CAMBODIA: Khmer group demands return of defrocked monk

ABC Radio Australia
Presented by Sonja Heydeman
13/08/2007

Below is an interview by ABC Radio Australia during the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation Delegations' visit to Australia.

The Khmer Krom* Federation, a minority group in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam and Cambodia, is demanding the return to Cambodia of defrocked monk, Tim Sakhorn. The former abbott of the Phnom Den pagoda in Cambodia went missing for a month after being defrocked in June for allegedly stirring unrest in Vietnam.

Presenter - Sonja Heydeman Speaker - Joshua Cooper, Director of the Hawaian Institute for Human Rights; Giap Tran, US Treasurer of the Khmer Krom Federation

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Source: ABC Radio Australia

*Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation