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NGO Vows Support for Rights of Khmer Krom
By Yun Samean
A European NGO said Tuesday it had accepted 15 ethnic Khmers from Kampuchea Krom as members and would press the European Union to edits support of the current Vietnamese government. The Khmer Krom are persecuted under the Vietnam¡¯s communist government, but "will receive their freedom when our struggle succeeds" from political party president and EU parliamentarian Marco Pannella said at a news conference Tuesday. The Transnational Radical Party calls itself a political party as well as an NGO, and has about 3,000 members worldwide, said spokesman David Carrretta. It states it primary aim as promoting democracy and fighting human rights abuses.
At a news conference last week, Thach Setha, executive director of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community, presented a report detailing offenses against ethnic Khmers living conditions are survival-level and freedoms mostly quashed among the Khmer Krom, the reports says. Monks are forced into duties, such as canal-digging, that go against their religious beliefs, it states. "Serious human rights violations in Vietnam are worse than in [Burma]," it states. Parliamentarian Son Chhay gave the report to US Secretary of Sate Colin Powell during his visit to Phnom Penh. Nyeing Thun Doc, a spokesman for the Vietnamese Embassy, refused to comment on the report last week, saying he had not seen it.
Earlier this month King Norodom Sihanouk sent a letter to Thach Setha¡¯s group agreeing to sign a petition asking France to annual a 1949 law ceding Kampuchea Krom to Vietnam. The King said the petition also must be signed by the President of the National Assembly, the Senate and the Prime Minister.
(The Cambodia Daily, June 25, 2003)
Posted on 2003-06-26
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By Yun Samean
A European NGO said Tuesday it had accepted 15 ethnic Khmers from Kampuchea Krom as members and would press the European Union to edits support of the current Vietnamese government. The Khmer Krom are persecuted under the Vietnam¡¯s communist government, but "will receive their freedom when our struggle succeeds" from political party president and EU parliamentarian Marco Pannella said at a news conference Tuesday. The Transnational Radical Party calls itself a political party as well as an NGO, and has about 3,000 members worldwide, said spokesman David Carrretta. It states it primary aim as promoting democracy and fighting human rights abuses.
At a news conference last week, Thach Setha, executive director of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community, presented a report detailing offenses against ethnic Khmers living conditions are survival-level and freedoms mostly quashed among the Khmer Krom, the reports says. Monks are forced into duties, such as canal-digging, that go against their religious beliefs, it states. "Serious human rights violations in Vietnam are worse than in [Burma]," it states. Parliamentarian Son Chhay gave the report to US Secretary of Sate Colin Powell during his visit to Phnom Penh. Nyeing Thun Doc, a spokesman for the Vietnamese Embassy, refused to comment on the report last week, saying he had not seen it.
Earlier this month King Norodom Sihanouk sent a letter to Thach Setha¡¯s group agreeing to sign a petition asking France to annual a 1949 law ceding Kampuchea Krom to Vietnam. The King said the petition also must be signed by the President of the National Assembly, the Senate and the Prime Minister.
(The Cambodia Daily, June 25, 2003)
Posted on 2003-06-26
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