Original report from Washington
05 August 2008
Cambodia reacted cautiously Monday to a Thai proposal for the listing of a border temple on the Unesco World Heritage protection list.
Thailand has reportedly requested the Ta Moan Thom temple for World Heritage status, a temple Cambodia claims as its own.
The temple is the largest of three temples of the Ta Moan complex, several hundred kilometers west of Preah Vihear temple, where a tense military standoff continues.
Officials say Thai troops fortified positions around Ta Moan Thom over the weekend.
"They can list it if it belongs to Thailand, but the Franco-Siam treaty says two temples out of three belong to Cambodia," Var Kimhong, chief of Cambodia's Border Committee said Tuesday. "Those are Ta Moan Thom and Ta Moan Touch."
The official Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted a Thai official this week as saying Thailand would seek World Heritage status for Ta Moan Thom.
Thailand has reportedly requested the Ta Moan Thom temple for World Heritage status, a temple Cambodia claims as its own.
The temple is the largest of three temples of the Ta Moan complex, several hundred kilometers west of Preah Vihear temple, where a tense military standoff continues.
Officials say Thai troops fortified positions around Ta Moan Thom over the weekend.
"They can list it if it belongs to Thailand, but the Franco-Siam treaty says two temples out of three belong to Cambodia," Var Kimhong, chief of Cambodia's Border Committee said Tuesday. "Those are Ta Moan Thom and Ta Moan Touch."
The official Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted a Thai official this week as saying Thailand would seek World Heritage status for Ta Moan Thom.
6 comments:
Dear brothers and sisters:
Siam is always Siam! They are tricky forever! they intention to swallow Cambodia has been there forever!!!! Now they are struggling to fight each other within their own country and i predict that if they continue to fight both in their own country and with cambodia and other bordering country...one day...Siam may be disappear from the world map.
We should stand together and show to the world what belong to us and what belong to them. If necessary, teach them another lesson in ICJ.
who knows himself as he done something wrong should voluntarily resign to let the New ones to negotaiate with Thais...
You got money from thais how can you equally negoataite with them????
Time to resign if we consider the National Interest
again, thailand must respect the treaty of 1907 for all border lines with cambodia, not just preah vihear but all the borderlines spelled out in the treaty of 1907. now, what kind of lame excuse will thailand have for this 2nd khmer temples dispute, watershed my ass this time. a clear pattern of the thai thugs in action again and again. i'm sure the world is so sick and tired of thailand doing this to a much smaller nation of cambodia. they clearly violated the international treaty here again! where is justice for cambodia?
A Siameses will fall when their KING's head laying westward. For the time been he really wanted to see his dinasty gaining more land from Cambodia while his single eye still visible, such as Prasat Preah Vihear and Angkor Watt always in his mind, he's always Siamese KING( nerver became a Thailand King). The black glad uniform are his Guansters frequantly harrassing destitute Khmers Civilian along the borther, now their black glad troopers are faint. In a recent day the power of TADY spirit tooks one soon more will fallow. God bless Khmer all!!! Ah Siam you're next! Down to you!!! Down!!!.NOTE why I am using this ofensive to you? because you don't need peace, when you're looking for peace while show up your military power on my land, it mean YOU'RE EVIL THIEVE INVADER JERK!!!!! KHAO JAY MI??????
Do you need more temple? The prasat Muang sigh is another one of your temple or not. It settled in Khanchanabuir province in central plain near the border of Thai and Myanma. Do you need any more?
Or in Shukhothai, we have the temple also. If you use the old treaty in 1907. We cannot distrust it because it is not the time colonial right now. Please get out of the behavior like this. If you use the watershed, please give the Phar Viharn back and take your Ta muen. That will be the true story.
What is the world heritage or UNESCO do with you? Or you only need the proud of the ANKOR empire 1000 years ago. I am so regret on your destiny under the leader or politicians.
Prah viharn, Prasat Tamuan, Cham sagnam and Koh Kong Halek etc.. de jure and de facto belong to thailand because more percent of thais people have chance to visit the sites, and all modern infrastructure/raod are well connected from Thailand and mostly are constructed and developed by Thailand.
Kham do nothing with those prasats...letf them lonelyspare for long time.
Chatchai
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