Khmer krom

Khmer krom

Khmer Krom living in the Mekong Delta region and the Mekong River. Under the Khmer Rouge regime - through [2] the old estimate is 150,000. Under the control of the Vietnamese year 1979-93 Cambodia probably lost Krom 20,000. Today, they are regarded as an ethnic Khmer minority living in southern Vietnam. Krom was a Khmer who live Kampuchea an area in South Vietnam that was once part of the empire Khmer.

Vietnamese government figures (1999 census) 1055174 Krom people in Vietnam. Cambodia is the former territory of the Kingdom of Cambodia, located south-east of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Currently a part of the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, south (South Vietnam). Kampuchea was cut off from the French colonial authority given to colonize Vietnam continues to this day under the French colonial law No. 49-733 dated 04 June 1949 in the French city of Toulon. In early Kampuchea called flooding or Kampuchea (Lower) and they can be called that, whenever the Mekong Delta (Mekong Delta). Oversized French colonial French Indochina Kampuchea was called Basse Cochinchine (kausangsain_kraom). For the area and the number of Khmer people who are living on the territory of Cambodia today is a very complex issue because there was no National Institute any census or unclear. However, we have to study the original French colonial control of Indochina showed that Kampuchea is an area of ​​68.965 Km2. This figure, according to the French document in 1945 because at that time divided the territory in French colonial Indochina 5 to simplify the control parts

1. Vietnam area 103.000Km2.

2. Champa area of ​​148.000 Km2.

3. Laos has an area of ​​236.000 Km2.

4. The country has an area of ​​185,000 km2.

5. Cambodia has an area of ​​65,000 km2.

Currently, the country officially declared an area of ​​181.035 Km2.The Khmer Krom people, we made based on the number of files census 5 following

1 Statistics quote figures Khmer Krom of the French colonial government in 1924, 80,000 (eight thousand).

2 Figures quoted statistics Kampuchea Liberation Front in 1968, 4.047.500 (four million forty thousand and seven thousand five hundred).

3 oral statement of the Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thi in bamboo canal in 1969
Khmer Krom people, there are more than 4,000,000 (four million).

4 Khmer Kampuchea Krom Association in France in 1969, wrote that the Khmer Krom 4.500.000 (four million five hundred thousand).

5 figure sum Khmer people, Khmer government at the conference hall chtommoukh 1970
Khmer Krom people amounted to 4,500,000 people. But in Cambodia at the time, some people close to 7,000,000 (seven million).

So that today do not have any documents or any source census statistics Khmer people of Cambodia under clearly real. But based on the above figures that can be taken into account, as of the end of 2004 found that in Cambodia under the Khmer people living in more than 12 million people.20 years later, the year 1944-1964 there were 3,200,000 (1.600.000 × 20 = 3.200.000);800,000), while all other documents, census that Khmer Krom people from 14 to 15 million people. According to the document's Liberation Front Khmer Krom made quote statistics number people Khmer Krom who are living in the provinces - City each across 21 provinces - cities in 1968 amounted to 4,047,500 people, and if Population Census Khmer them to date (01 January 2005) found there were 14,571,000 people living in the provinces each as follows

1. Trapeang province Khmer people living 2,885,000

2. The Khmer people living repository 2,703,000

3. An Giang province, the Khmer people living in 2,522,000

4. The wax Khmer people living 2,521,000

5. Laos Khmer people live some 725,000 people

6. The ink Khmer people live some 720,500 people

7- Peam Khmer people live some 540,000 people

8. O'Romol Khmer people living in 360,000

9. Vĩnh Khmer people live some 360,400 people

10. Barack authority Khmer people living in 361,000

11. Tay Ninh province, the Khmer people live some 362,000 people

12. Nokor Khmer people living in cities of 288,500 people

13. Tuol Ta Khmer people living Deny 108,000

14. Welding Khmer people living in 36,300 people

15 Va pools Khmer people living 21,600 people

16 provinces have a heavenly Khmer people living in 12,600 people

17-Khmer people living in 11,400 people

18 Koh management Khmer people living 11,100

19 kampngryssaei Khmer people living in 11,520 people

20 new names Khmer people living 5,400

21-O logging Khmer people living 4,680mAh.

Total Arts 14,571,000 (fourteen thousand five hundred seven ears of a thousand)

So we take the least amount that is quote statistics of the French colony in 1924 as of today (01 January 2005) amounted to 12,800,000). Khmer Krom people, farmers 95%, 3%, 2%, 85% illiterate women business 99%. Areas where people Khmer lived most Trapeang province (Tra Vinh), Soc (Soc Trang), energy, Laos (Bac Lieu) An Giang (Chau Doc), Kramuon (Kien Giang), Peam (Ha Tien), Prek Russey (Can Tho) and province ink (Ca Mau). Khmer Krom people, 85 percent illiterate.

Son Ngoc Thanh's Khmer Krom nationalist who is born in Tra Vinh, Vietnam. Cambodia gained independence at the 1954 Geneva through the struggle of the Vietnamese in the First Indochina War.

Between 1964 and 1974 Krom was selected by the US military. The., To enlist in the Forces miles (Miami FC Texas) during the Vietnam War. [4] First they fought for South Vietnam against the Viet Cong, but that time the militants these name for herself Moro struggle Kampuchea (French: Front de Lutte du Kampuchea Krom) in South Vietnam. The group originally formed by a Khmer Krom monks have the name of the Son - Mok, whose name outside the towel and are inserted into FULRO.

After the communist victory in 1975 Krom militia know it's really hard to struggle against the back of the Vietnamese armed forces and they come across the border to the Democratic Kampuchea, hoping to find a safe haven from where to start their operations. In 1976, the group napkin a group of 68 people and captains of their sought refuge in a village near the Vietnam border in the province of Kirivong and entered meet Khmer Rouge authorities, telling them to contact to get a decision from the blue - Samphan. At first they were welcomed and disarmed, but when regulations from the leaders.. To local authorities hand them a towel is separated from its parent. They followed was sent to Phnom Penh, where he was killed after the army tortured while Krom 67 people were massacred without rest anyone. During the months that followed the towel a total of about 2,000 people who crossed the border to seek refuge in Democratic Kampuchea were killed by the Khmer Rouge.