An angry Hun Xen (Photo: DAP news)2009-09-28
Associated Press
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that anyone from Thailand who illegally intrudes into Cambodian territory claimed by both countries will be shot.
He also said that if Thai officials seeking to negotiate the border demarcation line present their own maps during bilateral talks, Cambodian officials should tear them up or walk out.
Speaking at the opening of the Tourism Ministry's new office in the capital, Phnom Penh, he charged that Thailand's leaders wanted to base their territorial claims on maps they drew up themselves because they wanted to occupy Cambodia's land.
A long-running dispute over territory heated up in July 2008 when UNESCO, the U.N. cultural agency, approved Cambodia's bid to have the 11th century Preah Vihear temple, located on the border, named a World Heritage Site. Thailand initially supported the bid but then reneged after the move sparked outrage and protests.
Both sides rushed troops to the border, which resulted in several small gun battles.
The World Court awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962, but sovereignty over the surrounding land has never been clearly resolved.
Hun Sen said for negotiations, Cambodia would accept only maps drawn up jointly by Thailand and France in 1904 and accepted as official by Thailand at the time.
"Any map not recognized internationally that the Thais submit for negotiation, please tear it up and I will do so also if in front of the Thai prime minister if he presents such a map for talks," Hun Sen said.
Thai government officials were not immediately available to comment on the remarks.
The Cambodian leader also denounced a Thai nationalist group that recently tried to march to the border to present its claim concerning the 1.8 square miles (4.6 square kilometers) of disputed land near the temple.
Cambodian soldiers will use their weapons to protect the country's territory and will not allow such protesters to occupy Preah Vihear temple, he said.
"Whether civilians or military officers, whenever they enter illegally (into Cambodia territory), they will be shot," Hun Sen said.
The People's Alliance for Democracy blames current and past Thai governments for failing to protect national land and sovereignty. Several hundred of its members tried to force their way to the border on Sept. 19, triggering clashes with villagers and police that left at least 17 people injured.
The alliance is the same group that last year occupied the prime minister's offices in Bangkok for three months and seized the Thai capital's two airports for a week to try to bring down governments they opposed.
He also said that if Thai officials seeking to negotiate the border demarcation line present their own maps during bilateral talks, Cambodian officials should tear them up or walk out.
Speaking at the opening of the Tourism Ministry's new office in the capital, Phnom Penh, he charged that Thailand's leaders wanted to base their territorial claims on maps they drew up themselves because they wanted to occupy Cambodia's land.
A long-running dispute over territory heated up in July 2008 when UNESCO, the U.N. cultural agency, approved Cambodia's bid to have the 11th century Preah Vihear temple, located on the border, named a World Heritage Site. Thailand initially supported the bid but then reneged after the move sparked outrage and protests.
Both sides rushed troops to the border, which resulted in several small gun battles.
The World Court awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962, but sovereignty over the surrounding land has never been clearly resolved.
Hun Sen said for negotiations, Cambodia would accept only maps drawn up jointly by Thailand and France in 1904 and accepted as official by Thailand at the time.
"Any map not recognized internationally that the Thais submit for negotiation, please tear it up and I will do so also if in front of the Thai prime minister if he presents such a map for talks," Hun Sen said.
Thai government officials were not immediately available to comment on the remarks.
The Cambodian leader also denounced a Thai nationalist group that recently tried to march to the border to present its claim concerning the 1.8 square miles (4.6 square kilometers) of disputed land near the temple.
Cambodian soldiers will use their weapons to protect the country's territory and will not allow such protesters to occupy Preah Vihear temple, he said.
"Whether civilians or military officers, whenever they enter illegally (into Cambodia territory), they will be shot," Hun Sen said.
The People's Alliance for Democracy blames current and past Thai governments for failing to protect national land and sovereignty. Several hundred of its members tried to force their way to the border on Sept. 19, triggering clashes with villagers and police that left at least 17 people injured.
The alliance is the same group that last year occupied the prime minister's offices in Bangkok for three months and seized the Thai capital's two airports for a week to try to bring down governments they opposed.
19 comments:
How about a lot of ones from Yuon? Will your sam-ach do the same thing, New Phally? To be fair to both neighbors, this sam-ach must act the same, because Yuons have graually taken part of Khmer land. Don't just warn Thais and allow Yuons, ah kwak!
5:42 AM
Give it up with all the youn shit! What about laos, how come we don't hear shit about border problems with them? Well the answer is that we don't have any border problems with them. The same can be said for the youns.
Anyways, I wonder what triggered Hun Sen to make these remarks.
Was it the burning of a young Khmer teen by Thai forces?, the protests by the "Yellow shirts" near Preah Vihear?, the remark by Supthet of Thailand claiming that the road built by Cambodia near Preah Vihear doesn't belong to Cambodia?, or just the many factors that all added to Hun Sen's remarks.
Every thing seems to be cooling down prior to these remarks, wonder if another gun battle in near.
Will Cambodia be equally split by Yuons and Siams?
Dear Mr. Hun Sen,
Cambodia does not have to fight. All we need to do is to ship some weapons to Muslim insurgent in Southern provinces (Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat), and let those Muslim insurgents fight for us. Or better yet, open some training camps for those insurgents at the borders, and I guarantee the Thais will never mess up with us again.
5:42AM - when idiot like you smart up then we can deal with Yuons and Thais at the same times.
I told you diot before that I cannot be smarter than I naturally am. You are only smart at acting as Hun Sen's lickspittle, you cocksucker! You are not more Khmer than I am. I love my country as much as all decent Khmer do. I don't tolerate Yuon nor I do Thais. In Khao I Dang refugee camp I lived next door to one Khmer who taught Thai, he asked if I wanted to learn Thai for free, but I refused becuase I did not like Thais, and it was my mistake not to learn a language different from mine.
Very nice..direct message.
Do what I said? WHATEVER! blah blah
Khmers,
Hanoi pushed Khmers to confront Thais, but forgot about the Vietnamisation of Cambodia into a Viet Indochinese Federation before the end of this 21st century.
Viet leaders had fooled khmers about their investments in Rubber Plantations by over 400 Vietnamese companies. Communist Viet never had a PRIVATE COMPANIES, but state run companies to swallow khmer lands in the Pretext of Development in agriculture.
Cambodia's end is very near as all Khmers still do not understand the vietnamese strategies to colonise Cambodia.
All Khmer swill be Viet slaves on their ancestors' lands.
ត្រឹមត្រូវណាស់ដែលសម្តេចហ៊ុនសែនមានប្រសាសន៏ក្នុងឧកាសពិធីសម្ភោពអាគារក្រសួងទេសចរណ៏ប៉ុន្តែតាមមតិខ្ញុំផ្ទាល់ក៏ប្រហែលជាដូចនឹងមតិទូទៅភាគច្រើនដែរដែលថាប្រហែលជាខុសឧកាសទៅវិញទេ។ឧកាសណាដែលត្រឹមត្រូវគឺប្រហែលជាបងប្អូនជនរួមជាតិក៏បានដឹងដែរហើយ។
Very good strong man. the more people blame you, the more vote you win! I will vote for you until the end. Cheer! keep up! your vote voices are growing not only in Cambodia but also oversee. The oversee people they start to understand more about Cambodia even though they don't live and see Cambodia directly and they read mostly the bad side of Cambodian.
some stupid people's comments above is like using youn and siem favor in cambodia stupid dark age era did a long time ago. i think in today's cambodia, smart people don't try to use siem and youn to defend or whatever cambodia. that was the dark ages and history already. cambodia in reality do not like either siem nor youn for they are really and only historical enemies of cambodia and khmer people since ancient time. khmer people hated both of these thug-like race of people that happened to be our adjacent neighboring countries. for stupid people who try to say khmer people favor youn and siem is so outdated in their thinking as they show that they are still uneducated and still live like during the dark ages, etc... they observious haven't waken up yet. wake up, people and see the big world at large. stop thinking like a frog in the well or tadpole in the fish bowl, ok! wake up already, seriously! cambodia do not give a shit about both siem and youn thieves, ok! stop instigating that; that is so outdated and ignorant thinking. of course, all khmer people want khmer way and khmer sovereignty, etc... so, stop saying stupid thing like they favor youn over siem or whatever. get it right, ok, cambodia and khmer people do not favor neithre siem nor youn, ok. we all hated them to death, really! don't be so stupid, for a change, ok! wake up already!
leasing is not the same as granting khmerland outright, you know! there are khmer laws that prevent such traitor's act and could land people in jail for treason and being a traitor, you know. khmer people especially hated siem and youn and liev to some degree because they are our real historical enemies that stole our khmer lands, etc... and these thug-like people still think cambodia is in the dark ages and the world is still in the dark ages, and they continue to try to steal from khmer people again in this modern day and age! they all can go to hell permanently this time when they steal from khmer. and this time too khmer people will demand the return of all of our old khmer provinces they stole from us. we have evidence that those land were khmer's that they stole during cambodia's dark era. they are thieves in today's terminology because they took advantage of cambodia dark ages to steal from us! and they still not satisfied with what they stole and they wanted to steal again in plain sight like international treaty and law, etc...!
To me, it's easy to protect our land against the Thai since they are mostly at the border. However, it's hard to protect our land against the Viets since 5 Millions of them are now mixed with Khmer population in Khmer land.
ALL YOU FUCKING IDIOTS THAT TALK ABOUT YOUN THIS, YOUN THAT ALL YOU FUCKERS ARE VIETSLAVE THATS WHY YOU ARE MAD.......................I KNOW AINT KNOW FUCKING VIETSLAVE.....DONT LET THE HANOI QUE GET TO YOU IDIOTS
FUCK QUE FROM HANOI AND THAILAND
Dear Khmers,
I'm afraid of losing our homeland to Thailand or Vietnam too, but I don't think It's really hard to solve these border issues if our Cambodian government is willing to do and we don't need to go to war if we are smart...we had 1991 Paris accord...but I'm afraid of our Cambodian government can't do because today government leaded by PM Hun Sen and Vietnam and Hun Sen are best friends forever and Hun Sen's old boss too. On Preah Vihear issues with Thailand It's not that hard too and It should not take this too long because we had 1962 court decision, but I personally think It's political issues staying behind...
2:27 PM
Your observe are very accurate i am with you 120% this is Vietnam game also ah Hun Sen game to win over khmer people that do not have enough intelligence to approach that dirty politic to control khmer .
Sad Sad we are khmer still lost.
Ah Hun Sen knows, Cambodians lost their territories to the Viet. Cong and he is trying to off set that with Thailand. Next term, Bull dong, Hun Sen will win again.
Because Cambodian people think that the Bull dog, Hun Sen is strong and smart.....what a schmuck!
When this son-of-Vietnamese bitch opens his mouth, lots of maggots come out of his stinky mouth, and his breath scatters and pollutes th air. Ah Sen, please shut your fucking stinky mouth, because your breath smells worse than a rotten corpse.
CPP Traitor
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