Friday, January 18, 2008
Thanh Nien News (Hanoi)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kon Tum People's Committee unveiled the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia T-junction border column Thursday.
The two-meter high granite border column, which weighs nearly one ton, has been placed at border station 677 in Bo Y Commune, Ngoc Hoi District, Kon Tum Province in the Central Highlands.
The opening ceremony of Bo Y international border gate (Vietnam) which connects with Attapu international border gate (Laos) also took place Thursday.
The two-meter high granite border column, which weighs nearly one ton, has been placed at border station 677 in Bo Y Commune, Ngoc Hoi District, Kon Tum Province in the Central Highlands.
The opening ceremony of Bo Y international border gate (Vietnam) which connects with Attapu international border gate (Laos) also took place Thursday.
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The “Development Triangle” is a vast area of high plateaus and virgin forests covering approximately 120,400 square kilometers. With the exception of the provinces in Vietnam where the communist regime have already confiscated the ancestral lands of the Montagnards in the Central Highlands, deforested the area, and relocated several million people there; those provinces in Laos and Cambodia are sparsely populated, mainly with ethnic minorities, but were occupied by the Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.
This “so called development” of these provinces starts with building a “security” road network with the intent to deprive Montagnards fleeing repression in the Central Highlands of Vietnam of sanctuary among their distant relatives in Laos and Cambodia and in the UNHCR camps in Phnom Penh. Although claiming that the roads would increase tourism and commerce in these areas, the real reason is to create easy access for the growing Vietnamese population to migrate to and neo-colonize these provinces in Laos and Cambodia. Already, Vietnamese settlers are flooding Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri provinces in Cambodia occupying lands belonging to the local populations.
The Triangle occupies “an eminently strategic position on the political, economical, social, environmental and ecological levels” for the control of Laos, Cambodia by Hanoi. Japan and China are leading supporters of Vietnam’s expansionism.
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