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.