PHNOM PENH, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Approximately 1,000 Cambodian indigenous people on Tuesday gathered in Stung Treng province, some 485 kilometers north of Cambodia, to celebrate the World Indigenous People’s Day.
This was the seventh consecutive year the country marked the day; it was presided over by Minister of the Ministry of Rural Development Chea Sophara, said Chhith Sam Ath, Executive Director of the NGO Forum, which co-organized the event with the ministry.
“The celebration is to uplift and protect the rights of the indigenous people,” he said. “It’s also to display artwork, costumes, traditions, culture of the indigenous people living in Cambodia.”
He said that during the event, different forms of indigenous people’s traditional dances had been performed.
The event was also simultanously held in Preah Sihanouk province, some 230 kilometers southwest of Cambodia.
According to the Ministry of Rural Development, there are 203,000 indigenous people, or 1.4 percent, of Cambodia’s total 14.5 million populations, most of them live in Rattanakiri and Mondolkiri provinces northeastern Cambodia.
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