Trang) province to conduct the Flower Festival more than the State's dictated-one day in the province
- Allow Khmer Krom overseas to move freely in their homeland while visiting
- Respect free press such as listening to news and to express opinion freely
- School courses and programs should be allowed to conduct in Khmer Krom language
- State must fund the cures of Khmer Krom's current blindness epidemic in the provinces Kleang (Soc Trang) and Bac Lieu (Polev) which is accounted for around 3,000 victims.
Viet Authorities Intimidate Local Khmer Krom
source: VOKK
March 10,2006
Viet authorities are learning Khmer Krom language and moving into Khmer Krom's villages and towns to try and infiltrate the Khmer Krom's social activities. Borders Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam)-Cambodia, specifically in Swayton village, Mot Chruok(Chau Doc) province , news reported that large size of Vietnamese troops have been sent into the above border areas to monitor and spy on Khmer Krom's activities. Khmer Krom in the areas were forced to join Viet's committee on safeguarding the Vietnamese interests in Kampuchea Krom, by persuading local Khmer Krom to distrust and hate Khmer Krom overseas--in particular the Khmer Krom-Americans, who currently call for freedom and respect for human rights in their homeland Kampuchea Krom.
March 10,2006
Viet authorities are learning Khmer Krom language and moving into Khmer Krom's villages and towns to try and infiltrate the Khmer Krom's social activities. Borders Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam)-Cambodia, specifically in Swayton village, Mot Chruok(Chau Doc) province , news reported that large size of Vietnamese troops have been sent into the above border areas to monitor and spy on Khmer Krom's activities. Khmer Krom in the areas were forced to join Viet's committee on safeguarding the Vietnamese interests in Kampuchea Krom, by persuading local Khmer Krom to distrust and hate Khmer Krom overseas--in particular the Khmer Krom-Americans, who currently call for freedom and respect for human rights in their homeland Kampuchea Krom.
Hun Sen is looking after the interests of Vietnam!
By KKM Writer
March 7,2006
This week, Vietnam PM Phan Van Khai is visiting Cambodia to ink more Khmer's stolen lands with Cambodia's puppet leader Hun Sen, and to further sign business deals to even further put more Cambodian workers out of work. This is another tragedy for a poor nation like Cambodia. This is under the leadership of Hun Sen and was quoted as saying "Vietnam has lots of goods, but lacks the market, while Cambodia has the market, but doesn't have goods" in the AFP on March 6,2006. Hun Sen as a leader, his only goal, is to import until the death of a nation. When Cambodia owes to others so much, it cannot pay back so it has to write off lands for the repayments. Hun Sen is doing that right now. Hun Sen has no ideas how to create jobs for the ordinary Cambodians, so that they don't have to depend on street-begging. So that Cambodian government does not have to depend on the foreign aid.
Never a nation wants to import more than export, only Cambodia under Hun Sen's leadership is the case.
March 7,2006
This week, Vietnam PM Phan Van Khai is visiting Cambodia to ink more Khmer's stolen lands with Cambodia's puppet leader Hun Sen, and to further sign business deals to even further put more Cambodian workers out of work. This is another tragedy for a poor nation like Cambodia. This is under the leadership of Hun Sen and was quoted as saying "Vietnam has lots of goods, but lacks the market, while Cambodia has the market, but doesn't have goods" in the AFP on March 6,2006. Hun Sen as a leader, his only goal, is to import until the death of a nation. When Cambodia owes to others so much, it cannot pay back so it has to write off lands for the repayments. Hun Sen is doing that right now. Hun Sen has no ideas how to create jobs for the ordinary Cambodians, so that they don't have to depend on street-begging. So that Cambodian government does not have to depend on the foreign aid.
Never a nation wants to import more than export, only Cambodia under Hun Sen's leadership is the case.
Khmer Krom forced to join Vietnam-Cambodia friendship committee
source: VOKK
March 5, 2006
Khmer Krom in Kampuchea Krom(south Vietnam) were forced to join a committee called "Vietnam-Cambodia friendship", as a puppet method to politically represent the friendship between Vietnamese and Cambodians. Once again, Khmer Krom have been set up by the State of Vietnam to get into their political traps. The plan is led by the Vietnamese official named Nguyen Cao Thang to carry out the implementation.
March 5, 2006
Khmer Krom in Kampuchea Krom(south Vietnam) were forced to join a committee called "Vietnam-Cambodia friendship", as a puppet method to politically represent the friendship between Vietnamese and Cambodians. Once again, Khmer Krom have been set up by the State of Vietnam to get into their political traps. The plan is led by the Vietnamese official named Nguyen Cao Thang to carry out the implementation.
Viet Authorities Stole Khmer Krom's ancient artifacts
Source: VOKK
March 5, 2006
News came from Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam) told about Viet authorities forced the sale of a Khmer Krom's sacred site, named Prasat Phek Khney in Chika-en village, Sway Ton, Moth Chrouk province--Kampuchea Krom(south Vietnam), with the bogus promise of State's cultural preservation. Late accounts from the Viet authorities, they have been secretly digging up the site and hid away any Khmer Krom's artifacts found at the site, without Khmer Krom's knowledge nor permission. Khmer Krom have been barred from the site completely by the Viet authorities. Khmer Krom surrounding areas used to carry a ceremonial event each year, which is now longer allowed. This is just another violation of international law by means of eliminating the identity of the indigenous Khmer Krom in their homeland by the State of Vietnam. We need the UN and other world organizations to intervene and help rescue Khmer Krom from the Vietnamese' continued occupation.
March 5, 2006
News came from Kampuchea Krom (south Vietnam) told about Viet authorities forced the sale of a Khmer Krom's sacred site, named Prasat Phek Khney in Chika-en village, Sway Ton, Moth Chrouk province--Kampuchea Krom(south Vietnam), with the bogus promise of State's cultural preservation. Late accounts from the Viet authorities, they have been secretly digging up the site and hid away any Khmer Krom's artifacts found at the site, without Khmer Krom's knowledge nor permission. Khmer Krom have been barred from the site completely by the Viet authorities. Khmer Krom surrounding areas used to carry a ceremonial event each year, which is now longer allowed. This is just another violation of international law by means of eliminating the identity of the indigenous Khmer Krom in their homeland by the State of Vietnam. We need the UN and other world organizations to intervene and help rescue Khmer Krom from the Vietnamese' continued occupation.
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