Saturday, December 27, 2008

A great Khmer historian will publish a book on the history of Preah Vihear temple

The spectacular aerial view of Preah Vihear temple with the bird's eye view of Cambodia to the left.

Kampuchea Thmey newspaper
25th December, 2008
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization

A commentary book about the history of Preah Vihear from the time of its construction to the present time, including the Thai invasion, will be published soon. The book was written by an academic working at the Royal Cambodian Academy.

Dr. Ros Chantrabot, the author of the book and vice-rector of the Royal Cambodian Academy, told Kampuchea Thmey that he plans to publish a book titled “Prasat Preah Vihear” (Preah Vihear Temple), which is a book on the history of Preah Vihear from the time of its construction until the present time.

He said that the book will be divided into three chapters. The first chapter will be about the history, the builder-kings, the stone inscriptions and the architectures. Chapter two will be about the court case in the International Court of Justice (1962) in The Hague which Cambodia won. The third chapter will be about the inscription of Preah Vihear temple in the world heritage list, including detailing about the Thai opposition of the inscription. It also details about the Thai invasion, starting on the 15th of July, 2008 onward.

Dr. Chatrabot said that the delay in the publication of the book is because he wants to wait to see if the present disputes with Thailand will change cause.

Dr. Chantrabot said that the book will be put to the government (Council of Ministers) for checking before publication. He said that this is because up until now there is no French historian has published any books on the history on Preah Vihear temple, only books about tourism guide that have been published.

Dr. Chatrabot said that the book has been personally researched and written by himself. The book will be 300 pages thick and 5000 copies will published in the first edition.

Mr. Phay Siphan, spokesman for the Council of Ministers, cannot be contacted for comments, but Dr. Chantrabot said that the publication of the book does not need government’s permission because it is the works of his personal research.

46 comments:

Anonymous said...

this the great idea of a great man of the great kingdom...as Cambodian I love to see it as soon as posible...

Anonymous said...

I am so anxious to read what Mr. Chantrabot has written and his findings to the issue of Preah Vihear. If there are researchers who wish to write about Preah Vihear then France should be the very first place to look. Because Cambodia and France seem to have many personal affaires since the day of King Suramarit or its inception in the year of 1863. I wish you the very best Mr. Chantrabot in finding the truth about Preah Vihear and to end this life long controversial issue for good.

I shall wait for your book Mr. Chantrabot. I thank you.


ST

Anonymous said...

It will be sometime before they can fabricated the story though.

Anonymous said...

At last someone is writing something about Preah Vihear, especially the historical parts of it. The first chapter which detailed the history of Preah Vihear and the second chapter about the 1962 ICJ court case are very important. I hope the book is very factual on the history of P.Vihear. All details must be referenced and sourced.

Anonymous said...

I' m very excited for this publication. It will be a great chronicling of the history of Preah Vihear.

Anonymous said...

What's a big deal? Just ask Ah Svacrava to snap up something to entertaining you as usual.

Sacrava said...

Chumreap Suor Bang Banddhid Chantraboth,

Many thanks for your good Heart and real knowledgement on Preah Vihear's History & its events.

All the best to you and your family
in coming New Year 2009.

Cheers,
Pi Bun H.Ung

Anonymous said...

It will be the first chronicle of Preah Vihear temple. I hope details in the book are checked/cross-checked carefully before publications. All details must be factual and well-researched.

Anonymous said...

The French has published many research documents on Khmer monuments built between the 8th and the 14th century. Dr. Chantrabot will the first Khmer to write on Prasat Preah Vihear that the French had missed. Since his book will be based on the Khmer bas relief or inscription and other facts from Prasat Preah Vihear, the book is a science based on reality, not fiction. He should publish the book now rather than later, regardless of political situations inside and outside of Cambodia.

Anonymous said...

Cambodia lack of everything especially good books and due to political reason which restricted all kinds of publication and a very few Cambodian author can publish anything without prior approval from HUN SEN government!

I just wish more well educated Cambodian intellectuals would publish more books! Cambodia is a country starves of book!

Anonymous said...

It is interesting to see how the monkey can claimed to own the temple but hardly had any written record about it, hahaha, LOL, hahaha, ...

Anonymous said...

The friendly response to the article written in the Nation by Mr. Supalak Ganjanakhundee for the balance of public opinion and helping build the good relations between Cambodia and Thai.
By Mr. Ros Nouvdarab

Kasit rules out Thai ownership
By Supalak Ganjanakhundee
The Nation, Published on December 26, 2008
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/12/26/politics/politics_30091895.php
A return to Thai ownership of the Preah Vihear Temple is not an option, new Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said yesterday. But Thailand would maintain cooperation with Cambodia over the historic and controversial Hindu temple, he said.
The Preah Vihear case would be handled in line with the 1904 and 1907 Siam-Franco treaties, the 1962 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling and the 2000 Memorandum of Understanding on boundary demarcation, he said.
The ICJ ruled in 1962 that the Preah Vihear belonged to Cambodia but the surrounding land - and access to it - have remained in dispute.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajava said in June - while he was opposition leader and in debate with former foreign minister Noppadon Pattama - that the ICJ had decided only the ruined temple building belonged to Cambodia. The piece of land on which the temple sat was Thailand's.
Cambodia government absolutely rejected Thailand claimed that land surrounding the temple is belonged to Thailand. According to the Map of Dangrek and in the Annex I, used by The International Court of Justice (ICJ) 1962, The court by nine votes to three FINDS THAT THE TEMPLE OF PREAH VIHEAR IS SITUATED IN TERRITORY UNDER SOVEREIGNTY OF CAMBODIA.
During that scrutinized session

The Court raised the question: “THE REAL QUESTION, THEREFORE, WHICH IS THE ESSENTIAL ONE IN THIS CASE, IS WHETHER THE PARTIES DID ADOPT THE ANNEX I MAP, AND THE LINE INDICATED ON IT, AS REPRESENTING THE OUTCOME OF THE WORK OF DELIMITATION OF THE FRONTIER IN THE REGION OF PREAH VIHEAR, THEREBY CONFERRING ON IT A BIND-ING CHARACTER” (p.22, par.3 Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders, International Court of Justice - Case Concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear - Judgment of 15 June 1962);

The Court answered:

1.“THE COURT HOWEVER CONSIDERS THAT THAILAND IN 1908 -1909 DID ACCEPT THE ANNEX I MAP AS REPRESENTING THE OUTCOME OF THE WORK OF DELIMITATION, AND HENCE RECOGNIZED THE LINE ON THAT MAP AS BEING THE FRONTIER LINE, THE EFFECT OF WHICH IS TO SITUATE PREAH VIHEAR IN CAMBODIAN TERRITORY” (p.32, par.5 of the same Report of Judgment, Advisory Opinions and Orders mentioned above).
2.BOTH PARTIES, BY THEIR CONDUCT, RECOGNIZED THE LINE AND THEREBY IN EFFECT AGREED TO REGARD IT AS BEING THE FRONTIER LINE” (p.33, par.1 of the same Report of Judgment, Advisory Opinions and Orders mentioned above).
3.“THE COURT CONSIDERS THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE ANNEX I MAP BY THE PARTIES CAUSED THE MAP TO ENTER THE TREATY SETTLEMENT AND TO BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF IT” (p.33, par.4 of the same Report of Judgment, Advisory Opinions and Orders mentioned above).
4.“THE COURT, THEREFORE, FEELS BOUND, AS A MATTER OF TREATY INTERPRETATION, TO PRONOUNCE IN FAVOR OF THE LINE AS MAPPED IN THE DISPUTED AREA” (p.35, par.3 of the same Report of Judgment, Advisory Opinions and Orders mentioned above).

The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) demanded recently the foreign ministry recall ownership of the 11th century Khmer sanctuary.
Its call was unlikely to succeed as the foreign ministry has been examining boundary demarcation and provisional arrangements for the area.
The new minister Kasit, an active member of the PAD before taking the office, said he would not change previous foreign ministry resolutions with Phnom Penh.
Vasin Teeravechyan would retain his position as co-chair of the Thai-Cambodia Joint Commission on Demarcation for Land Boundary, Kasit said.
As the sovereign and civilized nation through out the different array of abiding the international obligations, THAI hopefully carries out what the other UN member nations that always observed, implemented to maintain and preserving regional or world peace and security. Thai-Cambodia Joint Commission on Demarcation for Land Boundary or JBC which Cambodia and Thai agreed since year 2000 and Term of Reference 2003, Thai agreed to honor of those principles, but not Thai troops occupied and threatened Cambodia territory and national security.
"In general, it is our intention to cooperate with Cambodia and the Unesco (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation), he told reporters.
As experiences Thailand’s “cooperate” with Cambodia should be one of cultural orientations not politics in the case of Preah Vihear.
The minister said Thailand should have a representative in the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) to protect and develop Cambodia's Preah Vihear.
Through the record of the meeting on August 16, 2008, the 3rd point of the agreement, by invitation from Cambodia, Thailand agreed to be member of the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) with the framework of international cooperation. This record of the meeting was signed by H.E. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister and H.E. Dr. Manaspas Xuto, Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Cambodia questions whether Thailand representative participation in the ICC is “liability or asset?” for this prestigious organization that play a good role international model for preserving and developing in sustainability for the world heritage site. If we looked back what Thai down played at the world heritage session in Christchurch, New Zealand and Quebec, Canada in the term of Thai cooperation with Cambodia to protect and preserve the Preah Vihear for the benefit of all Humanity, is a nightmare for those who love the jewel of human achievement as culture in the universal and exceptional value.
However, Thailand would have a problem in taking up this position since the PAD opposed the idea, saying it meant recognition of Cambodia's sovereignty over the temple.
Cambodia government do not mine, however international obligation should be abided and respected for the dignity and good neighbor as civilized state.
"We have to weigh between presence and absence in the ICC," said the ministry's Permanent Secretary Virasakdi Futrakul.
With a representative in the body, Thailand would have access to the temple's administration, he said. But, by the same token, Thailand could also be outvoted.
Even though Preah Vihear Temple is now a UNESCO World Heritage site, but Cambodia as a “Sovereign Nation” retains the ownership and rights and also UNESCO note that the inscription “engages the collective responsibility of the international community to ensure its protection”. Not the politic neither beneficiary of Thai interest for the other issues.
However, Thailand's national world heritage committee would make the final decision on the ICC, Virasakdi said, noting the foreign ministry would send a representative to the committee.
Thai should instead focuses on redeployment troop where Thai troop illegally occupied after 15 July 2008 and all the border work as JBC has been committed through out the different meeting.
Kasit said his previously provocative stance in the PAD over the Preah Vihear conflict would not jeopardise relations with Cambodia as its leaders, notably Prime Minister Hun Sen, were familiar with him since they worked together on the Paris Accord on Peace in Cambodia in 1989. Hun Sen was the first to send congratulations to Prime Minister Abhisit, he said.
What the different between Samdech HUN Sen and KASIT is Peace, Friendship and cooperation preserving.

Anonymous said...

2:57,

It is interesting to see how a monkey like you can claim otherwise, hahaha, LOL, hahaha, ...

PREAH VIHEAR + CAMBODIA = FOREVER

Anonymous said...

Phra Viharn + Cambodia = Impossible.

Anonymous said...

6:38 PM...too late you idiot. Go live in your fantasy land. When you wanna come back to reality, then join us. Otherwise, keep dreaming on.

People in Surin = Identity crisis just like their masters in Bangkok.

Anonymous said...

2:54 -

Do you know why Khmer intellectuals do not write more books?

Because Khmer readers would rather read a book on how to make "prahok" written by a Westerner than by a Khmer author.

When a Khmer writes something, one immediately suspects that the book may not be accurate or the topic not well researched. A Westerner can B.S. through a book and he becomes an instant authority on the subject.

Everyone buys his book, and no one questions its accuracy. The result is that the Khmer author starves as a writer while the white author get financially compensated for his.

The only Khmer authors who have been able to sell books are those who write about the Pol Pot experience and praise their white masters for giving them new lives in America. That's the only way a Khmer writer can support himself from his craft.

He can't make a living as an intellectual or authority on a particular academic subject because everyone just assumes he is not credible or does not have the intellectual capacity to write about such matters.

That's not going to change until the Khmer people lose their slave mentality.

And it's not going to be easy if the overseas Khmers keep telling us to become slaves of the imperialists.

I'm sorry to have to write this, but the truth is the truth.

- Khmer Patriot, Ph.D.

Anonymous said...

8:35 PM,

You speak of Khmer people needing to lose their slave mentality. Son, you need to take a closer look at your theuk dey khmer. No fucking overseas Khmer is telling you to become slaves of the imperialists. It's your own decision that manifests your destiny. You think living under the CPP is lovely, then fine. Live under the CPP as you want and be proud of the misery that occurs every day in Cambodia. And what? You think you're not a slave to ah samdech pleur hun sen?

Anonymous said...

Hey 8:35pm.

you are uneducated and Thai's slave.

You are not Ph.D. The real Ph.D don't talk you.

kkk

Anonymous said...

to the so called " khmer ph D"

Yes its true that " some " khmer might be the case for not buying khmer' written book is possible.


But for you to jump to conclusion and to applied like "all" khmer is the same! Is absolutley wrong !


And especially with your interlectuall" ph D" to draw this conculsion is very sad!

The major thing is the truth and all truth should come out and put it into writing regardless who write or who his or her name is spell out like.

Anonymous said...

Summary of the Summary of the Judgment of 15 June 1962

CASE CONCERNING THE TEMPLE OF PREAH VIHEAR
(MERITS)
Judgment of 15 June 1962

Proceedings in the case concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear, between Cambodia and Thailand, were instituted on 6 October 1959 by an Application of the Government of Cambodia; the Government of Thailand having raised two preliminary objections, the Court, by its Judgment of 26 May 1961, found that it had jurisdiction.

In its Judgment on the merits the Court, by nine votes to three, found that the Temple of Preah Vihear was situated in territory under the sovereignty of Cambodia and, in consequence, that Thailand was under an obligation to withdraw any military or police forces, or other guards or keepers, stationed by her at the Temple, or in its vicinity on Cambodian territory.

By seven votes to five, the Court found that Thailand was under an obligation to restore to Cambodia any sculptures, stelae, fragments of monuments, sandstone model and ancient pottery which might, since the date of the occupation of the Temple by Thailand in 1954, have been removed from the Temple or the Temple area by the Thai authorities.

Judge Tanaka and Judge Morelli appended to the Judgment a Joint Declaration. Vice-President Alfaro and Judge Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice appended Separate Opinions; Judges Moreno Quintana, Wellington Koo and Sir Percy Spender appended Dissenting Opinions.

*

* *

In its Judgment, the Court found that the subject of the dispute was sovereignty over the region of the Temple of Preah Vihear. This ancient sanctuary, partially in ruins, stood on a promontory of the Dangrek range of mountains which constituted the boundary between Cambodia and Thailand. The dispute had its fons et origo in the boundary settlements made in the period 1904-1908 between France, then conducting the foreign relations of Indo-China, and Siam. The application of the Treaty of 13 February 1904 was, in particular, involved. That Treaty established the general character of the frontier the exact boundary of which was to be delimited by a Franco-Siamese Mixed Commission

In the eastern sector of the Dangrek range, in which Preah Vihear was situated, the frontier was to follow the watershed line. For the purpose of delimiting that frontier, it was agreed, at a meeting held on 2 December 1906, that the Mixed Commission should travel along the Dangrek range carrying out all the necessary reconnaissance, and that a survey officer of the French section of the Commission should survey the whole of the eastern part of the range. It had not been contested that the Presidents of the French and Siamese sections duly made this journey, in the course of which they visited the Temple of Preah Vihear. In January-February 1907, the President of the French section had reported to his Government that the frontier-line had been definitely established. It therefore seemed clear that a frontier had been surveyed and fixed, although there was no record of any decision and no reference to the Dangrek region in any minutes of the meetings of the Commission after 2 December 1906. Moreover, at the time when the Commission might have met for the purpose of winding up its work, attention was directed towards the conclusion of a further Franco-Siamese boundary treaty, the Treaty of 23 March 1907.

The final stage of the delimitation was the preparation of maps. The Siamese Government, which did not dispose of adequate technical means, had requested that French officers should map the frontier region. These maps were completed in the autumn of 1907 by a team of French officers, some of whom had been members of the Mixed Commission, and they were communicated to the Siamese Government in 1908. Amongst them was a map of the Dangrek range showing Preah Vihear on the Cambodian side. It was on that map (filed as Annex I to its Memorial) that Cambodia had principally relied in support of her claim to sovereignty over the Temple. Thailand, on the other hand, had contended that the map, not being the work of the Mixed Commission, had no binding character; that the frontier indicated on it was not the true watershed line and that the true watershed line would place the Temple in Thailand, that the map had never been accepted by Thailand or, alternatively, that if Thailand had accepted it she had done so only because of a mistaken belief that the frontier indicated corresponded with the watershed line.

The Annex I map was never formally approved by the Mixed Commission, which had ceased to function some months before its production. While there could be no reasonable doubt that it was based on the work of the surveying officers in the Dangrek sector, the Court nevertheless concluded that, in its inception, it had no binding character. It was clear from the record, however, that the maps were communicated to the Siamese Government as purporting to represent the outcome of the work of delimitation; since there was no reaction on the part of the Siamese authorities, either then or for many years, they must be held to have acquiesced. The maps were moreover communicated to the Siamese members of the Mixed Commission, who said nothing. to the Siamese Minister of the Interior, Prince Damrong, who thanked the French Minister in Bangkok for them, and to the Siamese provincial governors, some of whom knew of Preah Vihear. If the Siamese authorities accepted the Annex I map without investigation, they could not now plead any error vitiating the reality of their consent.

The Siamese Government and later the Thai Government had raised no query about the Annex I map prior to its negotiations with Cambodia in Bangkok in 1958. But in 1934-1935 a survey had established a divergence between the map line and the true line of the watershed, and other maps had been produced showing the Temple as being in Thailand: Thailand had nevertheless continued also to use and indeed to publish maps showing Preah Vihear as lying in Cambodia. Moreover, in the course of the negotiations for the 1925 and 1937 Franco-Siamese Treaties, which confirmed the existing frontiers, and in 1947 in Washington before the Franco-Siamese Conciliation Commission, it would have been natural for Thailand to raise the matter: she did not do so. The natural inference was that she had accepted the frontier at Preah Vihear as it was drawn on the map, irrespective of its correspondence with the watershed line. Thailand had stated that having been, at all material times, in possession of Preah Vihear, she had had no need to raise the matter; she had indeed instanced the acts of her administrative authorities on the ground as evidence that she had never accepted the Annex I line at Preah Vihear. But the Court found it difficult to regard such local acts as negativing the consistent attitude of the central authorities. Moreover, when in 1930 Prince Damrong, on a visit to the Temple, was officially received there by the French Resident for the adjoining Cambodian province, Siam failed to react.

From these facts, the court concluded that Thailand had accepted the Annex I map. Even if there were any doubt in this connection, Thailand was not precluded from asserting that she had not accepted it since France and Cambodia had relied upon her acceptance and she had for fifty years enjoyed such benefits as the Treaty of 1904 has conferred on her. Furthermore, the acceptance of the Annex I map caused it to enter the treaty settlement; the Parties had at that time adopted an interpretation of that settlement which caused the map line to prevail over the provisions of the Treaty and, as there was no reason to think that the Parties had attached any special importance to the line of the watershed as such, as compared with the overriding importance of a final regulation of their own frontiers, the Court considered that the interpretation to be given now would be the same.

The Court therefore felt bound to pronounce in favour of the frontier indicated on the Annex I map in the disputed area and it became unnecessary to consider whether the line as mapped did in fact correspond to the true watershed line.

For these reasons, the Court upheld the submissions of Cambodia concerning sovereignty over Preah Vihear.

Anonymous said...

There are many good schools that award PhD for higher education and research works. I do not know what school 8:35 PM got his PhD from, probably from the same school HunXen got his, or through a correspondence school. I am just curious as to what kind of shake-and-bake research did 8:35PM perform for his PhD degree?.

Anonymous said...

ITS PRASAT PREAH VIHEAR YOU DUMB FUCKIN THAI>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GET IT STRAIGHT FAKAS DONT GET IT TWISTED ..........WE CAMBODIANS EVEN GOT IT ON OUR MONEY SO FUCK YOU THAILAND.......................FUCK YOU THAIS

Anonymous said...

Thank you 1:50AM for the details on the 1962 ICJ decision that Prasad Preah Vihear belongs to Cambodia. Annex I of the 1907 Franco Siam treaty clearly shows where the land boundary and Pheah Vihear are located. The present Thai government cannot refute what they had agreed to, for mnany years. Thai Prince Damrong even thanked the French joint border commissiion for the finished border survey work (mapping). The water shed question (which put Preah Viher on the Thai side) is raised by Thailand as a sign of Thai border disagreemnet much later than 1907.

Anonymous said...

2:03 AM,

Who are you to interrogate me about my Ph.D. thesis?

My research was rigorous enough to allow me to gain a formidable command of the English language despite having never lived in an English-speaking country.

In fact, my English is better than those of you who have lived 25 to 30 years in the U.S.

My suggestion to all of you overseas Khmers is: learn to master your adopted languages (English and French) before you attack my Ph.D.

Otherwise, you're just making fools of yourselves.

- Khmer Patriot, Ph.D.

Anonymous said...

How can Ah Pleu-oversea master anything, 3:34, when all they can do is making donut in the back of the kitchen, or picking tomato in the farm, ..., or selling drug on the street?

Anonymous said...

4:57 AM,
Talk all you want. The only thing you're good in life for is:

(1) Driving over to Svay Pak in search of 10 year old girls to have sex with.

(2) Throw acid on other people's faces.

(3) Despise westerners and talk shit as if you're better than everyone else, but at the same time you spend American $$$$$ and wear western clothes and drive western/Japanese cars.

(4) Putting down other Cambodians because you envy them. And when you can't you act like a thug.

(5) Sucking ah samdech maha pleur hun sen's dick so that one day you may think that he actually cares about you.

(6) Being deluded by CPP. Have narrow-minded and outdated ways of thinking which leads to your slave mentality and non-progressive ways to solve things.

(7) Criticize westerners because you simply can't blame yourself even though you are part of the problem.

(8) So stupid, doesn't even wear helmets when driving his moto.

(9) Spreading AIDS.

Anonymous said...

ah pler PhD

Your English is no where near a real PhD like Lao Mong Hay. Panel of supervisors/editors correct all sorts of typos and grammar before it goes to printing.

I wote clusy Engkish for my thesis, yet it was approved by the panel. I just left the glish to tghe panel to correct. My thesis was entitled, " How Cambodia has been raped by cow thieves".

It wil be avilable soon from The Borders bookshop, Amazon.

Anonymous said...

3:34am, tertiary institutions don't award Ph.D because someone has a good command of the English language. they award Ph.D to someone with original/good ideas about certain topics. Your Bnglish might be slightly better, but don't brag so much because your English is nowhere near a Ph.D candidate. And your ideas are cheap, childish and thuggish like your master, Hun Sen. Your Ph.D is worthless or worth less than an American high school diploma. Where did you get your Ph.D, from backyard universities which have mushroomed in Phnom Penh? I think you should stop showing off your Ph.D because it is very embarrassing to yourself and your family because your cheap and thuggish behaviors are undeserving of a learned man. you are not a doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), you are a Doctor of Psycho-maniac.

Anonymous said...

Sadly enough, this Viet troller posing as Ph.D from Hanoi seems to enjoy his multiple personalities and identities bouncing back and forth between a one-liner anonymous and Patriot Ph.D bragging and boasting his writing skills...ROFL!

So just as we all may have guessed, this so-called Ph.D from Hanoi has been here on KI-Media for as long time now...

Come again Mr. Viet troller, Ph.D from Hanoi...when did you have time to go to school huh??? Damn phony Viet troller!!!

Anonymous said...

ហេ អាចុយម្រ៉ាយ ដុកទ័រ ពីហាណូយ អាឯង កើត​ AIDS ជិតងាប់ហើយ នៅតែធ្វើ ខ្ញុំកញ្ជះបាតជើង ពពួកអាយួនកន្តបទៀត?
ហេតុអី ប្រាប់អញបានទេ អាចុយម្រ៉ាយ?

I know you have khmer unicode on your machine and capable of reading it although not that proficient...

Anonymous said...

Preah Vihear is Cambodia's. Was, is, and will be. So get over it, deal with it, and accept it. And if the siem decide to take any course of action that compromises Cambodia's territorial integrity and the sovereignty of the Cambodian people, WE WILL FIGHT BACK AND IT WON'T BE PRETTY.

dey khmer, cheat khmer. cheyo kampuchea!

Anonymous said...

You stupid idiot (11:47), the Siem is not the one who stole the temple from Khmer on the mountain. It is Ah monkey from Cambodia who did it, and they will not succeed.

Anonymous said...

1:21am is a Khmer traitor posing as a Thai. He a Khmer who is a foreigner's slave. Shame on you and your family.

Anonymous said...

1:21 PM, you are a sad monkey on the mountain. You are a truly Rain Man. So sad that your mom didn't seek help on time. Well, its too late now. kill your self.

Anonymous said...

Shut the fuck up, crack head (1:46). There is nothing you can do to change the fact. That is Phra Viharn belongs to Khmer on the mountain.

Anonymous said...

3:22 PM,

like I said on the comments on the other articles. You simply just need to fuck yourself with your little penis.

Anonymous said...

The temple has been around for nearly 1,000 years, and Ah monkey just decided to fabricate history about it belongs to them, hahaha, LOL, hahaha.

Who are you trying to kid, motherfuckers?

The temple belongs to Khmer on the mountain.

Anonymous said...

Mr. (6.22PM)!

The temples were built by the khmers. they were the master of all at the time. It doesn't mean anything 'Khmer on the mountain'. The Khmer Empire who built them (the temples).Ok.

I know that khmers Surin love and proud to be Khmers. When they stand in front of Angkor Wat, they almost break down in tear. How they could become the minority in the land of their own.

Silin Ra
rasilin@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

No, the empire can't own anything, but it can built things to give to people in different area, village, or town,.... No empire or kingdom on this planet owns anything. It is the people in the area who own it. They will decide to get rid of the temple, monument, ..., or whatever. Get the picture? In other words, the US doesn't own the Empire State building, but the New Yorker does, and they can decide what to do with it, no body else can.

Anonymous said...

4:03 AM,

There's a difference between Preah Vihear and the Empire State Building in New York. Preah Vihear is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Before it became a World Heritage Site, Preah Vihear was given the category of Protected Landscape (IUCN category V )which requires national authority and governmental supervision over the monuments by the government of that sovereign nation.

For your information, the Empire State building is recognized as a National Historic Landmark by the US government although the building is owned and managed by W&H Properties. This means that its status is recognized as a national symbol but ownership doesn't belong to the US government.

In the case of Preah Vihear, its status is more like the equivalent of a National Park in the United States. In the US, national parks are a reserve of land, declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. National parks are protected areas of IUCN category II.

Anonymous said...

Phra Viharn was stolen from Khmer on the mountain (the owner) and gave it to UNESCO, and that's a crime against humanity.

Anonymous said...

Ah monkey will paid for that!

Anonymous said...

Phra Viharn was wrongly pronounced by the Thais. Since it belonged to the Khmer, it should be pronounced Preah Vihear. What does it means 'Khmer on the mountain'? It was built for the Shiva (Hindus God) by the Khmer king. Get the picture? Thus it belongs to Khmer culture, pride, heritage and to all Khmer descendants. And it has to be pronounced in Khmer alphabet.

Who is 'Khmer on the mountain'? What language do they speak? Are they proude to be Khmer? Do they love to be Khmer?

Don't tell me that the 'Khmer on the mountain' speak Thai. That is ridiculous! Only 'Thais monkey on the mountain' speak Thai and wrongly pronounced the temple name 'Phra Viharn'.

resarchitecture said...

Mr. (4:03)

The temple was not built for the different people in different areas. Are you out of your fucking mind? The temple was built for the Hindus God (Shiva) by the Khmer King. It is not a private investment like Empire State building. It is like the Pyramides built by the Egytian dynasty for the Pharaon.

And one thing for sure 'Only the Thai fucking monkey want the temple.' The temple was not built for you Thai fucking monkey. Ok ? Get it? Go and ask the asshole Phumbibol(n) Adulyadeth.

Anonymous said...

3:22 Pm,

No Khmer wanted to change the fact. You the one.
Preah Vehear always belong to Cambodia - (minus)apes on the mountain.

That is the FACT.

Anonymous said...

You are a one sad monkey on the mountain.

Khmer on the mountain =
"A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY"

Sad,sad,sad,sad Ape.