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Monday 10 September 2012

A Vietnamese blogger: Khmer Krom and Kampuchea Krom was a fabrication of Sihanouk


A Vietnamese view of the history of Khmer Krom and Kampuchea Krom 
Anonymous said... 



The so-called Khmer Krom does not exist anywhere in historical record. There is no Khmer Krom people, no Khmer Krom land, and no Khmer Krom history. The term Khmer Krom was coined by Sihanouk in 1900’s in order to shamefully and illegally claim land that does not belong to Cambodia. A few overseas Cambodian terrorists concocted a fairytale story and attached it to the name hoping they would be able to fool the international community, but they only fooled themselves. Khmer Krom is a mere fabrication that will never stand up to the scrutiny of historical facts.
8 September 2012 11:11 AM
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Sihanouk didn't shame Khmers Krom
By Kmenhwatt
Who are you telling lie to yourself and your freaking kids or perhaps to your ancestors if you are a Khmer.What you're saying above is completely a fabrication by yourself. Sihanouk didn't shame Khmers Krom.

We have Khmers Krom, Khmers Kondal and Khmers Surin, all descendants of the Khmer Empire.You above don't say rubbish if you are too ignorant. Shame on you for saying rubbish without knowing the facts.

Please don't tell me that there was no such thing as the Khmer Empire!...you ignorant should Google the word "Khmer Empire" and read it for yourself.Or read about Cochin-China, a.k.a Kamuphea Krom.

8 September 2012 12:17 PM
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Stop making a big deal about the word "Yuon"
Anonymous said... 
Response to 11:11AM, please don't open your mouth if you're too ignorant to know the truth or facts about Khmers.Yuons were Chinese parasite or bandits who stole the Cham's land and Khmer's land.They killed all Cham men and assimilated women.

Yuon is just a name of the Viet people, Khmers who don't speak English don't know the word Viet.They knew the word Yiek Nam or Yiek Minh or Yiek Cong only. Most of all they knew the word "Yuon" which wasn't racist at all.

Khmer called Viet =Yuon and Thai=Siam and Chinese=Chin and Laos= Leov.That isn't racist at all......Stop making a big deal of this nonsense....It's just a freakin' name!!!!
8 September 2012 12:46 PM
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Khmer Krom or Kampuchea Krom was not Sihanouk's fabrication

Anonymous said... 
11:11 AM, If you think Khmer Krom or Kampuchea Krom was Sihanouk's fabrication, do you think Sihanouk also fabricated archeological sites, language and culture in what we called Kampuchea Krom, like Chantaraingsey temple in Saigon which has the original name of Prey Nokor? Did Sihanouk also fabricate or create the people living in Kampuchea Krom who speak Khmer.


The land down from Saigon (Prey Nokor) to the Cambodian border would have been called "Cambodia" if the 18 provinces or so were not annexed by Vietnam. But because they were annexed by Vietnam, that's why they were called Kampuchea Krom instead. Vietnam did not exist 100 years ago. The country was called Annam or Dai Viet before then and this country only existed near Chinese border on the Gulf of Tonkin. The Dai Viet emperor invaded Champa, the Cham country, in around the 1600s and expanded south to annex Khmer provinces, known as Kampuchea Krom today, from around the 1600s to the 1900s.

If you think that Khmers stole Vietnamese land in Kampuchea Krom, just look at archeological evidences, the people and the culture of that area. Please read the history of Khmer Krom and Kampuchea Krom.
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A Vietnamese blogger's response
Anonymous said... 
1:05 PM and all Cambodian…

As I stated clearly, Khmer Krom history was fabricated, pure and simple. It does not exist in historical records. There are no archeological sites, no written historical record or evidence of any kind, there is no so-called Prey Nokor City, it is a made-up fictional name that has no historical association to any place. Khmer Krom is a made up fantasy perpetuated by a few overseas Cambodian as a means to achieve a perverted political objective. Many foreign scholars, historians, academia agreed with Vietnam that Ho Chi Minh city (formerly known as Saigon) and the surrounding area were covered with jungle and the land was sparsely populated with only a few different ethnic tribes when the Vietnamese migrated to the area in the early 1600s. It was the Vietnamese who developed and cultivated the land and turned it into one of the most productive and the biggest rice bowl in the world. The Khmer that migrated to Vietnam either to look for a better life or to escape from war and famine was generously welcomed by the Vietnamese. Today they formed one of the 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam, they considered themselves Vietnamese.

8 September 2012 5:13 PM
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Khmers Krom were the original inhabitants of Kampuchea Krom

Anonymous said...

5:13 PM, Khmer did not migrate to Kampuchea Krom. They were the original inhabitants and the Vietnamese invaded the area from around 1600s to 1900s and made them a minority group.

There are many archeological sites in Kampuchea Krom, like Oc Eo or O'Keo which dated back to 1st to 7the century and there were many Khmer temples which were built in the area as early as the 5th century, which still exist today.

The Viet also invaded Champa, which was located in central Vietnam, in around the 1600s. So Kampuchea Krom, which was located in south Vietnam, was definitely not originally inhabited by the Viet.

About the name Prey Nokor/Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon, please read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_City


11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could you provide a link to the Vietnamese blog that contained the comments about Kampuchea Kron, please.

Anonymous said...

The followings are what have to say about Kampuchea Krom by independent Vietnamese:

How Vietnamese came to occupy Kampuchea Krom, the Khmer’s Empire Mekong delta
Extract from http://www.vietventures.com (a Vietnamese website)

“…in the 15th century, Vietnamese forces captured the Cham capital south of present-day Da Nang and virtually destroyed the kingdom. For the next several generations, Vietnam continued its historic "march to the south," wiping up the remnants of the Cham Kingdom and gradually approaching the marshy flatlands of the Mekong delta. There it confronted a new foe, the Khmer Empire, which had once been the most powerful state in the region. By the late 16th century, however, it had declined, and it offered little resistance to Vietnamese encroachment. By the end of the 17th century, Vietnam had occupied the lower Mekong delta and began to advance to the west, threatening to transform the disintegrating Khmer state into a mere protectora.

Anonymous said...

And here, the following describe how Kampuchea was colonized by the Viets:
Reading from Histoire du Cambodge depuis le 1er siècle de notre ère par Adhémard Leclère, Paris, Librairie Paul Geuthner, 1914, p. 475-476.

Champa was not still definitively absorbed that already the Annameses of Cochin China or Annam , governed by Nguyên, undertook to extend in Cambodia . At first in 1618, king of Annam had sent daughter to King Chey Chetha of Cambodia . He obtained from his son-in-law, in 1623, the territory of Saigon to create a market there and collect customs duties there. In 1658, he took a stand with princes Botom Reachea and Ang Tan, against king Chan, a Muslim converted. Meanwhile Nguyên favored the exodus of all the scamps, all the escapees of the chain, people who, arisen from families having already immigrated from Tonkin to Cochin China to emigrate from Cochin China to Cambodia and infiltrate through the Cambodian populations, establish there and to evade taxes requisitioned by the Khmers, claim to come under king of Huê and owe nothing to King of Cambodians. Soon, king of Huê sent them Annam’s mandarins, pretending to oblige them to obey the laws of the country in which they lived; and these people, messengers to maintain the order and to help the Cambodian governors, were to act as Annam’s governors! Under this constant pressure of people of bag and rope, mischievous in Cochin China, colonists in Cambodia and devoted subjects of king of Annam, the areas of Baria or Barea, that of Daung Nay and of Prey kor were populated by Vietnamese and became depopulated by Cambodians. In 1580, king of Annam sent on the territories of Baria and Mytho, 3000 Chinese partisans of the dynasty of Minhs who having landed on the coast of Annam, had gone to Tourane, and about whom he did not know what to do at home that he dreaded. In this way, becoming the patron of Chinese immigrants by giving them lands in Cambodia, king of Huê annexed de facto if not de jure, a territory and had supporters within the country coveted. Towards the same period, a Chinese named Mac-cuu, also Minh's partisan, established in Peam ( Hatien), was made there pirate, ran away to himself a principality at the cost of the kingdom in Cambodia there and, for him made sure, returned for his tribute to king of Huê. This one accepted the tribute, and this other Cambodian territory was, therefore, annexed to Annam ( 1715 ).

On top of these peaceful, otherwise loyal means, the Annam’s general who commanded Saigon, managed the action of his fellow countrymen with a big skill and coordinated towards the same purpose the efforts of the diverse authorities, the decided auxiliaries and the immigrants who, by serving their particular interests, served the interests of Annam

The general did not stop intervening in the wars that broke out in Cambodia , by siding with the princes who came to him, against those who were directed to Siam , and each time, to pay his intervention, annexed one or two districts in Cambodia .

The Siamese also made for the North and both peoples, from whom kingdoms were separated by that of the Cambodians, eventually became nearby by their greed and enemy as if their territorial border had been common.

Anonymous said...

The khmer empire and the so-called khmer krom are two vastly different subjects that do not belong within the same context. One exists in the historical consciousness of people of Cambodia and is a subject of scholarly studies, the other, is a mere fabrication, a figment of imagination, exists only among a few Cambodian extremists, and was created for the mere purpose to advance a political agenda and to pursue a perverted ambition. Sihanouk and a few other Cambodian intellectuals knew full well the uttered embarrassment and absurdity of using the khmer empire to shamefully claim land from other countries. So to give Cambodia a chance for future claims, they designated ethnic khmer minorities living in Vietnam and Thailand khmer krom and khmer surin. They conveniently avoided subjects such as the migrations of Cambodian refugees throughout the century as a result of wars, genocides, and famines. A few overseas Cambodian terrorists perpetuated the idea in order to further their pursuit of a lifelong ambition. Without shame and embarrassment, they drew up fake map that purportedly belongs to Cambodia, made up fake historical dates, provided bogus khmer population numbers, distorted historical facts, fabricated a whole bunch of other nonsense to create the illusion of the existence of a khmer krom history as an independent entity. They were successful in deceiving themselves, but not the people of the world. On every occasion, they were voted out and struck down by the international community for their outrageous lies and subversions, and their disgusting misused of international forums.

Anonymous said...

9:49am poster, so ever since Cambodia's screw up in the ASEAN, seems like everyone is distorting history. So what are you mongrels trying to do destroy our history?

Anonymous said...

9:49 AM, The Khmer Krom and the Khmer Empire are not two separate things as you have suggested. because the Khmer Empire extended to the region of southern Vietnam that's why there existed the Khmer Krom people. It means that wherever the Khmer Empire extended to, there are Khmer living there and hence they belonged to and owned that part of the territory. This include the Khmer Krom people who lived in southern Vietnam today. Khmer Krom has lived in Kampuchea Krom since the 1st century or during the Khmer Empire since the 12th century, therefore they owned that part of the territory. The Vietnamese only invaded the area in the 1600s and only succeeded in taking full control of the area in the 1900s, on 6th June 1949 to be exact.
We Khmer or Khmer Krom did not fabricate the Khmer Krom or Kampuchea Krom history. It was the Vietnamese people and the Vietnamese governments who fabricated the Khmer Krom and Kampuchea Krom history, lying to the world in order to ligitimize their occupation and annexation of the region.
Please read the history of Kampuchea Krom below:

http://khmerization.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/brief-history-of-kampuchea-krom.html

Anonymous said...

You said it very well my friend,I applause you from the land of the free and the time of the brave!..This guy/gal 9:49AM has a lots of guts to say shit without facts check!....There were plenties of monumental witness still standing today.Watt khmers all over the south Vietnam,.Did Yuon build that!?

Annam were thieves/ invaders not good people,9:49Am called khmers people abroad terrorist,you're really stupid indeed!...You need to read more about khmers history,if you're Khmer,you're the traitor 1000%,if you're Yuon,you're the dumpest's Yuon the world ever known......!

Yobal Khmer.

Anonymous said...

Is that mean all the 2000 years old temples and structures were the figment of imagination to. The way I see it yuon race is a figmented one. What a low down lies and beyond racist to say about Khmer krom. You can lie to the ignorant countries but you can't lie to us. I am tire of the yuon scums. But it a ways to deals with scums.

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Anonymous said...

To Yuon 9:49 AM,
Stupid is stupid speaks !!!
The more you talk, the more you reveal your stupidity to the world.