A/HRC/7/10/Add.1 page 8 Foreign Affairs declared that Mr. Sa Khorn “had returned to Vietnam” after reportedly being summoned to the office of the religious head of the Takeo Province in Cambodia and being forced to enter a car. On 2 August 2007, Vietnamese authorities announced that he had been arrested for having illegally entered the country. Response from the Government dated 30 January 2008 14. The Government informed that Mr. Sa Khorn stayed at Baukhanaram Pagoda (North Phnom Den Pagoda) at Phsar Village, Phnom Den Commune, Kirivong District, Takeo Province, Cambodia. Mr. Sa Khorn is a Khmer Kampuchea Krom native and was born at Kla Krahim village, Ba Chuk Commune, Tri Ton District (or so called Srok Svay Torng), An Giang Province, Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Mr. Sa Khorn had used the location of the Pagoda to distribute bulletins of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom union. Each bulletin contained inspiration propaganda aimed at creating conflicts between Cambodia and Vietnam. Mr. Sa Khorn has a hard-line personality with no respect for the rules of Buddhism and did not participate in religious activities as required. He carried out activities such as raising an illegal flag in the Pagoda which contains the same insignia as the flag as printed in the bulletins of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation. 15. Furthermore, Mr. Sa Khorn constructed a building in the Pagoda and ordained monks of Khmer Kampuchea Krom origin without permission. He propagated monks and followers to support activities of the foreign-based Khmer Kampuchea Krom Federation movement. These activities made monks in the Pagoda unhappy and they moved out to other Pagodas. Currently in the Pagoda only seven monks remain who have identity cards. 16. Mr. Sa Khorn and his followers twice organized an illegal demonstration in order to inspire anti-sentiment against the Cambodia-Vietnam relationship. The demonstrations created extreme confrontation and violence against the Buddhism disciples, monk students and Buddhism followers. The monk demonstrators used axes and wooden sticks against the other monks which injured many. 17. After a consideration of Mr. Sa Khorn’s abnormal activities, the Supreme Patriarch Buddhism Monk of Cambodia, Ven. Tep Vong, organized a special meeting in which 10 highranking monks participated, to officially review Mr. Sa Khorn’s case. As a result of his violation of the disciplines, Mr. Sa Khorn’s status was removed. 18. With reference to the Takeo Provincial Court Order, on 30 June 2007, the representatives of the District authority, the Provincial Department of Cults and Religions, the Council of Commune and the Committee of the Pagoda jointly inspected the house of Mr. Sa Khorn on the premises of the Pagoda. The Inspection Committee found some evidence such as bayonets, VCD phonographs, two women and a letter written by Mr. Sa Khorn requesting to leave for his native land Vietnam. 19. After a while, it was found that Mr. Sa Khorn was detained by Vietnamese authorities. Mr. Sa Khorn is under the legal prosecution of the present laws of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.