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Khmer Krom people have been members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization since 15 July 2001. According to the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) "the Khmer Krom people face serious restrictions of freedom of expression, assembly, association, information, and movement".
Estimates for the number of the Khmers in Vietnam (known as the Khmer Krom) vary from the 1.3 million given by government data to 7 million advocated by the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation. The Khmer population native to Laos is less significant than in Thailand and Vietnam, those communities reside in the southwestern tip of Laos, at the ...
Territorial history. In a Khmer Buddhist monk's vision, the Khmer have inhabited the land of Kampuchea Krom since it first emerged from the ocean thousands of years ago as a fragrant and glowing land that attracted the teovada, celestial beings who ate the sweet earth and were subsequently unable to fly back to their world, thus staying on earth as the first humans.
The Vietnamese suppress the Khmer script and Khmer language, attacking the culture, religion and books of the Khmer Krom. People who demonstrated against land seizures by the Vietnamese were jailed by the Vietnamese Communists. Khmer nationalism is a strong impediment to the destruction of Khmer Krom identity by the Vietnamese. The Vietnamese ...
The Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) is an organization that self-declares as representing the indigenous Khmer Krom peoples living in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Its primary mission is to advocate for human rights, religious freedom, and self-determination and independence through peaceful means and international laws.
Son Kuy or Chavay Kuy ( Khmer: ចៅហ្វាយ គុយ ), also known as Oknha Son Kuy ( Khmer: សឺន គុយ ), was the governor of the Khmer province of Trapeang (now Trà Vinh). He was beheaded by Emperor Thiệu Trị of the Nguyễn dynasty in 1841, in exchange for preserving the cultural tradition for the Khmer Krom. Nowadays ...
Khmer Kandal ("Central Khmer") referred to the ethnic Khmer majority. Khmer Islam was the name given to the ethnic Cham inhabiting the central plains of Cambodia. Khmer Loeu was coined as a catch-all term to include all of the indigenous minority ethnic groups, most of which reside in the remote highlands of northeast Cambodia.
Western Khmer displays features of the Middle Khmer language, and is considered a conservative dialect. Southern Khmer is the first language of the Khmer Krom people in the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam. Minority languages. According to Glottolog, 22 languages other than Khmer are spoken in Cambodia, most of which are also Austroasiatic languages.