Tuesday October 07, 2008
THANIDA TANSUBHAPOL
Bangkok Post
The political temperature along the Thai-Cambodian border has gone up again since troops from the two sides briefly exchanged gunfire on Friday, wounding two Thai soldiers.
The Thai-Cambodian border has been tense since the time Phnom Penh moved to register the Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage Site in July.
Tension had been building up after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's criticism that Thailand was politically unprepared to chair this year's Asean Summit and his denial of Cambodian encroachment on Thai soil at the Ta Kwai temple in Surin province in September.
It reached breaking point last Friday when nervous Cambodian troops opened fire on Thai soldiers patrolling near the Preah Vihear Temple, injuring two Thai para-military rangers from the Suranaree Task Force.
According to a Thai military report, the action was taken after the Cambodian soldiers consulted their supervisors by radio and were heard to receive instructions to fire at the Thai soldiers.
The Thai government has tried to use bilateral talks all along as a means to resolve the problems with its neigbour. Foreign ministers of the two countries met twice in late July and August.
However, the internal political problems in Thailand have made it difficult to bring the issue of negotiations before the Joint Boundary Commission (JBC), since Article 190 of the Constitution demands that the holding of such talks first receive parliamentary approval.
Those closely monitoring the situation along the border understand very well that the meeting between the heads of the regional border committee from Thailand and Cambodia on Aug 29 to discuss the redeployment of troops in equal numbers was postponed due to such difficulties.
The postponement did not mean Thailand was trying to prolong the problem as Cambodia might get the impression.
Phnom Penh has tried to put pressure on Thailand by saying that if the country keeps delaying the process, the issue would be forwarded to a multilateral session of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Nobody wants to go to war as fighting would only cause unnecessary deaths and destruction and benefit no one, especially border traders who will be affected the most.
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat and Foreign Minister Sompong Amornwiwat are due to hold another round of talks with their Cambodian counterparts on Oct 13. The Cambodian government needs to be more patient if it is serious about ending the border disputes.
The Thai-Cambodian border has been tense since the time Phnom Penh moved to register the Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage Site in July.
Tension had been building up after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's criticism that Thailand was politically unprepared to chair this year's Asean Summit and his denial of Cambodian encroachment on Thai soil at the Ta Kwai temple in Surin province in September.
It reached breaking point last Friday when nervous Cambodian troops opened fire on Thai soldiers patrolling near the Preah Vihear Temple, injuring two Thai para-military rangers from the Suranaree Task Force.
According to a Thai military report, the action was taken after the Cambodian soldiers consulted their supervisors by radio and were heard to receive instructions to fire at the Thai soldiers.
The Thai government has tried to use bilateral talks all along as a means to resolve the problems with its neigbour. Foreign ministers of the two countries met twice in late July and August.
However, the internal political problems in Thailand have made it difficult to bring the issue of negotiations before the Joint Boundary Commission (JBC), since Article 190 of the Constitution demands that the holding of such talks first receive parliamentary approval.
Those closely monitoring the situation along the border understand very well that the meeting between the heads of the regional border committee from Thailand and Cambodia on Aug 29 to discuss the redeployment of troops in equal numbers was postponed due to such difficulties.
The postponement did not mean Thailand was trying to prolong the problem as Cambodia might get the impression.
Phnom Penh has tried to put pressure on Thailand by saying that if the country keeps delaying the process, the issue would be forwarded to a multilateral session of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Nobody wants to go to war as fighting would only cause unnecessary deaths and destruction and benefit no one, especially border traders who will be affected the most.
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat and Foreign Minister Sompong Amornwiwat are due to hold another round of talks with their Cambodian counterparts on Oct 13. The Cambodian government needs to be more patient if it is serious about ending the border disputes.
16 comments:
Lao should rise up and take back their land that stole by Thai. Myanmar should teach Thai one more lesson by sacking Bangkok. To the South, here is your opportunity. Khmer, be strong, push back those scum.
The Thais must withdraw its troops from Camodia.
Cambodian patience is enough.
If you dont want to provoke war, you must not encroach Cambodia.
Kong Moeung
^ Word Up ^
There is nothing about them admitting that they fired first in this article. These Thai flip-flops love to menipulate the story. They made it seem like we took the first shot and injured these "innocent" Thai soldiers.
I'M KHMER KROM I WILL FIGHT FOR CAMBODIA!!BEAUSE I'M KHMER AND CAMBODIA BELONG TO CAMBODIAN!! LET RISE UP FIGHT THIS EVIL THAI!!
SAIGON
Just one word...The author of that article is a whore..coz she knows nothing about that...Fucking that author first before reading that article...
Thais r the manipulators! Bangcock post and The Nation r the fricking manipulating institutions. Thais tried to manipulate to the world about their culture is amazing in fact it is what they stole from Cambodia. They lied about their own history even to their young generation. Thais get rich because they got benifit from their poor neighbors.
Just kill those mother fucker thai in whatever means we can. Don't need to know who shoot first, just kill all of them......
Our patriotic Khmer Soldiers shot back and injured a few Siamese encroachers who opened fire at their former slave-master (Khmer).
This is just a simple lesson that a master normally lessons the slaves. There are more serious to come if the slaves are still not obedient.
And worst still though, If not because our Khmer heroes were too angry then their bullets would have hit a the whole batallion of those former slaves of Khmer including the author of this article.
12:17 PM
You should rise up and fight Ah Sen!
"It reached breaking point last Friday when nervous Cambodian troops opened fire on Thai soldiers patrolling near the Preah Vihear Temple, injuring two Thai para-military rangers from the Suranaree Task Force"...
This is Thais'True Colour. They Provoked wars at the borders firing at Cambodia soldier first.
Chin (Chinese) men choal kbuon - Youns (Vietnamese) men choal Put - Thais men choal Chechov.
Nore more verbal talk with Thais, but Gun Talking and use the Rule of the GUN.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2008100722002/National-news/Soldier-tells-his-side-of-border-clash.html
Ask Ah Hun Sen if this animal is patient enough?
"Patient" is Hun Sen's middle name.
10:21 PM
If Cambodia has leaders as a hothead like you, we'd be back in the stone age again so many times already.
This is the 21th century. Staying cool is the gentlemen way of showing to the world that you are the peaceful one. Being an aggressor puts you on the list of a lot of bad shit by other countries.
human can only tolerate to a certain extend; too much pressure, the bubble will burst, especially if the stupid pad thugs don't know when to stop pushing the wrong button!!!
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