Saturday, December 26, 2009
Khmer Krom denied of Khmer citizenship ... while the illegal Yuons are freely
provided with Khmer citizenship?
Khmer Krom asylum seekers, recently deported from Thailand, at their temporary
shelter in a Phnom Penh pagoda on Thursday. (Photo by: Sovan Philong)
BRIEF HISTORY :
ABOUT VIETNAM INVASION OF CAMBODIA
1. HANOI HAD CREATED THIS FRONT :Kampuchea United Front for National Salvation
(KUFNS)
ON Dec. 2, 1978 The establishment of Kampuchea United Front for National
Salvation (KUFNS) was announced by Hanoi. The KUFNS dedicated to overthrow Pol
Pot's regime.
Dec. 4, 1978 Hanoi radio broadcasts a KUFNS statement assailing the Khmer Rouge
govt. as dictatorial, militarist, and fascist and echoing genocide charges
brought by Cambodian refugee.
THIS IS THE MAN Gen. Van Tien Dung WHO Led
an INVASION OF CAMBODIA DECEMBER 25 ,1978.
Gen. Van Tien Dung, launch an invasion of Cambodia.
Dec. 25, 1978 Invasion of Cambodia. Some 100,000 Vietnamese with 20,000 KUFNS
troops, under the direction of Gen. Van Tien Dung, launch an invasion of
Cambodia.
IT WAS CONDEMNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS.
Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote
of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces
from Cambodia. ACCORDING TO THIS FORMULA :
THIS BOOK : " GIAI PHONG " by T Terzani. It describes a Vietnamese as THIEF, A
LIAR, A KILLER, A DECEIVER , a sleeper ......
as "Cambodia" Minister of Foreign Affairs , Hor Nam Hong (Vietnamese)
Khmer Krom plead for citizenship
Friday, 25 December 2009
Cameron Wells and Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
A group of 24 deportees from Thailand have arrived in Phnom Penh to seek
government assistance.
A GROUP of 24 Khmer Krom asylum seekers recently deported from Thailand arrived
in Phnom Penh on Wednesday in a desperate bid to have their Cambodian
citizenship confirmed by the government.
The group, part of an ethnic minority from the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam,
were deported from Thailand on December 5 after fleeing Vietnam. They had been
sheltered by the Independent Democratic Association of Non-Formal Economy in
Banteay Meachey’s Poipet town.
Members of the group – which is currently staying at Wat Angtaminh near Phnom
Penh International Airport – say they fear severe repercussions from the
Vietnamese government if they are deported.
Members of the group say that when they fled Vietnam, they lost their homes and
many possessions. Huynh Ut, 33, said his father is now disabled as a result of
abuse by Vietnamese authorities. “They broke his skull and beat his body, and
shocked him” with a stun device, he said. “After three months, the starvation
made him disabled.”
Another member of the group, 56-year-old Choav Heng, said: “Yesterday, we went
in to meet the UNHCR to fill in forms and register with the government so they
can start to help us,” referring to the UN refugee agency. “We have sent many
letters to the Ministry of Interior so they could see this case and try to help
us, but we have not received a response. We have also written to the National
Assembly, many NGOs and human rights organisations because we are in great
difficulty. We don’t have any food. We don’t have any money. We don’t have
anything for our daily lives.”
Though hungry, poor and with no place to live, the biggest worry for his group,
said Choav Heng, is the constant fear of being sent back to Vietnam.
“The Vietnamese government still wants to catch us,” he said.
“We need protection. Because we are Khmer Krom, we would like the government to
give us some security and confidence.”
He added: “We need the government and UNHCR to accept us as Cambodian people.
We would like the government to help find us a place to stay near schools and
markets. We also need land for agriculture.”
He said the group needed “help from the government with identification cards or
any documents we need” to become Cambodian citizens. “For me, I would just like
a place. A good place, any place that they can give us. We find it hard to be
understood, [but] I hope in Cambodia we will be more accepted and better off.”
Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak has said that if they are in
Cambodia and ar Khmers, they have an automatic right to citizenship, but also,
earlier this month, that the arrivals had not yet been clearly identified as
ethnic Khmers.
He did not detail exactly what the identification process involved.
“The asylum seekers must realise that the right for asylum is no longer under
the authorisation of the UNHCR,” he said.
The UNHCR could not be reached for comment on Thursday, but Kitty McKinsey,
UNHCR spokeswoman in Bangkok, said on December 15 that the deportees had been
at various stages of their asylum applications at the time of their deportation
from Thailand.
She said the UNHCR regarded their deportation as a “serious matter” and had
taken up the issue with the government in Bangkok.
“Our position is that no asylum seekers should be deported from Thailand unless
their appeals have been processed and it has been properly established that
they do not require international protection,” she said at the time.
She went on to add that there are “orderly procedures” for returning
unsuccessful applicants to their countries of origin.
Striking similarities
The plight of the recent arrivals to Phnom Penh follows the deportation of 54
Khmer Krom, also by Thai police, in June.
Ang Chanrith, executive director of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights
Organisation, said the 54 were subsequently smuggled back into Thailand to make
another bid for asylum. He said “more than 10” of the current deportees were
also deported in June.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: DECEMBER 25 : THE VIETNAM INVASION OF CAMBODIA
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:10:13 -0800
TO ALL KHMER
REMEMBER THE DATE DECEMBER 25.
WHY ?
BRIEF HISTORY :
ABOUT VIETNAM INVASION OF CAMBODIA
1. HANOI HAD CREATED THIS FRONT :Kampuchea United Front for National Salvation
(KUFNS)
ON Dec. 2, 1978 The establishment of Kampuchea United Front for National
Salvation (KUFNS) was announced by Hanoi. The KUFNS dedicated to overthrow Pol
Pot's regime.
Dec. 4, 1978 Hanoi radio broadcasts a KUFNS statement assailing the Khmer Rouge
govt. as dictatorial, militarist, and fascist and echoing genocide charges
brought by Cambodian refugee.
THIS IS THE MAN Gen. Van Tien Dung WHO Led
an INVASION OF CAMBODIA DECEMBER 25 ,1978.
Gen. Van Tien Dung, launch an invasion of Cambodia.
Dec. 25, 1978 Invasion of Cambodia. Some 100,000 Vietnamese with 20,000 KUFNS
troops, under the direction of Gen. Van Tien Dung, launch an invasion of
Cambodia.
IT WAS CONDEMNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS.
Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote
of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces
from Cambodia. ACCORDING TO THIS FORMULA :
THIS BOOK : " GIAI PHONG " by T Terzani. It describes a Vietnamese as THIEF, A
LIAR, A KILLER, A DECEIVER , a sleeper ......
as "Cambodia" Minister of Foreign Affairs , Hor Nam Hong (Vietnamese)
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