Original report from Phnom Penh
23 April 2009
Moeung Son, the chairman of the Khmer Civilization Foundation, requested $9.2 million in compensation from the Thai government for the destruction of Cambodian property near Preah Vihear temple during cross-border fighting earlier this month.
Skirmishes between Thai and Cambodian security forces April 3 led to the deaths of at least two Thai soldiers and the destruction under mortar fire of a Cambodian market and houses of 261 families.
Moeung Son told reporters at a press conference he had taken up a thumb-print petition over the weekend, of families that lost their homes in the fighting, which he used to file a complaint through the Thai Embassy Thursday morning.
“The Thai government must be completely responsible for all the destruction of people’s property because of the fighting,” Moeung Son said. “We must struggle to demand compensation from the Thai government for the destruction of property, the loss of jobs and psychological suffering.”
Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said the request was “very important” in demanding the Thais take responsibility for the damages.
“It shows the civil society’s duty to protect the Cambodian people and the country’s interest,” he said.
The government has collected evidence of the destruction in the April fighting and has sent some documentation to the Thai government already, he said.
Thai Embassy officials could not be reached for comment.
Skirmishes between Thai and Cambodian security forces April 3 led to the deaths of at least two Thai soldiers and the destruction under mortar fire of a Cambodian market and houses of 261 families.
Moeung Son told reporters at a press conference he had taken up a thumb-print petition over the weekend, of families that lost their homes in the fighting, which he used to file a complaint through the Thai Embassy Thursday morning.
“The Thai government must be completely responsible for all the destruction of people’s property because of the fighting,” Moeung Son said. “We must struggle to demand compensation from the Thai government for the destruction of property, the loss of jobs and psychological suffering.”
Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said the request was “very important” in demanding the Thais take responsibility for the damages.
“It shows the civil society’s duty to protect the Cambodian people and the country’s interest,” he said.
The government has collected evidence of the destruction in the April fighting and has sent some documentation to the Thai government already, he said.
Thai Embassy officials could not be reached for comment.
11 comments:
Thai governments must take full responsibility for damaged people village and market, i urge our government to put pressure on Thailand to compensate in full...
Thai must paid for what they had done...
Cambodian must learns from Thai, next time they fire long range artillery, we will fire back and destroy their home also...
As a Cambodia, I am strongly support for this will...
they must compensate the people whose business, livelihood, resident, and so one were interrupted, displaced, damaged and so on. cambodia gov't must demand thailand to compensate for their cruel act against innocent civilians and so on. they obviously provoked cambodian to fight in self-defense. many khmer people in the area were being displaced and have losses and suffered from mental anguish, mental health repercussions, etc, etc... they must pay for khmer people's suffering like they did to cambodia when anti-thai protesters burned their embassy in 2003. cambodia must demand the same from thailand to compensate our people's physical and emotional pain and sufferings. keep pushing for it. hopefully that will make them think twice next time when they want to fight with us by their bully and violation of international law, etc...
I just checked google map about Cambodia. Should anyone write a petition to google that they miss spelling Cambodia towns and provinces. It seems like google tries to use the upper letter as the Vietnamese alphabets. Does google try to colonize Cambodia under Vietminh or the Vietminh asks google to do that. Please go to Google and check it out even the word "Phnom Penh" spells wrong as Phnum Penh with assentegue character on top.
Thailand is fucken cheap bastard! they can not fight like a man, they destroyed people property and the Temple statue instead! the whole world knew how weak and chicken shitty thai army are! if you are a man, let's fight like a man, don't fight with people property...you fucken gay son of a bitch!!
Thailand super power my ass! Thailand is full of gay and lesbian, of caurse they can fight like gay and lesbian....
Thailand is khmer lands...
thailand is the land of bitches and aggressive, bossy bottoms homosexual. all they so is whining and bitching all day. they all ought to get a slap on the face for those drama queens! the land of confused people who don't know whether to be a boy or a girl. not that i care what they do, however, it just goes to show their true character, though! a real gentleman do not do any of that. cambodia needs a real man! god bless cambodia.
To my khmer brave slodier at Phnom Trop and Eagle field "Viel Intry" don't forget to laid more mine in the area and let those special force "KO MONG DO" crawls on it...BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Khmer rouge will give Ah Thai-thieft more body bags...
Hahaha! Thai Fags can't fight like a man! they are too gay and too lesbian! Thailand got no gut to fight with khmer rouge, Thai only good destroying property...hahaha!
Thailand is pussy...
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