CHRC briefing: A presentation by U.S. Embassy Hanoi DCM Jon Aloisi
2-12-08
By Beth Hearn from LCHR
Viet Nam could be on a trajectory to multi-party democracy in the next fifteen or twenty years, according to Jon Aloisi, the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi.
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On behalf of the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation, we sadly announce the passing of Mrs. Kieng Thi Thanh. She passed away yesterday at 3:58am in her home, Kissimmee, Florida, United States of America at the young age of 40.
Originally posted by Human Rights Watch
2007 was characterized by the harshest crackdown on peaceful dissent in 20 years. The government, emboldened by international recognition after joining the World Trade Organization in late 2006, moved to suppress all challenges to the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) by arresting dozens of democracy and human rights activists, independent trade union leaders, underground publishers, and members of unsanctioned religious groups. This reversed a temporary easing of restrictions in 2006, prior to Vietnam�s hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, when independent activism and opposition political parties had surfaced.
“A day of action – Khmer Krom Religious Rights Day on 22nd of February, 2008”
Vietnam is a communist one party. The human rights situation in Vietnam is a catastrophe: its people, especially its indigenous peoples such as the Khmer Krom continue to be systematically persecuted, detained, tortured and in the worse case killed because they express their political or religious views.
Original RFA report in Khmer
Translated by KKF
31/12/07
The Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation has just finished their annual end of year conference in Long Beach, California at 3pm Cambodia time this Sunday.
31/12/07
RFA Khmer Report by Sam Borin
Selected extracts translated by KKF
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The World Cambodian Congress (WCC) has appealed to all Khmer Americans from the 50 States to contact their local congress representatives so that they can support the HR 3096 law, which can be used to pressure Vietnam to stop violating human rights as soon as possible.
An appeal to support Khmer-Krom Buddhist monks and the affected Khmer-Krom citizens
Currently in Kampuchea-Krom and in Cambodia, the Vietnamese Communist government strongly continues to oppress the human rights and freedom of the kind and frank Khmer-Krom citizens. Khmer-Krom Buddhist monks have been defrocked and arrested one after another and the Khmer-Krom citizens have been threatened that their farmlands will be taken away from them. This is the strategy the Vietnamese Communist government have been using for many decades to break up and destroy the evidence of the Khmer-Krom background.
New Year, 2008!!!
We ask.
Khmer Krom answered.
We listened.
And we acted.
We would like to wish everyone during the international New Year, the year 2008 with happiness, success, good health and prosperity.
Speech by KKF VP Mr. Vien Thach
Brussels, 8 December 2007
Mister Chairman,
Dear Excellencies, Ladies, Gentlemen, Dear Friends,
The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation is an organization struggling via non-violent means to claim rights over ancestral lands, to struggle for human rights enclosed in the UN Charter and relevant International Laws, and for the well being of our Kampuchea Krom compatriots in Vietnam - what once was French Cochin-China.
On behalf of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, we would like to sadly announce the recent passing of three dedicated Khmer Krom human rights activists.
Lok Ta Koy will be fondly remembered for his dedication to the Khmer Krom cause in Long Beach, California. He was amongst the few who attended the annual protest to commemorate the Creation of the United Nations in San Francisco.
