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Kampot City and the Fate of the Indigenous Saoch People

By: Schliesinger, Joachim

A Multiethnic Municipality in Southernmost Cambodia Now and Then

describes first the city of Kampot with its booming tourist industry, and
second the destiny of the ethnic Saoch group in this region along the Gulf
of Thailand.
Kampot city has become one of the trendiest cities in Cambodia, with
many boutique hotels and resorts, international restaurants, pubs and
discotheques to suit all needs and pleasures. The city has not only a
multinational mix of tourists but also an uncanny ethnic mix of different
peoples, including Chinese, Vietnamese, Cham, Chvea Malay and Khmer,
who have settled in the area for centuries.
The reader is guided from the present situation in Kampot city back in
history to pre-Angkorian times. Highlighted is the French colonial period
from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, including the Cambodian-French
treaties of 1863 and 1884, the insurrections of 1885-86, the ‘Kampot
Residential Constituency’, and the forming of old Kampot township as the
administrative capital of southern Cambodia by the French.
The Pearic-speaking Saoch people are indigenous to the region. Early
textual and eyewitness reports about them, beginning with the Kingdom of
Phaniat of the 7th century AD in today’s Chanthaburi province of Thailand,
the mentioning of Pearic people by Chinese diplomat Chou Ta-Kuan in the
Angkor Kingdom at the end of the 13th century, to the first accounts of the
Saoch people in their habitat from Western sources in the 19th century,
particularly by French missionaries, explorers and officials, are discussed
comprehensively. The fate of the Saoch people in Cambodia and their
captured and deported kin in Siam are recounted, and their present living
conditions in both countries are documented.
The content of this book is supported by more than 250 contemporary
photos by the author, as well as various historical images, maps, and plans
of the sites.