Khmer Krom Activists Meet US Officials

Newly re-ordained monk Tim Sakhorn, middle, drops by VOA Khmer while on a visit in the US last week. (Photo: by Lenny)

Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Washington, DC
Friday, 07 May 2010

Advocates for ethnic Khmers from Vietnam met with US State Department officials this week in an effort to improve human rights and religious freedoms there. The delegation included three Khmer monks who had spent about one year in jail each in Vietnam, in what they say is religious persecution.

Khmers from southern Vietnam, land often referred to in Cambodia as Kampuchea Krom, or “Lower Cambodia,” say Vietnamese authorities continue to suppress their rights, including land seizures and a lack of access to education. Kampuchea Krom, in the Mekong Delta region, was ceded to Vietnam by the French in 1949.

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