Vietnamese in Cambodia

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While in Siem Reap, Cambodia, I went to a one-excursiom days the archaeological site of Angkor Wat and then went to visit the Vietnamese floating villages on Tonie Sap Lake. Funny, my driver, a very nice young man and aspiring guide, I looked on race relations between the Vietnamese and Cambodians. He said there are 4-5 million Vietnamese in Cambodia and how, and many expats in CambodiaAfter overthrowing the communist regime of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in 1979, Cambodia was a liberating most brutal regimes of the 20th Century. Most of the Vietnamese people in Cambodia were poor and relatively modest, many of them eke out a living from fishing and living in floating villages like the one that was visiting Tonie Sap. Officially, the number of Vietnamese living in Cambodia only 100,000, but it is estimated there are up to 5 million euros, a more realistic figure isabout 2-4 million, but as to the exact number, no one really knows.

According to "my friend", the majority of Cambodians, Vietnamese are at work, which has generated a lot of hostility displaced Cambodians. What is really worrying was the comment made my guide - when he was in power, would seek to destroy or liquidate the entirety of the Vietnamese from their country to the Pol Pot style. Now I know I was joking when he made the remark, but reflect the prevailingCambodian seen against the Vietnamese.

Funny, all the girls working in karaoke bars and massage parlors in Siem Reap were Vietnamese. Let's face it, about 20-25% of the population of Cambodia are Vietnamese, and as the Rouge and the Vietnamese ever long history, there are a lot of hostility between the two groups.