THIS IS KHMER KROM ATTITUDE. We Cambodian speak Khmer at home, as Chinese and Vietnamese do theirs in any country on this Globe. We still maintain our identity and national pride for hundred years to come.
Why Khmer Krom are doing the opposite way in Kampuchea Krom? They are claiming that Khmer culture is their unique soul, but they don’t understand what means Khmer culture, in which have been composed Khmer accent Language, Khmer custom, Khmer style of clothe, Khmer style of Art, and Khmer way of life. They are always claiming that because they are oppressed of Human Rights under Communist Viet. But they are already abroad, why they still do the same as they did in Khmer Krom. There is no excuse for a better communication as most Khmer Krom speak Vietnamese at home while they are abroad. This attitude shows that they are completely Vietnamese (Yuon) no matter they are of Khmer ethnic or others. For that reason above, Khmer Krom Communities have already been more than halfway integrated into Vietnamese society. Look at them, when they speak Khmer, they do with 100% Vietnamese tone; if we listen to them we think they are real Vietnamese as in addition to their women wearing of Vietnamese style costume. 99% of their young generation men and women speak Vietnamese at home and in public. All their children like to make boyfriends and girlfriends with Vietnamese kids rather than Khmer's they say too primitive and ugly; as we have seen anywhere around the world: In U.S.A, in Canada, in Australia and in France as well. Old Khmer Krom of pure Khmer culture are becoming minority among their own Khmer Krom communities in their own Khmer Krom homeland. They will vanish away in a few years ahead leaving young Khmer Krom generation fully integrated to Vietnamese. KKrom say that they hate Vietnamese, but some time they forget to control themselves, when they have seen their Khmer Krom close friends near by, they just shouted louder for calling them in Vietnamese worlds in the face of every Cambodian. This is the Khmer Krom social attitude, which could not be corrected even someone of them realize this fault. If this, Khmer Krom think, is not their fault, because they are themselves already becoming real Vietnamese... Aren't they? As they are so, how the Khmer krom could liberate their land? Most of them are criminals committed in South Vietnam when they escape to Cambodia. Some of those criminals are often disguised as monks for easy concealing their outlaw behind Buddhism. Arriving in Cambodia, they form political groups demonstrating Khmer love Khmer example for Cambodian to follow against Vietnamese. But this is ridiculous as at their home in Cambodia their whole families, husbands, wives and children speak Vietnamese to each others. As the matter of above facts, making Khmer Krom government in exile is a real clown game just for raising money for their own pockets. Nothing they could do other than to travel. Travel back and forth, lying...lying...then raise money again and again. This is a small group of crooked Khmer Krom scholars who just want to make dishonest profit and take free vacations, on the back of their own people anywhere each year. Cambodia’s government must set up a special team for investigating each Khmer Krom immigrant who has arrived to settle in Cambodia, in close relation with VN government to check their previous home’s country activities. If crimes were found, individuals must be sent back to their home country for serving prison terms. On Nov 1, 6:12 am, Bury Chau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RE: Khmer Krom.? > VIETNAM WORDS OF LIES :June 8, 1967 North VN PM Pham Van Dong makes a > declaration ofrecognizing Cambodian independence, neutrality, sovereignty and > territorial integrity. The declaration makes in response to PrinceSihanouk's > appeal for the recognition and respect of Cambodia'sterritorial > integrity.VIETNAM CRIMES AGAINST CAMBODIA : VIETNAM INVASION OF CAMBODIA > 1978. Dec. 25, 1978 PM Pham Van Dong launched an invasion of Cambodia. > Some100,000 Vietnamese with 20,000 KUFNS troops, under the direction > ofGen.Van Tien Dung, launch an invasion of Cambodia.VIETNAM OCCUPATION OF > CAMBODIA : Under Vietnam occupation of Cambodia in 10 years 1979-1989 :Under > Le Duc Tho rule alone 1979-1989 an estimate 460 000 innocentCambodian had > died through TORTURE, BURIED ALIVE, SIMPLE EXECUTION,forced labor,famine > ,stravation, malnutrition and sponsor starvation by the CPP regime recorded > by Amnestry international and others ... 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. 10 > UN RESOLUTIONS CALL VIETNAM TO CEASE HER OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA & REMOVE ALL > HER TROOPS FROM THE COUNTRY ARE NOT RESPECTED. > > AKP, Phnom Penh, October 28, 2008 > > On the occasion of the 4th Coronation Day of His Majesty Preah Bath > Samdech Preah Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni (October 29, 2004-2008), King of > the Kingdom of Cambodia, we wish His Majesty good health, longevity, > cleverness and strong energy to symbolize the nation for prosperous Cambodia. > > From > Management and Staffs of General Department > of Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) > Ministry of Information > 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. America calls Vietnam to restore Cambodia > Independence . President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United > Nations General Assembly in New York, New York . September 26, 1988."Mr. > Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose freedom > and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and > independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese > troops ...."To day, Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese forces > through the CPP/Hun Sen regime from 1978-2008 ,with Vietnamese invaders as > administrators, appointed by King Norodom Sihanouk and King Norodom Sihamoni > , at every level of the Cambodian dministration. Rendering Cambodia , a UN > member nation , a sattelite of Vietnam. equally UN member Nation. Bury > =========================Material for reading :10 UN RESOLUTIONS,(1979-1988) > VOTED BY 116 UN MEMBER COUNTRIES ,CALL VIETNAM TO CEASE HER OCCUPATION OF > CAMBODIA & REMOVE ALL HER TROOPS FROM THE COUNTRY, ARE NOT RESPECTED AS OF > TODAY. SUCH AS THESE : Nov. 14, 1979 The UN General Assembly adopts a > resolution A/RES/34/22 calling for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign > troops from Cambodia. The vote is 91-21 with 29 abstentions. Nov. 5, 1985 The > UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/40/7, by vote of 114-21 with > 16 abstentions, calling for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces > from Cambodia. 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. Oct. 14, 1987 The UN General Assembly > adopted a resolution A/RES/42/3 calling for the immediate withdrawal of all > foreign troops from Cambodia. 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In Vietnamese, they are known as Khơ-me Crộm or Khơ-me dưới, which > literally means “Khmer from below” (“below” referring to the lower areas of > the Mekong Delta). > Origins > The Khmer Krom is ethnic Khmer who inhabited that area long before the > arrival of the Vietnamese. > According to Vietnamese government figures (2006 census), there are 1,371,726 > Khmer Krom in Vietnam. According to Khmer Krom Federation there are 9,100,000 > in Vietnam and 1,560,000 in Cambodia. > History > Beginning in the early 17th century, colonization of the area by Vietnamese > settlers gradually isolated the Khmer of the Mekong Delta from their brethren > in Cambodia proper and resulted in their becoming a minority in the delta. > Prey Nokor was the most important commercial seaport to the Khmers. The > city’s name was changed by Vietnam to Sài Gòn and then Hồ Chí Minh City. The > loss of the city prevented the Cambodians access to the South China Sea. > Subsequently, the Khmers' access to the sea was now limited to the Gulf of > Thailand. It began as a small fishing village known as Prey Nokor. The area > that the city now occupies was originally swampland, and was inhabited by > Khmer people for centuries before the arrival of the Vietnamese. > In 1623, King Chey Chettha II of Cambodia (1618-1628) allowed Vietnamese > refugees fleeing the Trịnh-Nguyễn War in Vietnam to settle in the area of > Prey Nokor, and to set up a custom house at Prey Nokor. Increasing waves of > Vietnamese settlers, which the Cambodian kingdom, weakened because of war > with Thailand, could not impede, slowly Vietnamized the area. In time, Prey > Nokor became known as Saigon. > In 1698, Nguyen Huu Canh, a Vietnamese noble, was sent by the Nguyen rulers > of Huế to establish Vietnamese administrative structures in the area, thus > detaching the area from Cambodia, which was not strong enough to intervene. > Since 1698, the area has been firmly under Vietnamese administration. The > Vietnamese became the majority population in most places. > When independence was granted to French Indochina in 1954, the Mekong Delta > was included in the state of South Vietnam, despite protests from Cambodia. > In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge regime attacked Vietnam in an attempt to > reconquer those areas of the delta still predominantly inhabited by Khmer > Krom people, but this military adventure was a total disaster and > precipitated the invasion of Cambodia by the Vietnamese army and subsequent > downfall of the Khmer Rouge, with Vietnam occupying Cambodia. > Son Ngoc Thanh, the nationalist Cambodian, was a Khmer krom, born in Trà > Vinh, Vietnam. Cambodia got independence in Geneva, 1954, through the > Vietnamese struggle in the First Indochina War. > In 1757, the Vietnamese colonized the provinces of Psar Dèk (renamed Sa Đéc > in Vietnamese) and Moat Chrouk (vietnamized to Châu Đốc). > Current Situation > Many independent NGOs report the human rights of the Khmer Krom are still > being violated by the Vietnamese government. Khmer Krom are reportedly forced > to adopt Vietnamese family names and speak the Vietnamese language. The > education of the Khmer Krom is neglected and they face many hardships in > everyday life, such as difficult access to Vietnamese health services (recent > epidemics of blindness affecting children have been reported in the > predominantly Khmer Krom areas of the Mekong delta), difficulty in practicing > their religion (Khmer Krom are Theravada Buddhists, like Cambodian and Thai > people, but unlike Vietnamese who are mostly Mahayana Buddhists or few Roman > Catholics), difficulty in finding jobs outside of the fields, and societal > racism. The Khmer Krom is among the poorest segments of the population in > southern Vietnam. > Unlike other minority people groups of Vietnam, the Khmer Krom are largely > unknown in the Western world, despite efforts by associations of exiled Khmer > Krom such as the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation to publicize their issues > with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation. No Western > government has raised the matter of the Khmer Krom’s human rights with the > Vietnamese government. > The Khmer Krom culture could become better known through its tourist sites in > the Mekong Delta. Khmer Buddhist temples located in places such as Long An, > Tiền Giang, Vĩnh Long, Trà Vinh, Bạc Liêu, Đồng Tháp, and Sóc Trăng are now > very popular as tourist destinations. > _________________________________________________________________ > You live life beyond your PC. So now Windows goes beyond your > PC.http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/115298556/direct/01/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. 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