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Nhoam sadao nung sach krup muk 

(Sadao meat and seafood salad) 

My family favorite crisp *sadao* and cucumber salad with grilled fish, boiled pork 

meat and shrimp savory with tamarind sauce is absolutely delicious Khmer ethnic food. 

*Sadao* is edible leaves and flowers of natural insecticide Neem trees. In medicine, *sadao* is 

rich with calcium and fiber. The villagers use *sadao* as natural laxative for treats 

constipation. 

Ingredients : 

4 Cups water 

1 lb. Fresh *sadao* or 2 packages frozen *sadao* ,removed tough stems, washed 

and drained 

2 Large cucumber, peeled and sliced thin 

1 Teaspoon salt 

1 Medium snakehead fish or ½ lb fillet basa 

½ lb Pork belly *sach chrouk bei choen* 

4 Cups water 

½ lb Shrimp 

A handful fresh Asian coriander leaves, chopped (option) 

Tamarind sauce,(please follow recipe) 

Procedures : Boiled 4 cups water in a large pot, put sadao in boiling water, stirs quickly and 

immediately pour sadao in to colander to drained, set it a side. 

In a large bowl, mix sliced cucumber and salt together, squeezed liquid out from 

cucumber and set it a side. 

Cooked fish on hot grill, when fish cooked set a side to cool then cut it to bite sizes and 

set a side. 



sadao 

Boiled meat with 4 cups water till meat tender, removed 

cooked pork meat from boiling water, sliced thin and set a 

side. 

Add shrimp to remaining boiled water, cook till shrimp 

turns darkers pink color, drained cooked shrimp in a 

colander, rinsed under cold water, peeled, de-veined and 

set a side. 

In large bowl, mixed sadao with cucumber, Asian 

coriander leaves, pork meat, fish, shrimp and ½ cup 

prepared tamarind sauce. Serve immediately with rice and 

remaining tamarind sauce . 

Enjoy! 

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Tirk umpel 

( Tamarind sauce ) 

Khmer ethnic sweet, sour, and spicy tamarind sauce is delicous 

for dipping meat or seafood . 

Ingredients : 

1/3 Cup water 

CI BgTakUn 

2 Tablespoons seedless tamarind pulps 

2 Tablespoons sugar 

2 Tablespoons fish sauce 

2 Cloves garlic, crushed(option) 

2 Chopped hot pepper(option) 

Procedures : Put water and tamarind in a small sauce-pan, stirs and cook till water bubbling. 

Add sugar, fish sauce, garlic and hot chili pepper, stirs till sugar dissolved, removed from heat, let it 

cool before serve. 

Note: Tamarind absorb liquid very fast like sponge, add more fish sauce as you eat. If you like sweeter, 

add more sugar. More fish sause if you like it saltier. Always taste the sauce to your liking before serve. 

Enjoy! 

By: Danh Nakry 

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Radio Free Asia - Vietnamese 

Cảnh sát Campuchia ngăn cản các nhà sư Khmer Nam bộ làm lễ cầu siêu 

2007.03.18 

Nguyễn Bình, đặc phái viên đài RFA 

Tại Campuchia, hồi cuối tháng 02 vừa qua, cảnh sát từng ngăn chặn các sư sãi gốc Khmer Nam 

bộ biểu tình tại thủ đô Phnom Penh, nay lại tiếp tục ngăn cản các vị sư này làm lễ cầu siêu. Nếu 

chỉ là lễ cầu siêu đơn thuần, tại sau chính quyền lại ngăn cản? Xin mời quí thính giả bài tường 

trình của phóng viên Nguyễn Bình từ Campuchia chi tiết như sau. 

Cảnh sát Campuchia được bố trí dầy đặc trên con đường đi vào một ngôi chùa ở tình Kandal 

gần thủ đô Phnom Penh để ngăn chặn các vị sư gốc Khmer Nam bộ làm lễ cầu siêu cho vị sư 

Eng Sok Thoun vào sáng ngày 16 tháng 03 năm 2007 vừa qua. 

Sư Eng Sok Thuon, 32 tuổi, quê ở 

huyện Mỹ Xuyên, tỉnh Sóc Trăng, đã 

chết ở trong một ngôi chùa thuộc tỉnh 

Kandal của Campuchia vào ngày 28 

tháng 02 vừa qua. Ngay trong ngày 

hôm đó, cảnh sát tỉnh Kandal thông 

báo rằng nhà sư này đã sử dụng thuốc 

kích thích và sau đó tự tử. 

Tìm hiểu nguyên nhân 

Nhưng các tổ chức nhân quyền cho 

rằng kết luận của nhân viên công lực 

là quá vội vã, vì họ đã đến hiện trường 

thấy vết máu dính ở bức tường giống 

như có sự vật lộn với người nào đó trước khi nhà sư này chết. Hơn nữa quan sát tử thi thấy vết 

đứt cổ quá lớn, họ kết luận rằng có kẻ nào đó đứng đằng sau cắt cổ, chứ không phải nhà sư tự 

mình cắt cổ. Qua đó, các tổ chức nhân quyền đề nghị cơ quan chức năng tiếp tục điều tra thêm 

để làm rõ sự việc. 

Những kết luận khác nhau giữa chính quyền và các quan sát viên của tổ chức nhân quyền khiến 

các vị sư sãi người gốc Khmer Nam bộ ở thủ đô Phnom Penh hoan mang. Vì sư Eng Sok 

Thoun từng tham gia biểu tình ở gần đại sứ quán Việt Nam vào ngày 27 tháng 02 vừa qua để 

phảng đối chính quyền Sóc Trăng buột 9 vị sư Khmer ở đó hoàng tục. Trong cuộc biểu tình đó 

các nhà sư và nhân viên công lực có lời lẽ xúc phạm lẫn nhau. 

Để hiểu rõ thêm nguyên nhân chết của nhà sư Eng Sok Thoun, Hội sư sãi Khmer Kampuchea 

Krom ở thủ đô Phnom Penh từng đề nghị viện kiểm sát và tòa án tỉnh Kandal giám định pháp y 

xem nhà sư có sử dụng thuốc kích thích hay không? thì bị 2 cơ quan trên từ chối. 



Ngăn chặn lễ cầu siêu 

Sau đó Hội sư sãi Khmer Kampuchea Krom tập hợp được 

khoảng 50 vị sư, do Hòa thượng Dương Sinh làm trưởng 

đoàn từ Phnom Penh đến ngôi mộ của sư Eng Sok Thoun ở 

tỉnh Kandal để làm lễ cầu siêu vào sáng ngày 16 tháng 03 

vừa qua, nhưng gần tới nơi thì bị cảnh sát ngăn chặn. 

Hòa thượng Dương Sinh nói rằng cảnh sát cương quyết 

không cho các nhà sư Khmer Krom đến gần ngôi mộ của sư 

Eng Sok Thoun. Cảnh sát không giải thích lý do gì cả, mà 

chỉ cho biết là họ làm theo lệnh của cấp trên. 

Các tổ chức nhân quyền và Phủ cao ủy nhân quyền Liên hiệp quốc tại thủ đô Phnom Penh hay 

tin đến quan sát sự việc, dọc đường cũng bị cảnh sát ngăn chặn. 

Bà Pong Chiu Kek, Giám đốc tổ chức nhân quyền ADHOC nói rằng bà không hiểu lý do tại 

sao nhân viên công lực ở đây lại có hành động ngăn chặn người dân hành lễ. Bà nói rằng những 

người từng phạm tội nghiêm trọng như Sadam Hussein ở Iraq, sau khi bị xử tử, thi hài của ông 

vẫn được giao cho thân nhân để làm lễ tang. 

Sự căn thẳng giữa các nhà sư và lực lượng cảnh sát kéo dài suốt 5 giờ đồng hồ, từ 6 giờ sáng 

đến 12 giờ trưa, đến khi các nhà sư quay trở lại thủ đô Phnom Penh. 

Sự kiện cảnh sát ngăn chặn các nhà 

sư gốc Khmer Nam bộ làm lễ cầu siêu đã 

được báo chí Campuchia quan tâm và đăng 

tải dường như đủ số báo. Có một số bài báo 

cho rằng chính phủ Campuchia nghe tin 

nhằm rằng các nhà sư nói trên có ý muốn bốc 

mộ sư Eng Sok Thoun đem đi giám định để 

tìm hiểu về nguyên nhân tử vong, thay vì họ 

chỉ đến để làm lễ cầu siêu, nên bố trí lực 

lượng cảnh sát để ngăn chặn. 

Mr. Yeang Vanna and Mr.Thach Setha 



Bộ ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ bênh vực Đại sứ Mỹ tại Việt Nam 

2007.03.28 

Ông Michael Marine, Đại sứ Hoa Kỳ tại Việt Nam. file photo. 

Bộ ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ lên tiếng bênh vực đại sứ Mỹ tại Việt Nam, sau khi một Dân biểu chỉ trích ông 

Michael Marine hồi tuần trước, đòi ông này phải từ chức vì không bảo vệ được nhân quyền và tự do tôn 

giáo ở Việt Nam. 

Trong cuộc họp báo của bộ ngoại giao hôm thứ ba tại Washington, trả lời câu hỏi của báo chí về việc 

dân biểu Frank Wolf đã tỏ ra không hài lòng với hoạt động của đại sứ Mỹ tại Việt Nam, phát ngôn viên 

bộ ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ Tom Casey trả lời rằng: 

“Vấn đề cổ võ cho nhân quyền và tự do tôn giáo là một vấn đề quan trọng đối với hành pháp Mỹ, nằm 

trong lịch trình làm việc hằng ngày của toà đại sứ. Bộ ngoại giao không thấy có lý do gì để nói rằng đại 

sứ Martin đã không thi hành tốt chính sách của hành pháp Mỹ ở Việt Nam, và chắc chắn ai cũng muốn 

thấy thêm những tiến bộ trong việc ủng hộ nhân quyền vào lúc gần đây, trong một số lãnh vực mà Hoa 

Kỳ quan tâm.” 

Người phát ngôn bộ ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ nói tiếp: “Đặc sứ của 

Mỹ về tự do tôn giáo đang tìm cách dàn xếp với Việt Nam để 

cố gắng cải thiện tình hình trong lĩnh vực này. Đó là mối quan 

tâm thường xuyên mà Hoa Kỳ đang giải quyết, cũng như đại sứ 

Marine và toà đại sứ Mỹ đang nỗ lực giải quyết.” 

Hôm thứ tư tuần trước, trước tiền đình Quốc hội Mỹ, dân biểu 

Frank Wolf đã chỉ trích đại sứ Marine về việc thi hành nhiệm 

vụ tại Việt Nam trong lãnh vực bênh vực nhân quyền và tự do tôn giáo. Ông Wolf tuyên bố đại sứ 

Marine nên từ chức, nếu không sẽ bị bãi nhiệm. 

2007 Radio Free Asia 

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KHMER KROM UPDATE: Rebecca Sommer Stands by Her Reporting of Oppression of 

Khmer Krom Indigenous Peoples by Hanoi Regime; U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Weighs 

In; Khmer Krom Spokesman Says Story is Factual 

By David M. Kinchen ( Editor, Huntington News Network ) 

We recently reported on the plight of the Khmer Krom -- an indigenous people in southern 

Vietnam, making a valiant effort to preserve their culture, language, Buddhist religion and way of life as 

a distinct, differentiated ethnic and cultural group. 

Society for Threatened Peoples International representative Rebecca Sommer has traveled to the 

area and spent time with the Khmer Krom and takes issue with a letter to me, David M. Kinchen, from 

the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi in which the ambassador, Michael W. Marine, saw no oppression. The letter 

is printed below, along with Sommer's response. We also received a letter from a Khmer Krom 

spokesman who stated that the March 17, 2007 story was correct; his letter is also included in this report, 

following Sommer's. 



Sommer says international human rights organizations are increasingly alarmed about 

Vietnam's oppression of the freedom of speech and religion of the Khmer Krom. Numerous reports on 

severe human rights violations have been reported, but little has been done by the international 

community, she told HNN. 

First, the letter from the U.S. Embassy: 

Dear Mr. Kinchen: I would like to clarify some of the events you describe in your article of March 17 

on Rebecca Sommer's Report "Khmer Krom in Southern Vietnam Face Oppression from Hanoi 

Regime" which reports that U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Michael W. Marine visited a Khmer Buddhist 

temple in Soc Trang Province that had a heavy police presence. 

The Ambassador did indeed visit the temple in early March, but in fact there was no heavy security 

presence and he did not see any evidence of protest during his visit. Furthermore, a senior Khmer 

Buddhist monk at the temple told him in private that there was no government crackdown against 

Khmer Buddhists. 

Please don't hesitate to contact me should you have any questions. Sincerely, 

Angela P. Aggeler 

Press and Cultural Attaché 

American Embassy Hanoi, Vietnam 

Some background on the Khmer Krom, courtesy of Rebecca Sommer: 

"The Khmer Krom, who originated as the "first peoples" in the Mekong River Delta, usually 

live in villages surrounded by rice fields. The majority of the deeply religious Khmer Krom population 

sustain themselves with farming, fishing and hunting." 

Letter from Rebecca Sommer: 

Dear Mr. Kinchen. First of all I would like to thank you for writing articles which one usually 

doesn't find in the mainstream media. You ensure that the voices of many desperate peoples are heard, 

loud and clear, in the public -- around the globe. The very same peoples, which are silenced by force, 

intimidation, and misinformation propaganda by powerful entities. 

The information which I provided to you and which was included in your recent article on the 

Khmer Krom in southern Vietnam, is just one example of many - on how indigenous people are 

oppressed and silenced. I am not astonished that the Ambassador to Vietnam Michael W. Marine did not 

find any "heavy" security presence while visiting the scene of the most recent atrocities against the 

Khmer Krom Buddhist monks. It's certain that the military and police presence was ordered to step back 

into the background while the Ambassador made his prominent visit. Wouldn't you do the same, if you 

know that someone important is coming to investigate something which you do not want to be visible to 

the outside world? I am also not astonished that the Ambassador was told in "private" by a senior monk, 

that there was no government crackdown against Khmer Krom Buddhists. Let me explain that I visited 

numerous temples while traveling through the traditional land of the first peoples of southern Vietnam, 

the Khmer Krom. What struck me during my many conversations, (also in private), with monks, 

villagers, and refugees outside Vietnam -- was their collective voice explaining that the Buddhist 

temples, and Buddhist schools, are severely infiltrated and controlled by the Vietnamese authorities., 



I may not have made that clear to you -- the Buddhist temples chief monks are in most cases put 

in their positions by the governmental authorities. This --- I have been told in so many cases, that I 

would say -- the claims were countless. In some very few cases, Chief monks are able to hold their 

positions, by juggling a balance of acting as traitors -- but secretly protecting their very own peoples. 

This, Mr. Kinchen, I have been told by the very same chief monks, or senior monks, on filmed 

tapes -- and heard this with my own ears. It is left to our imagination, who this senior monk was serving. 

With my eyes I saw the fear of Chief monks -- any monks for that matter -- who informed to be targeted 

for any whatsoever small issues, and explained to be under constant intimidation by local authorities 

which do not halt to enter and day and night into the temples for investigations, and placing into the 

temples their spies. 

Yes, "spies", because that is how the Khmer Krom described them, not in one temple, in all 

temples I visited and in every village I heard this claim, over and over again. Many voices, but one 

collective voice with the same story. Usually, every monk, and every villager said that they know who 

the "spies" are, but what can they do? Report them to the governmental authorities? The sad part is that 

this forced infiltration and surveillance has caused many disappearances and imprisonment of Khmer 

Krom people -- or simply such intimidation that they are too afraid and silenced. 

I met many of them who were released and told me their story. Not one or two stories. 

Especially those are targeted, which are loved by their Khmer Krom communities --- those who truly 

engage in social and cultural activities for the betterment of their communities --- the way the 

communities wants and needs them.. 

Beautiful, peaceful and kind people- who have committed no crime, but were targeted for their 

leadership roles and good examples they set within their communities. The Khmer Krom, a deeply 

religious people, say that they are not to be allowed to truly have their religion. That they are supposed 

to have another religion, which means, praying and following the communist doctrines of the country in 

which they live. 

That they are not allowed to study certain ancient text of Buddha's teachings, or the pure 

Sanskrit language in the Pali schools. Everything is controlled, changed, and communist propaganda 

included, other parts are excluded and if taught in the temples, once again, is arrested. 

They are not allowed to transmit their full knowledge of their peoples' history which goes back to the 

Funan culture, because it would mean that the future generations of Khmer Krom would remain with 

their pride and feeling of belonging as an informed people, with their distinct identity as the Khmer 

Krom. 

It appears to me, that the Khmer Krom are to be Vietnamized until they vanish as a people, and 

are simply "Vietnamese." Therefore, I thank you for reporting on the latest incident, where the Khmer 

Krom temples and the monks stood up on behalf of their communities and their religious belief system, 

and peacefully protested against this ongoing oppression. That needed a lot of courage of the monks, 

and a lot of devotion, as for sure, they have to pay now a heavy price. many are hiding, others fled to 

Cambodia, some were arrested, some are under surveillance, they all pay a heavy toll. They knew it, but 

they did it, regardless. Because they want to have the right to their own religion, and traditional way of 

life. 

Sadly, Ambassador to Vietnam Michael W. Marine was pulled aside by one of those senior 

monks, who decided for his individual gain and security to play the rules of the game established by 

Hanoi, by misinforming the Ambassador that there was no government crackdown against Khmer 

Buddhists. 



For sure, this senior monk will walk free, while the others don't. But the good part is, that the 

outside world can have its own informed opinions, and luckily the Khmer Krom, the poorest of the poor 

in southern Vietnam, the most marginalized and disadvantaged and oppressed, use these days modern 

tools, even so they endure raids in their offices, temples, computers are checked on a monthly bases by 

the authorities, are arrested and imprisoned for having listened to foreign radio such as Radio Free Asia, 

or Voice of America, or checking in the internet information on human rights laws from the UN -- Some 

few Khmer Krom have cameras today, they will continue using them, and the internet or phone, 

messengers and letters, to inform the outside world. 

This information flow cannot be stopped, only denied - if at all. Wouldn't the world be a better 

place, if human rights and the truth would not any longer be pushed aside --- for the sake of diplomacy 

and globalization interests? 

Rebecca Sommer, Representative of the NGO Society for Threatened Peoples International, in 

consultative status to the United Nations ECOSOC and in participatory status with the Council of 

Europe. Indigenous Peoples Department , USA website: . 

Finally, a letter to me from the Khmer Krom spokesman: 

Dear Huntington News Network Editor: 

We would like to thank your public the article on Khmer-Krom's issue which made the world 

known who we are. 

I, on behalf of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) representing the indigenous 

Khmer-Krom people of the Mekong Delta (South Vietnam) and the Khmer Krom diasporas around the 

world, would like to confirm that the information absolutely true and the unjust prosecution of Khmer- 

Krom Buddhist monks, in Soc Trang province in South Vietnam, for the alleged crime of organizing 

and participating in a peaceful demonstration partaking with 200 Khmer-Krom Buddhist monks on 8th 

February 2007 to request for religious freedom. 

The two hundred Khmer-Krom Buddhist monks taking part in the demonstration and members 

of their immediate families have and continue to be subjected to elevated acts of intimidation, 

harassment and oppression as Vietnamese authorities continue to crack down on human right related 

activities. 

On 22nd February 2007, nine Khmer-Krom Buddhist monks were forced to disrobe: 

1. Thach Do aged 27 from Wat Ta Sek, Vinh Hoa commune, Vinh Chau district, Kleang (Soc Trang) 

province. 

2. Ly Hoang aged 22 from Wat Sam Rong, Phuong 5, Kleang (Soc Trang) province. 

3. Ly Tang Thong aged 23 from Wat Sam Rong, Phuong 5, Kleang (Soc Trang) province. 

4. Ly Thanh Suoi aged 28 from Wat Teok Praiy, Long Phu district, Kleang (Soc Trang) province. 

5. Thach Xuan Hien aged 21 from Wat Ta Meon, Vinh Binh commune, My Xuyen district, Kleang 

(Soc Trang) province. 

6. Tang Phien aged 22 from Wat Ta Meon, Vinh Binh commune, My Xuyen district, Kleang (Soc 

Trang) province. 

7. Ly Suong aged 21 from Wat Teok Praiy, Long Phu district, Kleang (Soc Trang) province. 

8. Kim Muon from Wat Ta Sek, Vinh Hoa commune, Vinh Chau district, Kleang (Soc Trang) province. 

9. Thach Thuong aged 28 from Wat Teok Praiy, Long Phu district, Kleang (Soc Trang) province. 

As current, several of the disrobed monks have been apprehended by Vietnamese authorities 

and taken to an unknown location while others continue to face harassment, torture and are placed under 

heavy surveillance. Many are prohibited from communicating with outside organisations and others 

have placed under house arrest. The fate and well being of the apprehended former Khmer-Krom 

Buddhist monks remains unknown. 

The US Ambassador in Hanoi, Mr. Michael W. Marine, has visited and talked with the senior 

monk who is not the victim. And his visit was 3 weeks after the incident. 



Forced disrobement of these Buddhist monks continues to be used as a discriminatory mean 

punish these monks for taking part in a non violent demonstration. It serves to further prohibit the rights 

of the Khmer-Krom Buddhist monks and civilian to practice their religion and customs according to 

their indigenous ways. Such acts can also be seen as means to undermine the minority communities and 

to halt the important role that Buddhist monks alone play in preserving and passing of the Khmer-Krom 

language, customs and values. 

Unfortunately, the recently prosecution of these Khmer-Krom Buddhist monks by the 

Vietnamese Communist government is a clear reflection of the increasing human rights and religious 

violations against the Khmer-Krom people. I personally believe that there will continue to be civil 

unrest and further prosecution for such acts and if left unresolved may potentially cause greater 

instability in the Asian Pacific region. 

Respectfully Yours, 

Thach Ngoc Thach ( President of Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation ) 

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