K Krom mark 66 years since Cochinchine pact
Some 10 months after leading protests during which Vietnamese flags were burned outside the country’s embassy in Phnom Penh, members of the Khmer Krom community took a more conciliatory approach Thursday as they marked the 66th anniversary of France’s formal splitting of Cochinchine. Thousands of monks and laypeople packed into Wat Chas on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva Peninsula, where Thach Setha, president of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community, avoided the usual rhetoric of “taking back our land” from Vietnam. …
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/k-krom-mark-66-years-since-cochinchine-pact-85037/
