Thai protesters holding banners and shouting (Photo: Thailand news media)By Chiep Mony, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
24 June 2008
As Thai protesters arrived on the northern border, Cambodian authorities on Monday closed the gates to Preah Vihear temple, whose application for Unesco World Heritage protection has brought border anxieties between the neighbors to the fore.
Thai opposition politicians and activists accuse Thailand's foreign minister of hastily allowing the Cambodians to forward the application to Unesco, and over the weekend a group of protesters were outside the temple, requesting permission to enter.
Cambodia then closed the temple to all visitors, pending further notification.
The temple will be reopened when "the situation becomes good and no one is causing any more problems," said Var Kimhong, chairman of the government's border committee.
Thai opposition politicians and activists accuse Thailand's foreign minister of hastily allowing the Cambodians to forward the application to Unesco, and over the weekend a group of protesters were outside the temple, requesting permission to enter.
Cambodia then closed the temple to all visitors, pending further notification.
The temple will be reopened when "the situation becomes good and no one is causing any more problems," said Var Kimhong, chairman of the government's border committee.
7 comments:
THE WORLD COURT RULED PREAH VIHEAR BELONGS TO CAMBODIA IN 1962. WHAT IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM? HOW DARE YOU (THAI) DISOBEYED THE WORLD COURT! WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
SHUT IT DOWN PERMANENTLY. THIS WAY, THE THAI CAN'T USE IT. THUS, IT ALSO HELP PRESERVE THE TEMPLE FROM DETERIORATIONS. MAKE IT EXTERIOR AND AIRIAL VIEWS ONLY! ANYONE DISAGREE?
5:36 AM
King Norodom Sihanouk won Preah Viheah at international Court and why pourk Ah Peal, ah T'mat who curse the King don't at least know how to say Thankyou?
The PREAH VIHEAH IS RETURNED BUT POURK AH PEAL ARE DISGRACE, SO IT will go back to Thailand.
Pourk ah and mi peal of Cambodia are disgrace, now the spirit of the great King, King Suryavarman II works with his another people in Thailand, The King may want to be taken care by Thais.
Too ashamed for Cambodians, the masters of Peal and T'mat and T'mil.
Hey 6:59 AM, don't get too cocky just yet. You may be the ignorant one: Sihanouk as then head of state did not do Cambodia any favor. He simply got slapped in the face, woken up by many many Khmer patriots, intellectuals and elites (instead of playing music, chasing women and being a casanova) to say what it (Preah Vihear) had been already and righfully Khmer's. Got that? Do some research, will ya?
fyi 6:59 AM - Sihanouk later managed to destroy 99% if not all all those same patriots, intellectuals, and elites of Camboidia for the survival of his monarchy. Remember that!!! How old are you by the way? An old fart from Canada? France?
One Cambodian lad
7:19AM.
I feel sorry for you and Cambodian people.
For the record King Sihanouk won Preah Vihea back, and you cannot deny it.
There is no hope for Cambodia to have a good future, and I am sure every one who sees what I see, that most Cambodians are barbarians and stupid just like you.
7:30 AM, you're too old and You can't understand a damn thing, in one word, you're hopeless! Go join Sihanouk and his crews to play music, sing and....God only knows what..next!!! Bon voyage!
As for me I don't feel sorry for the Siam-Dog, because they are so hopeless retarded people. Right now as I see it Siam future is gloomy, with a king expert in coup d'Etat and a government that want to murder the king. Can we say that the Siam are stupid beyond hope???
Absolutely.
By the way if Khmer were barbarians, during the Angkorian era I think the Siam and the Youn would be wipe out of the surface of the earth. So you should be thankful for that.
hello 7:19 cambodian lad,you must be the comrade of the lon nol who was dump,stupid,and the power lover and the puppet of the murderous CIA.I wonder how you survived from the khmer rough? you must be the most coward comrade who so scare to stay close to the front line or either that you must be good at running for your life and also you must be a good ass kisser to survive from the khmer rough.I feel so sorry that the khmer rough did not finished you then.I am not a sihanukist but i know well enough that sihanouk was not the one to blame but the US and its CIA agent is.If you live in the states just ask any educated american about the cambodian genocidal war,they will tell you who was the real murderer of the khmer people.Thank god you are not the leader of cambodia,otherwise cambodia would by destroyed by people like you.
ALL KHMER LET STAND US ONE AND DEFEND OUR NATION AND DON'T LISTEN TO THIS 7:19 UNEDUCATED AND EASILLY CAN BE FOOLED BY OTHER LIKE MR7:19.GOD BLESS CAMBODIA AND ITS KHMER PEOPLE,THE YOUNG GENERATION OF THE KHMER EMPIRE.
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