The Kampuchea Krom Association (KKA) who represents the ethnic Cambodians who are living in Southern Vietnam today, Friday, June 4, 2004, with the presence of 1949 Buddhist monks, is commemorating the year 1949 when France gave the southerm (lower) part of the Cambodian territory to Vietnam.
The President of KKA, Mr. Thach Setha said the ceremony is to express the sadness and the suffering of these ethnic Khmers who not only lost their identities but have been living under Vietnamese government's oppression for more than six decades