13 September 2007 - The General Assembly today adopted a landmark declaration outlining the rights of the world’s estimated 370 million indigenous people and outlawing discrimination against them – a move that followed more than two decades of debate.
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US State Department: Vietnam 2007
Below are extracts from the original report by the US State Department on Vietnam and the Khmer Krom issues
International Religious Freedom Report 2007
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
More Khmer Krom Land Activist to Protest in Ho Chi Minh
According to a report inside Kampuchea-Krom today, Khmer Krom farmers are once against marching to the former Khmer city, Prey Nokor (renamed Ho Chi Minh) to demonstrate for the return of their ancestral homelands.
Khmer Krom Forced To Be Vietnamese Spy
According to the Khmer program of Radio Free Asia coverage on Monday 3rd September 2007, the Vietnamese authorities attempted to arrest hundreds of Khmer Krom farmers conducting a peaceful protest demanding land issues be resolved.
Breaking News: Vietnamese Authorities Threaten Protestors with Promises of Moral Danger if Protest Does Not Stop
12:00PM (Kampuchea-Krom time)
Vietnamese police from Ang Giang province have been reportedly followed the Khmer Krom protestors as they make their way to Ho Chi Minh City.
The protestors have told KKN that the police authorities have threatened them with mortal consequences if they did not stop and return home ASAP.
Two hundred Khmer Krom Demand Return of Ancestral Home
After months and years of filing complaints, Khmer Krom farmers are frustrated at the lack of promises and follow up by the Vietnamese government in resolving land issues.
Over two hundred farmers are expected to travel from Swai-Ton (Tri Ton) and Tinh Bien (Kra-Bao) districts to Ho Chi Minh City to protest later today.
More Peaceful Demonstration Expected
Khmer Krom people around the world are stepping up their campaign as more protests are expected to continue in the next week
Peaceful Protest
Date: Saturday 1st September 2007
Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Will foreign jounalists be allowed to talk freely to Khmer Krom?
Vietnamese ambassador in Phnom Penh, Mr Nguyen Chien Thang announced the Vietnamese Embassy will organize a visit for journalists to visit Khmer Krom people in the Mekong Delta, supposedly to see the actual situation of the living conditions of Khmer Kroms, according the Khmer language newspaper Koh Sontepheap.
Ex-Special Force looking for KK team members
Mr. Lew Chapman, a former U.S Army Special Force "A" team member in Hau-Nghia Province, is looking for any former KK CIDG that were at camp Duc Hue in 1968.
Mr Chapman, an African-American arrived in the camp in October 1968. He be-befriended with Khmer Kroms soldiers. If you would like to get in touch with him, please send us an email info@khmerkrom.org.
Paris Protests For Release of Tim Sakhorn
On 19 August 2007, over two hundred Khmer and Khmer Krom people from across Paris braved the rainy weather to conduct a demonstration demanding that Vietnamese authorities release defrocked monk, Tim Sakhorn from all charges. l Listen to Sambok Khmom Radio coverage on this event
