Embassy of Vietnam
Att.: Mr. Truong Tan Sang, President of Vietnam
1233 20th St NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036

Dear Mr. President:

Today, people around the globe are celebrating the International Human Rights Day to pay tribute to all human rights defenders and commemorate the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 63 years ago. Taking this opportunity, I would like to congratulate you as the President of Vietnam. Hopefully, with your new leadership, the people in Vietnam, especially the Indigenous Khmer-Krom Peoples, would have a fundamental freedom as stated in the UDHR.

This year, millions of people around the world - from Tunis to Madrid, from Cairo to New York – have organized peaceful demonstration movements to demand for their rights and change. As you know, “Ở đâu có áp bức, ở đó có đấu tranh - Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance” and with the current human rights violations against the human rights activists in Vietnam, I believe that the peaceful demonstrations to demand for basic rights and change would continue to happen everywhere in Vietnam. I am sure that you would not want to see that happen.

1950-2011

The Honourable Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, passed away at 4:45 am, Monday August 22, 2011, peacefully at his home surrounded by family and loved ones.

To remember the legacy of Mr. Layton, the Chairman of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation delivered his speech to the Khmer-Krom community members at the Centennial Park in Hamilton, Canada.

Friday, December 31, 2010

Decision Time and Challenge of Confidence

The year 2010 is ending tonight and tomorrow we are going to face another day and a new year. The turning of the New Year and new decade sheds light and promises new hopes for future. I would like to use this opportunity to wish all our compatriots Luck, Happiness, Good health and a Prosperous New Year.

October 24, 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20520

Subject: Vietnam’s Human Rights Violations and Religious Persecutions Against Khmer-Krom People

Dear Secretary Clinton:

During your upcoming meetings with the governments in Hanoi and in Phnom Penh, I would like to bring these two following issues to your attention: (1) The Human Rights Violations and Religious Persecutions Against the Indigenous Khmer-Krom Peoples in the Mekong Delta of Southern Vietnam and (2) the Khmer-Krom Refugees Status in Cambodia and Thailand.

To: International Labour Organization (ILO),
International Human Rights Organizations,
UN Human Rights Council,
Democratic Governments,
International Media

Background
A Khmer Krom youth, named Mr. Son Van Thanh, was stabbed numerous times by a Vietnamese assailant with the tailoring knives and scissors. The attack took place in Ho Chi Minh (HCM) city, south Vietnam. From the vicious attack, Mr. Son Van Thanh’s body was having the major internal and external bleeding and the attacked scissors were still stuck in the wounds. Some of his friends rushed Mr. Son to a hospital in the HCM city, but he was refused emergency treatments due to his lack of money.

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