Khmer Krom protesters burn Vietnamese flag

13 August 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Government / International relations
Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community / Khmer Krom / Long Dimanche / Phnom Penh City Hall / Thach Setha / Tran Van Thong / Vietnamese Embassy

Monks and nationalist protesters burned a Vietnamese flag in front of the Vietnamese Embassy on Tuesday as the embassy continued to ignore calls to apologize for comments made by a diplomat in July. About 600 protesters gathered at the embassy once again to press for a retraction of spokesman Tran Van Thong’s comments that the Kampuchea Krom provinces in present-day Southern Vietnam were under Vietnamese control long before colonial France officially ceded them in 1949. …

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