Original report from Phnom Penh
03 July 2008
Phnom Penh dispatched extra riot police to protect the Thai Embassy in the capital Thursday, following reports of demonstrations over Preah Vihear temple.
More than 20 police in green tactical uniforms, armed with rifles and pistols, stood guard along the embassy's perimeter and in front of its gates on Norodom Boulevard Thursday afternoon.
Phnom Penh Police Chief Touch Naroth said the extra police were deployed at the request of the embassy.
The Unesco's World Heritage Committee is to decide on the temple's protection status during meetings underway in Canada, but the Thai government this week pulled its endorsement of the application.
A 1962 International Court decision claimed the temple belongs to Cambodia, but the surrounding borderlands are still under dispute, and Thai opposition groups have held protests of an initial Thai government endorsement of Cambodia's bid.
"This is also our duty, to safeguard this embassy," Touch Naroth said. "We learned that some NGO plans to hold a demonstration at the Thai Embassy, so we deployed our police, because we experienced the government having to compensate the Thai government after riots destroyed the Thai Embassy."
Anti-Thai demonstrations in 2003 led to the sacking and burning of the Thai Embassy and other Thai businesses in Phnom Penh, following unsubstantiated rumors that a Thai actress claimed Angkor Wat belonged to Thailand.
"The police will be deployed until safety is fully guaranteed," Touch Naroth said.
One policeman at the embassy said Thursday the embassy was guarded 24 hours per day.
Phnom Penh officials meanwhile denied a request for a local organization to hold a demonstration in Phnom Penh.
The National Culture and Moral Center, which delivered a letter of support for the temple's World Heritage bid to the Council of Ministers Thursday, will postpone a demonstration, due to the election period, Po Samnang, president of the group, said.
The center supports the efforts of the government on Preah Vihear issues, the letter to the Council of Ministers said, and opposes any attempt of Thai "extremists" who do not respect an international court ruling giving the temple to Cambodia.
Po Samnang told reporters Thursday his group had applied to hold demonstrations, but the municipality forbid them.
Po Samnang said Thursday he would put himself legally and personally responsible for demonstrators, to ensure no rioting took place.
The National Culture and Moral Center was started in 1992, he said, and has no political affiliations.
More than 20 police in green tactical uniforms, armed with rifles and pistols, stood guard along the embassy's perimeter and in front of its gates on Norodom Boulevard Thursday afternoon.
Phnom Penh Police Chief Touch Naroth said the extra police were deployed at the request of the embassy.
The Unesco's World Heritage Committee is to decide on the temple's protection status during meetings underway in Canada, but the Thai government this week pulled its endorsement of the application.
A 1962 International Court decision claimed the temple belongs to Cambodia, but the surrounding borderlands are still under dispute, and Thai opposition groups have held protests of an initial Thai government endorsement of Cambodia's bid.
"This is also our duty, to safeguard this embassy," Touch Naroth said. "We learned that some NGO plans to hold a demonstration at the Thai Embassy, so we deployed our police, because we experienced the government having to compensate the Thai government after riots destroyed the Thai Embassy."
Anti-Thai demonstrations in 2003 led to the sacking and burning of the Thai Embassy and other Thai businesses in Phnom Penh, following unsubstantiated rumors that a Thai actress claimed Angkor Wat belonged to Thailand.
"The police will be deployed until safety is fully guaranteed," Touch Naroth said.
One policeman at the embassy said Thursday the embassy was guarded 24 hours per day.
Phnom Penh officials meanwhile denied a request for a local organization to hold a demonstration in Phnom Penh.
The National Culture and Moral Center, which delivered a letter of support for the temple's World Heritage bid to the Council of Ministers Thursday, will postpone a demonstration, due to the election period, Po Samnang, president of the group, said.
The center supports the efforts of the government on Preah Vihear issues, the letter to the Council of Ministers said, and opposes any attempt of Thai "extremists" who do not respect an international court ruling giving the temple to Cambodia.
Po Samnang told reporters Thursday his group had applied to hold demonstrations, but the municipality forbid them.
Po Samnang said Thursday he would put himself legally and personally responsible for demonstrators, to ensure no rioting took place.
The National Culture and Moral Center was started in 1992, he said, and has no political affiliations.
28 comments:
What a bunch of fagots? If they must protest, why don't they just come to the Issan province and do it. We'll even pick up the transportation cost.
hmmm. Maybe because we're not as stupid as you are.
it is the siem thugs who created the problems for themselves. let me ask thailand a dumb question: why do you people want to steal cambodia's preah vihear temple and uses all kind of illegal excuses to try to steal it from cambodia? it's not yours and will never be! not in this life time or any other life time! so just respect that and there will not be any riots against you thugs!! god bless cambodia!
No, the thugs are you greedy French people who try to steal our (Khmer-Issan) temple.
Thais are the faggots. Tell your lady boys to protest in front of the cambodian senate. We will pay for the transportation fees.
Cambodian Senate? What are they? The untouchable? Oooooooo we're sooooo scared!
5:21 AM,,Ach Anh. Who is french?, your f***ing idiot. Don't get confused yourself. Kadou Ma Kong Kak.
Preah Vihear belongs to Cambodia!
Preah Vihear belongs to Cambodia!
Preah Vihear belongs to Cambodia!
Preah Vihear belongs to Cambodia!
No, preah viharn did not belong to khmen in cAMBODIA period.It belong to the rightful owners the khmers issan or the famed Angkorwat and preah viharn builders.Khmen in Cambodia were not capable of building anything in that scale.They were not pure race.They were mixed with variety of every nationalities like yuon,chineses,cham,lao ,hmongs etc....They are all screw up people.
True, but don't say they were mixed with easterners (Yuon, Cham, or Chinese,...). That will give us a bad name. They are more mixed with Indian and French, and they know it too. Just do a DNA test on their King, and the truth will tell it all.
8:16, stop playing dumbo here. You know fair well who is French. When was the last time you saw your king wrote anything in Khmer?
Oh Really, idiot 9:41 AM
9:54 AM
I saw Sihanouk wrote something in Khmer 3 days ago at 7:35:32 PM to be exact!!!
To be exact that was not the last time, 2 days later he wrote in Khmer again. Sorry I couldn't remember the exact time though.
Hahahaha...!!!
Cretin give me break with your stupid comment.
9:41 AM
My female Rottweiler is pure blood also do you want to breed with her.
You can start another super race, something like Siam-Rottweil from the Issan.
The Temple belongs to Cambodia not Thailand. Where ever Angkor Wat stays Preah Vihear stays with. Because the same King built those Temples.
Khmers in Issan now are Thais, then tough luck.
International court voted for Cambodia./FIN
These khmer Issan have big bains filled with holes of Thai blood. They can not make sense anything. That is why some of them are beautiful boys (khmer female + thai male). Many thais are mixed the barangs. Go to bangkok we'll see because the barangs like bbk girls and the king families.
Khmer Issan! if you want a share of the temple, go and kick the thai king the hell of thailand and change the name to Khmerland. But, first you have to study Khmer language.
ALL ISSAN PEOPLE ARE LAOTIAN ORIGIN,NOT KHMER.THERE IS NO SUCH THING KHMER-ISSAN.KHMER IN THAILAND CALL THEMSELVE KHMER-WAREN WHILE KHMER KANDAL CALL THEM KHMER SURIN.THERE IS A THAI-ISSAN THOUGH,THEY HAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CLOTHING FROM THE KHMER IN THAILAND.THAI-ISSAN ARE THE LAOTIAN ORIGINTHAT WHY THEIR TRADITION AND LANGAUGE ARE VERY CLOSE TO LAOTIAN AND THE HMONG.THIS THAI-CHIN GUY WHO MADE THE COMMENTS IN HERE IS JUST TRYING TO FOOL US.WE KHMER SHOULD NOT FALL INTO HIS PLAN TO GET US KHMER HATE EACH OTHER.GO TO YOUTUBE,YOU WILL FIND OUT WHO ARE THE REAL ISSAN PEOPLE.NICE TRY MR. THAI-CHIN,AND GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND LEARN A LITTLE MORE ABOUT YOUR OWN COUNTRY PEOPLE RACE IN EACH PART OF THAILAND.
From a real khmer surin,but now in USA.
I WONDER WHY ALL THAI MOVIE MAIN CHARACTOR ARE NOT LOOK LIKE THAI??THEY LOOK LIKE ARAB AND WESTERNER,WHY??ARE THESE ARABS AND WESTERNERS SEX TOURIST EVER USE CONDOMS WITH THAI PROSTITUTES????
OH!!!MAYBE THE REAL THAI FROM CHINA ARE TOO UGLY OR TOO POOR AND STUPID TO BE QUALIFY AS A MOVIE STAR????
They but they are not as bad as the French and Indian pretend to be Khmer in Cambodia.
So true, there are too many infidels disguise as Khmer in Cambodia. Just look at their King, hahahaha....
7:52PM....Sure, but our king posts his picture as he looks. Your dying King posts his 30 years old picture so that he can look a bit more like the offspring of the English woman, ANNA. Look at his daughter. She is even worst than thai prostitute I slept with.
And you. You sound like you are a thai-muslim, in the south. Don't you hate the thai king too?
Yeah, but your infidel king is gay, and we can't have that rule the Khmer Empire, can we?
Oh ah kantop 1:00AM. You will be dead by lightening. Do Mae ah.me cong Cho.
1:00 AM
What is this: French, infidels, gay king, khmer issan...
Do you have shit instead of brain in your skull???
You have a logic of a two years old kid!!!
Well, two years old logic is still ahead of you by thousands of light years, 8:53.
Where is the national culture and moral center in cambodia? Please help telling me about it. Thanks you.
Where is the national culture and moral center in cambodia? Please help telling me about it. Thanks you.
Where is the national culture and moral center in cambodia? Please help telling me about it. Thanks you.
Where is the national culture and moral center in cambodia? Please help telling me about it. Thanks you.
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