MP Yont Tharo requests Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Nam Hong to take measure on the Khmer Consulate General based in Prey Nokor city to find solution for the Khmers in Kampuchea Krom

September 11, B.E.2553, A.D.2009 Year of the Ox

MP Yont Tharo addresses the 60th Kampuchea Krom Loss Memorial Buddhist Service to honor heroic Buddhist leaders, monks, heroic kings, heroes and fallen armed forces personnel on June 4, 2009 in Phnom Penh.

Khmer Congressman Yont Tharo asks Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Nam Hong to intervene in the case of the ongoing digging of canal, 10 meters wide by 10 kilometers long, in Kampuchea Krom (Mort Chrouk province, Tinbieng district in Vietnamese, Ang commune), that causes loss of huge lands, more than 400 hectares, belong to the 400 Khmer families.

When the Khmers protest, the Vietnamese authorities dispatched 330 soldiers and 230 police personnel to clamp down on them.

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