Villagers near Preah Vihear temple carry away goods donated by the Royal Palace Tuesday.By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
22 July 2008
Cambodia continued diplomatic efforts to end a tense military build-up on the Thai border Tuesday, calling a meeting with around 50 diplomats in Phnom Penh and pushing the UN's cultural body for assistance.
Addressing a meeting of foreign ambassadors, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said Tuesday that "Thailand, by using their own map, drawn by themselves very recently, [claimed] many parts of the border between the two countries."
"This [is] a very serious threat to our independence and territorial integrity," he said. "We have an obligation to resort to the UN Security Council."
At least 4,000 troops from both sides have amassed near the border at Preah Vihear temple, along with armored vehicles and artillery. The Royal Palace sent donations of foodstuffs and
tarpaulin shelters to villagers and soldiers near Preah Vihear Tuesday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday invoked Preah Vihear temple's minted Unesco World Heritage status in a bid to resolve what he called an "unwarranted act of aggression" by Thailand.
"As of 21 July 2008, the situation has escalated further due to the movement of Thai artillery and armored combat vehicles into the area and the continuing increase of heavily armed Thai soldiers inside and around the Keo Sikha Kiri Svara pagoda…near the Temple of Preah Vihear," Hun Sen wrote in a letter asking assistance of Unesco Director General Koichiro Matsuura.
The US, meanwhile, called on both sides "to act in a very restrained and responsible manner."
"What is clear is that both sides need to resolve this in a peaceful and legal manner, and so far they are doing so," US Ambassador Joseph Mussomeli told reporters after the diplomatic meeting with Hor Namhong.
Thai and Cambodian commanders have said their soldiers are under control and the situation is stable, but Mussomeli called the build-up of troops along the border "very worrisome."
"We have suggested to both sides that the troops should not be augmented, that more troops are always a dangerous thing, that when you have that many young men with that many weapons in that close a proximity, there's always a danger of violence, and so it would be better for the troops to not be so close to each other," he said. "That just makes common sense."
Addressing a meeting of foreign ambassadors, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said Tuesday that "Thailand, by using their own map, drawn by themselves very recently, [claimed] many parts of the border between the two countries."
"This [is] a very serious threat to our independence and territorial integrity," he said. "We have an obligation to resort to the UN Security Council."
At least 4,000 troops from both sides have amassed near the border at Preah Vihear temple, along with armored vehicles and artillery. The Royal Palace sent donations of foodstuffs and
tarpaulin shelters to villagers and soldiers near Preah Vihear Tuesday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday invoked Preah Vihear temple's minted Unesco World Heritage status in a bid to resolve what he called an "unwarranted act of aggression" by Thailand.
"As of 21 July 2008, the situation has escalated further due to the movement of Thai artillery and armored combat vehicles into the area and the continuing increase of heavily armed Thai soldiers inside and around the Keo Sikha Kiri Svara pagoda…near the Temple of Preah Vihear," Hun Sen wrote in a letter asking assistance of Unesco Director General Koichiro Matsuura.
The US, meanwhile, called on both sides "to act in a very restrained and responsible manner."
"What is clear is that both sides need to resolve this in a peaceful and legal manner, and so far they are doing so," US Ambassador Joseph Mussomeli told reporters after the diplomatic meeting with Hor Namhong.
Thai and Cambodian commanders have said their soldiers are under control and the situation is stable, but Mussomeli called the build-up of troops along the border "very worrisome."
"We have suggested to both sides that the troops should not be augmented, that more troops are always a dangerous thing, that when you have that many young men with that many weapons in that close a proximity, there's always a danger of violence, and so it would be better for the troops to not be so close to each other," he said. "That just makes common sense."
21 comments:
We Thai, should take over the Khmer people and put them under our colony for ten of thousand of years rather than let them become vietnamese. We Thai should prepare all the fighting forces to invade the Khmer just as quick as the vietnam had invaded them, and took all the gooddy from them now rather than later. The Khmer are now rich enough to invade once more time. We Thai must do before the vietnam do it again.
Bhumibunn Krisak
4:23am
you are fucked up in the head.. loser!! let the children shit on your head , cuz you can't think better than them.
what a disgrace name "Bhumibunn Krisak" . you are not worthy in this world. You shall rest under my feet.
Khmer koh kong
Everyone know the French is a robber, and their map is no difference. Thai map should be used in this case. They know what belongs to them and they know what belong to Cambodia. So long they don't include the entire Cambodia in the map, it should be okay.
In your dream, Bhumibunn Krisak. LOL. Keep living in your fantasy. Then, call a doctor when you wake up.
You Thais will be running home to your mama, when those Khmer Rouge soldiers finished with you. They have 30 years of experiences. What have you got?
America superior weapons did not win their war. So don't be too hopefull with your weapons. It is the will to keep on fighting that win war no matter what the cause. Are you lazy Thais ready?
4:23am,
This day you cannot invade another country because is the world had
International law. That is why the world had United Nations.
And United Nations they had their own army.
Thailand is the country must respect the International law.
And you Thai people must respect Thailand law. If you invade your neighbor
home the law will put you in jail, is that simple.
I am a Thai and I dont agree with this Thai above who is stilll dreaming of carrying on with ancient tactic of invading neighbors and robbing their lands. I have many good Khmer friends. I have come to understand why they had grieveances against the Thai. We Thai have got more from the Khmer for the last 700 years, not the other way round.
About time we Thai learn to grow up and act as a civilized human society.
I know the thai government do not scare or afraid of khmers. They scare and afraid the vietname invader of cambodia and laos. The thai government is doing this right now, war with cambodia, because they want to test their neighbor to see how the vietname invader in both countries react to them. The thai will has no choice either going to war with cambodia right now or later. There are different between war now and later. War now mean better position for thai because there so many people in both cambodia and laos don't like the occupied vietnames invader. But if they wait, they are going to lose the war. The solution to this is there should be a condition and laws that prohibit to have any occpied force among their neighbor. The way it's now there will be war unavoidable.
don't be too much presumptuous, you, the Thai thieves.
Though your soldiers are very well equipped, your unable for decades to handle the insurgency of the small group of Malays or to win the 1986 war with Lao which made your country ashame of your pretended great soldiers.
May be you will win the battles, but you won't win the war. And for 1 skinny soldier khmer rouge killed, we swear to have your your fat soldiers ten and will make you terribly suffer as the Malays have been doing to you.
REMEMBER THAT!
More bullshits, no monkey in Cambodia can ever win any war or battle. They always lost everything in the end and cry like a little baby as usual.
ICJ is a joke to steal the temple from the Khmer people in Issan Province based on some dumb French Colonial treaty instead of the truth. If that is not corrupted, I don't know what is?
5:05
are you retarded ? has the vietnamese army moved into cambodia territory like the Thai? In fact, they ractified ASEAN charter. only Thailand didn't. only the Thai uneducated like you think like that.
The Fench map is the legitimate one accepted by your fuckin dumb siam king. Much bettehr than the one you draw up last week and showed at the meeting, torn to pieces by the Khmer team in fron t of you !!!! and one of your general had to apologise for usingthe fraudulent map drawn by the fuckin robbers.
If you don't know you are a thief, I don't what will ?
and olny the retarded thai who doesn't respect the law and blinded nationalist think like that ... the French was doing their jobs. that is to provide justice and the truth to the rightfull owner.
To Bhumibunn Krisak
Please invade Cambodia as soon as you can because Khmer people can't wait to welcome the Thaicong army with the bullets, the bombs, and the million of landmines beneath the Thaicong feet!
Welcome the Thaicong to hell!
The fact is that some stupid thai they want us to go down ... becuz they afraid of us ..even kids think so ... they don't want us to rise .. becuz once we become more developed and our army become stronger... they afraid that they would pi in their pants. Please , be a man!! coward. you know that we are weaker than you , right now. if you not afraid why don't you wait untill we match! ah coward thai.
8:16, the French were doing illegal job by invading Indochina, just like the Japanese did. If you are going to honored the French's illegal treaty, you should honored the Japanese illegal treaty as well.
No, King Ang Duong asked the French to come and help us get back our lands from your fuckin siam robbers. They were our master at the time doing their job.
Fucking prince fraudster damrong who were so fucking dumb to read anything shown in front of them, it just signed it. To me it ( the prince)understood at the time, but as usual it pretended to fliplop realising it had better stolen more khmer lands to the max.
I am a khmer citizen,i have been reading the comments in here very often.It is so interesting to know that,until this day,thailand is obviously still living in the past and had lot of low educated citizens and brainless leaders.Their economy is unarguable pretty good,maybe because of the chinese.What thailand leaders can not accept and their people did not have a clue about is,THAILAND IS ALREADY LOSE BEFORE THE WAR IS EVEN STARTED.Interestingly,what i could not believe is that,cambodia that just escaped from the killing field with a low educated leadership,but they are smart enough to attack thailand at every front possible very hard,before going to a hot war,that make thailand so difficult to defend.The most important fronts that cambodia attack are,UN,UNSC,ASIAN AND UNESCO.So far thailand is retreating from all those fronts.Once cambodian win in those fronts cambodia will win the war at every battle with thailand,furthermore,cambodia will have no problem in weapon resupply.this is a very smart move from the cambodian leaders.How about thailand??thailand leaders are so ashame or not smart enough to accept this fact and their people are too dump to be aware what is going to cost thailand.Thailand will have no choice ,if war erupted,but to minimize the usage of their weaponry stock,because most likely they won't be able to resupply their ammunitions very easily due to the un arm embargo on them.Cambodia now is so confident and had gone always to the unsc and the unesco,if the unsc has to follow the legal procedure,cambodia will most likely get all her border line according to the 1907-1908 treaty.and cambodia may need only one stone to get not two birds,but many.Cambodia had never ever afraid of the thai and their superior weapons and we are ready to fight the thai at any given time,unlike 50 years ago that cambodia had problem recruiting more men due to the nation was less populous,not now.I strongly suggest that,once cambodia win and gain all the international support,cambodia should give thailand a given time to withdraw all their troop out of cambodia or face a fatal consequences.PROUD TO BE KHMER,LOVE KHMER AND HATE THAI & khmer issan.
Hey, It's ridiculous.. that you (Siam) drawn the map by yourself and claimed that there are many parts of the border btw the two countries.
Hey YOU, don't you feel ashame of claiming other area is belong to you while everyone know clearly that it's belong to Cambodia as well as the world heritage site... You born just to take other land and claim that it's yours?
You are so dumb! I tell you something "the Border cannot move here and there like what you want". You have to accept the truth. You have to respect the UN rule and UN's decision. We need to resolve it peacefuly and legally.
GV
Well, we didn't stop you from participating in the map drawing. You are welcome anytime. I am sure we can work thing out ourself as brothers.
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