Kampuchea Krom Territory ( Part II)
H.E.
Mr. Ban Ki-moon
United
Nations Secretary-General
760
United Nations Plaza
New
York, NY 10017
Kampuchea Krom Territory
National Leadership
Decolonization
Task Force
(Representing over 10 million
Khmer Krom peoples,
21 provinces and dependencies)
P.O. Box 17133, St. Paul, MN 55117
Tel/ Fax: (651) 528-8289. Cell:
(651) 734-3253
E-mail: chanckeo@comcast.net
18
October 2010
Dear
Your Highest Excellency Permanent Representative:
I have the great honor to respectfully submit to Your Highest
sanction and generous support a Proposal,
in formal response to the wise instructions and recommendations of the United
Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) on behalf of the United Nations
Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, following my request letter
dated 12 March 2010 demanding the
inclusion of the Kampuchea Krom Non-Self-Governing Territory and Peoples in his
list of priorities as Secretary-General in order to decolonize it and place it
under the United Nations’ control for the establishment of a UN-brokered ‘Referendum’ or a UN-sponsored ‘Popular Consultation’ allowing the non-self-governing Khmer Krom
peoples to freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and
cultural
development in accordance with all the existing international laws
still in full force on the situation.
As you were being aware of the plight of our innocent long lasting suffering, oppressed,
persecuted, tortured, suppressed and voiceless Khmer Krom peoples through my
previous correspondence dated respectively Wednesday,
March 14, 2007, Tuesday, September
25, 2007, December 27, 2008 and September 06, 2009, their basic human
rights and fundamental freedoms have been persistently violated by the State of
Vietnam in its premeditated,
systematic and coordinated plan to wipe out the indigenous Khmer Krom peoples
from the world’s map as explicitly described by the indigenous Khmer
Krom peoples themselves in Ms. Rebecca Summer’s Documentary Films, “ELIMINATED WITHOUT BLEEDING.” which
was screened outside the UN compound in
May 2007 during the UNPFII
session because of Vietnam Permanent Mission Representative’s opposition not to
screen in UN premises as previously scheduled on side events.
The present Decolonization-Proposal
was prepared by myself, Chan Chhan Keo,
Vice President of the Association of Khmer Kampuchea Krom of Minnesota, Inc.
and adviser to Mr. To Kim Thong, Chairman of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation(KKF), which is a current
active member of the Un-Represented Nations and Peoples Organization(UNPO).
The Proposal was written based on factual and historical background of
the Territory, and the ongoing and the ever non-stop human rights violations
committed by the successive governments of Vietnam, both the North and the
South against the Indigenous Khmer Krom Peoples, the rightful and legitimate
owners of the lands since the illegal cession of the territory by French law no.
49-733 of 04 June 1949 without the plebiscite of the Khmer king, His
Majesty Norodom Sihanouk at that time and without the mutual agreement and or acceptance
of the Indigenous
Khmer Krom Peoples, the rightful and legitimate owners.
The present Proposal contains lots and lots of all the burden
physical and circumstantial evidence of the horrible crimes systematically and
coordinately committed by Vietnam from one government to the next without
fearing the international laws and without respecting and engaging on the United Nations
Rule of Law at both the national and international levels even
though Vietnam is a current full-fledged Member State of the United Nations
since 20 September 1977.
We welcome the opportunity to generously inscribe the enclosed Proposal on the
United Nations’ agenda to be voted by the United Nations’ Membership in order
to decolonize
the Kampuchea Krom Territory and place it under the United Nations’ control and the United Nations’
Transitional Government for the preparation and or the establishment
of a United Nations-brokered ‘Referendum’ or for a UN- sponsored ‘Popular
Consultation’ allowing the Non-Self-Governing Indigenous Khmer Krom Peoples
to freely exercise their right to self-determination in order to freely
determine their political status and to freely pursue their economic, social
and cultural development in accordance with the international laws, especially
in conformity with the UN resolution 1541(XV) of 15 December 1960 regarding the
option for the right to self-determination, the 2001-2010 Second International Decade and its
Plan of Action for the total Eradication of Colonialism in the 21st
century and in conformity with the 13 September 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples(Article 3).
Dear Your Highly Respected Excellency UN Permanent Missions,
The Non-Self-Governing Indigenous Khmer Krom Peoples greatly hope
that their Kampuchea
Krom Non-Self-Governing Territories’ survival,
rebirth and or resurrection as again full sovereign peoples and full sovereign
nation must totally rely on your high understanding, comprehension, mercy,
great compassion, loving-kindness and wisdom. Without your compassionate and loving-kindly assistance
and help,
our Kampuchea
Krom Non-Self-Governing Territories and Peoples won’t never ever be freed
from the current colonial Power of the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) in
accordance with all the existing international laws on the situation before the end of the 2001-2010 Second International
Decade and its Plan of Action for the
total Eradication of Colonialism in the 21st century.
On behalf of our long lasting
suffering, oppressed, persecuted, tortured, suppressed and voiceless
non-self-governing Khmer Krom peoples inside our ancestral Homeland Kampuchea
Krom, We would like the opportunity to respectfully pay our courtesy
visit to Your
Highest Excellency Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative
in New York City on a given date and time compassionately and loving-kindly
granted us by Your Highest Excellency to
provide you with more information and factual and historical evidence of the
ever non-stop human rights violations perpetrated by Vietnam against our Khmer
Krom Peoples for generations and generations if Your Highest Excellency
Ambassador compassionately and loving-kindly grants us permission to do so.
Anxiously
awaiting for your prompt reply, would you please Your Highest Excellency
Ambassador Permanent Mission to the United Nations accept from the bottom of
our hearts our deepest respect and gratitude.
Very Respectfully Submitted,
Chan Chhan Keo, Chairman
Kampuchea Krom Territory
National Leadership
Decolonization Task Force
(KKTNLDTF)
H.E. Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary
Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations
150 East 42nd Street,
33rd Floor
New York, NY 10016
Kampuchea Krom Territory
National Leadership
DecolonizationTask Force
(Representing over 10 million
Khmer Krom peoples,
21 provinces and dependencies)
P.O. Box 17133, St. Paul, MN 55117
Tel/ Fax: (651) 528-8289. Cell:
(651) 734-3253
E-mail: chanckeo@comcast.net
18
October 2010
Dear Your Highest
Excellency Permanent Representative:
I have the great honor to respectfully submit to Your Highest
sanction and generous support a Proposal,
in formal response to the wise instructions and recommendations of the United
Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) on behalf of the United Nations
Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, following my request letter
dated 12 March 2010 demanding the
inclusion of the Kampuchea Krom Non-Self-Governing Territory and Peoples in his
list of priorities as Secretary-General in order to decolonize it and place it under the United Nations’ control for
the establishment of a UN-brokered ‘Referendum’ or a UN-sponsored ‘Popular Consultation’ allowing the non-self-governing Khmer Krom
peoples to freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and
cultural
development in accordance with all the existing international laws
still in full force on the situation.
As you were being aware of the plight of our innocent long lasting suffering, oppressed,
persecuted, tortured, suppressed and voiceless Khmer Krom peoples
through my previous correspondence dated respectively Wednesday, March 14, 2007, Tuesday, September 25, 2007, December 27, 2008 and September 06, 2009, their
basic human
rights and fundamental freedoms have been persistently
violated by the State of Vietnam in its premeditated, systematic and coordinated plan to wipe out the indigenous
Khmer Krom
peoples from the world’s map as explicitly described by the
indigenous Khmer Krom peoples themselves in Ms. Rebecca Sommer’s Documentary Films,
“ELIMINATED WITHOUT BLEEDING” which
was screened outside the UN
compound in
May 2007 during the UNPFII session because of Vietnam Permanent Mission
Representative’s opposition not to screen in UN premises as previously
scheduled on side events.
The present Decolonization-Proposal
was prepared by myself, Chan Chhan Keo,
Vice President of the Association of Khmer Kampuchea Krom of Minnesota, Inc.
and adviser to Mr. To Kim Thong, Chairman of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation(KKF), which is a current
active member of the Un-Represented Nations and Peoples Organization(UNPO).
The Proposal was written
based on factual and historical background of the Territory,
and the ongoing and the ever non-stop human rights violations committed by the
successive governments of Vietnam, both the North and the South against the
Indigenous Khmer Krom Peoples, the rightful and legitimate owners of the lands
since the illegal
cession of the territory by French law no. 49-733 of 04 June 1949
without the plebiscite
of the Khmer
king, His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk at that time and without the mutual
agreement and or acceptance of the Indigenous Khmer Krom Peoples, the rightful
and legitimate owners.
The present Proposal contains lots and lots of all the burden
physical and circumstantial evidence of the horrible crimes systematically and
coordinately committed by Vietnam from one government to the next without
fearing the international laws and without respecting and engaging on the United Nations
Rule of Law at both the national and international levels even
though Vietnam is a current full-fledged Member State of the United Nations
since 20 September 1977.
We welcome the opportunity to generously inscribe the enclosed Proposal on the United Nations’ agenda to be voted by the United Nations’ Membership
in order to decolonize
the Kampuchea Krom Territory and place it under the United Nations’ control and the United Nations’
Transitional Government for the preparation and or the establishment
of a United Nations-brokered ‘Referendum’ or for a UN- sponsored ‘Popular Consultation’
allowing the Non-Self-Governing
Indigenous Khmer Krom Peoples to freely exercise their right to
self-determination in order to freely determine their political status and to
freely pursue their economic, social and cultural
development in accordance with the international laws, especially in conformity
with the UN resolution 1541(XV) of 15 December 1960 regarding the
option for the right to self-determination, the 2001-2010 Second International Decade and its
Plan of Action for the total Eradication of Colonialism in the 21st
century and in conformity with the 13 September 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples(Article 3).
Dear Your Highly Respected Excellency UN Permanent Missions,
The Non-Self-Governing Indigenous Khmer Krom Peoples greatly hope
that their Kampuchea
Krom Non-Self-Governing Territories’ survival,
rebirth and or resurrection as again full sovereign peoples and full sovereign
nation must totally rely on your high understanding, comprehension, mercy,
great compassion, loving-kindness and wisdom. Without your compassionate and loving-kindly assistance
and help,
our Kampuchea
Krom Non-Self-Governing Territories and Peoples won’t never ever be freed
from the current colonial Power of the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) in
accordance with all the existing international laws on the situation before the end of the 2001-2010 Second International
Decade and its Plan of Action for the
total Eradication of Colonialism in the 21st century.
On behalf of our long lasting
suffering, oppressed, persecuted, tortured, suppressed and voiceless
non-self-governing Khmer Krom peoples inside our ancestral Homeland Kampuchea
Krom, We would like the opportunity to respectfully pay our courtesy
visit to Your
Highest Excellency Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative
in New York City on a given date and time compassionately and loving-kindly
granted us by Your Highest Excellency to
provide you with more information and factual and historical evidence of the
ever non-stop human rights violations perpetrated by Vietnam against our Khmer
Krom Peoples for generations and generations if Your Highest Excellency
Ambassador compassionately and loving-kindly grants us permission to do so.
Anxiously
awaiting for your prompt reply, would you please Your Highest Excellency
Ambassador Permanent Mission to the United Nations accept from the bottom of
our hearts our deepest respect and gratitude.
Very
Respectfully Submitted,
Chan Chhan Keo, Chairman
Kampuchea
Krom Territory
National
Leadership
Decolonization Task Force
(KKTNLDTF)
H.E. Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary
Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United
Nations
885 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Kampuchea Krom Territory
National Leadership
Decolonization
Task Force
(Representing over 10 million
Khmer Krom peoples,
21 provinces and dependencies)
P.O. Box 17133, St. Paul, MN 55117
Tel/ Fax: (651) 528-8289. Cell:
(651) 734-3253
E-mail: chanckeo@comcast.net
November
28, 2010
Following up to my letter dated 18 October 2010 respectfully urging Your Highest Excellency
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the
United Nations to loving-kindly support our Kampuchea Krom Territory
Decolonization-Proposal by inscribing it on the United Nations’ agenda to be voted by the Organization’s Membership, I would like the opportunity to hear
from Your Highest Excellency Ambassador your loving-kindness towards the long
lasting abyss of cruel suffering inflicted upon them for generations and
generations by the successive Vietnamese governments as evidenced black and
white by our Proposal.
On behalf of more
than ten millions of the indigenous
Khmer Krom peoples inside our Motherland, Kampuchea Krom or Former French
Cochin China or southern Vietnam, we greatly hope that your loving-kindness
towards our long lasting suffering peoples will save them on time before it’s
too late and will guarantee them their new life and their rebirth as full sovereign and full independent people
again on their ancestral Homeland,
Kampuchea Krom that France by
its law no.
49-733 of 4 June 1949 and
under President Vincent Auriol
had ceded
their Homeland to emperor Bao-Dai of
Vietnam without the plebiscite of our Khmer
King, His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk and without the mutual agreement of the
indigenous Khmer Krom peoples, the rightful and legitimate owners of the lands.
We welcome the opportunity to receive your reply at your earliest
convenience regarding your support of our Proposal and its inscription on the United Nations’s agenda to be voted by
the UN’s Membership.
Anxiously waiting for your prompt response, would you please
accept from the bottom of our hearts our deepest respect and gratitude.
Respectfully Submitted,
Chan Chhan Keo, Chairman
Kampuchea Krom Territory
National Leadership
Decolonization Task Force
H.E. Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary Permanent Mission of
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
to the United Nations
317 East 51st Street
New York, NY 10022
cc. H. E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon,
UN Secretary-General
760
United Nations Plaza
New
York, NY 10017
H. E. Mr. Joseph Deiss, President of the 65th Session
of
the General Assembly of the United Nations
H. E. Mr. President of the Security Council of the
United
Nations
All Permanent
Observers to the United Nations
New
York
Kampuchea Krom Territory
(Representing over 10 million Khmer Krom peoples,
21 provinces and dependencies)
P.O. Box 17133, St. Paul, MN 55117
Tel/ Fax: (651) 528-8289. Cell: (651) 734-3253
Tel/ Fax: (651) 528-8289. Cell: (651) 734-3253
E-mail: chanckeo@comcast.net
November
28, 2010
Following up to
my letter dated 18 October 2010
respectfully urging Your Highest Excellency Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the United Nations to loving-kindly
support our Kampuchea Krom Territory Decolonization-Proposal by inscribing it
on the United Nations’ agenda to be
voted by the Organization’s Membership,
I would like the opportunity to hear from Your Highest Excellency Ambassador
your loving-kindness towards the long lasting abyss of cruel suffering
inflicted upon them for generations and generations by the successive
Vietnamese governments as evidenced black and white by our Proposal.
On behalf of more
than ten millions of the indigenous
Khmer Krom peoples inside our Motherland, Kampuchea Krom or Former French
Cochin China or southern Vietnam, we greatly hope that your loving-kindness
towards our long lasting suffering peoples will save them on time before it’s
too late and will guarantee them their new life and their rebirth as full sovereign and full independent people
again on their ancestral Homeland,
Kampuchea Krom that France by
its law no.
49-733 of 4 June 1949 and
under President Vincent Auriol
had ceded
their Homeland to emperor Bao-Dai of
Vietnam without the plebiscite of our Khmer
King, His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk and without the mutual agreement of the
indigenous Khmer Krom peoples, the rightful and legitimate owners of the lands.
We welcome the opportunity to receive your reply at your earliest
convenience regarding your support of our Proposal and its inscription on the United Nations’s agenda to be voted by
the UN’s Membership.
Anxiously waiting
for your prompt response, would you please accept from the bottom of our hearts
our deepest respect and gratitude.
2
Respectfully Submitted,
Chan Chhan Keo, Chairman
Kampuchea Krom Territory
National Leadership
Decolonization Task Force
H.E. Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary
Permanent Mission of Côte D’Ivoire to the United Nations
800 Second Avenue, 5th
Floor
New York, NY 10017
cc. H. E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General
760 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
H. E. Mr. Joseph Deiss, President of the 65th Session
of the General Assembly of the United
Nations
H. E. Mr. President of the Security Council of the
United Nations
All Permanent Observers to the United
Nations
New York
Kampuchea Krom Territory
National Leadership Decolonization Task Force
(Representing over 10 million Khmer Krom peoples,
21 provinces and dependencies)
P.O. Box 17133, St. Paul, MN 55117
Tel/ Fax: (651) 528-8289. Cell: (651) 734-3253
Tel/ Fax: (651) 528-8289. Cell: (651) 734-3253
E-mail: chanckeo@comcast.net
November
10, 2010
Following up to
my letter dated 18 October 2010 respectfully urging Your Highest Excellency
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the
United Nations to loving-kindly support our Kampuchea Krom Territory
Decolonization-Proposal by inscribing it on the United Nations’ agenda to be
voted by the Organization’s Membership, I would like the opportunity to hear
from Your Highest Excellency Ambassador your loving-kindness towards the long
lasting abyss of cruel suffering inflicted upon them for generations and
generations by the successive Vietnamese governments as evidenced black and
white by our Proposal.
On behalf of more
than ten millions of the indigenous Khmer Krom peoples inside our Motherland,
Kampuchea Krom or Former French Cochin China or southern Vietnam, we greatly
hope that your loving-kindness towards our long lasting suffering peoples will
save them on time before it’s too late and will guarantee them their new life
and their rebirth as full sovereign and
full independent people again on their ancestral Homeland, Kampuchea Krom that France
by its law
no. 49-733 of 4 June 1949 and
under President Vincent Auriol
had ceded
their Homeland to emperor Bao-Dai of
Vietnam without the plebiscite of our Khmer
King, His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk and without the mutual agreement of the
indigenous Khmer Krom peoples, the rightful and legitimate owners of the lands.
We welcome the opportunity to receive your reply at your earliest
convenience regarding your support of our Proposal and its inscription on the United Nations’s agenda to be voted by
the UN’s Membership.
Anxiously waiting
for your prompt response, would you please accept from the bottom of our hearts
our deepest respect and gratitude.
Respectfully Submitted,
Kampuchea Krom Territory
National Leadership
Decolonization Task Force
H.E. Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary
of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations
235 East 45th Street,
16th Floor
New York, NY 10017
cc. H. E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN
Secretary-General
760 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
H. E. Mr. Joseph Deiss, President
of the 65th Session
of the General Assembly of the
United Nations
H. E. Mr. President of the
Security Council of the
United Nations
National Leadership Decolonization Task Force
(Representing over 10 million Khmer Krom peoples,
21 provinces and dependencies)
P.O. Box
17133, St. Paul, MN 55117
Tel/ Fax: (651) 528-8289. Cell: (651) 734-3253
Tel/ Fax: (651) 528-8289. Cell: (651) 734-3253
November 10,
2010
Following up to
my letter dated 18 October 2010 respectfully urging Your Highest Excellency
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the
United Nations to loving-kindly support our Kampuchea Krom Territory
Decolonization-Proposal by inscribing it on the United Nations’ agenda to be
voted by the Organization’s Membership, I would like the opportunity to hear
from Your Highest Excellency Ambassador your loving-kindness towards the long
lasting abyss of cruel suffering inflicted upon them for generations and generations
by the successive Vietnamese governments as evidenced black and white by our
Proposal.
On behalf of more
than ten millions of the indigenous Khmer Krom peoples inside our Motherland,
Kampuchea Krom or Former French Cochin China or southern Vietnam, we greatly
hope that your loving-kindness towards our long lasting suffering peoples will
save them on time before it’s too late and will guarantee them their new life
and their rebirth as full sovereign and
full independent people again on their ancestral Homeland, Kampuchea Krom that France
by its law
no. 49-733 of 4 June 1949 and
under President Vincent Auriol
had ceded
their Homeland to emperor Bao-Dai of
Vietnam without the plebiscite of our Khmer
King, His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk and without the mutual agreement of the
indigenous Khmer Krom peoples, the rightful and legitimate owners of the lands.
We welcome the opportunity to receive your reply at your earliest
convenience regarding your support of our Proposal and its inscription on the United Nations’s agenda to be voted by
the UN’s Membership.
Anxiously waiting for your prompt response, would you please
accept from the bottom of our hearts our deepest respect and gratitude.
Respectfully Submitted,
Chan Chhan
Keo, Chairman
Kampuchea Krom Territory National
Leadership Decolonization Task Force
HRH
PRINCE ZEID RA’AD ZEID AL-HUSSEIN, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the
United Nations
866 Second Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10017
cc. H. E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN
Secretary-General
760 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
H. E. Mr. Joseph Deiss, President of the 65th
Session
of the General Assembly of the United Nations
H. E. Mr. President of the Security Council
of the
United Nations
Kampuchea Krom Territory
National Leadership
Decolonization Task Force
(Representing over 10 million
Khmer Krom peoples,
21 provinces and dependencies
P.O. Box 17133, St. Paul, MN 55117
Tel/ Fax: (651) 528-8289. Cell:
(651) 734-325
E-mail: chanckeo@comcast.net
November
5, 2010
Dear Your Highest Excellency Permanent Mission:
All indigenous Khmer Krom peoples, millions and millions of them
living both presently in their ancestral Homeland, Kampuchea Krom, formerly
French Cochin China or southern Vietnam and thousands and thousands of them
living overseas respectfully demand your sincere cooperation, collaboration and
understanding to decolonize the Kampuchea Krom Territory and place it under the
United Nations’ control in order to establish a UN-sponsored ‘Referendum’ or a UN-sponsored
‘ Popular Consultation’ allowing the indigenous Khmer Krom peoples to
freely exercise their right to self-determination in accordance with the
international laws, especially with the UN
Declaration 1514(XV) of 14 December 1960 regarding the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples, with the 2001-2010 Second International
Decade and its Plan of Action
for the total Eradication of Colonialism
in the 21st century, in compliance with the Charter of the United Nations, Chapters
XI, XII and XIII and most
recently in pure application, execution and implementation of the 13 September 2007 UN Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples, most importantly its Article 3 regarding the free determination of political status and the free
pursuit of economic, social and cultural development by the indigenous peoples
worldwide.
We, all Khmer Krom peoples, greatly hope that Your Highest
Excellency Permanent Representative and the government of the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam sincerely accept the whole truth and only-and-only-the whole truth
and sincerely cooperate
and collaborate with all other UN Member States and or Member Nations to decolonize
Kampuchea Krom Territory and place it under the United Nations’ Transitional Government for the establishment of a UN-sponsored ‘Referendum’ or a UN-sponsored ‘Popular Consultation’ as
the United Nations did for the East
Timorese people in 1999 till
East Timorese people achieved their complete independence
on 20 May 2002 after living under the colonial Power of Portugal for over
400 years and under the colonial
Power of Indonesia for almost 27
years since 1975, the invasion of East Timor by the Indonesian
military occupying forces.
“The time is always right to do what is
right,” said Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
and the Lord Buddha’s Five Moral
Principles taught everyone to strictly follow those Five Moral Principles in
order to live a good life with happiness as human beings or as members of the
human family. Those Buddhist good moral
principles are:1)
do not
kill, 2) do not lie, 3) do not steal, 4) do not commit
adultery or sexual misconduct
and 5) do not consume alcoholic beverages or use drugs. Those Lord Buddha’s First Four Rules of Law have been persistently
violated against the indigenous Khmer Krom peoples who are the rightful and
legitimate owners of the Kampuchea Krom Territory which was renamed Cochinchine by French Colonial Power during its occupation of Indochina in the late
1800s. Instead of returning
Kampuchea Krom to Cambodia when left Indochina, France gave those lands to
emperor Bao-Dai of Vietnam without the plebiscite
of the Khmer King, His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk and without
the formal agreement or acceptance of the indigenous Khmer Krom peoples, the rightful and legitimate owners. From then
on, the indigenous Khmer Krom peoples have suffered tremendously from your
government‘s human rights violations.
Now, it’s time to accept the truth and only-and–only the real truth. Attempting or trying and retrying to mislead
the whole world community by falsifying the real and actual history of
the Kampuchea Krom Territory and its dependencies or French Cochin China (Cochinchine
Française) or southern
Vietnam won’t bring anything good to the State of Vietnam and its people,
the Vietnamese. Instead of lifting up
and upholding the country and its people, the Vietnamese, you put them down
instead. The Vietnamese people are very smart and good people and they all recognize
with no doubt that Kampuchea Krom
Territory belongs both ipso facto and ipso jure to Cambodia
and the Khmer Krom peoples, but your
government has tried by all means to mislead them into believing that the
Kampuchea Krom Territory belongs to the Vietnamese people, and the Khmer Krom
people were refugees who fled the wars in Cambodia to settle in Vietnamese
lands.
The most conspicuous and legal
and physical evidence was the France’s law no. 49-733 of 4 June 1949 signed by French Republic President Vincent Auriol
modifying the status of Cochinchine and then ceded to Vietnam against the will of the legitimate and rightful owners,
the Kingdom of Cambodia and the indigenous Khmer Krom
peoples, and most importantly in flagrant violations of the Charter of the United Nations, Chapters XI,
XII and XIII of which France is a
Member State since 24 October 1945.
Why the Vietnamese Central Party Committee
needs to falsify the real and actual history of the Kampuchea KromTerritory? Because they had recognized that the Territory
belongs to the Khmer Krom peoples and solemnly
promised to give it back to the indigenous Khmer Krom peoples on the
conditions that the indigenous Khmer Krom peoples joined them in the Vietnam War to fight the South
Vietnamese and the American troops in South Vietnam. The indigenous Khmer Krom peoples wanted to
get their lands back joined your troops and thousands of them lost their lives
for believing in your government empty promise to return them back their lands
after winning the war over the American and South Vietnamese troops. But in the end when the war was over and the
Vietnamese government took control of the whole South Vietnam, instead of keeping their promises to return them
back the lands, your government had put them in jails, in concentration camps
or killed.
The Khmer Krom peoples are very gentle, very good peoples to the
Vietnamese and other people around them; they wanted to live in harmony and in
peace with all the people including the Vietnamese and to lead their lives with
their neighbors, the Vietnamese and never ever before thought of breaking them
apart from the Vietnamese society by only demanding the Vietnamese government
to grant them “Minority Status” in the same way the Vietnamese government had
provided it to the Montagnards. But your government did not accept it and
under H. E. Tran Thien Khiem as Prime Minister totally rejected it by
saying that Vietnam walks backwards
if the “Minority Status” would be granted to the
Khmer Krom peoples as requested.
In 2003 the
Un-Represented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) wrote two letters to H.E.
Phan Van Khai, Prime Minister appealing
him to help decolonize the Kampuchea
Krom Territory and place it under the United Nations’ control, but your
government had just ignored the appeal and did not bother to reply. This attitude really means the acceptance by
a silent position because a French saying said, “Le silence vaut l’acceptation.”
Now it is the right time, right effort, right speech and right
action to uphold the Five Buddha‘s Good
Moral Principles (Nicca Sila): do not kill, do not
steal, do not lie, do not commit adultery or sexual misconduct, and lastly do
not consume alcoholic beverages or use drugs. Khmer Krom peoples and Khmer people in
general are sociable,
good and generous, hospitable and have compassion, loving-kindness and mercy
towards their neighbors and their people in general without distinction as to
race, color, creed, ethnic origin, and religion. However, they are very courageous to face
their enemies and strongly determine to fight tooth and nail against their
common enemies till the last drop of their blood. But in any occasion and in any dispute, they
always start their fighting last after the provocation of the enemies. And most importantly of all Khmer peoples
never ever take their neighboring countries as their enemies. They love to establish good relationship with
others because they believe in Buddha’s teachings and always recognize and
admit their wrongdoings.
The United States under
President Bill Clinton had
recognized the wrongdoings the US had done to the peoples of Hawaii by signing Public Law 103-150,
the “Apology
Resolution” to Native
Hawaiians, on November 23, 1993
to acknowledge the 100thanniversary of the January 17, 1893 overthrow of
the Kingdom of Hawaii, and to offer
an apology to Native Hawaiians on behalf of the United States for the overthrow of
the Kingdom of Hawaii. Now it is up
to the Hawaiians to freely determine their political
status and to freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development
in accordance with the international laws or to remain integrated into the U.S.
as they used to be.
For Vietnam, I would respectfully suggest Your Excellency
Ambassador Permanent Representative to courageously follow the outstanding example
of the United States to bring back
the reputation
and honor of the State of Vietnam and its people. The continuation of the falsification of the real and actual history of the Kampuchea Krom Territory
won’t bring any good to Vietnam and its people.
Therefore, on behalf of the indigenous Khmer Krom people inside their
Homeland, Kampuchea Krom or southern Vietnam, I respectfully urge and implore
Your Excellency Ambassador to accept the reality and the actuality of the
situation and precisely to accept wholeheartedly the truth-and-only-the truth about Kampuchea Krom Territory because truth is sacred, universal and God the Almighty’s Law.
The indigenous Khmer Krom peoples want to live in harmony and in peace
with Vietnam and the Vietnamese people as members of the human family and as
good neighbors.
Khmer Krom
peoples greatly hope to always live in harmony and in peace with Vietnamese
people, their good neighbors. Even
though we’re speaking different languages and having different or similar
culture, but we’re both members of the human family, then we can live in
harmony and in peace with each other and share vision, knowledge and culture to
strongly build good relationship with each other, not just for this generation
alone, but for the infinite generations to come as good neighbors. We,
all cannot
undo the past, but we all must recognize
the past and accept it
and try by all means necessary to forget the past for the sake of our freedom, our security,
our safety and
our pacific coexistence
as good neighbors and country as our Lord Buddha said, “Vindictiveness or pain does not put out or tranquilize by the bearing of someone malice or ill will”.
We
all, Khmer Krom peoples, greatly hope
that Your Highest Excellency Permanent Representative highly understand our aspirations for
freedom, independence and sovereignty in strict conformity
with all existing international laws on the situation and wholeheartedly
collaborate and cooperate with the United Nations, all international entities
and UN bodies and system to decolonize the Kampuchea Krom Territory and place
it under the United Nations’ control in order to establish a free, fair and
secure political environment for the preparation of a UN-sponsored ‘Referendum’ allowing the
indigenous Khmer krom peoples to exercise their right to self-determination and independence in accordance with the
international laws and in strict conformity with the great aspirations of the World’s Leaders to
totally eradicate colonialism in the 21st century.
Greatly hope that Your Highest Excellency Permanent Representative
has no
objection to this kindest and
legal request, would you please accept from the bottom of our hearts our
deepest respect and gratitude.
Very Respectfully Submitted,
Chan Chhan Keo, Chairman
Kampuchea Krom Territory
National Leadership
Decolonization Task Force
H. E. Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary
Permanent Representative of the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam to the United Nations
866 United Nations Plaza, Suite
435
New York, NY 10017
Cc. All United Nations Permanent Representatives
and
Permanent Observers to the United
Nations, New York and Geneva
H. E. Mr. Secretary-General of the
United Nations
H. E. Mr. President of the United
Nations General Assembly
H. E. Mr. President of the United
Nations Security Council
“We’re the Indigenous Khmer
Krom Peoples, the rightful and legitimate owners of our Homeland, Kampuchea Krom Territory or Cochin China or southern Vietnam and long lasting victims of the inhumane colonial Power of
Vietnam for generations and generations, urge and implore all Their Excellencies UN
Secretary-General, Presidents of the UN GA and UN SC and all Their Excellencies UN Permanent
Missions and
Representatives
and Permanent
Observers to the United Nations to utilize all the existing
international laws on the situation to assist and help the Indigenous Khmer Krom Peoples to freely exercise their right to self-determination and
independence in accordance with all the existing international laws
on the situation and in strict and simple
conformity with point 5 of the UN GA
Declaration 1514(XV)
of 14 Dec.1960 regarding “…or all other
territories which have not yet attained
independence…” and with your highest
wills and aspirations
to end once and for all and to totally eradicate colonialism in the 21st
century.”
(12/23/2010)
