The Ministry of Cults and Religion will take legal action against the leader of the Deva Sakhi Phakavan Association, according to a statement from the ministry, which claims to have reviewed the content of the video of the leader of the Deva Sakhi Phakavan Association that was posted on social media in the past. The review meeting was attended by the ministry’s working group and the two leading monks’ committees.
The meeting decided as follows: “The meeting decided to send the Ministry of Cults and Religion and related institutions to continue discussions and take action according to legal procedures.”

I, Your Majesty, would like to support the petition condemning Buddhism. Buddhism has been practiced by Cambodian ancestors since the 3rd century BC, and until now, it has been enshrined in the Constitution, which is the supreme law, as the state religion. Citizens have the right to follow other religions, but they cannot slander or insult Buddhism. Cambodian kings, civil servants, and leaders since ancient times have always tried to maintain religious harmony and live together in peace. However, now the leaders of the Deva Sakhi Bhagavan Association are boasting and promoting their own views by distorting and distorting the Buddha's words and disparaging, insulting, and insulting Cambodian monks, whom approximately 95 percent of the community worships. The ideology that Sakhi leader Bhagavan is currently spreading is actually the ideology that was already used by the Democratic Kampuchea regime under the leadership of Pol Pot, who put forward the 8-point principle to lead the country. The ideology of this regime considered “Buddhism as the opium of society, monks as parasites, and social bloodsuckers,” which is why Buddhism and the nation faced the most serious disaster in history. Under the roof of peace and development, under the wise leadership of the Royal Government, which has Samdech Techo, former Prime Minister (Father of Peace), continuing until Samdech Maha Bovorathit, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia. I, your Majesty, never imagined that the country had just achieved peace and complete development without war due to Samdech Techo’s victorious policies for less than 40 years. Now, suddenly, this person has established himself as a preacher and has brought back Pol Pot’s ideology, which has seriously affected the harmony of religions in Cambodia. On behalf of the Cambodian Buddhist monks, I would like to call on all Cambodian monks, both at home and abroad, and all Buddhists to stand up against the Sakhi Bhagavans, so that they will no longer be on Cambodian soil. I would like to strongly condemn them and request the relevant authorities to take the strictest legal measures against the Deva Sakhi Bhagavans Association to protect the values ​​of the monks and Cambodian Buddhism, which is the state religion. January 29, 2025