On 20 August 2007, Lieutenant Colonel, Mr. Mai Van Noi, issued a note to summon Mr. Chau In to meet the police authorities of Tinh Bien district, An Giang province.
According to the source from Kampuchea-Krom, the summon note did not state the reasons to why Mr. Chau In was expected to meet with the police.
An American Buddhist monk writes a letter to his local congressmen on the issue of Tim Sakhorn. See below:
Dear Friends,
I am writing to ask for your urgent assistance in a matter of life or death, in regard to the human rights violation of a Buddhist monk by the government of Vietnam. Venerable Tim Sakhorn, abbot of Phnom Den North Pagoda in Cambodia, has been taken as a political prisoner in Vietnam, and is in grave danger of “disappearing.”
About one hundred Khmer Kroms including about twenty monks stage a protest in front of Vietnam embassy as well as foreign embassies and in front of parliament house in the Australian capital city Canberra to demand Vietnam communist government to release the former abbot Tim Sakhon.
Translated by a member of KKFYC
The Buddhist Patriarch Tep Vong and Nuon Nget colluding with Communist Country of Vietnam in creating new crimes to allege Khmer Krom Buddhist monks and taking advantage of their power to abusing the Buddhist laws as well as a country’s laws and the laws of human rights show us that Cambodia is a Country under Communist hegemony and is ruled directly by Vietnam. This is made clear by the untoward events against Cambodian Venerable Tum Sokhoun;
On Sunday, August 5, 2007 the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) Chapter of Washington State and Oregon State commemorate the acceptance into the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) on July 15, 2001.
The recent arrest of former monk Tim Sakhon by Vietnamese authority for 'undermining national unity' by organizing peaceful protests in Cambodia to seek international intervention regarding the oppression of the indigenous Khmer Krom people have sent KKF human rights workers on alert.
On the 20th of July 2007, three delegates representing the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation and Dr. Joshua Cooper, KKF-UNPO Advisor headed to Capitol Hill, Washington DC and met up with several key Congressmen and Senators to discuss Khmer Krom issues.
Below is a petition letter by the Khmer Buddhist Temple of Montreal in regards to the recent disrobement of Venerable Tim SaKhorn.
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On Sunday, June 24, 2007, from 6:30PM – 9:00PM, the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) will organize the second annual march for Human Rights from the UN Plaza to Herbst Theatre to commemorate the creation of the United Nations (June 26, 1945).
An annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom for the year 2007 has recommended that the Vietnam be reinstated in the Countries of Particular Concern.
See below for selected statements from the 2007 report in regards to recent religious prosecution of Khmer Krom Buddhist monks from Khleang (renamed Soc Trang) and the recommendations by the USCIRF to the US government.
