Cambodian people living along the border welcome installation of border markers
06 August 2006
By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by KI-Media
Cambodian people living along the Vietnam-Cambodia borders in Bavet and Svay Teab districts, Svay Rieng province, are welcoming and are happy about the plan by the government to start installing border markers at the beginning of September. However, they have also expressed their worries by asking the government to be vigilant so that there will be no loss of Cambodian territories.
RFA traveled to Svay Rieng province on Sunday to interview directly people who live near the Vietnamese border to ask their opinions and reactions on the installation of border markers in the near future.
One person living in Bavet district, near the Bavet international border gate in Svay Rieng province, who works as a taxi driver said that he learns from radio and television the announce that the government is planning to install border markers with Vietnam at the beginning of September, he said that he is happy to learn about this news: “This will allow [us] to know where is the limit of our territory. Right now, they (the Vietnamese) are encroaching on us. Installing border markers is good, it allows us to know where our territory extends to.”
Nuon Sa Ean, a 41-year-old man living in Monorom village, Svay Teab district, Svay Rieng province, told RFA: “I thank very much, let our royal government clearly install the border markers so that there will be no border dispute in the future. I want the government to clearly install the border markers so that in the future, there will be no loss of our borders.”
Thoang Rin, another villager, said: “People want to know very much, but nobody clarifies them about the border delimitation, they did not explain to the people at all. I want it to be equitable, there should be no gain on our side, and we do not want them (the Vietnamese) to lose either. No matter what, there will be no gain on our side, however I believe that there will be loss on our (Cambodian) side.”
The above reactions from Cambodian people living along the Vietnamese border were gathered after the Cambodian Council of Ministers approved on Friday, the plan to start the installation of border markers starting on 07 September at the Bavet international border gate.
The length of the common border between Cambodia and Vietnam is 1,270-kilometer long, and 353 border markers produced by Vietnam will be installed.
The installation of the border markers is based on the 1985 border treaty (between the People’s Republic of Kampuchea and the Socialis Republic of Vietnam), and the Supplemental treaty concluded in 2005 under a lot of protest, and arrest and jailing of (Cambodian) border activists, while other activists had to flee the country to find refuge abroad.
Khieu Kanharith, the government spokesman, claimed on Friday that the government welcomes Cambodian people from all quarters who want to observe during the start of the installation of border markers at the beginning of September.
06 August 2006
By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by KI-Media
Cambodian people living along the Vietnam-Cambodia borders in Bavet and Svay Teab districts, Svay Rieng province, are welcoming and are happy about the plan by the government to start installing border markers at the beginning of September. However, they have also expressed their worries by asking the government to be vigilant so that there will be no loss of Cambodian territories.
RFA traveled to Svay Rieng province on Sunday to interview directly people who live near the Vietnamese border to ask their opinions and reactions on the installation of border markers in the near future.
One person living in Bavet district, near the Bavet international border gate in Svay Rieng province, who works as a taxi driver said that he learns from radio and television the announce that the government is planning to install border markers with Vietnam at the beginning of September, he said that he is happy to learn about this news: “This will allow [us] to know where is the limit of our territory. Right now, they (the Vietnamese) are encroaching on us. Installing border markers is good, it allows us to know where our territory extends to.”
Nuon Sa Ean, a 41-year-old man living in Monorom village, Svay Teab district, Svay Rieng province, told RFA: “I thank very much, let our royal government clearly install the border markers so that there will be no border dispute in the future. I want the government to clearly install the border markers so that in the future, there will be no loss of our borders.”
Thoang Rin, another villager, said: “People want to know very much, but nobody clarifies them about the border delimitation, they did not explain to the people at all. I want it to be equitable, there should be no gain on our side, and we do not want them (the Vietnamese) to lose either. No matter what, there will be no gain on our side, however I believe that there will be loss on our (Cambodian) side.”
The above reactions from Cambodian people living along the Vietnamese border were gathered after the Cambodian Council of Ministers approved on Friday, the plan to start the installation of border markers starting on 07 September at the Bavet international border gate.
The length of the common border between Cambodia and Vietnam is 1,270-kilometer long, and 353 border markers produced by Vietnam will be installed.
The installation of the border markers is based on the 1985 border treaty (between the People’s Republic of Kampuchea and the Socialis Republic of Vietnam), and the Supplemental treaty concluded in 2005 under a lot of protest, and arrest and jailing of (Cambodian) border activists, while other activists had to flee the country to find refuge abroad.
Khieu Kanharith, the government spokesman, claimed on Friday that the government welcomes Cambodian people from all quarters who want to observe during the start of the installation of border markers at the beginning of September.
3 comments:
To Ah Pler & Ah Pouch Chkout,
The innocent Khmer people had no choice but to acquiesce to Ah Pler Rotha-Pibal.
They and their family had to sign the border treaty agreement because of that mother fucker REACH-BA-LANGH. They did not even care a bit about Khmer race and the land.
To them, Khmer people can't even compare to the soles of their feet.
Ah Pouch Chkout!
The last border marker that supposed to be installed should be right into the mouth of Ah Khieu Kanharith.
I don't think the Cambodian people will feel any safe from the Vietcong snipers along Cambodian border even with the installation of border markers! How many innocence poor Cambodian people had been a victim or get killed by the Vietcong snipers along the Cambodian border?
Why AH KHIEU KANHARITH welcomes Cambodian people from all quarters who want to observe during the start of the installation of border markers at the beginning of September? Why? Why? Why? Does AH KHIEU KANHARITH want to validate the Vietcong illegal treaty of 1985 so bad? There are so many advance technology out there including the use Global Positioning System to verify every square inch of Cambodian land along the border and I don't think AH KHIEU KANHARITH will allowed the use of GPS to verify Cambodian land! So this mean all these Cambodian people from all quarters are just observing the installation of border markers with their forehead and not with their eyes and their intelligence!
AH KHIEU KANHARITH is taking Cambodian people for a sucker! Why not verify everything through the use of GPS and then install the border markers later? Stupid fuck!
One cannot TRUST the Vietcong, We have the MOST assinine government currently that don't have education pass grade school. How can Khmers be any safer when the government don't even protected its citizens when the VN came in to terrorize or torture us?
I have one solution! We need 1 gram of Botulin toxin for Hun Sen's clan. 1gram will wipe out 100,000 people, does Hun Sen have that much relative?
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