From: giao@informix.com (Giao Tien Vu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: [POL] Re: VI: Cambodian Impasse can be solved
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:34:22 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

Just imagine what if the US citizens start thinking the same way the
writer of this article does...

There would be a beginning of a "voluntary" repatriation of Vietnamese
back to Vietnam?  (A few murders would do the job, probably)

The anti-Vietnamese feeling in Cambodia has been high enough.  Please
don't propagate the view that Vietnamese ethnics in Cambodia are the
enemies of the Khmer people.  Haven't those savage killings the last
few months been enough?

The Vietnamese people in Cambodia will eventually have to decide their
citizenship.  If they want to make Cambodia their homeland, they should
become law-abiding Vietnamese Cambodians.  If they want to keep Vietnamese
citizenship, they would have the rights of foreigners living in Cambodia (be
allowed to live in Cambodia in the good will of the Cambodian government.)
Just as Chinese Vietnamese have been contributors to Vietnamese society,
why couldn't Vietnamese Cambodians become contributors to the Cambodian
society?

About the Khmer Rouge using this excuse, do you truly believe that after
the bulk of Vietnamese left the country, the Khmer Rouge would sit down and
really share power?  For years, they have accused that the Vietnamese
hid the troops in Cambodia and have yet produced any proof.  Do you truly
believe that after the Vietnamese left, they would not claim: "Some of
the Cambodians are actually Vietnamese!"?

Giao

In article <9211070257.AA06673@netcom.netcom.com> vinsight@netcom.com writes:
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>Cambodian Impasse can be solved
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>The two million Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia, confirmed by the U.N.
>peace-keeping task force, pose a genuine threat to the natives in the
>upcoming election. This is also one of the reasons that the Khmer Rouge
>refuses to cooperate in the peace process. This fear of and opposition
>to Vietnamese participation in the polls are legitimate despite the
>fact that many Vietnamese have established themselves on this land for
>many years: these two million Vietnamese voters represent one-fourth of
>the Cambodian population.
>
>Outside observers charge that the Khmer Rouge is using the Vietnamese
>settlers as an excuse for its political advancement. Others condemn the
>Cambodians' anti-Vietnamese sentiment as pure racial discrimination.
>>From the perspective of the Cambodian government, there is a deep
>concern that the nation's sovereignty is at stake as one-fourth of the
>electorate is Vietnamese, a people whose government invaded and occupied
>Cambodia for years until being forced out by international pressure. It
>would be virtually impossible to convince the Cambodian people that
>these Vietnamese settlers are not Hanoi's agents for its continuing
>domination. And even those who have settled in Cambodia before Hanoi's
>1978 invasion would be suspected to cast votes for a pro-Vietnam
>government.
>
>But to exclude these Vietnamese settlers from the election is to
>violate the democratic spirit of the free election. To include them is
>to challenge the Khmer Rouge's protest and maintain the current impasse,
>or to go ahead with the election without the Khmer Rouge and revive the
>deadly civil war.
>
>A seldom mention solution, probably due to the unlikelihood of its
>happening, is the volunteer repatriation of the Vietnamese from
>Cambodia. As anti-Vietnamese sentiments rose with eight gruesome
>killings recently, why would the Vietnamese be reluctant to return to
>their homeland?
>
>[...]
>The Vietnamese would not think twice about leaving Cambodia for home had
>Vietnam provided at least an equal opportunity for their future.
>
>In this regard, Hanoi can more than help resolve the Cambodian impasse.
>Its withdrawing of troops, even if as accurate as it claims, is not
>enough. It can recall its party members and cadres planted in Cambodia
>under civilian clothes. It can implement the most crucial and fundamental
>change in Vietnam: restoring the people's rights and the nation's
>freedom. Only under this condition, can genuine economic reforms work
>and relations with the rest of the world be improved to bring Vietnam out
>of the economic quagmire. Only under this condition, can the Vietnamese,
>not only in Cambodia but also elsewhere in Asian refugee camps, see a
>future in their homeland to voluntarily return.
>
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