By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
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A group of students claimed that the local authority in Chantrea District, Svay Rieng province, blocked them from monitoring border posts separating Vietnam from Cambodia when the group went to visit the border situation on Monday. The visit followed the accusation that Vietnam encroached on Cambodian territories.
Cambodian border expert officials warned that the monitoring of these border posts is a disturbance of the work agreed upon by experts from both countries at that location.
Pen Sophea, the leader of the group of 20 students from various universities in Phnom Penh who went to monitor the situation along the border in Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province, declared that the local authority prevented the students from approaching the border posts.
Pen Sophea said: “We interviewed several villagers, they confirmed what the news media reported. Therefore, our students group witnessed that.”
Pen Sophea: Did you witness the case?
Student group: Yes, we saw.
Pen Sophea: Did the Yuon stole Khmer land or not?
Student group: That’s true.
Pen Sophea added: “We are very hurt. This is the yelling of the students on their way back. The authority did not allow us to take a look, they told us to stay 100-meter away from it, we can only look at it from far away, but we couldn’t see it because they are wooden posts that Mr. Sam Rainsy pulled out.”
Heng Chamroeun, a student from Phnom Penh who belongs to the group, declared: “They blocked us from approaching the border post planting area. Our goal was to see them clearly.”
Regarding the group of students who wanted to monitor the border situation above, Chea Yeang, the Chantrea district governor, said that he did not know about this issue.
Var Kim Hong, chairman of the Cambodian joint committee for border resolution, warned that these border posts have been agreed upon by the Cambodian and Vietnamese experts already. Therefore the students’ monitoring is a disturbance.
Var Kim Hong indicated: “Why disturb the work performed by the technical group? What expertise do they have to go see it? This work is not undertaken in secrecy, but for this work, the technical group is looking for the proper spot. Why do they want to go and disturb some more? After the pullout of the border posts [by Sam Rainsy], they want to bring in their subordinates to pull something else? What else to they want to do?”
The monitoring by the students is talking place after opposition leader Sam Rainsy pulled out a border post on 25 October, while he was leading a Kathen ceremony to the Wat Ang Romdenh Pagoda, located in Samrong commune, Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province. Sam Rainsy accused Vietnam of encroaching into Cambodian territories at that location. A number of reports and sources indicated that the Chantrea district authority sued Sam Rainsy, accusing him of destroying public properties.
Cambodian border expert officials warned that the monitoring of these border posts is a disturbance of the work agreed upon by experts from both countries at that location.
Pen Sophea, the leader of the group of 20 students from various universities in Phnom Penh who went to monitor the situation along the border in Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province, declared that the local authority prevented the students from approaching the border posts.
Pen Sophea said: “We interviewed several villagers, they confirmed what the news media reported. Therefore, our students group witnessed that.”
Pen Sophea: Did you witness the case?
Student group: Yes, we saw.
Pen Sophea: Did the Yuon stole Khmer land or not?
Student group: That’s true.
Pen Sophea added: “We are very hurt. This is the yelling of the students on their way back. The authority did not allow us to take a look, they told us to stay 100-meter away from it, we can only look at it from far away, but we couldn’t see it because they are wooden posts that Mr. Sam Rainsy pulled out.”
Heng Chamroeun, a student from Phnom Penh who belongs to the group, declared: “They blocked us from approaching the border post planting area. Our goal was to see them clearly.”
Regarding the group of students who wanted to monitor the border situation above, Chea Yeang, the Chantrea district governor, said that he did not know about this issue.
Var Kim Hong, chairman of the Cambodian joint committee for border resolution, warned that these border posts have been agreed upon by the Cambodian and Vietnamese experts already. Therefore the students’ monitoring is a disturbance.
Var Kim Hong indicated: “Why disturb the work performed by the technical group? What expertise do they have to go see it? This work is not undertaken in secrecy, but for this work, the technical group is looking for the proper spot. Why do they want to go and disturb some more? After the pullout of the border posts [by Sam Rainsy], they want to bring in their subordinates to pull something else? What else to they want to do?”
The monitoring by the students is talking place after opposition leader Sam Rainsy pulled out a border post on 25 October, while he was leading a Kathen ceremony to the Wat Ang Romdenh Pagoda, located in Samrong commune, Chantrea district, Svay Rieng province. Sam Rainsy accused Vietnam of encroaching into Cambodian territories at that location. A number of reports and sources indicated that the Chantrea district authority sued Sam Rainsy, accusing him of destroying public properties.
12 comments:
When peasants loose their fields, in most countries, Government broadcasts the issue to the population explaining the reason of the lost land. The Royal Government of Cambodia does not care about this issue, what means this silence? Even DAP news that clams to be neutral does not spend any sentence for those suffered farmers who loose their paddy field.
I fully agree with first commentator. What is a disturbance that Va Kimhong referring to? I think Va Kimhong realises that RGC has already sucrificed land to Yuon and wanted to hide the reality. It is no doubt that RCG is seriously afraid of Yuon and decided to admit under Youn foot.
Nothing news for Khmer people--they are extremely passive and unpatriotic, and won't be surprise to see they'll become the minority in their own land. Till these days, I flabbergasted that Cambodian still survive as a nation.
Disturbance? Does this land belong to VAR KIM HONG alone? Or to all Khmers?
HE HAS hidden agenda. He won't stay long, Naga will soon punish him. He might have thought that student carried GPS that can record the exact locations of those poles.
What kind of experty applied for border demarcation?
Does it have to be engineer to use tape measure or GPS?
Destrict governer does not know what was going on? he must be useless to serve cambodians.
concerns
SVar Kim Hong is Vietnamese Excellency migration to Cambodia, why he agree Khmer students to monitor the bother. Listen to Monket-followers of SVAR Kim Hong Said. You hear!
SVar Kim Hong is Vietnamese . SVar Kim Hong is Vietnamese . SVar Kim Hong is Vietnamese . SVar Kim Hong is Vietnamese. SVar Kim Hong is Vietnamese. SVar Kim Hong is Vietnamese.
Today we celebrate the 56 years of independence of Cambodia obtained against French colonialism.
News in Cambodia provide abundant this time information on border issues between Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam,.
This occasion is also useful to reflect on the current policies of Communist China in Cambodia. The recent history of Cambodia
(1975-1979) which is fully involved China and the People of Tibet became colony of China and the importance Chinese colony in Cambodia today are matters of legitimate concerns the question of national independence of the Cambodia’s kingdom.
Communist China has no common border with Cambodia. So there is no borders problem with China.
This is not because the Chinese people have no common borders with Cambodia that Cambodia has nothing to fear for its independence with China. Cambodia’s subservience towards China (this Yellow Peril) is a real source of anxiety in the years to come for cambodia.
Because China’s colony and settlements, its mafia, the China complete hold on economic in Cambodia are the other problem and legitimate’s questions concerns about the independence of Cambodia in the near future.
A free opinion
It's up to the younger generation to save Cambodia. All the old farts are influenced by Shitnam. Don't depend on them for help anytime soon. The Cpp should change their name to Vpp.
Vietnamese people party.
Now, this is the one that i do not like!! that our government and authority do not allow students to visit the site...What is the piont? why do we hide thing from our people..? we educated our people to know what's going on and they are our future, to make and and running our country, why stop them? preventing them from the FACTS..???? just open wide to the publics and the the publics see, what is going on....Why our government hidding things and covered up somethings...?????????
Why cambodia built school? for what?? to allow our people educated and knew what's going on with our country right?, so, don't stop students or khmer people from seeing and wanting to know is going on, remembered students are our future....they deseverd to know!! don't hide things form them, otherwise don't borther to build school for children to learning......fucken dumbhead Govt!
I totally agree! why bother building school and wasting state money dumbfuck! Students are our futture and they desevered to know what' right and wrong....ok
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