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 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.
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Vietnamese and their authorities beat up south Cambodian(Khmer Krom) for asking back their home and land which were stolen by Vietnamese government.
Vietnam put down Khmer Krom land protest
10 January 2008
By Kim Pov Sottan
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
A source from the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) in the world, based in Cambodia, indicated that at least 16 people were seriously injured and several others were slightly injured during the put down of a land protest by Khmer Krom villagers coming from An Giang province, the former land of Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam), during Wednesday night.
52-year-old Sokhom said: “I want to die there. They were angry at us, and they call in the cops to force us to climb into the car, but my group didn’t want to, so they shocked us (with the electric baton) and some passed out, and they threw us in the car. My head had a gash, and it is bleeding since yesterday.”
Mrs. Neang Ye, the leader of the demonstrators, who passed out, said: “First, they dragged me out of there, and they threw to the ground. Four of them (Vietnamese cops) beat me up and they hit me 5 times with a steel rod, then they hit my right arms 4 more times, then they took the steel rod to beat me on my shin twice more. After that, they shocked me, I passed out, and they took me to the provincial governor place. They said that I am involved in politics. I said that I am not involved in politics, they should look at my complaint letter. They said: your body hurt so much and you are still hotheaded? You want to die or to live? Be careful or else you won’t find wood to cremate yourself on time.”
More than 200 Khmer Krom people have protested on land disputes. They came from various districts of Motr Chrouk province, and they gathered in the morning of Wednesday to demand that the Vietnamese authority returns back their farm lands that the Vietnamese government confiscated from them several years ago.
The protestors do not plan to end their demands, however, at 11:00 PM, the Vietnamese cops were brought in to put them down.
Chau In, one of the protest leaders, added that, on Thursday, 130 Khmer Krom people traveled to the An Su commune office to continue the protest, in spite of the police raid last night. “The people are still angry and hurt, because they came to look for justice, but justice was not rendered to them,” Chau In said.
The An Giang Vietnamese cops recognized that the clash did take place, however, they denied that the clash took place between the cops and Khmer Krom protestors, it was in fact a clash with the Vietnamese Women Association. “The cops did not beat them up, but the (Vietnamese) women association advised the protestors to return back home, then the clash took place.”
Venerable Thach Bin, a KKF representative in Cambodia, condemned that the put down by the Vietnamese authority on Khmer Krom protestors.
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After decades of war, very little is known about Cambodia. Our food, culture and history have been abandoned by the invaders. Our books were rewritten according to their desire. Our history were taught in such a way that is not Cambodian, nothing but genocide. As they glorify their history, Cambodia’s beauty became darkest of the darkest of all. they teach their children about their pride and we were told from thier books to hate ourselves. It seems that our richness, our luxury, our golden land have been their sources of evil, endless invasion still continue. Genocide is still going on in Cambodia, not a loud bombing, but this time a silent and deadly one. Land grabbing from the local people is a trend in ‘new era Cambodia” and land encroachment still going on from east and west. Such tragic in our blood. They have gone very far annihilating Cambodia. Enjoy to your fullest, have her(Cambodia) as the way you want, draw all your mighty greeds, but don’t forget that you must pay great price in the end. If not now, children of Cambodia and good friends of Cambodia will stand and fight for her right, if not today, it will be tomorrow. “You can run but you can’t hide.”
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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.
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