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Aranyaprathet, Thailand - Thailand and Cambodia failed Monday to find a quick fix to a dispute over an ancient Hindu temple on the Thai-Cambodian border, but both sides agreed they wanted the row to subside.
'We want the temperature to come down,' said Cambodian Defence Minister Teah Banh after an eight hour meeting on the Preah Vihear temple dispute with Thai Supreme Commander General Boonsrang Niempradit at the Indochina Hotel in Aranyaprathet, Sa Kaeo province, 270 kilometres east of Bangkok.
Boonsrang said the two sides were unable to solve the legal issues involved in the controversy over the temple's compound, parts of which are claimed by both Thailand and Cambodia.
'We will need to consult the government on the law,' Boonsrang told a press conference after the lengthy meeting.
Teah Banh said no solution to the row was likely before Cambodia's general election scheduled for Sunday.
While both sides claimed the meeting was not a failure, neither agreed to withdraw their troops from the Preah Vihear vicinity, about 650 kilometres north-east of Bangkok.
The Aranyaprathet meeting was held in an attempt to defuse an intensifying dispute over the ownership of a 4.6-square-kilometre plot of land adjoining Preah Vihear, an 11th century Hindu temple with a long history of causing border tension between the two neighbouring countries.
The temple sits on a cliff that defines the Thai-Cambodian border between Si Sa Khet and Phrea Vihear provinces in Thailand and Cambodia, respectively.
Last week Thailand and Cambodia sent about 4,000 troops to the vicinity of Preah Vihear temple, also called Phra Viharn in Thai.
The temple was the cause of a border spat five decades ago that ended up at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in 1962. Cambodia won, but the row was reignited by the World Heritage Committee's decision to list the temple as a UNESCO site earlier this month despite Thai objections.
Three Thais were briefly detained on July 15 for crossing into a portion of the temple compound still subject to a border demarcation dispute. The three, part of an ultranationalist Buddhist group, were released within hours but prompted Thailand to send paramilitary troops to the contested area, where they remained.
The border spat standoff comes at a sensitive time politically for both Cambodia and Thailand.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen faces an election on July 27, and Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is under mounting pressure to resign, in part over his government's alleged mishandling of the Preah Vihear affair.
Cambodia's efforts to list the temple compound, but excluding the disputed area, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site became politically charged for Thailand last month when Samak's government first backed the proposal, then withdrew its support after intense public criticism.
Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Patamma was forced to resign over the issue.
The border spat also coincided with the annual foreign ministers meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Singapore this week, although it is not officially on the agenda.
Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo urged Cambodia and Thailand to exercise utmost restraint while finding peaceful solutions to the row.
'We urge both sides to exercise utmost restraint and resolve this issue amicably, in the spirit of ASEAN solidarity and good neighbourliness,' Yeo said after an informal dinner of ASEAN officials on the eve of annual ministerial meetings.
'We want the temperature to come down,' said Cambodian Defence Minister Teah Banh after an eight hour meeting on the Preah Vihear temple dispute with Thai Supreme Commander General Boonsrang Niempradit at the Indochina Hotel in Aranyaprathet, Sa Kaeo province, 270 kilometres east of Bangkok.
Boonsrang said the two sides were unable to solve the legal issues involved in the controversy over the temple's compound, parts of which are claimed by both Thailand and Cambodia.
'We will need to consult the government on the law,' Boonsrang told a press conference after the lengthy meeting.
Teah Banh said no solution to the row was likely before Cambodia's general election scheduled for Sunday.
While both sides claimed the meeting was not a failure, neither agreed to withdraw their troops from the Preah Vihear vicinity, about 650 kilometres north-east of Bangkok.
The Aranyaprathet meeting was held in an attempt to defuse an intensifying dispute over the ownership of a 4.6-square-kilometre plot of land adjoining Preah Vihear, an 11th century Hindu temple with a long history of causing border tension between the two neighbouring countries.
The temple sits on a cliff that defines the Thai-Cambodian border between Si Sa Khet and Phrea Vihear provinces in Thailand and Cambodia, respectively.
Last week Thailand and Cambodia sent about 4,000 troops to the vicinity of Preah Vihear temple, also called Phra Viharn in Thai.
The temple was the cause of a border spat five decades ago that ended up at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in 1962. Cambodia won, but the row was reignited by the World Heritage Committee's decision to list the temple as a UNESCO site earlier this month despite Thai objections.
Three Thais were briefly detained on July 15 for crossing into a portion of the temple compound still subject to a border demarcation dispute. The three, part of an ultranationalist Buddhist group, were released within hours but prompted Thailand to send paramilitary troops to the contested area, where they remained.
The border spat standoff comes at a sensitive time politically for both Cambodia and Thailand.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen faces an election on July 27, and Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is under mounting pressure to resign, in part over his government's alleged mishandling of the Preah Vihear affair.
Cambodia's efforts to list the temple compound, but excluding the disputed area, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site became politically charged for Thailand last month when Samak's government first backed the proposal, then withdrew its support after intense public criticism.
Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Patamma was forced to resign over the issue.
The border spat also coincided with the annual foreign ministers meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Singapore this week, although it is not officially on the agenda.
Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo urged Cambodia and Thailand to exercise utmost restraint while finding peaceful solutions to the row.
'We urge both sides to exercise utmost restraint and resolve this issue amicably, in the spirit of ASEAN solidarity and good neighbourliness,' Yeo said after an informal dinner of ASEAN officials on the eve of annual ministerial meetings.
35 comments:
The war will start when the Thai try to dismantle the khmer pagoda and the settlement there , or the khmers try to eject the Thai out of khmer soil .If none of that happen,the stand off will last forever.Start the war now.
They should not come in to Cambodian's soil to demining those area at all.
Thai is violating Cambodia's sovereignty.
HUN SEN, come on! Don't just be strong on you own fellow Khmer inside Cambodia.
You need to expell the Thai out of our soils.
They are right there on our soils. What can't you see!
Tell the UN, that the Thai is invading our lands.
Khmer moy Roub!
No negotiation!
No deal!
Cambodia territory belong solely
to Cambodia! Stay out!
-Violation of international law is a crime! Cambodia MUST take Thai to court for invasion and other illegal action INSIDE Cambodia. Not Thai take Khmer to court in Thailand.
-Thai MUST pay in full for any damage.
Stay away from Cambodia, STOP BULLYING!
Free Cambodia
(satrey Khmer)
It's Thai territory, dude!
When we talk about the overlapping area, you stupid Khmers (knowing that each holds different maps)denied that such thing never exists.
So we don't have to be compromise.
And we'll claim it Thai territory without compromising anymore.
If you ask for war, Scambodia'll get one. Just don't cry like baby asking for support from UN daddy, when you're at loss.
Anonymous 11:11,
Ever since you Thai people came to Khmer territory, everything belong to Thailand! You just can't get enough! Troublemakers.
Leave Cambodia alone! Stay out, otherwise you will pay the price.
Free Cambodia.
There is no legal issue to solve, Thai government invade Cambodia territory, doing so they go against the verdict of the ICJ and this is illegal.
We try to solve this matter peacefully with them and nothing get done, it seems they want crisis to last and turn the situation into their advantage.
Cambodia must file for the assistance of the UN.
HUN SEN needs to file a complaint to UN now.
Thai is invading Khmer's soil.
11:17PM
It's Thai territory!
Complain anything you'd like to any organizations you want, but the disputed area and its surrounding areas are belong to Thailand.
We WILL NOT compromise with you anymore!
PEACEFUL SOLUTION
TO END THE QUARRELS,
JUST BOMB THE PREAH VIHEAR INTO PIECES.
11:24 PM
Completely agree with you.
The Siam government is not looking for solution right now, they are looking to justify their invasion.
Hun Sen must file for the assistance of the UN without any delay.
Whatever justification the Siam government have they will try it on the UN.
THAT IS CORRECT, THERE IS NO LEGAL ISSUE AS ah siam TRY TO PORTRAYED TO THE WORLD. THE LONGER THE STAND OFF CONTINUE, THE MORE PROBLEM WE WILL HAVE ah thai thief. THEY ARE TRYING TO LEGITIMIZE AN OVERLAPPING ZONE, WHICH ONE DOES NOT EXIST LEGALLY. ah Hun Sen screwed up Khmer Land by signing all these treaties with ah youn and ah siam on white zone that never legally existed before his regime. He's a completed IDIOT. IF he really care about Khmer, THEN HE SHOULD REQUEST THE UN TO INTERVENE NOW OR TAKE ah siam thief TO THE WORLD COURT AGAIN, SOON. HE ALWAYS GO FOR THE KILL AGINST HIS OWN PEOPLE, BUT ARE CHICKEN SHIT WITH FOREIGN AGGRESSORS. HE SHOULD NEVER BE A LEADER OF HIS OWN PEOPLE.
No war!
Make the 4.6 km2 territory no man's land and joint culture development for holy site of Preah Vihear.
That's it.
Win-Win Solution!
For once the thai shit dog has got a pebble of grey matter.11:14
We hould sop complaining to ASEAN and the UN.
We should demand that ASEAN and the UN condemn thai agression based on the International court of justice ruling ad tke action to kick out the thieves
The shit thai dogs will pay dearly for this on the international and domestic level
already thai reputaion is tarnished in the nterntional community (thai un representative in bangkok post)
giving in to local fanatics will bring down the thai gvt or weakenen it considerably
investors dont like a weak gvt that bows to fanatic pressure to the extent of
starting a stupid war with its neighbor
already the coup detat has downgraded thailand as a democrcy , this will surely put the thai on par level with Burma.
Military panaroids
Cambodia has shown admirable restraint from using force to correct a thieving neighbor
we should now use the full international
leverage to condemn thailand
thailand out ot the UN and ASEAN
thai not fit to chair ASEAN
international thief
I have peronally ensured that I dont purchase any more thai stuff
no thai airlines (even if i have to make financial sacrifice)
no thai food (abroad or home)
no invitation to friends to visit thailand after trip to angkor wat
make our friends abroad understand the legal aspect of the conflict
write to the foreign affairs of your adopted country to ask for support to cambodia
those in cambodia, go and vote
The Siam will avert the ICJ at all cost because for arguments that they have right now is not serious enough for the ICJ to listen to them.
That is why we need the assistance of the UN so the ICJ can give the order to the UN to expel Thai troop.
Cambodia must not give them the time to put their cunning plan at work.
We need justice because is Thai government is completely illegal.
We should even send them the bill due to the deployment of our troops.
10:10 PM
Fuck the UN.
Fuck the Cambodian government.
Fuck the Thai government.
This is a surreptitious or secret plan between the Cambodian prime minister and his friends current and former Thai prime ministers in which will benefit them greatly, which is why these traitors have deliberately delayed the negotiation. Therefore, the Thai and Cambodian people should demand both countries leaders (and Thai former prime minister) to unearth the secret plan in which they signed and gave the Cambodia a green light to inscript in with the UNESCO.
I believe both of the countries have been betrayed by their leaders.
The fucking Hun's government does not want to take the grievance or complain to the UN, because this is his show, folks.
We have been duped and betrayed by the leaders.
Thai will pay the price for any damage!Step out of Cambodia as soon.
Free Cambodia
thailand chooses to ignore the 1907 treaty and the icj verdict. that is so wrong! the world is very much aware of this. cambodia should thailand to icj again for the final time for contempt of court. god bless cambodia.
Get your bare feet out of Thai territory, all Khmer army...you are warned!
what agreement? cambodia should ask the UN to deal with thailand as they are ignoring and violating the icj verdict and the 1907 treaty and the international law. thailand will lose when cambodia will use the international law to punish them for stealing our land and temple. god bless cambodia.
there's no disputed land. it's all belong to thailand. thanks to hunsen for submitting it to thailand.
"Get your bare feet out of Thai territory, all Khmer army...you are warned!"
What an idiot! Khmer soldiers are in Khmer territory! ONLY you thai morons soldier are inside Cambodia.
12:23AM
Khmer soldiers are in Khmer territory <---- That's an idiotic comment. They are illegally in Thai territory. You fool!
Check the content of Joint Communique' Stupid! 12:23AM
Thailand is not scare of ASEAN, UN or ICJ at all.Because The Thai's border was located at Svay Daun Keo as The Thais history recorded.
On the other hand, Thais' Military are stronger and powerful forces than Cambodian. Thais' could wipe out Cambodian' Military in a minute.
We are not scare of ASEAN, UN, ICJ.
We proclaim all Temples are belong to Us.
Satthia,
Thailand.
12:40am, is that why thailand lost the icj verdict? so much of their logical argument. i dare you go tell that to the icj. thailand court is so bias, who can trust them? for one, they are being brain-washed to believe in the fabrication of history by thailand's pad thugs and more... i'm sure they will lose confidence in the siem gov't sooner or later, then they will have civil war. what goes around comes around! karma for thailand or siem as they are known in cambodia. they all can go straight to the burning hell when they die! god bless cambodia.
Sathia, "Thailand"
-Whatever your justification. Whatever you claim. Any illegal action will be paid in full! And if you people go against ICJ or ASEAN, you will be removed out of the member. ICJ are controled by professionals, they know what they are doing.
"On the other hand, Thais' Military are stronger and powerful forces than Cambodian. Thais' could wipe out Cambodian' Military in a minute."
-Sathia, why don't you people learn how to apologize, instead of being so barbaric? Where is the morality? Where is the respect for human. You may draw all your weapons and pull out your egos. Remember you will have to pay the price!
Don't be choked by Chili! Try to remember where you came from 7-8 hundreds years ago. Thailand was not your land, Thailand was a former Khmer territory. Do not twist the history!
Free Cambodia
If neither side want war then here is the solution :
1- khmer must dismantle all settlement there.
2-Thai should withdraw to their proper place inside Thailand.
3- Build whorehoues there so both citizen can enjoy lives .
p.s prostitutes on both side should be equal in number.
satia
we will wipe your stupid race from the face of the world
the world will commit genocide on your thieving race
we are so sorry that our ancestors sired such stupid bastards
the genes came from the thai bitches not from the khmer lords
Definitelly a race worse than worms
go crawl to hell
sathia
thai army is an army of she men
they use guns as vibrators
they only wiping the will do are our dick!
HAHAHA funny thai joke
We never ever seen any of the invators paid any prices since Cambodia've been invaded. Have Your boss VN paid for your lost?
No..... they even took more goods from yours the looser....
KiriSvarak Phum Vibol Maha Sangram,
Bankok, Thaland.
"Nobody wants to see this dispute escalate," says a Thai military officer, who requested anonymity. "We are doing our best not to let anything happen.... Cambodia understands that the problem arises from domestic political problems in Thailand."
dont let the thieves use this excuse for not leaving
solve your own fucking problems
No war, I recommend to put Preah Vihear in the white zone just like any land in the east border with vietnam for peace. Give land for peace that's the theory!
That will work but not profitable. Joint Development is a better solution because both sides can used jobs badly.
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