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Khmer Krom ethnic group denied many rights: report


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While Cambodia in theory offers full citizenship to members of its Khmer Krom minority, in practise, many members of the community remain in a legal shadowland, unable to access a wide range of rights, a new report released yesterday shows.

 

Despite a professed open-door policy to the ethnic Khmer group from Vietnam, an estimated 20 to 30 percent still lack identity cards, a fact that prevents them from voting and accessing employment.

 

The research, conducted by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), the Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT) and Khmer Kampuchea Krom for Human Rights and Development Association (KKKHRDA), focused on those without IDs, collecting answers from 264 respondents.

 

read more http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/khmer-krom-ethnic-group-denied-many-rights-report

 

 
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Worked with the Khmer Krom in Chau Doc 1971  mean sons o bitches when they want to be, glorious bastards had nothing on the KKK.................we loved them, the Viet Cong were scared shi'ite of them.

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