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An unacceptable action: Cambodian protester demanding Mekong Delta
An unacceptable action: Cambodian protester demanding Mekong Delta
13/7/14
On Tuesday, about
100 Cambodian from the Cambodian Students and Intellectuals movement, gathered
outside the Vietnamese embassy in Phnom
Penh and clashed briefly with police while protesting
to demand Mekong Delta.
The Cambodian
protesters held cardboard signs and shouted slogans on Monivong boulevard in
front of the Vietnamese embassy in Phnom Penh,
accusing Vietnam
of allegedly stealing Cambodian territory. They claimed that Kampuchea Krom,
which is now a southwest part of Vietnam,
is still a part of Cambodia
though the colonial French (who once ruled both countries) gave the area to Vietnam.
The
Vietnamese embassy in Cambodia
has dismissed a protest the drew as an illegal and groundless argument. A
statement by the embassy said the demonstration fully violated local laws. “Vietnam strongly denies any and all slanderous
distortions made by any individuals or organizations against Vietnam’s
unification and overall sovereignty,” the statement said. The protest attempted
to "interfere in Vietnam’s
territorial sovereignty and internal affairs,” it said. Tran Van Thong, first
counselor of the Vietnam
embassy, said the protest was not approved by the Cambodian government, so the
embassy is not obliged to consider the demonstrators' demands. “Southern Vietnam is our legal territory as recognized by
the UN, international organizations, and every country in the world, including
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) member states.”
The
protesters said they represented Khmer Kampuchea-Krom, an organization
representing the indigenous Khmer peoples living in the Mekong Delta of
Vietnam, advocating for human rights, religious freedom and self determination.
Le
Hai Binh, the Vietnamese foreign ministry spokesman, said at a press briefing
Thursday that Vietnam would
ask Cambodia
take effective measures to quell the protest
When I heard the
news, I was shocked. Vietnam
and Cambodia
have a good relationship, we are neighbors and have been helping each others
for long time in our history. Vietnam
had sent our troops to help Cambodian and their Government to stop and fight
against massacre of Khmer Rouge. A lot of Vietnamese young soldiers had been
die for Cambodia
victory and freedom. When the war ended, two countries have established
diplomatic relation. The relationship between the two countries is unceasingly
consolidated and developed in all fields. The two countries have exchanged many
high level delegations.
In addition to the
bilateral relationship, as members of the ASEAN, the two countries have
enhanced cooperation and mutual assistance within the framework of
international and regional cooperation mechanisms such as the Greater Mekong
Sub-region (GMS), the Non-Aligned Movement, the United Nations. The two nations
have regularly exchanged views and coordinated their activities at
international and regional fora. Furthermore, the two countries have fulfilled
their international tasks in protecting environment and combating terrorism as
well as seeking peaceful solutions to all issues and realizing the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).
So why there are
some people and organizations want to sabotage the relationship between to
countries?
Organizing this
protest, there are two organizations having policies that against Vietnam, they are exploiting the Cambodian patriotism
to break bilateral friendship between Vietnam
and Cambodia.
These organizations is representing for some factors in Cambodia’s politics that want to
use some problems in territorial demarcation between to countries for
political interests. Behind them, there are even hands of hostile forces.
This is very dangerous for the relationship between Vietnam and Cambodia. Cambodia must
quickly take measures to stop protests like this and conduct propaganda about the
wrong reason of this action and what behind this, and also the beautiful
relationship between two countries./.
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All comments [ 10 ]
I think these protester are leaded by hostile forces. Or even to ear some money to protest. They don't know what they were demanding.
I also have a thought like you, Pham Hieu. But I still wonder are there any protests like this happen in this beautiful Cambodia? They really hurt Vietnamese.
I sure that, these Cambodian are blind and being driven by bad politicians in Cambodia and some countries we all know.
The Governments of the two countries have made a sound decision to sign the complementary agreement on the 1985 Treaty to settle the long-standing border issues in order to build a peaceful borderline, forming a significant foundation for the future of the two countries.
This protest is just a rare phenomenon in Cambodia. The Cambodia's Gov handle and prevent any protest against Vietnam happened. They should do so!
Everything will be ok soon, our relationship with Cambodia will be flourish, because we're good neighbors.
The trade and economic ties between Vietnam and Cambodia are continuing to flourish, matching the two countries’ political relations and potentials.
Problems between two countries are easy to understand, but we can always settle it down. The important thing is that we know how to settle it peacefully and not to affective the relationship negatively.
The hostile forces will be punished for destroying the diplomatic relationship between the two countries and the relation between people of Vietnam and Cambodia.
I'm Vietnamese, I had time living in Phnompenh, Cambodian are much like Vietnamese, we both peace-lovers. I love Vietnam, I love Cambodia!
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