What Are the Secrets Behind the Push for Planting Markers Along Cambodian-Vietnamese Border in September?
By Mut Srouch
Moneaksekar Khmer newspaper
June 5, 2006
Translated from Khmer
Var Kim Hong, the man recorded in history as an insane person who dares render the map of Cambodia unclear, recently made it known that the planting of markers along the (Cambodian-Vietnamese) border had already been planned," said a report by Mut Sruoch carried by the pro-opposition Cambodian daily newspaper Phnom Penh Moneakseka Khmer in its 5 June issue.
There were 350 markers in total to be planted along the 1,270-kilometer Cambodian-Vietnamese border, the report added. Var Kim Hong was also quoted as saying, "The Cambodian and Vietnamese sides would complete the planting by 2008."
Nevertheless, in light of Var Kim Hong's remark that Cambodia's map was "unclear," the Cambodian citizens still suspected that definitely there might be "something secret behind the Vietnamese side's push for the immediate planting of border markers," the report further said.
Moreover, the report said, Var Kim Hong was even talking big that the planting task was not that easy, but his Border Committee would be "extremely happy if the job were completed on time, because the border dispute between the two countries would end forever."
The report also said it should be pointed out that the border marker planting would be carried out in accordance with the supplementary treaty to the treaty on the delimitation of state border of 1985 that the Cambodian prime minister by the name of Hun Sen and former Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai signed in October 2005. Anyway, what was the focus of the Cambodian citizens' attention was that after the controversial border treaty was concluded, Phan Van Khai, the Vietnamese prime minister, "stepped down abruptly."
Therefore, the report added, it was asked if the resignation was the Vietnamese side's "trick." Because in the past, Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh, too, pledged to Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk that "Kampuchea Krom territory [former Cambodian territory that is now part of South Vietnam] would be returned to Cambodia after he won the war with the Saigon regime. However, after Hanoi controlled Saigon, suddenly Ho Chi Minh was dead secretly, without handing anything back to Cambodia."
After Hanoi summoned Var Kim Hong, who was unable to read map clearly, to discuss the "suspicion-arousing" urgent planting of the 350 border posts to be completed in 2008, the report said, it was heard that the Vietnamese side "might as well definitely carry out other tricks in the planting process," the Moneakseka Khmer report concludes.
By Mut Srouch
Moneaksekar Khmer newspaper
June 5, 2006
Translated from Khmer
Var Kim Hong, the man recorded in history as an insane person who dares render the map of Cambodia unclear, recently made it known that the planting of markers along the (Cambodian-Vietnamese) border had already been planned," said a report by Mut Sruoch carried by the pro-opposition Cambodian daily newspaper Phnom Penh Moneakseka Khmer in its 5 June issue.
There were 350 markers in total to be planted along the 1,270-kilometer Cambodian-Vietnamese border, the report added. Var Kim Hong was also quoted as saying, "The Cambodian and Vietnamese sides would complete the planting by 2008."
Nevertheless, in light of Var Kim Hong's remark that Cambodia's map was "unclear," the Cambodian citizens still suspected that definitely there might be "something secret behind the Vietnamese side's push for the immediate planting of border markers," the report further said.
Moreover, the report said, Var Kim Hong was even talking big that the planting task was not that easy, but his Border Committee would be "extremely happy if the job were completed on time, because the border dispute between the two countries would end forever."
The report also said it should be pointed out that the border marker planting would be carried out in accordance with the supplementary treaty to the treaty on the delimitation of state border of 1985 that the Cambodian prime minister by the name of Hun Sen and former Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai signed in October 2005. Anyway, what was the focus of the Cambodian citizens' attention was that after the controversial border treaty was concluded, Phan Van Khai, the Vietnamese prime minister, "stepped down abruptly."
Therefore, the report added, it was asked if the resignation was the Vietnamese side's "trick." Because in the past, Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh, too, pledged to Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk that "Kampuchea Krom territory [former Cambodian territory that is now part of South Vietnam] would be returned to Cambodia after he won the war with the Saigon regime. However, after Hanoi controlled Saigon, suddenly Ho Chi Minh was dead secretly, without handing anything back to Cambodia."
After Hanoi summoned Var Kim Hong, who was unable to read map clearly, to discuss the "suspicion-arousing" urgent planting of the 350 border posts to be completed in 2008, the report said, it was heard that the Vietnamese side "might as well definitely carry out other tricks in the planting process," the Moneakseka Khmer report concludes.
2 comments:
Who is the jerk named Var Kim Hong? How can the "insane" dude who can't even read the Cambodian map working for the interests of Cambodia? Halt everything! Bring in the experts and the modern surveying equipments to verify everything before anything should take place. The Cambodians just want what was left by the French. So that should not be a problem.
AH SVA KIM HONG and his associates will pay for any Cambodian land lost to the Vietcong! And the Vietcong can dream about having peace!
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