Phnom Penh City Hall warns of arrests over Vietnam protest

19 July 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Government / International relations / Provincial and local governments
Federation of Cambodian Intellectuals and Students / Kampuchea Krom / Khoung Sreng / Minority Rights Organization / Phnom Penh City Hall / Tran Van Thong / Vietnamese Embassy

City Hall on Friday threatened up to 15 years in prison for students planning a protest in front of the Vietnamese Embassy over comments made in June by an embassy official that the Kampuchea Krom region belonged to Vietnam long before it officially became part of the country in 1949. The Federation of Cambodian Intellectuals and Students plan to march to the Vietnamese Embassy on July 21 and hand over a petition calling for it to recognize that the land as historically belonged to Cambodia, retracting the statement made by Vietnamese Embassy First Counselor Tran Van Thong. …

 Sek Odom
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