Annex 1. Historic Documents: Kampuchea Krom:
Powers without Khmer Krom (By Tran Chard
Buth, Former High Ranking Official of Cambodia’s Interior Ministry,
Annex 2: Khmer Empire 100 CE – 1550 CE
Annex 3: Map of Kampuchea Krom (By Kampuchea
Krom National Liberation Front) and Map of French Indochina (Cambodia, Laos,
Vietnam and Lower Cambodia or Kampuchea Krom)
Annex 4: Khmer Krom Buddhist monks’ peaceful
protest to handover Petition to Vietnam’s Embassy in Cambodia demanding the
respect of KK Buddhist monks’ religious freedom in Vietnam and urging VN
authorities to stop disrobing KK monks and to release them from jails in
Vietnam. Ven. Eang Sok Thoeun was mysteriously
murdered in Kandal province as a result of this protest.
Annex 5:
Annex
6: French’s Law No. 49-733 of 4 June
1949, signed by Vincent Auriol, President of the French Republic, unilaterally
ceded Cochinchine (Kampuchea Krom) to Bao-Dai of Vietnam in flagrant violation
of the Charter of the United Nations, and in gross violation of the right of
Khmer Krom peoples, the rightful and legitimate owners of the territory.
Loi No. 49-733
du 4 Juin 1949 modifiant the statut de la Cochinchine dans l’Union Française.
Après l’avis de l’Assemblee de l’Union Française,
L’Assemblee nationale et the Conseil de la Republique ont
delibere,
L’Assemblee nationale a adopte,
Le President de la Republique promulgue la loi don’t la teneur
suit:
Art. 1er . Dans le cadre fixe a l’article 60 de la Constitution de
la Republique francaise et après l’avis emis, dans sa séance du 23 Avril 1949,
par l’Assemblee territoriale de la Cochinchine, le statut de la Cochinchine est
modifie dans les conditions prevues a l’article ci-apres.
Art.2. Le territoire de la Cochinchine est rattache a l’Etat
associe du Vietnam suivant les termes de la declaration commune du 5 Juin 1948
et de la declaration du Gouvernement Français du 19 Aout 1948.
La Cochinchine cesse en consequence d’avoir le statut de
territoire d’Outre-mer.
Art. 3. En cas de changement du statut du Vietnam, le statut de la
Cochinchine fera l’objet d’une nouvelle deliberation des assemblees prevues a
l’article 75 de la Constitution (Titre VIII De l’Union Françoise).
La present loi sera executee comme loi de l’Etat.
Fait
a Toulon, le 4 Juin 1949
Vincent
Auriol
Par
le President de la Republique
Le
President du Conseil des Ministres, Henri Queille
Le Ministre de la France d’Outre-mer, Paul
Coste-Floret
Source: France, Journal Officiel de la Republique Française, Lois
et Decrets, 5 Juin, 1949, p. 5502.
(Unofficial
Translation in English)
The Law No. 49-733 of 4 June 1949 modifying
the status of Cochin China in the French Union-
As per advice of the Assembly of the
French Union,
The National Assembly and the Council of
the Republic have deliberated,
The National Assembly has adopted,
The President of Republic promulgates
the law whose terms follow:
Article 1 – Within the framework
established in Article 60 of the Constitution of the French Republic and as per
advice made by the Territorial Assembly of Cochin China in its session of 23
April 1949, the status of Cochin China is modified in terms foreseen in the
following article.
Article 2 – The Territory of Cochin
China is reattached to the Associated State of Vietnam following the terms of
the common declaration of 5 June 1948 and the declaration of French Government
of 19 August 1948.
Cochin China ceases to have the status
of the overseas territory accordingly.
Article 3 – In case of the change of the
status of Vietnam, the status of Cochin China will be the subject of a new
deliberation of the Assemblies foreseen in Article 75 of the Constitution (Title
VIII of the French Union).
The present Law will be performed as Law
of the State.
Made in Toulon, on 4 June 1949
Vincent Auriol
For the President of the Republic
The President of Council of Ministers,
Henri Queille
The Minister of Overseas France, Paul
Coste-Floret
Source: France, Official Journal of the
French Republic, Laws and Decrees, June 5, 1949, p. 5502
Annex 7: Angkor Watt Temple was built between
1113 AD-1150 AD. The ancient Khmer
civilization was the most flourishing in comparison to that of Yuon
(Vietnam)-The Khmer-Krom Journey to Self-Determination by To Kim Thong,
Chairman of KKF, 04 June 2010
Annex 8: The Non-Stop Southward Invasion of
King Nguyen dynasty. Where did Yuon
(Vietnam) come from? - The Khmer-Krom Journey to Self-Determination by To Kim
Thong, Chairman of KKF, 04 June 2010
Annex 9: From 17 AD to 4 June 1945, the Khmer
Territorial Integrity and Sovereignty has been shrinking bit by bit till the
entire loss of Kampuchea Krom (Cochinchine) to Yuon (Vietnam) by France’s
unlawful colonial Law No. 49-733 of 4 June 1949, signed by Vincent Auriol,
President of French Republic (By To Kim Thong, KKF’s Chairman: The Khmer-Krom
Journey to Self-Determination, 04 June 2010)
Annex 10: Kampuchea-Krom: Cartoon by Sacrava
Annex 11:
Physical Geography of Kampuchea Krom by H.E. Son Sann, Senior Member of the
Kingdom of Cambodia’s National Assembly, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Kampuchea Krom means “Cambodia Below” or “South
Cambodia”, “Krom” in Khmer also means under to indicate “Southern.” Kampuchea Krom was the southernmost territory
of the Khmer Empire, and it was once known as (French) Cochin China. It is the South-western part of Vietnam. It covers an area of 89,000 Km2 with Cambodia
to the north, the Gulf of Siam to the west and the South China Sea to the
south, and the Champa’s territory to the northeast, Prei Nokor was one of the
most important commercial cities in Kampuchea Krom. The Vietnam’s government changed the name to
Saigon, then to Ho Chi Minh City in 1975.
The Vietnamese find most Khmer locality names difficult to pronounce so
they changed them to Vietnamese. These
new Vietnamese names have no meaning whereas their Khmers’ are related to
historic events or accounts.
There were two long rivers: The Mekong and Bassac
rivers. The Mekong Delta had 40,000 Km2
of field that full of rice field and forest.
There was a historic canal Chum Nik Prek Teng or Te Ong Anussa (Vinh Te)
from Mot Chrouk to Peam (Ha Tien). It
was 53 Km long and 25 meter wide. There
were Cheung Baa Deng mountain in the province of Raung Damrey (Tay Ninh) and
Seven mountains: (Ktau, Ta Khvaa, Ook Yaum, Po Peal, Nak Ta Thnauk, Phnom Rau
and Phnom Tra Daak) in the province of Mot Chrouk (Chau Doc). Kampuchea Krom consist of four original
provinces DO NAI, LONG HO, MOT CHROUK and PEAM, later on divided into 21
provinces as follows:
Annex 12: Khmer Empire from Nokor Phnom (Fu Nan)
to Angkor Period (1 AD-17 AD): The
entire Khmer race had held the biggest and largest Territory and Land in Asia
(To Kim Thong, Chairman of KKF: The Khmer-Krom Journey to Self-Determination,
04 June 2010
Annex 13.
ROME STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PREAMBLE
Article 5
Crimes within the
jurisdiction of the Court
1. The jurisdiction of the Court shall be
limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as
a whole. The Court has jurisdiction in
accordance with this Statute with respect to the following crimes:
(a)
The
crime of genocide;
(b)
Crimes
against humanity;
(c)
War
crimes;
(d)
The
crime of aggression.
2….
Article 6
Genocide
For
the purpose of this Statute, “genocide” means any of the following acts
committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,
racial or religious group, as such:
(a)
Killing
members of the group;
(b)
Causing
serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c)
Deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical
destruction in whole or in part;
(d)
Imposing
measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e)
Forcibly
transferring children of the group to another group.
Article 7
Crimes against humanity
1. For the
purpose of this Statute, “crime against humanity” means any of the following
acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed
against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a)
Murder;
(b)
Extermination;
(c)
Enslavement;
(d)
Deportation
or forcible transfer of population;
(e)
Imprisonment
or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental
rules of international law;
(f)
Torture;
(g)
Rape,
sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced
sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h)
Persecution
against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national,
ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds
that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in
connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the
jurisdiction of the Court;
(i)
Enforced
disappearance of persons;
(j)
The
crime of apartheid;
(k)
Other
inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or
serious injury to body or to mental or physical health;
2, For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(a)
“Attack
directed against any civilian population” means a course of conduct involving
the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian
population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy
to commit such attack;
(b)
“Extermination”
includes the international infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the
deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the
destruction of part of a population;
(c)
“Enslavement”
means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of
ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course
of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children;
(d)
“Deportation
or forcible transfer of population” means forced displacement of the persons
concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are
lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law;
(e)
“Torture”
means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical
or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused;
except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from,
inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;
(f)
“Forced
pregnancy” means the unlawful confinement of a woman forcibly made pregnant,
with the intent of affecting the ethnic composition of any population or
carrying out other grave violation of international law. This definition shall not in any way be
interpreted as affecting national laws relating to pregnancy;
(g)
“Persecution”
means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to
international law by reason of the identity of the group or collectivity;
(h)
“The
crime of apartheid” means inhumane acts of a character similar to those
referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an institutionalized
regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any
other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining
that regime;
(i)
“Enforced
disappearance of person” means the arrest, detention or abduction of persons
by, or with the authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or a
political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation
of freedom or to give information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons,
with the intention of removing them from the protection of the law for a
prolonged period of time.
Article 8
War crimes
1. The Court
shall have jurisdiction in respect of war crimes in particular when committed
as
part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale
commission of such crimes.
2. For the
purpose of this Statute, “war crimes” means:
(a)
Grave
breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the
following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of
the relevant Geneva Convention:
(i)
Willful killing;
(ii)
Torture
or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
(iii)
Willfully
causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;
(iv)
Extensive
destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity
and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
(v)
…;
(vi)
…;
(vii)
Unlawful
deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
(viii)
Taking
of hostages.
(b)
…
…
(xxii)
Committing
rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in
article 7, paragraph 2 (f), enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual
violence also constituting a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions;
Annex
14: Names and Signatures of Khmer people and
Friends who strongly support and approve the present Decolonization-Proposal to the United Nations Secretary-General and all United
Nations Member States or Member Nations
urging them to help decolonize Kampuchea
Krom, the Homeland of the Indigenous Khmer Krom Peoples and place it under the
United Nations’ control in order to establish a UN-brokered ‘Referendum’ or a
UN-sponsored ‘Popular Consultation’ allowing the Indigenous Khmer Krom Peoples
to freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic,
social and cultural development in accordance with the international laws.
Annex 15: 2002 Khmer Institute: Cambodian
Title to Khmer Krom Territories
©
2002 Khmer Institute. All rights reserved.
By
Bora Touch, Lawyer, Sydney, Australia.
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