Friday, July 04, 2008

NCSC scraps Thai Embassy protest, security boosted

Friday, 04 July 2008
Touch Yuthea
The Mekong Times


The National Culture and Social Morality Center (NCSC) on Thursday cancelled a planned protest in front of Phnom Penh’s Thai Embassy. Security was stepped up at the embassy the same day, with military policemen and a fire truck standing at the ready.

“I would like to apologize to Cambodian compatriots, especially supporters who want to march to urge the Thai government and its left-wing opposition party to respect the International Court of Justice’s 1962 ruling that Preah Vihear belonged to Cambodia,” NCSC President Po Samnang wrote in an open statement. “I pray the Cambodian government will win victory in registration of the temple as a World Heritage Site. The government’s decision to get the temple protected is right.”

Despite a planned NCSC protest with 3,000 to 5,000 demonstrators, police were outnumbered by reporters and photographers Thursday.

Municipal Police Chief Touch Naroth said police have been deployed to guard the Thai Embassy “to avoid demonstrations carried by a handful of people [in 2003] against the embassy and [which could] cost Cambodia millions of US dollars.”

The Thai embassy was burnt down in 2003 during anti-Thai riots that followed false rumors a Thai actress had claimed Angkor Wat temple was Thai. Cambodia has vowed that such violence will not be repeated.

Police officials accompanied by a fire truck will now protect the embassy around the clock, Touch Naroth said, as well as protecting Thai residents.

A Thai embassy staff member claimed to be unaware of upgraded security Thursday, noting that external security is the responsibility of the Cambodian authorities. The Thai Embassy has yet to issue any formal advice to Thai nationals in Cambodia.

Although AFP reported “riot police” had been stationed outside the embassy Thursday, the police on guard appeared to be Interior Ministry and military police with standard equipment.

The Cambodian government would not tolerate “anti-government elements,” Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said Thursday, according to DPA.

“These are anti-government groups, so we will treat it as a domestic matter. Thailand tries to help Cambodia so we should not confuse this issue,” Kanharith said.

“We should stay calm, because whatever happens, it is not in dispute that Preah Vihear temple belongs to Cambodia,” he said, adding that Hun Sen had spoken to his Thai counterpart Samak Sundaravej about the issue, and relations between the governments were very cordial.

Khieu Kanharith blamed the political opposition for trying to inflame the issue.

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An is currently in Canada arguing for the temple to be World Heritage listed – something some Thai senators have objected to, saying it should be jointly managed.

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

“These are anti-government groups, so we will treat it as a domestic matter. THAILAND TRIES TO HELP CAMBODIA,” Kanharith said. WHY? MAY BE IN EXCHANGE, BLOOTHIRSTY,BRAINLESS, ILL BRED, UNEDUCATED HUNXEN GIVES THAILAND 250,000 square metres of surrounding area OF PREAH VIHEAR.
These traitor,lackey YUON SiAM always serve and protect the interest of imperialist YUON an SIAM to the prejudice of Khmer people.
REMOVE THEM BY VOTING AND GIVING DONATION FOR THE PARTY THAT PROTECT OUR PEOPLE AND OUR NATIONAL INTEREST.
CHEYO SAM RAINSY!
DOWN WITH ETERNAL DAMNED COMMUNIST HUN XEN, HIS FAMILY AND HIS CLIQUE FOR MAKING OUR BELOVED KHMER SUFFER


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Anonymous said...

We (Khmer in Issan) should ask our government to team up with Laos and Vietnam to apply economic sanction against the French (Ah Fake Karmen) in Cambodia, then watch them kill each other over triple digits inflation.

Anonymous said...

Call for Boycott thief SIAM PRODUCT!

Anonymous said...

Dear belove khmer patriot,
let stand up to fight cowardice thailand,
recently, the Preah Vihear temple's issues is the hot issues between our country and thailand, we are (khmer people) should take this chance and opportunity to kick the cowardice thai government and thai people out of the international community throught holding a largest and bigest demostration in both cambodia capital (Phnom Penh) and oversea such as USA, Canada, austrailia, others country in the world in order to show the world, international community that thai government and thai people are the nations that always cowardice and cruel peoples in the world who always interfer other neightbourhood countries like us.let we wake up and stand up to protect our country and territory.
regards,
People power (PNP)

Anonymous said...

8:07 PM

Boycott the bastard Thai -- the bastard Vietnamese benefits.


Also, we must ensure that the Vietnamese does not launch a preemptive strike to precipitate a conflagration thus allow them to capitalize during a time of conflict.

Anonymous said...

The temple belongs to Khmer people in Cambodia, not French, Malay, ..., or Korean in Cambodia who pretend to be Khmer.

Anonymous said...

Correction: The temple belongs to Khmer people in Issan Province, Thailand, not French, Malay, ..., or Korean in Cambodia who pretend to be Khmer.

Anonymous said...

Wow, thai dancer dance like prostitute in BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7489601.stm

Anonymous said...

7:40PM. You are purely ah Youn Spy. Stop pretending further, people today are too smart for you to play shit online.

GO ahead ah Kantorb sanction your motherfucker. Don't you know ah Kantorb have no comment culture with Siam, Lao and Khmers, ah Chinese slave.

Anonymous said...

Stop embarrassing yourself before the world, dude (10:44). Everybody knows you calling people name only to hide your disguise.

Anonymous said...

Look these guys. See what thai people say recently regarding the temple:

http://www.prachatai.com/english/news.php?id=686

http://www.prachatai.com/english/news.php?id=690

http://bangkokpundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-legal-basis-for-thai-sovereignity.html

Anonymous said...

"In a nutshell, the Preah Vihear Temple once belonged to Siam from the reign of the Ayutthaya King Chao Sam Phraya onwards because of the Siamese victory over the Khmer Kingdom. But Bangkok’s King Rama V returned it to France who colonized Lao and Cambodia. If there ever was a loss of Siamese territory, the land was lost since 1907, as the ICJ made its ruling in line with the Franco-Siamese Treaty." -- http://www.prachatai.com/english/news.php?id=690

There you go, nothing said that the temple was returned to Cambodia. It clearly stated France, and France is no longer here, thus it must be returned to Khmer people in Issan.

The Japanese did it when they left. So there is no reason why it can't be done here.

Anonymous said...

3;00am are you kidding yourself ah lob are you NUT? You wanted Cambodian to read your site?
You born retarded or you might infected with HIV or Aids because your country is the first resource of that contagious disease so why ?The reason you gave us that is stupid comment ,you must be a liar you son of the bitch low live thief, in your thieves people said whatever you wanted sometimes you have claimed Ankor Wat belong to your criminal bad blood Thai too but I tell you direct ,since the international court it won’t fool and think fool like your criminal bad blood born Thai ,they returned the Preah Vihear to khmer in 1962 but you and your people have never intend Cambodia living in the peaceful way so you just try to make up the bullshit story to fool your people not us so please draw the line between the reality and fake story to create the matter in that region, I am telling you khmer this day is not weak and easy to pick on like before, so let try and go ahead try it.
During that war my father had joined the battle to get Preah Vihear this time is my time to shed the blood the Thai thieves to show the world that Cambodian not too easy to pick on like the past.
Go down bad blood Thai kapik=shrimp paste

Anonymous said...

cambodia, just ignore the siem thugs as they tried very hard to instigate cambodia. also, nobody in their right minds would care much about whatever siem criminals like them are saying anyway. it is just their way of relieving their depression by picking on cambodia. we all know what icj and probably unesco and other UN body are thinking of them in a different way from them. god bless cambodia.

Anonymous said...

Suit yourself, 4:06, if you want to die with a delusion the you defeated the Thai arm force and took the temple from us by your military might. The truth is there were no such thing. It was all fairy tale.

Anonymous said...

6:08AM Once again time to fix your brain ,what you mean shit about your armforce? You are crazy son of the Thai bitch,you think you can strech your self very thin? Do not fool foo ,your armforce just keep along Burma 's border and Malasia 's border? You are play with the fire fool,you think ah kvak my prime minister won't call the viet to back him ? What a dream

Anonymous said...

Ooooooo, we're soooo scared of Ah Kvack the Karmen Prime Minister. We're all shaken here!

Ah French idiot, if you are smart, you should unconditionally surrender the temple back to the Khmer people in Issan and get your arse our of our province.

Anonymous said...

dog@8.32am
you are barking to your Shit king because he is also Kwaak. Haha
He is nearly die and let he die peacefully or... you need to ask Islamic militant to blow in his palace?...OOOOOooooooooooooo

Anonymous said...

Well, no one can live forever, but he will always be in all our heart, unlike your gay infidel king, unfortunately.

Anonymous said...

Well,
one man can choose to have wife ot not. this is his right and also our beloved king. If you say our king is gay you also look down to Ho Chiminh who never get married and is the only hero in Vietnamese heart forever.

Ha, your country have alot of Ktoeuy, may be your king had tried to have sex with them. OOOOOOoooooo shit king

Anonymous said...

Ho Chi Minh got married many times all over the world, fool. Hes not like your gay infidel king. So don't even compare.

Anonymous said...

8:37PM

Ho Chi Minh is like rabbit he got kids all over the world.

I didn't know infidel Ho with his tiny dick was that efficient.

So he didn't just plan to invade South East Asia but the whole world!

He had big plan with his tiny dick!

Anonymous said...

Stop dreaming, Chairman Ho Chi Minh did not invade anyone. All he did was liberated Indochina from your infidel protectorate.