{"id":29755,"date":"2023-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/press\/authorities-attack-buddhist-community-during-religious-ceremony-6015\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:53:19","slug":"authorities-attack-buddhist-community-during-religious-ceremony-6015","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/press\/authorities-attack-buddhist-community-during-religious-ceremony-6015\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities attack Buddhist community during religious ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/41edb1c94191e86f61b4c7a3654c07c4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>A Khmer Krom Buddhist gathering was attacked by Vietnamese authorities during a ceremony at Chedey temple in Tap Son village, Tra Cu district, Tra Vinh province in southern Vietnam on 4 June.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ceremony, held by the Khmer-Krom community to pay respect to their ancestors, was disrupted by approximately ten representatives of the Vietnamese authorities at 9:40am local time. The perpetrators did not wear uniforms and are thought to have come from outside the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authorities reportedly physically attacked approximately ten community members, including two Khmer-Krom Buddhist monks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voice of Kampuchea Krom (VOKK) and the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF), global organisations that advocate for the rights of the Khmer Krom people, shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?ref=embed_video&#038;v=940496163868344\">footage<\/a> of the attack on social media and <a href=\"https:\/\/khmerkrom.org\/for-immediate-press-release-urgent-call-to-end-violence-against-khmer-krom-commemorating-historical-events\/\">called<\/a> on the international community to apply pressure on the Vietnamese authorities to bring an end to violations against the Khmer Krom community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CSW\u2019s Founder President Mervyn Thomas said:<b><i> \u2018Reports of a violent attack on Chedey temple in Tra Vinh province are deeply concerning and yet another incident in a worrying pattern of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/2022\/12\/07\/report\/5882\/article.htm\/\">persistent targeting of ethnic and religious minorities<\/a> in Vietnam. CSW urges the Vietnam authorities to immediately cease all harassment of Khmer-Krom Buddhists and other religious groups across the country.\u2019<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Note to Editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>The Khmer Krom are ethnically <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khmer_people\" title=\"Khmer people\">Khmer people<\/a> living in or from the region of T\u00e2y Nam B\u1ed9 in southwest Vietnam (Mekong Delta).<\/li>\n\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Khmer Krom Buddhist gathering was attacked by Vietnamese authorities during a ceremony at Chedey temple in Tap Son village, Tra Cu district, Tra Vinh province in southern Vietnam on 4 June.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17527,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[128,136],"class_list":["post-29755","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-east-asia","regions-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/29755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/29755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40339,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/29755\/revisions\/40339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29755"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=29755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}