By Southeast Asia correspondent Zoe Daniel
ABC News Australia
Cambodia says the temple has been heavily damaged in the fighting, but Thailand says that claim is "propaganda".Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen has called on the United Nations to intervene in an ongoing and deadly dispute with Thailand over the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple.
The Cambodian government says the latest round of fighting, which broke out on Friday, has killed several people, including a local tourist who was apparently taking photos of the temple.
Hun Sen has described the clashes between troops on the Thailand-Cambodian border as "a big skirmish or a small war" and claims Thailand is trying to capture the disputed 4.6 square kilometres around the border temple.
He says the UN should send peacekeepers to provide a buffer between the two nations to prevent further fighting.
The temple was ruled Cambodian territory by an international court in the 1960s, but when it was declared a World Heritage site in 2008, a long-festering disagreement flared about its ownership and the territory around it.
Since then, opposing troops have been stationed there, with both countries vowing to protect their sovereignty.
Thailand will now ask UNESCO to take it off the World Heritage list.
A group of Thai nationalists rallying in Bangkok over the issue has demanded Thailand withdraw from the World Heritage committee.
Cambodia says the temple has been heavily damaged in the fighting, but Thailand says that claim is "propaganda".
6 comments:
ThaiLand is doing the right things.
As long as Cambodia has VIOLATED the 23 October 1991 peace Agreement
Thailand has the rights to do so...
If Vietnam can do Thailand and Laos can do too.
There is nothing wrong with that, due to PARIS PEACE AGREEMENT.
I say Thailand's doing the great job!
Invade as much as Thai can do....
If Viet can do same as Thai and Laos, doing their part.
Thank You Thai...
Abhisit at what PRICE??
This man calls himself a democrat!
The English born and Oxford educated Abhisit seems to have no political morals whatsoever.
I would love to be proved wrong, however, I see him as a spoilt brat who will do anything
to get his own way.
Mr Abhisit, I suspect will oversee the further weakening of democracy and personal freedoms
in Thailand; all to fulfil his personal ambitions.
At what Price Mr Abhisit did you sell your soul to the devil?
He is the proxy of the military and the powerful pooyai. The country has already lost its dignity through this backdoor anti-democracy democrats (wow better change their name). Wait till we see if the 'democrat government will charge the PAD and all those responsible for all the illegal armed assemblies and charges of treason, terrorism. The abuse of public properties for the PAD illegal armed assemblies.
Well, I think it is good for Phuea Thai to remain opposition. These MPs have back-bone and principle for not willing to be bought by money to cross over to a proxy party - a party that will continue to be dictated by the military and powerful pooyai. Expose the dictators and those pooyai and restore the 1997 PEOPLE charter and democracy.I don't think he can solve this country problem.
I believe he won't stand for long.
Red shirt is coming after him.
He just a plain looking handsome men but inside his hearts he don't care what people are suffering. He only care for himself and in front of everyone he is nice.
The country will be worse than before he is to become PM
5:01 AM
Hun Sen is a PM with numerous college degrees and many stars on his shoulders; he should know a long time ago that the bilateral talks would not work. His choice of not seeking the UN help was beyond the majority of ordinary Cambodian comprehension. That is why you see on left side of this blog branding him as “TRAITOR” in many languages, and the truth hurts him very bad. Because of all miseries that he has given to the nation, this mother fucker should not be born Khmer, let alone a PM.
IF I WERE THAI I WOULD DO THE SAME,IF KHMER LEADER DON'T LOVE HIS PEOPLE WHY THAI.THAI AND YOUN WILL KHMER AS MANY AS THEY CAN....IF HKMER DON'T WANT SEE A GOOD FUTURE NO ONE CAN'T .YOU KNOW CPP AND KHME ROUGE WILL BE IN THE SAME HISTORY BOOK.
We want to complaint to UN, now we did it but UN said let regional deal with it.
I think UN might think the war was not serious enough according to UN standard.
Now our complaint is just waste of time, the problem will still exist.
Anybody out there have any suggestion? base on fact please not insult or personal bias and be fair to the government.
Hun Sen and Abhisit
are greedy power.Both
don't care their own
people lives.
Hun Sen wants to stay
in power all the rest of his life.
He needs power,money
,and like to kill
his own people.
Khmer must protest and bring him down.
he is a traitor.He
gave Khmer country for free,just for his power.
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