Tuon Son:
The former President ofthe Khmer Krom Association (KKA) in California.

 

He has a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering
and finishing up his MBA soon.
He design, build and operate flight simulators for pilots training.

Our Objective and Vision

1) Maintain Khmer Krom unity, work harder, work smarter, and build a common ground to peacefully pursue our goals
2) Develop our human resources to effective carry out our peaceful struggle in this modern and sophisticated world
3) To educate the international community about our identity, the Khmer Krom, the Indigenous owner of Kampuchea Krom or current southern part of Vietnam.

4) To elevate our issues of human rights abuses and our aspiration to self-determination to the United Nations and the international communities, the investors in Vietnam, including the Vietnamese people and the Vietnamese government
5) To have every body understand that the international solution to our self-determination will make everyone a winner: the Investors in Vietnam, the Vietnamese people, the Khmer Krom, the United Nations and the International community
6) To exercise our rights as guaranteed by Charters of the United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights locally, regionally and internationally.
7) Every Khmer Krom has opportunity to learn, to extract and to apply peacefully the lessons have been established for us, such as Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Tamil, Iraq, Kashmir, Nagaland, etc. as well as solutions that many members of the Un-represented Nations and Peoples Organization have achieved.

The Emperor

The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam is politically pressuring the government of Vietnam to protect the liberty, religious rights of the Vietnamese people as well as the culture, traditions, languages of the Montagnards and Khmer Krom in Vietnam

The King

Sihanouk and BMD

Regarding Kampuchea Krom and Prey Nokor [ex-Saigon, present Ho Chi Minh City], the royal armed forces of HM Preah Duong, and those of HM Preah Norodom fought till the end against the aggression and colonization of the armed forces of Annam. They did so until the victorious conquest of Indochina by the French colonialists who are the only ones responsible for the granting of our Kampuchea Krom, our Prey Nokor, our Koh Tral [Phu Quoc] island to Vietnam.

Signed: Norodom Sihanouk

The Paliament

EU Parliament call on the Cambodian authorities to fully implement the 1953 UNHCR Convention to granting refugee status to ethnic Khmer Krom escaping from Vietnam. xxx

I never saw an American do that. Perhaps being 12000 miles from home...

The General

General Healey's speech to the Second world Convention of Khmer Krom, Washington D.C.USA. "when others left us in the face of severe adversity, we could defend on it that the Khmer Krom were present in the camp, as they were in 1964 at Moc Hoa and Heip Hoa. We did not have to worry about staying alive because the Cambodian boys were with us when others run away."

When others left us in the face of severe adversity...

.What I am about to say may sound to some like an indicment of American policy pacts, and the shame ful experiences that we, the Special Force, had to undergo when we left our friends in Southeast Asia in 1973 I can tell you from personal experience that, since that time, I have on many occasion unashamedly cried because of my personal involvement with the Khmer Krom and the Khmer Serei Force, who were unafraid to stand wth the Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) sccattered throughout the Delta of Southest Asia, who stuck with us on occasions when others of fainter heart left us. More of that in a moment, I think it is appropriate for the Americans who are here to understand that, of all the experiences that I had in Vietname and of all the lessons I learned as a human being and as an individual, my association with your people is a lasting and indelible mark in my mind.

The Special Force

James C. Donahue 5th, 6th, 7th Special Force:
No greater adhesive exist between men than the crucible of combat: it creates a bond that is difficult to understand for those who have not had experience. I freely admid my own bias on the subject of the KK. Having served with them, I know them to be brave and loyal men who prove their mettle in battle time and again.
Theravada budhists, they were, on one hand, warm, gentle and quick to smile and befriend another, and on the otherhand, absolutely ferocious warriors. They were known, on occasion, while in the midst of a fight, to pause, present their middle finger to the enemy, and launch into loud discourse concerning their negative view of him, his ancestry, Ho Chi Minh, and Communism, and then resume fireing. I never saw an American do that. Perhaps being twelve thousand miles from home accentuated our sense of self-preservation.









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