THE FACTS ARE : UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions.
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. THE VIETNAMESE TRICKS IN CAMBODIA OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM.THE VIETNAMESE WEARING THE LABEL "CAMBODIAN" Khieu Kanharith, the minister of Information, during a press conference held on 04 January 2009. KHIEU KANHARITH , A VIETNAMESE WEARING THE LABEL"CAMBODIAN" Children sleep outdoors in Phnom Penh. A recent report says economic hard times may lead to instability. (Photo by: AFP) this woman , the Deputy Prime Ministers Men Sam An(A VIETNAMESE ), Nhek Bun Chhay and Keat Chhon. Ms Chea Leang seen here on this picture ,the so called "CAMBODIAN" CO-PROSECUTOR, is a Vietnamese woman Phnom Penh (Cambodia) 20 November 2006. Co-prosecutors Robert Petit talked to Chea Leang(a Vietnamese posing as "Cambodian" co-prosecutor) during the plenary session of judges for the KR Tribunal (Photo: John Vink/Magnum) Tribunal Prosecutors Differ on Added Suspects Chea Leang(a Vietnamese )posing as "Cambodian" co-prosecutor)Tribunal judges will determine whether more suspects should be investigated. WHAT RIGHTS DO THESE VIETNAMESE INVADERS HAVE TO CONTINUE TO REMAIN IN THE COUNTRY AS MASTERS OF THE LAND? Bury Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:28:22 -0800 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cambodians oppressed, distracted, divided Thanks the professor for Cambodian history review but the professor's preference of using the Khmer Rouge terms like "Khmer bodies but Vietnamese heads" is puzzling and smacks his proclaim of his dislike of khmer partisan demonizing each others. The question is does he believe what the Khmer Rouge said about their opponents were true? the statement like this "Now, Cambodians inside the country affirm that one cannot distinguish who is Khmer and who is Vietnamese anymore: Khmers speak Vietnamese and do business in Vietnamese language; and Vietnamese speak Khmer and have Khmer names." cannot be taken seriously. The prof should go to cambodia before he wrote nonesense like this. This is again, is like the Khmer Rouge ideology which always suspicious of fellow Cambodians as traitors or foreigners. On 2/24/2010 7:38 AM, [email protected] wrote: Cambodians oppressed, distracted, divided Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:24 PM PSTFebruary 24, 2010 By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth PACIFIC DAILY NEWS (Guam) Cambodians' public discussions of Cambodia's past, present and future churn through cyberspace. A discussion that targets domestic political developments, particularly the perennial tensions between those who advocate civil rights and freedoms and those who support stability and economic development, foments passionate debate. When the debate turns to Cambodia's external problems with her neighbors to the east and west -- Vietnam and Thailand, both viewed historically as "swallowers of Khmer land" -- the conversation has fallen to the depths of racial slurs and intensified hatred. Premier Hun Sen's supporters and critics are deaf to each other's arguments. Persuasion and compromise are foreign concepts. Those who comment do so anonymously to more easily demonize the opposition. Hun Sen has successfully used governmental administrative machinery to keep Cambodians intimidated and ignorant of their civil rights and the principles of good governance. He dangled showy projects and physical improvements to infrastructure, while many scavenge the city's dumps and live on rodent meat. Of late, Sen has succeeded, with Cambodians' complicity, to divert attention from his peoples' domestic plight to focus on the Thais, whose leader Sen has cursed publicly almost every day. His call to protect Cambodia's Preah Vihear Temple from the Thais brings many Cambodians to his side, though they are mute over Vietnamese expansionism from the east. There is endless and mindless debate over the use of the term "Yuon," because some non-Khmers say it's "racial pejorative." Yet, the authoritative Buddhist Institute's "Dictionnaire Cambodgien," 5th edition, 1967, defines "Yuon" as "Vietnamese," pure and simple. Sen's supporters love the debate: it divides and distracts critics. I have written on the history of Vietnam's southward movement since the Vietnamese ended their thousand-year bondage to China in 939. They physically moved away from Chinese threat while seizing and absorbing territories before them. Johns Hopkins retired professor Naranhkiri Tith's Web site deals at length with the fundamentals of Vietnam's "Nam Tien" (southward movement) and his proposed roadmap to save Cambodia from it. Vietnam's more recent attempts to integrate Cambodia into a Greater Vietnam may be read in the Vietnam Workers' Party's (Lao Dong) political report to its second congress in February 1951: "We must strive to help our Cambodian and Laotian brothers ... and arrive at setting up a Vietnam-Cambodian-Laotian Front" against the French. In March 1951, the "Joint National United Front for Indochina" was formed. In November, the Lao Dong created the "Dang Nhan Dan Cach Mang Cao Mien" (Revolutionary Cambodian People's Party) -- with name and statute drafted in the Vietnamese language. Brian Crozier, a former Reuters correspondent, quoted a captured November 1951 Viet Minh document: "The Vietnamese Party reserves the right to supervise the activities of its brother parties in Cambodian and Laos." Crozier also quoted a Viet Minh radio broadcast of April 1953: "The Lao Dong Party and the people of Vietnam have the mission to make revolution in Cambodia and Laos. We, the Viet Minh elements, have been sent to serve this revolution and to build the union of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos." Viet Minh administrations with their own armed forces and system of tax collection were established in Cambodia and Laos. But more than one reader has told me, "That was then, and this is now." Now, Cambodians inside the country affirm that one cannot distinguish who is Khmer and who is Vietnamese anymore: Khmers speak Vietnamese and do business in Vietnamese language; and Vietnamese speak Khmer and have Khmer names. When the July 1954 Geneva Accords ordered Viet Minh forces to leave Cambodia, they took with them between 4,500 (a conservative figure) and 8,000 (reportedly claimed by Vo Nguyen Giap in 1971) Cambodians, mostly young children, who were raised, cultured and given political and military training. These Cambodians -- with "Khmer bodies but Vietnamese heads" -- returned to Cambodia after 1970 to fight Lon Nol, and to unsuccessfully wrest control of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from Pol Pot. Some were arrested, others purged. In May 1977, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge units entered Vietnam's border towns between Ha Tien and Chau Doc, and by November they operated as deep as four miles inside Vietnam and inflicted casualties. In response, the Vietnamese built up units in Tay Ninh and by December operated as deep as 10 to 15 miles inside Cambodia. After Christmas 1977, eight Vietnamese military divisions, supported by artillery, tanks and planes, invaded Cambodia, cut off the Parrot's Beak area and advanced as far as Neak Loeung, 40 miles from Phnom Penh. Out of fuel, they pulled back. On Nov. 3, 1978, Hanoi signed a 25-year peace and cooperation treaty with Moscow. A month later, on Dec. 3, Hanoi Radio announced the birth of the "Kampuchean National United Front of National Salvation," led by a 14-member Central Committee under Heng Samrin, a former commander of the Khmer Rouge's 4th Division. Hun Sen was a former chief of staff and regimental deputy commander in Sector 21. On Christmas Eve 1978, 100,000 Vietnamese troops led 18,000 KNUFNS soldiers across the border into Cambodia. They captured Phnom Penh on Jan. 7, 1979. On Feb. 18, 1979, Heng Samrin and Pham Van Dong signed a 25-year treaty of peace, friendship and cooperation, a treaty that effectively integrated Cambodia into a Greater Vietnam. 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