Cambodian troops moving to the front (Photo: Koh Santepheap)
Khmer soldiers cleaning up machine gun
Khmer solider getting ready for battleEx-Khmer Rouge troops, officers talk tough at standoff
Tuesday, 22 July, 2008
AFP
PREAH VIHEAR: They may wear flip-flops, but most the Cambodian forces facing Thai troops at a border standoff are battle-tested former Khmer Rouge fighters, officers and soldiers said yesterday.
More than 500 Thai troops and well over 1,000 Cambodian soldiers have been stationed for a week around a small Buddhist pagoda on the slope of a mountain leading to the ruins of the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple.
The mood at the standoff was calm yesterday as each side chatted, snapped photos and shared meals with each other, a stark contrast to Thursday when they pointed guns at each other, though no shots were fired.
The former Khmer Rouge guerrillas said they were eager to fight and the Thai troops should not be fooled by their appearance – the Cambodians wear flip-flops and sport Cold War-era guns.
“They said we are small and are wearing flip-flops, but with flip-flops we can move very quickly. We know the area very well. We are small but strong,” said Doung Tay, 32, who began fighting for the Khmer Rouge when he was 12.
The Thai troops, with modern arms and uniforms, appear better prepared.
“The Thai soldiers only know the theories of fighting. They said that we are small but they don’t know that we are wild chickens,” said Yan San, 47, who became a Khmer Rouge soldier when he was 15.
“I want to fight with the Thai soldiers,” he added.
Brigadier Chea Keo, commander of forces in the disputed area and himself a former Khmer Rouge soldier, said more than 60% of his troops fought for the brutal Marxist regime which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
Leaders from both countries have ordered troops not to fire and called for a peaceful solution. Thai and Cambodian defence officials met yesterday in a bid to resolve the crisis which broke out last week.
Nearly 2mn people died from starvation, overwork, torture and execution during the four-year Khmer Rouge regime before it was swept from power by Vietnam-backed troops.
Preah Vihear temple was the scene of the final surrender of several hundred remaining Khmer Rouge guerrilla forces in 1998.
The current confrontation around Preah Vihear began after three Thai protesters were arrested for jumping a fence to reach the temple last Tuesday.
The World Court ruled in 1962 that Preah Vihear belongs to Cambodia. But the most accessible entrance to the Khmer ruins lies in Thailand and 4.6 sq km of the surrounding land remains in dispute.
More than 500 Thai troops and well over 1,000 Cambodian soldiers have been stationed for a week around a small Buddhist pagoda on the slope of a mountain leading to the ruins of the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple.
The mood at the standoff was calm yesterday as each side chatted, snapped photos and shared meals with each other, a stark contrast to Thursday when they pointed guns at each other, though no shots were fired.
The former Khmer Rouge guerrillas said they were eager to fight and the Thai troops should not be fooled by their appearance – the Cambodians wear flip-flops and sport Cold War-era guns.
“They said we are small and are wearing flip-flops, but with flip-flops we can move very quickly. We know the area very well. We are small but strong,” said Doung Tay, 32, who began fighting for the Khmer Rouge when he was 12.
The Thai troops, with modern arms and uniforms, appear better prepared.
“The Thai soldiers only know the theories of fighting. They said that we are small but they don’t know that we are wild chickens,” said Yan San, 47, who became a Khmer Rouge soldier when he was 15.
“I want to fight with the Thai soldiers,” he added.
Brigadier Chea Keo, commander of forces in the disputed area and himself a former Khmer Rouge soldier, said more than 60% of his troops fought for the brutal Marxist regime which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
Leaders from both countries have ordered troops not to fire and called for a peaceful solution. Thai and Cambodian defence officials met yesterday in a bid to resolve the crisis which broke out last week.
Nearly 2mn people died from starvation, overwork, torture and execution during the four-year Khmer Rouge regime before it was swept from power by Vietnam-backed troops.
Preah Vihear temple was the scene of the final surrender of several hundred remaining Khmer Rouge guerrilla forces in 1998.
The current confrontation around Preah Vihear began after three Thai protesters were arrested for jumping a fence to reach the temple last Tuesday.
The World Court ruled in 1962 that Preah Vihear belongs to Cambodia. But the most accessible entrance to the Khmer ruins lies in Thailand and 4.6 sq km of the surrounding land remains in dispute.
45 comments:
"ASEAN was "uncomfortable" that Cambodia last week approached the U.N. Security Council on the matter"
= What the fuck with ASEAN and why are they so anal? The fucken reason the ASEAN felt "uncomfortable" about Cambodia asked the United Nations for help because the ASEAN leaders can't do shit anyway! These fucken ASEAN leaders are made up of a bunch of dictators who will not intervene in each other business even for violating basic human right!
It is so sad that the ASEAN still prey upon each other for survival and in nature it is called cannibalism! The fucken ASEAN leaders are practicing cannibalism and they don't even know it and that how stupid they are!
A Thaicong deputy Prime Minister Sahas Bunditkul said "If A and B have a conflict, they probably want to resolve by themselves. A and B have to talk and it will take time to resolve the problem."
= I believe AH Sahas Bunditkul doesn't even understand what the hell is talking about! What AH Sahas Bunditkul fail to understand is that Thaicong think they are bigger with 61 million people and have more military advantage over smaller Cambodia! So the Thaicong continue to press Cambodian leaders into negotiation and to accept all Thaicong terms and conditions to resolve the border conflict! The Thaicong never want Cambodian leaders to turn to any third party to find the solution because the Thaicong leaders want to dictate and force their solution on Cambodian leaders! This is the most injustice the Thaicong leaders can do to Cambodian people and Cambodian leaders!
The Thaicong leaders need to understand that this is not the first time that Cambodian has war and conflict! Even though Cambodia doesn't even have weapons factories but yet Cambodia still manages to kill and disable million and million of people! The fact that the war, the destruction, and the killing were possible because of the third party!
So the new equation now is!
A + B = Third party!
Cambodia will have no choice except to pursue third party involvement in any war against the Thaicong aggressor! The free flow weapons from the third party is inevitable and the war against the Thaicong aggressor will be fought with the use of million and million of landmines and the guerilla tactic will guarantee to bleed the Thaicong aggressor many more years to come! Cambodia must bring in the third party involvement to mitigate the Thaicong-Cambodian conflict because Cambodia has done it in the past which led to successful withdrawal of the Vietcong troop from Cambodia!
If the Thaicong-Cambodian conflict can't be solved by the ASEAN then the ASEAN and Cambodia need to go their separate way! Cambodia will not be blame for the Thaicong aggression which lead to instability of the whole Southeast Asia! Let the killing begin!
yo! my flight leaving tomorrow from the u.s.a.i will be joint in with khmer military.in a couple of days.out from iraq for two yrs .it is boring out here . i can't wait to kill these thai faggots.holla
horoshi ouk
yoo are you really going cambodia man???? join up my dad says where shiping alot of troops there..i wanna go to but not sure if the SHIT GONNA HIT THE FAN...
ps WERE getting alof of troops from cambodia on alert..
KHMER CANADA
3 of my Khmer friends are leaving the US to go to Cambodia also. They want to fight the Thai. They are former US soldiers.
I like the attitude from the soldiers.
There should be an official recruitment called by the Canada and US governments for all Khmer volunteers from the Canada and USA to help pound on the damn stupid siamese. Among you and I shall be enlisted as well. All I need is a new version of an M16 and four hundred rounds. Let's go guys. Let's NOT take any hostages. Kill them, beheaded them for the 5 foot sticks and burn the damn siamese corpses. We'll take NO, I mean NO, hostages.
Battle tested but lost the entire country to Vietnam.
Ooooooo that is sooooo scarrrrrryyyy!
and to think you're among one of the people who condemn Hun Sen's human rights records and false democracy- look on the other side that you got to offer. Nothing but blood thirst violence and destruction to Cambodia. I wish for democracy to win in Cambodia, but I pray that elements like you stay out of Cambodian politic for good.
That's why we can't have deportation of Cambodian criminals. We must demand that Cambodia do not take criminals in from elsewhere. Those who wish to invest in Cambodia, Khmer oversea or anywhere must come with respect of the law to show what democracy truly represents. And that is a nation of well-informed and conscious minded citizens.
8:01 the strategy of Vietnam, if it comes for you, you wouldn't last a minute. Vietnam is a dirty enemy that does not fight with weapon face on but with tricks. Who do you think brought Vietnam into Cambodia? And who created Khmer communist party? There were people who had been used. Khmer had been duped. Vietnam used Khmer to fight Khmer.
Today Khmer are united. Don't try to stand on water and see if you're going to sink, you know the properties of water already.
In response to all the Thai bitches. We never lost our country to Vietnam. We used them and we will use them again to fight with you. You just watch your back Thai bitches! You can't even keep a handle full Muslim in ordered. Now you want to squash 15 million Khmers? Go ahead let the whole world see! Remember that we do have Muslim brothers too o.k.
KhmerNY
hey 753am
yaa cambodia dont use M16 that much its AK47 and TYPE 56+china made....heard you can get it from $100-$200 usd. in phnom penh just need to now the people plus heard my dad say 20 truck load of HUN SEN troops..just got out of Phnom Penh
so yaa hes takeing this seriosly
KHMER CANADA
Cambodia is about to go to war and some fool in here is preaching about democracy!ahahhahahhahahha
To 8:01AM
Yeh that is how the war are fought in Cambodia! The whole Cambodia will be opened to the enemy and soon the enemy realize that they can't govern Cambodia and that explain why the Vietcong withdrew their troop after 10 years in Cambodia! ahhahahhahahhah
By the way the Vietcong even have the Soviet Union and AH HUN SEN to back them up! So tell me who is backing up the Thaicong for violating International Law?
It won't be scary for the Thaicong aggressor to invade Cambodia to claim their victory! And the Thaicong will find out the scary part for the next 10 years! This is a good way to make the Thaicong spend some money in Cambodia and it will be one million dollars aday? or maybe 10 million dollar aday? Hey! Who give a fuck anyway because the Thaicong are super rich and they can stay in Cambodia for the next 10 years!ahahhahahhh
Yo, if you guys from the US really going to Cambodia to join the army there, go for it man. You have my supports. Go join the army legally so it is not stupid you know. Once you're officially in Khmer military uniform, get on TV then people will see that Khmer are coming from all over the world to fight them fucking siems.
GO KHMER! UNITE KHMER! KHMER LOVE KHMER!
while the rich gets richer, and curruptions is getting higher. Hun Sen govt have no respect for khmer soldiers.
Shame on you all CPP members.
What? Khmer soldiers is the best treated position in government. You must still be living in Lon Nol's regime.
Let's solve the problem peacefully.War is no good.Thai has Air Force and khmer has none.If war get out of hand,everything will be destroyed.Let's put it this way,if Thai has no Air Force and khmer does, khmer will go all the way to Bangkok.Same thing,the Thai may use their AIR FORCE to go all the way TO P.PENH after all who care,it's war.So let's stop talking nonsense WILL YA.
I hope the Hun Sen Government take care and look after all the Khmer soldiers and their families.They sacrify their lifes for our nation. Without the soldiers you and won't be in power Mr Hun Xen. So ask all your ministers to donate some of their money to these soldiers.Stop bring the money to buy houses and banks in foreign countries.
Yep they (the generals)rob from the poor soldiers on everything they have the hand on and it's a fact.
You all know that ASEAN's is Thai right? Surin Pitsuvan, ASEAN Secretary-General.
I really bet they are already bias in the department.
His name is Surin Pitsuvan I think there is alot of bias going on that's why Cambodia going straight to the UN.
"Thailand will not allow the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to play a role in resolving the border row with Cambodia, a government source said yesterday."
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And here made me feel proud of Cambodian's solders. This is what they said:
PREAH VIHEAR: They may wear flip-flops, but most the Cambodian forces facing Thai troops at a border standoff are battle-tested former Khmer Rouge fighters, officers and soldiers said yesterday.
More than 500 Thai troops and well over 1,000 Cambodian soldiers have been stationed for a week around a small Buddhist pagoda on the slope of a mountain leading to the ruins of the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple.
The mood at the standoff was calm yesterday as each side chatted, snapped photos and shared meals with each other, a stark contrast to Thursday when they pointed guns at each other, though no shots were fired.
The former Khmer Rouge guerrillas said they were eager to fight and the Thai troops should not be fooled by their appearance – the Cambodians wear flip-flops and sport Cold War-era guns.
“They said we are small and are wearing flip-flops, but with flip-flops we can move very quickly. We know the area very well. We are small but strong,” said Doung Tay, 32, who began fighting for the Khmer Rouge when he was 12.
The Thai troops, with modern arms and uniforms, appear better prepared.
“The Thai soldiers only know the theories of fighting. They said that we are small but they don’t know that we are wild chickens,” said Yan San, 47, who became a Khmer Rouge soldier when he was 15.
“I want to fight with the Thai soldiers,” he added.
Brigadier Chea Keo, commander of forces in the disputed area and himself a former Khmer Rouge soldier, said more than 60% of his troops fought for the brutal Marxist regime which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
We need to some how show support and respect to our khmer troop.
It is khmer troop and khmer people back home that khmer still have a home and country. Not, the govt, not the oversea khmer.
We need to stand with each other for each other regardless distance.
Thanks you
khmer from oversea, USA
Now the UN better talk to the siem fast, before it's too late.
Because Cambodia kinda have enough of all this bull shit from the siem.
Fuck enough with the abuse.
Once war broke may God help the siem.
Thailand so strong that they can't even handle a battle with their by blood enthi tai group lao brothers LOL LOL. they are so strong that the burmese bombed a perservation project next to their royal project. They are so strong but yet, their soliders desert their camps with the lao battle.
THAILAND might just be a paper tiger.
KHMER fighers might just be a snake in disuge.
My friends at work are placing bets on cambodia due to the fact that they bleed the vietnamese to death to get out of cambodia.
Remember 60k KR troops did the job, with no airforce, no main battle tanks, but now the khmer are united as ever.
WE WILL SUCEED. in the courts and in the battlefield.
KHMER USA
Yes, we might be small, wear flip flop, and rag tag uniform with cold war era weapons and all, but don't understimate a unite Khmer. Don't underestimate our heart and determination. This is the wrong time to pick a fight with us. We will bleed and embarass you like you have never felt since the Burmese burned your capital ayutthaya. Your arrogant and prententious ignorant to the true facts of border boundaries will cause you dearly this time.
I support Hun Sen and Khmer troops all the way.
Man I used to hate Hun Sen and I called him ah Kvack, now I apologise to him and. I like the old boy Hun Sen is strong and tough. King Father said our land is not just 4.6km around the Preah Vihear our ancestors built the Temple during the Khmer empire, it is all the way to 24 Provinces in Siam.
Ag Siam buy Kri falsefied the history of our Khmer empire.
Shame on ah Siam buy Kri.
God bless Cambodia and our Khmers
It doesn't matter if we don't really have much of an Air Force because I know Hun Sen has already made a call to Hanoi already. If shit happens and war breaks loose then the thais are going to face a hell of a battle by it's neighbors.
You are going down you siemese POS!
Hey, Khmer aboard and in Cambodia, we need to put aside our political stances. Whether who you support, CPP, Fucipec, or SRP, or whatever, we need to know that we're all Khmer. This is not a time to magnify our difference and rip each other apart. We need to put away our difference and come together.
Khmer sam ma key chet!
Khmer srolanch Khmer!
Khmer jes out oun Khmer!
Khmer roub rom knear yeung!
What about Khmers in Issan and Thailand, Laos, Burma, and Vietnam, are they in or out?
And what will Hun Sen give Hanoi for their help, 10:32?
forget khmer fighting khmer, no more, for centuries we fought while our enemies gain. NO MORE.
we khmer are world wide, we can raise money like no tommroow. KHMER USA, has alot of khmer millionaire, we might not have airfoce, but I know we can get AA battries, stringers, SA7, one SA7 costs 120,000 somewhere can take out 55 million thai fighter jet.
ALL KHMER in USA and aborad, I sugget you get your citizenship and go and lobby and vote, ask your representative, write letters, stage massive shows in our temple from Mass to Cali, let all the younger generation know about this, get involve, spread the news.
Be more like a central nuclues not passive no more.
Gather money, PHD, heart and mines, we can suceed. Don't forget we can petion the UN and ask our representative for help, GET our PR ready. The thais are doing it by using their moutchpiece the BKpost and nation
KHMER USA
Raise money we will get multimillion of dollars to help our Khmer troops. I am all for it.
I am Khmer from Kampuchea Krom and I am for this war with the invaders Thai and Viets. It is about time we Khmer stand united to defend our motherland. Enough is enough for the push-overs: Siams and Yuons. We Khmer are only defenders of our ancestral lands, whereas Siams and Viets are the main aggressors in this affairs.
The world must understand that we Khmer are only defending our rights to our lands. The Siams and Viets are moving in their borders from all directions, hence Khmer must stand the ground to fight for our Khmer survival.
I also call for our brothers and sisters from Surin to unite with our Khmer stance against aggressors.
Free Kampuchea-Krom, Free Surin
7:23 AM
I'm with the JAC! If you're the person who claimed, you'll need to get versed with some familiarity of the military law. We don't want you to get into trouble. Again, please confer with our military legal advisor.
Take care!
We need to ask our brother Chinese to bring in the shipment, preferably soon. Also, the Vietnames should be ready to put on Cambodian soldier uniformed when shit turns ugly.
I support our khmer soldeir all the way if war does happen. but before that let try to prevent it. because nobody wants war. the solution is to turn that area into an economic zone in the condition that the 4.9 sq km belong to us khmer. Still thai si sa ket would benefit from this economic zone also.
And what would Chinese and Vietnamese get in return to fight for Khmer?
11 : 41 AM
NO CAN DO .. Khmer will not allow foriegn millitary intervention. But we accept supports in term of epquiptments ect.
The Peacefull resolution is the economic zonein the area.
11:24
Free Surin? LOL
I think ur not from Khmer Krom but a Khmer refugee in US who has no clue about Khmer Surin in Isan Thailand.
They are richer, better, clevier than you the cripple lower khmers.
Finally They are more Ankorian than you.
Indeed!
12:31 PM
Sihanoukville and Angkor Wat, of course. There's no such thing as "free lunch."
You can consider us as the "Indian givers."
1:48 pm
you may be right , but they do not represent cambodia. A traitor to Angkor. So shut the hell up ah thai brain!! self proclaim ridiculous fool! you can't compare to khmer in PP now brother!! ..just watch your self.
2:57 PM
must be a joker ..a dick head lol
Ah thai has a lot of trouble with just about 2 millions of the Malay in Pattani in South thailand.
They lost war with Lao in 1986.
Now thai want to have war with us.
Though they a lot of sophisticated militairy equipments, it's time for our soldiers to show us that we can do guerrillas and make them terribly suffer as the Malay are inflictig them even in our former provinces SURIN, SISAKET, BURIRAM....
The International Court of Justice and UNESCO and the UN alike are really joke.
We don't need multilateral parties to get involved in the bilateral conflict.
Prepare for war; the war is imminent. There's nothing you or your blind PM can do a damn thing to stop us from reclaim our temple.
No! You are worng 6:31 pm without the Internation Court of Justice and UNESCO also the UN our world very bad shape,NO PEACE IN OUR WORLD.Please think again....Thank you!!!
Khun 6:31 PM. You just portrayed us Thais as thugs respect no law.
Are you neo-Nazis of PAD?
Becareful, Thai people will cut your head off for causing troubles to Thai people in Si Saket who will be killed by these Ex Khmer rouge fighters. You dumb azz.
Cambodia must field more surface to air missiles(SAM) to counter any Thaicong air superiority over Cambodia!
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