July 18, 2008
By Chayanont Praneet
Daily Xpress, Si Sa Ket
Si Sa Ket governor says locals fighting to ply their trade in the temple area; PM hands problem over to Army, PAD
Two groups clashed yesterday over the Preah Vihear Temple, despite the prominent presence of police.
The incident left more than 10 people injured, some of them clearly bleeding.
On the one side were some 5,000 People's Alliance for Democracy supporters, who marching to the Preah Vihear Temple to announce that the temple belonged to Thailand in accordance with the demarcation set by a Thai-French committee in 1904.
On the other side of the clash, there were some 200 locals, most of them teenagers, and many of them drunk.
Following the scuffle, these youngsters ran into the forest.
The locals are suffering
Si Sa Ket Governor Senee Jittakasem says the local group was made up of people plying their trade in the area around the Preah Vihear Temple.
The temple has been closed to tourists since tensions between the two countries have been rising. At present, both Thai and Cambodian troops are being sent to man the area.
"Local people are suffering from this. Their trade, their livelihood, is hurt," Senee said yesterday, adding that PAD supporters had made it to the temple and made their announcement.
"They dispersed soon after," Senee said.
When asked about the tension along the Cambodian-Thai border, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said, "Ask the Army."
When pressed further, he said, "Ask the PAD."
Two groups clashed yesterday over the Preah Vihear Temple, despite the prominent presence of police.
The incident left more than 10 people injured, some of them clearly bleeding.
On the one side were some 5,000 People's Alliance for Democracy supporters, who marching to the Preah Vihear Temple to announce that the temple belonged to Thailand in accordance with the demarcation set by a Thai-French committee in 1904.
On the other side of the clash, there were some 200 locals, most of them teenagers, and many of them drunk.
Following the scuffle, these youngsters ran into the forest.
The locals are suffering
Si Sa Ket Governor Senee Jittakasem says the local group was made up of people plying their trade in the area around the Preah Vihear Temple.
The temple has been closed to tourists since tensions between the two countries have been rising. At present, both Thai and Cambodian troops are being sent to man the area.
"Local people are suffering from this. Their trade, their livelihood, is hurt," Senee said yesterday, adding that PAD supporters had made it to the temple and made their announcement.
"They dispersed soon after," Senee said.
When asked about the tension along the Cambodian-Thai border, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said, "Ask the Army."
When pressed further, he said, "Ask the PAD."
16 comments:
The PAD and the Thaicong military are on collision course with Cambodian army!
The Nation is the mouthpeice of the thai race, this newspaper is very baised.
KHMER USA
People seem to misunderstanding from the original news in Thailand, that PM Samak Sundaravej tried to say "Ask the Army", then "ask the PAD" when pressed further. He actually want to put those two groups to responsible for the tension. And why the editor in this site says different?
Please don't spark the war!
This is hilarious. In Thailand now the head of state is no longer the head. But the hand (the army) has become the head and it's about to swing wildly at the peaceful Khmer who had just crossed the hell "a moment ago". What is wrong with the so called "PAD"; Pathetic Attacking Devil?
becuase they put the hands on top of the head lol.. so need to chop their hands off
thai has took the wrong turn after the coup... they should have never done the coup
Samak is taking his revenge on the PAD and the army (of course the Siam king who is behind all this).
You guys are in pretty deep shit, do you know if Cambodia ask for the assistance of the UN, you will be in even more deeper shit???
The thai army junta blame the thais rak thais government for the trouble in the south and now the PAD ( the plaything of the army) are blaming the PPP government,
closed to the former Thais love Thais government, for the trouble at Preah Vihear.They are trying to
topple the government for the army.
Samak know that as per what his answer to the press for the trouble:ask the army,ask the PAD.
The Temple belongs to Issan Province before the French invasion, and it should be returned to Issan Province after the French were defeated, period.
oh dear, thailand is probably all about a show for their pad thugs are so ignorant and they really show it more and more each day of how ignorant most of their citizens are. and they only said that about cambodia in the past! i wonder how much longer can the whole world community be watching this whole drama right in front of us.
cambodia gov't should call on the world diplomatic community to have a serious talk with thailand gov't to see what is their problem that they don't tell us. their gov't should be held accountable for instigating hatred with cambodia. and they still want to do business in cambodia? how stupid of them can they be?
the khmer nation and her people had been through all types of hell in the past.From the 2 million plus bombs from b-52 of the usa to the civil war then to the murderious regime of pol pot then back to civil war again before ended with the un sponsored peace agreement in the 90's.Cambodian would never ever imagine about the war would be ignited again in the kingdom of cambodia.Cambodia had even built the twisted gun canon in the capital city to symbolise and let the whole world know that,cambodia had determined to end the war for good and gun is no longer needed in the kingdom of cambodia,especially,cambodian even destroyed a lot of sam missiles.Cambodia is only focus on developing her country that had left behind her beighbors for 30+ years.Cambodia and her people is fed up with wars.Every political parties in the kingdom is only interested in developing the kingdom,reduce poverty and improve her people welfare as per their main policy.Cambodia has had enjoyed a doubled digit grow in the economy with a lot of natural resources being found and explored.
HERE COME THE MOST UNFORTUNATED MOMRNT THAT CAMBODIA AND HER PEOPLE HAS TO COME ACROSS ONCE AGAIN.THE THAI,THEY ARE TRYING TO CREATE EVERY PROBLEM POSSIBLE TO SLOW DOWN OR STOP CAMBODIAN FROM MOVING FORWARD.THEY ARE ASKING FOR WAR THAT WE ALL KHMER HAD BEEN FED UP.WE ALL KHMERS IN EVERY CORNER OF THE WORLD MUST STAND UP AND SUPPORT OUR BRAVE ARM FORCE WHO HAD LITTLE WAGE BUT WILLING TO SACRIFFICE THEIR LIFE TO PROTECT OUR HOME LAND AND KHMER PEOPLE FOR THE GENERATION TO COME.WE ALL AT THE BACK LINE WILL SUPPORT YOU IN THE FRON LINE EVERY WAYS POSSIBLE.YES,THE THAI HAS ALL THE MODERN WEAPONS BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING AT ALL.ALL THAE F-16'S THEY HAD WILL RUN OUT OF BOMB IN THE MATTER OF 2 WEEKS,AND NO ONE IN THE WORLD WOULD SELL TO THEM AGAIN.ALL THE TANKS AND EQUIPMENT FOR THEIR GROUND FORCE WILL BE USELESS WHEN THEY USE THEM WITH KHMER SOLDIERS WHO HAD THE MOST EXPERIENCE IN THE BATTLE FIELD AND WHO EXPERTISE IN JUNGLE WARFARE.STAND UP KHMER AND UNITED,WE WILL WIN THIS WAR, IF BROKE OUT.
GOD BLESS ALL KHMER AND HER ARM FORCE
Cambodian got cursed from the people whom had been abuse during the King Era. That is why noway, Cambodia will be out of blue. Some thinks that FBI stationed in Cambodia will help to reduce a killing, or pounding on Hun Sen regim. My friends, they are wrong, they are there to support Mr. Hun to resurrect the Socio-political in Cambodia. So these's all will help Hun Sen more and more into his power. Also, Hun Sen has his spy to spot where the FBI go. If FBI go west, his spy will ruin east. Additionaly, if the Preah Vihea problem will be solved peacefully, the victory will be to Hun Sen. I think he just born to be famors. Good deeds or bad deeds he still lead the county. So guys, stop insulting him, so you will be feeling good. and if you follow him, you will have another beautiful Vietcong wife..that will be tasty. So stop abusing yourself.
Khmer Nationalist
I agree that Bangkok Post and The Nations news are unfair and unneutral. They are making thier value down in the through of international community.
Never forgive to Thais forever, eventhough the situation is better. I am really hate Thais until I die.
Khmer people have to rethink with Thais and not doing or relating with them in any purposes.
That is fine with Thailand because they don't like robbers who steal the temple from the Khmer People in Issan Province.
There is not such thing called Issan province. It is the north-eastern region in Thailand. Are you Khmer from Si Sa Ket province? If so, go and help stop the demonstrators near the border. Can you speak Khmer? Your province is the poorest province in Thailand. You need our temple to economically survive. I understand that is why you want the temple badly. Don't worry, even though the temple belong to us, we will share with you in terms of tourists money. But first you have to stop the stupid Thais from claiming that the temple belongs to them. Use your brain, if you have one, to make sense of things nowadays. Things that happens centuries are histories. If you really want to talk about history, half of Thailand belongs to Khmer Kings. If you don't realize this, your may be of a side of a penut, which is smaller than those of monkies guarding the temple.
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thais are racist
Wisarut
11-03-06, 10:54 PM
Anti-Thaksin, anti-Singapore, the swell grows
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
Asia Time (English veersion of Manager Daily in Hongkong)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HC07Ae02.html
BANGKOK - Singaporeans living in Thailand or visiting as tourists may have reason to feel nervous at the manner in which their affluent city-state is portrayed in the increasingly bitter political debate that has engulfed Bangkok.
Three anti-government demonstrations in February, which attracted thousands of largely middle-class Thais, offered glimpses of this hostile sentiment towards Southeast Asia's
richest country - although to date there have been no reports of attacks against Singaporean nationals.
"Welcome to Thailand: The Second Branch of Singapore," read one of the less provocative banners held by the demonstrators at one public rally. During these rallies, all a speaker has to do is castigate Singapore as a nation trying to buy its way into Thailand and the crowds roar in agreement.
Singapore as the scapegoat has its antecedents in a deal, made public late January, between Shin Corp, a telecommunications conglomerate founded by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and Temasek, the investment arm of the Singapore government.
Shin Corp was sold to Temasek by the Shinawatra family, which ran the company after Thaksin shifted from being billionaire tycoon to running the government, in a deal which fetched family shareholders US$1.85 billion in cash. Typical of Thai stock market transactions, no taxes were paid on the transaction.
Almost immediately, a bout of Singapore-bashing began to manifest itself in sections of the Thai-language media. "Our country has become a colony of Singapore," wrote a columnist in the January 25 edition of Kom Chad Luek, one of Thailand's leading local language dailies.
There even was a hint of anti-Chinese racism in the editorial. ''We should be aware of the danger from the black-haired and small-eyed foreigners. "We won't have anything left over the next few years because those black-haired and small-eyed foreigners came to be involved in every single policy in Thailand."
The warning that rising hostility against Thaksin could also be directed towards Singapore manifested itself in February during protests by a group of activists in front of the Singapore Embassy in Bangkok, calling on Temasek to cancel the deal.
Thailand's English-language newspapers have drawn attention to "xenophobia" and the "anti-foreigner" sentiment in articles reflecting the mood of a city angry at the Shinawatra family. Shin Corp owned key sectors of Thailand's economy, most notably telecommunications, which critics have indicated should remain in Thai hands for national security reasons. This week, the leader of Thailand's opposition Democrat Party, Abhisit Vejjajiva, told journalists at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand that there were important national security issues that raised concerns about the deal. He added, though, that "most Thais do not want us, as a nation, to slip into that kind of nationalism".
"If Temasek cooperates [in making known the conditions of the Shin Corp sale], I don't see why there would be a reason for resentment to be directed at Singaporeans," he said. So far, though, Temasek has withheld details about the US$1.85 billion deal.
The Shin Corp deal is only one of the many issues that have angered the government's critics, which have recently found expression through a series of massive rallies. The Thaksin administration is also being charged with corruption and financial irregularities, intimidating the media and undermining independent institutions set up to check the power of the government.
A grouping of anti-Thaksin people have formed the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) , which on Sunday called for a large-scale display of civil disobedience in the campaign to unseat the premier. They have set up camp in a park near Government House, which will be the target of ongoing rallies and demonstrations.
Anti-Thaksin campaign leader Sondhi Limthongkul said the protesters would not budge until Thaksin resigned. Thaksin has called elections for April, two years ahead of schedule, but the opposition parties have decided to boycott them.
The PAD, which organized a massive rally on Sunday, has stopped short of endorsing or opposing a petition for a royally-appointed prime minister, lodged by people related to the royal family, senators, academics and other prominent figures.
Tied to Singapore
Singapore is currently Thailand's second-largest investor after Japan. In 2004, its investments were estimated at $600 million. The portfolio includes banks, blue-chip property development and shares in the hospital and hotel sectors - many purchased in the wake of Thailand's 1997 financial collapse. The largest stockbroker in Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission is a Singaporean entity, Kim Eng Securities.
Foreigner-bashing is not new to Thailand. In the wake of the 1997 financial crisis, there was plenty of anti-foreigner finger-pointing by the Thai middle class that lasted up to 1999, when the Thai economy started to recover.
Foreigners - largely Westerners - were faulted for creating the conditions that led to the Thai economy's collapse, including Western currency traders and hedge funds speculating against the Thai baht.
In the early 1970s, the target was the Japanese. In the vanguard were university students enraged at Thailand's trade deficit with Japan and the latter's dominance of the local economy. The students called for a boycott of Japanese goods, a Japanese-owned gym was attacked and, most dramatically, hundreds of students surrounded the hotel where the then Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka was staying, and chanted anti-Japanese slogans. Today Japan is the largest investor in Thailand, with over 1,100 different Japanese companies operating here.
Ironically, Thaksin earlier leveraged that anti-foreign sentiment to his political advantage when he set up his Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thai) party in 1998 and rode a nationalistic wave to electoral victory in January 2001, the beginning of his first term in office.
On taking office, Thaksin implemented new limits on the number of foreign consultants state entities were allowed to hire and revised the terms of engagement with Japanese contractors working on the new airport that required 80% of the building materials they used be sourced in Thailand.
"Thaksin is now at the receiving end of this Thai nationalist streak after selling Shin Corp," said David Streckfuss, a US academic specializing in Thai political culture. "The Singaporeans are the unfortunate targets of this feeling that foreigners cannot protect and represent the interest of Thais."
(Inter Press Service with additional reporting by Asia Times Online
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