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