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VIETNAM-CAMBODIA RELATIONS
FROM TRUONG MINH GIANG TO NGUYEN TAN DUNG
To welcome Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung who is starting an official visit in Cambodia on April 23, opposition radio stations in Phnom Penh started today to broadcast an interview with Sam Rainsy in which the latter compares Nguyen Tan Dung to Truong Minh Giang.
Truong Minh Giang was an army general from Annam (precursor of Vietnam) in the first half of the 19th century who administered Cambodia as a colony of the imperial court of Hue (capital of Annam). At that time, Cambodia’s King named Ang Chan was just a puppet, having been installed on the throne by a foreign occupation army led by Truong Minh Giang. Cambodia’s territories were being seized by Annam which started to annex Cambodia’s southern part known as Kampucha Krom where a massive and steady flow of Vietnamese immigrants were establishing an increasing number of foreign settlements.
French researcher Michel Blanchard (in “Vietnam-Cambodge: Une frontière contestée”, L’Harmattan, 1999) wrote:
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