Media Watch

Posted on Sep 8, 2008
by Baptist News

WASHINGTON (BP)--A bipartisan commission has urged the U.S. State Department to return Vietnam to its list of the world's worst violators of religious liberty.

Thursday, January 03, 2008
Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper
Translated from Khmer by Socheata of KI Media

Opposition MP Son Chhay plans to send a letter to the Vietnamese embassy in Cambodia to forward to Son Tong Son, the vice-chairman of the Vietnamese southwest party central committee, to remind him about the promise he gave on the release of 5 Khmer Monks jailed in Khleang province (Soc Trang in Vietnamese) and former Venerable Tim Sakhorn.

05 Dec 2007
By Kim Pov Sottan
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy of KI media

A source from the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) indicated that Khmer Krom people living in Motr Chourk (An Giang in Vietnamese) and Khleang (Soc Trang in Vietnamese) provinces, Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam) will hold their demonstration in Hanoi within 10 days to demand back their lands, if the Vietnamese authority does not provide a resolution to their land problems.

21 November 2007
By Keo Nimol
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Four Khmer Krom monks who were victims of accusation leveled by the Wat O’Andoung pagoda committee, located in Banteay Meanchey province, which claimed that the monks have affairs with women, and were undertaking activities to serve the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation in the world (KKF), have arrived in Phnom Penh on 20 November.

29 October 2007
By Kim Pov Sottan
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy

A source from the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) indicated that 2 Khmer Krom Monks, and Khmer Krom people representatives in Tinh Bien district (South Vietnam) are currently being threatened with arrest by the Vietnamese authority, one day prior to the visit to Kampuchea Krom by a US Commmission on International Religion Freedom delegation, which is expected to arrive on Tuesday 30 October.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata from KI Media

Son Chhay: VN allows Monk Tim Sakhorn’s father to meet him

SRP MP Son Chhay said on Monday that Vietnam has authorized Monk Tim Sakhorn’s father to visit him in jail in Vietnam.

Monk Tim Sakhorn to be released in 2 to 3 days ... after forced confession?

22 September 2007
Kim Pov Sottan
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata (KI Media)

A meeting was held among Khmer Krom people on Friday afternoon, at Wat Samaki Raingsey Pagoda to celebrate the United Nations adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and more importantly, to push for the release of former Monk Tim Sakhorn.

By Mayarith
Radio Free Asia

A Vietnamese newspaper from An Giang (Mout Chruke) province published a picture showing former Monk Tim Sakhorn sitting in front of Vietnamese cops during his questioning.

26 August 2007
By Kim Pov Sottan - Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata of KI-Media

The Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) angrily condemned the Cambodian and Vietnamese governments on the violence and severe human rights violations perpetrated in both Cambodia and Vietnam.

LCHR Weekly News Digest
8-24-2007

Human rights demonstrators gathered to Paris earlier this week to raise awareness about human rights violations in the Mekong Delta as well as the recent arrest of the Buddhist monk the Ven. Tim Sakhorn, according to the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization.