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Commemorating 60th Anniversary, The Loss of Southern Cambodia Territory to Vietnam

 

CambodialostterritorytoVietnam_thumb  June 4th marks the 60th Anniversary of Cambodia’s loss territory to Vietnam. The French illegally transferred southern Cambodia (Kampuchea Krom) to north Vietnam. Since 1949 -for fifty nine years – –, many southern Cambodian (Khmer Krom/Kampuchea Krom) have been living in the darkness, suffering, torturing, ethnic cleansing, disease, human right abuse, genocide…under Vietnamese regime. Cambodian were forced to be Vietnamese, speak, dress, and obey their rules.  The communist’s media, billboard signs sending fatherly-like message to Kampuchea Krom that Vietnam is one. Play all tricks and lies by all means and erasing the original Cambodian history books and rewritten in Vietnamese text books that southern Cambodia did not exist and that southern Cambodian (Kampuchea Krom) are the Vietnamese "ethnic minority." Cambodian land, street, building, signs that were written in Khmer language were torn and replaced in Vietnamese language and mostly in red and yellow colors. June 4th, 1949, Cambodian southern territory was stolen and became "south" Vietnam. North and south Vietnam joined. Dark history for Cambodia.

Today, "Khmer Krom communities around the world are currently heading to their local temples to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of loss of Kampuchea-Krom to Vietnam. The rich fertile land of the Mekong Delta was transferred to Vietnam by France on 4th June 1949 without the consent of the indigenous Khmer Krom people.

Vietnamese invasion

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Swallowing up Cambodia and Laos has been Vietnam’s dream. Ho Chi Minh taught his children that “no matter how long it takes, we will invade and kill to the last root.” As you can see the billboard map of Vietnam with “fatherly” Ho Chi Minh embracing a child referring to Laos and Cambodia as suppose to invade these two countries. The slogan says, “Let’s rebuild our country neater, bigger.” How do you expand a country?  To where? And since when did Vietnam became a neat country?

photo courtesy, Wannak K
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The Bo-Doi, Occupation Vietnamese armies in Cambodia.
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“The Svayrieng Industrial Zone in Cambodia, which has thus far attracted many Vietnamese investors. ” Vietnam slowly swallowing eastern part of Cambodia and set the ground as a target for investment.  An extension of the Vietnamese’s hegemony over Cambodia’s territory, another silent invasion. Taking without asking.

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“The heads of the apsara were ransacked by the Vietnamese after the invasion.” (Photo: Dany posted on Picasa)
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Credit to http://ki-media.blogspot.com/