Cambodia sends more troops to temple area
Saturday July 19, 2008
ANUCHA CHAROENPO, WASSANA NANUAM and THANIDA TANSUBHAPOL
Bangkok Post
In Si Sa Ket, a Thai intelligence source said about 2,000 Cambodian soldiers with heavy military equipment, including helicopters and personnel carriers, were stationed at Komui village close to the contested area yesterday ... They were elite soldiers sent in to counter the special forces which Thailand planned to send to the area.Cambodian ambassador to Thailand Ung Sean was summoned to the Foreign Ministry yesterday to hear the government's protest over Cambodia's claim of ownership of the disputed zone near the Preah Vihear temple.
Bangkok's diplomatic manoeuvre came as Phnom Penh sent more troops to the area. The Thai army is likely to counter the move and match forces with Cambodia.
The ministry handed the ambassador a letter from Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen, which insisted Thai soldiers were deployed on Thai soil, according to ministry spokesman Tharit Charungvat.
On Thursday, the Cambodian prime minister wrote to Mr Samak demanding the withdrawal of Thai troops from Cambodian territory.
Mr Samak's letter said the government was concerned about the increasing border troop build-up by Cambodia, which would lead to a deteriorating situation.
Mr Samak argued that the area the Cambodian leader claimed in his letter was part of Cambodia was actually within Thailand.
"The establishment of the Cambodian community, including construction of a temple, houses and the stationing of Cambodian military personnel in the area is a continued violation of Thailand's sovereignty and territorial integrity," the letter said.
Thailand had protested against the intrusion of Cambodians into the area four times - in 2004, 2005, 2007 and last year, it said.
The two neighbours claim sovereignty over a 4.6-square-kilometre area at the border. Thailand claims it is part of Kantharalak district in Si Sa Ket province, while Cambodia claims it is in its province of Preah Vihear.
Eight ambassadors to Thailand from member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) were briefed by the ministry. They were handed copies of the letters from Mr Hun Sen and Mr Samak.
Mr Samak repeated Thailand's determination to resolve the problem in the area immediately adjacent to the Preah Vihear temple through peaceful means.
In Si Sa Ket, a Thai intelligence source said about 2,000 Cambodian soldiers with heavy military equipment, including helicopters and personnel carriers, were stationed at Komui village close to the contested area yesterday.
They were elite soldiers sent in to counter the special forces which Thailand planned to send to the area.
A Cambodian convoy of four heavy military trucks with mounted machine guns and two smaller trucks was seen travelling from the capital, Phnom Penh, to the border yesterday, according to Reuters. The soldiers were armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles.
"I am leading these men to reinforce our troops at Preah Vihear," Gen Yim Sanh said.
A Thai army source said Thailand planned to dispatch more soldiers to the disputed area to at least match the Cambodian forces.
Second Army commander Lt-Gen Sujit Sithiprapa vowed to keep Thai troops in the overlapping area until the General Border Committee (GBC) meets on Monday in Aranyaprathet district.
Lt-Gen Sujit denied reports that soldiers from the two countries nearly clashed on Thursday evening.
"I can confirm that Thai and Cambodian soldiers are staying together in the area without any conflicts or clashes," he said.
The GBC is chaired by the defence ministers of the two countries.
Supreme Commander Gen Boonsrang Niempradit will lead the Thai negotiators to meet their Cambodian counterparts led by Defence Minister Teah Banh.
Gen Boonsrang was assigned by Mr Samak, who is also defence minister, to attend the talks.
Army chief Gen Anupong Paojinda, air force leader ACM Chalit Pukpasuk, navy commander Adm Sathiraphan Keyanont, national police chief Pol Gen Patcharawat Wongsuwan and National Security Council (NSC) secretary-general Lt-Gen Surapol Puaenaiyaga met yesterday to assess the situation in Si Sa Ket ahead of the GBC meeting.
Gen Boonsrang indicated Thailand could propose Phnom Penh withdraw about 500 Cambodian villagers from the disputed area as a condition for a Thai military withdrawal.
21 comments:
NO NEGOTIATIONS
deplomacy is dead.now it's time to draw blood. to our elite force it's time to take these thai out of our land .to mr. P.M Hun Sen now it's up to you to call thw shot.you're been there before put the elite force from khmer rouge in the front line.take out the thai livers put on a platter.
horoshi
1:31 PM
Go tell Tea Banh you don't want a negotiation, stupid khmers. Stoping barking here and there.
Khmer people lives on the Khmer soil since 1998 and thai soldiers just invaded on 15 July 2008 and the condition set by thai is bullshit.
thai soldiers must be out of the Khmer soils without any condition.
get out thai shit. stinking thieves
This is the area that sok an and his team signed withnteh thai recently turning into a grey zone. it was initailly clearly belonged t khmer, now the siams use this new map to get what they want.
how dumb khmer have been.
I bet at the negotiation table, the khmer team who is being led by a thai, teab banh, will hand over the land to the siems.
Hey, go and tell it to the UN, but don't stay in Issan Province. Greedy Monkeys are not welcome here.
How stupid. This idiot who speaks for Thai. This ignorant shows itself really. No wonder they're so extreme, they're a nation of misled fools. There is no such thing as Khmer stay in Issan Province. The province in dispute is in Si Saket and Preah Vihear in Thailand and Cambodia.
See this shows the credibilty of Thai idiots. Don't even know the geography of their own country. Who can take you seriously.
3:01PM
The smartest comment I see from Khmers so far:
This is the area that sok an and his team signed withnteh thai recently turning into a grey zone. it was initailly clearly belonged t khmer, now the siams use this new map to get what they want.
how dumb khmer have been.
I bet at the negotiation table, the khmer team who is being led by a thai, teab banh, will hand over the land to the siems.
Even without the Joint Communique' Thailand has other proofs that the land is belong to Thais. But now, with the JQ, you khmers should shut your mouths up.
YOU'D BETTER KNOWN THIS!
"Even without the Joint Communique' Thailand has other proofs that the land is belong to Thais. But now, with the JQ, you khmers should shut your mouths up. YOU'D BETTER KNOWN THIS! 7:36 PM"
We Khmer have proof as well, you hellish Siem creature. Hahah. I have proof that you can't write in English. Hhaha. That is a fact of your display of your stupidity. Hahha. You can't even have a good command of the language and you think you have proof. Hhahah. We have proof that the territory is legally and internationally and traditionally and culturally of the Khmer people since the beginning of time when the Nan Chao Siems were just lowly backward barbarians of the Chinese and the Mongols. Hhaha. Come see your lowly barbarians stone carving images on our glorious Angkor Wat galleries, mather f*cker hellish Siem creature who can't write English. Hhah. What are you going to do, mather f*cker, when the truth is one you and you are the descendant of the Nan Chao thieves. Hahah.
What proof? You lost the temple and land to Thai centuries ago. How can you still own anything in Issan Province. Furthermore, your French conquerer were defeated also. What possible proof could you have except for fairy tales.
Keep dreaming.
Still trying your old trick on us, so you can come back later and say that Cambodia has agree to withdraw villagers from the so called dispute zone, so that that zone does not belong to anybody.
The Thai government is cunning as usual.
No thanks for the deal, this is Cambodia territory according to ICJ and the French demarcation.
Gen. Baboon there is no condition you breach the International Court of Justice decision, so if you don't want to move your troop the UN will take care of it.
Nice try with you old trick, we won't fall for it twice.
Now we know that Thai government is a bunch of weasels.
And where was the UN when the Khmer Rouge were massacred its people? No where to be found.
And where will the UN be when the Thai soldier start to blow the monkey's brain out. No where to be found.
Oooooo the UN is soooo scaryyyyy!
The Siam should not be scare of the UN that's not the point.
The Siam is supposed to respect the International Law.
Like not invading another country.
Da.
A rogue monkey (9:19 PM) propped up by prostitution economy thinks he is superior than his poorer cousin.
At least the Khmers stood up to colonialism, while the next door monkey sold his soul, learned to "dance" and has been exploiting his own kind.
Don't worry about it, the land surrounding area of our Khmer Preah Vihear belongs to Khmers.
Hun Sen can cut throat and kill them but most people in that area are Thai of Khmer decent. Then he will be accused of killing his own people all over the place.
Khmer Rouge don't kill face to face but they come in at the middle of the night drag you our and cut throat.
Hun Sen been in war all of his entitled life, but what I don't understand why Samak said "land concession in 2000 comes back to haun HUn Sen..? What is it about? Did Hun Sen give to Samak Khmer land of 4.6KM?
HUn Sen, do not withdraw our villagers from our land.
That is our land we have the rights to live on our land.
HUN SEN needs to be strong to those fool Thai.
Khmer united Khmer live!!
10:01,do you know what is war???
do you really think that your thai military and people know what war is?? or you guy only know about the war in the children story books?we all khmer know exactly what is war,how it should be fought,how to survive and how it will end.just look at those khmer villager,they just move a couple hundreds meters from their village,this proof that they are not afraid of war and know what to do if fighting erupt.look at those monks and their servants at the temple,they just stay there among the two troops without hesitation and/or fearness.this proof that they are willing to die for their country and for the greatest course of the khmer nation,if they become a victim if war erupt,the whole world will blame who??most likely the thai,why?? thai has started the problem against the icj and unesco verdict openly,from the highest government level to the lowest class of its citizen.this proof to the world that thailand is willing to isolate itself from the world community and that thailand is a country that never respect its treaty and agreement with others.the icj decission and canada unesco approval that thailand breached had proved that manner.the war with cambodia??your good looking uniform men with their mightiest weapon had proved so ineffective in the south,especially,when fought against the smallest armforce nation in the region back in 1987,the lao.YOU ARE FACING WITH KHMER SOLDIERS NOW,NOT LAO.Your losses will be the greatest in thai history,your enemy will be the highest resistance you siam ever encountered.By the way i had seen your f-16s on the net.they had a pretty nice pain job,wonder if the pilot know how to target and have enough bombs to destroy a few trees in preah vihear??.Back in the 80's,your thai atillary had landed on the civilian area when responded to the then hun sen armforce.You thai b-clad stepped on land mine on the first day and wanted to blame the cambodian troop that laid it down.All your thai nation is only good at creating problems and end up as a loser in the 19th-the 21st century and still did not learn a lesson.
IF THAILAND IS SMART,THEY WOULD HAD PULL ALL THEIR TROOP OUT,CAUSE THEY WILL LOSE THESE CONFLICT,DOMESTICALLY,MILITARILY AND INTERNATIONALLY.TOO BAD THEY ARE DUMN.
POSTED BY A 3RD GRADER.
not!! cambodia and the world should remind thailand of the franco-siamese treaty of 1904 - 1907 and the icj verdict. this territory belongs to cambodia, not siam!!! so, it is natural for khmer people to live there. get out, siem thieves!!!
cambodia remind siem of the icj verdict and the 1904- 1907 treaty. it is not siem land, it is khmer land in accordance to this treaty and icj.
What about Japan-Cambo treatries in the 40's?
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