Thursday, May 21, 2009

The occupation of Chak Chreng area by Thai troops renewed border tension



The spot with the red circle is Chak Chreng where the 20 Thai troops had set up camp.

Cambodian troops based at the foot of the Dangrek Mountain Ranges at O'Chak Chreng.

Source: Koh Santepheap newspaper
Reported in English by Khmerization

Cambodia had deployed 30 troops to Chak Chreng, a Cambodian territory about one kilometre west of Ta Sem Pass, after 20 Thai troops had been camping in the area for nearly a week and refused to withdraw, reports Koh Santepheap.

Chak Chreng is located 6oo metres on top of Phnom Dangrek mountain and about 7 kilometre from Preah Vihear temple.

According to maps from the 1904-1908 treaty Chak Chreng is a Cambodian territory, but the Thais used their own unilaterally-drawn maps and claimed that the area is located in Thai territory. They said they will withdraw only if their commanders asked them to withdraw or when the Khmer-Thai Border Commission completed their demarcation works in the area, which have not started yet.

Gen. Srey Doek, commander of the Preah Vihear precinct, said that the Thais still refuse to withdraw after four negotiations with the Thai commander. He said that Cambodia had shown patience and restraint since the first day of the border conflicts which started when Thai troops occupied the Preah Vihear areas on 15th July, 2008. The general said that the Thais took advantage of the Cambodian patience and continued to cause one trouble after another.

Cambodian commanders said that tensions at Chak Chreng can lead to armed clashes if Thai troops still refuse to withdraw.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

thailand has no concept of respecting the international treaty. they seems to always come up with their own unilateral map which of course not officially agreed upon with cambodia. cambodia only honors the 1907-1908 treaty map; any new map that thailand (siem) later unilaterally drawn up by taking advantage of civil conflict in cambodia and so is never recognized as official map by any cambodian people and gov't. i'm sure once we take them to court again. this issue will be settled permanently. cambodia will deal with them by using the international law and international treaty, etc... thailand is barking up the wrong tree or biting on more than they can chew! it's called greed, to say the least. god bless cambodia.

Anonymous said...

go back home thailand, this is not a way to keep peace with cambodia! god bless cambodia.

Anonymous said...

It shows that Thailand does not want to use peaceful means to settle border disputes. They tried to occupy all areas first before border demarcations. Any areas they occupied now will become the new demarcation lines, whether Cambodia like it or not. If Thailand is a law-abiding country, Thailand has nothing to worry to use the 1904-1908 treaty because it is the only internationally-recognized document between the two countries.

Anonymous said...

stop barking about thai! the problem is our strongman ah kwak! who dare not kicking thai ass and the tha know very well how chicken he is ...sack down that bad breath PM!

Anonymous said...

U dam right! 6:52AM.Also, ah Gen. srey doek is afraid of Thais kick is behind just like his master u called ah kwak. Maybe he kwak, too.

Anonymous said...

6:52 & 7:29

You piece of worthless shit!

Anonymous said...

Yeah, problem is ah kwak hun sen. if he was tough and strong the thai would not dare to violate. he is a piece of worthless cow shit.

Anonymous said...

thai never had challenged khmer like this during the regime of our past leaders...this shows clearly that Thai look at ah kwak and his government as a piece of cow SHIT!

Anonymous said...

Come on, folks! Perhaps everyone here is disproportionately reacted to the situation. Everything is already in control. There's no sense of getting fretted or jitter about the situation.

PPU

Anonymous said...

Khmer rouge should blast that area with long range missile! if they dont withraw out of that place...