Khmer Krom: Monks Protest in Cambodia
Below is an article published by Reuters;
More than 100 riot police armed with electric-shock batons and AK-47 rifles lined up outside the compound as officials tried to persuade the saffron-robed monks to leave.
One civilian bystander was arrested for shouting.
"I don't understand why police caught me just because I was expressing my opinion against arresting monks," 24-year-old Phat Ha told Reuters as he was led away.
The monks accused police in southern
"We want the Vietnamese authorities to give them the right to practice Buddhism," one of the monks, Hol Pirom, told Reuters.
Triet was due to meet King Norodom Sihamoni on Tuesday at the start of a two-day state visit to its Southeast Asian neighbour.
He will also hold talks with Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla who fled to
Appointed prime minister of the Hanoi-backed regime in 1985, Hun Sen has been criticised frequently by nationalists as being pro-Vietnamese. However, he says he is merely normalising relations with one of his country's most important trading partners.