03 September 2010
By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Soy
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Recently, accusations have been leveled that Khmer Krom families [in South Vietnam] suffer various types of discriminations, but now, report indicated that a Khmer Krom man was killed and 11 other Khmer Krom people were injured.
A Khmer Krom man was killed and 11 others were injured when they were beat up by a mob of several dozens of Viets armed with batons and knives. The incident took place on 2 September at a rubber plantation in Dong Nai province, Vietnam.
Chau Net was the 25-year-old Khmer Krom man who was killed, he was a worker at the rubber plantation, and he passed away at a hospital in Prey Nokor city (renamed Ho Chi Minh city, HCMC, by the occupying Viet regime).
The other 11 Khmer Krom men who were injured, were also beaten by the same Viet mob.
No official source would confirm the reason of this mob attack, but the victims’ families and villagers indicated that the attack was due to discrimination and contempt on Khmer Krom people that led to this violent dispute.
The father of the victim who declined to provide his name and who lives in Chau Lang commune, Svay tong district, Motr Chrouk province (renamed An Giang by the occupying Viet force), Kampuchea Krom land, told RFA over the phone on 03 September: “They had a grudge against us that was why they took it out on us.”
The remain of the man killed and the 11 other Khmer Krom injured men were transported from Prey Nokor city (HCMC) to their native village in Motr Chrouk province on 03 September.
Khmer Krom villagers form An Cu commune, Tinh Bien district, Motr Chrouk province, indicated: “He was going out at night time, an entire village of Yuons came to attack him. They hacked him with swords. They looked down on Khmer people, they saw us being poor and we went to work to earn a living that way.”
Thach Chhuon Yath, Director of the investigation unit of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights Defense Association in Cambodia, said that such action would spread if they are not prevented: “If the [Viet] government cannot provide protection, if it cannot prevent such action, then it will be the [Hanoi] regime’s fault also.”
He insisted that the Viet authority should take measures to arrest the criminals and bring them to face justice in Vietnam.
A Khmer Krom man was killed and 11 others were injured when they were beat up by a mob of several dozens of Viets armed with batons and knives. The incident took place on 2 September at a rubber plantation in Dong Nai province, Vietnam.
Chau Net was the 25-year-old Khmer Krom man who was killed, he was a worker at the rubber plantation, and he passed away at a hospital in Prey Nokor city (renamed Ho Chi Minh city, HCMC, by the occupying Viet regime).
The other 11 Khmer Krom men who were injured, were also beaten by the same Viet mob.
No official source would confirm the reason of this mob attack, but the victims’ families and villagers indicated that the attack was due to discrimination and contempt on Khmer Krom people that led to this violent dispute.
The father of the victim who declined to provide his name and who lives in Chau Lang commune, Svay tong district, Motr Chrouk province (renamed An Giang by the occupying Viet force), Kampuchea Krom land, told RFA over the phone on 03 September: “They had a grudge against us that was why they took it out on us.”
The remain of the man killed and the 11 other Khmer Krom injured men were transported from Prey Nokor city (HCMC) to their native village in Motr Chrouk province on 03 September.
Khmer Krom villagers form An Cu commune, Tinh Bien district, Motr Chrouk province, indicated: “He was going out at night time, an entire village of Yuons came to attack him. They hacked him with swords. They looked down on Khmer people, they saw us being poor and we went to work to earn a living that way.”
Thach Chhuon Yath, Director of the investigation unit of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights Defense Association in Cambodia, said that such action would spread if they are not prevented: “If the [Viet] government cannot provide protection, if it cannot prevent such action, then it will be the [Hanoi] regime’s fault also.”
He insisted that the Viet authority should take measures to arrest the criminals and bring them to face justice in Vietnam.
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